I turn to you

By Todd fan

Dislcaimer: My name is Stan Lee, i own everything to do with the X-men oh no...wait...no i'm not, i only own Sidney and anyone else who happens to fall out of my brain. I don't own the book 'Great tales of terror and the supernatural', well i own the BOOK, but i don't own the copywright on it..if you catch my drift..

Hey its that time again, i want to thank my reviewers:

Mari - What will Logan do indeed!

Eileen - I'm glad you like the 'fuzzy bunnies' line. Well i just think Jean is the perfect vitim, she's so prissy and perfect.

Red witch - He he, everyone seems to like the Jean torture.

Dracar - Of course, they are perfect for being picked on

Pixiechick - Oh yes, she will be shocked indeed, read on and see!

Marie - I'm glad i'm no the only one who disklikes Jean and Scott.



You guys are great, without you, i wouldn't still be writing this thing :)

Chapter 20 - The day after.



Orono had been the first of the adults to wake up. She had been sitting in the kitchen for the past hour, bringing up the courage to go into the common room. She sighed and stood up.

"Better get this over with", she muttered to herself.

She walked over to the common room door and took a deep breath before opening it, preparing herself for the worst. At first, the room looked like the aftermath of any teenager's party, except for the fact that there was a sleeping tiger seperating the girls from the boys, and that there was a blue elf-boy swaying upside-down from the chandelier by his tail, fast asleep. Kitty and Rogue were sleeping in their sleeping bags, Rogue next to a very unstable looking pile of Cd's, while the boys had found anything soft to lie on. Pietro was draped across a chair, hugging a pillow. Lance was curled up in a little ball on the rug while Fred was sleeping on the floor with his head resting on a foot rest. Todd on the other hand had fallen asleep leaning on Sidney's shoulder on the guys side of the room. Sidney herself looked peacefull enough, even if she was in tiger form, and the fact that she had a fifteen year old guy leaning on her shoulder didn't seem to bother her. Orono looked around for her nephew, she couldn't see him anywere. Suddenly in the corner of the room, a pile of snack food wrapers and papers moved and a foot stuck out from under them, well at least she knew where Evan was now, probably the work of Pietro. It was then that Orono saw it. Sat on the couch side by side, she saw who she asumed to be Scott and Jean, sleeping soundly. Scott didn't look the worse for wear, except for the fact that he had a cocktail umbrella sticking to the side of his shades. Jean, on the other hand, looked like one of those doll heads that young girls get to practice putting on makeup. Her hair was also bright green, with Logan's cowboy hat on her head. Storm calmly stepped out of the room and walked into the kitchen, closing the door behind her. She then promptly fell onto the floor in a fit of laughter. Logan stepped into the kitchen and looked down at the weather witch and blinked.

"Are you okay O?", he asked, raising an eyebrow and backing away slightly from the now manically laughing Storm.

All she could do was point in the direction of the common room, there was no way she could compose herself enough to talk yet. Logan shrugged and walked off. He returned a few minutes later with a grin on his face.

"Looks like they had a good time", he said, "i wondered where my hat had gone".

Storm was still giggling and could only managed a nod.

"I gotta admit, it's a sight", he said, "i took a picture of it, just in case. Half the roll was already used up, i think they were talkin' pictures of Red and Shades".

Xavier came rolling in and smiled at the still giggling Storm.

"I take it you have seen inside the comon room", he said with a chuckle.

"Yes, yes i did", said Storm finally, "it makes one wonder what on earth happened in there last night".

"I don't think i want ta know", said Logan shaking his head, "at least they didn't wreck the place".

"No, at least we can be thankfull for that", said Xavier, "i'm surprised the girls didn't wake you Logan, they entered your room twice last night".

"They....did?", asked Logan, blinking, "well that explains why my hat is on Red's head and why one of her bra's is on my dresser. Ya coulda warned me Charles".

