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A/N: This chapter wasn't in my original outline, but I had to add it to tie up some loose ends with them being in school and such. Y'know, that semi- important stuff. Reviews are always welcome, even if you didn't like it.
Chapter 6- Another Peg in the Wall
"We just had this installed, so since you four are the first to train this morning, you'll also be the first to test it." Logan watched the kids' faces as they stared up at the huge wall with mixtures of fear, excitement, worry, and amusement.
"Do we like, get harnesses or anything?" Kitty asked. "I mean, what if we fall off or something?" Logan held up the harness for all of the to see. "You get harnesses, although I think you'll gradually get good enough to where you won't need it at all..."
"Logan," Scott said in a warning tone. "Safety precautions state that we must have them wear the harnesses at all times." Scott turned away from Logan's gruff look and address the team. "Okay, Bobby and Viktoria, you two will be up first, when you're at the top, signal to your partner, that's Rogue and Kitty, and they'll climb up after you. The team that makes it to the top first and rings the bell, gets to skip the next exercise."
"What about the losing team?" Scott nodded, checking something off on his ever-present clipboard. "Good question, Bobby. As for the losing team, you have to do the exercise over. Then we'll stop, and Logan or myself will explain the next exercise. Everybody understand? Okay, here's your harnesses-"
Scott handed out the four harnesses, while Logan helped Bobby and Viktoria into theirs, then hooked them up to the wires hanging down off the wall. "Is everyone in a harness? Iceman? Torch? You two ready? Torch? Are you sure that wrist is okay for you to be doing this?"
Viktoria rolled her eyes, but nodded. "Yeah, I already went and saw Hank about it. He said it was fine. A splendid recovery. His actual words, I swear."
Scott made a note on his clipboard, nodding more to himself than to anyone else. "Okay then, get set... GO!" Scott blew a whistle and they took off, clamoring up the tiny pegs stuck in the wall.
Viktoria reached the summit first, signaling down to Kitty who started up the wall after her. Bobby climbed over the top of the wall just after Viktoria, waving down at Rogue to begin. "That was kind of fun," Viktoria said with a shrug. "Are all the little simulations like this?"
Bobby snorted. "I wish they were all this easy! I think we're lucky today though, since it's new equipment and all, they don't want to push us too hard. At least, Scott doesn't." Bobby leaned over the edge, watching as his partner passed Kitty on the left. "Looks like you two'll be doing it again."
Viktoria scooted to the edge to see what he meant when she saw Kitty's foot slip and she lost her grip on the wall. Viktoria cursed under her breath, but congratulated Bobby and Rogue on their victory.
"Come on down, Torch," Scott called. "Looks like you two need to do it over."
Kitty stomped angrily, muttering about the 'slippery-ness' of the pegs. Viktoria rolled her eyes, not caring one way or the other. "Do you want to go first this time?" she asked. Kitty shrugged lazily. "Whichever. Let's just get it over with. And stop gloating up there Bobby!" Kitty shouted up the wall.
Bobby grinned over the edge, holding up his hands in a 'who me?' gesture. Viktoria covered her mouth to contain her laughter at the "BOBBY RULEZ!" sign he had made at the top in ice. She concentrated, forming a small dragon made completely of fire in her hands. Viktoria opened her hands, flapping them like butterfly wings, as the flaming dragon flew up to Bobby's sign, melting it so it only said " OBB UL Z "
Bobby looked down at his ruined sign, then swatted at the dragon, causing it to disappear. He stood up, hands over his head in a cheer. "OBB STILL RULES!" Rogue shook her head in amusement, leaning over the wall to shout down to Logan. "When can Ah get away from this lunatic?"
"As soon as Kitty makes it up the wall," Logan called back. "Now, Torch, go!"
"Why doesn't Kitty go first? Then I could tell her where to put her feet..." Viktoria started. "Shadowcat can do it on her own. Now up you go!" Viktoria glanced at Kitty, who was still silently fuming, and started up the wall. Making it up easily again, she signaled to Kitty and took a seat next to Bobby. "Howdy OBB, how's it going?"
"That was some- something you made there. How'd you do it?" Viktoria laughed, already creating another fire creature in her hands. "I just make this mental image of it, then sort of PUSH with my mind, and it forms in my hands." She opened her hands to reveal a small butterfly. "See?"
Rogue stared at the butterfly. "Can Ah touch it?" Viktoria nodded, focusing the butterfly to fly over and land on Rogue's outstretched finger. "Wow, and ya can control whether it burns or not?"
