I know ... I know ... but life's been wearing me down recently and had to take a break. But I'm back and things are moving along. Got some great stuff coming up so just stick with me.

Canuckle and Cheshire ... not sure what I'd do without you.

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"J'y crois pas!" Vanyss groaned sliding more into her seat while pushing up her sunglasses to rub her temples and turning her head as the sun beamed through the kitchen rooms windows.

"Yeah I know but I tried ... honest I did. Buy you know Scott," Greer said softly as she tried calming the easily agitated girl.

"Je pourrais jeter cet homme d'un immeuble ... " Vanyss hissed to herself. Apex smirked at the gargoyle's comment, while Greer threw them both a suspicious look prompting Vanyss to resume her attention back to Greer.

"A roommate?"

"It really isn't that bad. I mean my roommate was Jean and we became best friends." Greer pointed out by Vanyss just huffed.

"Or my worst enemy, according to every American movie made ever." Vanyss snarked back before impaling her breakfast with a little too much force, her spines flaring, earning a look from Apex and concern from Greer.

"Vanyss ... it really isn't that bad. Besides everybody here has roomed with someone. I mean enrollment has gone through the roof. It's just a space thing. " Greer coaxed but the gargoyle continued to ignore her.

"Just as I was starting to like this place too," Vanyss grumbled sarcastically, and glanced across the table at Colton, who was as usual slowly eating his spartan breakfast while keeping an eye on the rest of the room, "Hey chat noir? Did you ever have to room with anyone because I can't see it happening."

Colton shook his head allowing Vanyss to give Greer a triumphant smirk and the tigress just rubbed her temples a little harder while her tail gave an irritated flick at Colton's under the table.

"First off, he wasn't a student. And second ... well second it's not like there's much we can do. I was just giving you a heads up."

"Noted but not appreciated." Vanyss glowered back but simmered a little when the irritation and exasperation started to make its way onto Greer's face. With a sigh, the gargoyle leaned back.

"Whatever ... if she keeps to her side of the room and stays like that … Je vais vivre," she muttered before looking at her watch and picking up her tray. "I have to get to Warren's class… See you later." and the two felines watched her leave before Greer punched Colton's arm causing him to look at her questioningly.

"What?"

Vanyss was in a pretty foul mood by the time she made her way to the danger room. First the school term was starting which meant more students would be moving in, as if this place wasn't crowded enough already. Second of all, a roommate ... that meant her chances of sneaking out at night to fly without anyone bothering her or even just staying up and actually getting things done after lights out was now at an all time low. Wonderful. And third of all ... speaking of flying… the gargoyle would like to say she was getting a hang out of it but Warren could be so strict sometimes. And since she was the only student, him nitpicking all her flaws didn't make class any more enjoyable.

"What could possible make this day worst?" Vanyss grumbled to herself before stopping short when a flash of pink nearly knocked her over and instead crashed landed into one of the airbags Warren had laid out in case of accidents. There had been plenty in the past few weeks. Landing was particularly problematic ... and clearly not just for Vanyss, as that flash of pink hastily made herself known as she sheepishly crawled out of the now deflated air bag and made her way to a confused Vanyss, who quickly tried to regain her cool demeanor, crossing her arms defensively. Though try as she might, the gargoyle was glad for her sunglasses because she couldn't hide her awe as the girl came closer ... she had the prettiest wings coming from her back ... like a giant dragonfly's but a rainbow of glittering color that only seemed to accent her pink skin.

Gathering herself again, Vanyss decided to slip out of her defensive stance as the girl threw her a shy smile.

"Um hi ... I don't know if professor Warren told you this but um ... I'm going to be sharing this class with you till classes start? I'm Megan Gwynn…. But everyone calls me Pixie."


Just as the school year was about to start, Logan and K made their return to Xavier's. But it was far from the return anyone was expecting but it was exactly the way that Greer had been dreading. It had all happened in a rush and Greer had been in the middle of giving a student tour when the news finally reached her that they were back and K had bee rushed to the infirmary ... something about poisoning. At first Greer had assumed that was wrong simply because of the number of times Logan had shrugged off things like that until she'd talked to Rogue and found out it had been Viper.

