'This is either madness…or complete brilliance.'

'It's remarkable how often those two coincide.'

-Will Turner & Jack Sparrow POTC

Rogue grumbled about preppy cheerleaders and hyperactive valley girls as she all but ran from Jean's car. To Rogue, school was a pain that lasted on average about eight hours, having to spend any extra time with people when they were so constantly happy was too long a tax on her control not to strangle them. It was as if someone had let loose on the laughing gas while she was in the bathroom or something. Their behavior was enough to make one sick really. Considering there were only about four people that were actually sane that attended her school it was nerve wracking enough without having to live a bunch of nutters.

 Sighing to herself as she reached her bedroom only to be knocked over by one of the new recruits, Julie or something of the nature. It was the one that shot firecrackers or was is fireflies? Oddly enough she seemed more upset at being slowed down then bumping into Rogue, she only was murmuring 'oh shit I am so late. Logan's gonna grill my ass' as she attempted to hurry the elevator along by pushing the button several times in a row.

It was hard to keep them straight; the professor had different people coming through all the time, so often that he seemed to have forgotten that they never properly introduced. It was just, 'this is Berserker he's new to the team please treat him nicely'. Powers were what was forefront on his mind it seemed. Although he kept saying, they were to have a day every week so they could all mix and mingle; considering that the 'new recruits' weren't really all that new any more it seemed superfluous.

Jamie Maddox and Bobby Drake were some newer recruits Rogue had contact personally. They had been very flamboyant cases, even considering that she'd been exposed to some very flashy situations during her stay with Xavier. Bearing in mind that two out of three people that came here had otherworldly powers it was bound to take place, especially since most mutants had no control over their gifts.

 Jamie had been herded into the mansion with several of his 'twins', running up and down the stairs practically graying Logan's hair with each step. Rogue had walked into her room only to find several 'matching' little boys going through Kitty's laptop diary. Then Jean had been screaming about how boys should never go through girl's rooms, let alone her underwear drawl. Evan had spent six hours trying to get the super fast drying sticky glue out of his hair. Storm's roses had been trampled along with the library being rearranged by the last word in the book. Kurt had woken to find his tail tied to his bedpost, as he found out when he ported to the kitchen table. The whole building had been left in chaos for two days before any attempts to manage the state of affairs was successful.

Bobby on the other hand had a bit more…finesse. Iceman brought the temperature around him below subzero. Relatively like King Midas, his touch brought about a great beauty but also like the former it was a quite the extreme. Normally, as to not to arise a shock, the professor had all the new students brought in as silent as possible. Unfortunately, or rather actually fortunately Rogue had been chasing Kurt while Bobby Drake was moving in. It seemed that the 'fuzzy elf' had stolen Rogue's newest vampire novel and as she careened down the stairs at a break neck pace she slipped on the ice capped stairs and almost broke her neck. Only Iceman's quick reaction of catching her save Rogue from sudden embarrassment, that was all it took to get Bobby's mind off his powers and allowing him to take control of his surrounding water molecules.

 Both occurrences had stuck her as odd and captivated her attention from there on out. Soon she became close friends of each young lad. Rogue had yet to leave her broody behavior though, she remains the enigma of the X-Men.

Kitty grinned as she leaned up against Lance. As he pulled into the driveway to the Brotherhood place, as he turned off the engine he leapt out of his side of the car and ran around to open Kitty's for her. She blushed and took his proffered hand. He opened the door to the house and waited for her to walk through. Kitty all but squealed until she was pushed aside by a stampeding Todd and Freddy. Instead of hitting the ground she merely phased past it and came back up.

"Like were they raised in a barn or what?"

"Aw don't be upset Pretty Kitty, they're just happy to be free from school."

"Yea I like guess you're right. So what are you doing over spring-"

Kitty screamed as a breeze blew past them, enshrouding them in a layer of dirt.

"PIETRO!" Lance yelled. Having lived in the brotherhood house he was use to the other boy's antics. Living there did not make you inept to his tricks, in fact you were more often than not the object of Quicksilver's jokes. The speedster didn't even give him a second glance, in fact he seemed more honed in on the girl next to him instead. Now Pietro was normally more likely to pay attention to the fairer sex than anything else on earth, excluding himself. The fact that shocked Lance was that he wasn't trying to flirt with Kitty, but seemed to be in deep thought.

"Youliveinthemansionsoyoushuoldknowthesleepingarrangementsright?

Seeingasthefemalesectionissmalleritwouldgivewaytologicproovingthatgirlsdoubleup.

PlusseeingasyouandRoguearetheoldestrecruitsthenyouwouldbunktogether?

SoyouwouldknowwhatIneedtoknow,right?OkPrydewhatkindaguydoyouthinkRogueisinto?"

The other two just stared at him like he was from another planet. It had been an outgoing joke amongst Evan and Kurt but now Kitty wasn't so sure they weren't right in their story. Lance, more use to Pietro's speed talk, was shocked that he would have that much to say to anyone that wasn't insulting, especially since it was an X-geek. Instead of answering the questioning looks he plowed on ahead.

"Sowell?Comeonetimeismoneyandmoneyistime!"

Finally some of what he said soaked through Kitty's thick head. After all she hung out with a crowd that was known for its constant chattering. Her eyes brightened to an electric blue as she realization slammed into her. Squealing with delight she clapped her hands and grinned.

"Ahh it's like totally so sweeeet!" she cooed, pinching Pietro's cheek.

Pietro frowned, rubbing his cheek and awaiting her answer. He was disappointed.

"Too bad you'll like never have any chance."

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Icy: That's all for now! I'm REALLY sorry this took so long to get out but I have to share the computer so I'm often kicked off.

Not to mention my muses left me! But I have already started chapter three so no long breaks in between updates I swear!


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