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Kurt, Max, Kitty, and Scott were sitting in the Kitchen. Kitty and Max were next to each other, sitting off to the side, sharing a piece of Ororo's chocolate cake she had made the night before and they had missed out on it because of their date. Kurt had his own large piece and sat across from Scott, who simply had a soda.
Kurt looked over at the second new couple of the institute, and couldn't help but give a small smile.
"Everything ok Kurt," asked Scott, seeing the smile.
Kurt nodded, "Ja, I'm just happy for her. Vhen I heard vhat Lance had hit her, I almost vent after him."
Scott nodded, knowing from the start how Alvers was a bad egg. "Yea, I think most of us were ready, but after hearing her tell us how Max went off, I just wished I could have seen it."
Kurt nodded, "Ja, and maybe get in a couple of hits for you Scott?"
Scott just grinned.
"X-men, please meet in the living room, I have someone to introduce you all to," came the Professor's mental voice.
"Like, more people," said Kitty said with a smile, getting up from her seat. "This place is going to get full at this rate."
"Ja," replied Kurt, trying to balance his plate of cake and fork, not wanting to leave his food behind.
Max just remained seat, "I'll just sit here till you come back, Kitty."
She shook, "nope." She grabbed his arm, "were just meeting more people, so I'm sure the Professor won't mind if you sit in."
"Well, are you sure," asked Max.
Scott nodded from the door, "yea, I'm sure the Professor would have called for all of us, but since the rest of the New Mutants are in the danger room with Logan, he counted them out."
"But," started Max, to be cut off by the Professor once again.
"It's alright Max," they heard, "Your more then welcome to join us."
"See," smiled Kitty, "so like, quit dragging your feet and c'mon." She once again pulled at his arm.
Max sighed as he smiled, if not slightly blushing from embarrassment.
As they approached the doorway to the living room, Jean came down from upstairs. She had been studying for an upcoming test in one of her classes.
She smiled, "hey guys."
Scott of course returned the smile, "hey Jean, how's it going up there?"
Jean groaned as she rubbed her head, "it's being a major pain."
Scott took her hand, "maybe you're just trying to hard."
"Yea, maybe," she replied as they all made there way to the living room.
The older X-men walked into the living room, finding Danny, Rogue, the Professor, and two others none had seen before. They were all sitting, until they walked, in which the one boy in a red beret got up and approached Jean.
"Well," he said, taking Jean's free hand, not even noticing the other in Scott's hand, "Hello, the voices in my head told me to come over and talk to you, and I just had to obey."
Jean's gave a small laugh as she felt a bit of anger tick off from Scott. She managed to pull herself together, "You know, I know that you're lying about the voices."
The boy gave a smile, "and how do you figure that?"
"I'm a telepath," Jean said with a straight face.
A look of nervousness passed over his face as the girl's jaw opened in surprise, then she and Kitty laughed at him, while Danny and Rogue shared an amused look.
And Scott got between then with a bit of force, "and she's also taken."
"Oh, really, heh, sorry, I'll be good," he said, obviously scared of Scott.
Jean pulled him back a bit, "Scott, its ok."
Tucker backed away, trying to keep space between him and the guy he just ticked off.
The Professor smiled as he said, "Everyone, this is Tucker Foley and Samantha Manson. It is possible that they will become enrolled here at the Institute."
"Vhat do you mean, possible," asked Kurt, pausing from his cake.
The Professor replied, "Both Tucker and Sam came to find Danny, who had forgotten to call them over the past week. And I have just a little bit ago, discovered that Mr. Foley is a mutant, with cyberpathic abilities. We will be travel back to Amity Park tomorrow so that I may speak with his parents to allow him to join us. Sam however, is not a mutant, but both Danny and Tucker do not wish to leave their remaining friend behind, so I have agreed that she may be allowed to join us as well."
"Professor," said Kitty jokingly, "at this rate, we might have to expand the mansion."
The Professor smiled, "yes, well, I think we still have a bit of extra room, Kitty." The Professor turned to Tucker and Sam, "these are the oldest students here at the institute, Scott Summers, Jean Grey, Katherine Pryde, Kurt Wagner, and one of the newer students, Max Stanhope." When the Professor pointed to all of them, the each nodded.
Jean asked the Professor, "You said that Tucker was a mutant. How do you know?"
"Ja, and vhats a cyberpath," asked Kurt, a bit confused with the word.
"It seems that Mr. Foley, like Kurt, was born with his gifts," answered the Professor, "and the have begun to grow and evolve further. As for your question Kurt, a cyberpath is simply a telepath, but with computers and electronic devices. Much like Forge being able to create any type of machine, I believe that Tucker will be able to work into any computer system that exists."
"Wow," said Kitty, her geek sided showing a bit, "like, that's cool."
"Hello," said Tucker, reclaiming his voice, "I'm sitting right here."
