Hey readers!

Wow, someone read all the way up to here! I guess my story's more than half way done, because I have knida a long epilouge in mind, but I hope you've been enjoying the ride. I think this will give my fellow rabid fangirls some, well okay it might be false hope, but just be paitent. I promise by the time the epilouge is over, you'll have something solid to hold on to.

If I owned evolution, i would make Gambit twentytimes cooler, and if I owned anything else I might mention in my story, or have mentioned, I _would_ own Evolution. Or a whole lot of comic books. You know how it is.

One more thing, ignore the whole stuff f vilains ep., and anything afterward. My story is officially outdated. But I lasted longer than most people.

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"A giant net?" [Why would father use a net?]

"Where'd he get this idea from, Pokemon?" [Dammit! First Ah find out Ah'm related to that traitah Pietro, then Ah run into the guy that tried to kill me, an' now Ah trapped in a net with Wanda, Kurt, and that stupid guy! Ah shoulda stayed in bed]

"Great." [I can't 'port out of here! I _really_ need to start sleeping in.]

"Dis is really not my day." [How many more people gonna want to kill me? Damn, I thought I was 'sposed to be a charmer.]

Mystique had decided that Wanda could take care of herself, and with any luck they had all finished each other off by now, so she went to a small bar where no one's ever sober enough to notice if a person is so drunk they can't hold the same shape for more than a minute, and got extremely plastered She was then arrested for DUI. She got out two hours later, by shifting into a rat and running out of the police station. She decided to stay away from the BOM house for a couple of days to retain her sanity though.

Anyway, since Mystique wasn't coming to rescue them, (as if she would anyway) It was pretty easy to get the captured mutants and Gambit into the lair. Once they were there, which sorta resembled the holding cell in Star Wars without the alcoves, they were divided into cells. Rogue and Wanda had to share, and Kurt was put into another. Gambit was told to guard Rogue and Wanda, while Sabretooth brought Pietro down to the holding cells.

"Father!What-are-you-doing?I-didn't-do-anything-wrong!I-don't-want-to-go-in-there!"

"It's Nightcrawler's cell, not your sisters'."

"Thank-god."

"Kick his ass Kurt!" Rogue decided since she couldn't, she'd sic her older brother on him. (Amazing how quickly she accepted him being her foster brother, no?)

Rogue/Wanda's cell

"So, how are things going at the Brothahhood house?" [Ah hate bein' sociable, dammit.]

"Good, now that Pietro's gone." [I'm stuck with her? Well, at least she isn't preppy. I hate preppy.] Rogue looked nervousely at the chair in the corner, which was hovering threateningly. Wanda must have calmed down, because the chair hit the floor after a second or two.

"Yeah, He was onea the worst things about livin' there. That an' Toad's b.o."

"Too bad I still have to put up with him. Wait, how would you know?"

"Ah was the first female in the Brothahhood, bar Mystique." [Also known as the most messed up foster parent in existence. The background checks must be pretty lax back there, or else they'd know ten minutes ago she was a blue terrorist. Stupid state-run adoption agencies.]

"I thought the blonde was."

"Tabby? Nope, she didn't join until Ah'd quit." [Wannabe.]

[Tabby? her name was Tabby? Who named her? A cat freak?]

"Why'd you leave? To follow that liar Xavier?"

The chair once again hovered menacingly, but Rogue decided if she was going to die, she might as well get her verbal memoirs out.

"Mystique lied to me to get me to join her, Ah hated living in the brothahhood house, an' Fred always ate mah food before Ah could get to the livin' room." [not that anyone else would eat it. Thank god for 99 cent menus.]

"Oh." The chair hit the ground with a high pitched thud. "When you put it that way, the brotherhood house does suck. But most of the time Mystique isn't there, so there's no one to tell me what to do or how to do it, and she treats me better than they did in the assylum, so I won't complain." [acutally, I hate living with Toad, but what else is there?]

"Good point, but Ah wouldn't go back for anything."

"I won't leave, at least not until I can find a better place to live. Don't try to recruit me either."

Wanda watched Rogue closely. Her powers weren't negated, so were the other girls? Why weren't they negated? Ah yes, the guy at the door. Should have let the other girl kill him.

"Do Ah look like a recruiting agent?" [Wow, was Ah like that? Was? Have Ah changed? Ah don't think so. Great, now Ah'm schitzin' out in mah head. Just what Ah need, more voices.] "'Sides, the others'd give you alotta crap. Ah bet othah organizatins'd take ya in if ya decided Mystique was too much to take."

