Disclaimer: same as other chapters only the things not in X-men are mine
Jean tried to sort out her thoughts as she walked down the halls of the institute. She was confused and
was trying to convince herself of something she knew wasn't true. Maybe my theory is wrong or
maybe I just made a mistake, she thought.
"Jean, Jean," the professor's voice traveled down the hall interrupting her thoughts. "Distracted Jean?"
he asked as he wheeled closer to her in his wheelchair.
"I've been trying to figure something out," she looked down as she spoke, her face was still confused as
if she was trying to figure it out by talking to the professor.
"Do you care to tell me? I would like to help."
"I have this theory and it has never been proven wrong before. It's that every mutant's x-gene is like
their power. The more your power develops the more advanced your gene is. Your's is more
advanced than mine because you are more powerful. Do you understand?"
"I do think I know what you are talking about and I believe you are about to tell me that A.P. has
messed up this theory."
"Yes, I examined her and her x-gene is no different then Rogue's or Kitty's. With all those powers
hers should be more advanced than the average teenage mutants."
"What are you trying to say Jean?"
"There is no explanation for A.P. having that many powers."
X X X
Bobby and Rogue were sitting and talking in Rogue's room when Kitty and there other friend Stretch
walked in.
"Hey what are you guys doing?" Kitty asked in her happy-go-lucky voice.
"Nothing," Rogue replied annoyed that they had walked in on her alone time with Bobby.
Then Stretch, as he always does started with one of his crazy and stupid ideas. "Ya know, I know how
Magneto shields himself from Cerebro you guys want to know?"
"NO!!!" the three said in unison.
"Well if you want to know that bad," when he got one of his ideas he had to tell everyone wether they
wanted to hear it or not,"We all know that he helped build it. Well you guys didn't know that but I did.
I was eavesdropping. But I had to because I had to look out for spies, traitors to the mutant kind," he
looked at his audience and paused as if he expected them to jump up and down in anticipation. "Well
ya see I had to find out how the traitors were getting past our little mind reading professor. But anyway
that isn't the point. The point is that Magneto took what he knew about building Cereboro and
reversed it and what do you have? An anti-cereboro BOOM! You use that and you have a shield."
Stretch stopped talking and put his hands in his pockets while he smiled waiting for everyone's
assessment of his theory.
The three stared at him like he had a foot growing out of his head. After a few moments of silence
Bobby spoke up, "You are so slow."
"I am not! It is exactly what I would what have done if I was Magneto." Bobby didn't have a chance
to reply. The door swung open and A.P. stood there eating a bag of M&Ms.
Her went to the tall, skinny boy in the corner with shaggy blond hair and bright green eyes. "Hi, I'm
Stretch." He extended his arm, all the way across the room, for A.P. to shake.
"We keep him around for comic relief." she turned around to see John leaning on the door behind her.
Stretch smiled proudly before the realization of what John had said sank in.
"Hey!" he replied very delayed. Everyone but him started to laugh.
A few hours later Scott opened the door and found the six kids that were laughing and keeping
everyone in mansion up. With an annoyed tone he told them to get to bed and how disrespectful he
thought they were for keeping others up.
With them all being tired anyway they reluctantly complied. Once everyone had gone to there own
rooms A.P. plopped down on her bed as soon as her head hit the pillow she fell into a deep sleep.
X X X
"Get back here!! Where are you going!!?" A.P. screamed at the top of her lungs.
"A.P. we can get out here come here leave them!" Cole yelled back.
"No get back help them come back!" her cries were desperate, but it seemed like she was the only one
who could here them. Her heart raced cold sweat beaded up and rolled down her back, soaked her
palms and stung her eyes.
The heavy steel door started to part revealing the group of men they were trying to get away from.
"Cole run!!" But instead Cole turned around revealing an evil grin. He looked at her with possessed
eyes. The men weren't trying to grab or capture him. Cole took a step back standing with them.
A.P.'s jaw dropped he was one of them. He had told them their plans. He had betrayed them.