They all smiled, and the Professor went on, "I felt you should meet our two guests while they remained here for the night, and we will introduce them to the New Mutants after their session with Logan. Until then, Scott and Jean, would you be willing to give Tucker and Sam a tour?"
Jean smiled, "of course." Scott just nodded.
As Tucker and Sam got up and headed for the door, Tucker came up to Scott, "I'm sorry about earlier, if I knew she was taken, I would have kept shut."
Scott smiled at the apology, "hey, it's ok. Believe me, I understand why you would. Just remember she can toss you around with a thought."
Tucker's head tilted to the side a bit, "I thought she was telepath."
Scott just smiled, "Jean is also a telekinetic, meaning she can move things with her mind."
As the groups walked out, they just left a slacked jawed Tucker.
He sighed, slumping his shoulders, "I should have stayed home."
Kitty was flying as fast as she could, her red leather jacket flipping in the wind. She looked over her shoulder to see Johnny's shadow, coming at her. She gasped, seeing it still had the same red eyes.
She flew faster, recalling what was happening.
She and Johnny were making out in the ghost zone; his shadow had gone off to cause someone bad luck, leaving the two-biker lovers alone.
And then he showed up, weapon in hand; the ghost known as Plasmius, in a completely white outfit and with an expression of sadistic pleasure.
For no reason, he began shooting his weapon off at every moving ghost. It didn't matter if they were weak, strong, good, or evil. Once the ghost had been hit, they screamed in pain and agony, then seem to visibly change.
"Capture the others and bring them to me," Plasmius called out. The other ghost bowed to him, and then flew off, grabbing others by the dozens.
Johnny and Kitty had been hidden on a rock surface above them, and he told her to run and find help. At that point, a guard from the ghost prison and another ghost in chains came up and grabbed Johnny. He called for his shadow while she got away.
She heard him a moment later scream in pain.
But now, she was flying for her afterlife, in complete fear. Plasmius not only got Johnny, but his shadow too.
A portal opened in front of her, and Johnny's bike roared out, Johnny sitting on the back of it, his eyes cold.
Kitty stopped, "Johnny?"
And was grabbed from behind.
"Come shadow," Johnny said, "we must bring her to the master."
A new portal opened, and shadow flew through, as a smiling Johnny followed.
After the danger room session, the New Mutants had discovered the possible new students. Most were thrilled, but the idea of another Forge and another Goth wasn't all that appeasing.
Tabitha, Amara, and Jubilee were in the rec room, talking about the two.
"Sam seems cool," said Tabby, "but god, that Tucker reminds me of Pietro."
Jubilee and Amara laughed, and Jubilee stated, "I'm sure you got more then enough of that when you were with the Brotherhood, right?"
"It was fun over there, but one girl can only take so much ego," said Tabby with a sigh. She turned to her roommate, "what do you think of them?"
"I think I agree with you on Sam, but she does seem nicer then Rogue," she said.
At her pause, Jubilee urged her on, "ok, and what about Tucker?"
Amara blushed sent the other two girls giggling.
"Oh my, does the fiery Magma have a new crush," asked Tabby teasingly.
Amara glared at her friend, "oh shut up Tabitha."
While the three were talking, who but the one they were talking about heard? Why, Tucker of course.
He wasn't so much as eavesdropping, but he had been looking for Danny to ask him, again, about the computer systems here, when he heard the conversation.
Tucker smiled, pulled out his spray, and gave him mouth a couple of sprays to make it smell nice and minty. He placed it back in his pants pocket.
"Hello ladies," he said, turning into the room.
The three girls jumped a bit in surprise, not hearing Tucker enter. When they saw him, they calmed down a bit, but Amara was blushing heavily.
Rather then expose the fact that he was listening in, Tucker once again decided to just go out and play it smooth, "I couldn't help but come to the aid of three charming women."
Jubilee raised an eyebrow with the other girls, "come to our aid?"
"Why yes," said Tucker with a smile, "I heard your ladies call for a man, and so I had to come."
Tabby saw that coming, as the other two girls rolled there eyes, but she didn't miss the small giggle her roommate let slip.
"I know I can get myself a man anytime there Techhead (tabby had decided that should be his nickname), but I believe Amara could use your manly company," she add with a wink to her roommate, who was in shock.
But Jubilee saw that coming, knowing Tabby would be playing the match up game, and she didn't want to miss out and get stuck between the two, "you know Tabitha, I think your right. Let's go find our own men, and leave our knight in shining armor to our real life princess."
But Tucker didn't see that, "Real life princess?"
Tabby smiled, "why yes, so be careful there Techhead, your flirting with royalty." And without another word, the two girls walked out with a smile.
Tucker looked back at Amara, still glaring at her two so-called friends back, and asked, "What did they mean by 'real life princess'?"
Amara sighed, "no one told you?" At his shaking head, she answered, "I come from a small island country called Nova Roma."
Tucker interrupted, "Nova Rome, never heard of it."
