Author's Note: I know not going to say anything. I suck at this whole time thing and It's rude to those of you who want more. I'm working on it as fast as I can. I even set aside more time to write. So without further ado:

A Madman's Heart

Part 8

By Midnight

Jubilee sat on the floor outside of Professor Xavier's office waiting to speak with him. Hank McCoy had just released her from the medical area of the mansion earlier this morning. She smirked slightly to herself at how fast she realized the man with frightening features was actually a kind genius. Her stay with the X-men had gone relatively well minus the constant being watched and voices arguing her stay. One of the owners of those voices seemed to be watching her this second. His name for what she cared was Scott Summers, the residential Boy Scout and all around dick. She looked over at Scott who had been watching her like a hawk since she arrives in front of Xavier's door. She pulled out an old bouncy ball and threw it against the wall on the other side of her then caught it as it returned to her and then thew it again watching Scott to see how he would react. He shifted slightly and she popped her gum loudly to add to the torment.

Scott looked over to her and she smiled innocently and went right back to throwing the ball against the wall harder then ever and as the ball hit the white wall it left an echo all down the hall way. Scott opened his mouth to say stop, but jubilee cut him off.

"SO like how long ya been livin in this place?" She asked sharply and stopped the ball while giving Scott her questioning puppy dog eyes. Scott closed his mouth and Jubilee could see the edge's of his check change a light red as he began to reply.

"Since I was your age." Scott told her calmly and she nodded.

"Must got boring with nothing to do and all. Whatcha do for fun?" She asked again waiting for his reply and judging his response. The red around his cheeks grew darker and he shifted his position not really wanting to answer, but new from some experience that most teenagers would ask till they found out.

"I trained to control my powers." He told her and she frowned.

"Major bummer." Jubilee stated and stood up stretching slightly.

'Jubilation, please come in.' Xavier sent out to her and she felt chills go down her spine. She had grown not to trust telepaths while she was around David and having Xavier speak into her mind like that made her feel extremely uncomfortable. She stood up casually not bothering to hurry in like a good little field mouse. Instead she stretched her arms and popped her neck with ease as the red coloring on Scott's Cheeks turned a violent shade of red and his forehead matched.

"It's rude to not go in when some one is inviting you, extremely if that person is the one who saved you from that madman." Scott stated and Jubilee narrowed her eyebrows slightly not liking the way the conversation was moving. Scott watched her with close inspection and Jubilee caught on to his plan. He wanted to get her riled up so that he would know what buttons could be pushed in what direction. After all every leader knows how each of his teammates will react to a single thing.

"Oh really, well then I'm not being rude seeing that you never saved me from Creed. Didn't you ever hear it's rude to pry in others business." Jubilee stated and opened the larger oak woods while setting up her strongest shields, Creed had warned her to keep her part in this entire secret.

"Please, take a seat. I would like to ask you a few questions." Xavier stated and jubilee sat down in one of the overly stuffed chairs.

"Sure, what on your mind?" She asked looking around at all the different pictures. Some of the man before him at a younger ages as well as some of those with the x-men. Other had a few people Jubilee had never seen nor wanted to. One had a woman with triangular shaped hair and strange markings on her face.

"First off I would like to apologize for the way you were greeted. Your past history with Victor has proven not so well." Xavier stated calmly and looked towards her. Jubilee smiled and held back the nervous habit to pop her gum as her eyes slowly made their way over towards Xavier's.

"No problem, not the first time some one decided to jump me from behind." Jubilee stated off hand.

"Really, well then that brings me to my second question. How by chance did you ever meet up with victor in the first place? I'm quite sure it was no normal greeting." Xavier stated and Jubilee laughed mentally at the thought of how her and Creed met would be anything but normal. Jubilee played along not dropping more hints then she had to and smiling casually as she thought of the best answer.

"I guess you could say I helped him avoid a bullet the hard way." She said and smirked. Xavier rested his elbows on his desk and held his chin in her interlocked hands.

"Quite interesting, so you were shot and Creed took you to a healer." He stated calmly. Jubilee jumped out of her chair and was about to say something then sat back down letting the better of her judgement hold her tongue this once. She tightened her mental shields and watched Xavier through half angry eyes, yet kept her appearance calm and innocent.

