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Chapter 9

As the three brotherhood members exited the Danger Room the first person they happened to see was Mystique leaning against the wall with a smirk on her face as she looked at the three, "Well, well aren't we the dramatic ones, and where are the new names from?"

Lance's face lightened somewhat as he looked up at the older woman, "Nice to see you two Mystique, let's get out of this damn hallway before an X- Geek comes to investigate, and then we'll explain."

As Lance led the five mutants back towards the room he glanced at the clock, he wanted to get the three of them out of the mansion and on their way by 10:00; luckily it was only 8:30 so they still had plenty of time to talk to the three older mutants, change, and leave.

Walking into the rooms that they had claimed as their own Lance flopped down into one of the arm chairs, Todd and Pietro curled up on the bed together and the other three placed themselves on chairs and couches around the room.

Pyro spoke up, "So, the names and the clothes and the attitude...?"

Pietro smirked as he cuddled with Todd on the bed, "I'm responsible for the names, we all did the clothes, and the attitude....well that's always been there."

"So, how did you come up the names Pietro?" asked Mystique as she relaxed in the cushy chair.

"Terre is Earth in French, Veloc is short for Velocidad which is Velocity in Spanish, and Serpen is a shortened version of the word that means reptile or snake in Latin."

Todd smirked from inside Pietro's arms, "They seemed a little more interesting then the names that all the X-Geeks seem to get. Not to mention that only we understand what they really mean."

Mystique smirked as she looked at the two teens on the bed together and Lance in the chair near them, she saw Lance leaning against the door and with a small nod to her he stepped outside.

Interpreting the movement Mystique followed Lance into the hallway as Todd, Pietro, Gambit, and Pyro talked about what happened in the Danger Room.

"So, Lance what is going on between you and Wolverine?" asked Mystique once they were outside in the hall.

Lance jerked staring at her with wide eyes, "Ho....what do you mean?" he replied obviously startled by her knowing.

The blue skinned female just rolled her eyes at the younger man, "When you're a cat people tend not to pay attention to you, I would be blind to see something going on between you two."

Lance sank down into a chair resting against the wall as he dropped his head to his hands, "Does anyone else know?" he whispered softly his voice full of trepidation.

"No, well beside the instructors, the students really have no idea what is going on around here, you think they would have noticed my presence." She said, disgusted at their carefree attitudes.

Lance nodded agreeing with her as his face lightened with relief knowing that his secret was still safe.

"So, you still never explained what is going on with Wolverine, spill...it...now."

The teenager sighed and closed his eyes as he began to speak, "I...I wasn't doing so great on my own and I had a breakdown in the greenhouse, Mr. Logan took over for me."

Watching Mystique's face darken into a storm Lance hurried on, "He's actually been really decent, he treats me really well and even tore into Scott and the others when they attacked me. He didn't even punish me for being late." The last part was said in a slightly incredulous tone as if he couldn't believe that he wasn't blamed for the altercation with the other teenagers.

The shapeshifter's face lightened somewhat even though she promised herself that she would be having a talk with the feral mutant. "Well just let me collect the two idiots and we will let you be on your way."

Seeing the sheepish look on Lance's face she chuckled, "Like I said, when you're a cat no one notices you, I hear all sorts of interesting plans, I will be talking to you again."

"Are you staying for awhile?" asked the teen hopefully, it would be nice to have her around for awhile.

"At least for a little while, I can't really imagine the reactions if I revealed my actual presence, to the majority here I am still just the evil enemy." Lance caught the small sadness that flitted through her features and knew she was thinking about Rogue and Kurt, he put a hand on her arm and spoke sincerely, "If that's all they thing then they don't deserve to know you."

Not letting him see any of the mistyness starting to get in her eyes Mystique turned and yelled back into the room, "Swamp –Bait, Firebug it's time to go."

As the three left Lance could here the two male Acolytes complaining to a black cat perched on their shoulders about the nicknames, it was an amusing view.

With a shake of his head Lance ducked back inside the room, "Guys? Get changed and we can actually get out of here on time, I'll take a sec."

Quickly Lance ran into his own room and changed into a pair of dark blue Dockers slacks and a light weight blue sweater under an ironed blue and white striped collared shirt. Hesitantly he shoved his gloves into his pockets leaving his hands bare. Running a comb through his hair, a toothbrush over his teeth, and a nice pair of shoes on his feet he reentered the other room seeing the other two were almost ready to go.

Pietro was dressed nicely in a pair of black slacks and a vibrant blue button up shirt over a black undershirt. He had left his hair ungelled so that it fell in soft waves around his face and softened the sharp angles that it seemed to be made of.

Todd was in a pair of soft brushed brown corduroy pants with thin and soft green sweater over it, his hair was even combed out of it's normally messy style and held back at the base of his neck. He had started growing it out again and the longer strands suited him much better.

Lance smiled, he doubted that anyone around there would even recognize them as the same teenagers. He gestured towards the door, "C'mon, the Professor knows what's up and he'll tell the other instructors if they need to know, the jeep is parked outside."

Together the three headed out of the mansion managing to somehow avoid the younger mutants as they hopped into Lance's jeep and drove away.

Scott and Kurt saw from a corner of the garage the three brotherhood members speed off in the jeep. Scott snorted bitterly, "Bet they're going to sell us out to Magneto..." he said sullen and bitter after his "talk" with the professor about the way he and the others had acted.

Perking up slightly Scott jumped into his convertible, gesturing to Kurt, "Get in, we're going to follow them and prove that their only here to betray anything they can to Magneto."

Kurt sighed shaking his head, "If it turns out that they aren't meeting Magneto vill you stop giving them such a hard time?"

"Yeah, yeah but I know I'm right about this, c'mon!"

Kurt just shook his head as he hopped into the convertible alongside Scott, there was no possible way that this could end well.

About an hour and a half later the two X-men watched as Lance pulled the jeep in front of a small store. They parked and snuck close so they could hear what he was saying. The elderly clerk was the first to speak. "Lance! It's been too long, how are you son?"

"I'm fine Mr. Murphy, let me introduce you to my friends, this is Pietro and Todd, they're my roommates in Bayville."

"Pleasure to meet you." Said Mr. Murphy as he shook both of their hands vigorously. "So, I'm assuming y'all are here for some flowers."

Lance held out the three bouquets they had found as well as a few loose flowers. After bagging them up Mr. Murphy waved off the payment, "No charge, it's not often that they get visitors."

Thanking him profusely the three teens crossed the street to a small church where 11 AM services looked to be starting. It was a pleasant service and Lance greeted the Pastor by name introducing his two friends before ducking towards the back of the church.

At this Scott grinned maliciously, "They must be going to meet him now, I'm damn sure of it."

Kurt glared at him and whispered, "Vould you shut up, in case you haven't noticed ve are in a house of God."

With a wave of his hand Scott and Kurt went out the doors finding themselves in a small cemetery; Pietro and Todd were holding the loose flowers and distributing them among the graves, pulling any weeds as they went. Lance was kneeling by a set of five headstones yanking out weeds and planting the new flowers he had brought.

When they were done both Todd and Pietro came back to the set of five stones and stood. Suddenly Lance's voice could be heard over the graveyard, a cold tone shot through it, "Summers, Nightcrawler, why don't you come out, it would be foolish to think I already hadn't noticed you. You two have the trailing abilities of a herd of elephants."

The last part was said with a smirk as the two X-men stepped into the open walking towards the three figures standing in the middle of death itself.