Disclaimer: I own nothing, none of the characters, places, or names. Just the situations.
A/N: Kindergarten situation for the X-Men, based on Evolution and a few friends of mine's ideas. Spiderman included in this fic (He does fit… It is proved in the comics…) If some of the pairings are weird, blame Mrs Jean Grey Summers board (though it rocks beyond belief). Oh and I'm gonna say they know Logan's proper name, as it seems weird not to if I do know… Just an opinion and just this fic…
Thanks to: Agent-G, angelic devil 656, Lancitty Lover, ldypebsaby, amazing redd phoenix, The Komodo Dragon Phoenix, Black's Daughter, CloeyMarie andjenskott. YOU ROCK PEOPLE!
Last Time:
"Be good my little Jean." … "Yes daddy."
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"…Help me out, by lettin' me help you."… "Scott. Scott Summers."
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Pietro tried to distract Rogue from Remy by yelling at the top of his voice. "TRAINNNNNNNNNNNS!"
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"This is Katherine Pry-"…"Kitty!" The girl corrected. "Kitty is what I like being calleded…"
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"LAY OFF ME TOAD!"…"It's Todd, Wanda-kins, and I know you love me really!"
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She introduced herself as Mrs Guthrie and told the Professor about her son Sam, and how he had powers.
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Kurt Wagner looked like a demon, although he was just another child mentally…
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Ororo gasped and hugged her sister tightly, as it was quickly explained that her son Evan needed protection…
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Now for the next part of this kindergarten tale – oh lookie… baby Spidey… Agent-G, I think you'll understand if this chapter's for you!
Screams shook the mansion at breakfast and a huge noise burst out from the dining room. Logan snarled and stuck his head around the doorway seeing Kurt hiding in the corner, and Kitty pointing at him from behind Lance. He shook his head and went back to helping Ororo.
"Don't see why Chuck has the kids here if it's just a kindergarten."
Ororo smiled and put another box of cereal on the tray she was preparing. Moira laughed and dried her hands, putting the final beaker on her own tray and adding a jug of orange and milk.
"He has 'em here because here is safer, an' a lot o' the parents can't handle them, because o' their powers. Don'cha see Logan? The parents were given the option of remainin' here with their kiddies. But they all declined so far. John Grey was the one I thought'd stay, but no such luck." Moira shook her head sadly. "That wife o' his, controllin' him. Shame for the poor man."
Logan grunted and stuck his head around the corner to now see Scott and Jean defending Kurt. He grinned and spoke to the girls again without taking his eyes off the sight.
"I reck'n, that without his sight, that little kid I picked up yesterday might be good f'r a lotta the others. 'Specially Jeannie."
"Jeannie?" Ororo raised an eyebrow at Logan's affectionate term. "My my, the children are getting to him Moira."
Moira laughed again, causing Logan to scowl at them both with his mouth, though his eyes were smiling. They all stopped as the noise level went down. Ororo picked up her tray and nodded to the door. Moira did the same and followed Ororo out as Logan held the door open for them both, following them in to take his place between John and Kurt.
Charles sat at the head of the table and smiled around. "Well, we have had to move a bigger table in here."
A few of the students giggled, but Kitty still clung to Lances arm, hiding from the scary blue boy. On Charles' left, Remy sat down trying hard to impress Rogue who was already sitting next to him. Rogue rolled her eyes and looked at her dish as if she could fill it by staring. Pietro copied her, thinking how fun it was to bug the boy with red and black eyes. Wanda smiled brightly as Ororo sat between her and Todd. She nudged her brother who smiled and nodded before going back to staring. Ororo smiled at the little girl and gave Todd a warning look as he was about to protest. Todd sat back and grumbled, making Fred laugh next to him and John pull a face across the table from him. Lance would've laughed as he sat next to Fred, but he was too busy holding Kitty's hand tightly beneath the table, sneering at the blue boy. Moira stood at the opposite end of the table to Charles, looking at each child individually. Evan sat close to her, upset he couldn't sit next to his auntie, but content after a night's sleep. Sam who had arrived with him, sat next to Evan, wishing that his mommy had stayed longer than just the night. Between Sam and John sat Jubilation who 'still wasn't tired'. Logan grunted hiding a laugh as he took his place between Kurt and the already proved fire mad boy. Scott loyally sat between Kurt and Jean, talking to the new boy oblivious of why everyone else was afraid of him. Jean talked to Hank, not really concerned that Scott wasn't speaking to her, as she liked Kurt too. Hank laughed and involved Charles in their conversation about fuzzy bear doctors, asking if bears could be professors too.
