AN: Yes I'm back with any short chapter, though this one may be a little longer. Are we ready? Okay, read, review and enjoy!
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Chapter Three- Bayville High

                        Kitty Pryde steeled herself for another day at Bayville High as she took a seat in Scott Summers's red sports car.

            It wasn't that she didn't like school, in fact she rather enjoyed it, but no one enjoyed her. Once they reached the doors of Bayville High School Kitty and her friends would be shunned and glared at. Not something she liked.

            You see, Kitty and her friends were mutants.

            The five teens in the car drove to their High School in silence. Kitty glanced at everyone of her friends. Scott Summers, their fearless leader with the power to shoot optic blasts from his eyes, Jean Gray, a telekinetic, Kurt Wagner, a teleporter with blue skin which was hidden by a clocking device on his watch, Rogue, a girl who could absorb energy by merely touching, and Evan Daniels, a mutant that could shoot spikes from his body. Kitty herself had powers to phase through things.

            Kitty sighed and said to Kurt, "Don't you wish that the professor would like home school us or something."

            The German young-man nodded, "Ya, I'm afraid that Duncan might really beat me up this time."

            "You won't get beat up." Scott said in his I'm-the-boss voice, "Because no one will be walking alone in the halls today. Remember the plan."

            "Man, no one has any of my classes." Evan complained.

            Jean looked over at the young man, red hair whipping around her face, "All my classes are near yours. I'll walk you."

            Rogue frowned, her skin pale from make-up and outfit dark as her demeanor, "Ah wish Ah could teach them a lesson." she said angrily in her Southern drawl, "And Ah don't need anyone to walk with meh."

            Content with that, Evan leaned back in his seat and they lapsed into silence. Kitty lowered her head, hating it. The two strands of hair that framed her cheeks fell in from of her eyes. Trying to calm herself, Kitty made sure her ponytail was secure. It was of course, but it made her feel a little better, but not much.

            Deciding to break the silence with anything, Kitty said the first thing that popped into her mind, "So today's when we like meet our new councilor, right?"

            "Yeah." Jean said with a sad look on her face, "It's really too bad about Mr. Moore being killed. He was the only teacher even remotely nice to me after everyone found out I was a mutant."

            Rogue said nothing and tried to look like she didn't care about whatever conversation they were having when in truth her ears were perked.

            "What do you think happened to him?" Kurt questioned and Evan went to answer with some cockamamie idea about cults.

            Kitty thought about Mr. Moore. He had been her favourite teacher at Bayville High and Jean was right when she had said he was the only teacher even remotely nice when their identities as mutants were exposed. Now he was dead.

            No one was really sure what had happened to Mr. Moore. The newspapers said the elderly teacher was walking home one night when he was attacked and killed. It was believed to be robbery gone wrong. Scott was convinced that somehow the Brotherhood, enemies of the X-Men, was behind her.

            "I didn't know they could do something so low!" Scott thundered on cue.

            At the thought of the Brotherhood Kitty's mind formed a picture of their leader. Lance…

            Kitty shook her head. She would not think of Lance Alvers. He had dug his grave now he could lay in it. But even though she told herself not to think of it she couldn't stop the ache in her heart.

            He had been important to her.

            They pulled up in front of the school and Kitty, Kurt, Rogue and Evan hopped out while Jean and Scott when to park the car. They walked up the stone path to the school doors, aware of the whispers that followed them. Everywhere they went people stared and pointed, though they dare not come close to them when they were together.

            "Ah'm outta here." Rogue said, moving down the hall to her locker and first class. Rogue, having never been friendly with many people even before her powers were exposed, didn't worry about people bothering her. They were too afraid to approach the gothic beauty and Rogue was content to ignore them when they were far away from her.

            Kitty was unfortunate enough to have her locker far away from her friends and thus had to travel alone. And, unlike Rogue, people were not afraid to approach her and give her verbal abuse.

            Get your books and hurry to first period, Kitty told herself. She fumbled with her locker and managed to get books in order in record time. But that still wasn't enough to avoid confrontation.

            "Hey, Pyrde." Came a muscular voice Kitty recognized to be Jean's ex-boyfriend Duncan Matthews, "What's a little kitty like you doing all alone? Where are your freak friends?"

            Kitty turned and glared at the blonde jock, "Back of, Duncan." she said testily.

            "Whatdya gonna do about it?" Duncan mocked, "Can't use your powers or you'd be kicked out of school. You know the rules."

            Kitty glowered at him, but knew he was right. Principal Kelly had made it very clear that if they were to use their powers they were as good as expelled. But why did Duncan Matthews have use that to his advantage?

            "You know, you may be a freak but you're still really pretty." Duncan pinned her against the lockers.

            Glaring at him, Kitty decided if it would cause Duncan serious pain then it would be worth being expelled.

            Just as Kitty was about to use her powers, a new voice yelled, "Hey!"

            Duncan turned and found himself flipped over and pinned against the lockers besides the young woman he had been verbally abusing. Kitty turned and found herself looking at a man she had never seen before. He had dark, unruly hair and had a very lanky body. Not a powerful-looking man, but the eye-patch he wore helped a bit.

            "Who the hell are you?" Duncan asked, trying to break free but the man held him firm.

            "Substitute teacher for shop class. Now a cop." He said, "Now what do you think you were doing to this young woman?"

            "She a mutant!" Duncan screeched.

            "So?"

            Duncan stared at the man in horror before growling, "Let me go."

