Red Witch: Yeah you can almost hear it can't you?

BlackRoseApocalyps: Yeah I wanted to go another way with parents reacting that their kid is a mutant. Glad you liked it and don't worry I got a little more Gambit torture set up.

slickboy444: You know it, I mean those two are exact opposites.

TheLegendaryManHimself: I was just going to have the girls all think he's just the new cute guy. They all are too young for Warren, I'm just having a little fun since women tend to throw themselves at him at times. And sometime in the future you will see Betsy, in fact I gave a little hint not too long ago but it might have been too subtle.

Ruby631: I'm not pairing those two up, I'm just going to have the girls think he's cute (He does have that effect on women it seems) I'm sure that was one of the reasons for the pairing too and from what you wrote I take it April's boyfriend is in prison?

Uncanny R-Man: Thanks I fixed it. I just figured Warren would be just eye candy for the girls to drool over a little but no relationships. I got plans on bringing in Betsy later on and Paige is 13 in this story so there's no way I'm setting those two up.

Sparky Genocide: Yeah you know it will be, but mostly for Warren.

DemonRogue13: Yeah I never really saw Lance and Kitty working out honestly, they're just too different.

Thanks to: supergirlhv,

ADJUSTMENTS
CHAPTER 17: THE ODD COUPLE

Warren could not believe his luck. Of all people why him? Why this guy? In fact he was just realizing he didn't know he had switch sides. The first time he had met him he had robbed the house his family had owned just outside of the New York area.

Warren for a time had chosen to live there since he was tired of his apartment and needed a change. The home had no staff at the moment and his parents were in Asia at the time so it was the perfect place to get away from the city.

He had ran into Gambit while he was in the process of stealing from him, although to be fair he had heard from Xavier he was under the control of a mutant Mesmero. The fact still was he worked, or had worked, for Magneto and was a thief. In his opinion one the lowest class of human or in this case mutant a person could get.

Warren and his family had worked hard to make and keep their company. All thieves in his opinion went the easy route and took what others had worked for. Now he had to share a room with this man.

"Care for a game of cards?" Gambit asked with a smirk.

"This has got to be a mistake." Warren said darkly. He really didn't want to share a room with this guy. "I'm going to see Xavier." Warren quickly turned and marched off. It took him five minutes until he realized he had no clue as to where he was since he was teleported here. "Damn." He muttered as he looked around and scratched his head. He shrugged and picked on direction and went there.

In the kitchen Blink found several of the girls gathered together. So far there were Tabitha, Amara, and Jubilee. "Girls you will not guess who just showed up?"

"Johnny Deep?" Tabitha asked hopefully.

"Uh...no." Blink said to the blond. Tabitha's face fell slightly at looked a little disinterested. "This new guy showed up. He's so dreamy and get this...he's got these wings."

"Wait." Tabitha said to her. "Tall, white bird-like wings, blond, gorgeous?"

"Yeah that's him, you know him?" Blink asked her getting excited.

"Oh yeah, that's Warren also called Angel and if you ask me that's the perfect name for him." Tabitha said with a smile.

Amara rolled her eyes. "Don't you stop looking at other boys now that you got Sam? I mean just cause Warren is from the upper class and is handsome, don't you feel back looking at other guys?"

"Hey we're not married, and I do love Sam. Besides I just look, I wouldn't cheat on Sam." Tabitha said seriously to Amara. "Besides he's like what? Twenty something? A little too old if ya ask me...doesn't mean we can't look though."

"So Blink." Dani asked her. "How cute is he? On a scale from one to ten?"

Blink thought about it. "I'd say a nine."

"Damn really?" Jubilee asked. "I got to see this." She then noticed a few of the looks. "Hey what Tabby said, look but don't touch, it's not like the guys don't from time to time."

"Huh, excuse me?" They turned to see Warren himself in the doorway of the kitchen. "Could one of you tell me where Xavier's office is from here?"

"Oh sure." Tabby said smiling and then pointed. "Go down that way, take a left and it's the second door on the right."

Warren nodded his thanks. "Thank you." He left and the girls watched him leave then turned to face one another.

"Oh yeah definite nine, if not a ten." Dani said smiling. The other girls nodded agreeing with her.

Warren had managed to find Xavier's office and for the past few minutes had been ranting over the fate he had to share a room with that man. After he had cooled down Xavier in a calm voice tried to reason with him. "Warren we are basically running out of room and his is one of the only ones left. It will only be temporary until the construction for the new additions are ready, then you will have your own room."

Warren thought about it. "I'll hurry that call and see if I can also call in a few favors to speed things up." Warren left Xavier's office and went to his car to get his bags. He got back to his room and saw that Gambit was still on the same place on the other bed still shuffling his cards.

"You want help with dat?" Gambit said with a mischievous grin.

Warren narrowed his eyes. "Don't worry about it I can handle it." He turned to go and get the last things out of his car then stopped himself. "Don't steal anything."

Remy with a look on innocence that he perfected since childhood. "What do you take me for?"

"A thief." Warren said flatly.

With a look of mock pain on his face and theatrically placed a hand over his heart. "You wound me sir."