X X X
A.P.'s eyes flung open she was lying on her side in her bed. She looked around, not moving, trying to
reorient herself. She was safe at the institute. She started to settle down once her heart stopped trying
to beat its way out of her chest and her breaths slowed. But she couldn't clear the thoughts from her
head. Cole's face was in her mind. That night was in her mind. Burrowing her face in her pillow she
cried silent tears.
The next morning Rogue and A.P. woke up to Kitty bursting in there room telling them they only had an
hour to get ready for class. They shared neutral feelings by telling Kitty that they probably wouldn't be
needing a whole hour to get ready. Kitty had other plans.
"You have major work that needs to be done," she looked at A.P. who dismissed this as a joke.
"Ha funny. I'm gonna go get some food," she started to walk to the door and Kitty's jaw dropped in
horror. "You are so not going like that. Are you?"
"Umm...Yeah." Her crazy hair lied in a straggly mess on top of her head and she was clothed in the
usual sweatpants and a tee shirt. She paid no attention to Kitty who complained and whined to her as
she walked out the door not even bothering to put shoes on.
X X X
"What do you mean no explaination?" Scott questioned listening to his wife while she tried to figure out
the problem.
"I mean that A.P. having all those powers makes no sense."
"No sense? She's a mutant." Jean turned to face him. "There is more to it than that."
"And in this case?"
"I think there is something we don't know."
X X X
"I can not believe I agreed to this," A.P. looked at herself the girl staring back seemed like a complete
stranger. "What that was the deal," Rogue said, "I do your hair and pick your clothes and Kitty can't
talk to you all day."
"Do you have any idea how uncomfortable these clothes are?" A.P. started to squirm around pulling
on the clothes trying to them looser and to find a comfortable position. "Well if you are having second
thoughts I could always get Kitty to see what she thinks."
"I look great." Rogue put on a triumphant smile, "All right we gotta run. We're going to be late."
The pair walked into the hall and A.P. became the center of attention. The people that had seen her
before didn't recognize her. But Rogue's attention quickly shifted to Bobby who was walking down
the hall talking to John.
"So what was with you yesterday?" Bobby said. "You save her life, then you want to kill each other,
then your fine with each other?"
"What are you talking about I still can't stand her." Bobby put on a grin, "Oh, I think you can."
"Do I-," John stopped he stared straight ahead as if he was in a dazed state. Bobby turned his head to
see what it was. It was A.P. looking like a totally different person. Her brown boots gave her an extra
inch or two even though it was obvious she couldn't walk in them. She wore dark blue jeans that were
tight on her figure and stopped at her hips. Her shirt was a light blue color and hugged her curves as
her brushed hair hung in brown waves over her shoulders.
Rogue went up to Bobby , "I did it isn't she great."
"Well someone thinks so," they turned to John.
"Pick up your jaw John and go talk to her."
"If you can stand it," Bobby added in laughing at his friend.
X X X
A.P. smiled she had never gotten this much attention in her life. It wasn't the clothes or the hair but
these people liked her. They didn't seem to want anything from her. Some of them were still
sickeningly nice but that was kind of cool. For the first time in years she was smiling, laughing, and
having fun with friends. The more she thought about it the more she wanted to stay. But what was the
most bewildering thing to her was the fact that liking them wasn't even scary.
X X X
All the kids busted out in laughter at Stretch and his theory of how he was going to get Julia Roberts to
marry him. Classes were over and a huge group of kids gathered in one of the rooms in the mansion.
A.P. was sitting on a couch with some other kids she really didn't know.
The laughter died down and they sat in silence for a few seconds catching their breath. "I'm hungry,"
A.P. said breaking the silence. "You're always hungry," Rogue replied with a smile.
"I'm gonna get something to eat," she got up and made her way around the maze of kids. The halls
were almost deserted. She only passed a few people as she wound her way to the kitchen, a room she
always knew how to find.
As she reach for a cold drink from the fridge a vision came. Her eyes widened, it was a hall in the
mansion. Her eyes traveled down the hall until she saw it. The black hair and blue eyes. Her vision
ended at the same time she screamed "NO!!" It can't be. It couldn't be.
She knew that black hair and blue eyes all to well.
