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Cats with Claws

Chapter 3: Meeting New Friends

LAST TIME:

Everyone was starting to gather for dinner but Kitty wanted to get some more Midol before eating. She knock on the girl's bathroom, "Come on, I need to get in." She then noticed some frost on the edge of the door, "Oh, no, Bobby I swear I will kill you if you froze the bathroom again." But she wasn't prepared for the scene she walked into. Bobby's head was still stuck in the toilet and he was whimpering, the whole bathroom was covered in snow and ice. "Oh, my GOD!"

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After a few moments of shock Kitty went into a fit of laughter at Bobby's predicament. It certainly brightened her day, "Bobby how in the world did you get stuck in the toilet?"

"Kitty, is that you? Get me out of here, PLEASE!" Bobby's frantic voice echoed in the toilet.

Thinking it over Kitty came up with an evil idea, "I'll get you out, like just give me one second." And before Bobby could say another word she was gone, a few minutes passed by. Kitty then returned and Bobby heard several clicks and flashes.

'Oh, hell NO.' He thought, "You are NOT doing what I think you're doing" He said a bit desperately

"If by NOT you mean like I'm NOT passing this moment up, then your like right. You know a picture says a thousand words, though these are more likely won't since too many people will be laughing."

Bobby groaned, "Please don't show anyone those pictures. If you get me out and burn those pictures I'd be eternally grateful."

Kitty scoffed, "PLEASE! This is grade 'A' blackmail here. I want something and these pictures aren't going to be burned. I need to make copies. But to get you out and my silence, how about being my food taste tester every time I cook for lets say a month for starters."

Now Bobby was trying to figure out the lesser of the two evils, on one hand his head was stuck in a freaking toilet for Pete's sake, but on the other hand Kitty's cook would probably taste like it came from a toilet. 'Damned if I do, damned if I don't; anyways she already has the pictures.

"Alright, alright, I'll do it. Just get me out of here!" He had been there a while and he was kind of getting hungry. Kitty giggled after taking three more photos.

"Okay, I'll be right back. I'm going to put this camera somewhere safe. Then I'll phase you out" Kitty quickly ran to her room and phased her hand into the wall of her closet, she had a secret place where she hid all of her private thing like her diary. After securing the camera she went back to the bathroom and grinned. "Bobby, I'm back. Now keep calm, this will only take a sec." She then grabbed Bobby's shoulders and yanked his head out. Unfortunately for Bobby, there was still a block of ice frozen to his head. Kitty then busted out laughing. Bobby just shot her a glare and ran for the guy's bathroom to take a LONG shower. Kitty was in a great mood all the way down to dinner.

As others began their trek towards the dinning room there was a little discussion on what was for dinner. Not to mention the hopeful whispers that nothing would be made by Kitty. There were many sighs of relief when it was announced that Ororo had made dinner. Meals now took much longer to prepare since so many people now lived at the mansion.

People first trickled in slowly, like Scott, Jean, and Rogue; who knew that is was never a good idea to get in the way of the stamped of hungry teens with powers. A few moments after they sat down the light fixture began to sway and the horde of teens and young adults rushed to the table. When Kitty sat down she couldn't stop giggling, though it was barely audible above the din from the other residence. Jean looked at Kitty acquisitively wondering what was making her act like this. She was tempted to 'peek' and find out what was so funny, but she respected Kitty's privacy.

Eventually everyone came to the table; except for the Professor, Beast, and Forge, they still were working on something in the lower levels. One of the last ones to enter was Sandra. She had a scowl on her face, but her eyes did not reflect that. In fact they seem to dance with mischief. Sitting down at the end of the table no one dared to sit next to her, expect Jamie. Meanwhile Bobby entered; his eyes seem to glow with rage and embarrassment, not to mention his hair was sticking up in all directions as if he just tried to electrocute himself. He took a shower, but no matter what he did his hair wouldn't cooperate. His negative mood seemed to radiate off of him. Most of the formerly known "New Mutants" stayed out of his way. They had rarely seen Bobby in a mood this bad, though, they would ask him about it later when he isn't so damn angry.

Sandra nibbled a little bit on her food, she wasn't that hungry. It was a nice meal, spaghetti with a red sauce and no meat, some steamed vegetables, and a tossed salad. She pushed her veggies to the side and poked it. 'Eh, what the hell am I doing here? Oh, riiight, I'm a mutant and I sort of stick out.' She thought bitterly. Though honestly, she never cared too much about her appearances. Keeping in her gloomy thoughts, she concluded the only thing today that was good was giving that loser guy a taste of him own medicine. She was now smirking; Jamie noticed this and poked her. Her initial reaction was to glare then start yelling, but she stopped since it was Jamie. 'At least he has some brains.'

