All in a Bayville Day

Darkholme was in her office drinking coffee and very much enjoying herself and the peace and quite. She had not seen any of the juvenile delinquents in the office at all that day. That included Todd Tolansky, which meant he had set a new record of not getting in trouble. She had to hand it to the kid though, most of the time he didn't mean to get in trouble. She glanced up from her coffee when she heard a yell come from her secretary.

"Hey, you can't go in there!" Darkholme ended up spitting out her coffee when she saw who it was who had stormed her office like a maniac. Usually she expected this behavior coming from some disgruntled parent who was angry that their child didn't make the highest marks. This was an X-Men storming her office; however, considering who it was, it was the one who was likely to do it.

"What do you want!" Darkholme snapped at the man. A snarl curled on his lips and he flung a folder onto her desk. She glanced at it and shook her head. "What, the X-Men resulting to blackmailing me … or is it that your turning turncoat on them?"

"Don't be stupid, the X-Men will never stoop to your level nor will I ever turn to your side," He snarled at her, snapping as he did. He glared at the secretary who was peaking through the door and she quickly closed the door.

"Then what is this!" She picked up the folder and slammed it down onto the table, causing a snapping noise to come forth. "I believe there is a reasonable awnser to this!"

"There is… meet someone who is going to be the newest student at Bayville." Logan stated, snarling at her again.

"What, you," Darkholme said sarcastically. She wasn't stupid though, Logan would be more likely to pass as a new gym coach then an actual student. She grinned inwardly at the thought of him running the kids to the ground, but she wasn't about to give him the idea that she actually had a good thought about one of the X-Men.

Darkholme opened the folder and looked at the page. "Scott Abernathy… his residence when he moves in will be the mansion. Wonderful, I take it that Xavier is wanting to rub it in that they are getting a new mutant into the institute after my failed attempt of sending in a spy."

"Ahh, so you admit it, sending the kid in. We are getting a new student at the institute. The thing is, if he was a mutant, Xavier would be the one pushing this in front of your face, not me. The kid is a regular human." Wolverine quipped. He watched, much to his delight as Darkholme squirmed in her seat.

"You… supporting non-mutants is something I don't understand." Darkholme quipped.

She didn't expect the answer that he gave back. "I have met enough people who wished to abuse my powers, but I've also met even more people who wish to protect my rights as a human. You are so focused on mutants and their supposed sufferings, that you don't see the whole picture, nor does your boss. In fact, Xavier doesn't see the whole picture, but this is a start at least."

Darkholme glared at him. "A horrible start you moron! How is it that you think you can trust this kid with our secret when he isn't one of us!? Your idea of mutants and… them, is way too radical!"

"Because I trusted his father with our secret for a very long time, so I have faith that the son will be like the father." Wolverine smirked at her discomfort.

"How did Xavier pull of this transfer this time?" Darkholme asked, grumbling as she did, hoping to get some information.

She should have known better though, Wolverine was no fool. "Not that I would give away Xavier's key points, but to let you know… he wasn't the one who pulled off the transfer this time. I really don't know who did."

This caused Darkholme's jaw to drop in shock. Wolverine stuck his hands in his jean pockets, which made he wonder how he planed on leaving. She was answered when the door opened a crack and a timid head poked through. "Uhh… Ms. Darkholme"

There was a sudden scream that sounded much like a girl and Darkholme found a very frightened Todd attached to her. Wolverine smirked and walked through the door. Mystique pushed Todd off her leg in disgust. "What is he doing here?"

"What did you do this time?" She snapped, causing Todd to hurry and take the chair in front of her desk. Todd looked at the ceiling for a few minutes.

M

Earlier…

Todd had arrived at school in a good mood. He had a little money leftover from paying off those two jerks from what he had stolen. As far as he was concerned, it was fare game as he had been forced to steal it to save his hide. Due to the incident at the stadium, he had been able to beg off a reprieve from them. Thus he had been able to get them the money.