X X X
HAHA!! Sorry I had to do that and sorry for the long wait I just feel like I am writing this for nothing
review and tell me if you are reading this tell me if you like it or not
Jean tried to sort out her thoughts as she walked down the halls of the institute. She was confused and
was trying to convince herself of something she knew wasn't true. Maybe my theory is wrong or
maybe I just made a mistake, she thought.
"Jean, Jean," the professor's voice traveled down the hall interrupting her thoughts. "Distracted Jean?"
he asked as he wheeled closer to her in his wheelchair.
"I've been trying to figure something out," she looked down as she spoke, her face was still confused as
if she was trying to figure it out by talking to the professor.
"Do you care to tell me? I would like to help."
"I have this theory and it has never been proven wrong before. It's that every mutant's x-gene is like
their power. The more your power develops the more advanced your gene is. Your's is more
advanced than mine because you are more powerful. Do you understand?"
"I do think I know what you are talking about and I believe you are about to tell me that A.P. has
messed up this theory."
"Yes, I examined her and her x-gene is no different then Rogue's or Kitty's. With all those powers
hers should be more advanced than the average teenage mutants."
"What are you trying to say Jean?"
"There is no explanation for A.P. having that many powers."
X X X
Bobby and Rogue were sitting and talking in Rogue's room when Kitty and there other friend Stretch
walked in.
"Hey what are you guys doing?" Kitty asked in her happy-go-lucky voice.
"Nothing," Rogue replied annoyed that they had walked in on her alone time with Bobby.
Then Stretch, as he always does started with one of his crazy and stupid ideas. "Ya know, I know how
Magneto shields himself from Cerebro you guys want to know?"
"NO!!!" the three said in unison.
"Well if you want to know that bad," when he got one of his ideas he had to tell everyone wether they
wanted to hear it or not,"We all know that he helped build it. Well you guys didn't know that but I did.
I was eavesdropping. But I had to because I had to look out for spies, traitors to the mutant kind," he
looked at his audience and paused as if he expected them to jump up and down in anticipation. "Well
ya see I had to find out how the traitors were getting past our little mind reading professor. But anyway
that isn't the point. The point is that Magneto took what he knew about building Cereboro and
reversed it and what do you have? An anti-cereboro BOOM! You use that and you have a shield."
Stretch stopped talking and put his hands in his pockets while he smiled waiting for everyone's
assessment of his theory.
The three stared at him like he had a foot growing out of his head. After a few moments of silence
Bobby spoke up, "You are so slow."
"I am not! It is exactly what I would what have done if I was Magneto." Bobby didn't have a chance
to reply. The door swung open and A.P. stood there eating a bag of M&Ms.
Her went to the tall, skinny boy in the corner with shaggy blond hair and bright green eyes. "Hi, I'm
Stretch." He extended his arm, all the way across the room, for A.P. to shake.
"We keep him around for comic relief." she turned around to see John leaning on the door behind her.
Stretch smiled proudly before the realization of what John had said sank in.
"Hey!" he replied very delayed. Everyone but him started to laugh.
A few hours later Scott opened the door and found the six kids that were laughing and keeping
everyone in mansion up. With an annoyed tone he told them to get to bed and how disrespectful he
thought they were for keeping others up.
With them all being tired anyway they reluctantly complied. Once everyone had gone to there own
rooms A.P. plopped down on her bed as soon as her head hit the pillow she fell into a deep sleep.
X X X
"Get back here!! Where are you going!!?" A.P. screamed at the top of her lungs.
"A.P. we can get out here come here leave them!" Cole yelled back.
"No get back help them come back!" her cries were desperate, but it seemed like she was the only one
who could here them. Her heart raced cold sweat beaded up and rolled down her back, soaked her
palms and stung her eyes.
The heavy steel door started to part revealing the group of men they were trying to get away from.
"Cole run!!" But instead Cole turned around revealing an evil grin. He looked at her with possessed
eyes. The men weren't trying to grab or capture him. Cole took a step back standing with them.
A.P.'s jaw dropped he was one of them. He had told them their plans. He had betrayed them.
X X X
A.P.'s eyes flung open she was lying on her side in her bed. She looked around, not moving, trying to
reorient herself. She was safe at the institute. She started to settle down once her heart stopped trying
to beat its way out of her chest and her breaths slowed. But she couldn't clear the thoughts from her
head. Cole's face was in her mind. That night was in her mind. Burrowing her face in her pillow she
cried silent tears.
