So thanks to all my reviewers! Here's the next chapter for you all! I plan to have about eleven or more chapters in this whole fic.

Chapter 2

"Let it be," Xavier replied as Cobra took her fans away from Logan's throat.

Cobra licked the pierced skin and immediately it healed. Then she blew in his face. Logan awoke with a snarl and launched himself at Cobra. Cobra dodged out of the way and blew in Scott's face. Logan calmed down and walked away. Scott got up and walked away, too.

"How come -" Storm started.

"My breath wakes people up. It's sorta a reverse of my fangs," Cobra cut in as she went into her room and closed the door.

"Well, what do you think of her?" Xavier asked with a small smile as they went down the hallway.

"I think Logan should be her escort," Storm replied with a smile.

A knock on her room's door awoke Cobra in the morning.

"You better get up in time for breakfast," Logan's voice came through the door.

Cobra, who had slept fully dressed, got up, opened the door, and followed Logan to the kitchen. Rogue got up from her chair next to Bobby and hugged Logan protectively.

"Marie…"

Rogue let go of Logan and glared at Cobra. Logan dragged Cobra to a chair and forced her into it as he sat down.

"What do you want to eat?" Logan asked as he stared at his hands.

"I don't need to eat. Eating doesn't keep me alive," Cobra replied softly.

"Drinking peoples blood helps you live," Rogue said loudly so that everyone in the kitchen would hear.

Cobra was tempted to smash Rogue's nose, but she forced herself to be calm.

"I need people's blood only when I am injured or I'll bleed to death because my wounds don't heal until I have blood," Cobra replied in a dangerous whisper without turning around.

"And you were hurt when you took Logan's and Scott's blood," Rogue sneered as she flicked her hair back.

"Yes," Cobra replied as she forced herself to stay seated.

"And you knocked out Logan and Scott meanwhile," Rogue smirked.

"No, my poison only makes them sleep temporarily while I take a little bit of their blood. Excuse me, Marie," Cobra said smoothly as she turned to Logan, "I'll have an egg."

"Hard boiled?" Logan asked as he took out an egg from the refrigerator.

"No, thank you. I'll have it raw," Cobra replied coolly as she took the egg from him and popped it into her mouth and swallowed it whole.

Rogue burst, "You snake! You live up to your name, Cobra!"

"And so do you, Rogue," Cobra replied with a small sly smile playing on her lips as she turned to face Rogue.

Rogue slapped Cobra out of frustration. Cobra bled immediately.

"That was a mistake. You know, it is hard to hold back my blood lust when I am bleeding, but I know your mutation. Excuse me," Cobra said as turned to leave the kitchen.

Rogue grabbed her hand.

"My patience is fraying, girl. Let go of me or you'll regret that you even lived," Cobra whispered dangerously.

"Why should I?"

Cobra extended her fangs as she replied, "Normally my poison just makes people sleep, but if I use a certain muscle, it can kill you."

"You wouldn't dare," Rogue smirked confidently.

"Are you sure?" Cobra asked as she bent down to Rogue's neck.

"My mutation," Rogue reminded with a smile as she gripped Cobra's wrist tighter and grinned even more.

"You know, being a cobra isn't my only mutation. I am like a physic. I can take away your mutation. I can read your mind, though I rarely do so," Cobra smiled in reply.

"Can you really take my mutation away?" Rogue asked as if Christmas came early.

"Yes, but I won't," Cobra smirked.

Suddenly Storm came in.

"Professor wants to see you down in the Danger Room," Storm said quickly, and then she looked around and asked, "Is something wrong?"

"Of course not, Storm. Rogue and I were conversing about our mutations and how people don't like us because of them even though we don't want to hurt people," Cobra smiled pleasantly at Storm.

Storm nodded with a puzzled look and replied, "Okay," and walked out of the kitchen.

"Danger Room?" Cobra asked Logan with her eyebrows raised.

"I show you," Logan said as he walked out of the kitchen.

Cobra looked at Rogue. Rogue reluctantly released Cobra. Cobra nodded and followed Logan down a few hallways and stairs. He opened a door and went in after Cobra. Storm, Cyclops, and Professor Xavier were already there.

