Thanks to:

Steph14Wales – I love rewriting the episodes with my own evil twists! It's great fun!

Oceanbang – thanks for the great reviews! I do try to keep in dialogue when I'm covering episodes (even if some one else says it) because I think it sounds closer to the original and more convincing when something not on the series happens. I wanted to make Evil Jean as close to her original character as possible and not make her a bitch queen from hell from the get-go – glad you enjoyed it!

Risty – no Magneto in this chapter, but loads in the next one! And Lance is soooo angry! Rogue, Kitty and Lance have issues following this, so keep checking in! Oh my God, was that shameless self-promotion or what?

Rogue14 – yeah, Rogue knows now and she is pissed off! There's gonna be fireworks at some point…

LadyEvils – wow, thanks! I've never been called a genius before (without the prefix "evil", lol). Mystique and Magneto are not happy, but this chapter doesn't deal with them, so I'm sorry, you'll have to wait for the next one to discover their plans!

XX-Goth-Gal – you're right, Mystique just had a really bad day! I've no plans for a new Rogue crush, but I think she may regain an old one, and I've a truly evil idea for the ending which might change her whole romantic life – hahahaha! To be honest, I don't think she'll dare crush on anyone after all this for a while at least.

DemonRogue13 – oh yeah, Jean was bound to lose control with the things she was doing.

Furygrrl – the only time I'll ever get compared to Pietro (damn!). I think the ending will be in 7 or so chapters…and I'm thinking of a sequel! Sorry, but Jean's not in this chapter. She's gonna return in the next one though – with a vengeance!

Lyranfan – this was a chap I had a problem with the wording with, most episodes I have on video and can check if I'm not sure, but I don't have power surge. Had to rely on my memory – glad it was accurate! I thought if she heard too many voices at once she wouldn't be able to make out which thoughts were which, hence the snippets. Glad you liked it!

Deb1 – yeah, I thought she'd lose control more quickly too and I'd forgotten she'd had problems before (hits self on head with rolled-up comic book).

UniversalAnimeGirl – the thunder was for effect, mostly for this chapter. Yeah, the cauldron's on the horizon! And the white hair was too bizarre, I don't know if I'm gonna go there yet. The defectors are gonna be in the foreground, but not the main focus of the story – main focus on Jean! And Rogue's gonna have just one thing on her mind from now on…

Zeroeye – thanks for the review! I love getting new reviewers and I'm glad you liked it!

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Disclaimer: I don't own X-Men: Evolution. I wish I did. There'd be a fifth series…and a sixth…and a seventh…

The rain was coming down hard as the jeep pulled up outside the Xavier Institute. It wasn't helping Lances mood one bit. The more he thought about it, the more he realised that Jean had been manipulating him all along. He'd suspected her for a while, then – what? Just forgot? Woke up trusting her? How likely was that?

            And what had she done to Kitty?

            Was Jeans telepathy the only reason that they were together?

            "The last thing we need is another telepath messing with our heads," he growled.

            "I'm sorry Lance," replied Kitty quietly, her gaze on the floor. "But I need to know what she did to us, how much of our memories she altered. I couldn't live with not knowing."

            "And if Xavier decides to do a little mind control of his own?"

            "I have to trust him. There's no other choice."

            That's the Hell of it, thought Lance bitterly. If we want to know the truth, this is the only way.

            Do I want to know the truth?

            "Lance? You don't have to do this if you don't want to."

            "I know." Lance took Kitty's hand and squeezed it briefly. "We're in this together."

            They got out of the jeep and looked at the gates. A flickering keypad on the wall indicated that the security system was on.

            "I could just phase us through…"

            "Forget that. I feel like destroying something."

            The ground shook, causing the gates to buckle and allow them entry. As they walked through the grounds, laser cannons rose from the ground and took aim. They were rapidly dispatched by more quakes.

            Wolverine, Storm, Evan and Scott burst through the mansion doors, still I civilian dress. Kurt bamfed into view beside them, his tail twitching. Lance and Kitty regarded them casually.

            Snikt.

            "Something we can do for ya, bub?"

            Kitty put her hand on Lances arm to prevent him from saying something rash. "We like, need to speak to Professor Xavier."

            Evan snorted. "And why would we let you do that?"

            "Whatever it is, why doncha tell us first." Logan kept his claws out and sniffed the air. There were no other Brotherhood members in the area and it made him think the sudden appearance of Lance and Kitty wasn't a trick.

            {That's all right Logan.} The Professor spoke to all the X-Men through his telepathy. {Let's hear what they have to say.}

            Logan glared at the teens for a moment before retracting his claws. "Follow us," he said gruffly, clearly unhappy about letting them into the mansion.

            Lance and Kitty took no notice of the opulent surroundings and Lance was too distracted to pocket any 'souvenirs' as they were let to Professor Xavier's office. There were no more attempts at conversation.

            Professor Xavier hid his wariness from everyone as the couple entered his office. "Lance, Kitty. How can we help you?"

            "I want them out." Lance indicated to the X-Men stood by the door.

