Alistor was trying to get to sleep in his bed. He heard a knock on his door, so he sat up and flicked on his light. Teren walked in and closed the door quietly, behind her. She smiled at him, and he smiled back. "What are you doing hear at this time?" He asked.

"I came to see you." She whispered, sitting beside him on the bed. "How are you feeling?"

"Ok. Good actually." He said.

"Kate told me what she's been trying to do. She says that she almost has you back to normal." Teren said. Alistor smiled and looked to his hands. "She also told me about you adopting her." Teren said.

"What?" He asked, startled.

"She saw it in one of her visions." Teren said. "It's sweet of you to do that." She said, reaching out and clasping one of his hands.

Alistor shrugged. "It's something that I wonna do." He said, meeting her eyes. Teren moved her hand up to his face and brushed her thumb over his bronze skin. She kissed his cheek, then his other.

"Do you mind?" She whispered. He shook his head and shivered. Closing his eyes as she trailed her lips over his chin. She straddled his legs, remaining close as Alistor felt her hot breath on his skin. He opened his eyes and focussed on her lips, then placed his own over hers. He pushed his lips harder against hers, parting her lips and kissing her deeply as her fingers tickled the skin on his back. Her hands traveled down to his sides, and he suddenly broke the kiss and started laughing.

"Your ticklish." She said, surprised.

"No, Im not." He said. Then jolted sideways as her fingers dug into his sides. He suppressed a laugh, and it come out as a splutter instead. He had enough, he couldn't stand the tickling, so he grabbed her wrists and pushed her backwards, laying her down on the bed, with him laying over her. He smirked. "You know.... I kinda like being hear." He said.

"Well don't get used to it." She said with a smirk.

"Awww. Why not?"

"Shut up and kiss me." She said. He considered it for a moment.

"Uhm... ok then." So he did.

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Rogue was walking down the corridor, when she saw Teren walking out of Alistors room. She looked at her watch. "Teren...." Rogue said suspiciously. Teren yawned and stretched out. It was 8am.

"Mornin' honey." She said, walking passed Rogue. "Sleep ok?"

"Shouldn't ah be askin' you that question?" Rogue said. Teren looked back to Alistors room and saw him walk out. He stopped and glanced between Rogue and Teren, who were both looking at him. Rogue with a look of complete shock, and Teren smiling at him. He cleared his throat and walked up to them.

"Mornin' Roguey." He said, then stopped and kissed Teren. "Want some breakfast before you go to school? Im cooking." He said, still talking to Rogue.

"Uuuh.... sure..." Rogue said, continuously glancing between the two. Alistor had his hand around Terens waist, and it was resting on her stomach. She smiled

Kate ducked back behind the wall that she was spying from and clapped her hands together with a wide grin, and a mischievous glint in her eyes. She sighed with satisfaction and rubbed her hands together. "Thats step one over with. Now we just have to get phase two underway." She whispered to the air.

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Vine stood, glaring at Pyro, who was nervously looking around to avoid her black eyes. She held out an arm and watched as one of her vines came out of her skin, and wrapped around Pyros neck. Her head tilted to the side, as it tightened, and raised Pyro off of the ground. He started choking and clawing at the vine, unable to breath. She suddenly smacked him into a wall and dropped him.

"Well done." She said. "Youve done well. But if you call me sheila one more bloody time. I will tear your head off." He sneered, then turned and walked out of the room.

She smirked as she burst into Magnetos office again. She strode across the room and lightly placed the cylinder infront of Magneto. He looked up to her as she walked around to his side of the desk and sat down, crossing her legs.

"You have done well." He said, looking to her.

"Well, anything for you.... boss." She cooed. "Now that I have done as you asked, Eric. I want permission to dispose of your toy." She said.

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Rogue walked down the crowded corridors of school, dodging the numerous passers, as a reflex action, though her power was mostly switched off theses days. Since her recovery from the damage to her system that the serum did, having her power switched off didn't even bother her, unless she forgot to switch it back on again, at least once a week. For her body to 're-charge'.

She opened her locker, and tossed her things inside, then grabbed her book and started walking towards the front doors, when a shrill sound reached her ears. "Like, hi Rogue." Came kittys voice. Rogue stopped, cringed, then turned to face her good friend.

"Hiya kitt." Rogue sighed out.

"So, I was like, wondering, if you wanted to hang out or something, since your gonna have to take the first half of this year, again in september. Weel be like, in the same classes and stuff... so I was thinking that maybe, we could be better friends or something."

"Kitt... were already friends." Rogue said, a little confused, though the statement made her want to gagg.

"Well, yea, i know." She giggled, pushing aside a lock of brown hair. "But, I think that we kinda like, drifted, since before you were taken by Magneto." Kitty said, looking to the ground. "I mean, like... before, when I found you in the woods, and you asked if we were friends.. I said that we were best friends, because I kinda wish that we were you know?"

"Yea, ah know kitt. Don't worry about it. You and Alistor are mah two best friends in the world. But right now, ah have ta go read this book, cos it has ta be back by tomorrow." Rogue said.

