Tiegan looked at the mansion through the gates "Well looks like you're here now Teeg, so what are ya waitin for?" Tiegan said to herself. She looked around, bit her lip and turned to walk away from the gates. "Did ya want something kid?" came a voice behind her.

Tiegan turned round "No I was just partida, uh leaving"

"Hey you Tiegan?"

"Uh yea"

"LOGAN LOGAN LOGAN! IS THAT HER IS THAT THE NEW GIRL!?" shouted Rachel as she ran towards where Logan and Tiegan were stood. Tiegan looked at the little girl, "Uh yea my names Tiegan" Rachel never stopped running but now she had her arms out and was running straight at Tiegan. Tiegan took a step back, as she past him Logan grabbed the back of Rachel's shirt collar. Rachel made a noise and stopped "Not so fast squirt" Logan said not letting her go

"Dude what you tryna do kill me?"

"If I tried to kill you you'd know about it"

"Uhm scuse me I don't mean to interrupt but I am still standing here" Tiegan said causing Logan and Rachel to look at her. "Yea right, squirt show 'er to the profs office"

"What why me?"

"Cause then ya can get to know 'er can't ya, now get"

"Alright I'm goin, c'mon Tiegan it's this way," Rachel said motioning for Tiegan to follow her. Tiegan waved at Logan as they passed.

"Right that's the rec room, its where we ya know watch TV and stuff, so got any nicknames? Pets? Boyfriend? Girlfriend? Best friend? What?" Rachel said as they passed the rec room door. Tiegan looked at her "Uhm yea, no, no, no, and no"

"To bad, so what's ya nickname?"

"Uh my brother calls me Teeg and his friends call me midget"

"Hmm I think we'll stick with Teeg"

"Good choice"

After Tiegan talked to the professor Rachel showed her the rest of the mansion. When they got to the garden Ray, Bobby and Jamie were back. "Oh hey that's Ray, Bobby and Jamie" Rachel said pointing at them.

"Yea I met them in town they told me where to find this place, say is Jamie always so quiet?"

"What ya mean quiet?"

"Ok watch this" Tiegan said and they walked over to where the boys were. "Hey Bobby, Ray, Jamie" Tiegan said waving. Bobby and Ray both said "Hey" but Jamie just stood there.

Tiegan looked at Rachel who was waving her hand in front of Jamie's face, she pointed at him "That's what I mean" she said. Rachel looked over her shoulder at Tiegan "Damn girl what'd ya do to him?" she said.

"I did nothing Rach" Tiegan answered.

"C'mon Jamie snap outta it" Rachel said and smacked him upside the head. Five more Jamie's appeared and they all just stood staring. "Jamie boy don't make me hurt you" Rachel said and picked up a stick (all you need to know about the stick incident is there where a few more Jamie's after she'd finished). Tiegan looked at Bobby "She always hit him?"

"Who Rachel? She hits everyone"

While Rachel was busy Tiegan decided she would get to know Bobby and Ray "So I know your name but I dunno nothing else, so age? Powers? Code name? Girlfriend? Boyfriend? Favorite band? Song?" Tiegan said pointing to a different finger for each question. "Wow ok ok uh 14, I can project intense cold and turn moisture in the air to ice, Iceman, sorta, defiantly not, not really got one, same as the last" Bobby said. Tiegan nodded and looked at Ray "What? Oh right uh same, I can make bolts of electrical energy, Berzerker, nope, nope, same as him, same as him" Tiegan nodded again.

"Well?" Bobby asked

"Well what?" Tiegan said

"Your turn age, powers, code name, girlfriend, boyfriend, band, song"

"Oh right 13, I can like control earth if ya know what I mean I'll explain later, not got one yet, nope, nope, hmm gotta be either Linkin Park or Papa Roach, gotta be breaking the habit or faint by LP or Getting away with murder by Papa Roach"

"That prank was very dangerous Rachel! Someone could have been seriously hurt," Ray said

"I'm sorry," said Rachel looking at the floor

"You need to think before you do these things Rach. We know your just havin fun but next time think about it before you do it" Bobby said,

"I will I'm sorry" She said, then Bobby and Ray sat on either side of her "But even though it was very dangerous we still need to say thank you" said Bobby

"I'm sor-what?"

"Your prank helped us look good in front of Teeg so thank you" Ray said

Rachel looked at them and smirked "Maybe I did help but there's always tomorrow. Be careful not to crash and burn boys," she said and walked out of the room, as Tiegan walked in. they waved to each other Rachel had already apologized to Tiegan. Rachel had been trying to prank Ray and Bobby but got Tiegan instead and well you don't need the details lets just say it ended with twenty Jamie's and many wholes in the ground.