            "Lance!" Kitty glared at her boyfriend. "What he means is that it's kinda difficult discussing this in front of them."

            The Professor nodded. "Alright. Scott, Kurt, Evan, could you leave us?"

            "I don't like this Professor," insisted Scott.

            "Don't worry," growled Logan. "Storm n' me'll be right here."

            When the three teen X-Men had left, Xavier returned his attention back to Lance and Kitty. He could sense the anger coming from Lance and although Kitty was angry to, he could detect confusion and fear in her thoughts.

            "Why don't you tell me what's going on?"

            "Jean." Lance clenched his fists. "She's been messing with our minds. We need to know what she did."

            "I see." Professor Xavier kept his voice neutral. "When did you find this out?"

            "Tonight," said Kitty. "About an hour ago. It's all gone like, totally crazy…"

            "Kitty…" said Lance warningly.

            "What?" Kitty turned towards him, eyes blazing, showing her own fury for the first time since they'd discovered the truth. "The Brotherhood have been lying to us all along and you still wanna protect them? Well I'm through with it, y'hear?"

            "I hear. But why should we trust these guys?"
            "There's no one else left!"

            The room was silent for a moment, then Lance sighed. "OK. It's your call."

            Kitty turned back to the Professor. "Jeans powers went crazy and there was stuff flying round the house and Rogue touched her and then she started talking like Jean and then she ran away and me and Lance realised she'd been messing with our minds and then we left too and there was a big metal ball!"

            "Did that make sense to anyone?" asked Logan.

            I was afraid of this, said the Professor. "Kitty, if I read your mind I might be able to…"

            "No way." Lance glared at the Professor. "We're sick of our heads being messed with."

            "Lance, this is important. We need to know exactly what Jean did, not just to your minds but also to others. I may be able to help you."

            "Fine then. But you'll read my mind, no one's screwing with Kitty's mind anymore."

            Professor Xavier nodded and made a quick scan of Lances thoughts. What he saw there only increased his worry. "Logan, I need you track the Rogue. She's discovered Jeans manipulations and it's left her angry and confused.

            "That's just great," growled Logan as he left. Tracking a disturbed teen through the pouring rain was not his idea of a good time.

            The Professor tried to hide his concern from the two teens. "When I scanned Lances mind, I found no traces of any telepathic control remaining. It seems that when Jean lost control, it voided her previous mental blocks. But Jean certainly changed some of your memories for a time and there may be repercussions from that."

            "I doubt you'll want to return to the Brotherhood," added Ororo. "If you remain at the mansion, we can help you recover from this."

            Lance and Kitty exchanged glances. "Thanks for the offer," said Kitty hesitantly. "But we need to work through this on our own."

            "We're gonna get out of Bayville for a few weeks," said Lance. "Work out what we really want without anyone else deciding for us." And work out if Kitty and me are really in love or if it was Jean making us think we were.

            The Professor nodded. "I understand. But Ororos offer still stands. Should you decided to return, we'd be glad to have you here. And get in touch if you need anything."

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Logan found the girl at Lookout Point.

            She was crouched under a tree, her head down, soaked through. He dismounted his motorcycle and approached her cautiously. She didn't seem to have heard the bikes engine although he had made no attempt at stealth and he didn't want to spook her, certainly not if she still had Jeans powers as well as her own.

            "Hey kid."

            Raising her head, she glared at him, apparently unsurprised to see him. Her hair clung damply to her face and her make up was almost totally washed away. Her lack of response unnerved him and he walked closer, only to find himself telekinetically pinned to the spot.

            "Go away."

            Logan frowned and tried another tactic. "Look kid, I'm not gonna lie to you, getting over this ain't gonna be easy. Somethin about betrayal always stays with you. But you deal with it. You move on."

            "Oh trust me. Ah'll deal with it."

            He regarded her for a moment and decided not to comment. Then he realised he was no longer being restrained and raised an eyebrow.  "What, you're not scared of the X-Men any more?"
            Rogue shrugged. "When ah touched Jean, ah saw enough to know you're not mah enemy. And ah can still read your mind."

            "Think you could stop doin that?"
            "Ah'm trying! Ah got enough people in mah head without your thoughts in there too."

            Logan went closer and leant against the tree she was sat beneath. "Avalanche and Shadowcat are at the mansion."

            "What? Why?"

            "Jean lost control of their mental blocks. They found out what she did to them."

            "What did she do to them? Wait, don't tell me. Ah already know."

            "They didn't tell me, but maybe you should be there too."

            "No."

            Rogue stood up and brushed the wet hair from her face. "Ah'm going back to the Brotherhood. Ah wanna have a talk with teach."

            "Whoa, easy Stripes!" Logan caught her arm as she tried to walk away. "Not a good idea. Mystique's tricky and if Jean's recovered, she could just alter your mind again."

            "Ah'm not letting them get away this!"

            "They won't. Trust me. But you're not thinking straight. Come back to the Institute, get dried off, we'll talk about it. You can't go back to the Brotherhood."

            "So you want me to go to the mansion, be an X-Man? Like that'd work."