"I did not mean to intrude on your thoughts, Victor told me earlier of his encounter with you. Stated that you and he spent a good deal of time in a cabin up north. Now could you tell me why perhaps you came here?" Xavier asked and Jubilee frowned.

"We kinda ran into an old friend of his that almost killed the both of us. He thought it would be better for me to stay out of harms way till he clear some stuff up." She stated off hand knowing that it was the short version of the truth.

"Yes, Creed also told me how your powers went into hyper-active, not unusually for mutants, but commonly rare." Xavier stated off hand and Jubilee frowned.

"So am I like under interrogation, cause I don't mean for this to like sound rude or anything, but this sucks. I like didn't do anything wrong except walk into this school with a so called madman." Jubilee stated out in the open and popped her gum.

"Again, Jubilation, I apologize, I just wish to know you better and find your reasoning in being around Victor Creed. You must also forgive all the X-men for being careful around you. Creed's past is not the best under this roof." Xavier stated and sat back in his chair. Jubilee felt a bit foolish for saying that, but it got Xavier off her back.

"Yeah I know, it's just like I'm not going to hurt anyone purposely cause it just ain't cool and all." Jubilee told him and Xavier nodded.

"Very well, Scott would you show Jubilation to her room and have her talk to Kitty for a bit, perhaps she would feel more comfortable talking with some one her own age." Pr. Xavier stated and Scott walked in Jubilee frowned at him slightly then stood up. Scott said something back to Xavier, but jubilee left the room before she could hear it.

"Your room is up the stairs and the last one on the right. I believe Kitty is in the recreational room reading. I have some things to do so please…make yourself at home." Scott said with a bit of hesitation. Jubilee nodded trying not to laugh to hard. She wondered the mansion a bit trying to get a feel for the place and eventually made her way to the rec. room. A young woman was siting in there reading a heavy book. Jubilee scanned her over noting that she looked no more then 5 years older then herself.

"Oh sorry, I didn't see you there. Can I help you?" Kitty Pride asked while sitting the book down. Jubilee smiled and plopped down on the couch beside the other girl.

"Naw, Xavier told me to chill and this place looks like more fun then my room. So do you like know that Logan dude?" Jubilee asked wanting to get as much information as she could about the small feral that Creed wanted dead so much.

"Yeah, he's kinda grumpy a lot, but he's cool once you get to know him. Hey, I know who you are; you're that girl that came in with Victor Creed. You sure must have a lot of guts to be around him. Most people would have been killed." Kitty stated and Jubilee frowned.

"Yeah well I heard the same about Logan, except he was like some sort of coward, butcha know not everything you hear might be true." Jubilee told Kitty and smile innocently.

"Coward, Logan, so not true." Kitty told Jubilee in an all-knowing tone. Jubilee mentally gagged at the tone, but put on a happy face anyway.

"Yeah, Creed told me he always runs away when they fight alone so I figured he must be a coward unless someone else is around." Jubilee sent off with cool tone and Kitty picked up on the bait.

"Well their like evenly matched, and I know for sure that Creed is a lot bigger then so the advantage is on Creed." Kitty stated out loud and Jubilee nodded.

"So you agree that Vic would win." Jubilee asked her and Kitty looked confused.

"No I was simply saying that Creed has the advantage, I mean he goes into blind rages and that's how Logan wins." Kitty shifted her position and Jubilee smiled.

"But like Logan's feral so he goes into blind rages when his friends are in trouble or he thinks they are so wouldn't that just take us back to the original argument about like advantage and Creed would so win. So basically Creed is better then Logan." Jubilee stated off hand and Kitty got slightly confused and shock her head.

"That's not what I said, creed would lose because he has no reason to fight. I mean Logan always fights for his friends so he would win." Kitty told Jubilee in a confident tone.

"But Creed does have stuff to fight for. His life and to Creed that's like the universe. Plus life doesn't always work out in the Me good you bad kinda way. I know that for a fact. Besides technically like the people who you think are bad guys really think that you are bad guys and they're like the good guys so there fore the bad guys are really good guys and the good guys are really bad guys and that cancels out like three fourths of your argument making it hard to back up." Jubilee squeezed out in one breath. Kitty looked at her and then stood up quickly and left. Jubilee smiled as the older girl walked away.

"Point for me." She said quietly as she turned on the T.V and searched for something to watch.