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Chapter Five: Trouble

Cole couldn't believe his dad was doing this to him. First he finds out that his mother was a mutant, which was the main reason his father had divorced her, and now he himself was a mutant because of her. And on top of all that he finds himself being driven to a school filled with the very people he and his father had hated for so long, Xavier's School for the Gifted.

Cole snorts, "Gifted my ass, cursed is more like it."

Fiorela rubs his knee in what would have seemed to be a comforting manner is the woman's hand didn't happen to be going higher every few swipes upwards.

"It's okay. You'll learn how to not be a mutant here. You'll be able to hide your freaky little abilities and will be able to come home," Fiorela leans towards him, her breasts pressing against his arm, "Then we can spend a lot more time together…"

"What pretending to be a family, stealing my father's money and sleeping around behind his back? Is that what you think families do," Cole glares at her the flames appearing on his hands again causing the woman to jump back and gasp, "Let me tell you something Mother Dearest, you aren't family."

"But I'm your mother. And I will do whatever you need me to do. I mean after all you can't get into the pants of your little crush what's her name now that you look like that," Fiorela smiles to it looked more like she was baring her teeth at him, "Which I think is a good thing in the long run. She might have been rich but she was probably nothing but a whore…ack."

Cole's hand shoots out and wraps around her neck pushing her into the door next to her, "Don't you ever speak about Ty that way again. A few months ago you wanted me to get married to her so you could try to steal her family's money and now you call her a whore. What do you think you are woman? A saint?"

Fiorela coughs choking and trying to pry his hands away, staring into the glowing blue eyes of her step son, he looked like the crazed offspring of a demon and an angel, beautiful and deadly.

Cole leans close to her, his lip curling in disgust, "You're pathetic Fiorela, nothing but a gold digging whore who can't stand thinking that other people might be better than you. But if you want to fuck me that bad…"

Fiorela gasps when the boy, no man, pulls his hands away from her throat and strokes her neck gently, and she swore she felt the light sink into her body as his other hand runs up her thigh and his lips touch her neck.

The driver heard her screams from the front of the limo and he just rolls his eyes in disgust and turn up the radio louder to drown them out.

"I assure you that you will be quite comfortable here at my school Mr. Tiller. After all you aren't the only new student we have gotten in the last few months," Professor Xavier says smiling at the blond boy who was sitting uncomfortably in an armchair in front of his desk, "Maybe you should find them and make friends with them to help you settle in comfortably."

"Thank you kindly Professor. That would be real nice." Cole says smiling, he had to admit after the long limo ride to the school, he felt a lot better though he wasn't quite sure what the feeling was coming from. All he knew was that he felt full and comfortable and all the anger he had once felt had gone away.

It was too bad about Fiorela though…

Xavier raises an eyebrow when he catches a stray thought from the boy, but couldn't quite figure out what it was. He knew that the boy wasn't quite comfortable about being in a school full of mutants especially with how he was raised, but strangely enough there was a strange sense of calm coming from him that he didn't quite understand.

"You will be in the college section of the school since you are 21. Dr. Henry McCoy and Emma Frost teach most of the students that aren't able to go to Universities because of their mutations and I'm sure you will make many friends your age in those classes. In fact we got a few new students your age about two months ago; I'm sure you can make friends with them easily."

"Oh really?" Cole raises an eyebrow, looking interested and wondering if any one of them was a hot girl.

"Yes. Their names were Rahne Sinclair, Remy LeBeau, Sam Guthrie, Danielle Moonstar, Kayvan Yin and Tatyana Winston."

Cole's eyes widen, "Ty is here?"

"You know Tatyana? She arrived here with Kayvan a few months ago. I'm sure she would love to see you."

"I doubt that though I wouldn't mind seeing her again…"Cole smirks slightly, his eyes flashing a little.

"Well I'm sure she'll forgive you. She hasn't made that many friends from what she had told me in our sessions together and I' m sure seeing a familiar face will help you both out in getting comfortable here. Now how about we head towards your room?"

