Woo! I'm on a writing roll!

I've just done three chapters of my new Yami No Matsuei fic "Don't change for me" within two days, and now I've written the fifth chapter of this.

My muse is back with a vengeance XD

DISCLAIMER: I don't own X-men, which is a pity, because if I did it would be fun.

WARNING: This story contains slash, that's male/male relationships, if you haven't worked that out yet I pity your mental capabilities.

N.B. I'm letting everyone from different fandoms know this, so if you read my stories in more than one fandom you'll see this message a few times. I CANNOT WRITE LEMON! I cannot do sex scenes of any kind, so please don't bother asking me to.

On with the chapter.

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~Two Days ago~

Very little had been said that night, Magneto had refused to answer any of their questions. He had simply berated them for the state of the house, and for how little they had achieved, then sent them to bed. They knew better than to argue.

Lance awoke the next morning to a sinking feeling. He made his way downstairs, but found no sign of Magneto. Walking into the kitchen, he made himself a cup of coffee, finding a note pinned to the fridge.

'Magneto says he's got stuff to do, we have to be home straight away' proclaimed Todd's messy scrawl.

Sighing to himself, Lance set off for school, cursing his alarm clock for not waking him up in time, because he was late he wouldn't have any time to spend with Scott.

In their English lesson, Scott noticed the brunette wasn't himself.

"What's up?" he asked, concerned.

"Oh, it's nothing, I'm cool." Lance brushed it off, not wanting to tell Scott about Magneto. The two of them had agreed to not discuss their respective teams.

"Ok…" Scott said softly, clearly not believing him, and clearly upset he didn't want to tell.

"I'm sorry Scott, can't say." He offered as a conciliatory gesture, sighing slightly. "Can't see you tonight, gotta get home."

"Why?" When Lance didn't reply, Scott let it drop.

After school they ran into each other in the toilets. Confident no one was around, they shared a kiss, a kiss that quickly developed into much more…

After saying their goodbyes, Lance made his way home with a satisfied grin on his face, little did they know that that was the last time their meeting would result in smiles, the next time they crossed paths, one of them would die…

The smile soon faded as his jeep pulled into the drive of the boarding house, and he remembered what awaited him inside. No longer happy, he stepped into the house, apologising for his lateness with a quickly invented story about a teacher keeping him back.

Magneto seemed dubious, but accepted his story. He took a seat on the couch next to Pietro, and all four boys looked up to the master of magnetism expectantly.

He immediately launched into a furious tirade, pacing up and down as the four listened with an attentiveness that would have shocked their teachers. They knew, however, that not listening to teachers could result in only detention, not listening to Magneto could result in something a whole lot worse.

He talked for hours, going over how disgusted her was with the state of the place; with how little they'd trained; with how many times the X-men had beaten them; with how they were even almost friends with the X-men now (that caused a bit of outrage, which he ignored). Then he started on what was to be done, he said he had plans that would solve the problems, that would prove who was best once and for all…

He finished by telling them he would outline his plans more thoroughly tomorrow, when they were all more awake. He told them to get some sleep, and that they wouldn't be going to school the following day.

As they all made their way to their beds, wondering what his plans were, Lance couldn't shake the feeling of dread that was fast consuming him, almost as if he knew something terrible was coming…

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Hmph, three sides of A4 when written, and not even two when typed…

Oh well, most of my chapters are short, I can't write more than a couple of pages without it fizzling out see, so that's why I have such short chapters.

Anyway, review please or I'll sulk because I have this major burst of writing and no reviews!

And stay tuned, there's only two more chapters of this left, they're only shortish, so they'll be coming pretty soon.