"Yeah. Kinda cool I guess. I still liked your sign better though, OBB." Viktoria said, letting the butterfly disappear. "Well, it WAS awesome... Until that little dragon thing of yours melted it! And I spent a lot of time on that sign too." Bobby crossed his arms, pouting.
"Yah, a whole 5 seconds worth'a time, huh Bobby?" Rogue replied. "Your just jealous of my amazing skills. I don't see YOU making an 'ROGUE RULES!' signs, now do I?"
"Lahke Ah'd want ta!" Rogue shot back angrily. "Whoa, ladies, ladies, please. Let's not lose our cool, alright?" Viktoria held up her hands to separate them. "Look, Kitty's up!"
"Alright, everybody repel on down here, and we'll start the next exercise!" Scott shouted up. He waited until everyone had come down and gotten out of their harnesses before he explained the next exercise.
"First, we'll switch up the teams a bit, Kitty and Bobby, then Rogue and Viktoria. Okay, this next drill is a bit harder. It doesn't involve the wall though. Sort of a mock capture the flag. I'll be up in the control room, while Logan watches from down here. Once one team as successfully captured the other team's flag, the game's over and you guys can leave."
"Are powers allowed?" Scott nodded. "Yeah, you can use whatever you have to keep the other team from getting to your flag, but Bobby; no icing people this time, Hank said Kurt caught the flu from that."
"Oops?" Bobby looked down at his shoes, then back up. "He could of bamfed out of the way or something," he replied in defensive of himself.
"Just don't do it, Popsicle, alright?" Logan shooed Scott up to the control room to start the simulation, then handed each team a flag, one blue, and one red. "And Viktoria, no lighting anyone on fire either." Viktoria stared at the shorter man in shock. "Me?! I would NEVER..."
"I'm sure the thought never crossed your mind at all," Logan replied sarcastically. "But if we're going to set up rules for ice, I figure we might as well for fire too."
"Somehow I get the feeling we're being discriminated against," Viktoria whispered to Bobby.
"The program will begin in 30 seconds," an electronic voice stated over the intercom. "10 seconds. Five seconds. Start."
The floor of the Danger Room suddenly transformed into a jungle setting, with the two teams heading in opposite directions to set up their flags. Viktoria grabbed Rogue and they huddled behind a huge leafy bush.
"I'm thinking one of us plays offense, the other defense," she whispered. "Ah'll be offense, if ya don't mind. Mah powers aren't so great for defensive stuff." Viktoria nodded. "That's what I was thinking. I'll go hide this," she replied, holding up the small blue flag. "We should have this thing wrapped up in five minutes, we have a mental advantage over them. Bobby's cocky, and Kitty's still pissed about the wall. Their minds won't be completely focused on the game."
"Ah was thinking Ah'll fly up in ta the trees, see if I can see their flag. Bobby lahkes to hide stuff up high, he thinks we can't reach it." Viktoria gave her thumbs up, and they split, Viktoria heading over to a broken log to search for a hiding spot, while Rogue flew upwards.
"Hmmm. now if I was Kitty and Bobby, what would I do? Probably hide the flag real quick, then both coming looking for ours. Think they can ambush us or something. Not gonna happen though. Now let's see... That'll do just fine." Viktoria hopped over a cluster of rocks, then pulled herself up the tree. Placing the flag underneath a bird's nest, she hopped back down.
"Now all I have to do is set up some convenient little fires here and there to confuse them-" Viktoria looked up to see Rogue crouching in a tree overhead. She was rummaging around in the hallowed out trunk, then pulled out a bright red flag, waving it around proudly. "WE WIN!"
"But I had ice covering that hole!!" Bobby shouted as the simulated forest melted away. "How did you get it?" Rogue flexed her arm. "Super-strength, GRR!"
"Rogue and Viktoria win!" Scott's voice proclaimed over the loudspeaker. "Great job you two. You can go wash up while Bobby and Kitty run a few laps for losing."
"Aw man," Bobby complained. Kitty swatted at him while they ran. "How do you think I feel? I lost twice!"
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"That was easier than I thought it'd be," Viktoria commented while following Rogue up the stairs to their rooms. "Yah, Ah know. Bobby made it easy for us though. Not only did he pick an easy spot, he covered it with ICE! Lahke Ah wouldn't notice that."
