Disclaimer: I don't own any of the girls that starred in the X-men film and sadly, none of the guys. :( Then again, I'd never hold any hottie against their will.......cough*I'm a liar*cough

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Her dream was extremely unfocused. She was going somewhere. She would have been frightened but the reassurance and confidence that she was going somewhere peaceful was strong. It was as if the place at the finish line was a place where everything was right. She was almost there until a loud, sweet, shaky voice said, "Not Yet." She was going to ask why when the sound of a bird jerked her awake.

Tamara's eyes snapped open and closed immediately upon the bright light. She opened them again and sat up looking out her window at the bird who had awakened her. She pulled the curtain that split the room in half aside and noticed that Scott and Jean were already gone. The alarm clock read 8:30.

She groaned because she knew once she opened her eyes she wouldn't be able to close them again, so she just walked into the bathroom.

After a very refreshing shower, she stepped out and found a tank top and jeans hanging on the door with a note attached to them. It read, "These should fit. Borrowed them from Rogue." The clothes fit perfectly and she quietly stepped downstairs and found the kitchen. In there was Scott, along with 3 teens that looked her age, and one girl that looked about thirteen.

"Ah, You're up." said Scott. "Breakfast was 30 minutes ago." The other kids sitting down at the table looked up at her suspiciously. "Oh, let me introduce you to the others," He went clockwise around the table. Pointing to a girl with brown hair except with a white streak in the front , he said, "This is Rogue." They both said hi. Then he motioned toward a fair faced boy with blondish, brownish hair, "This is Rogues boyfriend, Bobby." He smiled, shook her hand then said, "But you can call me Iceman." Then Scott turned toward a guy with brown hair and a somewhat uncaring look on his face. "This is John." "Come on, you know I hate that name, it's Pyro." Cyclops sighed and then looked at the other girl. She had dark skin, little chubby and distrusting look on her face. "This is Samari, Storm's cousin., but we all call her Rain." The girl eyed her and didn't even say a word.

"Everyone this is Tamara." "And I really must be going, see you all later." Then Scott walked off. Tamara grabbed an empty seat and asked, "So, can I sit here?" "Sure," said Rogue. Samari jumped up and said, " I have somewhere to be now." and left without another word.

"What's wrong with her?"

Bobby responded, "Samari can be a little---" "Annoying," interrupted Pyro. "Well, I was thinking of temperamental but yeah, that describes her perfectly."

Rogue spoke up then, "More like hormonal little whore if you ask me." "Whoa! Rogue, didn't know you new any other bad words then damn." remarked Pyro.

"Please, JOHN, don't act like she doesn't follow you around hand and foot and expect you to one day date her, or make out with her, or do whatever the hell she'd do with you." "She even hates girls who even look at you, especially me, just because we're friends, and I know it was her that put superglue in my gloves."

Tamara, getting up and pouring a glass of orange juice, said, " Sounds like this girl I use to know named Lauren, except she was way bitchier." She had put a pop tart into the toaster when she asked, "So, what are your guys, "powers"?"

Rogue spoke up first, "You see these black gloves I'm wearin?" "Well, my "gift or call it a curse, is that I can absorb everything about a person with just the touch of my bare skin. To much contact could kill them."

Tamara looked shocked, "Ev--Ev--Everything?" Rogue started to stare at her hands now, " Their memories, their traits, their powers….."

Suddenly it all went quiet then Bobby made am ice butterfly right out of the palm of his hand. "I figured you would have guessed it by my name but…." "Aww, this is sweet, thank you."

Rogue smirked, "Don't get too sweet now." In response Bobby grabbed her covered hand and kissed it, which gave Tamara another idea.

"Wait a minute, you said you can absorb anyone's power right?" "Well then how do you two……?"

Bobby smiled, "We get that a lot. Truth is we don't." Tamara spoke up, "Well, you could you know, I mean that's what condoms are for."

"My, My aren't we blunt?"

"Tell me about it," said Cyclops as he walked into the room. "I came here to tell you that you two, (he pointed to Iceman and Rogue) don't have to go to class today, on one exception, you have to give Tamara here a tour of the grounds."

"Got it," they both said as Scott walked off.

There was more weird silence then Tamara gestured toward Pyro, "What about you? What do you do?" "Lemme guess, you can set people on fire with the single thought?"

Again, total silence, until a piercing bell rang. Pyro got up walked over to Tamara, got closer and closer, then reached past her, grabbed a pop tart, and left.

This left Tamara, for once in her life, totally speechless. Then Bobby started to laugh, "Don't let him intimidate you like that, he's just acting like a smart ass."

They all started to leave the kitchen, but Tamara walked slowly behind, her interest in pyro growing bigger and bigger.