"Such as?"

"Dunno. Shop around. Heard about some team or other lookn' for recruits. An' they ain't run by the Tin Man ovah there." Wanda almost almost smiled. That is her scowl lightened up a little. Rogue recognized a hidden smile when she saw one. [Well, at least she has a partial sense of humor. Could be worse.]

[Hmm, well, as far as my family goes, I can stand to be around her without a stress ball for ten minutes. Not that I'll call her sister anytime soon.]

"Anything else Ah can help ya with?"

"Has Mystique always been like this?"

"As long as Ah've known her she has."

Silence, for a minute or two. Rogue sighed, and Wanda asked the most surprising question of the day.

"So, have you ever blackmailed anyone with what you know?" Wanda looked almost like a normal teenage girl looking for gossip. Rogue decided that since Pietro _had_ double crossed her, and this was his sister, she could let a few interresting facts slip. She smirked and answered Wanda's question.

(to keep peace between me and the Maximoff family, Rogue whispers so that their guard can't hear, but what she says is obviously _very_ interresting, as Wanda almost stopped looking evil and disaffected for the next ten minutes.)

Pietro/Kurt.

If anyone had been looking through the bars, they would have seen Kurt Wagner, The school joker/Europian exchange student sulking in a corner on the opposite side of the room from Pietro Maximoff, the school track star/guy with an ego as big as Europe. They also would have noted that neither was speaking, and both were staring holes through each other, which was extermely rare for both of them. Finally Pietro said something.

"I-know-why-father's-doing-this."

Kurt jumped a little, hearing Pietro talk after such a long silence, but regained composure quickly.

"Was? Holding us against our will, or setting up this family reunion, which has a definite lack of cheek-pinching aunts to explain." Kurt had indulged in a rare moment of sarcasm which he thought, in the way people who are forced to do things against their will think, that he was stealing his foster-sister's shtick. He was also wishing, (once again) that he'd just slept in.

"He-wants-at-least-one-of-you-to-say-Hey!Freak-staying-with-someone-who-quasi-respects-me,I'm-going-to-go-live-with-Daddy.You-weren't-supposed-to-be-here."

"Thanks."

[Lucky me. This really, really, sucks. Why him? I can barely understand him. I'm going to stop being a morning person from this day forward.]

"Just-telling-you-what-I-know."

"Why?"

"You're-the-only-person-I-can-talk-to."

"Okay, don't talk to me any more."

Pietro almost started talking agian, but heard his father come through the door, so he decided to listen to what Magneto was going to say instead.

"Victor, how are my son and the other interacting?"

"They just stopped talkin'. Seems like the blue furry kid got him to shut up. Have ta remember that trick."

"Ah. Remy, my daughters?"

"Dey're talkin' 'bout lynchin' yo' son, an' de brotherhood."

"Hey boss, is expresso-boy right? Are you trying to get the girls to join you?"

"Non chat, he wants to have a family reunion, and needs to know how much potato salad to buy. Man you're stupid."

"Shut up you son of a. . ."

"Victor. Remy." Both looked up at Magneto, and Remy had decided to look semi-sorry, while Victor looked away after a second and didn't say anything about the reprimand. "Yes I am trying to get them to join me. Currentley it's not working, so switch Nightcrawler and Rogue."

Sabertooth went into Kurt and Pietro's cell and took Nightcrawler out, while Remy sighed and opened Rogue and Wanda's cell. [I need a new job. Why did it have to be her? All the other femmes with mutant powers, an' he had to be these two's father.] He tried to grab Rogue around the waist, having the idea that he would be out of easy reach. He didn't count on her resisting so much her shirt would pull out from under his hands, but it did, enough to expose her stomache. Needless to say Rogue and Wanda escape. But not before taking Gambit's keys.

Rogue grabed Kurt, while Wanda hexed Pietro's cell door shut, and grabd the keys from Sabertooth. Rogue leads the way out, using the keys they swiped. They were pretty far from the entrance when Kurt remembers Logan's promise to pick him and Rogue up.

"Wait!"

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I know the ending is a bit anti-climatic, but it's just one sentence short of everything I have typed, and I decided since you guys have been so supportive you deserve it. Enjoy this, there might not be another chapter for a while. Please review.

Peace and love,
Panther Nesmith.

-A census taker once tried to test me. I ate his liver with some fava beans and a nice Chianti."-The Silence of the lambs (Idon't own that either.)