Greer's tail hadn't unclenched after that. She'd barely caught Colton at the Shack before he'd disappeared to god knows where. Logan wanted to know where Fury had stashed Viper ... and naturally without any hesitation Colton was gone to find out. So with nothing else to do Greer had gone back to the infirmary where Logan still sat at K's side ... exactly where she'd left him hours ago. Although this time Fury was there as well, but whatever he'd been trying to say to Logan didn't seem to work. But Greer was surprised when despite a growl to 'get out' Fury stayed in his seat.

"I'm not just here to debrief, Logan. You oughta know that. She did a great job. Better than if we'd have used one of our own agents. She was convincing. We want to offer her a position at SHIELD if she wants it."

Greer's head shot up at that and a new feeling of anxiety hit the distressed tigress. Despite Logan's growl Greer looked worriedly at the sleeping K. This was what Fury considered a success? And he wanted her for more? Greer shook her head ... no - no K would never work for Fury. Of course ... she knew that Colton and Fury had some sort of 'working relationship' ... whatever the hell it was. And if Fury could get his hooks into him ... she couldn't help but be nervous for her friend.

Hours passed and a number of X-Men came and went, Hank and Celia not leaving the infirmary, and after Jean finally called it a night Greer once again found herself alone in the hallway looking through the large glass window into the infirmary. Kitty had asked her why she'd been down there for so long when there wasn't anything they could do but ... Greer hadn't really been able to answer. It was - it was like a feeling ... if Logan was going to sit there and watch over K ... then she would stand here and watch over them both.

Around midnight Fury told Logan to not disappear and tell him when K was awake. Logan didn't give any signal that he heard or cared what Fury said.

On the way out the SHIELD director spotted her.

"Ms. Nelson," Fury nodded in greeting as he came to stand beside her just outside the door, but Greer had her eyes on the little feral lying still on the hospital bed.

"Fury." Greer tried to keep her tone neutral.

"Don't worry about them ... they're both too stubborn to die." Fury might have been trying to win some type of favor with the least hostile of the ferals but his words sat with Greer in a very wrong way.

"Haven't seen that panther of yours around ... any idea when I could speak to him?" Fury's tone dropped and Greer felt the growl rise this time and didn't try to stop it. Fury had left her friends ... K ... close to death and Logan ... did he - his first choice of ferals were broken and now Fury wanted new ones to hurt?

"No," Greer slid her eyes over to Nick, "and for your sake ... you better hope he doesn't come looking." Fury's eyebrows rose at seeing Greer's feral display but quickly recovered and raised his hand as he turned to leave.

"I'm sure we'll talk soon." Fury called over his shoulder, Greer baring her teeth at his back before turning her attention back to the feral couple.

...

It was close to 3am, Greer had been fighting off falling asleep on her feet, when a slight movement and Logan's sigh of relief signaled that K had finally woken up.

"You sure know how to scare a man," Logan rumbled quietly. "Let's get out of here sweetheart," he told her, helping her to her feet.

Greer had a hand to her mouth as she tried to be as close to invisible as possible - well ... as close as one can be when covered in orange fur and black stripes - as Logan helped K out of the infirmary. The two were wrapped in their own little world but Logan looked over at his fuzziest daughter. He might not have said anything but he knew she'd been out there keeping watch and gave a nod.

"She'll be fine. Just needs a lil' rest and ... well somethin' a lil' extra." Logan smiled back down at his wife as he nuzzled her neck. K meanwhile came to a halt, readjusting her grip on Logan as they paused in front of Greer who had been ready to smile until she got the best look at the smaller feral. She'd never seen K look so ... worn.

"K are you -"

"I'm okay Tigger ... not gonna be that bitch that does me in." Greer couldn't help but smirk ... even if she didn't look exactly like K she still sounded like her K. She was ready to ask another question when Logan cut her off.

"You should go grab some sleep Tigger," Logan said as he and K started back down the hall, with obvious effort on her part. Greer gave the two some privacy and slowly made her way upstairs, relieved when she saw Colton already passed out. Too tired to care about anything else, Greer shucked off her clothes and slipped in next to him and was quickly lost to the world.