"Nova Roma," Amara said again, not liking how he just interrupted her, "it's completely hidden from the rest of the world. And I'm the daughter of its king."
Tucker gave a looked, then laughed, "oh, that's a good one. Nova Roma, that cracks me up."
But Amara wasn't joking. And she was getting rather pissed by has attitude. She stood up and slapped him. He stopped his laughing in complete shock.
He looked back at her, "what was that for?"
"For making fun of my home," she said. And with a 'humph' she walked off, head held high in regal fashion.
Tucker waited a moment, then followed out the same door, and ran into Tabby.
She glared at him, then got in real close, "I'll warn you know Techhead. You laugh at my girl again, you'll be the next ghost Danny goes after, got it."
Tucker quickly nodded, and Tabby walked off. Tucker sighed, then looked to his feet, and saw an orange ball.
BOOM!
Tucker jumped as the ball exploded, falling ungracefully onto his ass.
"I really shouldn't have come here," he grumble, lying on his back on the floor.
Rogue sat, by herself, in the library. It was somewhat late, and Danny had gone out for his nightly ghost patrol. She had been with him most of time he was with Sam and Tucker. Tucker she could somewhat get along with. He was like Pietro with the flirting, but other then that he wasn't too bad. At least he stayed away from the girls that were dating, like her and Jean. And he obviously knew that Kitty was taken, since Max almost never let the girl out of his sight. Kitty didn't seem to mind too much, in fact, Rogue thought the girl enjoyed the attention.
But Sam, she was something else. She kept giving Rogue glares and sent sad looks at Danny.
Rogue could only guess that the girl was angry at her, and at the same time, upset she missed her chance.
Rogue turn when she heard the door open, her having closed it for some kind of privacy. But with a teleporter and three people who can walk through walls, it didn't happen often.
When the door opened all the way, in walked Sam. She stopped when she saw Rogue.
Sam's face twisted with a bit of anger, "oh, sorry. Was looking for Tucker, didn't mean to bother you."
She turned to leave when Rogue called out, "Ah don't know what ya problem is but ya'll better get over it."
"Excuse me," said Sam, turning back around, "I don't have a problem."
Rogue gave a look, "ya been giving meh pissed looks, and every time ah see ya look at Danny, ya look like ya about to shed tears. So yea, ya'll got a problem."
Sam put her hand on her hip, clearly pissed off, "so what, you're spying on me? Making sure I can't steal Danny from you. You control him with your mind or something?"
"Look," Rogue nearly shout, trying to keep her cool with the girl, "Danny has been the only person ah've touched in two years. Everyone else ah touched, ah drain everything there is about them. Life force, memories, powers, everything. And ah can't turn it off."
Sam had recoiled a bit, "what? But…"
"Danny asked meh out, and ah accept," said Rogue, softer now. "After the date, he changed into his ghost form, and we kissed. Ah have never had that in mah life. And the first boy I touched when ah got my powers, ended up in a coma."
Now Rogue got in her face, seeing how Sam was completely shocked, "so if ya think ah'm controlin' Danny, then ya'll better get of yaself straight girl."
Sam looked down as Rogue walked back to put the book she got out away. After a moment, she whispered loud enough for Rogue to hear, "I'm sorry."
Rogue just glared back, "ah don't need ya sympathy about mah powers, ah get it enough from everyone else."
"No," Sam said, "about the way I've been acting."
She walked over and sat on the chair across from the one Rogue had gotten off of, "I know I missed my chance at Danny, and it was a long time ago. I guess, I'm just mad at you for taking the chance I never did."
Rogue nodded as she sat down in her chair, "ah understand, but ya'll got to move on. If anything, for Danny. Ah'm not going stop being with him, because he's been the only person ah've been able to touch."
"I know," Sam said as she nodded, "I guess I just need a little time."
Rogue nodded, "that's fine, but ya just need to lay off the looks. Ah'm sorry for going off on ya like that, but ya was just ticking me off ta no end."
Sam nodded again in understand, "its ok. But, if you don't mind me asking, well…"
As Sam trailed off, Rogue gave a sigh, "well wha?"
"Is Danny a good kisser," Sam asked.
Rogue blushed a bit, though she tried to hide it, "Why is everyone asking meh if he's a good kisser? Weh only kissed once."
Sam smiled at the mutant, "well, he looks like a good kisser."
Rogue sighed at this, "Yes, he's a good kisser. But he's mah boyfriend." She finished with a glare.
Sam put her hands up defensively, "hey, I know. The whole, look but no touch thing. I'm cool with that."
Rogue smiled. The two began talking within the confines of the Library. It was a start as far as Rogue was concerned, but hey, it was better then getting ticked off.
So what did you people think, come on, tell me already. And sorry for the long pause, but I had a bit of trouble with coming up the start of the chapter. I just didn't know what to do, and once again, my thanks goes out to Kage for helping me get this chap done, as well as proofing it. Its more then I usally do.