Mutant Heart and Mutant Soul

by ZabuzasGirl

Heartbroken a young girl named Silverstream decides to run away from all she has known. She runs to an institute that takes in people like her with her gifts and abilities. Did I mention she's a mutant. Silverstream/Nightcrawler. Silverstream/Wolverine

8. Chapter 8

Mutant Heart and Mutant Soul Chapter 8

Christmas was here and the first snow of winter was setting in. The snow was slowly falling from the sky and onto the ground as I was watching it from my window. It was so quiet and so peaceful it was actually like this for a few days now. We all expected that nobody would even dare attack on Christmas break so far we were right.

I was planning on going into New York City with some of the others later and I was hoping that Logan would come with us. Ever since that day outside Washington D.C our relationship finally came together and so did we. The two of us had finally become a couple it was hard to even separate us anymore.

I had a conversation with Nightcrawler and I explained to him gently that I was no longer his girlfriend. Because of the kind of man he was he understood what I was saying to him there wasn't any hard feelings between the two of us. Nightcrawler and I were now just good friends with each other's.

Just then there was a knock on my door. "Come in," I said.

The door opened and in walked Storm. She was wearing a nice winter jacket ready to head into the city.

"We're heading out Silverstream," she said.

I smiled at Storm and said "Let me get my jacket." I went over to my closet and picked out something nice and warm to wear over my clothes which was a nice black jacket that was as long as Storms. I arranged my hair so that it wouldn't be able to bother my neck.

"Who else is coming with us," I asked.

"Gambit and rogue they want to do a little late Christmas shopping," answered Storm.

"I thought Gambit was the one going to make Christmas dinner," I stated.

"No Jean took that job she doesn't really approve of the way he cooks," said Storm, chuckling.

"Anyone else," I asked. "What about Logan?"

"No, afraid not, he's in the entrance hall in front of the fire place. Believe it or not he'd rather be out on a mission than stay home on Christmas Eve," said Storm.

A thought went through my mind and a stubborn look appeared on my face. "We'll just see about that," I said. I went down the corridor for the entrance hall with Storm following behind me.

In the meantime Scott, Rogue, and Jubilee were setting up the Christmas tree in the entrance hall putting the decorations on it while singing a Christmas carol at the same time. Unfortunately Scott wasn't good at singing at all. At the end of the song they were singing Scott loudly cleared his throat and turned to the other two girls. He said "You girls should go on without me I'm afraid I'm not a very good singer."

"You're not that bad," Jubilee said.

Scott said "I think I'll be breaking come windows if I sing again."

All three of them laughed together at his words except for one person in the room.

Jubilee turned her attention over to Logan who was sitting in front of the fire looking into the flames. Jubilee went over to him still holding one of the ornaments. She said "Logan help us decorate the Christmas tree you can even sing the boys part in jingle bells."

Logan's frown grew even larger and he got out of his chair. He said "Kid the day you catch me singing jingle bells is the day pigs fly." Logan now went over to one of the large windows by the entrance door and watched the snow fall.

Jubilee was upset by Logan's refusal to have fun here. Her feelings could clearly be seen on her face.

Rogue went to comfort our little Jubilee. "Oh don't pay attention to old Logan you know how he is with this kind of thing. Don't let it get you down girl."

Scott came over with the tree star. He said "It's fun he doesn't like let's not let him ruin it for the rest of us." He held out the star for Jubilee to take.

"Wow thanks Scott," said Jubilee, happily.

Rogue now lifted up Jubilee and flew her up to the top of the tree. A moment later Jubilee had placed the star at the top of the tree.

At the same time Storm and I came walking in through the doors on top of the stairs. The two of us smiled when we saw how beautiful the place now looked. Storm said "How beautiful very good work everybody."

Scott, Rogue, and Jubilee looked up at us with smiles on their faces. Scott said "Well three of us anyway." He turned his head and turned his gaze over to Logan.

Storm and I went down the stairs and went over to the others. Storm said "Rogue, are you ready to go?" "Yeah we just finished decorating the tree. Let me just get my coat it'll only take a minute," said Rogue. She now flew out of the entrance hall to get her coat.

