A/N
Sorry for the delay, this week is lots busier than any of the others. But I'm not giving up! I will bring you updates!
"Dude, it smells." Jamie commented as they walked past the dining room. Julian full heartedly agreed- his nose was better than Jamie's, and he smelled it all too well.
Mr. Logan was in a fairly foul mood, being the only one qualified (or so the professor said) to fix the wall. Julian was having doubts, as the wall looked like a giant patch that kept breaking and the leak hadn't stopped yet.
A loud knocking on the door caught both boys attention. They both looked at each other, and then rushed off to the lobby to open the door.
In the process they almost knocked over Roberto, who had been running to do the same thing.
Jamie and Julian wrestled over the doorknob and somehow, between the two's scuffling, got it open.
Lance just stared at the two young mutants as they forgot about the door and rolled around on the floor, trying to get the upper hand over one another.
"Hey."
Jamie looked up from putting Julian into a headlock. "Hey Lance! What's up?"
"Hey little dudes!" Another poked his head under Lance and waved at the two kids. He looked at Julian. "Have we met?"
"I don't think so." Julian chirped while shoving Jamie off, causing several clones to appear.
To Julian's curious eyes, several more mutants appeared, a girl with gothic clothing like Rogue's, but looked very pretty, a very large mutant that looked like he could gobble the younger mutant straight up, and a thin mutant with white hair. Julian wondered if he wasn't a relative of Ms. Monroe. Evan's cousin, perhaps?
"That's the little furry guy I was telling you about." Lance said, looking around eagerly as he talked. The animal girl's kid."
"I remember, you always come to visit Kitty." Julian nodded.
"Yeah well, that'sreallygreat. Canwegonow?" The white haired boy snapped.
"Shut up Pietro. Hey, guys, you know where Kitty is, I wanna talk to her."
"Just'causesheblewyouoffforalmostamonth-"
"Shut UP Pietro!"
"She's not here. Now you guys should beat it." Roberto said, arms crossed over his chest.
"Hey now, we're not causing any trouble!" The big mutant said.
"Yeah, we just concerned about our fellow mutants, yo!" The second mutant jumped and stuck to the wall. He had a rather sickly complexion and an odd smell, but it didn't smell bad to Julian even though a Jamie clone that got too close ran away waving his hand under his nose.
"Where'd Kitty go? Did she at least leave a message? Where is everybody?" Lance asked, concerned.
"They're all go—"
"What are you guys doin' here?" Mr. Logan growled, cutting Julian off.
"Ohman,let'sgetouttahere." Pietro turned to move.
"Yeah, 'let's'" Mr. Logan's claws came out.
"Where's Kitty?" Lance demanded, stepping towards Mr. Logan.
"They went campin'. What's it to ya?"
"For an entire month? Something's going on, and I want you to tell me right now!" The earth shook a little. Julian's nose flared and he dropped to all fours and gripped the carpet. His puffed up form caused the Jamie clones to move back.
"I already told ya all ya needed to know, so beat it, Rocktumbler." Mr. Logan growled, locking eyes with Lance.
Lance looked away first, but refused to move. "I want to know what's going on. If Kitty's in trouble I want to help."
"She don't need your kind of help." Came the growl.
"Now, now, everyone calm yourselves."
The new voice belonged to the Professor, who had just wheeled in with Amara as a tag along.
"Lance, Kitty isn't here, and I'm afraid there is nothing I can do about that. We've lost a good bit of mutants, and we have no idea where they have gone. And while we cannot do anything about that, we do have a situation here that requires some help, if you would like to dispense it."
"What'sinitforus?" Pietro spoke very fast and it was getting continuously more difficult for Julian to follow.
"You can use the facilities at the school, including the recreation room at your discretion for the time being. Lance, if you would come with me, I will explain to you the situation."
Lance, looking very unhappy and worried, followed the Professor.
"What are we gonna do, yo?" The sickly mutant asked. He was answered by barely catching a tool belt that was tossed to him.
"Move it, Toad, need to fix a wall." Mr. Logan grumbled muttering something out of the corner of his mouth as he walked away. Julian caught part of it, and it wasn't all that nice.
"Cool. We get to be construction workers!" Toad hopped after him, followed by some less than enthusiastic mutants, including Roberto, who believed it was his job to watch them.
The only one left was the girl. She and Amara looked at each other, then ignored each other. Amara left the room and a minute later loud music began playing from upstairs.
"I hate that song." The girl said, crossing her arms. She glared at the two boys. "What are you looking at?"
"I like your clothes." Julian offered, not wanting to make her angry and hoping flattery would stop the hostility.
The girl looked at him for a minute, then shook her head. "Where's the T.V?"
"In the rec room. We'll show you, our favorite show is on in an hour!" Jamie said excitedly. "It's Mysteries of The Bizarre and Weird. It's really cool. There's a guy who has chicken wings on his back this episode!"
"Great, just what the doctor ordered, mindless dribble." She walked after Jamie, but suddenly stopped and turned around. "What's your name, fur ball?"
"Julian."
"Oh. Wanda."
"Hi Wanda."
"Whatever."
She followed Jamie off to the Recreation Room.
Anongirl88: OH, I have a few things planned. In any case, glad to hear you liked the last chapter, hope you like this one too!
PrincessOfWildfire:I know, he's been growing up, and you re-read the chapter? Wow, I thought I was one of the people who do that for fanfiction. I hope you like the chapter!
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