The next few weeks around the Xavier Mansion were filled with its ups and downs. The students were still mourning the loss of three cherished professors, but the were working to restore the faith and ideals that were left behind. Marie D'Canto, Katherine Pryde, and their fellow older classmates, helped to comfort the younger students until they no longer needed the support that was provided. The school was almost back on its feet, and Ororo Munroe took the time start plotting out the new staff for the facility. That was, of course, before both Marie D'Canto and Katherine Pryde offered to help watch over the school in exchange for more training with their abilities. As Ororo was the eldest, and the most trained of the former Xavier staff, she reluctantly agreed to work with them and would pass on everything that Professor Xavier taught her.

As for the two girls, our story will first look at the girl that called herself Rogue. Marie D'Canto went on to help around the school, with the help of Ororo Munroe and Katherine Pryde. Her relationship with Bobby Drake grew stronger over the time she spent teaching in the school. She took over the position as the resident mathematics teacher, as it was her best and favorite subject at the school. Advanced in mathematics, she taught them absolutely everything she knew and was never bound to give up for anything. She was also taught to control her power, her leech-like stealing of another's life force and power. She also found the time to develop a certain pair of adhesive tape for her lips so as to not take Bobby's life force when she kissed him.

And what of Kitty Pryde, you may ask? Well, she took over the position of English and technology teacher around the school, and with all over her near perfect intelligence, she could not have known about the surprise that Piotr Rasputin had kept hidden from her. About four years after her joining the staff of the school, she was about to receive the shock of her life. On her twentieth birthday, his twenty-third, he burst into one of her classes, a class of about twenty students or so, and, in the presence of those students and also the other staff and faculty of the school that he had invited to join the surprise, he proposed to her on one knee. Graciously, Kitty accepted, and two weeks latter the planned for a late September wedding.