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Loneraven- I'm glad you liked it; yeah the hair dye comment just had to go there, I started all the argument with that line in mind, more couple goodness to come, hope you enjoy it and review.

Flames101- Wow, you really liked that chapter, I loved your review , the Toad and Wanda part just came out naturally. The Kitty explanation is actually mine, I had a conversation like that with my best friend only it wasn't a math class it was Portuguese which is a lot worst believe me. I loved that you loved the Lance line, its one of my favorites too. More couple goodness in this chapter read and review please.

Tigerlilly1234- I'm happy you liked it so far. Kevin is an interesting character and I'm glad that that was your perspective of him. Read and enjoy.

Untouchable hexing witch- No problem about the late review, better late than never . Wow... writing a fic with you would be great; I love your fics. I'm glad that you liked the chapter and I can't wait for more of your great fics. Lots of love.

Well...kids that was it! Hope you like this chapter too. And I would like to dedicate this chapter to my friend Loneraven for helping me write it she is a great gal.

"Talking"

'Thinking'

Chapter 6 – Thoughts and actions

---At the Acolytes Base---

The three individuals had finally arrived at the base. During the entire ride "home" X-23 had glared at John from the back seat, John spent the entire ride looking out the window and Remy had turned on the radio to dodge the questions asked by X-23 about his relationship with Rogue. As they finally arrived at the base they each headed towards their own rooms.

"What happened?" Piotr asked worriedly, as his teammates passed by him silently.

---Gambit's Room---

Remy walked into his room and closed the door behind him. The room he occupied had white walls and ceiling, all the furniture in the room was done in black wood- a dresser, a closet, two bed tables and between them a king size bed, that had black silk sheets, a black blanket, and a black comforter- a body length mirror and from the room's balcony you had a beautiful view of the sunrise. But now the only thing that caught the eye was a lighthouse far away.

He walked towards his stereo and popped in one of his jazz cds; he slightly swayed to the music as he selected something to wear. He decided for a simple pair of black silk pants, black cotton shirt and black cotton boxers with the words Sex God in the middle written in red. He picked up his selected clothes and headed towards his bathroom.

As he entered his shower and turned on the warm water his thoughts went to the beautiful Rogue. As he remembered what that light, brief kiss that he had given her earlier felt like he touched his lips in the hope that more of them would happen.

No matter how hard he tried to deny it, he loved Rogue, loved her desperately and that scared him because it showed when he looked at her, when he talked to her, even when he thought about her; it made him transparent and vulnerable, something that he tried badly to avoid.

The last thing he wanted was a serious commitment, after all, the reason he was on Magneto's team was because his father wanted him to get married to Belladonna...just the thought of her made him have chills all over his body. He despised her; she was absolutely obsessed with him. Her name said it all, it described her perfectly, Belladonna, Italian for beautiful lady and also the name of a certain type of herb that was poisonous. She was both to him, she was beautiful-blond, blue eyes and had a good body, but her beauty was...common, he preferred something different with a certain edge to it- and poisonous because he remembered times when she would treat other girls by killing them for only looking at him. And if he said that he wanted out of that arrangement of theirs, she would cry and run to daddy who of course would go complain to his father, who would promptly have a talk with him and slowly explain that he HAD to marry her or else people would die. He wouldn't...couldn't live like that, "at gun point" and even though he knew that Rogue wasn't like Belladonna, it still frightened him to have a serious relationship. But he knew that sooner or later it would happen, he would say the words that he knew she wanted to hear.

---At That Time In X-23's Room---

X-23 stormed into her room, and pacing back and forth she kept talking out loud to herself, upset.

"Why? Why did he stop me? I would have loved to fight that girl. She is one of the most powerful mutants alive! Is it such a crime to want to check if I could take her? But no… he had to step in and ruin it for me. And I was having such a good time. I bet those X people are still talking about me. Ice pick is probably going to have nightmares about me."

That last part brought a smile to her lips, but it soon vanished as she thought about the whole incident.

'Pietro tried to defend me. Why? I don't understand!' she thought wildly. 'Remy told me that he would do just about anything to have a girl and then he would just get rid of her. Why would he do something like that? Why bother?