The five eldest helped the kids get their breakfast and drinks, smiling as they squeaked their thanks. Charles was now deep in conversation with Jean about bears and doctors, so Logan was the first to notice something different outside. He stood up and gave John a look as he tried to sneak closer to Kurt. Logan didn't even want to know what that pyromaniac was going to do, it wouldn't have been good, and that's what mattered. John growled to himself and folded his arms. Grinning and shaking his head, as Ororo raised an eyebrow to inquire what was wrong, Logan strode from the room. She shrugged and went back to talking to Wanda and Todd one after the other. Todd tried to talk to Wanda around Ororo, but Wanda just stuck her tongue out at him.
Logan went to the front door and opened it suddenly. Three people stood on the doorstep, two adults and one little kid. "You here about the kindergarten?"
The woman nodded as the man stepped forward, holding out his hand. "I'm Ben Parker, this is my wife May, and this is our nephew Peter. He isn't exactly what your Professor spoke about on that TV broadcast, but he is gifted."
Logan shook the man's hand and looked down at Peter. "So what's his gift then?"
"He's really smart, I think that's just normal, but he can stick to walls, and he is stronger than he's ever been. He was on a field trip and he got bitten by a spider from one of the experiments, we traced what could've happened, that's all that we can figure out. But he sketched these." Ben held out a brown folder. "Take a look later. Is it correct we can stay?"
"Yeah. Kids are just sittin' down t' breakfast. Professor Xavier's in there wit' 'em." Taking the folder, Logan held out a hand to stop the three progressing for a moment. "By th' way, at least one o' the kids in there don't look like a normal human bub, it's what's called a physical mutation. Remember he's just a kid, same as Petey, eh?"
May nodded and spoke for the first time. "Oh I know what that must be like, the poor dear. Have the other children been alright with him?"
Eyes widening, Logan shook his head. "Two have, but one o' them can't see anyway, s'not very nice for the kid."
"No…" Peter said quietly. "I got picked on for glasses, but when the spidey bit me then I didn't need them the next day. I have musk-als."
He interrupted himself and Logan smiled at the pronunciation. "Muscles, kid, muscles, and I betcher do, that's great kid."
Peter smiled and held his aunt's hand tightly. Ben nodded to Logan and the three walked in after him. Charles turned in surprise and smiled at the newcomers.
"Welcome, welcome. I am Charles Xavier and who is this?" he addressed first the adults before the child who grinned and told the man his name. "Very well, welcome Peter, are these lovely people your family?"
"Yep, Aunt May and Uncle Ben. They look after me." Peter smiled and let go of their hands, going round to Scott and Kurt first, though Wanda caught his eye. "Hello, who're you?"
Kurt beamed at being addressed first out of everyone and shook Scott's shoulder to show him where the new boy was. Scott turned and holding Jean's hand from a moment ago when she'd taken it. He looked in the general, vague direction of Peter and seemed to try and guess where he truly was.
"I am Kurt Wagner, this is Scott Summers. Ve vere talking about juice and it's meaning, vud you care to join us?"
"Yeah, sure! I like juice too." Peter said scrambling up between John and Kurt, already starting to talk to them, though he glanced across to Wanda again and found her staring at him, blushing he turned back to the two boys he'd started talking to.
Charles beamed at Peter's behaviour and smiled. "You have a wonderful nephew, not many children his age would do that."
"Yes," May said softly, "We've tried to bring him up best we can, what with his parents dying whilst he was so little. You said that parents could stay, does that include us?"
Nodding Charles smiled at the two. "Of course, I would be delighted to accept you into my home. But I may ask a favour of you, to help with keeping an eye on the children? As you can see I am rather short staffed for so many children."
Ben shook Charles hand firmly and nodded "Of course we will, you're helping Peter and giving us a home here. Least we can do."
Jean looked at the man and tugged on Hank's arm, after dropping Scott's hand so he could lean on his arm whilst talking to Peter and Kurt. "Doctor McCoy? Are they gonna help too? Will they be nice?"
Hank smiled. "Of course they'll be nice Jean, the Professor wouldn't let nasty people near any of you."
Ororo stood and began clearing the food away. Wanda jumped up and began to try and help. Fred pushed Todd back into his seat as he tried to mimic her, causing Todd to sulk. Lance and Kitty got up and ran into the play room across the hall and began to play with the blocks. Moira found their relationship immensely funny and chuckled as she too helped Ororo clear up. Remy was trying to persuade Rogue to play snap with him, and Pietro was trying to make her play trains with him. Rogue buried her face in her arms and put her hands over her ears trying to ignore them both. Sam, Jubilation and Evan were giggling and got down from the table to talk underneath it. Kurt looked after Kitty and Lance with a sad expression. Peter saw and Scott sensed something was wrong.
