Dark circles under ones eyes were something every girl dreaded in the morning, every girl, even Wanda Maximoff. Wanda looked at her ghastly appearance in the mirror, she hadn't been able to sleep last night, or the night before she was still having nightmares and they were seemingly getting worse.

She had hopped that by telling Rogue it would help her but it didn't. Wanda frowned; Rogue had seemed pretty upset after she had told her. Wanda felt bad; she shouldn't have placed her burdens on Rogue like that. But she was desperate, these nightmares were getting worse and worse, she had even started to see them while she was awake. Little things in her day-to-day life started triggering them, it was really starting to annoy the Scarlet Witch.

Attempting to ignore the dreams Wanda decided to concentrate on rubbing the annoying sleep out of her eyes as she walked down the stairs and into the kitchen for some coffee, it was a Saturday, she loved Saturdays, only because everyone slept in and she always woke up early. And that always meant that Miss. Maximoff got the kitchen to herself, cause Logan was in the Danger Room, Ororo was in her garden and the Professor was in his study, he had been in there for a quite a long time. Wanda thought absently as she pulled out her beloved strawberry ice cream. Sitting herself down Wanda stared out the window.

"Good morning Wanda." A hollow voice greeted her.

Lightning flashed and the wind howled, "Father!" she kicked and screamed.

Wanda snapped her head around and greeted her father with a casual smile as she took another bite of her ice cream.

Eric poured himself a cup of coffee and sat down across from Wanda, blocking her view of the window.

"How are you feeling this morning?" He calmly asked her as he took a sip of his coffee casually stirring in some cream and sugar. He looked at the tub of ice cream in she was eating out of and commented "Is that all your having for breakfast?"

"And how are we feeling this morning? More calm?" A female voice asked through a small slit in the door.

"Here's your breakfast." The voice informed her as a plate of food was slid through another slit at the very bottom of the door.

Wanda blinked rapidly quickly returning to reality, "I've eaten worse." She commented lightly. Magneto gave her a strange look, Wanda felt uncomfortable suddenly.

"You'll take what you get girl, until you behave you'll eat scraps." An angry gruff male voice growled at her.

Wanda gasped for air and surveyed the room; there was no one else in there. "Wanda?" Eric questioned.

"I just need some air." Wanda told him getting up and leaving her ice cream alone at the table. She hurriedly left the kitchen tore through the hall way and out the door and took off for the garden, she always felt at peace in the garden.

"Watch her." A male voice ordered.

Wanda began to run.

"Don't let her move her arms, not even a little bit." Another male voice commanded.

She continued to run, shaking her head as if these imaged would be shaken loose from her head.

"Hold her tight!"

"No." Wanda whispered to herself.

"She's getting away!" A voice shouted, they were right behind her as she ran down the echoing halls.

"Please stop." Wanda pleaded as she tightly closed her eyes. She was outside now, she had gone in the opposite direction of the garden but she was still blindly running, trying to escape the images. Why was this happening to her now? Wanda thought.

"There she is! We've got her trapped!"

"Stop." Wanda begged.

"She's not going anywhere now."

Wanda could feel them closing in on her. "No!" Wanda shouted, "Stay away!" She screamed.

"Grab her, don't let her use powers."

"No!" Wanda yelled out not as weak as before.

"Relax, we'll take good care of you." A male voice said kindly.

"You're lying." Wanda screamed out, she kept shaking and grabbing her head.

"Don't worry."

"Stay away from me!" Wanda shouted, sending out a huge blue energy blast, "Just leave me alone!" She screamed again.

"Relax!"

"Wanda are you okay?"

"Wanda!"

"No stop it! Just leave me alone!" Wanda shouted the voice were getting closer, tightly she wrapped her arms around herself.

"Listen to me, it's me. You know me." A voice called to her.

"Stay away." She sent a new blue energy wave out, "Just stay away."

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"Hey…" John greeted meekly. He noticed Kitty slowly turn her head to look in his general direction and was pleased when a small smile appeared on her face. She looked so weak, John thought sadly as he walked over to where she lay. "How are you feeling?" John asked quietly.

Kitty nodded lightly, "I could be better." She informed him, her words were then followed by a wrenching cough. John cringed when he heard it, she sound terrible, and she had almost no voice either.

"I told you should have stayed home from school." John scolded lightly with a smile.

"I had a test." Kitty countered, followed by a second wrenching cough.

"Anything I can get you? Water maybe" John asked her.

Kitty smiled and shook her head and pointed to glass of water the table beside her. She was just so weak. John smiled dumbly as he looked down at his shoes, and then noticing why he had come in here in the first place. "These are for you." John informed the sick young woman as he extended his arm out, with a small bouquet of flowers clasped in his hand.

