I was in the living room, doing my homework like I usually would every night. Ms. State was great. She had given me a home, clothes, food, and an education. What more could a lowly pickpocket like me ask for? Lance was wrong, this is good. I can finally stay in one place.

"Andi!" I head Ms. State shout as she came through the door. "Andi! I wanna talk to you." Why was she slurring her words? I stood at attention and waited as she showed herself. "We'll talk in my room." I nodded and started up the stairs as she let a man into the house.

I waited in her room for a minute or so before the man came in without Ms. State. "Hello, Andi. I'm Jameson. Would you like to play a little game with me?"

"I'm supposed to be waiting for Ms. State."

"She won't mind."

"Then sure."

He smiled a devilish smile. "Good. Now why don't you lie on the bed, close your eyes, and stay perfectly still. Can you do that for me?"

"Okay." I did as I was asked, and waited for something to happen. The next thing I knew, he was taking off my pants. "What are you doing?" I said loudly as I tried to get away from his hands.

"I told you to stay perfectly still!" he gripped my arms and pulled me back down to him. I tried to scream but Jameson took one of his hands and covered my mouth.

And then, he caused me the greatest pain I had experienced in all of my six years of life.

Out of reflex, I screamed and practically jumped out of my skin. Of course, Wade was at my side in an instant. He tried to give me a hug, but I slapped him off. And then I saw that it was him, and I gave him the tightest hug I had ever given him.

"I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry." I said into his shoulder.

"Shh," He just held me tighter and started to rub soothing circles on my back. "It's okay, it's okay. Wade's gotcha."

Then the door opened and Ororo, Logan, and the Professor appeared in the doorway. "Is everything alright? We heard a scream." Ororo said to Wade as she stared at him, still hurt from before.

"Yeah, I had a pretty bad nightmare." Wade said. "Andi here was just comforting me."

"It sounded like a girl's scream." Logan growled.

"Well you of all people should know Logan that I do in fact scream like a girl." Wade's gaze was hard and cold enough to get Logan off the subject.

"Why don't we leave them alone." The Professor said, sensing the extreme tension between Wade, Logan, and Ororo. "It seems Andrea has more comforting to do." The Professor was the only one who looked at me instead of Wade.

When the three of them left, and closed the door behind them, Wade pulled away from me, "You okay now?"

"Yeah. Mostly. Why'd you say it was you?"

He thought about telling me the truth, but then decided not to. He just smiled. "Can't let you have all of the attention."

"Hey, um...I'm gonna go into town and get my hair cut." It had grown like another foot from the power trip. "Do you wanna come?"

"No, I'm good. I'm just gonna stay here."

"You sure? Cause there's a lot of tension between you, the weather witch, and Wolvie." Wade's face hardened a little. "Tell me what's going on with you."

"I just...I yelled at her." He shook his head.

"Oh, Wade. Why'd you do that?" My voice was just above a whisper.

"I don't know! It's just, I was thinking of her and I got snapped in half, and then you had to go all DOOM on his ass. I just blamed everything on her."

I put my hands on his shoulders and looked into his sad eyes. "I'm gonna go and get my hair cut, and when I come back, I expect the chi in this house to be as calm and inviting as it was when we first got here. Meaning, go apologize to her!" I grabbed a pair of pants, under garments, and a long sleeved shirt from the duffel bag at the end of my bed and headed into the bathroom. I took a quick shower and when I came out all dressed, Wade was talking on my cell phone.

"Look, I don't know why she didn't call you. Sir, do not yell at me." He sounded quite offended. When he saw me he handed the phone to me. "Your boyfriend is maaaaaaaaad."

I rolled my eyes. "Hello?"

"WHAT DID YOU DO? AND HOW DARE YOU NOT TELL ME? I THOUGHT WE WERE FRIENDS?" Johnny's voice screamed from the phone.

"We are friends." I had to stay calm, but if I flew off the wire, everything would just get worse. "And what supposedly did I not tell you?"

"WHY DID YOU NOT TALK TO ME AFTER YOU KILLED SOMEONE ON LIVE TELEVISION!"

"Because I just woke up. Now if you don't lower your voice, I will hang up."

I heard him take a deep breath. "Sorry. But what were you thinking? I thought you were done with this phase!"

"Phase?" Now it was my turn to be offended. "Look, my life is a little busy at the moment. So I'll have to call you back." And I hung up.

"Wow, I didn't know you could be so mean to him." Wade teased.

"Shut up." I pulled my hair into a ponytail. "Call if you get into trouble."

"Yup." And I teleported into an alley. I walked out and found the nearest open hair salon. It was almost eight o'clock at night, and I found one that stayed open until nine.

"Can I help you?" The woman with spiky short maroon hair at the front desk asked.

"Yeah, I just want an adult haircut." I pulled my wallet out from my back pocket and pulled out a twenty.

"No coloring, no highlights?"

"No, just a normal adult haircut."

"Twelve dollars." I handed her the twenty, and she gave me eight dollars change. "How short do you want it?" She asked as she led me to her chair.

"I want my hair to be an inch long."

"Why? You have such beautiful hair." She ran her fingers through it.

"I just like it short." She accepted the answer and cut my hair. When she was finished, just as she took the smock off, my phone rang again. I sighed as I answered it. "Hojem."

"Andi, is Dad with you?" Virgil's voice came through.

"No. Why?"

"It's just that Sharon and I haven't heard from him in hours, he's not at the Center or anywhere. He's not in Dakota."

It barely took a second for me to understand. "That bastard." I mumbled.

"Andi?"

"Virgil, I will get him back."

"From who?" Oh, that's right. He thought I was in Malibu.

It's time to let him in, at at least a little bit. "A very bad man."

"I am not a five year old."

I sighed. "Virgil, this man is one of the most dangerous men that I know of. He will shoot anyone who doesn't say 'yes sir' to him."

"Sounds like an asshole." The hairdresser said as she swept up.

I moved outside of the shop. "Andi, if that man has our dad, then I'm going after him."

"Virgil, you need to stay out of this. We have a new directive. I need you, Sharon, and Trina to get inside the house and stay there. Call Bruce and have him stay with you. If anyone can protect you, he can."

"Andi we can't just stop our lives-"

"Give me two days okay! Just two days. I will bring Dad back in two days. Promise." I looked up from the ground and saw a familiar figure walking towards me.

"And what if you don't?"

"Then give me another two days. I will see you soon." I hung up on him as that familiar figure came upon me.

"I assume we understand each other." William Stryker said coolly.

"You do realize that you just signed your own death certificate."

"Keep threatening me and Trina won't make it home from work tomorrow."

I stared him down. "Keep threatening me, and I'll rip out your heart."

He shook his head and sighed. "Tomorrow's going to be a rough day for Trina. Then Sharon, then Virgil."

"What do you want from me, William?" My voice laced with pure rage.

He smirked that one sided smirk of his. "Charles Xavier."

"I can't take you to him." Liar liar pants on fire.

"Really? Because this picture," he pulled out a photograph of Kitty, Rogue and I at the mall earlier from his suit coat pocket. "Seems to say otherwise."

I stared at him, seeing nothing but fury. "Why do you want Xavier?"

"You know what to do to find the answer." With that said, he started to walk away. Reluctantly, I followed.