I went over to Logan and gave him a kiss on the cheek. "Hey, Logan," I said.

Logan answered me with a grunt but didn't look my way. I cocked my head and had a slight frown on my face because he didn't answer me. "Logan is anything wrong," I said. He still didn't answer me when I spoke. I turned to Storm and Rogue as they were walking over. "What's up with him?"

Storm said "Don't pay attention to him Logan doesn't really care much for the holidays."

I raised an eyebrow at what she said and turned back to Logan. "Well then that's going to have to change." I now took Logans arm in my own. "Come with us Logan it'll be fun the light, the decorations, and all of the Christmas spirit going around."

"I hate this holiday spirit," grumbled Logan.

I shook my head at what he said. "You're a regular humbug you know that," I said.

A horn honked from outside Gambit had finally brought the car around. Rogue looked outside the window and saw Gambit sitting inside the driver's seat. She said "Let's go you guys we're wasting time." She opened the door and went outside to Gambit without another word. Storm did the same thing as well.

I stood there next to Logan for a few more seconds. Then as one of the others honked the horn I decided to pull Logan out with me. Logan protested but I wouldn't take no for answer. "Oh don't be such a baby it'll be fun." Logan was already wearing a sweatshirt over his shirt so I didn't have to get him his jacket. Storm held the door open for the two of us and I pushed him inside and I went in right after him.

Jubilee and Scott were watching this from the window and as we were driving away the two of them just couldn't stop laughing at this. Jubilee said "Oh my god Logan's going to get tortured to death."

"No kidding at least Gambit will be with him that way he won't be the only guy in there," said Scott.

"Let's go see how Jean's doing in the kitchen."

Jean was cooking a large roast for the Christmas dinner that night. Without Gambit messing with her cooking she was going to make this dinner a lot faster and better. She was taste testing the soup to see if it needed any more ingredients. She raised a critical brow when it entered her mouth and she decided that it needed a little bit more pepper. She picked up its shaker and carefully dipped some of it into the soup. She was just taste testing it again when Scott and Jubilee walked into the kitchen.

Scott said "How's it going in here dear?"

"Oh it's just fine," answered Jean.

Jubilee said "What are you cooking?"

"Plenty for tonight's dinner," Jean said. She held out a wooden spoon for Jubilee to taste it and she did. Jubilee gave it big thumbs up for it.

In the meantime the five of us were walking through the city together. Gambit and Rogue kept going into stores with Storm.

Not wanting to get Logan anymore grumpy than he already was so I decided to keep him away from all of the shopping. Instead, to get away from all of the shopping I decided to take him ice skating. It was great for me to be back on the ice again I hadn't skated in so long. I was doing all of my best moves and I caught a lot of people looking at me as I was doing them. I wasn't surprised since as you know I was already a pretty good skater. Logan was just slowly skating around not very interested in what he was now doing. A lot of smaller kids were moving in front of him so he decided to sit on a bench that was on the ice and just sit down to watch everyone else that was there. Seeing this I gracefully skated over to him and moved in front of him.

I said "Stop being such a party pooper Logan and skate with me."

"I don't think so, Silver," he said.

"Would you rather I brought you back to the shopping area," I inquired.

That got to him, he definitely didn't want to go back there again. The place was like a torture chamber for him.

We were skating around for a couple of minutes when our comrades finally caught up to us. When they did they found Wolverine and me skating around the ice rink.

It was a perfect moment for Gambit to keep his big mouth shut unfortunately that wasn't the case this time. He said "Hey what are you guys doing over there?"

Caught by surprise the two of us turned out bodies and we nearly fell onto the ice. Both of us shouted "Gambit!"

The three of them laughed out loud at our outburst. Heading for the railing Logan and I wore the same angry expression. I was holding onto one of his arms. "That wasn't funny you guys," I said.

Rogue was the last one to stop laughing. She said "Yes it was. Hey Silverstream show us some of those moves of yours we haven't seen you skate before."

