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Authors Note: Sorry for the long wait for this chapter! I've been meaning to get it up sooner, I just never got the chance!
Nyltiak: I'm glad you like this thing so far! I was hoping that people would like me getting Todd and Toad together. I'm trying to blend the two worlds of X-men together so that it seems like it could be true but it's really hard!
On with the story!
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"Does anyone else know?" Todd asked. Toad nodded.
"Wanda. We write letters t' each other sometimes." Toad said. Emily came in from the hallway. She looked happily from Todd to Toad with a grin.
"Are you two brothers?" She asked. The two looked dumbfoundedly at each other, then at Emily.
"Uh…" Todd said confusedly. Toad matched the look with one of his own.
"No." Toad said as he snapped out of his stupor. He lead Emily to the far end of the kitchen. Toad sat down on one of the chairs and Emily climbed up onto his lap. Todd just watched as Toad dialed the phone and pressed it to his ear.
The phone rung twice before it was picked up.
"Password?" a voice asked. Toad rolled his eyes.
"Shu' up Dime. I need t' talk t' 'Stique." Toad sighed.
"Why not me? I'm not good enough to talk to?" Dime asked in a fake hurt voice.
"Fine. Yeh wanna do wha' I need done?" Toad asked with an evil look on his face.
"Yeah!" Dime said excitedly.
"Okay. I need yeh t' fly the 'copeter t' th' Bayville safe'ouse an' pick me an' Emily up." Toad said with a grin.
"Uh… I'll go get Mystique for you." Dime said hurriedly. He waited and listened as the phone was put down on something and Dime ran off. After a few minutes the phone was picked up again.
"Toad?" It was Mystique
"I need yeh t' come an pick me an' Emily up." Toad said. He really wanted to leave and get home. Before Magneto got any ideas.
"Where are you?" She asked. He heard her yawn and figured she had just been sleeping.
"Bayville safe'ouse. The girl's 'ere wif me too." Toad said as he felt Emily shift around on his lap. She was getting comfy and probably falling asleep. Toad was uncomfortably aware that Todd was still standing on the counter, watching him.
"I'll clear it with Magneto and call you back." Mystique said with another yawn.
"See yeh son. An' Mystique? Ge' a drink a coffee, eh?" Toad grinned. He knew she was probably rolling her eyes as they both hung up.
"What did she say? You leaving?" Todd asked. Toad shrugged as he ran his hand through Emily's hair. Todd nodded his head at Emily.
"She yours?" He asked quietly. Emily had fallen asleep.
"Toad decided not to answer. For a few moments they both sat there, the only sounds the ones of the teenagers in the living room getting into a fight.
"Maybe if you put that damned guitar down and got your mind off Kitty for five minutes Mystique wouldn't ignore us!" Someone yelled.
"I don't see you doing anything to get on her good list!" Another yelled back. Wanda walked in looking bored.
"This 'appen often?" Toad asked. Wanda nodded as obvious sounds of a scuffle broke out.Toad stood up and passed Emily to Todd as he left the room
" 'old 'er fer a sec." He said as he went back towards the living room. It was Pietro and Avalanche fighting. Toad separated them by pushing Avalanche away and lifting Pietro up by the scruff of his neck.
"Knock I' off! I's no one's fault tha' 'Stique's lef'! She's jus' bloody busy! You goons ain' th' center o' th' bleedin' universe!" Toad told them angrily. They were all watching him talk interestedly.
"What's she been doing that she's so busy?" Tabitha asked.
"I already told yeh. Mag's go' 'er posin' as Senetor Kelly so tha' Mutant Registration Bill won' ge' passed." Toad said. He looked down the hallway as the phone rang.
"So knock it off before I knock yeh all ou'. Mystique ain't been ignorin' yeh." Toad said before dropping Pietro. Before leaving the room he gave Pietro a death stare.
"I will follow through on tha' threa'." Toad growled as he walked out. Toad walked down the hallway towards the kitchen again. Wanda had picked the phone up.
"Here he is, eh was just breaking up a fight."
"Yeah, Pietro and Avalanche again."
"They were blaming each other for you leaving."
"Yeah, really. Well here he is." Wanda passed the phone to Toad. He pressed it to his ear.
"Well? Wha' Mag's say?" He asked.