"Well, it is OBB we're talking about here. Not exactly a rocket scientist." Viktoria and Rogue laughed at Bobby's expense, both thinking of him and Kitty having to run laps because of the loss. "It was pretty cool to see you bust through that ice. How'd you do it?"
"Awhile ago we got in a tussle with the Brotherhood boys, gawd, Ah must'a been 15 or 16 Ah suppose. Seems lahke such a long time ago. But some'a us got captured by these government quacks and they forced me to absorb this gal. Carol Danvers, her name was." Rogue swiped at her eyes, small tears smudging her makeup. "I'm sorry Rogue, you don't have to-"
"It's okay, Viktoria. Ya ought ta know. She died, and Ah kept her powers permanently. Dunno how it happened, but here Ah am. I can absorb other people's energy, life force, ya know? And if their mutants, Ah absorb their abilities, powers. But it's only supposed ta be for a short while. Makes it so Ah can't touch anybody though. Not skin-to-skin anyway. Ah have ta wear these gloves."
"Oh." Viktoria stared at her boots, unsure of what to say. "Um, well, if it makes you feel any better, when I got my powers, my eyes changed color." Rogue arched an eyebrow at her, her eyes focusing on the blue glasses Viktoria wore. "What color are they?"
"They were blue. Now..." Viktoria removed the glasses, opening her eyes to show Rogue.
"Oh mah!"
Viktoria covered her eyes again with the blue lenses, masking the bright oranges and reds that swirled around in her irises, giving them the look that they were almost on fire. "Yeah- hence the shades. The blue lenses make it so you can't tell what color my eyes are. Just that they're dark."
"Sorry. Ah didn't mean ta-"
"Hey, it's alright. I'm used to it." Viktoria replied flippantly. Rogue shrugged, absently tugging on her gloves. "Remy has different eyes too. Red on black. And Kurt too, in his natural form, they're gold."
"Yeah, I know. It's okay. Really. We all have our things I guess. How bout I meet ya downstairs for lunch after we clean up, huh? I'm starved." Rogue nodded, continuing down the hall to the room she shared with Kitty. "Ah'll see ya down there, then."
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"You guys are like sooo lucky you didn't have to run laps," Kitty said to Viktoria while munching on a veggie sub. "Logan made us run 5 more laps after Scott already said we could go. He's all 'you didn't work nearly hard enough' and stuff. I wanted to punch him!"
"Like you would of Kitty," Bobby replied, peering over the refrigerator door. "Logan could kick all our asses with both of his hands tied behind his back."
"Maybe YOURS, Bobby," Kitty shot back. "Especially after that prank you pulled last week. But I'd just phase right through him." Kitty demonstrated by phasing her hand through the chair next to her.
"Oh, excuse me, your highness Miss Kitty Pryde! I didn't know!" Bobby sat down on the other side of Viktoria, a bag of chips in hand. "She thinks she's so smart just cause she skipped 11th grade," Bobby whispered.
"I heard that!"
Bobby grinned back at her. "It's true. Just cause your going to be a senior this year, doesn't mean you treat the rest of us like we're stupid."
"You're going to be a senior?" Viktoria asked. "Wait, why aren't you guys in school right now? Isn't it the middle of the semester?"
"We're on spring break right now," Kitty explained. "And yeah, I'm going to be a senior next year. My parents signed the papers and so did the Professor. You could be a senior too, Bobby, if you ever paid attention in science class." Bobby rolled his eyes at her but said nothing.
"What about you, Viktoria? Aren't you still in school?"
"Yeah, I guess. I never went when I was still with the Brotherhood out in California, so I don't know if I'll be a senior next year or not. Either way, I don't really care. The Professor said I could take independent classes if I wanted, to finish up my junior year, and graduate next year."
"Ya should be a senior with us," Rogue said. "Ah think Pietro will be one too. And Wanda. Who else? Oh yeah, Kurt. Remy and Jean graduated, and Scott too. Warran and Ororo are way out of high school... Logan too. Hmm, Ah think that's everyone- wait, no- Ah heard Evan's moving back to the Institute too. A couple of other people are supposed ta move in, too."
"When?"
"Ah dunno. A couple of weeks, Ah guess. Probably closer to the end of the year, after exams and everything. Ah'm sure Scott or the Professor will tell us. Ah'm gonna go find Remy, see ya'll later." Rogue gave a small wave and headed out of the kitchen, while Kitty, Bobby and Viktoria continued to talk about the end of the school year, and the summer ahead.