He was thinking about getting stuff from the vending machines, when he noticed a table set up in the front foyer. The cheerleaders were busy putting out lollipops. Todd wandered over to him and glanced at those multi colored candies. They swirled with color and he was interested.

"Are you selling lollipops?" Todd asked, hoping that they were. He loved these lollipops but never had money unless he stole it to get them. His earnings, he told himself, were fairly gained.

"Yes," On of the cheerleaders said, a skeptical look on her face. She turned up her nose at Todd.

"Your that Freshman who steals stuff." Another Cheerleader said, grimacing at him.

"Hey, you can't have any lollipops. There is no way we're going to let you steal any of them." The second retorted.

"Hey, I was going to pay for them." Todd held up his money, showing the girls that he had no plans to steal their lollipops.

"You probably stole that money." The second snapped, slapping his hand away.

"And don't argue that you didn't. Your filthy and obviously street trash frog person, so go away."

Todd walked away then jumped onto the ceiling and crawled over so that he was over the table. No one else was at school right now, so that meant that he might not be seen. His tongue shot out while they weren't looking, leaving slime on the table. He then snuck off. He heard them scream, and then took off.

It wasn't until later when the lollipops were found missing and the cheerleaders had figured out that they hadn't left them somewhere that they had gone and picked out the likely suspect, but the lollipops weren't on him or his locker. But he was the most likely suspect, so he was taken to the office.

M

"Uhh… boss lady…" Todd said, twiddling his fingers. "I was accused of something, but the thing is… not guilty until proven guilty?"

"That kind of question hints that you did do what you are accused of but there is no evidence."

"Well, if I answered yes, you'd convict me right here, but if I said no, you would assume I am lying." Todd said, leaning back and still twiddling his fingers, which was errie due to his frog mutation.

"So what will your answer be Todd?"

"My answer? My answer will be, neither, because I won't say anything that will bias the judge against me." Todd said.

Mystique then shaped shifted into a hideous beast, one that she knew that Todd was afraid of. She then growled at him. "Get out of my office!"

Todd scurried out of the office.

M

Todd tapped his foot as he stood outside the lunch room. That was when a boy with blue hair walked by him, looking at what was obviously a class schedule. Todd grinned as it was obviously a new kid. He yelled loudly to get his attention.

"Hey, newbie!" Todd yelled. "Hey, noob!"

The boy turned, speaking in a familiar accent that Todd couldn't replace. "Are you talking to me? Oh… it's you…"

"What, me? You already know who I am? You know what a babe magnet I am? Who are you to judge me in that tone?" Todd said, causing the boy to glance at himself carefully.

"Vhi guess vhat vhi vhould not be familiar to you as vhi am a new student," the boy said.

"Why would anyone know the new student?" Todd laughed. He then got an evil idea into his head. "When you want to get a girl to like you, you call them a …"

Todd pulled on the boys ear and whispered the word into his ear. He then pointed to a girl going through her locker. "Why not try it on her?"

The blue boy raised an eyebrow and went over to speak to the girl. Todd was aggravated that he couldn't hear what the other boy was saying. He then became alarmed when the boy pointed at him and a very angry girl came storming over. She quickly said these words. "If you weren't so dirty, I would slap you good and hard. But your filth reflects your mind, trying to teach a bad word to the new kid from the Xavier Institute."

She then stormed off, Todd looking at her in confusion. "What does she mean, new kid? They got another one after the blue fur ball?"

"I AM the blue fur ball you moron," the boy said, clicking off his hollo watch and sticking his tongue out. He then teleported away from the scene, leaving a pup of smoke.

While Toad was coughing and waving the smoke away, the couch walked up to him, an irritated look on his face. "Not only am I told your using bad words, but you've been smoking!"

"You see that I'm coughing! If I was smoking, it is obviously my first time! There were some football jocks, friends of Duncan's I think, who blew smoke in my face,"

"Well… if it was your first time, it was probably peer pressure. Try not to fall for it again… next time you'll be in trouble," the couch said walking off.

"Not unless you can find my fuzzy blue cigarette," Todd stated. This caused the couch to turn back to him.