Tiegan stood at the door. Ray turned to Bobby and said; "She frightens me" Bobby nodded. Tiegan walked towards them "she's just being a nine year old Ray no reason to be frightened of her. I was exactly the same four years ago"

"You wait Teeg you'll see the torture has only just begun" Bobby said and he and Ray left Tiegan alone. Tiegan shook her head she couldn't believe that any nine year old could be that bad.

Tiegan and Rachel were in the room Bobby and Ray shared. They had one of them machines that fires tennis balls. "Rachel are you sure that Ray and Bobby won't be mad?" Tiegan asked as she held the manual up for Rachel to read. "Nah, don't worry girl they won't be mad at all. Now hold it a bit higher I can't see it"

"Ok first we aim" Rachel said and moved the machine so it was pointing towards the door, "Then we load the paint balloons"then her and Tiegan ducked down behind Ray's bed. Ray opened the door "And then we press the button" Rachel said to Tiegan and hit the switch. A water balloon filled with pink paint hit the wall just next to Ray's head.

Rachel stood up "How did I miss!" she said and pressed the button two more times, each time the balloons just missed Ray's head. "I need to read the manual" Rachel said and started to walk towards the door. "Wait aren't you going to clean this mess up?" Ray said, Rachel looked at the pink splodges on the walls. "It's you room" she said and walked past him. Tiegan shrugged and followed Rachel. "Rach" Tiegan said as she followed Rachel down the corridor, Rachel was talking to herself about what to do next.

While Ray was trying to clean the pink paint off the walls Bobby came in. He looked at the wall then at Ray "What happened?" he asked.

"One of Rachel AND Tiegan's pranks she missed me though"

"She missed? Rachel never misses"

"I told you man lucky shirt"

"Man I'm tellin ya that girl has some serious issues" Ray said to Scott as they drove home from school. "Ray she's just having fun you know she gets picked on at school because they know she's a mutant"

"Yeah but why does she have to pick on me man why not you"

"Do I need to remind you about what happened when I had to baby-sit her"

"Yeah ok well why not Roberto or ya know anyone who isn't me"

Meanwhile at the institute Tiegan and Rachel where doing their next prank. "I dunno Rach this seems uh kind of dangerous" Tiegan said as Rachel connected some wires to a metal chair "Nah, its totally safe Teeg" she said then put a glove on and picked up a pencil off the table. She touched the chair with the pencil, which was sort of fried. Rachel smiled but Tiegan didn't look convinced that this was safe.

Then the door opened and Rachel hid the glove and fried pencil under the couch. "Ray! My teacher at school is making me do a project about my family so I need to take your picture, sit there" she said and pointed at the metal chair.

Ray shrugged and sat down. Tiegan and Rachel looked at each other then at Ray. Rachel threw the camera on the couch and grabbed Ray's arm then pulled him off the chair. "What happened? Why didn't it work" she said then picked up an apple off the table. She dropped the apple on the chair and the apple turned black and smoke started to rise from it. "I don't get it why does it work on the apple but not the dumbass" Rachel said looking at Ray.

Ray smiled and pointed at his shirt "Lucky shirt" he said. Rachel glared at him

"Then the shirt will have to go" she said and stormed off.

"I'm never takin it off!" Ray called after her

"WE'LL SEE!" she shouted back.

Over the next few days no matter how hard Rachel tried she just couldn't get Ray or his shirt. But today was different. Ray was running around the rec room annoying all the new recruits as well as Rogue, Kitty and Scott. "Ray what are ya doin!" Rogue said

"My shirt! Where's my shirt!"

"What shirt?"

"My lucky shirt man!"

Just then Ororo came in. "Ororo have you seen my shirt?!" Ray asked.

"Was it that one you were wearing last week?" Ororo said

"Yeah yeah that's it you seen it?"

"Rachel said you didn't want it anymore, so I gave it to one of those charities"

"WHAT!"

Ray hadn't seen Rachel sneak in behind Ororo and stand on the opposite side of the couch to him. Ray turned round "Rachel!" he said

"Uh oh" Rachel said, Ray started walking towards Rachel. She started screaming and ran the opposite way he was going and stood behind Ororo held her hands up. "Not Ray I'm sure Rachel didn't know the shirt meant that much to you"

"I was just trying to help people less fortunate than us" Rachel said looking all innocent.

"Come on Rachel, you've got soccer practice" Ororo said and walked out the room. Rachel started to follow her then turned and gave Ray one of her 'I-win-you-lose-in-your-face' looks. While Bobby put his hand on Ray's shoulder. "Don't worry man I bet the shirt wasn't lucky anyway"