A/N: This chapter wasn't in my original outline, but I had to add it to tie up some loose ends with them being in school and such. Y'know, that semi- important stuff. Reviews are always welcome, even if you didn't like it.
Chapter 6- Another Peg in the Wall
"We just had this installed, so since you four are the first to train this morning, you'll also be the first to test it." Logan watched the kids' faces as they stared up at the huge wall with mixtures of fear, excitement, worry, and amusement.
"Do we like, get harnesses or anything?" Kitty asked. "I mean, what if we fall off or something?" Logan held up the harness for all of the to see. "You get harnesses, although I think you'll gradually get good enough to where you won't need it at all..."
"Logan," Scott said in a warning tone. "Safety precautions state that we must have them wear the harnesses at all times." Scott turned away from Logan's gruff look and address the team. "Okay, Bobby and Viktoria, you two will be up first, when you're at the top, signal to your partner, that's Rogue and Kitty, and they'll climb up after you. The team that makes it to the top first and rings the bell, gets to skip the next exercise."
"What about the losing team?" Scott nodded, checking something off on his ever-present clipboard. "Good question, Bobby. As for the losing team, you have to do the exercise over. Then we'll stop, and Logan or myself will explain the next exercise. Everybody understand? Okay, here's your harnesses-"
Scott handed out the four harnesses, while Logan helped Bobby and Viktoria into theirs, then hooked them up to the wires hanging down off the wall. "Is everyone in a harness? Iceman? Torch? You two ready? Torch? Are you sure that wrist is okay for you to be doing this?"
Viktoria rolled her eyes, but nodded. "Yeah, I already went and saw Hank about it. He said it was fine. A splendid recovery. His actual words, I swear."
Scott made a note on his clipboard, nodding more to himself than to anyone else. "Okay then, get set... GO!" Scott blew a whistle and they took off, clamoring up the tiny pegs stuck in the wall.
Viktoria reached the summit first, signaling down to Kitty who started up the wall after her. Bobby climbed over the top of the wall just after Viktoria, waving down at Rogue to begin. "That was kind of fun," Viktoria said with a shrug. "Are all the little simulations like this?"
Bobby snorted. "I wish they were all this easy! I think we're lucky today though, since it's new equipment and all, they don't want to push us too hard. At least, Scott doesn't." Bobby leaned over the edge, watching as his partner passed Kitty on the left. "Looks like you two'll be doing it again."
Viktoria scooted to the edge to see what he meant when she saw Kitty's foot slip and she lost her grip on the wall. Viktoria cursed under her breath, but congratulated Bobby and Rogue on their victory.
"Come on down, Torch," Scott called. "Looks like you two need to do it over."
Kitty stomped angrily, muttering about the 'slippery-ness' of the pegs. Viktoria rolled her eyes, not caring one way or the other. "Do you want to go first this time?" she asked. Kitty shrugged lazily. "Whichever. Let's just get it over with. And stop gloating up there Bobby!" Kitty shouted up the wall.
Bobby grinned over the edge, holding up his hands in a 'who me?' gesture. Viktoria covered her mouth to contain her laughter at the "BOBBY RULEZ!" sign he had made at the top in ice. She concentrated, forming a small dragon made completely of fire in her hands. Viktoria opened her hands, flapping them like butterfly wings, as the flaming dragon flew up to Bobby's sign, melting it so it only said " OBB UL Z "
Bobby looked down at his ruined sign, then swatted at the dragon, causing it to disappear. He stood up, hands over his head in a cheer. "OBB STILL RULES!" Rogue shook her head in amusement, leaning over the wall to shout down to Logan. "When can Ah get away from this lunatic?"
"As soon as Kitty makes it up the wall," Logan called back. "Now, Torch, go!"
"Why doesn't Kitty go first? Then I could tell her where to put her feet..." Viktoria started. "Shadowcat can do it on her own. Now up you go!" Viktoria glanced at Kitty, who was still silently fuming, and started up the wall. Making it up easily again, she signaled to Kitty and took a seat next to Bobby. "Howdy OBB, how's it going?"
"That was some- something you made there. How'd you do it?" Viktoria laughed, already creating another fire creature in her hands. "I just make this mental image of it, then sort of PUSH with my mind, and it forms in my hands." She opened her hands to reveal a small butterfly. "See?"
Rogue stared at the butterfly. "Can Ah touch it?" Viktoria nodded, focusing the butterfly to fly over and land on Rogue's outstretched finger. "Wow, and ya can control whether it burns or not?"
