© Autumn Raine

A/N: More chapters. More drama. No gore.. really yet. I dunno, I'm kinda wondering when I should put in some battles, ya know?

So onto the chapters. I posted about three to make up forlost time, and hopefully get this rolling again.

EEE! This has NOTHING to do with the story line that's going on in Evolution now. NOTHING! Characters will indeed be used, but no story lines from there.. except maybe romantic ones. ;P.

I don't own X-Men. Marvel. Or Anything that has some rich dude behind it. I'm just ...a girl. With a brain. And a story. =D. Yeah.





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Life on the Road






"What ar'ya talkin' about, Lance?" Alana pushed him from the back seat.

"Hey! I'm drivin' here! Go bother Pietro, won't you?" He growled, one gloved hand gripping at the steering wheel and the other poking at the radio buttons.

"Pietro, would'ya tell meh, kindly, where we happen t'be goin'? Seems like somebody to tha'left of me don't seem t'care." Dark eyes glared at the brown haired boy in the driver's seat.

"New York. Home of the Big Apple. Well, more like upstate. Bunch of trees. Mutants. Ya know, the normal stuff." Pietro flipped through a few pages in a magazine he happened to 'mis-place' in the 7-11 miles back...

"How much longer 'till we git there?" She raised a brow, fingers moving strands of white away from her freckled cheeks. Sunburned freckle cheeks. Gosh, the sun was hot all the ways wit' this car.

"I'd say about nine hours. Now, will that shut you up now?" Lance adjusted the rear-view mirror. "And will ya sit back? I can't see anything behind me with your big head in the mirror."

"Ah don't think ah'm 'ffectin' yer drivin' at'll, Lance."

"She's right, Lancey. I mean, you always drive like this."

"Pietro! Who's side are you on?!"

"I'm taking sides?"

"Gawd, ar'll boys this dumb?" She rolled her eyes, sinking back into the seat.

"HEY!" The both shouted.

"We heard that." Pietro looked to her.

"Yeah.. And for that one, we're gonna make you share a room with The Blob." Lance chuckled to himself, seeming to find personal amusement in that joke.

"Huh? Ah don't even know 'im." She sat indian style in the seat, adjusting the rather large shirt on her tiny little torso. "And if he's a boy, ah don't think ah'm sharin' a thang with 'im. Why can't Ah share with a girl?"

Lance tapped the rearview mirror again. "Big head.. " Cough. Cough.

"Ah'm even in tha WAY! Ooh.. Ah swear, boy, yer gonna be sorry when tha'night rolls 'round and the moon's up. Ah'm gonna lick ya like none before. Yer gonna bruise on yer ass, if you be all sass wit' me." Alana shot him a glare that could make almost anything cry - if only he saw.

Even Pietro whinced. "Oh, Lancey - watch out. This one's fiesty."

"I thought you liked your girls like that, Pietro." Lance nudged him, which made the pale boy seem to get a bit.. peachy.

"Alr'aight, you too." She rolled those glittered eyes and placed her elbow on whatever bar that ran along the side of the car as an 'arm-rest'. Cupped hand held her chin as she looked to the passing ground below her. Her slender hands ran over the scabs along her upper arm and shoulder - the shingles. God, how they cut her up so much. The Farm.. Her friends.. Her Family..

Lord, if there is one, ah hope yer takin' care of them... Ah sure do miss'em bunches...





"Darren, you don't understand. We can't just walk out of here." Sue sighed, folding shirts as Darren stood near her sorting money into a tin.

"C'mon. Someone's gotta be able to distract someone and we're outta here, babe." He was nudging her with a grin on his lips.

Holly came into Sue's view, spinning around as she tugged on the straightjacket with a giggle. She was quite the attraction for the Farm, little kids tossed things at her while adults had their fun with cruel jokes and words. And *thud* she went into the side of Sue's table, white eyes looking up to her with dishevled hair and a few streaks of dust on her cheeks.

"Kristina's gone.." She giggled, throwing her shoulders around as she struggled with the jacket.