"Kurt? What is it?"
"I don't know, it's just zat I vud like to be friends vith ozzer people, but zey are so afraid of vat zey don't look at closely. It's not fair!"
Scott patted his shoulder. "I can't see, so don't tell me that."
Peter laughed and nodded. "I can see fine and I came an' talked to you. Don't worry, they'll come around."
Kurt sighed and grinned. "You are right, vell? Let's go play! I have an idea for a cool game!"
The three got up quickly and whilst Kurt and Peter took off in the lead, Scott hung back and tapped Jean on the back. She turned around and looked at him happily, before asking what was up.
"Kurt, Peter and me are gonna go play, you wanna come?" Scott asked timidly and chewed his lip worriedly.
"Sure! But I gotta go help Hank first and Logan. Then can I come play?"
Scott nodded and walked away dragging his feet; he felt stupid and sad. 'Why would she wanna play with me… I'm just a naughty boy who can't see…' he thought and went to sit in a corner on his own. Kurt and Peter saw him do this and went across to find out if he was gonna play.
"Scott?"
"Go 'way… I'm tired, I don't wanna."
Kurt nodded and shrugged to Peter who had spoken before. They wandered off and discovered that their powers were cool together, once Kurt revealed that he could teleport short places. Deciding to play spies, they were soon crawling over the floor and pretending they were on a secret mission.
Jean and Hank went downstairs to the lab, and Jean was unusually quiet. Hank put her up on the workbench and sat down to fit the lenses he had made early that morning. "What's the matter Jean?"
Looking up from twirling a pencil in mid air, Jean shook her head. "Nothing."
Hank smiled at her and continued fiddling with his work. "Come now, I won't tell. Promise."
Dropping her pencil on the floor, Jean sighed and looked at the strange glasses. "Scott seemed really upsetted when I told him I had to help you. And I don't know why."
Finally putting one lens in, Hank looked up and smiled. "I think he wanted you to play, that's all. You are the first person he talked to, his first friend, so naturally he would want to play and took your having to help me as rejection."
Jean nodded in agreement letting Hank begin to fix the other lens, before looking at him in confusion. "What's rejection?"
Up in the living room where the kids were, Logan was red in the face and ready to pop his claws into someone, namely John Allerdyce. That little kid had been trailing him all morning after getting yelled at for annoying every single other person in the room. Logan felt like pulling his hair out or really hurting something, but he couldn't as both he and Ororo were on 'watch-the-brats' duty.
"Mister Logan?"
"Kid, get away from me."
"But Mister Logan, I wanna tell you somethin'. It's important."
"WHAT!" Logan yelled, his patience breaking.
John flinched, but kept grinning. "I can make bubbles from my mouth and make fires grow really really big!"
Logan sighed and rubbed his eyes. He looked down at the annoying boy who seemed pleased with himself. "Thank you Sparky, now leave me alone, okay?"
"Okay Mister Logan. See ya later!" John called as he ambled off to bug someone else, or possibly find some fire to play with…
Ororo laughed at Logan's annoyance and passed another hair clip to Wanda who was busy with Kitty and Rogue doing her hair. It was amazing how they all joined together in one task. Rogue was talking a little more now that the other two girls were making light conversation as the played with Ororo's beautiful hair.
Logan quickly had another kid attached to him, but this one seemed okay. It was the Jubilation girl and she was just talking to him about herself and asking about him. He found it cute and soon sat down on the floor to talk to her.
Lance was sulking because Kitty had left him, but Fred and Todd were cheering him up, as well as Todd planning another way to win Wanda over. Pietro was playing explode trains again, teaming up with his rival to make the explosions real. Remy laughed as he blew up another train as it hit a block on the floor. Evan had joined them to add his spikes to their game.
Sam had joined in Pete and Kurt's game, not really bothered by Kurt's appearance ("Ah saw worse on t' farm at home."). They were cheering and whooping as they found their prize that Logan had hidden for them at the beginning of the game. Examining it carefully, they opened the silver foil and found eight cookies! They all conferred and Kurt walked across to their visually challenged friend.
"Scott? Ve found the secret codes and completed our mission, and ve thought ve'd share our prize vith you, after all, you did help us vith the harder clues." He put the cookies on Scott's hand and smiled.
