IvyZoe-Thanks again. I'm way ahead of you on that part of Pietro. I'll see what I can do about the Wanda and Pyro. That would be fun.

SO CLOSE

"Why did she run Irene? I thought you said that she would be safe there."

"Something went wrong. I did not know until it was too late. I am sorry, I could see what her powers were, but I wasn't sure when. I saw multiple futures, I thought everything went accordingly to take the path we wanted."

"Do you know where she might be in Mississippi?"

"Where all of her paths seem to cross, Caldecott County."

"Are you sure, this time?"

"Yes, but we need to get there fast. The X-men will reach her first if we fail."

"I understand." With that Mystique pulls out her cellphone.

"Lance, send Pietro ahead of us. We need to reach her first. The X-men are searching for her. Tell him to be on his guard."

"Sure boss lady, but where do you expect him to go searching for her?"

"Caldecott County."

Anna made her way through the club seen. She went to the bar and got herself a drink and then made her way to a table that seemed pretty isolated from everyone else.

'Sure, the music ain't the greatest, but this is nice. Well, ta mah fresh start.' she thought and downed some of her drink. She sat there relaxing but couldn't help but notice that somebody had been starring at her from a far. He was kind of cute, but he was obviously a jock. Him and his buddies were sitting at a booth all wearing those letterman jackets. She turned back to her drink and finished it off. But just as she did that, someone from the bar came and brought her another.

"Ah didn't order this?"

"No, but tha gentlemen ovah there did." As he pointed towards the guy that was staring at her. She nodded and he left. She looked back at the boy in the booth, held up her glass and smiled at him. Then she turned away from it and started drinking it. When she looked back over towards where he sat, she noticed that he was making his way over to him. She got up and walked towards any exit she could find nearest to her, but he caught up to her near the restrooms.

"Hey." She turned towards him, making sure to keep her distance.

"Hey."

"So, um, Ah was thinkin' if maybeh ya might like ta dance or somethin'?" He told her awkwardly.

"Sorry, Ah was just here gettin' a drink. Ah wasn't gonna stay." then she noticed how sad he looked and she felt bad. 'Ah'm covered, he can't touch meh. Whay not, give the guy a break.'

"Ah guess a dance would beh alright." He smiled at her.

"Do Ah know ya from somewhere?"

"Ah don't think so, whay?" He starred at her hardly blinking.

"Just seems like Ah do. Ah hope ya don't think Ah'm bein' a bit too forward." She let out a short sigh, and closed her eyes for a mere second just wanting to find a way out of this situation, when he kissed her. She pulled back immediately and let him fall back against a wall and slid down to the floor. She braced herself for the oncoming rush of memories then she looked around. 'Good, nobody saw what happened. Maybeh they'll think he passed out from drinkin' too much.'

She made her way to the emergency exit in the back and headed for her car in the parking lot.

Remy and Henri had tracked her down to the club. They had no idea if she was staying in a motel or in Belle's car or what. But they had asked some questions to people around the area about a girl with white streaks and they told them about the club. Remy could have sworn he saw her in the back of the club, but it was only a quick glimpse so he made his way back there trying to get past a baracade of women asking him to dance. 'But why would she even be in a place like dis. Sure Remy don't know her dat well, but dis just don't exactly seem like her scene.'

After what felt like forever, he finally made his way back there but just in time to see her walk out the door. He looked down and saw a guy sitting on the floor, leaning against the wall unconscious. 'Wonder if she did dis.' Then he made his way out the door, but was still not able to reach her in time as he watched her take off down the street. 'So close dis time. Well she definitely got Belle's car. Better go get mon frere. Maybe we get her dis time.'

Pietro was zipping around through the streets looking for some girl he had only ever seen a picture of before. At first he had overshot his target, going a few counties to far, but he quickly realized and found Caldecott. 'Why would anybody want to be here?' He decided to stop and get himself something to drink since this could take a while. He found a little gas station and decided that was good enough. While he was choosing what he wanted he heard the door open with that annoying sound it made when he came in. He turned and saw a girl, not just any girl either, this was who Mystique wanted. She had changed from the picture he had seen. Her beautiful long curly hair was replaced with short straight hair, but still with those white streaks. 'That picture would never have done her any justice.' He thought smiling to himself.

Forgetting about his need for something to drink, he watched her intensely as she paid for gas and walked outside. He followed her out when she said, "What, ya like the view or somethin'?" without even turning around and merely walking over to the gas pumps. "Something like that, Anna." She turned around abruptly and narrowed her eyes at him. "Do Ah know ya?"

"No, but I know you." 'Boy she looks even better angry.' Then he sped of and stood beside her leaning against her car.

"How'd ya do that?"

"Same as you."

"What'd ya want?" He let his eyes wander her.

"A lot of things, but right now Raven sent me for you." She turned away from him and grabbed the nozzle from the pump.

"Well tell her Ah ain't interested." He was a bit shocked, he wasn't expecting this.

"She is on her way now." A few minutes had silently passed as she pumped the gas. Just as the tank filled she turned back to him putting the nozzle back into the pump.

"Well then, Ah guess that ya problem 'cause Ah won't beh here when she get's here."

"Why is that?"

"Ah'm startin' ovah. She left meh in Louisiana ta rot, she can deal with it." Then she made her way to the driver's side and got in. Right as she sat down she noticed that he was already in the passengers side.

"What are ya doin' now?"

"She is not going to be happy about this."

"So what?"

"Being here with you is a lot better than answering an angry her." She nodded knowingly and sped off.