K and Logan took their time getting dressed, knowing full well that Fury was waiting for them downstairs. Each one was slightly distracted ... Logan with keeping an eye on K and K on what way of hurting Fury would bring her the most satisfaction. Colton had been waiting for Logan to open the door and K had overheard the two talking while she'd still been in bed. He'd been able to track Viper till the Raft and after that it was a mystery. Logan agreed with the call not to go after her ... for now. What he had been able to uncover was that SHIELD had discovered intel on Viper being in New York close to a week before her move on Tony.

That piece of news had been what had motivated K to get up at all and go downstairs to see Fury instead of simply hopping onto Logan's bike.

As they reached the bottom of the stairs a clearly agitated tigress stood waiting.

"Colton back yet?" Logan asked easily but low but Greer just shook her head.

"No, but he said he tracked Viper as far as the Raft. He mentioned there was something about it he wanted to talk to you about when he got back ... should be around noon."

"Uh hu." Logan rumbled back, distracted as he nuzzled into K's neck. Greer however was distracted by something else.

"He's waiting in the kitchen." Greer had her hackles up and eyes fixed down the hallway that led to Fury as her tail flicked behind her, "I'd suggest taking the East exit. Downwind ... help you avoid the stink."

"Nah ... rather watch K tear Fury apart," Logan said easily as he hooked his wife's jean's with a finger to pull her closer and smirked as Greer slowly turned at Logan's remark, "pretty sure I mean verbally."

"Too bad." Both Greer and K muttered at the same time getting K to look up at Greer a bit in surprise. It was rare to hear the typically (moral?) feline talk like that. But now that she was out of the infirmary and had a moment, K's brow furrowed as she seemed to give Greer a once over and carefully tipped her chin up toward the feline a little and gave a sniff which quickly resulted in a tired smile.

"What are you doing?" Greer's mind momentarily shifted away from Fury and onto K ... she wasn't sure she liked that smile.

"Finally took my advice." Greer took a slow step back from the couple and shot Logan a look as if maybe K might need some more time upstairs, but K was still smirking as she leaned heavily on Logan.

"Don't worry ... it's a complement."

Now Greer looked at K like she really was crazy.

"What are you - oh!" K tapped her nose and suddenly what she was talking about hit the tigress, "Yea ... that ... good to know." Greer was obviously blushing and seemed to come back to herself a bit as she worked a claw through her hair. She'd been a bit nervous that what she'd been trying with Colton hadn't been working - I mean it wasn't like Cosmo wrote about feral marking - so as embarrassing as it was for K to bring it up, it actually came as a bit of a relief.

Taking a second to get herself properly angry again, Greer stalked a safe distance behind the newly married ferals and followed them into the kitchen where he and Scott were talking, with most of the X-Men scattered around. K proceeded to do just as Logan promised and laid into the Director with a cold fury that if she hadn't been having such a good time watching might have given her chills.

It was only Fury's comment that Logan "get his woman under control" that got a growl out of her ... but overall she couldn't have hoped for a better show.


Apex got back a little while after Fury had finally retreated back to SHIELD and while he'd wanted to discuss what he'd found with Logan, him and K had ran off into the woods hours ago and no one had seen them since.

"Best to leave 'em be." Remy spoke up from where he was sitting with Rogue in one of the teacher lounges. With classes starting soon and more and more students around Apex found it easier to avoid the busier parts of the school.

"I could track them." Apex rumbled as he kept his eyes on the tree line but Rogue and Remy both rolled their eyes at that.

"I don' think you understand ... I'm sure you could find them but Remy thinks it best that you don'. Lest you see somethin' you won't be able to regret." Now Rogue was laughing and playfully punched Remy on the shoulder. She'd never been close to Colton - not that most were - but she did like Greer and Colton's protectiveness over the school and its students had won most of the women over to his side a long time ago. Even if he didn't know it.

"Colton," the panther glanced over at Rogue, "they'll be back around dinner. Besides, now that everyone is around the Professor and Scott are gonna want to give their borin' as hell start of school brief. Just a bunch of stuff we all already know ... lord knows why." Rogue sighed and quickly fell back into her conversation with Remy.

Apex eyed the two for a moment before looking back out at the forest and with a few irritated flicks of his tail headed towards Greer's office. If he couldn't debrief with Logan then he could at least surprise her.

It was close to midnight when the two ferals finally pulled in and neither seemed too surprised to find Colton waiting for them in the driveway. The kid never did seem to just want to talk at normal times or in normal places.