Smiling warmly Kitty managed to rasp out a small "Thank you."

Looking dumbly around the room John realized there was no were he could set these, and he had dumbly forgotten a vase. "I'll get some water and a vase for them, kay." John told, "I'll be right back, okay?" John told her as he set the flowers on the table next to her bed.

Kitty lifted her hand and meekly waved him good-bye, John smiled as he left her to go up to the kitchen and bring down a vase. Upset with his poor planning, John maintained a smile until he had left Kitty's presence.

Once upstairs John patted himself on the back. He had actually been pretty smooth down there with Kitty. He had done it! The Aussie cheered. He was well on his way. John smiled proudly to himself as he looked through the cupboards for a vase. "Now where the bloody hell do these crazy blokes but them?" John muttered aloud to himself as he shut another cupboard.

"Stay away."

John snapped his head around, and felt a small rumble shake the house. "Oh shit." John thought as he ran to the window. Outside he saw Wanda tightly clutching her head and screaming out to no one and everyone, her body was jerking round each and every way and millions of tiny blue energy balls floated around her.

"Bloody Hell." John shouted as he slammed his fist down on the counter and took off running for Wanda.

"I just bloody knew it would happen eventually." John said under his breath. He felt compelled to help her they were friends after all. At least he considered himself to be her friend. Dam it he treated her to coffee she had better see him as her friend. Her fricken late cappuccino thing was expensive dam it.

John had final reached Wanda, almost all the X-Men were staying a safe distance away from Wanda, out of all of them Rogue looked the most terrified. John ran over to Rogue, knowing her and Wanda were good friends.

"What the bloody hell happened?" John asked Rogue, trying not to shout.

"Ah don' know. She's been starting to remember things and I think she's freaking out, or is trapped. She keeps acting like she's back in the asylum." Rogue informed Pyro.

St. John gulped, Bloody hell what do I do John thought.

"Relax!"

"Wanda are you okay?"

"Wanda!"

John looked over at the others, they were trying to get her attention and help her but it just seemed to hold a negative affect. She didn't recognize their voices, she didn't know them and they didn't know her.

"Listen to me, it's me. You know me." A voice called to her.

"Stay away." She sent a new blue energy wave out, "Just stay away."

"AGGGHHH!" John screamed out as he shielded his body and braced for impact, only it never came. John looked up and saw that Jean a planted energy shield around him at the last moment, how it with stood Wanda's attach he wasn't sure. It could have had to do with he lack of focus, but she was still a deadly force to reckoned with.

"Pyro now it not the time to play hero!" Cyclopes shouted out to John.

John glared at him, "You honestly think she'll listen to any of you?" John shouted back at them in somewhat disgust. "She doesn't even know you guys and you most certainly don't know her. She's my friend now let me help her!" John shouted to them.

Scott was silenced by John he had a point, when Jean's mind had had an overload it was him that brought her back because she knew him and he knew her.

Rouge smiled at John as she attempted to get closer to Wanda.

"Hey Sheila, it's me John." Pyro calmly stated he looked sadly at Wanda. She was still tightly clutching her head and muttering random things to no one and everyone.

"Wanda?" Rogue asked lightly. "It's okay. Were her to help you, calm down."

"I am calm!" Wanda shouted. Sending another blue energy wave out, hitting everyone and everything.

John groaned, "Obviously not the right thing to say." He muttered as he stood back up. "Rogue can you drain her just a little?" John questioned.

"Ah can try." Rogue said lightly as she removed one of her gloves and slowly tried to approach Wanda.

John watched intently as Rogue got more and more near to Wanda, "Come on, clam down Wanda." Rogue told the Scarlet Witch as he almost touched her skin.

"Stay away from me!" Wanda screamed. "Don't touch me! Leave me alone!" Another blue energy wave was sent out this time mainly directed at Rogue, she was sent flying back but Remy was right there to catch her. John smiled timing was everything for that man.

He looked back over to Wanda, and was curious why she wasn't moving. He was seriously starting to panic, who knew how long her body could generate that much power.

"Wanda?" It was Remy who called out this time, "Relax-" Wanda sent a hex bolt in Remy's direction.

"Come on Sheila, relax now-shit!" John shouted as abruptly dodged out of the way, John gulped as he looked onto Wanda with sad eyes.

"Why can't you just leave me alone…" Wanda said in a distant sad tone.

"Because we care about you Wanda." John told her kindly as he attempted to take a few steps closer.

"Lies…" Wanda trailed off as she collapsed down to her knees. "All you've fed me is lies!" Wanda shouted into the ground. John gulped, he was to close to turn back now, he looked back the group Rogue was a couple of feet behind him and the rest stayed back.

"I have never lied to you Wanda." John told her honestly.

"Lies, I don't even know you!" Wanda shouted to him, John's draw dropped in shock how could she not know him. Him of all people.