Sue's blue eyes widened, and her mouth gaped. "H-How do you know!?" She hushed Holly, holding her head in her gloved hands.

"Went in a car with a man. A man. A MAN MAN MAN!" She giggled again, then continued. "I bet they're goin' to the zoo. To see some animals, ya know. I always wanted to see a lion. Rooooarrrrr." She began to roar and growl through her teeth, her feet slowly fading as her powers began to spark with her motions.

"Holly - HOLLY! No dissapearing, okay?" Sue pet her on the top of the head. "When did you see this?"

"Now now. Well, two minutes ago. You're late. You're late. Late for a very important date!" She giggled again as below her knees were now nothing but air.

"SHOW ME!" Sue shook her by the shoulders.

"Oh now, don't be hasty. Hasty Hasty! Blue Ford. Ford Ford. Four door. Beep." She giggled, half of her body just seeming to 'float' infront of the table.

Sue let go of her as and turned to Darren, who had been listening the entire time as he tucked the tin can of money beneath a stack of shirts.

"We're gonna do somethin', right?" Darren looked to her, rubbing her shoulder with concern.

She nodded, strands of blonde framing about her cheeks. Blue eyes glanced about the area from where they were working - Blue Ford. A blue ford?

"Look for a blue Ford.. " Darren nodded, looking over her head and about the crowd - squinting to see beyond to any parking lot.

Sighing, she rolled her eyes - "I know that.. I was listening to Holly... " Looking infront of her, she arched a brow.. "Holly?" She waved her gloved hand infront of her.

She heard a tiny 'ouch' as she hit the invisible body of Holly, who was somehow free now from her straightjacket, and she grabbed at Sue's arm. Sue gasped as she was being dragged over the table top and then to the ground. Suddenly, it seemed as if she herself was fading away as she was being dragged on the ground; and finally Holly was in her vision again, white hair a mess about her face as she lifted Sue up to her feet. Putting a shaking finger to her lips with a giggle, she hushed Sue. Softly, she whispered - "Don't say a thing. We're... clear to them.."

"But.. Darren.. " Sue looked back over her shoulder to the boy with changing color streaks in his hair and the frantic look of anger, confusion, and dispair on his face.

"Hehe.. Don't worry 'bout your boyfriend, Juliet." She giggled, dragging her further and further away to a car and both of them ducked behind it. "We haven't got to the part where Romeo comes to her window and calls to her! THEN!" She looked to Sue, seeming to have this bit of.. wierd sanity all of a sudden. "Then.. Some people die and... and you'll get married and have babies."

Well.. Most of her sanity.

"Holly, that's not how it goes.." She shook her head, as she felt a bit of a tingle - they were becoming visible again.

"Well, that's how my story goes. I'mma writer, ya know." Holly nodded, matter-of-factly and then peeked up to the glass window; pressing her nose on the glass and fogging of the window with the breathe from her nose. "There.." She pointed.

Sue peeked up, wiped away from of the fog with her hand and looked to the blue car. Ford. She saw the little blue cross.

"Okay, Holly. Make us invisible again." Looking to her side, she didn't see her.. "Holly.. Holly? If you went invisible again, I'm going to smack you.. " She hissed, frantically thwapping her hand about beside her.

No voice. No body. Nothing.

She was alone.

Gathering her thoughts, she ducked down behind the car. She tore off those plastic gloves and went on her hands and knees. Crawling to the back of the car, she saw she was practically a direct line to the car. Glancing about her, and not seeing a single soul, she started for the blue Ford.

A scream.

An alarm.

A thunder of pounding feet.


And they were all coming from where she had just left.

Shit. Quickly, she got up to her feet and darted to the Blue car to see a familiar face on the other side of the car...

"Sue!" Darren's eyes widened, then he dissapeared into the car.

"Darren - " She felt herself get pulled into the car as the door openned.

"Sue! Gosh, I thought ya left my like my mom and dad. Geez, you scared me.. " He tucked a few strands of her hair behind an ear.

