Mutant Imagination Chapter 5: Robert Billinga and Wanda Maximoff, a x-men: evolution fanfic

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Ivy Green

Chapter Whatever: Robert Billings and Wanda Maximoff

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"OOF!"

Ivy was awakened by her roommate toppling onto her bed and knocking her out of it and onto the floor.

"What was that?" Ivy asked, crossly.

"Sorry 'bout that! I was trying to turn into a mountain lion, but it didn't turn out right and I lost my balance!" Starrie Nightshade giggled hyperly as she stood back up.

Ivy rolled her eyes and decided that if her roommate was up, she had better be too. Who knows what she might do to her? Ivy didn't want to guess.

"I'm going to take a shower." Ivy yawned as she looked at the clock. It was about 4:30, so Ivy assumed that no one else would be up to hog the bathroom yet, and it was as good as time as any.

"Really? What for?" Starrie wanted to know.

"I'll be out in a while." Ivy said, ignoring her questions. She grabbed her towel and walked down the hall, trying to remember again where everything was. When she was awake, she knew where things were, but when she was tired, things just weren't so clear.

"Excuse me," Ivy said, opening a random door, "Could you please tell me where the bathroom is?"

"Down the hall to the left." Scott said. He was up already, but his new roommate, Lucas McDouglas didn't seem too happy about that.

"Thank you." Ivy said, trying to seem apologetic. She turned and went to take a shower. When she was done, she sat on her bed and tried to figure out the homework that her algebra teacher had assigned her. It was better than dealing with people that hated her already.

"Whatcha doing? Whatcha doing?" Starrie, who had appeared out of nowhere, asked as she looked at the book over Ivy's shoulder.

"Algebra…" Ivy muttered, glaring at the problem that she had been stuck on for the last hour or so. She wasn't great at math, but this problem was stumping her even more than usual. She just couldn't figure out why it was wrong.

"All you have to do is carry the five." Starrie said, pointing to the problem with a grin on her face. "I finished mine last night. Can we go play now?"

"Carry the five…?" Ivy looked at her paper. That sounded about right. Why not trust this person. She obviously knew more about it than her, even if she was a strange person.

"Oh!" Starrie said as Ivy followed her down the stairs. She had stopped in mid step and Ivy ran into her. "I just remembered. Professor said that we have to meet the other people on our training team before we go to school today!"

"Training team? Why didn't you tell us earlier? It's almost time to go!" Ivy ran down the hall to the Danger Room, where Professor Xavier and a group of highly annoyed mutants stood around waiting for the two girls.

"What took so long?" One of the people Ivy didn't remember said with malice.

"Don't ask." Ivy waved her hand, "I'm sorry that we're so late. Please go ahead."

"I've already assigned the rest of the teams. This is your team leader, Jayde O'Neal. Although she does not have any experience with leading a team, she is willing to give it her best try, so please treat her with respect. The other members of your training team are Sabe, Wyatt, Edith, Charlie, Xanaphia, and, of course, Starrie." The Professor said, "You will need to discuss the training exercises with Jayde soon, but now you need to go to school. Oh, and Edith is now also assigned to stay in your room. You may go now."

"Idiot." Ivy heard them mutter as they went by, glaring at her. Ivy rolled her eyes and followed them. The girl with dark brown hair and green eyes came up to Ivy when they were walking down the sidewalk to the school.

"I'm Jayde. You're Ivy, right?" Ivy nodded, so the girl continued. "Everyone else has already decided how they want to train. Is a hour or so in the Danger Room every day okay with you? Even if it isn't, we've already decided. Be there on time tomorrow at five am. Talk to you later." The girl waved as she walked away from Ivy when she entered the schoolyard.

"Did I mention that I hate my life?" Ivy muttered to herself, mocking the tone Jayde was using. She turned and headed for her first class of the day; History. She had finally gotten her schedule straightened out, realizing that she had read it backwards yesterday and knew she was going to feel the consequences of it today.

Class hadn't even started when Ivy arrived in the classroom, much to her delight. After wandering through all the hallways of the school yesterday, she had finally gotten the general layout of the buildings down.

"Whew…" She sighed as she collapsed on the empty desk in front of her. She looked up when she heard someone clear their throat in annoyance. She looked up into the face of a very angry looking goth girl with short red hair on the top of shorter black hair. She was glaring at Ivy.

"You're in my seat. GET OUT!" She said, not yelled, harshly at the tired girl. Ivy quickly moved to another seat in the room. She looked around, warily before sitting down. It appeared that several of the people from the institute were also in her class; Xanaphia, Sabe, Sam, Amara, and Glain. There was also a few of the Brotherhood's mutants; Ryka and Falanna. They were both sitting in the back of the room, chattering away like they didn't have a care in the world. The Ryka girl had a frog sitting on her desk that she had a hand on, so it didn't jump away.

"It would behoove you to avoid certain people." Ivy twirled around when she heard the deep voice of Robert Billings from behind her. He was sitting at the desk by her, and watching her with intent eyes that seemed to be amused at her. Ivy blushed under his gaze, although she was trying not to.

"I'm sure…" Ivy mumbled as she pulled her notebook from her backpack.

"And I'm one of them." He said darkly, watching her reaction. She didn't know how to react, until she saw the grin finally spread across his face as he started to laugh at her. She forced a laugh as well, uncertain of what she was supposed to do.

"Truthfully, my dear Ivy, Wanda Maximoff is a dangerous enemy. Do not cross her path, lest ill fortune befall you." He said, looking deeply into her eyes as he held her hand across the aisle. She couldn't pull her eyes away from his, until he broke contact when the teacher came into the room. He smiled to her, "By the way, I'm a new student at your Xavier's Institute. I hope we see more of each other."