"Hello, you don't even know me? It's John, and behind me is Rogue. We're your friends Wanda." John informed her, gesturing towards him and then to Rogue, both smiled at the Scarlet Witch.

Wanda looked up at them, her mind was a jumbled mess she couldn't figure out the difference between up and down let alone who her friends were. Wanda let a few tears fall down her face, she was just so confused. Where was she?

"Wanda wait!" A new voice called out to her. Everyone turned his or her heads to see a disheveled Toad hopping franticly towards her.

Now normally seeing Toad hopping like a mad man towards Wanda would have been a normal day for Wanda Maximoff, but today Wanda was not herself. So lost and confused between reality and her thoughts and who were friend and who was foe Wanda made a mistake she would later greatly regret.

Toad came up about ten feet away from Wanda about five feet or so away from where John and Rouge stood. Concern was evident on his face, "Sweetums…"

"STAY AWAY!" Wanda screamed in a panic as she sent a sailing powerful hex bolt right at Toad.

"Shit." John cried out as he quickly without thinking jumped out in front of Toad, pushing him out of the line of fire for Wanda's hex bolt. Both of them cried out in not just shock and surprise but in pain as well. John for mere physical pain, Toad because his own beloved Wanda had tried to kill him.

John lay on the ground motionless for a few moments, some how the whole exchange had pulled Wanda back to reality for a few brief seconds. Using this as her chance Rogue with out a warning ran up to Wanda and drained her to the point that she collapsed. Both girls screamed in pain and terror, once Wanda collapsed Rogue stood over her friend in shock. Shefelt so guilty and bad she just stood there motionless.

"Chere.." Remy said quietly as he walked up closer to her. Rogue looked down at Wanda's motionless body, the guilt was so strong and the pain from Wanda's mind was just to much,she just turned and walked away from her good friend tears in her eyes.

The Professor watched Rogue leave the grounds a pang of guilt hitting him hard. He wheeled up his chair to were John and Wanda lay. "Professor…" Scott tried to explain, but the Professor silenced him.

"I'm very proud of all of you and I'm glad no one was seriously injured. I will see to Wanda and John now, if you could Scott have Hank come up and help." Xavier kindly and politely instructed them.

"Yes sir." Scott said attentively as he jogged towards the house to find Beast. The rest of the students slowly returned back into the house, stealing glances at the fallen Wanda.

John groaned lightly as he came to, he was not happy to see Magneto so close to Wanda but was happy to see Toad was okay. Toad sat next to Wanda and carefully touched her cheek. He looked so sad and helpless John felt bad.

Slowly bringing himself up John groaned in pain, his arm was seriously burning in pain, he couldn't really move it, more than likely it broken knowing him.

"Well Charles…" Magneto trailed off. John looked over towards the too of them.

"Well what?" Charles asked coldly.

"Are you going to erase her memories?" Eric asked simply, John frowned he didn't like the sound of that, neither did Toad.

"Are you crazy! You want this to happen again!" Toad shouted before Xavier had a chance to answer Eric.

"It will not happen again." Eric assured Toad. "This is what's best for her. She doesn't need all that extra rage, she has enough on her own."

"It's not right Eric." Charles commented sadly, his chin resting in his hands.

"What?" Magneto questioned coldly somewhat outraged.

"She has a right to know."

"She has a right to be happy as well. She's happier with out those memories. Now either you do it or I will track down Jason and have him do it." Magneto commanded, John bit his tongue as he watched the exchange between old friends, this wasn't right he thought sadly.

Xavier wasn't exactly sure what was wrong with him, maybe it was because Wanda reminded him so much of Rogue maybe it was because of what Rogue had said to him, or perhaps it was because he never did get his chance to save Wanda. Going against his better judgment Xavier stretched his hand out over Wanda's head and began to concentrate.

John sadly watched for the second time as Wanda's memories, hopes and dreams were all once again erased from her mind. Yet the one key thing on his mind was whether or not she would remember him, the good times they had had together.

Author's Rant: WELLLLLLLL………. I have no idea…I wrote this chapter up and have had it done for a couple weeks now. And I still am not a 100percent about posting it. But I couldn't figure out any other way to go with this story. So meh…let me know what you think. I think maybe I should have had a chapter between this one and the last one but oh well, it would have been a pointless chapter. Well let me know what you think.

Kitty and John – 51

Kitty and Piotr – 36

Kitty and Pietro – 13

John and Wanda – 61

John and Amara – 26

Toad and Wanda – 56

Toad and Tabby – 22

I actually totally spaced on doing the polls. I posted it and than five minutes later I was like OMG I totally forgot about the polls. So I had to remove it and than repost it. Well I hope you guys all enjoy this chapter.

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