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Rahne yawned as she opened her wardrobe. A small animalistic growl caused her to look down. In the kitchen everyone else was eating breakfast. Jean and Rachel glaring at each other. Jean had washed her hair enough for the silver to almost have completely gone but the black was exactly the same. Everyone looked at the door when Rahne screamed. Everyone got up and ran upstairs and towards Rahne's room. Rachel for some reason, which nobody really knows, was the first there. Rahne was leaning on her bedroom door holding her arm.

"Rah, what happened? Are you ok?" Rachel asked

"There's some crazy squirrel thing in there" Rahne said

"Oh my god! Rah you're bleeding!" Rachel said pointing at Rahne's arm.

"Yea the little bastard bit me" Rahne explained. Jean appeared behind Rahne and grabbed her un-injured arm. "Come on Rahne you better go see Mr McCoy"

Rachel stood in front of her class holding her essay. She looked at her teacher who said, "Alright Rachel read your essay" Rachel looked at her classmates and cleared her throat.

"My Christmas Vacation by Rachel Smith.

It was about three weeks before Christmas and the day I had been waiting for since school finished, it was the day Scott said he'd take me to see Santa Claus.." some of the girls at the back of the room cheered. "But Scott decided to ditch me and go out with Jean instead." The same girls at the back said "Oooh that-"

"Girls!" the teacher warned

"But its ok I asked Mr Logan to take me instead he said 'Hell no' and Miss Ororo told him it would be a good opportunity for him to spend some 'quality time' with me. So Mr Logan n me went to the mall and we waited in line for half an hour. Mr Logan doesn't like waiting. FINALLY it was our turn to see Santa" Cheer from girls at the back, in case you din work it out their Rachel's friendies.

"I went n sat on Santa's knee and started telling him what I wanted for Christmas. Then Mr Logan grabbed my arm and pulled me away from Santa and Santa started yelling at Mr Logan. You shouldn't ever yell at Mr Logan. So Mr Logan and Santa yelled at each other then Mr Logan PUNCHED SANTA." Every child in the class including the teacher gasped.

"IT WAS SO COOL SANTA WENT LIKE THIS" Rachel said like it was the best thing she'd ever seen in her life and moved her head like she'd just been punched. "THEN SANTA PUNCHED MR LOGAN AND HE WENT LIKE THIS" and moved her head ever so slightly to the right. "And then Mr Logan hit Santa again and Santa started bleeding!" by now all the children who loved Santa were reduced to tears. "Eventually the security got Mr Logan away from Santa and then we left and when we got home Scott asked if we had fun so I told him that Mr Logan hit Santa and he started yelling. And Mr Logan said Santa was drunken n he din like the way he was lookin at me, and he called Santa a dirty old pervert. Then Miss Ororo shouted at him then Mr Professor shouted at him. And that was my Christmas vacation" Rachel said and grinned like a Cheshire cat. "Oh yeah n I made a song it goes I saw Logan beating Santa Claus underneath the mistletoe" she sang in the tune of 'I saw mommy kissing Santa'.

"Well uh very nice Rachel…I uh think" her teacher said. Her teacher then left the room and went to the office asking for them to call the Professor for a parent teacher meeting.

At the end of school Rachel's teacher told her to wait. Rachel sat on her chair swinging her legs. Then Logan walked in. she looked at him "LOGAN!" she shouted and ran and grabbed him round the waist. Logan pealed her off of him and said, "Sit down squirt" so she did. Rachel sat on the floor at Logan's feet. Logan knelt down and whispered "On a chair" Rachel giggled and got up and went back to her chair dragging Logan with her.

Her teacher and Prof X came in and heard Rachel say "I thought you said you weren't goin to come pick me up"

"Logan is here for a meeting with me Rachel," her teacher said.

"Oh, Hi professor!" Rachel said noticing his royal wheelyness. Logan sat on a chair in front of the teacher's desk next to Prof X.

"Now Professor, Logan I asked you to come here because of this," she said handing Rachel's essay to Prof X. He read it then passed it to Logan "Oh dear" his wheelyness said. "Logan as you probably know Rachel looks up to you, she respects you. Now she has seen you uh attack Santa Claus"

"It wasn't Santa Claus lady, it was some drunken fat git in a red suit"

"Yes maybe but the children think those men really are Santa" the teacher insisted

"No we don't" Rachel said from the back of the room.

"Some of the children do"

"That's just the ones who have really mean parents that lie to them," Rachel said walking to the front and standing next to Logan. "Mr Logan never lies to me he told me that wasn't the real Santa because Santa's re-" Logan covered Rachel's mouth with his hand

"That's enough squirt," he said.

"Yes well Logan I don't think you are setting a very good example for Rachel. You are making her think that fighting is good. Here we try to encourage the children to 'turn the other cheek' so to speak"

"Fighting is fun! Specially when ya win," Rachel said smiling, her teacher sighed

"Rachel we have had this discussion before. Fighting is not right"

"But Mr Logan sa-"

"Yes Rachel you have told me. You see this is what I am talking about she believes that because you fight with people then it is all right" her teacher interrupted.

"Listen lady, the kid needs to know how to fight if she don't know how can she defend herself" Logan said becoming angry with the teacher. Who was she to tell him what to do?

"Logan this is what we are trying to teach the children."

"What?! How to get their ass kicked" It was more of a statement than a question

"Logan please" the Professor said

"Logan will you please not use that kind of language around Rachel" the teacher said. She like Logan was becoming annoyed; she couldn't get him to understand what she was talking about.

After a while of getting nowhere with the teacher Logan left her and the professor to talk amongst themselves. Rachel followed Logan to the x-van and quietly sat in the back looking out of the window. She then leaned forward and said, "Sorry if I got you in trouble Logan but they said to write about the best part of my vacation, and that was it" Logan simply nodded, though inwardly he was smiling there was a part of him that was happy she thought being with him was the best part of her vacation and a part of him which was happy she thought it was cool that he beat up the fat bastard pretending to be Santa Claus.

When they got home Rahne was stood waiting for them, there was a bandage on her arm and she looked extremely pissed off. "Rah! Hey how are ya? How's ya arm? What'd ya do to it?" Rachel asked walking towards her friend. She stopped when she saw the way Rahne was looking at her. "Rah? What wrong?" she asked

"Yeah like ye don't know!" Rahne said

"What? Rah I don't understand"

"Don't play dumb Rachel! I know it was you that put that thing in my room"

"What thing?"

"You're un-believable Rachel!" Rahne said then turned and stormed up the stairs. Jean stood at the Rec. Room door smirking. 'That'll teach you to dye my hair black' she thought then turned and went back to watch a DVD with Scott.