Risty Wilde looked uneasily inside her locker after the bell for lunch had rung. Another note was sitting inside. She had already received one of these before, but after she had ignored it they stopped coming. She unfolded the note slowly as her thoughts grew darker still, the note said the same thing as before. She had been very careful as to not give any kind of clues, she had been extra careful with all the little details. Killing off the girl whose identity she'd stolen, faking an English accent, making a passport, all of it was now for nothing. Some pathetic little loser found out who she really was, some idiot would have to die. Oh, yes, that was the perfect plan. She would meet with this poor excuse for a blackmailer and then let the Brotherhood take care of him. She tore the paper up and threw it in the nearest trash can. She didn't need this note, she had kept the one from before.
Rogue came running to meet Risty for lunch. Killing off the little snitch would have to wait. She waved to Rogue and went to join her.
"Rogue!" someone called from behind them, just as they were going to make plans for the afternoon.
A dark-haired girl approached them. Risty looked at her suspiciously.
"Here's your book back. Thank you so much for letting me use it during the weekend," said the girl taking a drama book from her messenger bag and handing it to Rogue. "I really had no way of making up all the stuff I missed."
"Aw, it was nothin', sugah. Anytahme," Rogue said, smiling.
"You have to let me make it up to you."
"No, seriously. Ya don't have to."
"No, really. I always repay my favors. How about you, Scott and I go out this weekend? I have a debt with him too. We'll do lunch or catch a movie, my treat."
"Ah...uh..."
"Aw, come on. I know you have a little crush on him. Maybe I could help you out with that. I'll bring a friend too, that way it'll be like a double date. What do you say?" asked Jade eagerly.
"Oh, Ah don't know."
"What if Scott finds out?" asked Risty, trying to free Rogue up.
"Well, we don't have to tell him. It'll be our little secret," she answered, smiling and winking to Rogue.
Rogue smiled widely and nodded. Risty had no way out but support her "friend." Rogue was too important to lose so she had to allow her to with this...whoever she was.
"Thanks, Jade. Ah owe ya one."
"Nah, we're even remember? Oh, I gotta go. I need to find to Scott and tell him about this weekend. See ya," Jade called out as she was leaving.
"Who is she?" asked Risty, when Jade was gone.
"She's the girl I was telling you about. She just transferred here. Her name is Jade Fey. She's cool. Oh, my... what am Ah gonna wear?"

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"Tom, contact Rat," said Jade.
"Why? How?"
"I don't know, put an ad in the newspaper, get creative, I don't care."
"Well, ok. What for, though?"
"I need Irvine's help. I promised Rogue I was going to bring a friend and I don't know anybody else."
"Oh, well. At least you've got one down, how are you going to get Summers to come?" Tom said in her ear.
Faye had made many improvements since the meeting she was forced to have with the X-men. She found a dye that was a shade darker for her hair and used it, making sure no one would notice the difference. She also changed the color of her eyes with contacts, and used Daniel's powers to change everyone's memories. And, if that wasn't enough, she ditched the watch she used to communicate with Tom and used a earpiece and a small microphone in the shape of a button. It was a lot safer than using her thoughts, lest Ms. Grey be snooping around where she wasn't invited.
"I'll think of something," she whispered, now being careful that no one heard her.
"Don't look now, but here he comes."
"Great timing."
"Not really, he has Jean with him."
"Oh, great."
"Hey, Jade," said Scott, smiling at her.
"Oh, hey, Scott. Jean. Could I talk to you for a second?" she said eyeing Jean.
"Uh...sure," said Scott.
"Well, don't worry about me. I'll just try to find Duncan. I'll see you later, Scott?"
"Sure, Jean, see ya."
Jean left, somewhat troubled. She really didn't like that new girl hanging around Scott like that. It's not that she was jealous or anything, she just didn't trust her for some reason.
"So what's up?" he said, after Jean was gone.
"Well, I've been having a bit of a hard time fitting in here," she tried, and noticed she had caught his attention. "And I really wanted to make some friends..."
"But you have friends," interrupted Scott.
"Yeah, just you. Not that it's not good enough, I just..."
"No, no, I understand. But you should really take a look around you. Kitty loves you, Kurt does too, and Jean...well, she's...you know...she'll come around."
"Yeah, I'm sure, when Hell freezes over. Anyways, what I really wanted to ask you is for a favor."
"Sure, anything."
"Oooouuu, you got him now, girl," said Tom in her ear.
"Rogue told me that she wanted to do something this weekend," she continued, ignoring him. "I think she's bringing one of her friends with us and I didn't wanna be the odd-girl out or anything, so..."
"What's your point?" asked Scott, interested. He loved Jean, but Jade was really pretty and enticing.
"Would you please come with me?"
"This weekend right?"
Jade smiled looking at him.
"Sure," he said, finally, and smiled. "It's a date!"