I narrowed my eyes at Logan. "You're no help," I whispered. I took in a deep breath and let it out slowly but finally I gave into their demands. I skated into the middle of the rink and started my routine. But in the middle of it something strange happened to me.

As I was skating toward the others to do my last move which was one of my jumps the ice seemed to shake below me for just a second. The feeling quickly passed but a new one came which made me feel like I was rising in the air. I opened my eyes to see what the cause of this was and screamed. An ice ramp had appeared and flung me out of the rink.

"Silver!"

Logan ran to my rescue onto the spot where he knew that he would be able to catch me. "Storm summon come some wind to help bring her down," he shouted.

Storm did as she was told and summoned a strong wing to steadily bring me down to Logan and he caught me in his arms. "Are you all right," he said.

I said "Yes I am."

"How in the world did that happened," asked Logan.

"I don't know one minute I was ready to do one of my jumps and a second later I found myself flying from a ramp," I said.

My attention now turned to the ramp that had flung me into the air. To my astonishment the ramp of ice now grew smaller and flattened back to the spot that it was in before it happened.

"This better not has been someone's idea of a joke," Logan said.

Then out of nowhere we heard another voice coming from behind us. "Well actually it was."

We all turned on the spot and found a young man in a brown suit and his hair greatly matched it. He had an expression full of mischief on his face as he was looking at us. I didn't recognize him at all but apparently the others did. They all said "Bobby!"

Logan nearly dropped me on the sight of this man. He said "What are you doing here, Bobby?"

He was coming over to us with that same mischievous look on his face. Bobby said "Well I was in the neighborhood so I thought I'd drop by the mansion and say hello."

"Well you didn't have to scare us half to death. You nearly gave me a heart attack. Can you put me down please," I said.

Logan set me down on a nearby bench and I started to take off my skates. Bobby looked at me for a second and then his attention turned back to his friends.

Gambit said "Well it sure has been a while since we've seen you."

"The Professor will surely be happy to see you again," Storm said.

Logan said "Still you shouldn't have pulled that stunt before."

"Oh Logan it was only a bit of fun," said Bobby, waving his hand.

"Fun that almost got Silverstream seriously hurt," Logan said with anger.

I said "I'll say." I had now had my shoes back on and brought the skates back to its stand.

I still wasn't happy with what this man did to me before and when he smiled at me I didn't smile back. I only stood by Logan and took his arm again. I said "You guys obviously know each other but how did you all come to meet?"

"He was one of the original x-men he was called Iceman back in the day. Although he wasn't the most accomplished of us," Storm said.

Bobby said "Oh come on I was as accomplished as any of you."

"You were always causing trouble," said Scott.

I chuckled but quickly disguised it as a cough. Bobby raised his eyebrows at me he had heard my cough for what it really was. "Now it's my turn to ask the questions," he said. "Who is she?"

Logan said "This is Silverstream one of our new members next to Jubilee."

"Oh, really now," said Bobby.

He was looking at me with a critical eye that expression of mischief was nowhere to be seen. "What is your power?"

"Oh it's nothing special," I said.

Still Bobby persisted. "Show me," he said.

I couldn't say no now could I so I looked around to see if anyone was watching us. When I saw that no one was I activated my power and made my crescent moon shine. I didn't let out enough light to get noticed by anyone but enough to get Bobby to see what my mutant power was.

Once the light went back into my mark I could see that Bobby wasn't very impressed. We could see that clearly on his face. So Logan cleared his throat and got us to move on. The five of us headed for where we had parked our car Bobby went to take a taxi and followed us. We wouldn't have had any room for him in the car mostly because of all of the bags of gifts that the others had bought in the stores. The presents from Rogue and Storm alone filled up the trunk. Gambit used his power to heat up the car a little bit in order to keep us warm.

When we got back to the mansion Jubilee was building a snowman with Nightcrawler while Jean and Scott were having a big snow ball fight with Beast. During this time the Professor was watching these events from the window in his nice study by the fire place. He wore a satisfied expression seeing how much fun his x-men were finally having together. That's when we came into the picture. A huge snow ball went for Beast and knocked off his top hat. Caught by surprise Beast turned in the direction of where it came from and when he did he saw us coming their way. The other four of my comrades weren't what caught their attention it was the man made of ice speeding their way. But instead of fighting they decided to have some fun and throw snow balls at him. He just three them right back at them only he used his ice powers to make them bigger. Those balls knocked the three of them straight onto the ground laughing.