"Tigger already told us about Viper. So unless it's important, get outta the way and talk to us in the mornin'." Logan had the bike's kickstand down with it balanced between his legs with K leaning easily on his back while she looked up at Colton over Logan's shoulder. So far the panther hadn't given her any trouble but that didn't mean she was about to forget the pain in the ass he'd been.

But Apex simply stood in front of Logan's bike until the older feral finally muttered out a few curses and pocketed the key, leaving the three in near darkness. Not that it bothered any of them.

"Alright, what do you want?"

Apex looked briefly at K before addressing Logan.

"Viper isn't the first person Fury's sent to the Raft in recent weeks. A powerful, command inducement meta-human, Kilgrave, was sent there as well. And they have Leech."

Logan glanced over his shoulder to look at K but both ferals just stared back at him, waiting for the rest of the story.

"So SHIELD has some mutants in lockup. Nothin new. There somethin' else or can we -" Logan moved to let K off the bike, ready to head back into the house but again Apex cut him off.

"Viper was strong enough to poison K. Kilgrave's abilities are the strongest I've ever seen, strong enough to even make you do anything. And no one has shown to be immune to Leech's powers."

Logan leaned on the saddle of his bike and considered what Colton was saying but it was K that got there first.

"You think he's putting together a team that could take out the X-Men?"

But Apex shook his muzzle.

"Not the X-Men. Ferals."

"That ... doesn't exactly surprise me," Logan muttered and looked up at Apex, "what you plannin' on doin' next?" K internally rolled her eyes and was a bit surprised Logan even bothered to ask.

"He wants us to sneak into the Raft and break them out. Get rid of Fury's own little mutant strike team." K said easily, talking like she was considering going to the mall and not breaking into one of SHIELD's highest security prisons.

"Not us. Just me." Apex rumbled back.

"And how'd you get them out?" K asked as Apex drew himself up a bit straighter.

"I wouldn't."

Logan's frown deepened while K's eyebrows went up for only a moment before she started to smile. She didn't know this Kilgrave or Leech ... but a dead Viper certainly sounded good. But Logan shook his head.

"No ... any of us breaking into the Raft is somethin' Fury probably wants. He's made it pretty damn clear he wants K for himself ... doubt askin' or forcing her would make much of a difference."

K pinched Logan, getting him to jump a bit.

"He wants both of us, love. Don't forget it." K growled into Logan's ear, earning a growl from her mate in return. Apex let his tail thump on the concrete a few times to regain the feral pairs' focus and Logan rested a hand on K's thigh and looked back at Colton.

"Keep an eye on it. If it looks like Fury's gonna make a move ... we'll strike first. Till then -" K easily cut Logan off.

"Till then go make Greer purr ... or least take the damn girl for dinner." Logan smirked at that and pulling out his key restarted his bike and headed for the garage.


Greer was combing the halls looking for "her ward" - as Jean so kindly put it - after the tigress had shown up half an hour late for their movie night to find no Vanyss. The first week of classes had kind of overwhelmed her and she felt bad about not checking in enough on Vanyss, so she'd caught her at breakfast that morning and suggested a movie. She had been helping Vanyss brush up on her English - not that the little gargoyle had appreciated it - snarkily replying that getting her to listen was as pointless as trying to get Greer to learn french within a day. Her English was fine. Not great but fine. Leave it be.

Speaking of things that Greer couldn't just "leave it be" ... it turned out Vanyss had been ditching all the classes she had promised to sign up for and all the other instructors were of course heckling Greer for answers.

"As if I knew… I can't even find her!" the tigress concluded grumpily after looking through all the student common spaces, the library and even the woods. She had about given up and was ready to have Warren go looking for her when her her ears twitched in recognition of the gargoyle in question, prompting her to follow the source until she found herself staring up from a window.

Greer blinked. Vanyss was sitting casually on the roof and not just that ... Vanyss was casually sitting on the roof and TALKING to someone.

"Why do you wear a bicycle helmet?"

"Because I don't want to get hurt when I crash OK? My flying needs a lot of work." Megan pouted causing Vanyss to laugh and her to scowl ... which of course only got Vanyss to laugh more.

