wow. It's been nearly a month. Sorry about that, but yeah life's been busy lately. i don't have much time to write, and won't in the foreseeable future. My uncle was recently diagnosed with stage four cancer in his bones, his spine, his brain and his stomache, so things are a little chaotic. He lives with us right now, so my mother spends most of her time taking care of him. Which means the majority of my time is spent taking care if my little sisters, on top of school work, and cooking. So none of my stories will be updated very frequently. I'll update whenever I finish each chapter, and they probably will all be shorter than usual.

I feel the need to add a disclaimer: I own the plot and Liz. Nothing else.


The only word Elizabeth could come up with to describe the building that she might one day come to call home was huge.

it was without a doubt the largest building that she had ever stepped foot in.

She had spent the majority of her child hood in the orphanage, which wasn't any bigger than your average middle class home. Bar the five foster homes -none of which lasted very long- she had gone to the same little school her entire life, with only one-hundred students ranging from kindergarten to high school.

The Girls Home had been even smaller than the orphanage, and they did school in the building.

So, yeah, suffice to say that she was a little over whelmed at the mansion. She was positive that she would end up getting lost about twenty times a day.

Alex caught her wide eyes as the walked back into the entry hall where him and Sean had begun leading her around.

"hey," he said smiling down at her, "don't sweat it. You get used to it real fast. You wont get lost or anything, and besides, Charles plans on having a lot more kids here, so it wont feel so big."

She nodded, and noticed Sean staring at their exchange with wide eyes.

"Holy shit." he seriously looked like an owl on crack. "Alex is being nice to someone. I have died and gone to Wonderland."

Liz crinkled her eyebrows. What did he mean about it being so amazing that Alex was being nice.

Alex glared at him.

"I'm nice all the time. Just not to you."

something else was bugging her. it might have been a bit childish, but Liz just had to mention it.

"You don't die and go Wonderland. Alice fell asleep. It was a dream. Not some great beyond."

Alex and Sean both looked at her as if she was seriously out of whack.

"What?!" she exclaimed, not at all comfortable in that moment. "Its true. Alice fell asleep in a lesson, and hit her head or something, and dreamed up Wonderland."

Liz knew that she must have been bright red, and she thanked god that Alex took mercy on her, because after a second or two, he said:

"Right. Umm, how about we take you to meet Hank."

She nodded gratefully, and so they headed in a direction that they hadn't shown her. She wondered why.

"We didn't bring you down here before, 'cause the only people that spend any time down here at all are Charles and Hank. All that's really down here is a bunch of empty rooms, and Hanks lab." Sean said, as if answering her unspoken question.

The walls down here were a mixture of cement and solid metal. At one point they stopped and Alex motioned towards a large door with red bulbs, possibly lights or sirens, above it.

"That's a bunker. Built to contain a nuke. If you work with controlling your abilities, it'll most likely be in there."

That surprised her a bit. Did Charles put the bunker in after deciding he wanted to help mutants, or was it there before? If it was the latter, why on Earth was it there?

The two guys started walking again, and Liz followed. Eventually, the stopped, again.

The door the were in front of now wasn't as giant as the on in front of the bunker, in fact, if it hadn't been for the fact the that the door was metal, Elizabeth wouldn't have said it was unordinary in anyway.

Instead of opening the door and heading in, like she had expected they would, Alex and Sean turned, almost in perfect unison, to face her.

Both wore serious expressions on their faces, which struck her as a little out of character for the red head, but she had only known him for a few hours.

"Before you go in there," Sean began, meeting her eyes, his for once lacking the glimmer of humor, "you oughta know that Hanks different, like everyone else here, but his different is a lot more visible than yours or mine. You get what I'm saying?"

Alex met her eyes with a slightly pleading expression, as if he was begging her just to say yes, and get on with it.

Liz pursed her lips. She remembered Alex mentioning it in the truck, on their way to the mansion. And she felt slightly insulted that they felt the need to warn her. It was like when people would tell her that a certain building was frequented by black people. It irritated her that anyone could care about stupid thinks like coloring. Like how the girls home had been 'whites only'. It was stupid.

