Waking up in the medical lab was a rare occurance for the man called Wolverine. With his healing factor he healed almost immediatly, a need for a doctor was nearly never necessary. So when Logan woke up to the smell of antibiotics and the constant beeping of some machine he was, needless to say, surprised. Opening his eyes slowly he took a look around the familiar white room. Several needles were sticking out of his arms, and an IV was next to the bed. His eyes were drawn however to the blue fuzzy teddy bear like doctor sitting in a chair at a desk.

"Hey, McCoy! What in flamin' hell am I doin' here?" The furry man turned to the Canadian with amusement clearly written upon his face.

"Miss Lee gave you quite a bit of a blast in the kitchen, sent you through three walls." Hank simply stated. The doctor could see Logan visibly stiffen. His muscles were tight and his posture was stiff. "Not to worry, you shall survive and the house can be repaired." When he said this the hairy man in the medical bed relaxed.

"Jubes did this ta me?" Hank sat in his chair in a lounged position, he had a hand propped under his chin and his brows were drawn together.

"You mean to tell me that you do not remember this morning's activities?"

"Not a thing." The fuzzy doctor puzzled over this new factor in this equation.

"Do you remember what happened before Miss Lee hit to you with her extravagant display of fireworks?" Logan sat silently for a few minutes, recalling what happened.

"I think I was teasin' her or somethin' but nothin' too bad. Surely nothin' ta get her all worked up enough ta hit me with that kinda blast." Hank stood up and began to pace the room, the longer blue fur on top of his head swaying with his motions.

"Hmmm, something must be wrong for her to reacte like this, I will have a conversation with Miss Lee and then I shall return. But for now you must rest, until I'm completely sure you are healed, you will stay in that bed." With a flash of a white lab coat Hank was out of the room leaving Logan to ponder the situation.

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"Ah said trip tha robot not smash it ta pieces!" Rogue's irritated voice came blasting through the intercom to bounce around in Jubilee's head. "Alraht alraht, that's enough." The black haired asian girl stood stiffly as the simulation of a sentinel attack faded away to be replaced by silver walls. She did not turn when the southern woman entered the danger room, just stood there and stared at her feet. "What's goin' on with ya gal?" Jubilee didn't answer just continued to stare at her shoes. "Jubes." Rogue slipped a finger under her chin and lifted her head up so she could see into her eyes. The auburn haired woman's throat tightened as she saw a single tear drift down the young girls cheek. "Oh my."

Jubilee cried relentlessly into Rogue's arms, careful to not touch any bare skin. She cried until her tears would no longer come. Rogue lifted her tear stained face up again. "What's wrong Jubilee? Why are ya cryin'?"

"I hurt Wolvie, I didn't mean to, I didn't think I'd hurt him that bad, I just..." Jubilee sniffled and bit her lower lip.

"Now now Jubes, it's not ya fault that ya powers are actin' up. These things happen, ya just gotta take it in stride. 'Sides, I'm sure Logan is sittin' down in that lab jus' waitin' for ya ta go down there and make it all good again." Jubilee sure hoped that Rogue's whispered reassurances were correct, and that Wolverine was down there, ready and forgiving. "Ah just gotta know one thang sugah, what's botherin' ya?"

"It's just all the tension between Taris and Jin. They so don't get along, I know Jin's interested in me, but I don't know if maybe I'm interpreting his attention the wrong way. I mean, he could just want to be a friend, but I don't know, Taris just does not like him at all." With a sigh Jubilee turned to the southern belle. "I just hope it dosn't get physical."

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Sweat dripped down Taris' face as he pulled the rake through the multiple colored leaves that were scattered across the Xavier estate. Scooping them up into a large pile he went into the garage and grabbed a black bag to put them in. The blonde boy closed his eyes and focused on the leaves, levitating them up telekinetically he opened up the black bag and dropped them in. Tying the bag up he dropped it into the garbage can and placed the rake back onto the shelf where it hung next to the other garden tools.

"You missed a spot." The musical voice of Jin Tago screeched it's way across his ears and made the hair on the back of his neck stand up on end. Taris turned his blue eyes to the white eyed boy.

"Really? Where?" He fought to keep the anger out of his voice, this boy riled him up easily with his constant sarcastic tone, and him being a rival for Jubilee's attention didn't make it any easier to restrain himself from cutting him into little pieces. He pushed those thoughts away as his imagination started acting up.

"Over there by that big oak tree." Jin pointed to the tree and rolled his eyes like it was obvious. Taris looked over at the far tree and saw three single leaves. He started over the tree, aware of the skinny boy's presence behind him he did not look back but kept a mental tab on him. He leaned down and picked the leaves up, one was brown and sickly colored, autumn took it's toll on the leaf, the second one was red and the color looked like it was begining to fade, but the last one, it was green and healthy seemingly unaffected by the changing seasons. The broad shouldered boy didn't turn as Jin stepped up beside him.

"You see the green leaf? Think of it as me, young healthy vital. The red leaf is Jubilee, young but fading, boredom is taking it's toll on her. And the third leaf? Not quite so hard to figure out, the brown leaf is you. Boring, ugly, and pathetic, definately not worth such a beautiful girl like Jubilee." Taris' anger began to increase to dangerous levels at Jin's demonstration. He had to clench his jaw so as to not yell at the boy. "You're a bad influence on her, invading her life and making her beauty fade into nothing. But I, I shall save her from you, she will not become another withering leaf like you." Anger rose up and surrounded Taris' being, unconsciously he began to change. His white tiger was taking control of the situation.