Nightcrawler and Jubilee now took notice of what was happening and when they saw who was the cause of this new activity Jubilee called out in joy. She said "Iceman!"

And then Jubilee went to join in on the fun Nightcrawler went after her even though he didn't really know this man.

Rogue, Gambit, Storm, Logan, and I were taking our time walking up the driveway to get to the others. Gambit and Logan were busy carrying the bags for us you see we gave them the whole work load. Although the two of them had a hard time of keeping their balance under all of these packages.

Rogue, Storm, and I went to join in on the fun while the boys took our bags inside. It was the rest of us against the all-powerful Iceman. We had to hide behind piles of snow along with some bushes and trees in order to avoid him.

Eventually Gambit came back out to help us fight off the Iceman. Logan decided to stay inside and he went up to see the Professor. The Professor knew that he was coming up to see him and so stayed by the window watching us outside waiting for his arrival. Right when Logan came inside and stood beside him that was when they started a conversation between each other.

Logan said "We ran into Bobby inside the city."

"I can see that now tell me how the city was today. It must look good with all of the lights and decorations all over the place," said the Professor.

"Don't really pay much attention to that stuff Professor," said Logan.

The Professor said "Of course you don't Logan now tell me how did you meet Bobby in the city?"

"That's actually a funny story," chuckled Logan.

And so Logan told the Professor about how Bobby came to be with us in the city. Most important in this entire thing he told the Professor about what Bobby did to me with his power and how it almost cost me great injury to myself. There was a little bit of silence after Logan said what he needed to say.

The Professor said "So he's up to his old tricks again."

"Bobby's twenty eight now he really needs to act his age," said Logan.

"Well you are right about that he does need to grow up and he needs to get out of those antics of his. He's a grown man he needs to get his own life together," said the Professor.

Nightcrawler had just nailed Iceman on the head with a small snow ball. Jubilee and I broke down laughing to that attack. Because of our outbursts we were attacked right back.

Laughing we threw our own snow balls at our attackers and they fought right back. Hiding behind a bush I looked up and saw the Professor with Logan standing in front of the window looking down at us. I smiled and gave them a slight wave then went back in the game. I tackled Beast big as he was I knocked him down on the ground.

Logan smiled down at me when I had looked up at him before.

The Professor noticed this and his eyebrows rose over his eyes. He said "Getting serious aren't you?"

If he didn't know better the Professor could see that Logan turned a dark crimson. Only the change in coloring was caused by the fire place and not by anything else. Logan's next words soon brought that to mind. Logan said "I'm one lucky guy I never imagined having someone like her as my girl there's not a woman like her."

The snow was now coming down harder than ever so the rest of us outside decided to head back inside the mansion. We were all still smiling and laughing as we went through the doors.

"That's the most fun I've had in weeks," Jubilee said.

I said "I'll say." As we were taking off our jackets we realized that they were soaked with melted snow so we went to hang them by the fire and dry them off.

That was when the Professor and Logan came into the entrance hall.

The Professor looked at the bags of presents under the tree that were added to the ones already there. He said "I can see that you guys did a lot of shopping."

"Well Storm and I did," Rogue said. I said "Logan and I were skating."

"Skating eh." The Professor raised an eyebrow and looked at Logan with a laughing expression.

Logan now went back to his grumpy mood. He said with a shrug of his shoulders "There was nothing else to do."

The Professor now caught sight of Bobby moving toward him.

The Professor went to meet him in the hover chair. "It's good to see you again, Bobby," he said.

"And to you, Professor," responded Bobby.

The two of them shook hands with each other. At the same time the clock struck seven it was time to have our Christmas dinner.

"All right everybody get changed and head for the dining hall dinner will be set for when you get down there," order the Professor. The Professor left through one of the lowers doors and headed for the dining hall.