"It's not funny…"

"Je ne dis pas qu'il était … I just thought it was very adorable. Do you have an extra one?" and Megan suddenly lit up at Vanyss's question.

"Yeah I do! Why? Do you need one?"

"A non! I can't pull that look off like you can." Vanyss huffed before gently knocking the side of Megan's helmet. "But I think you might need a new one that's all. Yours is cracked. très dangereux" and Megan quickly inspected the item in question her eyes going wide.

"Oh my god, you're totally right ... I didn't even notice! I could have died or something." and Vanyss laughed.

"You wouldn't have died. Hurt yes, died I don't think so."

"But still…" Megan muttered before immediately brightening up and grabbing Vanyss's hands, something causing the gargoyle to look up in surprise, her sunglasses slipping off slightly.

"We should sign up for classes together! I mean, I love going to flying classes with you, we should do that for every class!" and Greer smiled a little at Vanyss's startled expression.

"With… With me?" she heard the gargoyle ask uncertainly and then Megan's excited squeal of "Of course you, you dummy! Who else?" and Greer grinned, taking a more relaxed position against the wall. She knew how helpful it could be to hear someone say that… and it showed too, on Vanyss's face, Even from a distance, Greer could see the delight on the gargoyle's face.

Curling her tail in thought, the tigress decided she couldn't just let this train of positivity die. Her previous agenda forgotten, Greer quickly made her way down the stairs to Scott's office,walking without even knocking.

"Hey Scott! I want to talk to you about some of the room applications ..."


Just as Rogue had predicted, Scott and Xavier had the entire senior staff of the X-Men in the main ready room three day before classes were ready to start. Greer sat between Jean and Kitty with the rest seated in the few rows that made up a semi-circle facing the front of the room, while Apex stood quietly off in the corner.

Logan and K were ... well it wasn't exactly clear the two knew exactly where they were most of the time ... too caught up in their newlywed status and seemingly only coming up for air to eat, drink, and to curse at the latest attempts at Fury to get K to talk.

First Xavier and Scott covered the upcoming school year and new students, with Scott giving brief bios on each of them as their faces appeared on the projector between him and the rest of the room. Apex didn't bother listening ... he'd already read everything Scott was talking about and had been the one to brief him about the powers each student walking into Xavier's possessed. He'd shrugged off the feeling of it being something Weapon X would have tasked him with ... these were students. Not targets.

After that it was rundowns of the teaching schedule with the assortment of grumbles from certain people over waking up too early or having double blocks. Greer had shaken her head at that ... if only the students of Xavier's could hear their teachers now.

But the room got more serious when Scott shifted to a summary of the current threats, both real and potential, facing the school. Most of it was placing the major bad guys and what they were up to and for some what prison they were held in. Knowing what agency, country, or organization was holding some of the world most dangerous mutants and mutant haters could be just as important as the bad guy themselves. But again, Apex kept his mind elsewhere ... besides, a good part of Scott's intel was outdated. He was still talking about the Church of Humanity as if X-Force hadn't burned the last of them in their Death Valley stronghold four months ago.

"And something you might want to take a break and listen to Logan ..." Xavier interrupted Scott, getting Logan and K to at least separate for a moment, though the two were now in one seat, "Maria Callasantos and Kyle Gibney, or Feral and Wildchild as some of you might know them, have been listed as missing. Ms. Callasantos by the anti-poaching taskforce she was working with in Africa and Wildchild by the MRD after he disappeared from one of their rehabilitation facilities."

Apex's ears swiveled as he lifted his head to see the two faces of the mutants appear onscreen. One clearly feline and the other an almost impish version of Creed.

"And that's connected how?" Bobby wondered aloud for the group.

"They're both ferals ... and Logan trained Wildchild." Kurt muttered as he shot Logan a look who simply nodded in return. K was still fairly content to just sit in Logan's lap but noted over his shoulder that Greer's tail had curled around her chair. Finally looking over at the two mutants she internally was prepared to sigh at the easy comparison between the tigress and Feral. But then she saw Greer's claws slightly dug into her chair and the way her hackles were raised and instead gave a small nod as she settled back into Logan.

Kid wasn't running scared anymore ... good.

"Any idea who nabbed 'em?" Logan looked at Scott.

