Chapter Five

"This is ridiculous!" Storm exclaimed, slamming the stack of papers she had in her hand, on the desk.

"What is it?" Rogue asked, walking in. Her class ran late, so she was a little late to the teacher's meeting.

"Since we teach mutants and non mutants, the state of New York wants us to follow the curriculum that they have planned for Xavier's." Storm explained.

She handed Rogue, Bobby, Kitty, Colossus, Logan, and Beast a copy.

"This is outrageous." Beast agreed.

Rogue tried to intervene, but was cut short by Kitty. "Science is the best subject that I'm good at. I don't want to teach the students things that I'm a little rusty on."

"Guys," Bobby interjected, "I think Marie wants to say something."

All eyes turned to Rogue. She cleared her throat and began. "This might not be so bad. It says here that they will provide all the materials that are needed to teach."

Colossus spoke up. "There are seven teachers. There are seven subjects. How is one person supposed to handle at least a thousand kids at one time?"

"Peter's right." Logan spoke. He was quite through the whole conversation.

"Okay. How about this? It says that they will provide what ever is necessary to teach. Why not break up the entire student population into seven groups. We each get assigned to a group. We teach all of the subjects to the group that we are assigned." Rogue offered.

"That doesn't sound like a bad idea. That would make our scheduling a whole lot better." Bobby agreed. "And we don't have to teach them all in a day. We can do one subject a day for so many hours."

"It does come with a computer, CD-ROMs, worksheets, and the entire works." Beast added. "If we don't get something, we can just read it off the computer screen, or put the audio CD in and let the class listen."

Storm looked at the group. They considered what Rogue and Beast had to say.

"What says the group?" Storm asked.

"We say give it a shot." The teachers finally agreed.

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Later on that day, all of the students were held outside on the grounds. There wasn't a room big enough, except the hanger for the new Blackbird, to house the students.

Six teachers were standing in a row, with Storm calling the audience to order. She explained the situation and told the group to line up. One row will be mutants, the second row, non-mutants, and so on.

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After giving each teacher a certain amount of students, Bobby and Rogue did a head count.

"Holy Shit!" Rogue exclaimed to Bobby.

"What?"

"I have one hundred forty-three students in my class."

"So do I." Bobby responded.

Storm turned to the teachers. "Time to get to know your class."

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Bobby took his class one direction, Rogue to another. Kitty and Colossus decided to stay together. The other three adults went into the mansion.

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Over at Rogue's group, she was giving them the four-one-one. "Okay, my name is Marie Drake, but you can call me Rogue. In this class, you will learn, Chemistry, Spanish II, Algebra, American Government, College Prep English, Gym, and you will also work on your graduation project."

There was a mixture of mutants and non-mutants in each group. There were also students of all ages. Rogue took notice of this and added, "For those of you who are young, you get this done now, and you won't have to do this later."

Rogue started to go around and get names of each of her students.

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In Bobby's group, he was doing the same thing. "Call me Iceman, instead of Bobby Drake."

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Colossus and Kitty had it easy. Their groups were together. "We are Colossus and Shadow cat, not Peter and Kitty Rasputin."

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Each of the teachers showed their students their powers. In Rogue's group, she had to explain why she had two powers. She told them about the cure and how Storm and Forge had made her wedding ring and her engagement ring full of power.

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Just then, the sky went dark. Every head turned to look. Storm was floating in the air, and she used some wind to carry her voice. "As you can tell by your schedules, Monday you will have Chemistry, Tuesday you will have college prep English, Wednesday is Spanish, Thursday is Algebra, Friday is American Government, and Saturday is the graduation project. The reason Gym is not on there, is because you can do that anytime. Just fill it in one your gym log sheet." The sky cleared and Storm returned to the earth.

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Later on that night, Bobby took Rogue for a walk in the garden. "Can you believe the size of our class?" She asked him.

"It kind of blows your mind." He laughed. Rogue smiled up at him and he realized it's been a while since he kissed her. "I love you." He said.

"I love you too." They leaned in and were about to kiss, when Kitty and Colossus walked up.

"Hey guys." Kitty said, then saw what they burst into. "Oops, sorry."

"It's okay." Rogue said, blushing.

"Hey guys, what's that?" Colossus asked.

"What's what, Pete?" Bobby asked.

Colossus pointed through the bushes, everyone leaned in to get a closer look. Storm and Logan were sitting there on a bench, talking.

Just then, Logan pulled Storm close and kissed her.

"Ooh." The four teachers teased. With Wolverine's keen sense of smell and sound, he looked straight at them.

That was their cue. They pulled back and ran all of way back to the mansion.