"Don't tempt me." Warren muttered and went to get the rest of his things. It took a little while to unpack and get everything put away, especially since he made sure everything was still there. He found a few things missing and when he pressed Gambit about it gambit seemed to continently find the 'lost' items pretty fast.

After it all he was thankful when Gambit left and he was alone in the room. "This is going to be way too long." He muttered to himself he went to look at the time at his watch then noticed it wasn't on the left wrist. He check the right but it wasn't there he thought that it must have fallen but then he got an idea. "Remy!" He shouted and chased after the man.

He also made a vow that right after that he'd make those calls to get the construction here as fast as possible.

Later Remy was walking the grounds. There was one of those DR sessions scheduled for him and the other new ones but frankly he was tired of those. He figured he would skip this one, besides used to be a master thief and an Acolyte, he was more then skilled enough to deal with things.

The other reasons was that all his life he had followed others around. First the thieves guild then when things got too hot for him there he left and then he joined up with Magneto. He didn't believe in Magneto's vision he was just there cause the money was good and it was something to do and a safe place to be away from the guild.

But there he had to do whatever Magneto said and after awhile it was too much like his old life that he wanted to leave behind. That and that last plan he had was it for him. Now he knew he wasn't a good man, his past proved that with some of the things he had done. But he wasn't a totally bad one either and sure wasn't evil. So when Wanda and her plan had come along he had gone with it.

Now here he was once again under the thumb of another person living under their rules. Sure the Professor was better then the others but frankly Gambit didn't know who he was anymore. He just wanted to find out who he was as a person, but there were reasons why he stayed...okay maybe just one.

He looked to a tree and there was the one reason sitting under there reading. Rogue was there and looked just as lovely as the day he first saw her. Of course he tried to hurt her also that day but that was beside the point. He was about to go over to her and try to see just how faithful she was to her boyfriend when his competition showed up and beat him to it.

He watched as she seemed happy just to see him and it irked him. He moved away but kept an eye on them. It was a safe bet he didn't really care much for the Canadian. It wasn't that he wasn't a nice guy, in fact he was. But besides the fact that he was so close to what he desired they were completely different.

He was the typical good guy and had this thing about honor. Now Gambit had heard that saying honor amongst thieves but he knew for a fact that was not true. Any type of honor a thief had only went so far before the greed that fueled their ambition. His father was proof of that.

Besides would a man of honor try to steal a girl from someone else? He grinned at the last time he did that. A group of his old circle in the Guild bet him he couldn't take this one girl at this bar, well he got the girl and over three hundred dollars too. That was a good night.

"There you are!" He turned to see a very pissed off Warren walking to him.

"Did you lose this?" Remy asked him holding up a watch. Warren snatched it and went on a rant but he just tuned him out. He had to admit he thought having a roommate would be dull, but when Xavier asked him about it and when he told him who the roommate was going to be he knew there was a lot of opportunity to have some fun.

He wasn't going to steal anything of his and then sell it off...well the thought had crossed Gambit's mind, but he settled for just messing with him anyway. He had done the same at the Acolytes. He kept on stealing Pyro's lighters all the time although that was also so he would stop setting fires too, but it was still fun.

"Are you listening to me?" Warren said angrily.

"Oui, Gambit gets the point." Gambit lied. Warren gave him a slight glare before going back to the mansion. Gambit then turned to what he was interested in earlier but noticed the two were now gone. He frowned slightly but shrugged it off and decided to see what else there was around this place.

IN TOWN

Alex and Roberto were walking along the town, since Roberto was showing him around a little. Alex was starting to enjoy his new life here in Bayville. Sure once people seemed to figure out he was from the Institute he got some hostile attitude but then that was expected, and he new that things wouldn't be different back with his adopted parents.

But at least here he had Scott and other friends who dealt with everything so that was a plus. Also he did miss all the choice surfing at least with Roberto around he had someone who knew about the sport and he could talk to him about it without getting blank stares.

Alex was just talking to Roberto about how Logan was pissed that Gambit hadn't showed up for the training that day and seemed to take it out on them. He wasn't watching where he was going and the next thing he knew he slammed into something.

A soft something that cried out like he did as both hit the ground. "Ow...okay that hurt." Said the voice.

Alex who had landed hard on his butt was getting up and looked at what, or actually who he had accidentally walked into. He froze a moment as he saw a girl roughly his own age with long black hair tied into a long pony tail.

"Oh man! Sorry about that, let me help you up." He offered her his hand and she took it.

"It's okay I wasn't looking where I was going either...oh." She finally looked at Alex and quite frankly liked what she saw. "Oh, I mean, I...hi." She said and mentally slapped herself in the head. 'Good one, why do I always make a fool out of myself in front of all the cute guys?' she asked herself.

"Hi." Alex said back smiling. "Well to be fair I should have been looking where I was going...I'm Alex by the way."

"Annie, Annie Ghazikhanian." She said holding out her hand for a handshake. Alex didn't hesitate to take it and shake her hand.

"Ahem." They both turned to Roberto who was feeling like he was being left out.