Ivy had a hard time concentrating on her history lesson for the rest of the class.

Calculus was her next class. She again shared the class with Xanaphia and Sabe, however, Neona, Rogue, Rahne, and Kaylin were the ones in her class. No Robert Billings or Wanda Maximoff. She breathed a huge sigh of relief when she realized that. She had thrown a fit when she realized that she had to take both Geometry and Calculus in the same semester, but was too busy at the time to fix it. For this class, she was sitting by Rogue on one side and Terry from the Brotherhood on her other side. It made her feel somewhat uncomfortable, but she put up with it. Fred was also in this class, but he was sitting across the room, and Ivy didn't feel like going over to say hi. She was still too distracted by what Robert Billings had said.

"I'm one of them." She shivered as she remembered the way that he looked. She was even more annoyed by trying to figure out why she blushed every time that she looked at him. He gave her the creeps and even more so. He was the most disgusting man that she had ever met, although she had little reason to say so, that was what she felt. In that class, Ivy dropped her pencil five times, once flinging it all the way across the room to hit Fred in the face.

"Sorry about that…" She mumbled as she got the pencil from him and returned to her seat. The whole room watched her closely after that.

Ivy saw a lot of people she knew and dreaded in her Psychology class. Although she didn't dread meeting with Umi, Lark, or John, all the other people she knew she didn't want to see. Most of all Robert Billings.

"Wonderful." Ivy grumbled when she saw him enter the room, although she waved at him when he waved at her from the doorway.

"Ivy!Ivy!Ivy!Ivy!Ivy!Ivy!Ivy!Ivy!Ivy!" She heard the hyper voice of Starrie and was actually somewhat relieved when she bounded over Robert Billing's head and hugged her friend, knocking the man from his feet. His eyes grew dangerous for a moment, then he rose and brushed himself off, with a good natured smile.

"Ivy! We're in the same class!" Starrie jumped about, excitedly.

"I can tell." Ivy smiled, actually happy that Starrie would be here to ward off danger.

"I said to get lost, Toad!" Ivy whipped around to see Wanda enter the room, followed by Todd, who was looking at her somewhat like a lovesick puppy. Wait a minute…Did she say Toad? No, that couldn't be. That would be ridiculous. Although he did look somewhat toad-ish…

"But, Snookums, I want to help you…" He said pathetically as he followed her.

"I can carry my own books. Go!" She held her hand out to him as if to hit him and he backed away quickly. She came and sat in the seat to the right of Ivy.

"Oh. It's you again." She said when she noticed Ivy. Starrie noticed that Todd was heading for the seat on the other side of Ivy, since all the others close to Wanda had been taken, and she dove for it. They tumbled about the room, knocking desks about it. Starrie was growling like an animal and Todd was squeaking like a rubber ducky as he fought with her.

"Hey! I want that seat!"

"Nope! It's going to be mine!"

"Let go of my leg!"

"Get away from the chair or I'll bite you!"

"Let me go!" He was panicked now. Starrie opened her unnaturally large mouth and got ready to chomp down. Ivy decided it was time to interfere.

"Starrie! Don't bite him! You don't know where he's been!" She grabbed on to her friend's who-knows-what (since she had been shape shifting the whole fight) and pulled her head away. "Just give him the seat, okay? We'll sit together next time."

"Oh. Okay." Starrie said, suddenly becoming very cooperative and releasing him. As they reorganized the desks, Ivy noticed Robert Billings watching them. He was almost laughing. His desk had been the only in the room that hadn't been touched. Ivy shook her head, trying to drive off the creepy feeling as she sat back down in her desk. After all, he couldn't be that bad. He was at the Xavier Institute, right?

"Come have lunch with me." Ivy heard his voice as the Psychology class emptied to go to lunch. She turned to him and was about to reject him when she saw that he was talking to Jean, who was sitting in the front of the class. She watched as she happily accepted and they exited the room. Although Ivy wasn't sure, she could have sworn that she had been winked at when he waved farewell to her. It was all too strange for her.

"I just don't believe it!" Ivy shouted as she slammed her hands on the table at lunch time.

"Yeah. It is, like, definitely not asparagus." Kitty said, poking the food on her lunch tray. Ivy rolled her eyes, then looked at the food as she sat down.

"I agree…" She crinkled her nose as she also poked her greenish stuff with her fork. Starrie, however, was eating everything on her plate and some shrubs that she had collected earlier on the way to school.

"Where's Jean?" Rogue asked, "Ah thought today was 'girl's day' lunch."

"She went out with a really cute guy from Psychology." Lark answered, looking up from her food. She was really a very quiet person, but noticed that this subject was somewhat touchy.

"Our 'girl's-day-lunch' is getting bigger." Tabitha observed as she sat down at the full table. It was actually several tables, filled with the females from both the Institute and Brotherhood. Rogue had explained that this was the day every month that the girls laid down their differences and had fun together, showing "Girl Power" or something like that. At any rate, Ivy got as free lunch from all of it, so she was happy.

"A guy from Psychology? But Scott's not in Psychology!" Kaylin protested, "He was just in Gym. Aren't they an official couple as of yesterday? Did she ditch him already?"

"I have dibs!" Glain quickly spoke up. Everyone looked at her, some in horror, some in shock, some in amazement, some in envy. Several in disgust and quite a few in confusion.

"She's right. Like, even Jean wouldn't ditch Scott that fast." Kitty said quietly to Rogue and a few of the other people who had been there longer.

"How weird…" Jubilee said, thinking to herself whatever else she wanted to say. The rest of that lunch time was deciding who would and wouldn't try to steal Scott and a few rounds of "truth or dare". Ivy played until she was dared to kiss Wolverine. Then she decided not to play with these people anymore.

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