Disclaimer: I do not own any of the Marvel, WB, or Cartoon Network characters. I do own all the made-up characters so if anyone wants to use them, please ask me first. And if there is someone in my story that is owned by someone else, it is a coincidence.

Author's Note: If you are reading my story, please review it. I'd really appreciate that. I hope you enjoy it. The characters you know and love are coming soon! I also wanted to say that my older sister inspired me to actually write this story. One day she said one word, and I thought of this idea. She and my brother also persuaded me to watch X-men, and now I really love it!

Chapter 2

"Hey Jason!" Cameron yelled as she chased Jason around the field of fresh cut grass.

"I surrender!" Jason yelled as he bent down on one knee and held out the ring she had found in a cereal box when she was a little girl. She looked at it closely as her glowing purple eyes widened. It had turned into a real diamond ring. "Will you marry me?"

"Yes!" Cameron said as she hugged Jason and leaned in for a kiss……

"Get up Candy!" Jason yelled as he brushed his sandy hair out of his eyes. "Candy! It's Monday morning and you have to get ready for school!"

"One more minute," Cameron said lazily as she pushed her long purple hair over her face. "Let me finish my dream Jason!"

Jason shrugged and called everyone in there to help get her up. Cameron was the laziest person in this house. On some days, everyone in the institute had to come and try to get her out of bed. She usually said something about letting her finish her dream, yet nobody knew what she dreamt about.

Professor Xander came in the room and tried to talk to her calmly. She still wouldn't get up. Then Wolverine entered the room. "Toothache!!!!!!!!!!" he shrieked. Cameron popped up in her bed. She smiled at the sight of Mr. Logan. He was just like a father. He was the only one who could get her out of bed in the mornings. His gruff voice would always be able to make her pop out of her bed. No one else could take his place as her role model father. She considered Professor Xander her second father, or grandfather.

"Mr. Logan," Cameron said calmly. "Thank you."

Everyone shrugged and moaned and then ran to the kitchen to get some breakfast. "I got dibs on the Frosted Flakes!" Jamie yelled in his French accent as he pushed Kelly to the side and Kelly ran after him giggling all the way down the stairs.

"Come on kid, let's go downstairs before all the breakfast is gone," Logan said as he kept his serious expression on his face. Cameron looked at him sometimes and knew that a part of him was lost in the past. She shrugged it off and listened to her substitute father. It was the beginning of another long week of school.

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Cameron opened her locker and took out her science book for her next class. She was going to close her locker when she heard someone creep up behind her. "Hey Candy."

"Hey," Cameron said sweetly to Chris Smith. He was on the other side of the split mutant teams. He was sweet and Cameron always gave everyone a chance. She believed everyone had good in them.

"So what are you doing on Saturday?" Chris asked as he brushed his dirty blond hair back. He didn't have much of it because it was shaved off leaving little strands sticking up.

"Me and the gang were thinking about going to see a movie," Cameron said nicely as she shut her locker and leaned against it.

"Oh, you and the X-men?!" Chris spat as Cameron tried to keep her calm. "I bet you are going to go to the movies and try not to use your powers right? Why not? You should be proud of what gifts you have. Take advantage of that."

"It's not like that Chris," Cameron explained as she saw Jason walking towards them. "We just want to try to fit in as normal kids. We have learned to accept our powers, but sometimes you don't need it. And if you did use your powers, everyone will start talking and they'll ruin your day."

"Then show them what your powers are all about. They're mean to us, we have to be the same way back," Chris said putting his hand next to Cameron's head against the lockers.

"We want them to know that our powers are not used to harm people," Cameron explained tightening her ponytail. She smoothed her tight, beige, sleeveless shirt that matched her light brown jean pants. Her brown boots made a clicking noise when she changed positions as Jason came up to them after he finished talking to some people.

"That's what I hate about you X-men. You just don't get it. Maybe you need to come back to reality," Chris said.

"Is there a problem here?" Jason asked as he put his hand on Cameron's back to signal for him to leave.

"No, not at all," Chris said as the whole group came up to them. "Oh no, now all the X-men want to gain up against me. Why can't I just have a normal conversation?"

"That is definitely not the way to a girl's heart, dude," Aaron said as Jason's eyebrows knitted together. Kelly, Layla, and Jamie backed him up by nodding their heads. "If you want her, you have to accept her friends first."

"Hey, he doesn't have to do anything to anybody," a guy named Bug came up and said. His features resembled a typical bug and he was a disgusting jerk. Another two guys came up behind him. Salty and George. "Don't talk to my buddy like that, Eric."

"It's Aaron and he has to learn how to treat a lady," Aaron said in a loud voice stepping up to Bug. He waved his hand in the air and closed his nose. "Brush your teeth or eat a mint or something!"

