Red Witch: No it won't go well for him.

BlackRoseApocalyps: I'm happy you're back, and you know Warren and his parents won't be a good thing.

slickboy444: Glad you liked the Piotr/Kitty thing I got going as for Warren let's say they're about to get a new visitor.

celtcath74: I'm not sure yet if they'll actually meet the Hellfire club before I introduce the Phoenix or not yet, I'm still working on how to do the Phoenix.

Outsideoftheinside: Let's just say Gambit doesn't like to give up, but I think it's clear that Rogue made her choice.

Ruby631: Oops sorry about that, I'll try never to do that again, and as for mentioning it, well if you paid homage to my work I don't see why not repay the effort.

Supergirlhv: Yeah I've been meaning to bring him in for a while and this seemed like the perfect time.

Uncanny R-Man: I was wondering how you sent a review. Yes Warren is the new member of the group and what can I say I like to do some fluff every now and then.

Gurgle: The story is called "Reality Trip: the Lost Chapter" by Ruby631, sorry I mixed up the 3 and the 1 when I wrote it down. On a personal note don't ever send another snobby review like that again especially if it starts out like you with 'Dear you know what'. I was offended by that remark and don't ever do that again, if you don't like the way I portray certain characters then don't read it since I got a LOT of people who do like what I do so it's no great loss to me to loss you.

Thanks to: Sparky Genocide

ADJUSTMENTS

CHAPTER 16: A NEW ARRIVAL

It had been a day since Piotr and Kitty went out and already the school betting pool had gathered. Several of the students were gathered in Bobby's room while the new couple was out at the moment.

"Okay so Dani you got five bucks on them sharing a kiss within three days from now." Bobby said writing it all down in a small notebook as he was in charge of the bets. "Jubes you said five bucks and they'll go at it in four days. Gale you said five bucks in one day...kind of going on a limb aren't you?"

Gale shrugged. "Hey you don't feel what those two do when they're together."

"Hey! No fair using your empathic abilities!" Amara objected. She was doing a lot better ever since her run in with Selene but she was still slightly jumpy when going outside and the others had to wonder how dangerous this Selene character really was if they spooked her like that.

"I can't help it." Gale said raising her hands in defense. "You know I still don't got perfect control over it."

"Well I'll put down ten with Gale." Roberto said. "I'll go with the empath on this one."

"Nah those two are too shy." Tabitha said leaning back on one of Bobby's chairs. "I got the that says four days tops."

"Does it nae occur to anyone we should find a better use of our time?" Rahne asked them. All the teens gave her a questioning look.

"Come on furtop, I mean we need some distraction from all the insane mutants, and bigots like the FOH in our lives." Jubilee told her. "So you in or out?"

"Put me down for five in two days." Rahne said.

Elsewhere in the mansion Jean and Scott where making their way to the Professor's office as they were summoned. On the way there they saw Rogue and Vince moving a bed.

"What are you two doing?" Scott asked them.

"Professor said to put the last spare bed we got in the only room left with one person in it for a new arrival." Vince said and he shifted the weight of it to get a better grip.

"Really?" Jean asked surprised. "Who is it?"

"He didn't say." Rogue said clearly not happy with this duty. "Why are we always tha ones to do all tha heavy liftin'? We got Colossus now, why not put him ta good use?"

"I think he's out with Kitty again, she's showing him around Bayville I think." Vincent told her. She just muttered something under her breath about how he was so lucky to get out of this.

"You two have super strength, it's not like it's a strain." Scott said to them.

Both teens gave him a not too happy look. "For one thing Scott it's difficult to move this thing in and out of rooms and around this place even if it's like lifting a pillow."

"Secondly ah know ah'm tried of being the damn pack mule." Rogue muttered.

"Welcome to my life." Vincent said rolling his eyes.

"Yeah but ya like helping others."

"Hey just cause I don't complain doesn't mean it gets annoying that I'm used for all the heavy lifting all the time." He said slightly annoyed.

"Why didn't you just take it apart?" Jean asked them.

"Forge got all the tools in his lab at the moment and all I know he's doing something in there and Jamie and Paige for some reason are helping him out." Vince told her.

"Well why not just go in there and get them?" Asked Scott.

"Do you two even remember tha last tahme we where in Forge's lab?" Rogue asked the two oldest member of the team.

Both Scott and Jean thought back to Forge's 'teleportation' machine that ended up sending them into other realities. "Oh." Scott said. "Good point."

"Yeah why tempt fate, I rather not go through that again." Vincent muttered. "I lost two shirts, got shot by an X-Wing, a giant robot and then it stepped on me...now that hurt, plus a few other things I rather not think about."

"Well we better get this damn thing in that room." Rogue said to Vince and they started on the way. Jean and Scott continued on to the Professor's study and walked in.

"You wanted to see us Professor?" Jean asked him.