"We're not even sure if it's connected. And Maria's sister Lucia is already checking on it. We spoke yesterday and she mentioned it's possible her sister was just unreachable. But the team she was working with hadn't heard from her for over 72 hours when they reached out to the African X-Corporation affiliate who in turn reached out to us. Lucia was on her way there when we spoke ... she'd been planning on meeting her sister in Africa already. She'll let us know if she finds anything."

Logan seemed to take that as enough and went back to nuzzling with K.

After the meeting, Greer slipped next to Colton. She didn't even have to say anything.

"I'll look into it."

Greer nodded and quietly led him to the Danger Room. She didn't usually ask for extra training but she felt the need to burn some of the tension off and Apex wasn't about to stop her.


Classes had officially begun and things were hectic for everyone at Xavier's. So when K finally had a moment to herself while Logan was off teaching history she headed to the barn to make sure things were set up for her own classes later in the day. She didn't break stride when thirty minutes into her chores Colton appeared, standing in front of the wide open barn doors. It took K a moment to realize he wasn't coming in and then another for her to realize what he was waiting for.

He was waiting for K's permission to enter the barn.

"I know I've utterly marked this place as my own, but it's still public domain," K called out without looking toward him. "Come on in, tell me what's on your mind. I know you wouldn't talk to me otherwise."

"Scott asked me to review the students as they arrived over the last few weeks. Get a read on their powers and some basic background."

"Not a shocker," K barely grunted as she started manuevering bales of hay. She doubted Apex didn't do exactly that regardless of what Scott asked for. She paused and turned to look at him. "You're telling me why?"

"Because I wanted your opinion on this."

K frowned and looked quickly between the panther in front of her and the file now lying on the workbench."I'm touched," K muttered before she brushing her hands off and gave him another look before she took the file. She very gingerly opened it and after the first few sentences just to let out a sigh and picked the file up and started reading through it. Inside was a full breakdown on three students, two girls and one boy, none of them older than fourteen.

"Evan Slattery. Thirteen. Enhanced hearing and minor physical mutation. He had a number of healed low-grade fractures and sprains. Scar tissue. Burns. There was no history until his mother remarried two years ago." Apex's tone was neutral as K nodded and turned the page to find the two girls.

"The girls are sisters. Leora and Ashley Thompson, twelve and fourteen years old. Plant manipulation and tactile teleportation." K checked their medical file and frowned.

"There's not much here." Apex nodded.

"That's not what caught my attention. Since the two arrived they've acted ... different," K closed the folder and looked to continue, "Flinching ... startling at male staff members and older students that come too close. They always sit together, with their backs to the wall and close to an exit. At first I thought it was some form of training but ..."

"It wasn't training," K said quietly. "Just an instinctual response." From his description K thought she actually remember seeing those girls before. They'd stood out in the typically trendy student body with their baggy clothes and both had been unusually uncomfortable when they'd done their self-defense assesments. Both had qued up in her line and at first she assumed it was simply new student jitters. Now she knew better ... it had been the uniforms. They'd felt exposed ... all those boys around and no place to hide.

"So ... what do you need from me?" K said.

Apex shrugged lightly but kept his gaze on her. "I don't want to orphan them without being sure."

K nodded and leaned against the work bench as she gave Apex an easy onceover. Yea ... she guessed any of these kids found themselves alone in a room with the giant panther that everyone loved whispering about probably wouldn't get many answers.

"Well if you know for sure it was the parents, you're goddamned right it is," K said as she stood up. "But if there's any chance it was someone else ... I'll talk to 'em." She let out a breath and narrowed her eyes at him. "You really gonna go out and kill these people for what they did to them?"

Apex didn't hesitate as his tail gave a silent whip behind him.

"Yes."

"Good." K growled with a cold smile.


Vanyss took a deep breath before summing up her courage and channeling it into strutting rigidly out of her room, down three flights of stairs, seriously this place needed to install more elevators… and into the crowded common room. She had almost considered turning heel when a good majority of the people turned and ending up starring in her direction, the previous commotion dying down to almost a silence.

Vanyss settled on cold stare only parisian girls could muster as she looked dead ahead. This was the first time she had been to the common room since classes had started without being escorted by Greer or Colton. She was all on her own, which was proving to be an unlikely sight for everyone as they didn't seem to get a clue. Most of them still staring. Swallowing her nervousness, Vanyss channeled that into staring right back defiantly, balling her fists, her red eyes flashing while those spines flared threateningly.