"Yeah, Jamie what is it?"

Jamie leaned in closer and quietly asked, "What are you smiling for? Did something happen?" It seems curiosity got the better of him.

"You could say something happened, hey what do you think of that sitting guy over there," She motioned with eyes and head with a little jerk, "The guy with the hair standing on ends and who is glaring daggers at me."

"Oh, you mean Bobby, he's okay, but he always says I'm too 'little' to join him and the others, that and the whole thing about me being too much of a crowd." Jamie answered forlornly.

"Ah, well you see, he gave me a 'Welcoming' introduction early." Jamie winced; it was never good to be on the receiving end of some of Bobby's pranks.

"What did he do?"

"Well, he covered the front of my door way and half the hallway in a sheet of ice and I slid into a mini snow bank."

"Wow that sucks. What did you do after that?"

"Eh, I sort of lost my temper, so I grabbed him and dragged him to the closest bathroom and shoved his head in the toilet," she said nonchalantly. The look of utter shock on Jamie's face was priceless. His eyes darted between Sandra and Bobby as he imagined the scene she just described.

"Unfortunately, his powers froze the water in the bowl and he was unable to get himself out." Sandra finished grinning like crazy. "I honestly have no idea how he got out."

That was the final blow; Jamie bent over and started to laugh hysterically to the point where he fell out of the chair. Now everyone was looking at Jamie and Sandra.

Sandra quickly brushed off the looks, "Eh, hehehe that was a good joke wasn't it. I thought everyone has heard of that one. Well, damn, I'm sooo stuffed, bye." And with that Sandra left the dining room. As soon as she left Jamie tried to resume eating but he just couldn't stop laughing so he just excused himself and left. Everyone started eating and talking at once.

"I wonder what the hell that was all about," Jubilee states.

"Well, I dunno, maybe Sandra is really funny," spoke up Sam.

"Dude after what we've seen when she first came, I seriously doubt she has much of a sense of humor," Roberto countered.

Ray shrugged, "Maybe she's on her period, girls act all weird at that time of the month." As soon as this statement left his mouth he was met with glares from all the girls near him.

"Well, Jamie does have this odd tendency to be able to just make friends with people who have issues." Tabby mused.

Rhane snorted into her plate, "Ya mean like ye?" Tabby then threw some of her vegetables at Rhane, but she easily dodged them. Scott and Jean had to calm everyone down before a full blown food fight broke out… again.

Eventually dinner was over and some of the more responsible students helped with the clean up. Kurt volunteered to put the food away, but Ororo persuaded him to help with the table. The true reason behind this was if Kurt helped to put 'away' the food, there wouldn't be much left after he got down with them.

"Ah, my sister, how did zhe trip go?" Kurt asked Rogue as he scrapped the dirty dishes. She rarely went on a recruiting mission since she sometimes didn't come off as the friendliest person in the world.

"Ah don' know, fine Ah guess. It was very bizarre," Rogue answered truthfully.

"Really, I thought it would be like horrible, I mean, like look at the nasty attitude Sandra has." Kitty quipped; she was still miffed about the insult about her cake.

"Well, she's really nasty now, but when we got ther' she was a wreck. She's probably still hung-over," Rogue mused.

"That's seems very irresponsible," Jean added, "Where were her parents in all of this?"

Rogue stiffened, she hated the mention of family, it's always been a sensitive subject for her. "Well, when we asked, she sort of flipped out; evidently her parents died a few months before we got there."

The rest of them continued to clean up each lost in their own thoughts as they tried to process this new information.

Sandra reaching her room flopped on her bed, 'What a day.' She then rummaged through her cloths in her closet. She was thankful for Jamie's help though; no way in hell would all her stuff be out of those stupid boxes without him. Finally she found her P.J.s; they were dark blue and were very soft. On the top it said, "I hate morning people." And it had a pouting puppy and kitty on the front.

"Now the day is over, finally. This was the day from hell." Sandra then drifted off to a restless sleep.

Around midnight Logan and X23 arrived back from their bonding fishing trip.

"Okay, why don't you hit the showers kid, we've only been sitting on the muddy bank and all the scales and fish guts. I don't really mind too much, but I have a feeling it might, offend some of the other."

X23 nodded and went to the bathroom and took a long warm shower. This was one of her favorite convenience that she missed out on. Having warm running water, to just relax and unwind a bit, is bliss.

While she was in the shower Logan noticed a new sent in the air, 'Hmmm must be a new guy here. I better check with Chuck to be sure first.' So he headed towards the lower levels since the Professor seemed to work almost all the time. 'He needs to get some rest sometimes.'