The next morning Rogue and A.P. woke up to Kitty bursting in there room telling them they only had an
hour to get ready for class. They shared neutral feelings by telling Kitty that they probably wouldn't be
needing a whole hour to get ready. Kitty had other plans.
"You have major work that needs to be done," she looked at A.P. who dismissed this as a joke.
"Ha funny. I'm gonna go get some food," she started to walk to the door and Kitty's jaw dropped in
horror. "You are so not going like that. Are you?"
"Umm...Yeah." Her crazy hair lied in a straggly mess on top of her head and she was clothed in the
usual sweatpants and a tee shirt. She paid no attention to Kitty who complained and whined to her as
she walked out the door not even bothering to put shoes on.
X X X
"What do you mean no explaination?" Scott questioned listening to his wife while she tried to figure out
the problem.
"I mean that A.P. having all those powers makes no sense."
"No sense? She's a mutant." Jean turned to face him. "There is more to it than that."
"And in this case?"
"I think there is something we don't know."
X X X
"I can not believe I agreed to this," A.P. looked at herself the girl staring back seemed like a complete
stranger. "What that was the deal," Rogue said, "I do your hair and pick your clothes and Kitty can't
talk to you all day."
"Do you have any idea how uncomfortable these clothes are?" A.P. started to squirm around pulling
on the clothes trying to them looser and to find a comfortable position. "Well if you are having second
thoughts I could always get Kitty to see what she thinks."
"I look great." Rogue put on a triumphant smile, "All right we gotta run. We're going to be late."
The pair walked into the hall and A.P. became the center of attention. The people that had seen her
before didn't recognize her. But Rogue's attention quickly shifted to Bobby who was walking down
the hall talking to John.
"So what was with you yesterday?" Bobby said. "You save her life, then you want to kill each other,
then your fine with each other?"
"What are you talking about I still can't stand her." Bobby put on a grin, "Oh, I think you can."
"Do I-," John stopped he stared straight ahead as if he was in a dazed state. Bobby turned his head to
see what it was. It was A.P. looking like a totally different person. Her brown boots gave her an extra
inch or two even though it was obvious she couldn't walk in them. She wore dark blue jeans that were
tight on her figure and stopped at her hips. Her shirt was a light blue color and hugged her curves as
her brushed hair hung in brown waves over her shoulders.
Rogue went up to Bobby , "I did it isn't she great."
"Well someone thinks so," they turned to John.
"Pick up your jaw John and go talk to her."
"If you can stand it," Bobby added in laughing at his friend.
X X X
A.P. smiled she had never gotten this much attention in her life. It wasn't the clothes or the hair but
these people liked her. They didn't seem to want anything from her. Some of them were still
sickeningly nice but that was kind of cool. For the first time in years she was smiling, laughing, and
having fun with friends. The more she thought about it the more she wanted to stay. But what was the
most bewildering thing to her was the fact that liking them wasn't even scary.
X X X
All the kids busted out in laughter at Stretch and his theory of how he was going to get Julia Roberts to
marry him. Classes were over and a huge group of kids gathered in one of the rooms in the mansion.
A.P. was sitting on a couch with some other kids she really didn't know.
The laughter died down and they sat in silence for a few seconds catching their breath. "I'm hungry,"
A.P. said breaking the silence. "You're always hungry," Rogue replied with a smile.
"I'm gonna get something to eat," she got up and made her way around the maze of kids. The halls
were almost deserted. She only passed a few people as she wound her way to the kitchen, a room she
always knew how to find.
As she reach for a cold drink from the fridge a vision came. Her eyes widened, it was a hall in the
mansion. Her eyes traveled down the hall until she saw it. The black hair and blue eyes. Her vision
ended at the same time she screamed "NO!!" It can't be. It couldn't be.
She knew that black hair and blue eyes all to well.
X X X
HAHA!! Sorry I had to do that and sorry for the long wait I just feel like I am writing this for nothing
review and tell me if you are reading this tell me if you like it or not