'He is cute, though! What! I didn't just think that! He is messing with my mind.'

---At That Moment in John's Room---

John walked into his room and went straight to bed. His room was much like his companions; he too, had a king size bed between two bedside tables, a dresser, a closet and a private bathroom. Except for a few differences, his walls were orange and his ceiling red, there were a few cool dragon drawings in black on both the walls and the ceiling; his furniture was of regular wood that John made the point of keeping clean and shiny. There was also incense burning, almost all the time. All over, on the floor, on the dresser and on the bedside table candles of all shapes, colours and states of burning.

He couldn't stop thinking about her; it was getting to the point where he would actually have dreams about her every night. Everything would remind him of her but the question remained, how to tell her that he loved her? How to make her love him back?

"This love crap is complicated!" John yelled, frustrated, as he buried his head in his pillow. "What should I do? Why can't it be like in my books? Why can't I just tell her and then she says it back to me?"

'She probably hates me. But what did I expect? I am one of her father's lackeys. No John, stop feeling sorry for yourself! You will get her...eventually...oh God I'm going to get killed, if not by her, by her father or her brother. Then why am I so fricking happy about it? Because I got to know her and she now knows me,' John thought as he slowly fell asleep.

"Wanda...you smell...like...cinnamon...pretty witch." These were the words that came out of his mouth as he once again dreamed of her.

---A Few hours later in Lance's Jeep---

It had been a tough day for all the members of the brotherhood, first there were the classes that they shared with the X-men, then there was the fight with both the X-men and the Acolytes, then there was the new girl they had with them, then they had to ture up with the looks from all the goody two shoes.

"That was weird! Why were they there? Why would Magneto send them?" Lance wondered out loud, as he drove his jeep towards the brotherhood's boarding house.

"I don't think he sent them," Pietro said quietly from the back seat.

He had remained silent all day; he didn't seem to be there at all. The girls that were trying to go out with him got nothing but short, negative responses like, "Leave me alone," and "Go away." The teachers didn't get much more from him either, except that he actually was quiet for a change.

'Why did I try to defend her? I mean I know she is a nice piece of ass and everything but that was uncalled for. And Gambit? What was he thinking when he decided to take her there? I mean she is a girl, she could have gotten hurt! What the hell is wrong with me? Why do I care about what happens to that...that... hell I don't even know her name why do I care? Why can't I take my mind of her? This is driving me insane!' Pietro thought, thoroughly confused.

"And what was all that about with Pyro?" Toad asked as he stood up in the back. "That guy is insane with his stupid addiction to fire. If it wasn't for him we would have creamed the X-geeks."

Wanda's ears shot up at the sound of his name, Pyro; he had helped her, even though she really didn't need it and he had also protected her from his own teammates. That meant something, didn't it? Yeah, it meant that he cared about her; but why, why would he care? She barely even knew him and yet she found herself zoning out, on more than one occasion, having her mind completely occupied by him. She thought of him all the time; at first she thought that it was because he worked for her father but now...she wasn't so sure.

"And isn't he ugly! I bet the only girlfriends that he can get are the ones he makes out of fire." At this point Tabitha, who was seating in the back seat right behind Lance, noticed that Wanda's brow was twitching at every word that was being uttered by Toad. "But then again that's because he can't get a perfect girlfriend like mine," Toad continued as he leaned against Wanda's shoulder.

'Now you done it, stupid,' Tabitha thought.

Wanda's hands started glowing blue; she turned to the back and hexed him 20 meters away from the jeep. Lance slammed the brakes as everyone turned to see if Toad was still alive, everyone except Wanda that is.

"Let's go! He's fine. He'll able to walk home," Wanda assured them, as she turned on the radio. Lance looked back and saw that Toad was opening his eyes and had his head held up off the ground, so there was nothing more to do except press on the gas and go.

---At The High School---

Everyone was gone, all the teachers, the cleaning crew and of course the students. Kevin headed towards the door, which gave people access to the roof. Since the door only opened one way he had to use his powers to go through. He opened a hole in it and easily passed through. As soon as he did it closed behind him.