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Jade had lunch as usual with Scott, Evan, and Kurt and Kitty. They sat around, talking about things and making plans for the rest of the week, when an alarm went off on Jade's ear. She gripped the sides of her head, as the painful noise kept on ringing inside her head.
"Make it stop!!" she managed to say through her gritted teeth.
"Jade, are you okay?" asked Scott putting one arm around her shoulders.
Suddenly, the noise stopped. Her head weighed heavily on her shoulders and neck. Jade looked around her, she saw that everyone at the table was looking at her curiously. She smiled wearily and tried to think of a way out of that situation.
"Splitting headache," Tom said on her ear.
"Splitting headache," she repeated.
"What?" asked Kurt.
"Yeah, I have that sometimes. I didn't get that much sleep yesterday, and I guess I just felt the results of it now." She paused and looked at each person that sat on the table; they had all bought her explanation, all but Scott, who was still looking at her skeptically. She gave him a half-smile and told everyone that she had to leave.
"Like, take care of that headache, ok?" said Kitty, as Jade got up.
"I will," she said, tossing her milk to Evan.
"I know how that feels," Kitty started telling Evan and Kurt. Scott was still looking at Jade. She paused like she was fixing her bag for a second and listened.
"Every time I'm on the phone with Lance, I wake up with one of those. They're, like, killer," Kitty kept on going.
When she saw that the conversation had changed to that direction she got up. Her eyes met Scott's for a second.
"I'll catch you later," she said, smiling.
"Yeah, later," said Scott, thoughtfully.

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"What was that all about?" asked Jade, checking that the stalls on the girls' restroom were really empty.
"Rat wants to talk to you," said Tom, calmly.
"And you go and pull a stunt like that?!? What if someone got suspicious?"
"Someone did get suspicious, Faye, my love. Scott Summers."
"Shit!" she exclaimed, which was followed by a string of curse words and kicks and punches on the walls and stall doors.
"Faye!"
"Oh, what else do you want me to do? Why didn't you use Daniel's powers to take the distrust right out of his head?"
"Jean was too close. We couldn't risk it."
"Goddammit!!! Why did you do that for, Tom? Do you realize that you just jeopardized the entire mission?"
"What are you talking about, woman? I didn't do anything! I swear!"
"Right and the communicator just malfunctioned by itself, out of nowhere. Sure, I believe you."
"Oh, that hurts, Faye, it really does. I didn't do anything, all right? And I don't have any readings that anything happened at all. I am as lost as you are."
"Then, find where that came from so I can kill the idiot responsible for it. Meanwhile, I'll be going to class, but not before I leave another note on Risty's locker."

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Risty opened her locker to find another note inside.
*Well, this is a persistent little fellow,* she thought.
Curiosity settled and she decided to read the note after all. Without anyone noticing, she opened the paper and read.

"There'll be a game on Wednesday at 7:00 p.m. Come watch the game, I want to see you on the stands. After the game is over, you'll wait underneath the bleachers for me. Don't come looking for me, I'll find you.
"If you do not come, I'll tell everyone your little secret. I will especially enjoy the face that you son, Kurt Wagner, and your precious little Rogue will make when they find out that you're still around. Now you wouldn't want that to happen, would you, Mystique?"

*Oh, that idiot has some guts pushing her around like this,* she thought, gripping the note.
She wanted to rip each and every one of the hairs on his head out, while inflicting a lot of pain. No, whatever she thought she could do to this guy wasn't good enough, she needed to something that he would never forget. Suddenly, her eyes brightened, she knew exactly how to spoil this guy's plans.
She opened the note once again re-read the instructions.
"It's a date," she whispered shoving the note on her backpack.
She grinned slyly as she thought of Sabertooth......