"You're to stay there. They need an adult in the house and from what I hear they listen to you." Mystique said.
"On'y 'cause I threaten t' kill 'em if they don' bugger off." Toad sighed.
"Still. Magneto wants you to stay there, at least for a while. They need someone to train them, and he says you'd be the best person for the job." Mystique said. He could almost hear her smiling through the phone.
"It'd be easier there. Then 'Tooth'd be able t' 'elp. God knows tha' he'd 'ave fun wif 'em. 'Sides, wha' am I gonna do wif the girl 'ere? She shouldn't be raised 'round those two twits." Toad was grasping at straws.
"We could always send Pyro to help you. God knows Magneto's getting sick of him burning things." Mystique said. "And it wouldn't be any better for Emily to be raised on the island. At least there she'd have a chance at meeting a few kids her own age." Mystique pointed out.
"Rae, yeh can' seriously be thinkin' 'bout leavin' me 'ere! An' sendin' Pyro! Tha's a death sentence in i'self." Toad said frantically. He could hear Mystique laughing under her breath on the other end of the phone line.
"Magneto's orders, Mort. Nothing I can do about it. Sorry!" Mystique said, hanging up.
"No yer no'." Toad said angrily as he hung it up.
"So what's the verdict, yo? You stayin' or leaving?" Todd asked. He looked depressed.
"Mag's is makin' me stay." Toad said sullenly. His mind went over everything he had been in the process of building that now would probably not be finished. He couldn't help but sigh in defeat.
Todd and Wanda, however, looked glad that he was staying. Toad didn't know why though. He walked over and took Emily into his own arms.
"I'm goin' ou'. I'll be back later." Toad said.
"Where you going?" Wanda asked.
"Out." Toad replied.
"You don't know your way around yet though. You might get lost." Wanda pointed out.
"Daddy?" Emily muttered from Toad's arms. "Is Mr. Magneto coming to get us?" She asked. Wanda and Todd didn't look surprised in the least that Toad was Emily's father.
"No. We're gonna be stayin' 'ere fer a while." Toad said to her. She looked really happy.
"Does that mean I get to go to school?" She asked excitedly. Toad looked at the two teenagers with his eyebrow raised and they returned the look. She actually wanted to go to school?
"Uh.. maybe. I'll 'ave t' think abou' it." Toad replied.
"Yay! I get to go to school! I get to go to school! I get to go to school!" Emily went around the house singing that to herself and elicting many a strange look from the occupants. They had never before seen someone so eager to go to school, but then again they'd never met anyone with Emily's past either.
"I'll show you where you guy's can stay." Wanda offered. Toad nodded and grabbed Emily on the way up. She was still pretty much jumping off the walls.
They followed Wanda up a single flight of stairs to the second floor. She pointed to two rooms on their right.
"Those can be your rooms." She said, then pointed to the two doors in front of them.
"Those are Freddy's room on the left, and Lance's room on the right." She pointed to the door to their right.
"That's the bathroom. Upstairs are mine, Todd's and Pietro's rooms along with the attic." She said. Emily ran into one of the rooms that Wanda said they could use.
"I get my own room?" She asked from the doorway. Toad walked over and looked into the room. It wasn't big, but it wasn't tiny either. It was a good size for a bedroom for one person, maybe two if you really tried and got bunk beds in there.
"Yeah, you get your own room." Wanda said as if it was the most obvious thing in the world. Emily didn't care though, the fact she had an entire room to herself was like Christmas came early to her and she was going to let everyone know.
"This is the best day ever!" Emily laughed and ran in. She flopped down on the single bed in the room and stared at the ceiling. Toad couldn't help but wonder what she was thinking.
"She gets excited really easily, huh?" Wanda said. Toad shrugged.
"I guess. I've on'y known 'er fer a few days now." He muttered. This astounded Wanda as she had figured, from how close the two seemed, that they had been together for years if not Emily's whole life.
"Well… I'll, uh. Leave you two to get settled in." Wanda said as she sat down. Toad walked into what was now Emily's room and sat on the bed beside her.
"You still owe me bacon and eggs." Emily said suddenly. She sat up and looked up at Toad. "You never got to make them for me. The X-Geeks came and took us away and brought us here before you could make them." Emily pointed out.