"Was it just cigarettes? Perhaps you should go see the school nurse. Darkholme would have me kicked out of here if one of her wards got sick. Maybe the football players were smoking something around you… that woman is eerie…" the couch said, writing a pass for Todd to head to the nurse.

"Yeah, she is… but she makes a good… I guess the word for it is foster mother… she has a whole closet full of torture devices. My old foster family had a whole storage unit with torture devices," Todd said, going with the flow.

"Tolansky, anyone tell you you're a pathological liar?" the coach said sneaking away.

Todd called after him waving his nurses pass. "I prefer teller of tall tales!"

M

Todd went to the nurses office and had a good reprieve. His lunch was brought to him and he felt he was living like a king. He twiddled his thumbs and had counted three-thousand, fifty-six dots on the ceiling tiles when Duncan came in with a cheerleader.

"Dunk… you sure this is all right?" the cheerleader asked. "I mean, if Jean finds out, she'll have a cow."

"Here's the thing doll." Duncan said, causing Todd to lose count and peek through the curtains to see what was going on. "Everyone knows that she and I are a pair. Since we are both going to end up married… after college, I can see who ever I want. I'll be able to even afterwards because she's into this chaste thing, what ever that means. All I know is it means…"

"Yes… I know what it means," Todd said, speaking up and opening his curtain. "I'm not feeling good."

"Look worm… get lost now!" Duncan stated grabbing Todd by the shirt.

"I'm going to be sick!" Todd then upchucked some of his slime onto Duncan. "Waahhh! Nurse, Duncan was picking on me and I got really sick!"

The nurse came out and grabbed Duncan's shoulder. "You leave that dear alone! Out! And if I catch you doing you know what in here I will write you up!"

"You can't write me up!" Duncan stated, but lost his confidence when he saw his cheerleader friend run away. "I… I guess…"

"I can?" the nurse said, causing Duncan to hurry away. She then went and felt Todd's forehead.

"Mommy, is that you?" Todd lied through his teeth, but she fell for it.

"Deary me, you don't have a fever. You have the chills. Boy, I'm sending you home… well… I would, but the principle is your foster parent. She'll need to take you home…"

"I think I can get home mommy. It isn't far… you could have another student walk you home… Jean Grey's a good sister… a good daughter?"

"Uhh… yes, Jean Grey… I think so," the nurse said.

M

Jean was fuming mad, having thought that she had been called down to the nurses office for something important, only to find Todd sitting on the bed. "Hi sissy! I need to go home now! I don't feel good!"

"Uhh… Ms. Halmson… what's going on?"

"Well, Todd Tolansky needs to go home because he's sick… to sick to go by himself, so I need you to take him home, because his foster parent can't. I find you trust worthy… and so does he… he mentioned your name specifically."

"He did, did he," Jean said, not to please. "Come along Todd, let's go."

"Yes sissy! Let's go home!" Todd said, following her out like a little lost puppy.

"You're not really sick, are you?" Jean said, irritation in her voice.

"Nope!" Todd whispered back at her as they passed the principle's office. Darkholme choose to come out at that moment.

"What is going on here?" she asked, a stern look on her face.

"Auntie!" Todd said grabbing her in a hug. "Mommy is sending me home with sissy because I don't feel good."

Darkholme was about to object, when Todd threw up slime onto her shoes. He looked at her with that fake apologetic look on his face. "Sorry Auntie!"

"Ms. Grey… please take Mr. Tolansky home. I am quite sure that when his foster parent will get home, he or she will deal with this sickness of his."

"Come on ugly," Jean said, becoming even more irritated.

"Auntie, sissy's being mean!" Todd said, causing Darkholme to slap her head. Jean grabbed his shirt and began to drag him away, only to have him scream his head off like a little kid. The only thing Mystique could think of that was good about this was Todd was having fun torturing the X-Man.


Author's note – It took a long time to write this one, because I left off then came back. I hadn't planed on torturing Jean, but it ended up working out that way. I had to admit I had a lot of fun doing that and I also have to admit… I'm going to probably do it again.