"Then that would take the fun out of it", said Xavier with a chuckle, "Jean placed one of her bra's on the dresser of every boy in the insititute. She wasn't looking where she was going when she tried to put one on mine, though she did try to put up a good mental block".

"I wonder how they got to that state?", said Storm, now more composed, "and how my nephew ended up under a pile of litter".

"If they never talk about it, i think i'll be happy", said Logan, "next time, lets not let them anywhere near alcohol".

"Agreed", said Orono and Xavier in unison.



Jean slowly opened her eyes and instantly regreted it. The second the sun hit her, she had a migrane. She groaned and put a hand to her head, when she brought her hand back down it was covered in...makeup? She started to stand up to go and look in a mirror when she realised someone was leaning on her and snorning. She turned her head to come face to face with Scott, who had a huge smile on his face and a cocktail umbrella sticking to his shades. Jean blinked, what was Scott doing down here?. She sighed and looked around the room. All the boys were in there and...was that a tiger?. She closed her eyes and opened them again, yes, there was a tiger sleeping in the common room with Todd leaning on it's shoulder, it took her a few seconds to realise that it must be Sidney, or at least she HOPED it was Sidney. She heard Scott start to stir next to her and looked over at him. He put his hand to his head and, even if no one could see it, blinked a few times.

"Jean? How did you get here?", he asked,the looked around his surroundings "how did I get here?".

"I don't know", said Jean with a sigh, "i woke up like this".

"Is that a tiger?", said Scott, "or am i halucinating?".

"No, it's a tiger", said Jean.

Scott shook his head and turned back to Jean and gasped.

"Errr Jean....", he said pointing to her face, "did you and the girls play with makeup?".

"No, why?"

"It's sorta all over your face", said Scott shaking his head, "even i can see it, and i can only see things in shades of red.Your hair looks...different too, and your also wearing Logan's hat".

"Oh dear god, i need to see a mirror!", she shouted.

This caused a chain reaction of the students waking up. When Jean yelled, it woke up Kurt, who lost his grip on the chandelier and fell on top of Sidney, waking her up and making her give a roar. Todd, who's head was close to Sidney's mouth, woke up with a yelp, jumping up in the air and landing on top of Pietro. Pietro screamed that the mummies were after him again and dashed behind Fred for safety, knocking the foot rest that Fred's head was on. Fred's head hit the ground with a thud and he woke up with a start, knocking the foot rest even further across the room with his hand. The foot rest hit the pile of junk Evan was sleeping under and he jumped up in a panic, sending out few spikes in shock. One of the spikes sailed across the room, impailing itself in the floor, right next to Kitty's head. Kitty sreamed in terror and leapt over Sidney and onto Lance. Lance woke up with a yell and a slight tremor ran through the ground, causing the pile of CD's Rogue was lying next to fall on top of her. Rogue's head popped up from underneath the CD's, she did NOT look happy. All of this happened in less that 10 seconds.

"Errrrr.....good morning", said Jean with a nervous chuckle, looking at the very angry faces of all the students she had woken up.

"What just happened?", asked Fred, rubbing his head.

"Lance Alvers ya'll have five seconds to live", said Rogue, picking herself up from the CD's.

"It isn't MY fault", said Lance, "Kitty jumped on me".

"Yeah well i would't have jumped on you if Evan hadn't nearly taken my head off with a spike", protested Kitty.

"Hey i only let out my spikes 'cause Freddy threw a foot rest at me", said Evan, pointing at Fred.

"Yeah, well Pietro knocked it over and made me hit my head", said Fred, "i got the bump to prove it".

"Well excuse ME", said Pietro from behind Freds back, "it's Todd's fault, he jumped on me, he knows i have bad dreams".

Everyone turned to scowl at Todd.

"It's not my fault, fer once", said Todd holding up his hands, "you guys would jump too if ya were asleep an' a tiger roared down ya ear".

The tiger gave a low growl and changed back into Sidney.