"We are going to project a hologram to test your mutations. We have added blood and the images are lifelike. You are to fight them," Professor Xavier instructed as he pressed a few buttons on a pad.

The room swirled and suddenly Cobra was in a tropical rain forest. Cobra stuck her snake tongue out and sensed two moving figures. One coming from her right and the other was coming from her left. Cobra extended her fangs and waited. The person on her left flew at her. A cobra hood appeared on her as she scraped the person with her fangs. The person fell, eyes dimming.

"Next one," Cobra muttered as her cobra hood disappeared and waited for the person on her right to come out.

"Don't attack! I only want food!" the second person cried as he appeared.

He had wings like the person she just killed. Cobra reached out with her mind and tried to find his mind. He had none.

"You aren't real. I can't feel your mind," Cobra replied coldly.

"But I am real!" the person insisted as he stepped forward.

Cobra's cobra hood flared as she spat her poison from her fangs into the person's eyes. The man gasped as he was suddenly blinded.

"My name is Cobra," Cobra smiled at the blinded person.

The person stumbled around, blind, as he cried out.

"You'll be permanently blind if you don't wash it out soon," Cobra warned with a grin as she pulled out her dagger.

"Help!" The person cried as he stumbled backwards.

"I'll help you," Cobra replied as she skillfully threw the dagger.

It buried itself into the person's chest.

"Game over," Cobra smile as the hologram disappeared and the room reappeared.

"She's perfect for the job," Cyclops whispered into Professor Xavier's ear.

Xavier nodded and told Cobra, "You did well. You didn't tell us that you are a telepath, that you have the abilities of a spitting cobra, and that you have a cobra hood that flares up."

"Telling people all of my mutation is like telling everyone my strengths and weaknesses," Cobra replied with a smile, she looked around and asked, "Have I passed the test?"

"One more level," Xavier smiled as he pressed a few buttons.

The room turned into a tropical forest again, but it was nighttime. Cobra flickered her snake tongue. Five people. She threw herself on the person in front of her and pierced him with her fangs, depositing her deadly poison. A person attacked her from the side and cut her arm. She turned the man around and hit him in the back of the neck, breaking his backbone. A person flew at her, swiping his dagger at her throat. She ducked, but it scraped her cheek. She spat poison into his eyes and he fell heavily, blinded. Cobra took his dagger and threw it into him as she turned to face the next person. He aimed a punch at her, but she leapt into him. She took out a gun from his pocket and shot him. The last person lunched her from behind. Cobra whipped around and gently pushed his nerve point. She pierced his neck and drained all of his blood. Suddenly, the man vanished. Cobra jumped in surprise.

"Meet me in my office tomorrow at noon," Xavier said as he wheeled out of the room.

Storm and Cyclops followed him. Cobra looked at Logan.

"It's lunch time," he said as he led Cobra back to the kitchen.

Rogue glared at Cobra as she entered. Cobra and Logan sat at their old seats and stared at their hands.

"Marie… What do you have against me?" Cobra asked quietly without looking up.

"You are -"

"A snake. A killer. But if I am those, what are you? What is Logan? What is Bobby?" Cobra asked.

Rogue huffed.

"You are a killer. Logan is a killer. Bobby is a killer. I am killer," Cobra answered her own question.

"Can you and I talk privately somewhere?" Rogue asked softly.

Cobra nodded. Rogue led her into an empty classroom. Cobra watched Rogue without a word as Rogue paced.

"I like Logan. We met shortly after my mutation began. I was frighten and unsure of my future. I thought I was the only one," Rogue whispered, "but I met Logan."

Get on. I know what you mean. Get to the point, Cobra said with her mind.

"You didn't read my mind, did you?" Rogue asked, frightened.

"No, but get to the point," Cobra repeated gently.

"Well, when I saw Logan on the floor and I saw what you where doing to Scott, I thought you took all of Logan's blood and I got frantic and I was really frightened…" Rogue explained quickly as she broke off.

"I'm sorry. I lost it. It's really hard to control when I have open wounds. Most of the time, it stays quiet when I'm not hurt, but every once in a while it comes up really fierce and I lock myself in a room until it dies down," Cobra whispered softly.

"So, we're alright?" Rogue asked, referring to their friendship.