Well, here's chapter two. Hope you guys like it, R&R please!

Thanks to: Mystique in Darkness, butterfly-grl4, guess who, alicat333, anc7, NightCrawler28, and anwen for reviewing.

Anwen-thanks for your offer, but I don't usually read stories with OC's so I'd feel kind of weird putting one in my story, if I do change my mind, though, I'll ask you.

Kitty had never been on one of Pietro's 'rides,' so she wasn't really expecting the rush she got when he picked her up, and arrived at the Brotherhood house a second later.

By the time she had stopped being dizzy, Pietro had mad two trips to get all her stuff.

"Wow, Pietro, that was like, totally cool!" Kitty exclaimed when he got back.

"I know," he replied, "but man, what do you have in here, bricks?" He asked, referring to the three bulging bags that he had carried over.

"Shoes, clothes, make-up, you know, the necessities," Kitty replied, easily picking up one of the suitcases. Being with Wolverine for workouts every morning had its benefits.

Wolverine...man, was she homesick already? No, she decided, she just happened to be thinking about him and his daily torture sessions. But never again, she could do what she wanted here.

Lance was waiting at the door for her.

"Hey Kitty," he said, grinning. "How was the ride over here?"

"Great," Kitty replied, and walked past Lance into the house.

"Okay," Lance said, "that's the living room, the kitchen, the bathroom, my room, Todd's room, stay out of there, Pietro's room, stay out of there too, and Blob's room, take my advice, don't go in there, and well, I think that's all."

"Where do I sleep?" Kitty asked him.

Pietro answered, "In Lance's bedroom," causing both Kitty and Lance to blush.

"You can sleep in Mystique's room," Lance said. "She and Magneto both ditched us, so it shouldn't be a problem."

"Are you sure?" Kitty asked. "Tabitha said Mystique was really upset when she found out someone had been in her room, and I, like, don't want her to get mad at me."

"Its fine, Kitty," Lance assured her.

Kitty nodded, and brought her stuff into her new room. She really liked it. It wasn't as good as her room in the mansion, but, she figured, nothing here really would be as great as the mansion.

The room was exactly the same as it was before Tabitha blew it up; Mystique must have bought exactly the same things once she moved back in. The only thing Kitty didn't see that Tabitha described was the chandelier; in its place was an ordinary light. Mystique must not have had enough money to buy a new one.

Money...how did the Brotherhood pay all their bills? Were they going to have enough money for her? She still had some allowance from the institute, but that wouldn't last that long. She really didn't think this out.

She walked downstairs to the living room, where the boys where sitting on a couch that was falling apart, watching a TV that didn't really work.

She sat down next to Lance, and tried to get comfortable, but it was difficult. She was sandwiched between Lance and Fred, because there was no where else to sit, but she couldn't really move or breathe.

"So what made you leave the X-geeks?" Pietro asked.

Kitty hesitated. These were supposed to be her enemies, right? How could she tell everything to them, wouldn't that be betraying her teammates?

'No,' Kitty thought, 'they're not my teammates anymore. The Brotherhood aren't my enemies now, they're my team.'

"I'm sick of them trying to break up my relationship with Lance, that's not what I want in teammates. They were, like, going through my diary and email to see what I've done with Lance, and they keep telling me he's the enemy and I totally don't believe that. So now, I'm against them instead of you," she said.

The Brotherhood was silent. They were criminals, but they would never go through each others personal stuff. That was wrong, even for them, they couldn't imagine touching each others mail or anything like that.

"Well," Todd said, "You're with us now, so you gotta learn the basic code of the Brotherhood."

"We have a code?" Fred asked.

"Yeah," Todd said, "everybody has a code. You know, rules to follow, chores to do, stuff like that."

"Okay, I get it," Pietro said, "like, number one, no going into other peoples rooms unless you're invited. Rule two, keep the house clean as much as possible, if you don't, we think the social workers going to come back. And we don't want to be split up."

Kitty looked around the living room. There were pizza boxes on the floor, graffiti on the walls, and cobwebs hanging from the ceiling. It didn't look like the Brotherhood was following their second rule to her.

"Third rule," Todd continued, "we gotta find a chore that you can do."

"I can cook," Kitty said, to which all the members of the Brotherhood laughed.

"Very funny, Kitty," Lance said, "but can you do something else?"

"I'm serious guys," Kitty said, "after the, 'muffin incident' as Kurt so fondly calls it, I had two choices, either drop home economics and never cook again, or get private lessons from Ororo once a week. I'm now, like, the second best cook in the house, and I'm getting better with practice."