"Yeah. Kinda cool I guess. I still liked your sign better though, OBB." Viktoria said, letting the butterfly disappear. "Well, it WAS awesome... Until that little dragon thing of yours melted it! And I spent a lot of time on that sign too." Bobby crossed his arms, pouting.
"Yah, a whole 5 seconds worth'a time, huh Bobby?" Rogue replied. "Your just jealous of my amazing skills. I don't see YOU making an 'ROGUE RULES!' signs, now do I?"
"Lahke Ah'd want ta!" Rogue shot back angrily. "Whoa, ladies, ladies, please. Let's not lose our cool, alright?" Viktoria held up her hands to separate them. "Look, Kitty's up!"
"Alright, everybody repel on down here, and we'll start the next exercise!" Scott shouted up. He waited until everyone had come down and gotten out of their harnesses before he explained the next exercise.
"First, we'll switch up the teams a bit, Kitty and Bobby, then Rogue and Viktoria. Okay, this next drill is a bit harder. It doesn't involve the wall though. Sort of a mock capture the flag. I'll be up in the control room, while Logan watches from down here. Once one team as successfully captured the other team's flag, the game's over and you guys can leave."
"Are powers allowed?" Scott nodded. "Yeah, you can use whatever you have to keep the other team from getting to your flag, but Bobby; no icing people this time, Hank said Kurt caught the flu from that."
"Oops?" Bobby looked down at his shoes, then back up. "He could of bamfed out of the way or something," he replied in defensive of himself.
"Just don't do it, Popsicle, alright?" Logan shooed Scott up to the control room to start the simulation, then handed each team a flag, one blue, and one red. "And Viktoria, no lighting anyone on fire either." Viktoria stared at the shorter man in shock. "Me?! I would NEVER..."
"I'm sure the thought never crossed your mind at all," Logan replied sarcastically. "But if we're going to set up rules for ice, I figure we might as well for fire too."
"Somehow I get the feeling we're being discriminated against," Viktoria whispered to Bobby.
"The program will begin in 30 seconds," an electronic voice stated over the intercom. "10 seconds. Five seconds. Start."
The floor of the Danger Room suddenly transformed into a jungle setting, with the two teams heading in opposite directions to set up their flags. Viktoria grabbed Rogue and they huddled behind a huge leafy bush.
"I'm thinking one of us plays offense, the other defense," she whispered. "Ah'll be offense, if ya don't mind. Mah powers aren't so great for defensive stuff." Viktoria nodded. "That's what I was thinking. I'll go hide this," she replied, holding up the small blue flag. "We should have this thing wrapped up in five minutes, we have a mental advantage over them. Bobby's cocky, and Kitty's still pissed about the wall. Their minds won't be completely focused on the game."
"Ah was thinking Ah'll fly up in ta the trees, see if I can see their flag. Bobby lahkes to hide stuff up high, he thinks we can't reach it." Viktoria gave her thumbs up, and they split, Viktoria heading over to a broken log to search for a hiding spot, while Rogue flew upwards.
"Hmmm. now if I was Kitty and Bobby, what would I do? Probably hide the flag real quick, then both coming looking for ours. Think they can ambush us or something. Not gonna happen though. Now let's see... That'll do just fine." Viktoria hopped over a cluster of rocks, then pulled herself up the tree. Placing the flag underneath a bird's nest, she hopped back down.
"Now all I have to do is set up some convenient little fires here and there to confuse them-" Viktoria looked up to see Rogue crouching in a tree overhead. She was rummaging around in the hallowed out trunk, then pulled out a bright red flag, waving it around proudly. "WE WIN!"
"But I had ice covering that hole!!" Bobby shouted as the simulated forest melted away. "How did you get it?" Rogue flexed her arm. "Super-strength, GRR!"
"Rogue and Viktoria win!" Scott's voice proclaimed over the loudspeaker. "Great job you two. You can go wash up while Bobby and Kitty run a few laps for losing."
"Aw man," Bobby complained. Kitty swatted at him while they ran. "How do you think I feel? I lost twice!"
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"That was easier than I thought it'd be," Viktoria commented while following Rogue up the stairs to their rooms. "Yah, Ah know. Bobby made it easy for us though. Not only did he pick an easy spot, he covered it with ICE! Lahke Ah wouldn't notice that."