The rest of us went to go change into some more comfortable clothes. I changed into a nice sweater and a nice pair of pants to go with it. Most of the others wore close to the same thing but some of the others were something a little bit more formal. Some of the men wore suits for us. The Professor was in comfortable pajamas with his robe at the head of the table. Although what everyone was wearing this wasn't what caught my eye.

It was all of the food that was set on top of it. A huge roast, a pot of hot soup, and many more delicious things for us.

Everyone was amazed just like me by all of this food. Beast was looking straight at Jean pure admiration on his face. "My dear, you have outdone yourself," he said.

Jean blushed at his praise. She said "It was nothing really it didn't take long for me to make it like this. I don't know if it's any good."

"You're cooking is always good Jean," said Beast.

Scott put a hand on his wife's shoulder. He said "Well then let's dig in and find out."

So we all took our seats at the table and Nightcrawler insisted on saying a prayer to this feast. Once that was done we all dug into our plates. It was completely delicious Jean had definitely outdone herself this time. While we were eating our fill bobby was discussing the life in one of the other states.

Scott said "So what have you been doing Bobby?"

Bobby was eating a mouthful of turkey at the time so he had to swallow it before he could speak up. He said "Well I have my own apartment it's not big but it does nicely for me."

"What kind of job do you have, Bobby," asked Jubilee.

"Well back home I am an accountant and a pretty good one too. Ever since I became one I've gotten many customers and a lot of success," answered Bobby.

"What about a family," I said.

He said "No I don't have one just yet."

"By God you will be given one when the time comes." Nightcrawler leaned forward to make his meaning clear to Bobby.

It was then that Bobby finally took notice of Nightcrawler. "And who are you," he said.

Storm said "This is Nightcrawler one of our other new members. He came to us at the same time as Silverstream."

"What are your powers," asked Bobby.

"I can disappear and reappear any place that I want as long as I know where I'm going," Nightcrawler said.

Bobby said "Oh yes I saw that." "Unfortunately there is a limit to how far I can go. Right now it's an eight mile radius I don't know if it'll change in the future. But if it does change that'll before God to decide not me." "You're pretty stuck on religion," Bobby said. Nightcrawler said "It's what I've been taught at the monastery."

Bobby now turned to me. He said "And what about you Silverstream? What's your story?"

I was about to take a bight of stuffing when he said this to me. No one had asked me to speak about my story for months. Everyone here respected my privacy and knew not to mention it around me. They always grew uncomfortable whenever they could see that I was upset and right now they were definitely starting to feel that way. They knew that telling this story caused me great pain.

Bobby could see that everyone was getting very uncomfortable by this. He looked around at everyone with a very strained expression on his face. "Was it something I said?"

I was the one to reassure him that he didn't say anything wrong. I put down my fork next to my plate and turned to him with a smile on my face.

I said "There's nothing wrong Bobby although my story isn't very interesting. The only thing about it is that I was a run away. People made fun of me because of my power so I thought about leaving. Eventually that's exactly what I did and I made my way to New York City. That's when I met up with Nightcrawler and he brought me here to meet the Professor. My life has gotten much better since then."

"What else," persisted Bobby.

"There's nothing more to say that's all you need to know about me," I said. I went straight back to eating once I said my piece to him.

Instead of talking like before everything was now quiet. Nobody was happy with what had just past. Except for Bobby the others knew that behind my smile was a world full of pain. They knew me so well that it was obvious to them in an instant.

Logan was sitting next to me and he could tell that I was fighting back tears in my eyes. He put a comforting arm around me and brought me closer to him. The quiet lasted for a few more minutes until the desert came out and we were talking all over again.

There were all of our favorite deserts there and we ate until our stomachs were full. After we were finished eating the dishes were brought to the kitchen to be washed up and put them back in their cupboards. Once that was done we all went to do our own things.

The Professor was in his study with Beast drinking some hot chocolate together.

Scott and Jean were still in the kitchen finishing the last of the dishes alone just the way they liked it. Scott gave her a grape and she ate it right out of his hand. She let out a small giggle while doing this.