Scott closed his hand around the snack and touched them with his other. A smile gradually grew on his face. "Thanks Kurt, and Sam and Peter. You think we could play all together after we store your prize?"
Kurt nodded and laughed along with the others. "Ja, let's!"
Logan smiled across and told the boys that were playing violent games to stop singeing the carpet with their explosions. They blinked, surprised he hadn't hold them to quit it and quickly moved their trains up to the table. Remy waved to Rogue happily, causing her to send him a quick smile. Remy fell off his seat backwards and grinned at her, causing Pietro to hit his arm and pull him back to the game.
"Do you like him?"
"Who, Remy?" Rogue turned back to her plaiting and looked at Kitty in surprise.
"Ya huh, you don't smile at no one then he gets one." Wanda added, clipping Ororo's hair up at one side and brushing it lovingly. "I love your hair Princess Ororo."
"Thank you Wanda." Ororo smiled, "But you three are princesses too. Because you are girls, then you are princesses. Every girl is."
Wanda beamed, as did the other two. "Thanks 'Roro, and ah do, but your brother's kinda cute too Wanda."
Kitty giggled as Wanda scowled and shook her head. "Nuh uh he isn't, he's weird."
Rogue smiled and stuck her tongue out concentrating. Kitty took the brush from Wanda and brushed another part of Ororo's hair. "Thank you Princess Wanda, we will make Princess Ororo look more beautiful than she does already."
"Yes we will Princess Kitty. Do you like Prince Lance?"
Kitty wrinkled her nose and shook her head. "We felleded out again. Doesn't the blue boy scare you?"
"Nuh uh. Ah think he's cool."
"Princess Rogue!" Kitty exclaimed and froze half way through Ororo's hair with the brush. "Why? He's blue and scary."
"Ah don't know, ah just do. How 'bout you Wanda?"
"Meh." Wanda replied and put another clip in her part of the hairstyle. "Don't bother me. If he talks I'd talk back, but if not I won't."
Kitty glared at the both as Rogue stole the brush and smiled again. She threw her hands into the air and walked around to sit on Ororo's lap as the other two finished off. She sucked her thumb and looked up at her current heroine. "Ororo… do you think that I should talk to the blue boy?"
Ororo kept her head still, as Rogue and Wanda shrieked after she moved it slightly, and looked down at Kitty. "His name is Kurt, and he's quite lovely. I like him."
Kitty nodded and sucked her thumb. "Okay, I'll try."
Logan stood up and picked Evan off the floor where he was crying. He handed him to Ororo, whom he was crying for and smiled at her strange hairdo. "Nice new look 'Ro."
Ororo smiled and hugged Evan tightly as he quietened down and smiled at the other three girls who looked proud of their work. Kitty got up as Kurt lagged behind his friends, fiddling with his tail which had gotten stuck as it had a mind of it's own (so he proclaimed). Ororo winked at Logan and he grinned.
"Aw!" Kitty shrieked as Ororo giggled. "Prince Logan and Princess Ororo love each other!"
Wanda began to giggle, as did Rogue, Evan looked horrified and hugged Ororo tightly. Kitty used it as a distraction and walked across to Kurt. "H-hello."
Kurt jumped and squeaked, scared and held his tail between his hands. "Oh, it is just you. Vhat is wrong? Do you vant me to move, leave?"
Kitty shook her head and looked at him closely. "You have fur. I'm Kitty. I, I wondered if you wanted to play?"
Beaming suddenly, Kurt nodded. "Ja, I vould like zat a lot Keetty. Can I tell ze ozzers zen come back?"
After she nodded, Kurt ran off and told them all in a low and excited voice that Kitty wanted to play with him. Sam, Scott and Peter smiled at him and told him to go play and that they didn't mind. He dashed back, slightly breathless and grinned, showing small fangs, "Zere, they said okay."
Smiling, Kitty flinched then took his hand and led him to the blocks. Kurt sat down after marvelling at the warmth of her hand in his and smiled. He picked up a block and placed it ceremoniously in front of her. Kitty giggled and put another on top of it. Kurt smiled and began to treat it as a game, placing another on top of hers. Soon they had three towers that were wobbling dangerously. Kurt's tail picked up one last block and put it on top of the final tower and slowly came back. Kitty's eyes lit up dangerously and she pushed her face through the blocks, phasing through them so they didn't fall. "BOO!"
Kurt yelped and fell backwards, his tail curling round, pulling the blocks over and Kitty onto him as she became solid again. They both squealed and laughed together. "Katzchen, zis has been so fun. I'm glad you aren't afraid of me."
