Title: Bad Day

Logan is sitting in the kitchen drinking is cup of coffee and reading the morning papers as usual. Suddenly, Kitty phases through the kitchen doors and skids to a stop in front of the fridge. Kitty quickly swung the fridge door open and grabbed a carton of milk and a cup from the cupboard. She pours the milk in, gulps it all down and took two muffins from the pantry.

"You're late…" Logan said without looking up.

"Bye!" Kitty shouted as she phases out and through the kitchen door.

"…for your class." Logan finished.

Just then, Storm walks in with Beast. Upon seeing Logan, the both of them greeted him good morning.

"Morning Logan." Storm said as she pulled out a chair and sat down.

"How's Juggernaut?" Beast said as he makes himself a cup of hot chocolate.

"Fine…everything's fine. Anything I need to know?" Logan says.

Just then, Professor Xavier comes in with a worried look on his face.

"What's with the distress expression Chuck?" Logan said as he folds the newspaper back and puts it on the table.

"Rogue told me this morning that Mystique has come back to Bayville High as Principal Darkholme.

"Mystique!" Logan shouted. "What's that little low lying life form doing here!"

"Now, now Logan, we need to think this properly." Professor Xavier said as he wheeled closer to the table.

"But we have to be careful of what we say; Peprica tells me that Kurt is quite sensitive of people talking behind him about his mother." Storm says as she sips her herbal tea.

"I don't care what the elf thinks about what I…who's Peprica?" Logan said.

Professor Xavier looked up and smiled. "She's new here. Her name is Peprica Star. I think you would see her soon."

At school, Kitty enters the school building runs straight into the auditorium where the others are. On the stage, Rouge is directing Lance what to do for the show that will be seen by everyone that will happen tonight.

"Sorry I'm late!" Kitty said as she ran towards Rogue and Lance. The moment she saw Lance, she skidded to a stop.

Oh no! Lance is here! What am I going to do!

"Hey Kitty! Listen, do you happen to have my…." Before Lance could finish, Kitty cut him short.

"OH! UM! Rouge, you told me you wanted me to try on something the girls did?" Kitty said uneasily.

Rouge looked at her with an awkward look on her face. Before Lance could reply, Kitty grabbed Rouge's hand and pulled her backstage leaving Lance a bit puzzled. Backstage, Kitty drags Rouge into the dressing room and closes the door behind them.

"What am I going to do!" Kitty said with panic in her eyes.

"Let me see…option one, tell him the truth…"

"Out!"

"Option two; tell him ya will pass it back in a few days?"

"He will ask why and I have to answer all his questions! Out!"

"Option three, say you lend his sweater to a friend and he or she hasn't return in yet?"

Kitty looks at her with an irritated look on her face.

"Moving on…"

"Option four, since I am out of ideas, I shall start from option one…tell him the truth!" Rouge said as she slumped into the chair and looks at Kitty. Kitty turns around and starts knocking her head on the wooden door.

"Or just buy a new one?"

Kitty knocks her head one more time and looks up.

"Rogue! You just said something brilliant all this while!" Kitty said as she hugs Rouge tight.

"Are ya saying that ah have been talking stupid things for the past few seconds?"

Back at the Xavier Mansion, Peprica is in the newly built in gym practicing her martial arts. Peprica, dressed in army shorts and green sleeveless shirt, barefooted, takes a sip of her water and returns to the punching bag.

Peprica kept on practicing from the time she woke up till then, three hours, non-stop. Her hair is in a total mess and something seems to be wrong. Ever since yesterday she met up with her attacker, she felt that she knows him but yet, she doesn't know who. Peprica thought over this over and over again while punching the punching bag. Too deep in thought, she didn't realize that Logan walked in.

So that must be Peprica…looks like she's training in martial arts. Let's see how far she's gotten.

Logan walked over to Peprica while she kept on punching the punching bag, not realizing that one of the professors is in the gym. Just then, a flash back of her father being taken away by the policeman and the chief taking her away.

"NO! I want my dad! What did you accuse him for stealing?"

"ARGH!"

Unknowingly, Peprica turns around and kicks the bag off its chains and slams it into Logan, knocking him to the floor.

