I hope all the readers in England had as good a Red Nose Day as I did! Wacky Hair Day at our school, and we got out of Geography! Woohoo!
Thanx to reviewers! Kerrigan, you brightened up my day! Magic Snowglobe Sue, thanx for the input, but I'm still writing the story. It isn't what you expect.
As normal, I don't own X-men. DO NOT RUB IT IN.

But I do own Cassie and the plotline. OK.

Chapter 3 - Sleep Time is Over

The morning lessons had been relatively uneventful. Unless you can count the time when Rogue started yelling at Bobby in French. And so, at lunch most of the X-men sat together. But Scott, Evan and Bobby were worried. At one end of the table the girls had barely eaten anything they were so busy gossiping. They were giggling and talking while stealing glances at the boys, giving them good reason to be worried.

"They keep looking at us." Evan mumbled.

"Yeah. What are they giggling about?" Bobby murmured to Scott.

"I don't know, but it doesn't look good." Scott answered. "Last time they did this Kitty had organised a `shopping spree`" At this memory they shuddered. "Just keep your heads down."

They looked down seemingly very interested in their food.

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"Oh come on Cassie! Even Scott has looked you up and down!" Jubilee pushed, "Take a long look around you, OK. Every guy in here is looking or glancing at you!"

She smirked at Cassie's appalled but flattered face when she realised that it was true. But the smirk was stopped short by a glare from Rogue.

"That's real low Jubes." She growled. "Ah think maybe Jean wants some tah talk to. Someone just as jealous of Cassie as she is." Rogue pointed a gloved finger in Jean's direction, near where Duncan was sitting.

Looking around the table for support Jubilee found she had none. With a scowl she got up and flounced off to Jean's table, watched by Bobby and Evan trading surprised glances.

After an awkward silence Cassie looked uneasily at the eyes watching her from all over the room before asking, "Would you mind if I used my powers to stop them staring? I would make sure that it didn't effect any of our kind."

"Like, go on!" squealed Kitty excitedly.

No one had really seen a proper demonstration of Cassie's powers so they were all watching eagerly as she stood to face the students of Bayville High.

"Excuse me. But may I please have your attention!" The hall fell silent as bemused students turned their attention away from their lunch. "Thank you."

Closing her eyes Cassie focused, taking deep breaths all the while. She heard gasps but kept her eyes shut. Tuning out the irrelevant sounds she focused. Then she opened her eyes.

She looked like an illustration of a Goddess. Her hair looked almost alive, as if an invisible wind was blowing the tendrils into the air. Her clothes shimmered in the sunlight. And her eyes. For a split second her eyes were an electric blue before returning to a deep brown.

Smiling gently she sat back down to the sound of innumerable yawns and looks of envy from Jean and Jubilee. For every non-mutant was asleep where they stood or sat.

"Hmm. Not bad. But I'm really out of practise." She laughed at their surprise. "Can you tell me who the other group of mutants are? I sensed them but let them be." Cassie asked curiously.

"We can tell you," came Lance's voice from the other side of the hall. Four people, three boys and one girl, were picking their way through the sleepers.

"We are the BOM!" he stated dramatically.

"Bom?"

"The B.O.M.! The Brotherhood Of Mutants!" cried Toad leaping over the table towards Cassie.

The X-men were very alert as the Brotherhood approached. In fact Rogue was openly hostile as she dropped into a fighting stance. But Cassie stood tall, one hand on hip, smiling slightly. Once he had come close enough she held out her right hand and introduced herself to the Brotherhood of Mutants.

"My name is Cassie. It's a pleasure to meet you all." Leaning down she whispered in Toad's ear, "Especially you Toad. I know all about you from a certain girl behind me."

Cassie slyly glanced at Kitty, which didn't escape Toad's notice. He gazed at Kitty in wonder and was amazed to see her begin to blush.

"I'm Lance. That's Wanda and Peitro." Lance introduced pompously pointing to them in turn. "They are twins. Unfortunately."

Cassie's eyes met Peitro's and she used her telepathy to find out about him without him noticing. Which, he didn't, of course. She had been doing it for years.

_His father! _ She had seen this man to many times before, how could she forget him? _How could I ever forget him? _ She thought, hatred boiling up inside her.

She wrenched her gaze away and took a look at him.

_Gorgeous _ she thought without realising she had thought it. _Wait. I will never like anyone who has anything to do with. him _

Suddenly an impatient Wanda pushed through Lance and Toad to reach Cassie. "Hi. I'm Wanda. Don't you think you are on the wrong side? We know far more than the X-geeks!" Wanda laughed, along with Peitro.

Cassie felt as if she was going to explode. "You don't know anything!" she screamed. The students awoke with a snap as Cassie lost control.

Backing away from the bewildered Brotherhood, Cassie's hair began to come up from her shoulders and back, blowing gently, then more violently. Hands clenched she stood.

"Your father." she spat out, "Your father is a sadistic son of a bitch!"

Throwing her arms out and her head back she unleashed it all. All around her the wind blasted through the glass windows, showering glass all over the floor, pushing doors open and creating a vortex around Cassie. Below her the Earth shifted in anger and water broke free of its metal confinements. Outside a tree burst into flames.

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*What is happening Ororo? * The Professor cried out to Ororo, as she flew over the grounds of the mansion battling for control over the winds.

*I don't know! * came back a breathless reply. *But I do know that I can't stop it. *

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Screams of terror and pain cut through the air as students ran aimlessly and hid under tables, glass cutting into their skin and fear of the unknown running through their minds.

At the centre of the Vortex was Cassie. Her hair was streaming around her and she fed off the fear and defeat she could feel coming off the students. Her eyes were closed with bliss and her body, trembling with power.

"Tell your father that Helix has come home!" she cried opening her eyes. Those that saw them pulled back in horror, for they were the inspiration for nightmares.

Her eyes had no pupils and they were blood red.