Chapter 7
They took the Blackbird to go to O'Toole's once the Bayville school year ended. Everyone had packed a bag and piled into the plane as soon as they were ready. The professor and Ororo sat up front, and Logan and Beast stayed with the kids to entertain them. It didn't take long for them to start singing songs at the top of their lungs, and Logan hunkered down in his seat, looking ready to kill. When asked by Beast if he were all right, Logan snarled that he was fine, but couldn't he shut the kids up? Beast replied that there was nothing he could do about it, they were excited. Logan simply put his hands over his ears and glared at the world until they were flying over Colorado. The kids quieted, becoming increasingly nervous. What would this group be like?
Ororo spotted the campus in the hills below and announced that they were landing now. Silence met her, except for Logan's mutter that it was about time, he'd been getting bored. She glared at him, but he ignored it, watching the school below grow bigger. The kids had plastered themselves to the windows as well, praying that everything was going to go okay.
Little clouds of dust rose as they landed in the front yard, and the crowd of kids and adults waiting on the front steps of the main building shielded their eyes from it. Kurt nervously turned on his holo, hoping and praying that they wouldn't be too freaked out by blue fur once he turned it off.
The Professor rolled down the gangplank once they had landed and settled, and the person that had to be Dr. O'Toole came forward to greet them. With red hair and freckles, he looked as if he were everyone's idea of a best friend.
"Professor Xavier, I presume?" Dr. O'Toole said, holding his hand out to Logan.
Logan simply looked at him and pointed to the professor.
"Oh! Ah, forgive me, Professor," Dr. O'Toole said, offering his hand to the correct man.
"No offense was taken, doctor," the Professor assured him, taking the proffered hand. "It's a pleasure to meet you."
"And a pleasure to meet you," O'Toole answered. "Now, who's who, here?" he asked, gazing past the professor and Logan to the students and teachers still on the gangplank.
Xavier smiled and introduced the adults and then the students. When he got to Kurt, Dr. O'Toole took a moment to tell him just how much he had enjoyed reading the paper that Kurt had faxed him. Once O'Toole was finished, Kurt's fur had gone a deeper shade of blue, a sure sign that he was blushing.
If Kurt was deep blue, then Elizabeth was bright red when she was introduced. Her shyness had begun to disappear at the Institute and Bayville, but in new surroundings with new people, it had returned tenfold. She squeaked that she was happy to meet Dr. O'Toole and hastily took refuge behind Jean.
O'Toole then introduced his faculty and students, and invited the X-men inside.