"OMFF!"

Peprica turned around and brushes her strands of her hair aside. She was surprised to see one of the professors she supposes him to be on the floor with the punching bag on top of him.

"OMG! I am so sorry! I…I didn't mean to!" Peprica runs towards Logan and takes the punching bag of him. She then takes his hand and pulls him up.

"I am so sorry! Really I am! I didn't mean to! I don't know what came over me!" Peprica apologized in fear of having a misunderstanding. Logan rubs his neck and looks down at her.

"Good use of strength, too bad we got to replace the chains…" Logan smiled as he looks at the broken chain swinging round and round.

"Peprica right?"

Peprica looked up at Logan who stretches his arm out to shake hands with her. Peprica looks at his hands and smiles.

"You got that right, you must be Professor Logan." Peprica said as she shook hands with Logan.

"So…how long have you been training in Martial arts?" Logan asks.

"One of my mutant powers is born Martial arts ability, so I just practice everyday to sharpen my gift."

Logan looks at the punching bag and the chain and smirks.

"How about a competition Pep? You and me." Logan said as he takes a few steps back and prepares himself. Peprica does the same and replies, "You're on!"

Logan charges towards her and dives down to knock her off her legs but Peprica leaps high into the air and flips backward.

"Good jump." Logan says. With that, Logan and Peprica head towards each other in a combat. Peprica swings her leg but Logan shields himself his arm and strikes back. Peprica then does 360 degrees turn in the air and smacks down on Logan, knocking him to the ground. Logan quickly swipes her leg and Peprica falls too. Logan gets up and Peprica jumps back up and run towards Logan and they start an arm to arm combat. Then, Peprica flips backwards and Logan runs towards her. She spins as she does a handstand with her legs split, making it difficult to fight back. Then, with no warning, Peprica drops and rolls forward and knocks Logan to the ground.

"Okay…let's take a break. You're very good Pep; in fact, I think you will do better than the rest, even Rogue." Logan said with pride.

"Thanks panting" Peprica said as she catches her breathe. "You're quite tough, good person to train with."

"Since you've join the institute, you are expected to be in my class with the New Mutants." Logan said as he walks over and takes a sip of water.

"Okay, I…"

-Flashback-

Peprica is shot at the back.

"AHH!"

And comes tumbling down from the sky into the area in a huge mansion.

-End of flashback-

"AAAHHH!" Peprica screamed as she rubs her faces. Logan drops his bottle of water as Peprica falls to the ground.

-Flashback-

Under a pouring rain, Peprica runs through the wet streets with the policeman slowly fading in the distance. She runs through the streets, dashing through the roads, dodging the cars. Her eyes widen as a car is coming towards her. With a leap, she jumps onto the car and runs on top of it and leaps into the air and onto the pavement. There, people witnessed everything and all stepped aside as she ran away.

-End of flashback-

Peprica falls to the ground on her knees.

-Flashback-

In the bell tower, shadow shows a figure crying in one corner as lightning spreads across the sky.

"DAAADDD!"

Her shouts linger in the brewing storm and because of her shouts, everyone in the village stopped and looked at the bell tower.

-End of Flashback-

Peprica's eyes are shut tight as tears seeped from her closed eyes.

"What's wrong Pep!" Logan said as he kneels in front of Peprica.

-Flashback-

"Get cold water now! Her fever is still escalating!"

The nun brought a basin of cold water and puts it by the doctor's side as Peprica lies on a mattress with a cold towel on her forehead.

"I want my dad! Mummy! Leave me alone!"

Peprica shouts as the nuns hold her down while she struggles to break free.

"I have to give her an injection or her fever won't go down!"

The doctor drew out a long sharp needle and squirted out a medicine and gets ready to inject it into her. Peprica's eyes widen as hot tears runs down her face.

"No! Anything but that! PLEASE!" Peprica pleads as the doctor moved towards her arm.

"Don't move child! This won't hurt if you stop moving around!" The doctor said as the nuns are having a hard time holding Peprica down.