"That would be good. I think I will look for Tatyana later. I want to show her how much I missed her." Cole chuckles darkly and Xavier stops rolling his wheelchair just as he reaches the door.

"Oh and Mr. Tiller, I just want you to know that we don't appreciate violence against fellow students in our halls. I'm sure you didn't mean to hurt your step-mother with your abilities since you are just getting used to them but we wouldn't want that to happen to any of your fellow students understand?" Xavier looks over his shoulder at the tall young man.

"I understand completely sir."

Cole didn't know how the man had known about what happened to Fiorela but that didn't stop him from wanting to see his dear old friend Tatyana once more.

"I wonder what she'll think of the new me…" Cole thought and smiles.

"I knew you felt more comfortable in your leopard form then you do your human form, Ty. It's the same with me and my wolf form. At first I didn't enjoy shifting but it's rather comforting when you get used to it" Rahne Sinclair says laying her head on the back of the leopard that was currently lounging on her bed, she laughs when the girl snorts at her, "Oh don't give me that. I noticed how you stripped down and shifted as soon as you got to my room."

Tatyana yawns and stretches, ignoring the girl in favor of popping her back. Rahne was a relatively new friend she had been introduced to by Jubilee, they bonded after meeting each other again in their animal forms and ended running through the grounds together playing a game of what Rahne soon called "chase the kitty" much to Tatyana's dismay.

While Rahne, much like Jubilee, wasn't all that fond of her being friends with Pyro she knew that Tatyana was going to ignore them regardless and that while Kayvan was spending most of his time with Quicksilver that Tatyana needed some type of male friend to bond with. Though Rahne would have much rather the girl had become friends with Bobby, who Tatyana didn't seem to like for some strange reason, or someone who hadn't been evil she didn't try to pull the girl away from Pyro like Jubilee did and instead just introduced her to Remy, Sam, and Peter whom Tatyana seemed to have adopted as older brothers. But strangely enough Tatyana really didn't like Rogue and Kitty as much as she liked the others and tended to disappear whenever she saw them.

Tatyana moves onto her stomach and shifts back into her human form, moving away from Rahne to pull her tank top and workout pants back on before climbing back on the bed beside her friend and laying her head on her chest.

"Okay Ty what's got you so worked up? Did Pyro pull something? I'll beat the crap out of the firefly if he did!" Rahne says running her hands through the girl's hair.

Tatyana sighs, "No…not really. I haven't seen Kayvan in a long time and it bothers me. He's my friend and I miss him. I kinda feel bad from not being able to hang out with him."

"Oh sweetie he'll come around. Just give him some time. He's making friends too. I saw him playing football with Warren, Peter and Pietro earlier today. He probably just wants to hang around boys his age like you're hanging around with me and Jubes," Rahne smirks slightly, "Speaking of Warren. You haven't been introduced to him yet…"

"Yeah so…my mom wants me to say hi to him. I think she's trying to get me betrothed to him or something creepy like that…what's with the smirk wolf-girl?"

"Oh nothing. Fix your hair and let's go downstairs to get some ice cream. I feel like having a snack don't you?" Rahne continues smirking and pulls the girl up, fixing the girl's hair for her.

"Rahne…what are you doing. I don't need you to set me up with some guy I don't know. I don't try set you up with Sam do I? Rahne are you listening to me!" Tatyana cries out, yelping as the girl drags her out of the room.

Rahne just smirks and continues pulling her down the hall, humming Danny Boy as she goes knowing that Tatyana hated that song.

"Oh come on Ray. I don't even look nice right now. I'm purple and my hair is a mess and…and… I probably smell like sweat from gym class with Logan."

"You look fine. You're always purple, stupid and you don't smell that bad. I would tell you if you smelt bad cause I wouldn't be near you if you did, love." Rahne winks at her and continues dragging the girl down the hall.