"Oh sorry man. Annie, this is a friend of mine Roberto." Alex said introducing him he smiled and nodded politely and Annie nodded back.

"Nice to meet you both, one of tell me the way to South Street?" She asked slightly embarrassed. "I just moved here last week with my family and I'm still getting to know the place."

Alex scratched the back of his head. "Same here, Roberto do you know where it is?"

"Sure thing." Roberto said proudly. He gave her simple directions for her to follow.

"Thanks for the help...and well, I hope I'll see you around." She said a little shyly and waved goodbye as she continued on her way.

Alex waved back with a smile plastered on his face. Roberto couldn't help but notice it and grinned to himself.

MANSION

Wanda was taking it easy in her room while applying an ice pack to her shoulder. She hadn't seen one of the hazards of the Danger Room coming earlier that day and had got a nasty blow to her shoulder. Unfortunately Gale had already used up a lot of her healing energy on Forge, Jamie and Paige from a little accident in his labs.

It was nothing serious but apparently three different healing sessions left her drained and she was sleeping it off in her room, so now Wanda had to suffer it for a few hours at least. Thankfully nothing was broken but she would have a nasty bruise there.

She was testing out her shoulder by rolling it when Rogue walked in. She stopped and looked at her shoulder. "Danger Room huh? Is it bad?"

Wanda would have shrugged if the movement wouldn't have sent a jolt of slight pain so she didn't. "Not too bad, I take it you've seen a few bruises like this before?"

"Seen and taken." Rogue sighed and sat down. "At least now ah take it a lot more."

"Yeah invulnerability sure sounds nice about now." Wanda said and put the cold pack back. "I just wonder where the hell that Cajun rat was...he was supposed to be my partner for today and when I see him I'm going to..."

"As much as ah would love ta see ya hex him, remember ya got grounded for doing that ta Bobby...although he did deserve it." Rogue admitted with a slight smile. For the entire week Bobby had avoided Wanda and every time she walked into a room he got out just as fast.

"I guess you're right about that." Wanda muttered then she thought about something. "So why do you would want me to hex someone, namely him?"

Rogue's good mood suddenly dropped. "Lately he's been tryin' ta get meh alone with him and he think's he's got a chance with meh." Wanda raised an eyebrow. "And before you ask yes, he knows ah'm involved and yes ah told him there wasn't a chance but he won't listen and he's drivin' meh nuts!"

There was a knock on their open door and guess who just had to walk in at that time. "Hello girls mind Remy dropping by?" Gambit said with a smirk.

Rogue looked over to Wanda. "On second thought it would be worth it if you did."

Gambit gave a confused look on his face then saw a very pissed off Wanda. "You! Where the hell were you today?" She yelled at him. Gambit stepped back and found himself against the door and held up his hands.

"What did Gambit do?"

"You were supposed to be my partner for today's session you idiot!" Wanda shouted and pointed a finger at him. "And look what happened!" She said pointing to her shoulder. "I ought to hex you through a wall!"

Gambit knew there was something he had forgotten about that training session he skipped and now he remembered, he also thought he should run as fast as he could right now. "Uh...Gambit just remembered he needed to be somewhere else...right now." He then quickly made his escape through the door with Wanda hot on his heels.

"Get back here! I'm not done with you yet Cajun!" Wanda shouted out after him as she chased him down. Rogue just sat on her bed with a satisfied look on her face.

'Looks like having Wanda as a roommate has an advantage after all.' Rogue thought while a smile was on her face from what just happened. Then she heard Gambit crying out and Rogue guessed that Wanda had caught up to him.

She also saw a pleased Warren walking by her door whistling to himself. Rogue was a little suspicious at his attitude. "Hey Warren." He turned to face her. "What just happened?"

He shrugged. "Gambit was running from Wanda for some reason and he was about to make it to the front door when he just tripped."

Rogue smirked. "Just 'tripped' huh?"

"Yeah I guess you should watch out for the carpets down there." He said.

"Warren...tha carpet down there is secured to tha floor."

"Oh really? Well isn't that strange." He said before walking off, and Rogue couldn't help but laugh at what she guessed had happened downstairs. After a few minutes Wanda came back to the room looking a little more satisfied and sat down on her bed across the room.

"So is he still alive?" Rogue asked her.

"Unfortunately but lets just say he needed the icepack more then I do at the moment, and I doubt he'll skip another session again, at least if it will piss me off." Wanda told her gently stretching herself on her bed being careful of her shoulder.

Rogue noticed it. "Ya didn't hurt your shoulder more did ya?"

She shook her head. "I don't think so."

Meanwhile downstairs Scott was passing the living room and saw Gambit on the couch. He had seen Logan earlier and knew he was looking for Gambit and Scott couldn't blame him. He walked over to him about to give him a lecture about responsibility when he saw him more clearly now and that he had a few icepacks on his body. 'Guess someone got to him already although I didn't think Logan was this pissed.'

Scott decided to leave him to his misery.

NEXT UP CHAPTER 18: BOILING POINT AND EXPLOSION

The little triangle I got going ends with a crash and burn and the institute will lose a member too.