Seeing the needle drawing closer to her skin, Peprica draws an immense amount of strength. The nun holding her leg down fell backwards and Peprica kicks the injection out of the doctor's hand. The needle flew up and got stuck on the wooden plank.

Thunder roars and lightning flashes across the sky as Peprica screams.

-End of flashback-

Peprica placed her hands on her head screaming in fear as Logan tries to get a hold of her.

"Peprica! What's wrong?" Logan says. Just then, Peprica's hair turns midnight blue and her wings grew out.

"RAAHHH!" Peprica shouts as her eyes shot wide open revealing glowing midnight sky colour eyes. Logan gasped at the sight of her eyes; he could see the fear and pain her eyes.

"Help me! Someone! Don't hurt me! Go away! Dad! Mummy!" Peprica freaks out as she unconsciously says it. Just then, Storm comes running in with Professor Xavier. Upon seeing her, Professor Xavier quickly taps into her mind and soon, Peprica falls to the ground unconscious. Her wings grew back in and her hair colour changed back to snowy starry white. Storm ran over to Peprica and aids her while Logan gets up. Professor Xavier wheels over to Logan.

"What just happened?" Logan said worriedly.

"My telepathy picked up the memories of her pasts…she's…been through a lot Logan…these sudden rapid flashbacks frightened her."

"But why?"

"The day we found her, she lost part of the memory on when she was attacked. So as she is slowly recollecting the memories, part of her pasts is brought in the process." Professor Xavier said as he turns to Peprica.

"Because of being a mutant, sometimes, things affect us differently Logan, in her case, her past is haunting her." Professor Xavier said as he kept his eyes on Peprica as a tear escapes Peprica's eye.

In a shopping mall, Kitty has been having a rough day. Number one, she ran out of money that she had to borrow from Scott. Number two, she spent the whole day looking for the exact sweater. Just as she walked out of the mall, she didn't phase through the mob who was rushing for the ten minute sale and the bag containing the sweater was knocked out of her hand. The bag dropped onto the road and a car ran over it with mud and water. By the time she got to it, it was done for.

In a lonely park, Kitty is sitting on a swing swinging as she feels that her relationship with Lance is over.

"He'll never forgive me…never." Kitty said as the wind blew lightly.

In the distance, Lance and Rouge were watching Kitty on the swing.

"She wanted to get the same sweater for ya because the one ya lend to her got messed up. Now that she bought a new one and it has been destroyed, she doesn't even know how to face ya anymore." Rouge said as she placed her hand on Lance's shoulder.

Lance could see Kitty really loves him and he knew she was afraid that he would be upset with her.

"Truth is, I never really liked that sweater. I only brought it to school that day because the others got dirty and it was the only clean one."

"Then why do ya want it back?"

"I thought I should give it to the homeless children since I thought of discarding it anyway."

"Well, ya should go talk to her." Rouge said. She patted his shoulder and left.

Lance walked towards Kitty and placed his hand on Kitty's shoulder.

"Huh?"

Kitty turns around to see Lance's soft loving face smiling at her teary eyes. "Sniff Lance? What…what are you doing here?" Kitty said as she wipes her tears away.

Lance sat on the other swing and holds her hand.

"Kitty, I know what happened."

Kitty was shocked but tries to hide it.

"About…about what?" Kitty laughs uneasily. Lance leans forward and places a soft kiss on her lips.

"You don't have to get me a new sweater; I didn't like it in the first place."

Lance took the time to explain everything to Kitty and once this was clear, Kitty returned a kiss and smiles.

"Having a guy who understands and even thinks of the kids…really melts my heart." Kitty smiles as she walks away with Lance arm in arm with her head leaning on Lance's shoulder.

Next chapter: Carnival fun

Author: Okay…I know this story mainly focused on Peprica because I kind of didn't really want to focus on Kitty and Lance…sorry. Anyway, sorry if I didn't update much because I have been really busy.

Anyway, to let you have a sneak peak of next chapter, Kurt is at the carnival having fun with Mystique…his mother! YAH! Mystique and Kurt have some mother and son bonding time and Amanda is getting a little suspicious of Kurt and Principal Darkholme.

Please Review! Even if this story is not very good….well…not forcing you to.