"Alex said he was blue." Was her response.

The two guys exchanged glances, and Sean just shrugged, as if saying 'good enough', then Alex pushed open the door.

The room was large, filled with lab tables, and covered in papers that seemed to be written on both back and front in a messy scrawl.

"Hank?" Sean called.

"Yo! Beast!" Was Alex's shout.

Sudden movement by a particularly cluttered part of the room announced the other mans presence.

As he rose, Liz could see why some people would be a little frightened by his appearance, but honestly, he looked so much like a giant blue teddy bear that she just wanted to go over and hug him. Which was, she admitted, a little odd.

"Alex? Sean? What're you two doing done here?" Hank had a low rough voice, as he blinked while maneuvering to the part of the room that the three teenagers stood in.

"We got a couple of new people in the mansion, so we're bringing Elizabeth here on a tour, figured you might want to meet her." That's when hanks eyes finally landed on her. He obviously hadn't noticed her standing there, behind Sean and Alex.

"Oh. Hello" Hank seemed slightly embarrassed. "Didn't see you there. Hank McCoy." He held his hand out to be shaken.

"Elizabeth Summers." She shook it, marveling at the velvety texture of the inside of his hand.

Hank blinked. "Summers?" His eyes flashed between her and Alex, matching the blond hair, the long nose, and sloping neck.

Alex grinned him.
"This, Bozo, is my twin sister."

Hank spluttered.
"You have a sister?"

"And a brother." Liz chimed in. "He's talking to Charles about legal stuff."

Hanks eyes looked as if they were going to pop out of his head.

"You never mentioned-"

"Didn't know." Alex responded.

"What do you mean?"

Alex looked at the ground, and Liz smiled sadly at Hank. Looked as if she would be explaining.

"Our dad was a pilot, and when we were little, he flew us out for a family vacation. I don't remember where we were headed, but something went wrong, and the plane crashed. There were three parachutes, and me and my brothers got them. We were right over the state line between Nebraska and Kansas. Scott and I ended up in one state, Alex in the other. Until recently, we thought he was dead, and he thought we were."

Hank looked speculative, and Sean's eyebrows were knit together. He hadn't known about the plane crash.

"And.. You are all mutants? Does it manifest in the same way?"

Alex looked back up, with all sadness wiped from his expression.

"Yeah, pretty much. Thought you might get a kick out of that one."

Hanks eyes widened even more. Liz actually feared that they would fall out.

"The break through in our knowledge of the mutated genesis that could be possible by have subjects that share DNA. And have the same mutation! That points to Charles theory of everything involving specific genes, but having the same ones would be incredibly improbable. Even if it is located in a single DNA stand. This is incredible. " he continued rambling.

Liz watched as Alex raised his eyebrows and smirked.

"Don't get ahead of yourself, Fur Ball. None of us are getting used as pin cushions anytime soon."

Liz agreed. Scott had had enough of that back in the orphanage. He didn't think she knew about it, but she wasn't stupid, even if she had been eleven when she was moved into the girls home. How else would he have gotten a pair of special glasses that kept the fire in? And the fact that often times his arms would be covered in needle marks. He defiantly wouldn't be comfortable being used for any type of experiment.

"So we're going to go see if Scott and Charles are done yet, Hank. Don't forget to eat tonight."

And with that they left the lab.

Liz felt as if that meeting had been the most interesting since meeting Alex himself, which of course had been incredibly shocking. She was sure that she would have some sort of breakdown later that night. She hadn't really absorbed what was happening yet.

But she would leave the freak out until she was alone. For now she just wanted to spend time with her brothers. Both of them.


yay! Hank! I wonder how he would feel being referred to as a giant blue teddy bear?

So yeah, there's the chapter, hope Hank wasn't to OC in it, course he doesn't really say much. Yeah. Ummm... Bye.