Chapter Two

"Do I really have to stay, Auntie O?"

"Evan, now is not the time. Now sit down and be quiet," she warned.

Evan sat down as Ororo walked in with Charles following behind her.

"I know that you all had previous engagements and am glad that you could make it."

'Like we had a choice,' thought Bobby.

'I don't like where this conversation is going. Last time, we found out that Mystique was actually our principal,' thought Scott.

"Relax, Scott. This isn't bad news, well not necessarily," answered Charles. "As you all know, our secret has been revealed and now the entire world knows that mutants exist. It's no longer safe for you all as well as many others. Thus, we will be having three students joining us either later tonight or tomorrow, because it's no longer safe for them to live where are now."

"Okay, Professor, that's all you had to tell us?" questioned Scott.

"Yeah, for a minute there, you had us scared, Professor," interjected Kitty.

"No, these children are different," Ororo tried to clarify.

"How?" asked Jean.

"Well, these students are not only mutants, but they are my children as well," he answered.

"Professor, you say that about all of us," Kitty cut in.

"You idiot, don't you get what he is trying to tell you all," Evan said through clenched teeth.

"No what?" she asked wearily.

"Kitty," Ororo exhaled. "Charles and I aren't talking metaphorically. These children are products of a marriage between Charles and myself. Meaning that they are our own flesh and blood."