The rest of the weekend went by without much happening. Sandra kept to herself in her room. She finally emerged from it on Monday morning to go to school. Kitty was waiting by her locker.

"OMG Sandra, I went by to see you over the weekend and Lance told me you were sick!" she exclaimed

"It was more like hung over." Sandra said.

"You were hung over?" Kitty asked sounding stunned

"Yeah. What have you never been drunk or hung over before or something?" Sandra

"Well, no." Kitty said

"Hmm." Sandra said as they walked to class

"So what was up with those guys at the dance? Did you know them?" Kitty asked

"They're friends of mine. They told me they were bored." Sandra

"So they decided to destroy the school and ruin the dance for everyone!" Kitty exclaimed a bit dramatically.

"I guess." Sandra said

After that Sandra avoided Kitty and the other x-men for the rest of the day. In her classes she sat in the back away from them. She wasn't in the mood to talk to anyone after what had happened over the weekend. Kitty however would not leave Sandra alone. She knew something was wrong and was worried about her.

After school Sandra decided to walk home. She lit up a cigarette with the lighter she had swiped from the guy with sexy green eyes that she killed. Kitty caught up with her.

"Oh my gosh! I didn't know you smoked! Smoking is like so bad for you!" Kitty exclaimed

"I don't really care." Sandra said

"But they can like kill you!" Kitty said

"Well then all the more reason for me to smoke." Sandra said

"That's not funny." Kitty said

"Maybe I'm not being funny." Sandra said

Kitty looked horrified. "Sandra is everything ok?"

"I'm fine, now stop pestering me." Sandra started walking faster but Kitty grabbed her arm

"Sandra, what happened to you this weekend?" Kitty asked with concern in her eyes.

Sandra stared at her feeling annoyed. She could not talk to Kitty about this but memories of the past were floating through her head. This guy was not the first she had killed. There were others before him. She never meant to kill anybody, it just happened. She couldn't control herself, her power. It was all too much for her.

Her first kill she was 14, a year before she was kicked out of her home. She was babysitting her little sister Amanda who was 3 at the time. Someone had broken into the house. They were going to harm Amanda but Sandra stopped him. She didn't even realize what had happened first. The knives just came and started chopping the man's body up. She had screamed at Amanda to cover her eyes. Poor Amanda was sobbing but she did as her sister asked.

Sandra carried the bloody mess and dug a hole in the backyard and buried the body. She knew her parents wouldn't question the hole because of the dog. She made it very deep. She cleaned up the mess and explained to Amanda they could never talk about this night ever.

Sandra was worried about Amanda spilling the beans on what happened but Amanda never said a word. Sandra vowed to never let anything like this happen again but it was a year later when Sandra was at home. This time her mom and dad were there. Amanda was up in bed sleeping.

It was a crazy old bum. He wouldn't have really hurt them but he did have a gun. Sandra didn't mean to shoot him but she did, and her parents saw her and knew right then she was a mutant.

Her father screamed at her and told her she was a disgrace to the family and called her filthy little mutant whore. He slapped her across the place and told her to get out and never come back and if she did he would kill her. Her mother did nothing and just let it happen.

Sandra had called Tiffany from a pay phone crying and Tiffany came. Together they got a bus and left their hometown forever.

"Sandra, you can talk to me." Kitty said snapping Sandra back to reality.

"I got to go." Sandra said sounding miserable and Kitty let her go worrying about her friend.

Sandra arrived at the Brotherhood feeling empty. She felt like she had nothing and didn't want to be here anymore working for that horrid Magneto. He had promised her so much. But he like everyone else had lied just to use her.

She hated everything about her life. There was nothing here for her anymore. She wasn't going to be able to do what Magneto wanted. She had already taken Scott for him, which she deeply regretted. But there was nothing she could do about that anymore.

She sighed sadly and reached under her bed and pulled out a small box containing pictures. She had snuck back to her house once to take some things she needed before she left for goods. Her parents never even realized she was there

She looked through the pictures. There was one of her and her sister right before she had left. It was the summertime, and Amanda had just turned four. She looked through the other picture of her and her family and some were of her and Tiffany from back in the day.

Sandra missed everything so much but she could never go back. Too much had happened. But still there was a hole in her heart. She missed her family so much and it tore her apart knowing they didn't want her.

She wished she wasn't a mutant. It had caused nothing but sorrow and heartbreak for her. The person she had become was because of being a mutant. She would still be home if this had never happened. She wouldn't of murdered people.

Guilt resided in her. She felt like she was losing her mind. What the hell was she here for? Why did she agree to join the Brotherhood? And why the hell did she go back to school? It seemed like a good idea at first. She regretted having to drop out when she was kicked out of her house. Sure she got really good grades, she was rather smart but none of it seemed worth it.

She heard the boys come in downstairs and put the pictures back in the box and shoved them under the bed. And wiped her eyes and too much to her surprise she was crying. She hadn't even realized she was.

'How strange,' she thought

She went to the back of the house for a smoke. It seemed to be the only thing to relax her lately.

She felt him before he even said anything. She closed her eyes and whispered his name. "Pietro."

"Hey." He said softly

"What do you want?" she asked

Pietro shrugged. "I'm just worried about you. You seemed so sad and out of it at school today." He said

"Oh." Sandra said

"Is everything ok?" he asked her

"I don't know." Sandra answered

Pietro sat down next to her not saying anything as Sandra blew smoke into the air from the cigarette. They sat in silence for a few minutes.

"Today's my sister's birthday. She's seven." Sandra told him

Pietro put his arm around her and she laid her head on his shoulder.

They stayed like that through the rest of the day and well into the night.

Meanwhile at the mansion….

Kitty was expressing her concerns about Sandra to the Professor who was already worried about Scott.

Beast was finally able to contact Scott's brother and they were not at all surprised to find that Scott was not there. This confirmed their fears that Scott was mostly likely in the clutches of Magneto.

The Professor still had not told the younger x-men. Even though they had a right to know he did not want them to worry. Storm and Logan were currently searching for Scott but have had no luck. It was as if Scott disappeared from the face of the earth.

Xavier only hoped it wasn't too late for Scott. He had kept trying Cerebro (sp?) but still he could not find Scott and this worried him.

"Professor, do you think everything will turn out ok?" Kitty asked

"I hope so, I certainly hope so." Xavier said