Stupid boy, his feral hissed. he thinks he can have our mate, we can't let him. He's not worthy. Taris would recall later this momment as his most memorable time. Black claws shot out of his finger tips, his teeth sharp and ready, a tail grew from his rear, and his knees and arms switched around. He dropped to the ground onto his paws, black and white stripes slithered across his body and fur grew intensely covering his body. His blue eyes turned into slits. He was the white tiger, and the white tiger was him.

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Logan sat on the medical bed in his boredom. He was seriously considering leaving the lab and just telling McCoy he was fine later. As he started to pull the needles out of his arms the sound of approaching footsteps made him halt his motions. When the door opened his nose was assaulted by Jubilee's scent. Her strawberry scented shampoo was a nice contrast to the immaculate scent of the lab.

"Wolvie?" Her voice was hesitant, he could smell her worry, it was thick in the air.

"Hey Jubes." He gave her a smile that melted her worry and fear. Smiling back she jumped into his arms and gave him a hug.

"I'm so sorry Wolvie, I just meant it to be a little blast, just a tiny one, only enough to irritate you like always, I don't know what happened it just exploded and I.. I.. I'm so sorry!" Jubilee squeezed him so hard in her hug that he felt like his admantium laced bones would snap. Freeing his arms from her hug he wrapped them around her and kissed her forhead.

"Hey, s'all right kid, I'm fine see? No harm done." She sniffled and looked up at him.

"But you went through three walls Wolvie!" Logan smiled at her and chuckled.

"I've been through so much more than that, and I still come back, so what makes ya think three measly walls are gonna stop me?" Jubilee grinned so broad he swore it could've split her face in two pieces. Pulling his face close she kissed him on the cheek and hugged him tightly to her.

"I love you Wolvie, don't you dare ever not come back." Logan tilted her face up and looked into her brown eyes with his own blue ones.

"I'll always come back for ya Jubes, nothin' on this earth or in this galaxy could keep me away from ya."

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Bobby Drake was an ordinary boy with extraordinary powers. He didn't look any different from the surrounding populace, but he was not normal, that was for sure. Freezing the water in the air, or the water in a being was a specialty of his that could be done with a single thought. Growing up in the X-Men's care certainly taught him to expect the unexpected and treat the abnormalities like normalitites. So when he saw Jin Tago fighting a white tiger on the lawn, he was not surprised at the fact it was happening, just shocked it didn't happen sooner.

He was not blind, he could see the attraction between Jin and Jubilee, the green haired, skinny boy was obviously infatuated, and it did not sit well with Jubilee's boyfriend Taris. It was a deadly mix those three, Jubilee the spunky firecracker could whip up a better fireworks display then the US captial could. And Taris, the young feral, he could turn into a white tiger with a thought, deadly claws and sharp teeth would definately leave a mark. Last but not least, Jin. The cocky self centered boy could steal your soul with a touch, and charm your heart with a single look in his eyes if you were a girl. Taris and Jin fighting would be an event of the year, he couldn't wait.

Dashing out into the yard he watched as Taris dug his claws into Jin's arm, but pulled away quickly, trying to avoid the boy's powers. Jin let out a yelp at the sharp pain, but continued to reach for the tiger. Slowly people began to gather in a crowd surrounding the two boys, watching the fight with anticipation of who would win and what would be the outcome. A collective gasp went through the crowd as Jin grabbed Taris' by the ear and started to drain his energy. Deciding now was a good time to intervene, Bobby sent a snowball the size of a soccer ball flying into Jin's head. The green haired boy let go of Taris in shock, he staggered back and bumped into the tree. Bobby ran over to Taris as he fell down limply in his tiger form, slowly starting to morph back into his human state unconsciously.

Lifting a hand up towards Jin, Bobby iced him to the tree so he could not run away. Turning back to Taris he put a couple fingers to his neck, checking his pulse. Feeling it he let out a held breath in relief. The brown haired boy turned towards the crowd and searched out for a familiar face, seeing Kitty hiding behind a person he called out her name.

"Kitty! Go get Hank!" The brown haired girl nodded and ran off in search of Doctor Henry McCoy. Bobby, hoping he had enough muscle, attempted to lift Taris onto his shoulder so he could get him to the medical lab, only to tip over fall from the boys imense weight. Calling for several of the boys to help him, they gathered together and lifted the boy as one. Carrying Taris to the lab was a tricky situation, several of the boys tripped over rugs and stairs, bumping into chairs and other objects while trying to get there. Thankfully, Collossus saw their attempts on the way there and lifted Taris out of their arms, easily carrying the boy the rest of the way.

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Logan and Jubilee were deep in conversation when Collossus burst through the door with Taris in his arms. Hank came in only momments after, several other people including Bobby and Kitty were trailing after, making sure Taris was okay. Hank turned the to people in the room.

"I know you all want to know if Taris is okay, but to work on him I'm going to need everyone to leave, immediately. You too Logan and Jubilee." They nodded and left the room, questions were shot at them from everyone, but they stayed silent. Jubilee sat next to Logan on the bench outside the medical lab, dread was shooting through her body at dangerous levels, she could only hope that Taris would be okay. For many hours they would sit together hoping and praying that Hank could save the boy who Jubilee had given her heart to.

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(A/N) Hope yall liked the chapter, it is much longer I'm so proud of myself! Plz, read and review!