The comment had made Bug and all the other guys angry. Chris had a temper and didn't hold back on attacking. Before anyone knew it, everyone was in a brawl in the school hallway.

Bug headed for Aaron as he wrapped him around his stretchable antennae's and threw him across the hall. Aaron responded back by making a little water path to make the bug slip and fall into the water he hates.

Chris tried to electrify Jason but Jason jumped out of the way. Jason didn't want to, but had to fight back. He attacked Chris with his metal hands. He pointed his hands at Chris' waist and shot out metal handles to hold him against the lockers. Chris hit the lockers as the group of girls next to him screamed and ran away. Everyone in the halls ran to their classrooms so they wouldn't be in the way.

Chris broke the metal handles with his electrical shock. He then tried to aim it at Jason who was protected by a shield Cameron had made for him. She concentrated on trying to save everybody and to restore their health but it was too much. "EVERYONE STOP! THIS IS NON-SENSE!" she yelled. No one listened. She didn't want to try to take the health from the others because this was a silly fight that she felt guilty for making.

Kelly threw Salty across the wide hall with her telekinetic powers. After Salty got up, he shot salt out of his eyes and hands and made a tower of salt that Kelly was buried under. Layla was attacked by George who made a brick wall around her with his powers so she wouldn't escape. She tried to break the wall down with her powers.

Cameron ran to help Layla out of the brick wall. She climbed the high thing and helped her out with her upper arm strength. They both ran to help Kelly out of the heap of salt she was in. When they helped her out, she was breathing hard so Cameron put her hand on Kelly's shoulder. Sometimes, Cameron's body gets drained because she gives too much health to others when they need it. But her body has learned to cope with a situation like that.

"Thank you Candy," Kelly said as she was up and ready for more. Kelly heard a little moan from the other side of the hall. She ran to help Jamie. Jamie was attacking Bug with his animal strength after Bug had gotten up and tried to attack Jamie. When Bug squirted something really nasty at Kelly who was coming to help Jamie, Jamie grabbed her and ran to Cameron as fast as he could. Layla grabbed Jason from his fight after hitting Chris a few times. She used her fighting skills more than her powers because sometimes her powers couldn't help. She couldn't make people blind all the time.

After Layla brought Jason to the group of X-men Cameron spoke up. "This has to stop!" Cameron yelled as she made a shield with her powers over all her friends. "This fight is meaningless. You guys are stupid to be fighting over something silly like this!" Cameron highbred her tone with her sweet but matured and strong voice. Jason and Chris nudged forward ready to keep fighting as Cameron's shield disappeared.

"WHAT IS GOING ON IN HERE?" Principal Brown yelled before they could start another fight. "YOU MUTANTS! YOU DESTROY EVERYTHING! YOU ARE ALL SUSPENDED FOR TWO WEEKS AFTER YOU CLEAN UP THIS MESS TOMORROW MORNING!"

Everyone looked around and groaned. Salty, George, Bug, and Chris left after the principal exited the hall. "Why were you talking to Chris? You know he's nothing but trouble," Jason argued with Cameron.

Cameron knitted her eyebrows and took a deep breath. "Chris is a pretty nice guy if you gave him a chance to actually TALK !" Cameron yelled as everyone watched intently. "And you cannot tell me who I should or shouldn't talk to! Anyways, you started the whole thing!"

"I did not start the whole thing. If Aaron and the other three hadn't come and opened their big mouths…" Jason said loudly.

Jamie, Kelly, Layla, and Aaron looked at Jason with their mouths open wide. "This is not our fault Jason. You're just trying to deny your wrong doing!" Layla yelled as all four of them walked away.

"Fine, walk away from the truth," Jason yelled. "I was just trying to protect our team mate."

"Protect?" Cameron yelled loosing her patience. "I am not something that needs to be protected!" she exclaimed as she walked away and headed for her science class.

"Fine!" Jason yelled. "I don't care who you talk to or if you're in trouble one day. I bet you can handle it on your own!" Jason walked the opposite way of Cameron as the halls were left empty. They all went their own way as the halls dripped with silence.

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Cameron tiptoed through the halls trying to make as little noise as possible. Everyone was still mad at everyone else. After Jamie, Kelly, Layla, and Aaron had a fight that same day because of the mood around here, everybody was on their own.

Cameron was dressed in a long, oversized, blue shirt that went over her navy blue pajama pants. She couldn't sleep and knew where she would go to get the anger out of her system. She went there to relax and reflect. Most people would think it's a creepy place to be in the middle of the night, but she found it relaxing.