As usual Logan found Xavier bent over some papers and such, "Hey Chuck what cha working on?"

The Professor looked up with a faint smile, "Ah, Logan so good to see you, everything went well then with X23."

"Yeah, it went dandy, anyways, is there a new student here, cause if not we have an intruder."

"Yes, we have a new addition to the institute, she seems to have many issues that need to be worked out, but that's why she's here." The Professor smiled with his great optimism.

"That's greeeat Chuck." Though Logan had a ferial smile on, he LOVED getting to introduce the Danger Room to newbies. Xavier shook his head, tomorrow would bring new obstacles. So Xavier told Logan some basics about Sandra and what her mutation seems to be.

When while as Xavier and Logan were talking someone woke up hungry. A groggy yawn was heard, as Sandra slowly climbed out of bed and shuffled towards the kitchen. She opened the fridge and groaned as the bright light blinded her.

'Stupid freaking light.' She moved something things trying to find something to satisfy her craving, 'Crap, crap, Ewww, I don't even want to know. Ah, this looks good, wonder where the cookies are.' Sandra grabbed the carton of milk, there seemed to be a good two glasses worth left. She was just about to close the door when a harsh voice spoke up in a threatening manner.

"Who are you?" X23 demanded. She had just came out of her shower her hair was still wet and she was wearing an oversized night shirt and a pair of baggy pants, they were both hunter green.

Sandra just slowly turned around, un phased by X23's attitude. "That is a good question. Who am I? What am I doing here? What are you doing here? Who is anyone in this world? What is the sky really? We call it a sky to give it a name, but what is it really? Do we even exist or are we something else?" As Sandra rambled on until she found some Twinkies and some cookies. "In conclusion, you should be asking yourself who are YOU? I'm still trying to figure out who I am myself, Night chica." Sandra then walked away, leaving a very confused and bewildered X23.

X23 shook her head and muttered, "Must be a friend of Beast's." She then walked towards her room to get some needed rest.

The Next Morning

Time: 5:00 am

It was early, too early for everyone's liking. Most of the new or younger members, basically the "New Mutants" and the newly add people. A few of the exceptions were Bobby since he was on the official X-Men team, though he was still rough around the edges and cocky as hell, and Jamie who had his own private lessons, and Forge since he rarely leaves his lab. Logan was up and ready and was about to bark some orders when he noticed they were missing the new person.

"Hey! Where's the new girl?" He growled, he hated when people wasted his time. Amara and Paige ran up to the bed rooms and burst into Sandra's room. She was sprawled out on her bed, her covers were all twisted up and there was a bit of drool coming out of her mouth. Against their better judgment, Paige and Amara shook Sandra's shoulder, her eyes fluttered open and they were unfocused.

Paige pulled Sandra up, "Come on! We hav' to go!" For every minute that they were late it would be an extra lap around the Danger Room. Only being a wake for two seconds Sandra complied and the threesome rushed down to the Danger Room.

Logan nodded in approval; it had taken them only two minutes, not bad. "Okay new girl, what's your name?" Sandra blinked several times trying to wake up, her tail swished lazily behind her, her ear were flopped over, and her hair was such a mess.

Realizing this strange guy asked her a question she responded, "Sandra."

"Good, now I'm gonna need you to put this on," He pulls out one of those standard uniform, the small black skin type ones. "Welcome to the Danger Room. As soon as you suit up you'll be running drills and we'll see what cha got." After standing there for a second he tosses the uniform to Sandra and it lands on her head. She slowly pulls it off and looks at it questionably; she pulled at it a bit and noticed how it was kind of small. She then noticed how everyone else was in uniform as well. As her mind finally finished booting up her mind could only think of three words, 'What the fuck?'

"Go on, hurry it up!" Logan bellowed.

This snapped Sandra out of her stupor. "Okay, first off I don't give a damn who the hell you are, but no one and I mean NO ONE gets me out of bed before 8 o'clock for any reason. If this place was on fire I'd say let me sleep. When I agreed to come to this place no one mentioned anything about you, you demented drill sergeant wanna-be. And lastly, you want me to run around at the crack of dawn in this form fitting piece of crap." She pulled the uniform for effect, "What do I look like to you, a porn star? Now if you'll excuse me I have some sleep to catch up on." She then spun on her heals and muttered something along the lines of 'stupid asshole' and throws the uniform behind her landing right on Logan.

Logan was livid, his face turned three shades of red and the students later on swear they saw steam. It wasn't going to be a good day after all. Though the students had to agree that it was really cool her standing up to Logan like that, extremely stupid, but still cool. Logan had to remind himself that he couldn't maim any of the students.