"Well i wouldn't have roared if Kurt hadn't fallen on me", she said, crossing her arms, "what sort of idiot sleeps dangling for a chandelier anyway?".

"Hey", said Kurt, "Jean voke me up, screaming about a mirror, i lost my grip".

The entire student body of the Xavier institute turned to stare at Jean.

"You painted my face!", said Jean in her defence, "guys?.., guys?..".

"Lets get her", said Evan, spiking up.

"Oh oh", said Jean, and ran screaming into the kitchen and hid behind Logan, "there going to kill me".

Logan just frowned and took his hat off Jeans head.

"I'll take that back", he said, with a chuckle.

"Why are they trying to kill you?", asked the professor, with a sigh, rubbing his head.

"'Cause i woke them up", said Jean with a sigh, "well actually they woke each other up, but i got the blame".

"Dont' worry about it Re....errr Green", said Logan, "they can't do too much more ta ya".

"Okay", said Jean, calming down, "hey what do you mean 'Green'?".

"Your hair is greener than Stink-boy's tounge", said Logan, smiling.

"WHAT!".

Jean ran upstairs.

"MY HAIR!, MY FACE!", Jean's voice came from upstairs, "I CAN'T GO TO SCHOOL TOMOROW LIKE THIS!".



A few hours and lots of shouting later found Kitty, Rogue and Sidney walking through the mall.

"I can't belive we got busted for what we did to Jean", said Sidney with a sigh.

"Yeah, it's like, so totally unfair", said Kitty, "now we have to go and buy her makeup remover and red hair dye with our own money!".

"Look on the bright side", said Rogue with a chuckle, "the guys have ta clean up the common room fer what they did ta Scott".

"Good point", said Kitty, "at least here we can still, like, window shop".

"Yeah, i guess", said Sidney with a sigh as they walked past a pet shop. The kittens in the window, upon seeing Sidney, all bounced over to the side of the glass, mewing and falling over each other to get to her.

"Wow, look at that", said Rogue, with a nod towards the kittens, "they really like ya'll Sid".

"Yeah", said Sidney with a sigh, tapping the glass, "you could say i have cat magnetism, you should see me when i go to the zoo".

"It must be, like, so toatlly cool to be able to talk to cats", said Kitty as the trio walked away, despite the kittens' protests, "i mean, like, what do they think about?".

"Well it's kinda hard to explain", said Sidney, "it not so much as words, but thought and feeling. Cats have no need for things like money or material possesions, so they tend to speak about what things feel like, than what they actually are. Trust me Kitty, there not big on conversation, you not missing much".

"Hey guys look at this", said Rogue, pointing to a book store.

Kitty and Sidney walked up to see Rogue pointing at a dusty old book intitled 'Great tales of terror and the supernatural'.

"That is a really cool book", said Rogue with a sigh, "a'h wish a'h could buy it".

"Turn away Rogue", said Sidney, patting her friend on the shoulder, "you can't afford it. We need to buy miss prefect her make up remover and hair dye".

"Not to mention replace all the make up we, like, used on her", said Kitty with a sigh.

"A'h know", said Rogue, waving to the book sadly, "bye bye book".

After a long trek, which lasted a good 3 hours, the girls had found everything on Jean's list except for a certain shade of eyeshadow.

"Look we'll never find it", said Rogue, shaking her head, "we've asked every make up shop assistant in the mall, it ain't anywhere".

"She's right", said Kitty, "i mean we ,like, found everything else. I don't think she'll miss ONE shade of eyeshadow".

"I don't know", said Sidney with a sigh, "this IS Jean were talking about".

"Well this is the last shop", said Kitty looking up at the beauty shop they had stoped in front of, "if it isn't here, i'm totally going home".

