Disclaimer: Not mine, except Siannagh and Salla and the leaves on the willow tree *wink* …Not that there *is* a Willow Tree in this chapter, but…hey, shit happens.

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***"Get away from me," a voice suddenly yelled. "Get off me!"

A woman who he recognised as Siannagh, obviously quite a bit younger and still in her late teens, walked across the park. The voice came from a drunk woman outside the pub across the park, nothing to do with Siannagh as he had first thought. Xavier recognised the ominous blue woman standing only a foot away from him, and smiled. So it was Mystique who had commited this disgusting crime.

Mystique fixed her focus on Siannagh as she walked past. In an instant, Mystique's blue skin was replaced by the skin of Logan. Her facial features changed from female to male and the long red hair shortened and took on the style of Wolverine, complete with the right shade of brown. To all appearances, it was Logan stood beside Xavier, not Mystique.

"Are you alright?" Mystique/Logan asked the girl, who jumped violently and spun to face him. She was strangely twitchy, no wonder, as Logan's voice was not the friendliest in the world. "I said, are you alright?"

"I'm fine," she said, as if the matter was closed. She carried on walking, but Mystique followed her in the tough body of Logan. "Stop following me, sir."

The Logan shaped metamorphose grabbed her wrist. Siannagh's scream ripped through the night air but no one heard over the music from local nightclubs and bars. With a grimace, Xavier drew out as he saw Logan/Mystique pressed against the poor screeching girl.***

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"My goodness," Rogue said, shifting away from Professor Xavier, who was looking about the room, completely shocked. This was the worst thing he had ever seen, or 'remembered', the shape-shifting mutant do. Rogue closed her eyes, struggling to stop the memory continuing as it had done before. "That was disgusting. How could she do such a thing?"

"I have no idea," Xavier admitted. "I must find Logan."

"How are you going to tell Siannagh?"

"I'll cross that extremely wobbly bridge when I come to it."