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A/N: Thanks to everyone who reviewed! Keep it up please. Hehe. Now, here's the latest chapter. I hope you like it and sorry it took a little longer then I hoped. Enjoy and remember to review.


Rogue stared at Kitty for a moment. That's all she really could do. All she wanted to do in being honest with herself was deny the whole thing. There was no way that Pietro wasn't Pietro. She had touched him. She'd wanted to kiss him. And with her powers she'd know if it had been Mystique.

"Rogue. Do you want me to like, stay here? I can go call Lance to come and get us and we can go look for Pietro." Kitty said softly. Rogue turned towards Kitty again, she had been looking down and hadn't even realized it.

"I can touch him." Kitty raised a brow and looked towards Rogue a moment. She reached out to touch her shoulder but Rogue shifted away, shaking her head.

"Rogue, what are you talking about?"

"I don't understand how I could touch him still. He touched me. If it had been Mystique I would've known."

"Rogue, your powers have been on the way out when it came to Pietro. How could you have known?"

"No. Kitty, look." Rogue said, taking off her glove she reached out and touched Kitty for a brief second and both immediately felt the pull. When she pulled back she shuddered. "See? It's only with Pietro that my powers aren't affecting. They like, affect everyone else."

"So like you're saying that if it really had been Mystique then you would've yanked her powers?" Rogue nodded but Kitty frowned. "Then I'm like totally not getting this. I mean, if it wasn't Mystique." Rogue shook her head and sighed.

"I don't know." She said softly.


Mystique smirked as she watched carefully through the window. It was easy. That's all anyone could really say about it. It was hard not to brag about it. Not to break into that puny room that Xavier tried to call safe for his little mutant brats and show that daughter of hers what dear Moms powers had really become. Or just what Moms sheer brilliance had accomplished. She grinned slowly. Soon her and Magneto would have all the little brats and they'd know who was the more powerful mutant. Honestly, that's all it was going to take and they'd be side by side proving dominance over the pathetic humans.

"Poor little Rogue. So simple minded it's really bothering you." Mystique laughed a little. How hard could it really be to figure out what someone so close to you was capable of? Rogue had been a part of the Brotherhood, which is why Magneto ensured Mystique no harm, would come to her adopted daughter. And that's all Mystique cared about. Her attention shifted suddenly as she heard the familiar sound of a jeep.

A sneer appeared on her face.

Once again the idiotic blonde was hanging around her son. Kurt and Tabitha. It was sickening to Mystique that Kurt would actually find the booming personality of Tabitha so intriguing. She tilted her head as she watched the two of them. A small hug and a kiss. She rolled her eyes and quickly, with the beat of her wings she took off, disappearing to the rest of the world.


"Thanks for the pep talk Tab." Kurt said softly as he held her hand and they walked towards the Institute. He looked down as he remembered the conversation they had earlier. He had actually called Pietro a freak and in the process had hurt Tabitha. He didn't much care for the first one but Tabitha, she meant a lot to him.

"Hey, you know me Blue. Always willin' to help someone out. 'Sides you're kinda cute." She laughed a little and rested her head on his shoulder a moment. Glancing around she grinned slowly as she pulled him close to her and dragged him around the back of the house where she wrapped her arms around him. "Alright Blue, disguise off." Kurt raised a brow.

"What do you mean?"

Sighing, Tabitha rolled her eyes and letting go of one hand around his neck, she pulled his arm up. Looking at his watch she looked between it and Kurt before turning the switch off on it. He looked down when his human-guise disappeared and with his blue three-fingered hands wrapped around her, his blue furry face stared back at her. He still wasn't exactly comfortable around her looking like that.

"Hey. Kurt." She said softly, lifting his chin up. It didn't bother Tabitha at all. In fact, he looked even cuter in her opinion. "I really wish you could learn to understand that I like you better like this."

"How can you like something that could be a scrub brush for your shoes?" Tabitha giggled a little and shook her head as she looked up at him.

"First off, I don't usually use anything on my shoes, and second of all. You're too soft and cuddly." She leaned closer, brushing her cheek against his as she hugged him tightly. "I like you for you Kurt. Not what you show everyone else."

"Yeah, well, tons of people say that but they don't think I see the cringes they make when I reach out and touch them."

"You know, some people just have to get used to it at first. I mean, you can't expect all the newbies to really just accept it. It's hard. But they will, because you won't treat them any differently because of their powers."