She blushed a bit, placing her hands in her lap and lowering her head a bit. "How'd you get here?"

"Holly.. Sue, I thought you were lost forever. I ..I don't think I woulda been livin' without you now.."

She looked up to him, basically ignoring the fact that he said he loved her, "Oh my God, are you serious? Oh, Lord. Where is she?!"

"Seems as if we have Romeo and Juliet of the Mutant World in the backseat of my car.." A woman said sullenly as she looked into the review mirror at Sue and Darren, golden eyes watching their movements as well as the stamping feet behind the car. "That play was always a favorite of mine. Such a tragedy, isn't it? Both of the lovers end up ...dying because they loved each other. Too bad your story doesn't involve your own death... yet."

Sue looked up to the mirror, and sunk back into the seat; clasping her hands in her lap. She could see Darren doing the same, and sinking down in his own seat.

The woman sighed, then looked to the passenger seat. "Alright, Kristina - we're fine. Now, call on some spirits and freak some people out so we can get the hell out of here." She ordered her, and put the car into gear; reversing, and turning out of the parking lot.

Kristina did as she was told, closing her eyes and heard the voices fill her mind - Mutants. Humans. They came to her again. The spirits, oh how they came. Howling and shrieking in the wind outside, blowing trees and picking up dust. She could hear their voices mix with the commotion outside.

Then the little boy came to her. That little boy from the Pit. The little boy who was cut in two. She could see him when she opened her eyes slowly. She saw his little body peeking over the "Parking Lot" sign they were just passing. His eyes, god how sad they were. Crusted blood about about his little abdomen in a jagged streak. Of course, he came visible in not two pieces - but in whole before he had died. Placing her hands on the window, she looked to the boy they slowly passed by; pale lips mouthing softly, "Don't worry, Daddy'll love you forever.."

"Oh my Lord!" Sue shrieked, hiding her head in her hands.

"What is it, Sue?" Darren rubbed her back.

"It's - It's the boy.. Don't you see him?" Her voice quivered with every word.

He nodded, "I do... Don't worry, it'll all be fine." He continued to rub her back with his arm about her.

Kristina took her hand away from the window, and slowly took her eyes away from the window as well - the sworm of panic struck humans running frantically about had no affect on her. She began to feel remorse for this poor child.. How did it feel to just loose your life like that? Why did it have to be him? He was so young. Playing with the gold locket about her neck, she looked over to the once blue woman ( who was currently the Big Man again ). "Why did I have to do that?" Her voice was soft.

"Do what?"

"... Bring the boy back."

"I didn't make you bring that boy back. He must've came to you, Kristina." The masked woman's voice of the burly man was quite comical to the two in the back, but it was the woman. She did have that.. tone like her normal voice. Looking to Kristina as she checked left and right to leave the entrance of the Farm to the main highway, she pointed at her necklace as she once more became the 'normal' blue woman. "What is that?"

She shrugged, looking down to the charm between her pale little fingers. "..I.. I think it's a picture of my family."

"Well, isn't that sweet - " Gold eyes rolled as she started out on the highway.

"...I never met my father." Kristina sighed.

"Don't worry about it. You're my child now, part of our family. All you need is us, my Child." The woman adjusted the rearview mirror to see the two in the back. "And, as for you two - I think you'll find it quite nice to be free once we hit New York. But, it's up to you if you'd really like to join us.." Her voice began to trail off..

"What do you mean?" Sue rubbed her hands together. "Where would I go anyway? Oh, Jesus - My family's not going to want me, and ..and.. I want to help my friends back at the Farm. I want that place to burn.." Blue eyes strayed to the window, watching the lines pass by. ".. It's the least I can do for Alana.. "

"If you put it that way..." The woman began.. "Then find a home in us. I'm sure you'll be quite delighted. Plus, there'll be a bit of a surprise once we meet with a few of my... other children. Now let me introduce myself.. " The woman flicked on the blinker and changed lanes.

"My name's Mystique.. And you will be under my care from now on..."


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A/N: Woo. Another chapter. On to the third one. =D.