He was on his way to the principal's office; he had been looking for it for about 10 minutes and finally found it at the end of a corridor. It was a regular wooden door with a small glass window that had Principal Kelly's name on it. All Kevin could do was smile as he once more made use of his powers to go through the door.

Kevin looked around it was a regular office; it had a rather large wooden desk, a black leather chair behind it, and in front of the desk, two wooden ones with black cushions on them. On the right there was a couch that really reminded him of a psychologist's office. But all this didn't matter to Kevin, as he found what he was looking for. Kevin sat in Kelly's chair and started up his computer. He went through several files to find what he came looking for.

"Well...lets see... here we are," Kevin muttered, as he finally opened the file that he was looking for.

"Adler, Anna Marie; Age 18, transferred from Mississippi. The girl with the gloves, don't know her powers but she can fight. Alvers, Lance; Age 18, from Illinois, the earth guy... Aquilla, Amara; Age 15, from...Nova Roma... where the hell is that...Crisp, Ray; Age 16... the electricity guy. Da Costa, Roberto; Age 16, from Brazil, not much of a threat. Daniels, Evan; Age 16, New York, looking good here. Drake, Robert; Age 16, this must be the ice guy, got to watch out for this one. Dukes, Fred; Age 18, nothing special. Grey, Jean; Age 19, from Connecticut, if this is the best Xavier has he is going to parish easily. Guthrie, Samuel; Age 16, Kentucky, more southern hospitality I see. Madrox, Jamie, Age 13, come on Xavier, now you use kindergarten kids to do your fighting... Maximoff, Pietro; Age 18, New York, speedy... interesting. Maximoff, Wanda; Age 18, New York. Wow talk about skeletons in the closet... mental institution... can't quite get what her powers are but I definitely need to watch my back with this one, and she isn't too bad to look at either. No wonder fire boy wanted her in one piece. Pryde, Katherine; Age 17, from... Illinois, I bet that was when she met my buddy rocky there. Sinclair, Rahne; Age 14, Scotland, I have a countrywoman here, too bad she will have to die too. Smith, Tabitha; Age 16, bomb girl... Summers, Scott; Age 19, Missouri, the guy that created all that ruckus, and I'm just guessing, the alpha male, the leader of Xavier's team. Tolansky, Todd; Age 17, there is a face only a mother could love. Wagner, Kurt; Age 17, from Germany...who are you? You are a mutant, you have the same mailing address as the others but I don't think I saw you there..."

A few minutes later the room started to bend.

"Where are they? I'm missing at least 4 mutants. I was so sure they would be here." Kevin switched the printer on and printed all the files that he could find on the mutants. "Well...like mother used to say, when life gives you lemons you make lemonade."

---At The Acolytes Base---

All the Acolytes were sitting in the planning room; Magneto had requested their presence after being informed that three out of his four Acolytes had been involved in a fight at Bayville High.

"Well... I heard that you fought the X-men and the brotherhood today, and that you almost won, and if that was all I would be quite pleased, but it wasn't!" Magneto bellowed as he passed from side to side in front of his acolytes and stopped in front of Remy and started speaking again. "Gambit, you fought in favor of the X-men. Now, I never minded your personal life before and I won't now either, but I hope that when the time comes you know where your loyalty lies. And that then you are able to, how should I put it, get rid of whatever feelings you have for that girl and do what you must with no hesitation."

He passed once more, this time stopping in front of X-23. "And you! You knew nothing about this mess we have with both those teams, yet you decided to butt in. Although, I like your enthusiasm and the fact that not only are you a powerful ally, you are also an effective assassin but you make no distinctions between them. The brotherhood, even though I don't fully have peaceful relations with Mystique, is still not to be fought against like that. Not without specific orders from me. And also the fact that Weapon X is allied to the X-men is a distraction to you, and since you are not to be trusted with anything that involves him, I will take measures to make sure you behave from now on. I can't afford you ruining it and following one of those brats home and offer your brain to Charles to take a peak at."

X-23 frowned at that and pouted as she thought, 'Damn it, I had a perfect plan and he spoils it!'