She opened the hallway window and climbed down to the large meadow area. She walked and walked behind the Mansion until she reached the graveyard. She walked to the circle of graves surrounded by flowers. She sat in the middle and looked around. She used to read the graves over and over when she first found this place to memorize their names well and the years they died in. She didn't know how they died, but every time she sat here she could feel fulfillment and peacefulness.

"Hi everyone," she said in a whisper. "I hear many good things about all of you, but did you guys ever fight? I know, I know. It should be a natural thing and we do it all the time. But this time it feels really bad because it was over something really stupid."

She looked around again and felt the cool breeze against her back as it blew her purple hair that looked darker in the night. She closed her eyes and enjoyed the feeling of peacefulness. Then she opened her eyes when she heard someone sniffing.

"Is someone there?" she asked as she looked around.

"Toothache? What are you doing here? I smelled ya," Logan asked as Cameron looked over at him. "Does this have something to do with Steel?"

"Mr. Logan?" Cameron said with a loud sigh. So she wasn't alone. What was he doing here? She didn't know much about Logan's past but she did know he never ever entered this area. She thought that he didn't come here because it was too depressing for him. She got up and walked over to him. He was beside all the flowers and the big tree that lye on the other side of the graves. Cameron took in the smell of cut grass, fresh dirt, the night air. She took a deep breath, she didn't want to upset Logan with anything she said. "I just came here to…um…" Cameron stuttered with her words. Then she glanced at Logan's face. It looked lonely. "I came here to reflect, I guess."

Logan sat quiet for a minute and then spoke with a calm voice. "I understand ya kid." Cameron smiled and realized that Logan was filled with so many secrets. He was so unpredictable. She squatted down beside him. Then she looked over to the dirt that was all over the ground. She noticed that it was dug by someone because of the hole in the ground. Logan knew she would notice so he turned his flashlight to the hole. In that hole was a medium sized chest.

"What's that?" Cameron asked.

Logan paid no attention to her question and started talking. "It's hard to live a life when your real life and everything in it was left behind," he stated with a solemn expression. "Believe me and take my advice when I tell you it's not worth it."

"What's not worth it Mr. Logan?" Cameron asked as she saw pain in Logan's serious face.

"Fighting over silly things," Logan said. "You have to cherish the things in life that you already have." Logan sighed and unlocked the chest with his sharp claws. He took out a mini toy skateboard with a little spike on it. He smiled as he dug in for more. He took out a picture of a red head in a wedding dress kissing a man with red sunglasses. They looked so happy together. Then he took out black gloves and a phone. He started laughing when he had taken out the phone and he mumbled something under his breath. It sounded like he had said "Half-pint".

"Uh, Mr. Logan?" Cameron asked as Logan ignored her confusion. She forgot about the question when she realized he would tell her soon because of the look on his face. He took out a red visor that looked so cool. After that he pulled out a watch. It didn't look like an ordinary watch. Then he pulled out a metal X with a wheel around it and lightening earrings. After that, he pulled out a Shakespeare book. Inside it said: This is Beast's book, ask before use. Before he could pull the last thing out, Cameron dug her hand in and pulled out a photograph of people who she never met. She knew they looked familiar though.

"Scott, Jean, Kurt, Kitty, Rogue, Evan, Storm, Professor Xavier, Beast and," Cameron said pointing to each one of them, "YOU!" She broke out in giggles. "You were so young!" Cameron started laughing and she was surprised to bring a smile to Logan's face.

"I was a handsome guy, wasn't I?" he asked as she started laughing even harder. She had never seen this side of Logan before. After her laughs calmed down she examined the picture well. "They were the only family I ever had."

Cameron smiled with sympathy and turned the picture over. It had words written on it. It said:

Never hesitate to tell someone that you love them.

~Scott~

Friends are always there for you when you need them, so be there for them.

~Jean~

Friends are the family you choose.

~Kurt~

Never give up on friends and never say never.

~Kitty~

Friends will except you the way you are.

~Rogue~

Believe in yourself and give faith to others.

~Ororo~

Friends will respect you and help you up when you are down.

~Evan~

You are a teacher to your friends as they are to you.

~Beast~

Most importantly, remember, X-men need to accept themselves and others and know that friends will be there for you always.

~Charles Xavier~

I can't believe I'm saying this, I love you guys!

~Confidential. If anyone knows about this, I'm ruined~

Cameron smiled as she read these over. "They're really cool people," Cameron said. "Mr. Logan? That last one is yours, isn't it?"

"Don't tell anyone," Logan said in a gruff voice. He looked over at Cameroon who was ready to listen intently. He sighed and said, "Let me tell you a little story…"

A/N: The next chapter I'm going to go right into the "story" from the past. Review it please, and I hope you liked it! J