Jubilee and Iceman went outside again making ice sculptures even though Bobby was the one doing most of the work.

Nightcrawler was with his sister Rogue along with Gambit in the entrance hall. He was reading a new bible hanging from the ceiling while they were sitting by the fire.

Storm was in her greenhouse tending to her plants. Now for Logan and I, we weren't doing anything nearly so relaxing.

He was giving me some more training inside the danger room since we didn't have anything better to do. Parts of the floors, walls, and ceiling making our way more difficult just the way he liked it.

I was standing on top of one of the floor pieces looking for him. I was jumping from pillar to pillar trying to find out where he was. Because of that sense of smell of his he was able to tell where I was and avoid me. I wasn't that easy to get rid of as he though. My methods of observation in combat had grown much better since I had started my training so I was able to find him quicker than I thought. My methods of observation in combat had grown much better since I had started my training so I was able to find him quicker than I thought.

The thing that gave him away to me was his shadow. I jumped onto the top of the pillar he was hiding behind. Carefully I looked down the pillar and saw him with his back to it looking left and right trying to find me before I jumped down from the pillar and onto the floor. But just as I hit the ground the unexpected happened.

The floor rose from behind and under me to bring me back up above the floor. Doing this now created a ramp under my feet only the ramp wasn't what caught me by surprise. Wolverine was nowhere in my sight.

The problem was I was looking below not above me so Wolverine was able to sneak up from behind. He was standing on a higher pillar behind me wearing a large smile. He couldn't believe that I was so off guard. He did the same thing that I wanted to do to him before.

Without warning he jumped me from behind and we both rolled our bodies tangled together down the ramp. Logan ended up being on top of me when we reached the bottom and I was below him.

We were both laughing our heads off. As Logan was starting to pick himself up a look came upon my face. Lifting up my back a little bit to get closer to him I put one of my hands to the back of his head and gave him a kiss on the cheek. Turning his head he was looking at me with widened eyes he didn't expect what I had just did but my face was nothing like his at the time. My eyes were soft and glittering with a beautiful matching smile to go with it. His face softened up as well and we both brought ourselves together in a kiss.

The doors opened as soon as it happened and we immediately broke apart. Beast stopped short when he saw the two of us on the floor and he was completely embarrassed. "Uh am I interrupting?"

"No we were just leaving," said Wolverine. He helped me off the floor and the two of us walked out together.

We headed for our rooms to get a good night's sleep. We said good night and gave each other a kiss before we went into them. Logan went to sleep on the spot while I stayed up a little bit and read a book. I actually fell asleep reading it.

I woke up from the sun light hitting my face gleaming through the window. Yawning I put my book on a night stand and got out of bed. Getting on my slippers I walked down the corridors for the kitchen. I was hungry and needed something to eat.

Beast was inside drinking coffee when I got there. He was in a very cherry mood. He said "Good morning my dear Merry Christmas."

"Merry Christmas, Beast," I said, smiling.

"I hope I didn't intrude last night," said Beast.

"Don't worry Beast, you weren't Logan was just helping me out with some training that's all," I said, reassuring him.

I now took a sip of my own coffee. Right then Nightcrawler appeared hanging from the ceiling. "Hello," he said.

I nearly choked on my drink. Even though I had been living with him for many months I still couldn't get used to him transporting in unannounced like that. "Kurt don't do that you nearly gave me a heart attack."

Nightcrawler did a front flip and landed next to me by the counter as I was drinking my coffee. He said "Sorry fraulen, I didn't mean to startle you."

I swallowed down the rest of my coffee and put the mug in the sink to be washed out. "Do you want anything, Kurt," I asked.

"No, I'm just fine I actually came in to tell you guys to move for the entrance hall. We're going there to open presents under the tree," he said.

It then occurred to me that I had forgotten what day it was completely, it was Christmas morning. "Oh man I totally forgot its Christmas."

Beast grabbed a newspaper coffee still in hand. "Can't keep everyone waiting let's go," he said.

Kurt nodded his head and took my arm along with Hanks. He transported us into the entrance hall so that we didn't have to walk all the way there.