Magneto passed once more this time directing himself to the remaining Acolyte that was in the fight. "And you... what is wrong with you? If X-23 was to fight Wanda your job was to support her, not defend the enemy! You need to get over the guilt of the brainwash... so Wanda was oblivious to her past for a few months, in that time she was happy and you can always take comfort in the fact that you objected to it and that there was nothing you could have done."

John gritted his teeth and gripped the bench hard as he heard the barbarities that were coming out of that man's mouth. 'I can't believe that I care more about her than her own father! No wonder she hates him, he is a monster. Look at that, not a hint of remorse for messing with his daughter's head. Shut up! Shut up! You know nothing about her, about your own daughter. And no I won't let anybody touch her! Not now not ever! I will always protect her! Whether it is from X! From you! Or even from herself!'

As Magneto finally shut up he said, "Now everyone leave please, except you Pyro!"

As everyone left Magneto looked at the pyromaniac and said with his usual emotionless tone, "I need you to go to the Brotherhood Boarding House and deliver a message to Pietro. X-23 will need someone to watch over her and since he seems to be the only one that can keep up with her so be it, I will enrol her in all of his classes and he will keep an eye on her at all times. I need you to leave now."

Pyro got up with a smile on his face; after all he was going to be the bearer of good news.

---At The Brotherhood Boarding House---

Wanda was up in her room; ever since they got home no one would stop questioning her about what had happened between her and Pyro. What made him protect her? She would usually tell them off, and was just grateful that they were gone. Lance went to the store and took Fred and Todd with him, now only she and Pietro were home. He was downstairs while Wanda was hexing things right and left, she had broken everything that she could.

"Why? Why can't you stop thinking of him?" Wanda screamed. As she threw things at the walls she heard the doorbell ring and an Aussi accent.

---A Few Minutes Before On A Red Supra---

"Oh come on Sheila, quit pounding it isn't so bad," John said as he shifted the gear.

"Not so bad! Not so bad! How can you say that? Not only will I have a babysitter, but it's going to be that...that... guy," X-23 stuttered out, as she crossed her arms over her chest. "Lets just get this over with."

A few seconds later the car pulled over at the brotherhood boarding house. Both the Acolytes got out of the car and walked to the door; John rang the doorbell.

Pietro got brought back to the real world by the noise and went to answer the door.

There standing before him was the object of his thoughts; they exchanged looks, which did not go unnoticed by John.

"Hey mate, Daddy Magneto has an early Christmas present for you! It's a little Wolverine. Enjoy!" John said as he pushed X-23 slightly forward.

As their bodies touched both of them blushed, and stared deep into each other eyes as they inhaled each other scents.

At that moment Wanda walked downstairs and soon enough laid eyes on that little display of something that resembled some sort of caring, even concern for another human being but then she looked closely at the girl and promptly recognized her.

"What do you want? Back for us to finish what we started?" Wanda said as she got to the bottom of the stairs.

"No!" John said a bit to loud and quickly, then he finished with, "We just stopped by to talk to your brother."

X-23 looked at John's face and felt like gagging; he had that sick, puppy love face. And then she glanced at Wanda and noticed that even though she was presenting a cool and collected front, she couldn't glare at the Australian. In fact, she was giving her all not to jump into his arms and proclaim her ever-lasting love.

"What about?" Wanda asked in a low, almost, shy matter.

"Nothing much, just to tell him that we will be seeing a lot of each other now that I'm to attend your school," X-23 answered as she placed her hands in her front pockets and walked towards Pietro. She stared him down, examined him from head to toe and said, "Man its gonna suck having you as my god damn babysitter. At least when I'm with John we get to do a lot of destruction. With you all we'll ever do is stand in front of a mirror while you check your ass out. I'll miss Pyro."

--- In a Large Building Not To Far Away ---

"Interesting development. Time to go though," Kevin said before he jumped and landed gracefully on the ground and got in a car. "This driving business can't be that hard."

That is it for this chapter, next one will be better, I promise, sorry for the lameness of this one, but anyways review and tell me what you thought and give me ideas for the next one.

Lots of Love

Pyro Lady