"Me too." Kitty smiled, finding it was hard to be afraid of someone once you'd laughed with them and played a game which was really fun. "What's Kat-chen mean?"
Kurt shrugged and blushed, his fur flushing purple. "Mein Vater says it to meine Mutter, I'm not sure though. It's a nice name though, means nice things."
Touching his cheek, Kitty giggled and rolled off Kurt. "You're all purple! It's funny and cute."
Lance scowled over at them and muttered evilly at Kurt, causing Fred to laugh and Todd to pat him on the shoulder sympathetically. Shrugging him off, Lance sulked for a while, then ignored Kitty and Kurt and started drawing a picture of Kurt in pain. He grinned at the picture and made it worse and worse not paying attention to anything or anyone around him.
Hank suddenly burst in, carrying Jean on his back and smiled around. He hitched her up and bounced over to Scott, Peter and Sam. He smiled down at them and looked to Jean who grinned and waved at the three. "Told ya I'd come play. But first thing."
Scott looked up as he heard Jean's voice and felt his lips curl up in a smile, forgetting about what he had thought earlier. 'She came back!' his mind erupted in happiness. 'She came back!'
Jean giggled hearing this, but didn't let him know; she wriggled so Hank put her down and made Scott stand up and come with her to the doorway. Hank stood behind Scott and smiled. "Close your eyes and wait Scott."
As the bandage fell away, Scott bit his lip scared about what they were doing, but trusting Jean as he felt her presence on the edge of his mind, which surprised him. Charles wheeled up from the side silently, guiding Peter's aunt and uncle back to where the children where playing. They all froze and the Professor explained what Hank and Jean were doing to help Scott in the two human's minds. They nodded and waited as Jean reached up and put the glasses on Scott's face carefully.
"Just make sure I put them on right, then open your eyes." Jean said quietly and smiled. Scott reached up and felt the foreign object on his face then opened one eye slowly. He closed it again quickly and squeezed his eyes shut before opening both eyes. He felt his jaw drop as he laid eyes on the girl he was already friends with and saw her giggle.
"You're beautiful." He managed as he shut his mouth and smiled.
Jean giggled more and blushed. "Only 'cause you saw me first, you'd say that if Logan was the first thing you saw."
Scott shook his head and smiled wider, blushing himself. "No, you really are. Did you help Doctor McCoy? Did you make them Doctor McCoy?"
He turned to look at the man behind him and smiled brightly as he nodded. "Thank you sir! I love them I really do!"
Hank laughed and insisted he be called 'Hank', before ruffling Scott's hair and pushing both him and Jean into the playroom. Charles wheeled over and smiled at his friend, shaking his hand firmly. May and Ben hugged each other, happy for the boy and pleased by how many friends Peter had already. Hank smiled at Charles and shrugged off the praise he was given.
"Hank, you have restored hope in that boy, you should be proud." Charles smiled, still pumping his hand.
Laughing again, Hank forced the ecstatic man to let go of his hand and clapped him on the shoulder. "I am a doctor, this is what I do."
Charles looked around as Logan and Ororo came over from their activities with the children and Moira joined them all from the kitchen where she was preparing lunch. Standing around the founder, the mind behind bringing mutant children together safely, they smiled at the excitement of the students by Scott's new sight, and the reactions of the more sulky children trying not to move, yet straining to see what was going on.
"Well my friends? I think things are as good as they get." Charles smiled.
Moira shook her head and put a gentle hand on his shoulder. "I wouldn't be too sure Charles. It's the wee kiddies that surprise ye the most often."
"Sometimes you say just a word and they change everything for one person." Ororo nodded with a smile, thinking of Kitty and Kurt.
Logan smirked and nodded, staying quiet but agreeing. Hank beamed around and let his gaze rest on Jean and Scott. "They are the most complex creatures, and yet they are the most simple, with a clear view of the world, in black and white."
May and Ben looked at one another and smiled, before May spoke. "They're our future, our hope, our dreams that can come true. They only get better with time, and some of that innocence you can see in their eyes now will remain in the future, when they fall in love, or achieve something great. They all keep it, some how."
Charles' smile broadened as he listened to his colleagues, both new and old. "Then I suppose we shall wait and see what our future can bring these miracles of evolution. Our present, our future,… Our dreams."
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Oh and by the way, the princess thing Ororo said I kinda mimicked from 'A little Princess' but its totally true! Every girl is a Princess and every guy is a Prince, you just gotta find them inside yourself.
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