"Well, it is OBB we're talking about here. Not exactly a rocket scientist." Viktoria and Rogue laughed at Bobby's expense, both thinking of him and Kitty having to run laps because of the loss. "It was pretty cool to see you bust through that ice. How'd you do it?"
"Awhile ago we got in a tussle with the Brotherhood boys, gawd, Ah must'a been 15 or 16 Ah suppose. Seems lahke such a long time ago. But some'a us got captured by these government quacks and they forced me to absorb this gal. Carol Danvers, her name was." Rogue swiped at her eyes, small tears smudging her makeup. "I'm sorry Rogue, you don't have to-"
"It's okay, Viktoria. Ya ought ta know. She died, and Ah kept her powers permanently. Dunno how it happened, but here Ah am. I can absorb other people's energy, life force, ya know? And if their mutants, Ah absorb their abilities, powers. But it's only supposed ta be for a short while. Makes it so Ah can't touch anybody though. Not skin-to-skin anyway. Ah have ta wear these gloves."
"Oh." Viktoria stared at her boots, unsure of what to say. "Um, well, if it makes you feel any better, when I got my powers, my eyes changed color." Rogue arched an eyebrow at her, her eyes focusing on the blue glasses Viktoria wore. "What color are they?"
"They were blue. Now..." Viktoria removed the glasses, opening her eyes to show Rogue.
"Oh mah!"
Viktoria covered her eyes again with the blue lenses, masking the bright oranges and reds that swirled around in her irises, giving them the look that they were almost on fire. "Yeah- hence the shades. The blue lenses make it so you can't tell what color my eyes are. Just that they're dark."
"Sorry. Ah didn't mean ta-"
"Hey, it's alright. I'm used to it." Viktoria replied flippantly. Rogue shrugged, absently tugging on her gloves. "Remy has different eyes too. Red on black. And Kurt too, in his natural form, they're gold."
"Yeah, I know. It's okay. Really. We all have our things I guess. How bout I meet ya downstairs for lunch after we clean up, huh? I'm starved." Rogue nodded, continuing down the hall to the room she shared with Kitty. "Ah'll see ya down there, then."
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"You guys are like sooo lucky you didn't have to run laps," Kitty said to Viktoria while munching on a veggie sub. "Logan made us run 5 more laps after Scott already said we could go. He's all 'you didn't work nearly hard enough' and stuff. I wanted to punch him!"
"Like you would of Kitty," Bobby replied, peering over the refrigerator door. "Logan could kick all our asses with both of his hands tied behind his back."
"Maybe YOURS, Bobby," Kitty shot back. "Especially after that prank you pulled last week. But I'd just phase right through him." Kitty demonstrated by phasing her hand through the chair next to her.
"Oh, excuse me, your highness Miss Kitty Pryde! I didn't know!" Bobby sat down on the other side of Viktoria, a bag of chips in hand. "She thinks she's so smart just cause she skipped 11th grade," Bobby whispered.
"I heard that!"
Bobby grinned back at her. "It's true. Just cause your going to be a senior this year, doesn't mean you treat the rest of us like we're stupid."
"You're going to be a senior?" Viktoria asked. "Wait, why aren't you guys in school right now? Isn't it the middle of the semester?"
"We're on spring break right now," Kitty explained. "And yeah, I'm going to be a senior next year. My parents signed the papers and so did the Professor. You could be a senior too, Bobby, if you ever paid attention in science class." Bobby rolled his eyes at her but said nothing.
"What about you, Viktoria? Aren't you still in school?"
"Yeah, I guess. I never went when I was still with the Brotherhood out in California, so I don't know if I'll be a senior next year or not. Either way, I don't really care. The Professor said I could take independent classes if I wanted, to finish up my junior year, and graduate next year."
"Ya should be a senior with us," Rogue said. "Ah think Pietro will be one too. And Wanda. Who else? Oh yeah, Kurt. Remy and Jean graduated, and Scott too. Warran and Ororo are way out of high school... Logan too. Hmm, Ah think that's everyone- wait, no- Ah heard Evan's moving back to the Institute too. A couple of other people are supposed ta move in, too."
"When?"
"Ah dunno. A couple of weeks, Ah guess. Probably closer to the end of the year, after exams and everything. Ah'm sure Scott or the Professor will tell us. Ah'm gonna go find Remy, see ya'll later." Rogue gave a small wave and headed out of the kitchen, while Kitty, Bobby and Viktoria continued to talk about the end of the school year, and the summer ahead.