Sandra stomped off to her room and curled up under the covers and fell back asleep without a second thought towards Logan or the Danger Room. The poor souls who were left with Logan were run ragged. They didn't even make it up the stairs before passing out. Logan was fuming mad so when he came up stairs everyone gave him a wide berth. He stormed into Xavier's study and was glaring at him.

"Chuck, what the hell is going on here? That new girl gave me this attitude this morning, she flat out refused to even go in the Danger Room or where the uniform, hell, she doesn't even want to be 'disturbed' before 8 in the morning." Logan ranted. After a few more minutes Logan was done and was glaring at Xavier.

Xavier just sighed, "Yes Logan I am aware of Ms. Sandra's Ummm difficulty to follow instructions. It took some convincing to even get her to come. I plan on having a talk with her in about an hour; I'll talk to her then."

Time 8:38 pm

Sandra was starting to wake up; she stretched and let out a low yawn. If she could, she would still be sleeping, but she was hungry. She trudged to the kitchen and rummaged around for a box of cereal. She totally ignored everyone else who were chatting away. Some of the people who were down in the Danger Room when she went off saw her in a slightly better light.

So she silently munched her breakfast away when suddenly, Sandra as soon as you're finished please come to my office right away She was so surprised she fell out of her chair and blurted out, "The voices in my head." When she hit the floor she remembered she was living in a house with TWO telepaths. 'Damn them.' After putting her dishes in the sink she went to her room to put on some decent cloths. She slipped on a nice pair baggy jeans that were a bit worn and a black T-Shirt that said, 'I crossed over to the darkside' in large white letter and 'Don't worry I brought a flashlight' in bright green text. Being rudely awaken in the morning didn't leave her in a chipper mood to say the least.

She finally entered Xavier's study and flopped down in a chair. Xavier gave her a small smile, "Good morning Sandra I hope you slept well."

Sandra just rolled her eyes, "Ah, yes, if by sleeping well you mean getting a rude wake up call at some ungodly hour then the answer is yes." She answered darkly.

The Professor sighed, "I'm sorry for not mentioning some of the things we do around here," Sandra just grunted, "But you'll have to work in the Danger Room, you just need some training."

Sitting there weighing the reasons Sandra looked down defeated, "Yeah, I guess I do need to get use to my 'new' me. BUT," The Professor knew there was something, "there's no way in hell I'm going to be wearing one of your lame ass uniforms, I straight out refuse to. Not to mention waking up at the crack of dawn to run around, I didn't even do that for my classes!" She glared defiantly. The Professor didn't know what to say, if he allowed her not to wear a uniform the others would protest and Lord only knows what they would say about her getting to do the Danger Room later on in the morning. Usually the older students went later in the morning.

"Well, I would, but it's standard here and if we made an exception for you, well, all the students would be wanting the same thing."

Sandra grinned wickedly, "Well, aren't they all under 18 or something?" Xavier nodded his head in confirmation, "Just tell them I can do what I want since I'm 22. Geeze, it's not too hard to tell them that."

The Professor muddled over the idea for a moment or two, "Very well you can pick your own uniform, but do remember you'll be fighting and doing other activates. And as far as waking up later, I suppose I could try to section a little later, like 6:30 You'll also need private lessons, I'm thinking of perhaps some training with Kurt, he could help you get accustomed to your new body."

"Yeah, yeah, okay I got the picture can I go now?" She asked in an annoyed tone.

"Well, there are few more thing I wanted to talk to you about, I was wondering, why were you, how can I put this, so negative to my other students." He had a feeling he may know where some of the negative emotion comes from but he wanted to hear it from her.

"If I want to be nasty, I'll be nasty. That's my own business." The Professor gave her a meaningful look, "Well, if you must know, I don't give a damn about anybody here. I mean, I doubt I'll be here long enough to make 'friends,' it'll just be harder when I leave."

"So, you plan on leaving so soon then?"

"Duh, I mean, I'm not going to spend the rest of my life here, that's for sure. I need to get a job and get some more money and make a life for myself. I mean my family's insurance money was a lot, but it's not like it'll last forever." Sandra shut her mouth after she said that. She didn't want to think about her family.

"Is there something you wish to talk about? When you talk about your problems to someone you feel better afterwards," though he inwardly though, 'most of the time.'

Sandra sat straight up, "Look I have nothing to talk about, NOTHING!"

"Well, you are being very defensive."

Standing up she paced a little, "Defensive, DEFENSIVE! No one here is being defensive, I'm not! Nope, I'm not being defensive! I don't have to tell you anything!" Finishing the rant Sandra was panting.