"Wait... you skipping school again?" Kitty said, her arms falling to her sides as her eyes widened. "Rogue, you know what Logan... I mean your dad said about you skipping school." Kitty said.

"Oh come on, it's juss one class." Rogue said. "Ya aint gonna tell him are ya Kitty?" Rogue said, almost pleading.

"I wont. But if you get like, found out. Then I had no idea ok?" Kitty said, pointing a finger at the now, smirking, Rogue.

"Thanks." Rogue said, then left the premises. She went to the park, and sat on a swing after putting her book in her bag. She held onto the chains and sighed, then looked to the clear, blue sky. She closed her eyes, with her head leaned back, then felt herself being pushed slightly. Her eyes snapped open, and were then met with the ruby, on black backgrounds of the guy that she loved. She breathed a sigh of relief and leaned back against him.

"Y' sposed t' be in school cherie." He said, seductively into her ear.

"Ah cayn't be bothered with that damn place anymore Rems." She said, closing her eyes again, and leaning against Remys had chest as his arms kept a protective lock around her, he kissed the side of her head.

"De proff won' let y' stop goin' y'know." He said.

"Ah know, but ah dont care." She said, then stood up. "Ahm goin back home fer the afternoon. Wonna come?"

Remy smiled and walked upto her, taking her hand. "O'corse cherie. I don' wan't y' lookin at any homme on y' way back." He chuckled.

"Aww, swamp rat. Y'all spoil all mah fun." She said, then started walking.

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Rogue sneaked into the institute. Everything was quiet, too quiet in her opinion. Remy walked in, passed her and hung up his trenchcoat. Usually he wouldn't, but Rogue asked him to, because she was sick of him always being in the damn coat. Rogue looked around and saw no one, then bolted for the stairs. She ran up the stairs and slowed down, turning a corner into the bedrooms corridor.

"Stripes!" Rogue froze at the voice, then slowly turned, seeing Remy hid behind a corner that was facing her, but blocking him from Logans view. Remy cringed, he had been behind Rogue since the stairs, and couldn't exactly shout to her and tell her that Logan was on his way. "What the hell are ya doin?!"

".....Ahm juss gettin a book that ah need. Sheesh." Rogue said, acting normal. But inside she was panicking. This was the 5th time that her father had caught her skipping out on school. And if he saw Remy with her... She would have danger room lessons every day at 5am for at least two months. Rogue looked to Remy and used her eyes to motion for him to exit via the corridor that he ducked into. Remy shook his head. "Cajun!" Logan growled.

Remy cringed and began to run, Logan strode over to Rogue, and saw Remy sprinting down the corridor. He looked to Rogue and growled.

"Ill deal with you later." He said, a warning in his tone. Then took off after Remy, shouting a threat that any man would cry for mercy at. That's when Rogue heard a crash from her room.

Rogue, slowly, opened the door to her room and peered inside, seeing the whole room trashed. Furniture broken, clothes torn and thrown all over the floor. She walked over to her bed, and found the picture of Stephanie, the old school photo of her mother, torn into 4 pieces and displayed on her pillow. Whoever had trashed her room, had destroyed the only picture she had of her mother.

On her dresser, lay a note. Written in red ink: Soon. Was all that the note said. Rogue looked around, then ran to her balcony, seeing nothing. But what she didn't notice, was the two pairs of gray eyes that watched from the trees, just outside the institute.

Anton and Vinessa stood in the shadowyness of the now, dulling day. "What were you doing by her dresser Anton?" Vinessa asked her brother.

Anton turned and looked at her, his dreadlocks falling, heavily over his shoulders. "Getting a souvenir." He said, lying about the fact that he was leaving Rogue a warning. Despite the side swapping, Anton still admired Rogue, and saw her as a friend. He always had done, and he also knew that what Magneto and his sister were going to do was wrong. Very wrong. A vindictive smile crossed Vine's face, her eyes glinting in the gray light.

"I wonder if this bratt will like the present that Im going to leave for her tomorrow?" Vine asked, looking back towards the window of Rogues bedroom.

"What do you mean?"

"Im gonna get rid of Terren tomorrow. And I hope that it hurts that bitch up there like hell for what she's doing to Eric." Vine said.

Anton sighed and looked to his boots. "This is bull shit Vine. We can't play god. We can't go around, killing everyone in our way, just because you have a hot flush every time you see your boss, and he aint interested."

"You are becoming week dear brother." Vine hissed. "Watch your step Anton. I won't hold back information about you to Eric. And I won't protest if he orders you dead."

Anton swallowed and loaded his head. The emotionless look returning to his features. "Like id expect anything else from the sister who killed her own brother, by sending him into a motel room with a mutant timebomb." Anton said, looking out towards the cliff top. "Oh yea Vinessa. I know what you did. How you used Alistor. I didn't say anything because I didn't care. But you were close to our brother weren't you?" He said, then turned and walked away, leaving Vine seething, clutching her guns and thinking, 'Screw tomorrow. Terren is dead tonight.'