Everybody else came only a few minutes after we did. The Professor took his place by the fireplace in his hover chair and Logan took his place in his. I sat down on the floor next to him and leaned against his legs.

The others were already digging into their presents as if they were kids again although an occasional present was given to the Professor. We all had a present for him and he seemed to enjoy all of them. He thanked us all greatly when he saw what they were.

I gave Logan his present my gift to him. Logan opened it and paused when he saw what was inside the box. He took out his present a nice new leather jacket. I could only afford a used one but it still looked nice to him. He held it up to get a better look at it and turned it so that he could look at both sides. After a few seconds he looked down at me and gave me a smile. He took one of my hands and gave it a gentle kiss. "Thank you Silverstream," he said.

I smiled up at him and laid the side of my head on his knee.

The others enjoyed my presents to them as well especially Jubilee and Rogue. I had gotten some new gloves for Rogue so she could wear them around because of her absorption power and as a bonus they were in her favorite color.

Jubilee seemed to like the CD that I had bought for her as well. I didn't see any presents for me but I didn't mind much about this.

I put on one of my beautiful smiles. I said "I'm glad everyone liked their gifts I worked very hard to find them."

"Now it's our turn to give you yours," said Scott.

I blinked my eyes a few timed and looked around the tree. There wasn't anything there for me.

Jean said "This is your first Christmas as an x-man so we wanted to make it extra special. We all decided to get you the same thing it was Logan's idea."

"Oh well then where it is," I asked.

"It's in the city and since Bobby had nothing better to do we told him to get it for us in the city," said Jean.

"Oh so that's why he's not here I was wondering if he left for home," I said.

Logan said "No he hadn't the Professor insisted that he'd go get it before he left for home."

"How did he know what to get," I asked. "The Professor planted the image in his mind so that he would be able to know what it was," said Beast.

"So when will he arrive with it?" Right when I said that a horn honked from outside and not long after that Bobby came in through the doors.

Logan said "Where is it?"

"In the car," said Bobby.

"Well then go get it," said Logan.

Making a face Bobby left for the car. He came back moments later with a small dove in his hands.

"How beautiful," I said. "Hold out your arm," said Logan.

I did as I was told and held out my arm.

Bobby let go of the dove and it flew toward me. Only it didn't land where we thought it would. Instead of landing on my arm it went for my shoulder. Using its little feet the dove moved closer to me and rubbed her head against my cheek.

"Do you like her," asked Jubilee.

"Oh I love her," I said. I tickled her under the beak she seemed to really like that from me.

Bobby went over to the Professor and held out his hand. "I'd better get going it's a long way home and I need to get a taxi."

"I'll drive you there I need to bring a letter to the post office anyway," said Jubilee.

Jubilee left her place on the floor and went outside with Bobby.

Logan and I watched them drive away from the mansion. We could see that Jubilee was speeding away as usual.

Gambit and Rogue came up from behind us. The two of them started laughing at what they were seeing.

Gambit said "Man Jubilee's going to give Bobby a heart attack."

"Let's hope so," said Scott.

"Scott!" Cyclopes raised his hands defensively in front of him. "It was a joke," he said.

We all laughed at that even the Professor and we all had fun with the rest of our Christmas day. Cleaning up the mess that we made while opening presents wasn't very fun.

This was a very good Christmas for me this year. The only presents I used to get on Christmas were from my grandmother and now she was gone. Next to the gifts that she used to give me this dove was the best of them all, she was so very sweet.

Storm agreed that she could put her in green house. That would give her room to fly around whenever it was told cold out for her.

By the look of things she was already very fond of me. It was obvious because of all the nuzzling she was doing at my neck and the treats she was asking from me. We even made a perch for her inside of there.

I quickly figured out a name for her. In the sunlight her wings shined like silver. That's because most of her body was a dark brown while the edges of her wings were white. But as I said before they shined like silver in the sunlight. So I decided to name her Silverwings and everyone one agreed with that. I got to thinking that with the right kind of training Silverwings might just be the perfect partner for me in battle.