"Really?" Pietro asked. "Last time you cooked for us, we missed a week of school."

"Nope, I'm a good cook now, I'll start dinner up in a few minutes," Kitty said. "Oh, speaking of school, you guys can give me a ride, right?"

"Yeah," Lance said, "when we scared Kelly into letting us back into school, I got my own parking space, so we always take my jeep. We can't get decent jobs without a high school diploma, so I added parking space to my demands when I told him to let us back into school."

"Yeah, and we need jobs, so far, only Pietro and Lance are working, no one will let Fred and me work," Todd said.

"Are you going to have enough money, when Tabitha was here, she like, said that you guys were totally broke," Kitty said, hoping she wouldn't hurt Lance's feelings by bringing up the touchy matter of money. He didn't seem offended, but he didn't look at her when he responded.

"If you do your part in the house, Pietro and I can work more, and we should manage. You're still too young to work, so you can help Todd and Fred in the house," Lance said.

"Okay," Kitty said, "then I'm going to start dinner."

"What are you going to make?" Fred asked.

"Depends on what you guys have," Kitty said as she walked into the kitchen.

"Okay, Pietro and I have work for a few hours, but we'll be back in time for dinner," Lance said.

The cupboards were slightly banged up, but they weren't as bad as they were last time she was here. There was enough to make a good meal, and Kitty got started cooking. She was going to prove to the guys that she should stay with them.

A few hours later, Kitty had the table set, and dinner waiting for Lance and Pietro to get home from work. Fred was, of course, the first one in the dining room, and was about to start eating when Todd walked in.

"What is this stuff, yo?" he asked Kitty.

"It's vegetarian lasagna," Kitty said. "And don't start eating until Lance and Pietro come home."

"But we always eat before them," Fred whined.

"Yeah, and you can't tell me you X-geeks all ate dinner at the same time," Todd said.

"There's a difference, there was like, over twenty people there, and there's only five here. We can wait," Kitty told them.

A few minutes later, Lance and Pietro walked in. Lance worked at a construction company, and smelled like sun, Pietro worked at Burger Bomb, and smelled like burgers, not exactly the best smelling combination in the world.

"Wow, Kitty," Lance said, "this smells great." He and Pietro sat down, and started to eat, when Pietro got a funny look on his face.

"What is this stuff?" He asked.

"Its vegetarian lasagna," Fred told him.

"Vegetarian? As in no meat?" Pietro asked Kitty.

"Yeah," She said, "I don't eat meat."

"You mean every time you cook, we don't get meat?" Todd asked.

"Yep," Kitty said.

"This is going to take some serious getting used to," Pietro said.

"Aw, guys what are you talking about?" asked Lance, his mouth full. "This stuff is good."

"Lance, don't talk with your mouth full," Kitty told him, causing the others to snicker.

"Yeah, you don't want your precious Kitty to get upset, now do you," Pietro said, laughing out loud.

"Very funny," Lance said, "lets just finish dinner, I need to take a shower."

"Oh, that reminds me," Pietro said. He looked at Todd, "it's the first Sunday of the month, you have to take a shower tonight," he told him.

"Aw man," Todd whined, "this stinks yo."

"You, like only take one shower a month?" Kitty asked.

"Yeah," Todd replied, "the first Sunday of every month."

"That's so gross!" she exclaimed. "Any chance of you changing that to once a week instead?"

"I doubt it, yo," Todd said, "don't like taking showers that much, I won't do it more than I have to."

Kitty nodded, trying her best to keep her face impassive, and not let the boys see how disgusted she was. 'I'm in their house, they took me in, and I shouldn't say anything.'

After awhile, they had all finished dinner, and Kitty was doing the dishes. After his shower, Lance came down to see her. He gave her a quick peck on the check and leaned against the sink she was drying dishes over.

"Hey, Kitty," Lance said, "I just wanted you to know, I'm glad you're here. This is going to be cool. You know, no one telling us that we can't see each other, or slamming the door in my face when I come to pick you up for a date..."

"Who did that?" Kitty asked.

"Bobby did, after I left you guys, I went to pick you up, and he opened the door and said something like, 'sorry, we stopped letting scum like you in' and slammed the door in my face," Lance told her.

Kitty sighed, "And I got mad at you because you never showed up. Bobby even comforted me, saying that I shouldn't care that you stood me up, and that you were a jerk anyways." Kitty felt like crying, these were her friends, and Bobby had so easily lied to her face. What other things had they done?

"But it doesn't matter now," Lance said, wrapping his arms around her, sensing that she was going to cry if he said anything more. "We don't have to think about that anymore, okay? From now on, it's just you, me, Fred, Pietro and Todd, and they don't do things like that."