"Where'd yeh 'ear tha' name fer 'em?" Toad asked her. He himself had called them that, but not around her yet.
"Lance called them that." Emily said, pointing at the door. Toad smiled in spite of himself. He should have known…
"But you owe me bacon and eggs!" Emily insisted.
"I do, don' I?" Toad said. Now that he thought about it, he did indeed owe her that. But he highly doubted that there'd be much food in the cupboards.
"We need t'go shopping." Toad said.
"Yay! Shopping! Can Tabitha come? Please please please please please can Tabitha come?" Emily pleaded. Toad hadn't wanted Tabitha to come with them, but he guessed that it would be a good idea to have someone from the house along so he would know what they needed.
"I guess…" Toad started.
"Yay! I'll go tell her!" Emily jumped off the bed and ran out the door before Toad could even start to think about what had just happened.
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Toad, Emily, and Tabitha all walked into the Bayville mall. Emily and Toad were wearing image inducers Emily had stolen from her brief stay at the X-mansion and Toad had fixed them so that they'd look as if their skin colour was simply normal.
"You two need clothes! That's first on our list!" Tabitha said, immediately taking charge and pulling them into the first clothing store she saw, which was for children. She made a big show, Toad would later guess to make it fun for Emily, of picking out clothes and looking at them. Emily soon joined in and at first would demand that Toad tell her what he thought about the clothes, but finding him unresponsive she abandoned him and started asking Tabitha.
"So how much money can we spend on clothes, or is there a specific reason for coming here?" Tabitha asked Toad suddenly. It took him a little while to figure out what had been asked and what the answer was.
"Uh… don' matter t' me. Mag's is th' one who pays fer I'." Toad shrugged. A glint came over Tabitha's eyes that immediately regret telling her that little bit of information. Once Tabitha and Emily had chosen out a couple of outfits for Emily Toad found out he really regretted telling her that, because next Tabitha was determined to find Toad some clothes.
"You're going to help look for clothes with me. If you don't, I'm going to choose them and make you look like a pimp." Tabitha threatened. Not wanting to be dressed as a pimp, Toad immediately started sifting through the clothes. The only thing that he was glad about was that he was almost sure no one he knew would come by, and if they did they wouldn't recognize him.
"Hey! Tabitha, like who's the guy and why haven't you, like, introduced me yet?" Toad and Tabitha looked up to see a teenage girl dressed in preppy clothes come up with a great big smile on her face. Toad had a sneaking suspicion she was trying to flirt with him.
"Kitty! Hi! This is a guy that just joined the Brotherhood!" Tabitha said immediately. Toad didn't want to talk to this girl, because he knew she was one of the X-men.
"So what's your name and where are you, like, from?" Kitty asked. She walked over and stood beside Toad and flipped a strand of her hair from in front of her face.
"Yup, definitely flirting with me." Toad thought to himself.
"Chip, an' I'm, uh, from Canada." Toad said the first thing that came to his mind.
"Wow! You're Canadian! That's, like, far away!" Kitty exclaimed. "That's so cool!"
"Uh…" Toad didn't know what to say. The only thing he knew was that he was getting really uncomfortable and really wanted to get away.
"What d'you think about this shirt?" Emily came over and showed Toad a shirt. It was black, with the West Coast Choppers logo on it.
"And who's this?" Kitty squealed. Emily grinned.
"I'm his -"
"Sister! Younger sister." Toad interrupted Emily before she could say 'daughter'. He gave her a look that said to play along.
"Yeah, I'm his little sister." Emily nodded. She liked playing make-believe.
"Wow, so you're both, like, Canadian? Wonder if you know Logan, he's Canadian too! I can go get him!" Kitty nodded.
"No! You don't need to do that! You know what Logan thinks about brotherhood members." Tabitha exclaimed. Toad continued trying to make his way to the door while looking like he was looking at the clothes. Tabitha saw him though, and pulled him back towards where her and Kitty were talking.
"True. I guess I'll leave you guy's to your shopping. Scott's probably throwing a conniption fit wondering where I am." Kitty grinned at the thought. Toad couldn't help but grin at the thought of it too.
"Okay, see you." Tabitha said. She jabbed her elbow into Toad's side.
"Bye." He muttered. Emily waved happily.
"So, Chip, lets go and pay for this stuff." Tabitha said with an evil grin.
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