Disclaimer: Thankfully no one was hurt during the production of this chapter. One stunt man was fired however when he decided to phase through the main computer, effectively ruining it.

Ch 11- Big Blue and Fluffy

"You're home late." Chelsea said as Sarah walked through the door.

"Had something to do."

Chelsea sat on her bed cross-legged looking through a textbook. She had on a pair of blue flannel boxer shorts and a small white tee shirt, a choice of pajamas very much unlike Marie's typical "leave no body part uncovered" style.

Sarah walked over to her bed and sat down. She morphed into the seductively beautiful scaly blue form of Mystique. Getting her textbook out of her backpack she leaned back against the headboard and began reading. After a short while Chelsea looked up to see what Mystique was doing.

"Why are you doing the homework?"

"To keep up appearances, so people don't get suspicious… Rogue was a good student too," Mystique added, "I'm glad to see you doing the homework"

"Huh? Oh hell no! This ain't homework." Chelsea shifted the book that was in her lap.

"Then what are you – WHY DO YOU HAVE MY ANATOMY BOOK?" Mystique yelled.

"Research"

"Why…"

"Well because I have to make sure I know how to do this right incase Marie's pansy-ass boyfriend has me go see Beast."

Under normal circumstances Mystique would have laughed at the way Chelsea referred to Bobby. She didn't think too highly of him either. In fact, out of all the mutants she ever mimicked, he was by far the weakest; in mind, strength and power. Oh sure he had potential, but he was young and the potential, untapped.

She always thought it rather odd that Bobby and Rogue were a couple. As far as powers go Rogue had the most potential power of any other mutant teen in that school, though she didn't know it. The problem was that Rogue saw her power only as a curse, so she didn't unleash its power. Bobby used his power and thought he was pretty good. Sure he did okay, but he was young and cocky. Truth be told, Mystique didn't think Bobby would amount to anything great, just a regular x-man, if you could call them regular. Rogue could be powerful. Just as Professor Xavier was known as the most powerful telepath, Rogue could become just as powerful with her own mutations, if she just learned to not fear it.

Snapping back to reality Mystique looked at Chelsea sitting on the bed in front of her. "And why would you need to see Beast?"

"Well… Because I got in an accident and hit my head, well Rogue did at least."

"You WHAT?" That last statement quickly grabbed all of Mystiques attention.

"Hey I had to. Okay, okay I was with Kitty, John, and Bobby today and they started talking about stuff, like stuff Rogue would know. When I didn't join in and all they started wondering why. I had to say something. So I said something happened to make me not remember stuff."

"So what did you tell them?" Mystique looked like even though she asked she really didn't want to know.

"Well I told them that I was in a car accident when I went home and I can't remember chunks of stuff. I figured that would be a good cover because if I don't know something else I have an excuse."

"They believed you?"

"Yeah they bought it. They were actually worried and said I should go see Beast to get checked out. I told them no cause I already saw a doctor, but they may make me tomorrow anyway."

"Hmmm… We'll you're smarter than I thought—"

"Um, thanks?"

"—Still we need to do something with Beast."

"Like what? Kill him?"

"As much as I'd love to," Mystique hid a chuckle, "no we can't, not this time anyway. Still we need to do...hmm…hmmm… Okay tomorrow your second class is with Kitty right?"

"Yeah why?"

"After your class walk with her over to the pond. I'll bump into you both there and I'll pretend to be Beast."

"Okay, that sounds much easier than what I had planned. But um what if Beast, I mean the real beast shows up?"

"He won't. At that same time he has a literature class that I'm supposed to be in."

"Oh cool, okay we'll run into you there."

"Just make sure you bring Kitty. She will end up telling Bobby that Dr. McCoy checked you out."

"No prob, I can do that."

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The following day seemed to go off without a hitch. Kitty was talking to Rogue throughout second period anyway, so when the class finished they carried on the conversation all the way to the pond.

"Mr. Wagner looked really hot today. I love it when he wears that suit. I'm so lucky to have him for three classes this semester." Chelsea figured Marie had to hear this from Kitty constantly, she had already heard it four times today.

"You better not let Piotr hear you say that."

Kitty blushed, "Oh I don't mean nothing by it. Mr. Wagner is hot, but I really like Piotr. I can't believe it has only been three weeks! I feel like I have known him forever. Do you feel like that with Bobby? I mean I know you have been dating for what, like nine months now, but when you guys first started dating did it feel like that?"

Holy shit. This Marie chick has been with that loser for nine months?! Is she insane? "Yes" Rogue said, quickly trying to recover. "Of course it feels like that." You've met Iceboy, every minute with him feels like forever!

"I really like Piotr. Oh yesterday morning I went into my first period class and there were flowers at my desk. It was a big bouquet of baby sunflowers, my favorite. Did you see the card that was with them?" She pulled a small flower card from her pocket. "I've been carrying it with me, here read it."

Rogue took the card from her and read it. 'One flower for every time I've thought of you today. Piotr'.

"Isn't he romantic?" Kitty exclaimed half dreamy eyed as Rogue handed her back the card.

Rogue smiled, "Oh, he's so sweet." And so damn original, because a girl hasn't ever heard that line in the movies before!

They turned the corner after the long hedgerow toward the pond. A little way off Chelsea could see Beast. "Ow" Rogue exclaimed and grabbed her head. "Gosh that hurt."

"Are you okay?" Kitty asked worried.

"Yeah I just got a lil' pain, but it's gone now."