Sighing the Professor tried to calm her down, "I'm not forcing you to tell me what's bothering; I'm just saying that I'm here if you want to talk about anything."

"I don't have anything to say, plus why would I tell you? I know you for not even a day and you want me to spill my guts!"

"Please, just calm down, how about we talk about something else?" he suggested.

Sandra quickly agreed, "Yes," she then paused, "There's more you want to talk about?"

"Yes, quite. I know you said that you don't want to get know any of the other students, but could you make an effort to be a little less, callous."

"What do you want me to do, stand up on a table and say I'm sorry?"

"Whatever you feel comfortable doing," The Professor smiled. Sandra made a move to leave but the Professor said quickly, "Uh, wait, before you go there is one last thing I wish to ask you about."

Sandra groaned, "What?"

"Well, if I'm not mistaken, last night one of the other student, Bobby Drake was found stuck in a toilet." The Professor had a hard time blocking the information when Jamie or Kitty had been around this morning. To say he was shocked was an understatement. Plus he wanted to try to advert another 'prank war.' He also tried hard not to smile, the situation was truly humorous.

Turning around Sandra began to giggle then she fell on the floor laughing, after a few minutes she calmed down. "Oh, really, how'd you find out, Oh wait, RIGHT, you're a telepath. SO what do you want me to do, give HIM a personal apology too?"

The Professor just gave a weak nod; he didn't trust his voice at the moment to hide his amusement.

Wiping away the last of her tears Sandra got up, "Okay, I'll give everyone an 'apology,' the guy's name is Bobby Drake, right?" The professor nodded and Sandra pulled out a small piece of paper and jots his name down. "Well I think everyone is in the living room. Later," and so Sandra marched out of the room and went towards the living.

In the living room most of the people were chatting away either talking about crappy classes, the horrible Danger Room session, or Sandra yelling at Logan. It wasn't a healthy habit to get into really. In one of the dark corners, Bobby was plotting to get back at Sandra and a way to get those pictures without everyone finding what happened.

Just then Sandra marched in and tried to gain everyone's attention, "Hello? Trying to talk here." But no one seemed too noticed; she then got really pissed off and climbed onto a table and yell, "HEY PEOPLE!" Everyone turned to her. "That's more like it." She then cleared her throat, "Okay, first off I want to say, I'm Soooo sorry for being such a pain in the ass bitch and all yesterday. It was probably all the garbage I've been eating or something." There was a low murmur that followed this statement, "Oh, and one more thing," she pulled out a small piece of paper, "Ummm is Bobby Drake here?" she asked smirking.

Bobby glared at her and said in a nasty tone, "YEAH, what is it."

Now she was giving Bobby an evil grin as her tail flicked back and forth with anticipation. Her voice dripped with sarcasm, "I also would like to publicly apology to you Bobby. What I did yesterday was out of line and, Oh, so rude." Now EVERYONE was listening as Bobby started to get nervous, and near by Jamie was stifling his giggles. "Yes I admit I was wrong to get even with you. I mean it was a HARMLESS prank after all. I lost my temper and overacted." She then paused for dramatic effect, "I should have NEVER shoved your head in the toilet and left you all alone when you froze the water leaving you stuck there for hours no doubt."

There was a dead silence in the room and as soon as Sandra stomped off the table the room exploded with laughter. Rogue and Kurt were leaning on each other so they wouldn't fall down laughing, while Jean let out a string of girly giggles that she couldn't suppress, Jamie laughed so hard a few dupes came out laughing too. Alex was leaning on a chair for support as tears poured dow. Tabby, Amara, Paige, Rhane, and Jubilee were huddled together all holding on to their stomachs so they don't piss themselves from laughing too hard.. Ray, Sam, and Roberto were slapping each other's back so they could keep breathing. Even Scott couldn't hide his amusement, he did suppress his laughter but he couldn't conceal his grin. Bobby, by this time was a bright shade of pink and he rushed out of the room, but not before sending a deadly glare at Sandra who just smirked evilly.

'I'll get you back, you evil bitch, even it's the last thing I EVER do!'

Kitty was laughing but then she approached Sandra, "So you're the one who stuck him in there."

"Ah, so it was you who helped him out, should have known."

Kitty leaned in closer and whispered, "I even took pictures."

At this Sandra's eyes where dancing, "Wanna see my website?"

Things to look for next time: Bobby's revenge, Sandra getting her Halo watch, Some training in the Danger Room, A Uniform, Sandra's age…Getting in a car with Kitty behind the wheel? Oh MY! ((These are just some ideas for the next chapter, none of it is written in stone))

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