"Yes please sit down." Xavier gestured to them. Both young adults sat down across from him.

"We're going to have a new member join us as he called me last night. He'll be arriving today and I wanted to talk to the two of you specifically about him."

"Who is it?" Scott asked him.

"It's Warren." This surprised both Jean and Scott. Warren had refused to join twice already and they figured he wouldn't be one to join up with them. "I don't know his reasons yet but he's decided to join us."

"Now what I wanted to talk to you two about is that I feel Warren would be better suited as an instructor here considering his age he's too old to be a student. I know that you two are part time instructors now that you've completed high school and I wanted you two to help him out since he's closer to your own ages then the other adults."

"Yeah with all the students here we could use the extra help." Scott admitted. It was much more crowed around here lately then this place had ever been and the more instructors the better in his opinion. It was tough keeping track of all the kids when they were just on the property, put in when they went out and especially when they forget to mention that to someone, got a little difficult at times.

He remembered trying to find Bobby a few days back, he asked around and went looking for nearly an hour till someone told him they saw him and Jubilee go off to the mall.

"Yes I agree with you on that point." Xavier said nodding. He too found it difficult to keep track of all the new students and to be responsible for them all too.

"We'll be sure to help him out." Jean stated also slightly relieved they would be getting some more help as well. She remembered her first time as a part time instructor with the kids when she and Scott had to teach them. That was a day she never wanted to repeat again. She just hoped the others wouldn't give Warren that much of a hard time.

LATER

Warren had taken his own car to the Institute. He also had to strap his wings down and wear a coat so he wouldn't get any attention while driving. A man with wings driving a car would either attract the attention of the wrong kind of people, or could cause an accident if someone was looking at him and not the road. He did however have to turn the AC up all the way so he wasn't dying from the heat.

After what had happened with his parents he had decided that he needed a new direction in life. When he was going out into the city at Christmas and then at the battle against Apocalypse he felt a sense of belonging. Like he had found what he needed to do in life. He never felt more like what he did mattered to so many before and he had to admit he liked the feeling.

It was also nice to spend time, no matter how brief it was with other people that understood him in a way no other human could. He pulled up to the mansion noticing a few of the younger mutants playing on the lawn not too far away.

He also noticed a few new faces that he never seen before. He smirked to himself as he though of Xavier taking in more students to help. Xavier seemed like a good and caring man, and he couldn't think of anyone better suited to help mutants then that man. He got out of his car and went to the front door. He left his suitcases in the back seat and the trunk until he talked to Xavier.

The door opened suddenly and he saw a young girl in a white T-shirt and a green shirk, but what really caught his attention was that she had pinkish colored skin and a lighter shade in her waist length hair. He also noticed a few curious triangular shapes on her face and her eyes were completely white.

"Oh wow." She said seeing him, Warren raised an eyebrow at her comment, he was used to the reaction the girls and women give him. "Oh! I mean hello." The girl said, he saw her skin turn a slightly darker color and guessed she was blushing.

He smiled at the young girl. "I'm Warren I'm here to see Charles Xavier." He took off his coat and placed it by a rack near the door. He undid the strap and his wings ruffled a bit at the new freedom. It felt so good to finally get his wings out again.

"Yeah he told me to get the door and to show you to his office." The girl said as she gazed at his beautiful wings. "I-I-I'm Clarice but you can call me Blink."

"Well could you take me then?" He asked Blink.

"Oh of course. This way." She told him going ahead. He was led to a small office and knocked once before he heard a voice said to enter. He opened the door and found Xavier waiting for him with a tea set already out.

"Please sit down, would you like something to drink?" He offered.

Warren smiled and sat down. "Cream, and one lump please." Xavier nodded and got his drink ready and handed it to the young man.

"So I am grateful that you decided to join us but I have to wonder as to why you changed your mind?" Xavier said to him giving the man a curious look. Warren sighed, he knew he would have to tell Xavier his reasons, so he began at when his parents had come to see him for the first time since his mutation manifested.

FLASHBACK

Warren had been waiting in the other room as his parents came in. Warren Kenneth Worthington jr. and his mother Katherine Worthington entered the apartment. "Warren honey are you here?" He heard his mother call to him.

"I'm here...but...there's something you should know." He said from the other room.

"Warren son what's wrong, why have you been avoiding us?" His father asked. They had both been worried about their son for so long.

"I've...changed." He said to them.

Now both parents were really getting worried and were slowly making their way to the other room. "Changed...how?" His father asked.

Warren stepped into view his wings right behind him. "I'm a mutant." With those words and the sight of his wings both his parents were socked into silence. His mother had fainted and his father caught her in time. Warren had helped his dad to get her to the couch.

He was glad that his father didn't seem revolted but he did get worried looks from him. It took a few minutes to get his mother around and a few more until she had calmed down. "Warren...how long has this been going on?"