            "I'm going to do that." The man agreed, "But next time I see you putting hands on a woman, mutant or no, I'll have your ass hauled off to jail. Got it?"

            Duncan nodded tersely and the man let him go. Duncan shot Kitty a glare, as if she had somehow summoned the man to her rescue, and stormed off. The dark-haired man shook his head, watching him go.

            "Thank you, Mr…?"

            "Harris." The man said, "You okay?"

            "I'm fine." She answered, "But why did you help me out? I mean, not many people would be willing to help us because-"

            Mr. Harris held up a hand and cut Kitty off, "Because even though you have powers, that doesn't mean you aren't human. You should be given a chance. Learned that first hand." The teacher grinned, "Besides, I never liked jocks. Got beaten up by a few them when I was in High School. I consider this payback for those years of humiliation."

            Kitty felt herself smiling at Mr. Harris's humor. It was nice to meet someone so kind, "Thanks again, Mr. Harris."

            "See you in class, Miss Pryde." Mr. Harris said walking away.

            Kitty moved to walked down the hall to first period when she stopped suddenly. How did Mr. Harris know her name? She hadn't given it to him nor had Duncan said her last name. So how did the mysterious shop teacher now of her surname?

            Principal Kelly, Kitty thought angrily, he probably thought all new teachers should be aware of us. But how did Mr. Harris now which one I was?

            It was odd indeed, Kitty thought, perhaps she'd ask Mr. Harris about when she had him two periods from now.

            Then the class bell rung and Kitty realized she was late. With a strangled cry, she began running down the hall. She didn't want to be late; she'd probably get a detention because her Math teacher disliked mutants.

            I wish everyone was more like Mr. Harris, Kitty thought as she reached first period and pushed open the door. She was in her seat right as the bell to start first period rang. She exhaled a breath when she realized she had made it on time.

            The teacher and students were glaring at her, hoping she would've gotten a detention. Kitty felt a little smug at having disappointed them. She was tempted to stick her tongue out at the class, but that would've resolute in a detention.

            So she just smiled. Smugly…

            "Today class, we'll be going to an assemble to meet our new councilor. So we will only be here for ten minutes." The teacher said.

            Kitty bit back a groan. She'd forgotten about the new councilor. Yet another teacher to give us a hard time, she thought unhappily.

            This is not going to be a good school year.

                        "This is not going to be a good school year." Principal Kelly said, pacing the floor in front of the chair where Buffy sat, "We have dangerous mutants in our school and they are a threat to my students."

            Buffy fought back the urge to roll her eyes and tell the annoying principal to shut his big mouth and stop being a prejudice bastard. She'd like to see the look on his when he found out she was voting for mutant freedom.

            Sure the mutants were dangerous, but so was every man, woman and child given the right motivation. The mutants may have powers regular criminals didn't posses, but there was always a way to beat the unbeatable. Hadn't she proved that when she had killed the un-killable First?

            "If I had my way, mutants everywhere would be under lock and key." Kelly went on and Buffy groaned silently.

            God, what was with this guy? He was blaming those people for something they had no power over? God what did Kelly have up his ass?

            Faith would've had an easy answer to Buffy's question: he's obviously not gettin' any from the missus, B.

            At the thought of that Buffy smirked. Kelly caught the smirk and wheeled away from the window to glare at Buffy.

            "You think this is amusing, Miss Summers?" He said angrily.

            Buffy shook her head, "No, sir, I'm just thinking about something my friend said." Or would've said had she met you, she silently added.

            "Well, pay attention. I'm trying to warn you about the dangerous mutants." Kelly said, "Now the Brotherhood-"

            "The Brotherhood, sir?" Buffy questioned, thinking it sounded like a cult name and she would have Willow check into it.

            "A group of mutants." Kelly explained, "But thankfully I was able to expel them. Now the X-Men, however, they were much cleverer and managed to convince the school board not expel them. You'll need to watch out for them. Their names are Kitty Pryde, Jean Grey, Evan Daniels, a girl calling herself Rogue, Kurt Wagner, and Scott Summers…" Kelly broke of and glared at Buffy, "Are you by anyway related to the mutant? Robin Wood assured me you had no special powers."

            How could Robin possibly know this man? Buffy wondered and then remembered that Robin had said something about Kelly being the most detestable man he knew.

            "No, sir, I'm not related to any mutant." And if I was I wouldn't tell you, you mean, mean person, "Summers is just a very common name. I know a girl from Nebraska who's surname name is Kelly."

            "Alright." Kelly said and let it slide, "Now, Miss Summers, I don't want you to be kind to them. They are mutants and must feel that they are unwelcome because they are. Do you understand what I'm telling you?"

            Buffy Summers, Bayville High's new councilor, thought to its principal: bite me. There was one man she wouldn't be in a hurry to save had he been attacked by vampires.

            But she answered with a forced smile, "Of course, sir." Blow it up your ass, sir.

            Kelly nodded, not even suspecting Buffy's thoughts and said, "Good then, we'll go down to the assembly and show you the students of Bayville High."

            Buffy nodded and stood, feeling as if she sat in that leather chair for another minute she might break the cardinal rule of the Slayer: don't kill humans. Maybe she'd talk to Giles and see if she could a loophole in that rule.

            "Let's go, sir. I'm ready to meet by public." Buffy said, striding to the doors behind Kelly.

            "I believe you are going to like it here, Miss Summers." Kelly said, pushing open the doors to his officer. Buffy forced the grin to stay on her face.

            I doubt it.

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