The girls entered the shop and Kitty went to the desk to ask about the eyeshadow. Rogue browsed around where the dark make up was, but Sidney just stared out of the window. She had no need for make up. She had tried it once when she was 13 and it had taken her months to get it ALL out of her fur. She swore off the stuff after that little episode. As she watched the shoppers walk by, she noticed a familiar face as he walked past. It was Pickles!. He stopped by the window and gave Sidney an evil grin and blew her a kiss before walking off. Sidney blinked before dashing out of the shop. She looked around wildly, but Pickles was nowhere to be seen. She was SURE she'd seen him. Rogue came running out.

"What is it Sid?", she asked, looking around, "what made ya'll freak out like that?".

"I saw Pickles", said Sidney, shaking her head, "or..... at least i think i did".

"Pickles?", said Rogue in shock, "ya'll sure?".

Sidney nodded, still looking around cautiously. She wished she could change into a cat form, then she'd have a better chance of trakcing the guy. But the mall was crowded, and there was no way she could do it without anybody seeing. Kitty walked out fo the shop with a bag in her hand.

"I found it", she said proudly, "like what happened to you guys?. Why'd you suddenly run off?".

"Sidney thought she saw Pickles", said Rogue.

"But i thought he'd, like, gone for good", said Kitty.

"So did i", muttered Sidney.

"Don't worry about it Sid", said Rogue with a smile.

"Yeah, well just, like, go and tell the professor, he'll sort it out", said Kitty.



Back at the institiute, the boys were cleaning up the comon room.

"Who knew girls could make such a mess!", said Evan with a sigh, crumpled up papers in a bin bag.

"Yeah, an' they say us guys are slobs", said Todd, shaking his head.

He and Kurt were currently standing on the ceiling, washing it.

"Ja vell at least ve didn't get grounded", said Kurt with a sigh, "Scott did though".

"Yeah", laughed Pietro as he moved quickly around the room with a wet cloth, "for 'unruly behaviour', i love it!".

"You would", said Lance as he and Fred came into the room carrying more furniture.

It was at this point that the girls burst in.

"Oh hello 'ladies', and i use that term loosley", said Pietro, "you can help us finish clearing up".

"Not yet Speedy", said Rogue, "Sidney saw Pickles at the mall".

"Your kidding", said Lance, shaking his head.

"No i'm not", said Sidney, hugging herself, "he was there, he even had the gall to blow a kiss at me".

"Are you okay Sid?", asked Todd, jumping down from the ceiling.

"Yeah, i guess", said Sidney, "i just need to tell the professor".

"Well we'll come with you", said Evan, putting down his bin bag.

"Yeah", said Fredd, nodding, "for ..morale support".

"You guys just want to, like, have a break from cleaning", said Kitty, rolling her eyes.

"Yeah, so?", said Pietro.

With that, they all left for the professors study.



The professor sighed after he heard what the teens had to say.

"The only way to be sure if it was Pickles or not is if i look into your memory Sidney", he said with a sigh, "if you sit here, i'll see what i can do".

"Okay professor", she said with a sigh, sitting down in front of the professor.

"Now just concentrate on when you saw him", said the professor, holding his hands up to Sidney's head.

Sidney nodded and concentrated. Immages falshed through the professors mind. The beauty shop, the people walking past, then, Pickles. The professor sighed and closed the telepathic gate between him and Sidney.

"Sidney is right", said the professor, placing his hands together, "it was indeed Pickles".

"Well what can we do Professor?", asked Evan, "i mean, this guy is a phsyco and he's walking along Bayville".

"The best thing you can do is carry on you lives as normally as possible", said Xavier, "keep up your guard and try to stay in groups or at least pairs. Don't go anywhere alone, if you have a class on your own, arrange to meet someone outside before leaving the room. I'll ask Logan to keep an eye on things and i'll see if i can contact your uncle Sidney, maybe he has a track on him".

The students nodded and went off to finish cleaning the room, each hoping that either Sabertooth or Logan would get to Pickles before he got to any of them.



You like?. See i told you Pickles wasn't gone!!!, How did you like my 'chain reaction' of students waking up?. Well remember to review, until next time..