Xavier waited as Rogue stepped quietly into the room and sat down.
"Rogue, I don't want to push this matter, but I would like to ask you how you would feel if Danny were to come live here." Xavier said. "I know there would be tension for various reasons, but I think we could make an asset out of Danny."
Rogue took in a breath. "There's no problem with me professor." She sighed. "Its Matt you should be worried about." She added under her breath. If the professor heard her he made no indication.
"Anyway, if you don't mind, I would like you to be the one to try and coax Danny to come live here." He said. Rogue shrugged as she headed for the door.
"No problem."
Danny lay awake on his bed. The silence of the night was interrupted by the wind lashing at the window. The house creaked in protest. Danny smirked in the darkness. His eyes gleamed as he thought of his girlfriend. Her image flashed in his mind. The hair, the eyes, the entire figure illuminated his thoughts. He was meeting her before school in a few hours time.
The cars whipped in and out of the school parking lot as the noisy social scene of the superficial population began to fill the halls. Danny, Lance, Pietro and the rest of the Brotherhood filed out of the van.
"You wanna go key Kelly's car yo?" Todd asked leaping about impatiently.
"Nah, that's alright man, you go ahead." Danny shook his head. The others strode away to go wreak havoc in some way. Danny slipped around a corner and waited out of sight, where someone was to meet him. A minute passed. Out of the corner of his eye he caught a bouncing figure and waved her over. A girl about sixteen wearing a pink tank top and a push up bra bounded up to Danny and hugged him.
"Hey babe." Danny said as he kissed her. She pushed her blond hair from her face.
"Hey."
Matt propped his book up on his desk and let himself nod off. The whine of the teacher wound past his head and dripped down among the other students. Tabby looked across the row to see his brown hair fall in front of closed eyes. She took out a piece of paper and scribbled something down. She flicked it to his desk. The sleeping man didn't notice as the note hit his desk and slid. Tabby's face contorted in frustration. The desk between them was empty so when the teacher turned his back to face the blackboard she slid into the seat next to him. She put her arm down and shot a tiny spark at him. Matt's eyes snapped open. He looked to his right to see Boom Boom frowning at him. He picked up the folded piece of paper and carefully undid the creases.
What is wrong with you? You almost never sleep in class. Are we still on for after school? Meet me at the flagpole at lunch.
Matt looked at her and smiled but promptly went back to sleep. Tabby frowned and slapped him upside the head. Matt didn't bother to move.
Rogue slipped down the hallway in search of Danny. She found him emptying his books into his locker.
"Hey." She said. He looked up and smiled.
"Hey."
"Ah want to talk to ya if ya aren't to busy/" she smiled. He stopped.
"What?"
"Danny, Ah know about you, about what happened at the mall if—" Danny pulled her into an empty classroom.
"That was an accident. I never wanted that to happen." He said earnestly. Rogue removed his hand from her sleeve.
"Its okay, its happened to some of us too, but if you listen there is a way to make sure it doesn't happen again." She sat down in a desk and he followed her.
"Danny, the Xavier can help, he trains us all, he helped Scott and Jean and Evan, he can help you so you don't cause anymore problems." Her eyes searched his for an answer but he was silent.
"Xavier says ya can come live with us if ya want, at the mansion, to learn to control your powers. You could live with us." She finished lamely. Danny frowned.
"I would Rogue, but I cant." He continued before she could ask why. "I know Matt lives there and I already have a great offer on a place to live and I can't turn it down. I'm sorry."
Rogue nodded. "Its alraht. I didn't expect ya to come anyway, what with Matt being such an asshole. Anyway, I didn't make the professor any guarantees, so its no big deal. I gotta go, meeting Risty for lunch, later." Rogue turned and left.
Danny watched her leave and smiled. He go up and went to his locker. She was there waiting for him, her blond hair curled around her shoulders.
"Ready?" she asked. He nodded.