Kitty nodded, thanked Lance and said goodnight, and went to her new room. After changing clothes and brushing her teeth and hair, she got into her bed. It wasn't as comfy as her old one, but it would do.

"Oh," she cried, and sprang up from her bed. She quickly went to the bags she had brought, and frantically searched through them. She pulled out her stuffed dragon. "Ah, Lockheed, how could I forget about you?" she asked the toy.

She climbed into bed. "Goodnight Rogue..." she started, but stopped mid-sentence. She wasn't sharing a room with Rogue anymore, but it was such a habit of saying goodnight to her every night, Kitty said it.

'Great,' she thought to herself, 'now I'm going to be homesick, and not be able to sleep.' But thinking back to what she had heard all day, she decided that it wasn't being away from home that made her sick, it was the fact that she had listened to them, had believed every word that they said for so long that made her ill.

'I'm really home now,' she decided.

Back at the Mansion

Rogue didn't know what to do when she first read Kitty's goodbye note, she wanted to respect her decision, but she also didn't think Kitty could really run away, or if she was just hiding somewhere. She didn't want to get the whole mansion searching for her, only to find out that she was just out on a date or something.

But a date didn't usually require Kitty needing to take all her clothes and makeup. And finding even under her bed cleaned out completely, Rogue decided to tell the Professor what was going on.

The Professor was worried, but after a quick scan to see where she was, he calmed down a bit.

"It's okay," he told the X-men and new recruits who had gathered in the study to see what was going on, "Kitty's with the Brotherhood."

"And that's okay?" Scott asked. "Alvers kidnapped her; I didn't think he would stoop that low."

Jean was trying to read Kitty's mind. "She wasn't kidnapped, Scott," she said. "She asked Lance if she could stay over there."

"But why?" Kurt asked. "I meant it as a joke when I kissed her this morning, I didn't want her to run away." Logan gave Kurt a funny look when he said that he kissed Kitty, but Kurt ignored him.

"She was mad about that," Jean said, "but she's mad at us all really. Wow," she said, as she continued to read Kitty's mind, "She cusses worse than Logan. You should here what she's saying."

"What is she saying?" Jubilee asked.

Jean's face fell, "that... she can't believe what lousy friends we were, and that...that she won't ever talk to any of us again." Jean was starting to regret agreeing with Scott to go through her personal things.

"That's going to be hard," Kurt said, trying to make the best of the situation, "we're partners in science class, she has to talk to me. Maybe I can talk her into coming back."

"Pietro's in your class too," Jean said, "and starting tomorrow, she's switching partners."

"Why is she doing this?" Scott asked.

"Because, somebody told her we were reading her diary and her email," Jean said, glaring at the new recruits.

"You were reading her email?" Logan asked, shocked.

"We were trying to keep her safe from Lance," Scott said, sheepishly.

"If you were doing that to me, I would have left to," Logan said, and walked out of the room.

Scott ignored him "We have to go get her," he said.

"No, we don't Scott," the Professor said. "Kitty has every right to live where she wants. If she doesn't think her privacy is being respected, then she can live with the Brotherhood until she feels it's time to come back home."

"What about her parents, who think she's safe with us. She's living with the guy who tried to kill them. Who knows what they could be doing to her right now!" Scott protested. "An unarmed, little girl asleep in her bed, miles away from the only people who can save her..."

"Uh, Shades?" Tabitha interrupted his rant, "I lived there for a while too, remember? And the guys didn't do anything bad to me."

"They kicked you out," Bobby pointed out.

"No, Mystique did," Tabitha said. "And, here's a little tip, Scott," she said as she walked out, "you go in there, trying to save her and all, and she's going to hate you even more."

"She's right," Kurt said, "we'll just have to try to get her to come back tomorrow at school."

"Fine," Scott said, "but if Alvers does anything to her, I'm bringing her back, even if I have to drag her back screaming," he stormed out of the room.

"Well boys and girls," Rogue said sarcastically, "tomorrow's going to be interesting, isn't it?"

The other's nodded, not wanting to say anything. They were upset that Kitty had left, and that it was because of them that she did.

Hmm...something about this story seems familiar. Does anyone know if this story's already been done? Well, with over 8,860 stories, it's hard to find a new storyline, but still... Anyways, it's poll time. In order to get the story straight from the beginning, I need your guys opinion on these matters:

1. Should Kitty stay with the Brotherhood?

2. Should Magneto and Mystique come back?

Yeah, that's all, but I'm asking for your opinions because I don't know which way to go. Thanks,

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