"You should go see someone about that. Hey look there's Beast, maybe he can help, come on." Before Rogue could insist she was fine Kitty grabbed her hand and took off running toward Hank.

Man this girl has a grip. Rogue thought as she tried to keep up with Kitty who was still holding her hand half dragging her. I can walk on my own ya know. Then she saw it.

"Kitty" She didn't slow, but still kept running straight for Beast seemingly unaware of the small iron fence she was running toward, Rogue in tow.

"Kitty…"

"KITTY…" Rogue pleaded as they got closer to the fence. Kitty however was not stopping. Rogue tried to stop, but the momentum of Kitty running at full speed made it impossible for her. All she could do was tense her body and get ready for impact. But there was no impact. Kitty ran right through it, and so did she.

"Holy Shit." Surprisingly this outburst seemed to get Kitty's attention. She slowed to a walk.

"What?" She asked a stunned Rogue.

"The fence. I know you can phase through stuff, but I just did too."

"I told you I have been practicing I can phase lots of stuff through things with me. I can even phase Piotr as long as he doesn't go 'Full Metal Jacket' on me during it.

Rogue chuckled.

"Hey Dr. McCoy" Kitty yelled and waved to Beast. He turned and smiled at both girls. As he walked over to them his eyes flashed yellow at Marie. Kitty didn't notice, but it was enough to show Chelsea this was in fact Mystique, not Beast.

"Can you check out Rogue's head, she had an accident."

Beast chuckled, "Sure, Marie, what happened?"

"It's nothing really" she said looking at Kitty. Turning back to Beast she continued, "I was hit by a car, I've already been checked out though and the Doc I saw said I would be okay."

"She has forgotten stuff." Kitty exclaimed.

"Yeah but the Dr. guy said it wasn't permanent."

"Hmmm." Beast pulled his hand up to stroke his chin in thought.

"Show him the stitches." Beast looked surprised when Kitty said that.

"Stitches?" Beast asked, She never said anything about stitches yesterday.

Marie sat on a nearby bench and bent her head over so they could better see the stitches.

"Hmm" Beast looked intently at the wound. After a short time he sat down on the bench beside her. "Well," He began, "the good news is you'll live." He smirked at his humor and looked at the area again. After he inspected her head once more he said, "This part of your brain controls your long term memory. So if you bruised that it would explain the memory loss. Judging from the extent of bruising on your skull I would say you will probably begin to remember things after it heals completely. That could be a few weeks, maybe even a few months."

"Months!!" Kitty was astounded.

"Yes but it does not appear to be anything serious. I am of course saying all of this without having examined you properly in the med office. Usually I would take a CAT scan of your head and inspect it further; however the Doctor that saw you seems to have done a great job. The stitching is flawless"

"Well that's good." Marie said.

"Yes I wouldn't worry about it too much, your memory will come back; most likely it just needs a little time to heal. If you need, come see me in a week or so, I'll check it out once more. Then we can see about how much longer before we take those stitches out."

"Okay, thanks."

"You're very welcome"

Zz I do not tolerate truancy in my classes Miss Pryde. zZ

"Oh shoot the professor! I'm late for class! Bye guys see you at dinner!" Kitty took off running for her class, phasing through everything that got in her way. When she got near the building she didn't head for the door as any normal teen would. Kitty, like all the teens there was not normal. Instead she phased right through the classroom wall.

Chelsea rolled her eyes before turning back to Beast, who was once more the young, attractive Shape. "It's a good thing Kitty doesn't have much medical knowledge, and it's a darn good thing you didn't run into the real Hank McCoy."

"Why?"

"Well for starters doctors haven't done a stitching job like that in probably fifty years. Your lead looks like the stitches on a football, not on a real person. They're also in the wrong place. If you had gotten hit there, you would have most likely lost your eyesight not your memory."

"Oh… Well Kitty seems oblivious to everything. I think the whole ruse went over her head." Mystique stopped dead and glared at Chelsea once she said this. "What?"

"You haven't spent much time with Kitty I'm assuming."

"No why?"

"There are a very select few students here that actually are considered X-Men. She is one of them, and she is the youngest. I have watched her fight many times and rarely have I seen her lose. Don't underestimate her; she has a genius mind and great fighting power."

"I could win a fight with her."

"I wouldn't be too sure. She is a genius, like I said, so just be careful. She isn't oblivious, just discreet. She is probably the only one in this school that could actually figure you out. Watch out for her. She's a good friend of Marie's, and you should keep Marie's friends close and your enemies closer. Just be careful."

"Okay I will be more cautious, but I think you need to talk to me a bit more about these people I'm spending time with. I need to know what I'm dealing with."

"I'll tell you as much as I know about them. But right now we both have a class with Logan so hurry up. Oh and I think it's a good idea to get away from the accident topic with your friends."

"My friends, yeah right." And with that they both ran to class.

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Author's note:

Few things. First I'm very sorry for the chapter being so late. I was trying to see if anyone else would reply to my question, but no luck. Then school, and I wanted to learn more about the characters before I began writing about them. I wouldn't want to write something like Jubilee can fly when many people would correct me and say she can't. Anyway. Sorry for the delay.

Zz zZ Means that this is the professor talking in one's mind. Sorry if this messes anyone up. I can't find anything else that will work on ff, if you know of something please let me know!!

Lastly, I am always open to suggestions, so please if you have one email me. My address is and incase ff doesn't let us post email addy's then it's SimonLuke26 (at) msn (dot) com hopefully you can see that one. Until next chapter

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