            "It might. The way I see it, you ain't got a lot of options right now. And we're not the ones who lied to you. We've been tryin to earn your trust."

            Rogue looked out at the view of Bayville and sighed. "Ah guess ah could go back there and dry off, see Kitty and Lance. But ah ain't promising anything else."

            "OK."

            "And ah get to ride the motorbike."

            "Yeah. That'll happen."

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            Bamf!

            "Kurt!" yelled Scott as the younger boy teleported into his room. "I nearly had a heart attack!"

            "Sorry mein freunde," replied Kurt, not sounding sorry at all. "But you vill never believe who Logan just brought back to the mansion with him!"

            "Who?"

            "Ze Rogue!"

            "Rogue?" Scott frowned thoughtfully. "We know Jean messed with her mind and Kitty and Alvers – and now they're all here. Coincidence?"

            "Doubtful."

            "They must have found out what she did. Damn! I wish Professor X would hurry up and clue us in!"

            Downstairs, Logan and Rogue entered the mansion and encountered Lance and Kitty, who were being escorted to the door by Storm.

            "Rogue! You're alright!" Kitty surprised the other girl with a brief hug.

            "Where you going?" asked Rogue suspiciously. "Back to the Brotherhood?"

            "Hell no," said Lance. "We're getting out of Bayville for a while, away from the whole mutant thing."

            "Jean was messing with our heads before we even met her," added Kitty. "We just wanna like, work out what we want."
            "Yeah, ah know what Jean did," said Rogue. "You wanna know if you should be together."

            "And we can't do it with all this shit going on," said Lance.

            "You wanna come with?" asked Kitty.

            After a few seconds, Rogue shook her head. "Nah. You two need to be alone."

            "In that case, we're outta here." Lance put his arm around Kitty's waist.

            "You take care of yourself." Kitty regarded Rogue worriedly. "Mystique is so not gonna like this."

            "Ah know. But if she tries to mess with me, the gloves are off!"

            "Don't forget what we said," said Storm. "If you two wish to return to Bayville, there's a place for you both here."

            Lance looked uncomfortable. "We'll see."

            "Come on kid," said Logan. "Let them get on their way and you go dry off."
            "I'll find you some of my clothes to wear whilst yours are in the dryer," offered Storm.

            Rogue looked doubtfully at the woman's white blouse and flowery skirt. "Uh, thanks, but ah don't think…"

            "Oh, I'm sure I've got something left over from my youth," replied Storm as she led Lance and Kitty to the doors.

            "Bye Rogue!" said Kitty.

            "Yeah, see ya," added Lance.

            "Hope so," said Rogue under her breath as she watched them go. It occurred to her that the other Brotherhood members were the closest things to friends she had and now everything had changed.

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Just how wild was Storms youth anyway?

            Rogue checked her reflection in the bathroom mirror. Black leather jeans, tight black leather top, and her usual dog collar. She allowed a small smile as she imagined the Brotherhood boys' reaction when she went home in this outfit, then remembered that they wouldn't be seeing her. Logan had been right. She couldn't go back.

            Am ah doing the right thing?

She pulled on the opera-length gloves that didn't quite match the rest of the clothes but at least left her a little less exposed and wondered again about what Storm must have been like when she was younger. And she'd always seemed so calm…

            There was a knock on the door. Jeans powers had faded almost completely and Rogue had to open it to find out who was there. It was Storm. "Are you ready?"

            "Ah guess."

            "Good. Professor Xavier would like to speak with you."

            Great thought Rogue as she trailed after the woman. She'd been expecting this, but it didn't mean she wasn't dreading it.

            "Clothes fit you all right?"

            "What? Oh yeah, fine. Just how did you come to own an outfit like this anyway?"

            Storm laughed. "Oh, I could tell you some tales – but they'll have to wait. Here we are."

            Rogue had only ever seen Xavier from a distance and was nervous as she went into the office, but the mans expression was benign.

            "Ah, Rogue." He motioned for her to sit down. "I understand you've had quite an upsetting experience. It may reassure you to know that Jean is no longer in Bayville."

            "Why not? Where is she?"
            "I'm afraid I don't know. I was unable to locate her. But Mystique is still at the Brotherhood house. It would be safer for you remain here. Would you like to join our team?"

            "If ah say no, will ah get thrown out of the mansion?"

            "No. You may remain here as long as you need."

            Rogue considered her options. She couldn't go back to Irene in Mississippi now that she knew the woman had adopted her just because she would one day become a mutant. She didn't want to go back to the Brotherhood. The only thing she really wanted was to get her hands on Jean. And there was only one choice that would guarantee that…

            "Ah wanna join the X-Men."

            The Professor smiled. "Then we should tell the others of your decision. Follow me."

            Nervously, Rogue accompanied him into the kitchen where the other occupants of the mansion were sitting around the table, Logan and Storm having just told Scott, Kurt and Evan what was going on. They looked up expectantly as the two entered the room.

            "Rogue has decided to remain with us," the Professor told them, pointedly ignoring the major double takes at the girl's outfit.

            Logan gave her a satisfied smile. "Welcome to the X-Men."