Disclaimer: Kudos to A.p.R who helped me out with this chapter seeing as I got stuck.

Quote (I don't care if it's from a different show. I'll put what I think is fun and random.):

Jet: To deceive your enemy, first deceive your ally.
Spike: How does deceiving me help?!!

Once they got back to the mansion, Rahne and Delano greeted them in their wolf forms. Delano knocked Marc down and transformed back to his humanoid form. "You lucky dog." he said whilst elbowing him in the side, smelling the scent of sex on them.

Marc felt embarrassed by that. Knowing that his senses were advanced as was Rahne's but he felt a little glad that it wasn't Volt. Oh gee, that would be pretty scary coming from ol' horny.

"Aye, you two missed the training session. Logan is still mad about that.

Marc was doing so well up until he met you." Rahne said to Des, now in her human form once more.

Marc walked over and put an arm around Des's shoulder. "Oh c'mon, we have our needs too. Which doesn't mean train twenty-four-seven." he said.

Delano came from behind and hugged the two. "Group hug." he announced, squeezing the two in a big bear hug. Rahne giggled at the sight as the lovebird's struggle and squirmed to get free. Delano then let them go before Marc decided to burn him or set an article of his clothes on fire.

Marc glared at him. "No more group hugs…or I'll hurt you…with fire." he said, not finding that fun at all.

Delano looked hurt and stalked off to do find something to do. "Now ye done it." Rahne said, watching him go.

"So, he's a friggin' grown man that needs to act his age." Marc stated as they all started walking to head inside.

In the rec. room, Bobby, Sam, Tabitha and Roberto were playing Halo 2 online, which Bobby managed to set-up with the help of Tabby.

"Aww, man I vish I vould have known about zis." whined Kurt, as he walked into the room, closing the book he was reading and sitting on the arm of the couch.

Tabby and Sam were seated on the floor while Roberto and Bobby sat on one of the couches. Marc and Des came into the room, smiling at each other happily.

Rahne went over and sat down next to Sam and watched. "Booya!" Tabby shouted, sniping, someone on the other team. "You can't hide from me, maggots!" she said with a laugh over the headset she wore.

"Well looks like she's having a dandy time." Des said with a smile as she sat on Marc's lap. Marc smiled and gave her a kiss.

Bobby nodded. "Yeah she's a good team mate to have… better to have her with me than against me."

Team Slayer was the way to go for them. Winning two matches that Marc and Des knew about so far. Tabby and Bobby were the most into it while Sam and Roberto just tried to manage to get over five kills in the game.

Logan sighed as he passed by the rec. room, noticing them. "Now if they would only show this much fervor in they're training-," he thought aloud.

"Wishful thinking, Logan?" Xavier said, smiling, as he wheeled by on the way to have lunch with Jean and Scott. The badger sighed in defeat.

Elsewhere in the mansion, Ray, Cally and Kitty were hanging out.

Cally shook her head. "No, we're so not going to be like Marc and Des." she replied to a question Kitty had asked.

"I wasn't sure about that, okay? Like, I don't even understand how they clicked immediately." Kitty said.

Ray chuckled and nudged her a bit. "Like they say 'opposites attract'."

Cally raised a brow. "Who's 'they'?"

"You know…" he said, unsure of what to say, "the people who say that."

"Wow…that was, very possibly, the worst reply…ever." Kitty said.

Ray narrowed his eyes at her, but deep down knew that was true. He sighed. "I guess you're right…but you know that the only reason you want to know about Marc and Des is because you got a little complex about Marc."

"As if!"

"Ah, you denied it! That means you loved him." Cally said.

Kitty looked at him, confused and irritated. "What are you, seven?!" she said, leaving the room in a fit.

Ray looked at Cally and Cally looked at Ray. "She likes 'im." They chuckled.

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A few months had passed and it was as normal as it could around Xavier's School for Gifted Youngsters. Marc and Des were still just as happy as ever, Ray and Cally were still going out and were taking they're time unlike the other two lovebirds'. Delano was more annoying than Kurt was.

It's a nice summery morning; Delano was awake, lying on the couch surfing through channels to find something to watch. The mornings always seemed more boring to him, even the birds were chirping happily outside.

If it wasn't for Kitty's constant complaining about him chasing poor, helpless animals while in wolf form. Sure he was worse than Rahne when it came to that but who could really blame him for having some fun.

Delano would wish that a squirrel would bite the valley girl then she'd find out that no animal were helpless nor poor to defend themselves. The cruel thought put a smile on his face as he turned off the TV.

It was quiet with the teens still sleeping even though all the other adults were awake. Seeing as it was a rare occasion for them to sleep in without having to get up early for a DR session.

The sound of footsteps caused Delano to look over into the hallway to see Marc pass by. He rolled off the couch while changing forms and followed him. Making sure to stay afar but also knowing Marc knew that he was being followed. One time where he wished Marc didn't have super hearing.

Marc was smiling to himself ever since he woke up. "Today is the day." He thought with a bright smile. Thanking God for the perfect day out so he didn't have to ask Storm for a favor. Happy vibes came off him waves that Delano could sense, which made him more curious then just how mysterious he acted right now.

He slipped into his room and closed the door behind him. Delano stopped at the end of the hall then took off to ask the others to why he seemed so… happy. He bounded towards the professor's study, transforming when he got there so he wouldn't break down the door like last time and entered.

-Flashback-

Delano was running from the black jaguar around the mansion. Ceres said it was only for fun but he didn't believe her that it would be fun. Everyone was getting out of the way when the two sprinted passed. Logan growled, obviously knowing that two semi-big animals running in the house would cause something to break.

Crash!

And with that sound of a vase falling to the floor proved that Logan was right. Delano turned, thinking the door to the study was open, seeing as you can't think properly when a huge cat is right behind you and he ran right through the door. Honestly, who would pay attention to that kind of thing when a huge meat eater is on your tail?

Putting a nice gaping hole in the door that made Xavier wide-eyed and scolded Ceres AND Delano. Ceres for the chasing and Delano for the door. For the rest of the day he was hurting.

-End flashback-

"Do you know why Marc is so cheerful this early in the morning and why he's not sleeping like the others?" Delano asked Xavier, who set his book aside that he was reading. "I don't think it would be necessary to worry about how he acts all of a sudden." The professor said, not really concerned about it.

Not getting an answer or anything else, Delano left closing the door behind him. Meanwhile, Marc was in his room running through his line of how he was going to do things in front of a mirror. Seemed easy enough to him but when the time came he knew it wasn't going to be that easy.

A/N: Bum… bum… bum…. What is Marc planning? I'll leave you to wonder about that.