Warren sighed. He was sitting across the couch from his mother with his father next to her. "For over a year now...I first notice two small bulges on my back then the next thing I knew they were small wings. I didn't know what was going on and in a week." He moved his now full grown wings to show his point.

"Oh God Warren...so this is why you didn't want to see us?" She asked him.

"Yes...I...I didn't know how you could take it." He said avoiding their gaze.

"Well I think I can see why." His father said he didn't know how he meant it but it from the sound of it, Warren thought he was disappointed in him.

"Maybe...maybe we could call Dr. Stuart." Her mother said. Dr. Stuart was the family doctor of the Warrens for years. "He could...you know...do something about the wings."

Warren sat there wide-eyed at her. "You mean something like cut them off!" He said angrily to her standing up.

"Warren, don't raise your voice to your mother!" His father said angrily.

"Well excuse me! She just wanted to have me mutilated for crying out loud!" He said angrily.

"Warren I-I just wanted you to be normal again, I didn't mean it like that." His mother pleaded with him.

Warren turned to face his mother. "Mom, I'll never be normal. Even if I lost my wings I would still be a mutant, I may be able to hide what I am from the world, but I can't hide it from myself."

His father placed a hand on his son's shoulder. "Warren think about you future. I mean if you did do this...well, people would treat you like they always had, you'd have a future again, what kind of future could you have if the world found out that..."

"That what? I'm a freak?" Warren said to him jerking his body to removed his father's hand. "Is that what you were going to say? And for the record I'm NOT going to get my wings removed! That would be like asking me to cut off my legs damn it!"

"Warren we're just concerned." His mother said on the verge of tears. "I've seen the way mutants are portrayed and how they're dealt with, I don't want that for you. You don't deserve to be treated like the way mutants are."

"But I AM a mutant." Warren said quietly to her turning and walking to the window looking out. "Nothing will change that mom and dad. I can't keep hiding what I am from the world, and I can't just sit back either as mutants that aren't as fortunate as me are out there without the privileges that I was born with."

"It's like you said, you know how mutants are treated out there in the world."

"But Warren, what about the business?" His father asked him. "You know I wanted you to take over, but if it comes out that you're a mutant, you know the board will not allow me to put you in my place."

Warren knew his father had wanted his son to take over the business like his father had taken over from Grandpa Warren. Warren Worthington the first who started the company. In fact he wanted to do that too. But it seemed that life had dealt him a different hand then what he wanted.

"I know dad...but I can't keep myself locked up, hiding myself from the world, like I'm ashamed of what I am anymore. I need to do something with my life and if I can't take over the company...then I guess I need to find a new direction in life."

"But Warren what will you do?" His mother asked. "What could you possible do if you came out as a mutant?"

Warren had been thinking about that all morning, and there was only one thing he could have thought of.

PRESENT

"I see." Xavier said, the young man had his sympathies. It wasn't easy for a mutant to come out to his parents and to also give up on his dreams of the future also. "Well I can have a student show you to your room for the moment if you want."

"Please." Warren said slightly emotionally drained from retelling it.

Xavier nodded and then a knock at the door. It opened and Blink was there. "You called?" Warren had to grin that he 'called' for the girl without seemingly to do anything. He guessed he would have to get used to living with a telepath.

"Yes Clarice. Could you take Warren to the last room?" Xavier asked then turned to Warren. "I'm afraid until I can get some renovations started you'll have to share a room for the moment."

Warren inwardly sighed, he hadn't expected that. "Well maybe I could help out in that department, I still have some influence in my family's company and I know of a few people I could call that could get things started."

Xavier smiled and seemed slightly relieved by that. "That would be most appreciated." Warren nodded and walked out with Blink. The girl seemed slightly nervous around him so he thought to try and start up conversation since he would be living here now.

"So what can you do?" He asked the girl.

Blink smiled shyly at him. "Well...I can make these for starters." She created an energy lance in her hands then dissipated it. "I can also make portals-oh! Why didn't I think of that sooner?" She asked herself then she created a portal and right in front of them.

Warren was too surprised to stop himself from going throw it and suddenly found himself somewhere else in the mansion and he turned in time to see Blink stepping through the portal and the portal itself closing. "Well here we are." She said gesturing to the door.

"Uh...thanks." Warren said. He just hoped he could find his way back to the front door and then back. She blushed again and walked off. He opened the door and walked in, he saw two beds but who he saw in the room was someone he hoped to never meet again in his life.

The thief.

"Bonjour." Gambit said from the bed who was shuffling his cards. "We meet again." He said with an amused grin on his face.

Warren was tempted to just go back to his parents then live in a room with this man, or just throttle the man, either one was good in his opinion.

NEXT UP CHAPTER 17: THE ODD COUPLE

Will Warren be able to live with a man the complete opposite of himself?