"I guess so." Tabitha sighed. She couldn't do much more than to try and prove to Kurt that people would accept him for him but it'd been so hard for him. She couldn't' even imagine what it must've been like. All she knew was that it was hard growing up as a 'mutant', and falling for someone was even more rare. That thought made her smile a bit. She had fallen for someone alright.

And his name was Kurt.


Lance paced back and forth at the Brotherhood home. He felt something was wrong because he hadn't heard from anyone. It was seriously bugging him because when he looked for Toad earlier, he hadn't been there. And then Fred, he didn't know where the big guy was but from the looks of the fridge, he hadn't been home since after school. Leaning against the wall he hit the back of his head against it before noticing the front door knob turning. He got ready in case it was a sneak attack, the ground moving just slightly.

"So everything went alright? That professor didn't hurt you or nothin' right? Everythin's all right?" Toad asked as he walked in.

"Yeah Todd, everything's fine. It's really been helping me to see Professor Xavie-, Lance." Wanda said softly as she walked in behind Todd. She tilted her head slightly as Lance finally let go, she knew something was wrong the minute she looked at his face. "Lance what is it?"

"Wanda. You've been seeing Professor Xavier?" Lance hissed, Wanda raised a brow and crossed her arms as she stared at him.

"I don't really think it's any of your business what I do. But yes, I have been. He's been helping me trying to regain my memory from when my father took them away. Todd's been going with me." Lance grabbed Todd by the shirt and Todd couldn't help but let out a quick scream as he was greeted with Lance's face in his.

"You've been taking her?" He growled.

"Yeah man." Todd tried breathing a bit as he tried pushing Lance's hands off of his shirt, "She asked me to. I figured it'd be better for one of us to go with her. She's stayin' with us yo. No need to freak out."

"Where were you two at?" Lance demanded. Wanda's brow furrowed and she glared towards Lance as she extended her hand.

"Let go of him or so help me Lance." Looking towards Wanda and knowing she was serious, Lance dropped Todd, making the usually agile on his feet teenager fall on his ass.

"Fine." Lance growled as Todd slowly stood up.

"Damn Lance. What's wrong yo?"

"Yeah, Lance, what exactly is your problem?" Wanda asked, hand still extended. Lance rolled his eyes and shoved his fingers through his hair. Slowly, he began moving back and forth as he sighed.

"Pietro's missing and I haven't seen Blob since yesterday." Wanda's eyes narrowed.

"What do you mean Pietro's missing?"

"I mean what I said. Pietro is missing. Has been for a few days now after he and Rogue got into it and he called her things. Like a whore. And Fred, he caught a ride with me yesterday morning for school and I haven't seen him since." Wanda looked down and her jaw locked.

"It's Magneto." Lance and Todd turned to her, Lance had a brow raised.

"How do you know?"

"Because. He's been planning for something that involved Pietro and I. When he couldn't get me, he probably decided to go after him." She sighed, "Rogue. You said they fought Lance?"

"Uh, yeah, she's been crying about it since three days ago when he said that shit to her, damn asshole." Wanda shook her head.

"That can't be."

"Why is that Wanda?" Lance asked, crossing his arms.

"Because Pietro was with me. We had planned on a brother and sister thing. We went over to the lake." Lance sighed and rolled his eyes.

"They touched Wanda. It had to be him! Pietro's the only one Rogue can actually touch now. Don't ask me how but Kitty and I found out, again, don't ask me how!"

"No, it can't be. I swear he was with me." Wanda replied. Lance groaned and sat down on the stairs.

"How Wanda? How could Pietro be with you and with Rogue, at the same time, mind you and he still be able to touch her?" Wanda sighed.

"I don't know. Maybe it was Mystique. We all know she's not dead and if Magneto has anything to do with it, she would too."

"But how could Mystique touch Rogue sugarmuffin?" Todd cut in. Wanda frowned and sighed a bit as she looked down, biting her lip.

"I don't know. Maybe it was something, she could've done something." Wanda said, her hand down she started moving back and forth.

"Again, how Wanda? How could Mystique pull that off?"

"Because she was wearing something that protected her skin."

Wanda, Todd and Lance's heads shot up as they looked towards the door. Neither noticed that the door had opened. All three stared in disbelief at the person who stood in the doorway.

"Goggleboy?"