"Puis-je vous aider?" she hissed coldly and that seemed to strike a chord with everyone as majority of them lowered their heads, back to whispering among themselves. The gargoyle pursed her lips, subtly running a hand down her arm, smoothing the spines down. True, she felt an unnatural amount of animosity towards basically everyone in the room but ... having them poisoned and unconscious wasn't what she wanted either.

Stupid school. Stupid Amara, why did she chose the common room of all places to have her stupid group discussion? And of course she was the only one there on time.

Scanning the room, Vanyss spotted an arm chair positioned at the very end of the room, the book shelf next to it casting a very large shadow. Perfect. One problem, somebody was already in it. Vanyss crossed her arms, that was easily rectified, besides she wanted nothing more than to direct her anger at someone… She WAS in a particularly foul mood. Taking a deep breath, the gargoyle trudged purposefully towards it baring her teeth at the boy who had been sitting there. Causing him to drop his book and scramble away quickly.

"Petite froussarde." Vanyss muttered before taking her seat. Noticing a couple of watchful glances still thrown in her direction, she decided to pass the time by assigning a label to whoever who stared at her. If they could judge her so openly, it was only fair that she got to as well. Starting off with that infuriating blonde who kept whispering shit to her friends, getting the whole lot to stare unanimously at the already flustered gargoyle...

"Putains." Vanyss quipped before turning and catching sight of some boy with spectacles, trying to study her from behind his book.

"Ballot." she concluded and then raised an eyebrow at some teenager who tripped over himself when trying to approach a girl. Typical American boys.

"Perdant ..."

"You're the loser if you keep up that shit attitude of yours. You should be ashamed of yourself."

"Oh yeah? Well screw you." Vanyss shot back before blinking in surprise. Her response had been so heated, she hadn't realized she had answered back in french ... and more importantly the person who had insulted her was doing it in french. Uncrossing her arms, Vanyss took a carefully look around the room to try and identify who had insulted her. She narrowed her eyes. Everyone was occupied … and the only people who weren't talking was some pretty, dark haired woman and - Vanyss grimaced a little - some hairy troll of a man ... Logan. Right ... and that must have been his wife K. Vanyss had seen the two with Greer a few times but she'd yet to talk to either of them.

Besides they were too busy making out in the corner opposite from her…

"D'accord…. Maintenant, je suis entendre des choses … C'est Magnifique." Vanyss grumbled.

"Non, mais vous devriez toujours regarder votre langue, petite fille." and Vanyss whipped around to find the dark haired woman smirking at her. It wasn't a look Vanyss liked.

"I am not some little - wait ... you speak French?" and the smirked spread to the man next to her, he leaned back, arms behind his head as if getting ready to witness a spectacle.

"When I want to." the brunette shrugged, before a hard look came across her face."So I can't help but notice the less than stellar things you've been calling your housemates."

"They deserve it, staring at me like that. It's not respectable." Vanyss proclaimed haughtily getting K to narrow her eyes.

"Sure, the staring is rude, but at least they're not calling you names."

"Oh come on. You know as well as I do they're doing it in their heads. I mean isn't that worse than what I'm doing. I'm honest at least, while they all go around acting respectable."

"vous avez certainement ne pas agir comme une jeune femme respectable. Je l'ai vu la façon dont vous parlez à Greer et personne ici qui essaie de vous aider. Vous avez l'embarras. Ingrat." ( you certainly do not act like a respectable young woman. I've seen how you talk to Greer and anyone around here who tries to help you. You are spoiled. Ungrateful) There was a pause while Vanyss literally seemed to absorb K's words , shock overshadowing her usually sullen features before the little gargoyle got onto her feet, storming over and going almost nose to nose with K.

"Vas te faire encule." she hissed before shoving her way past Amara and making a beeline for her room.

Greer had caught Vanyss talking to K right before she'd whispered something in French at K and stalked from the common room just as she was coming in from the other entrance. Somewhat hesitant, Greer made her way over to the feral couple.

"So I take it you met Vanyss?" Greer said hopefully, earning a chuckle from Logan and a bored look from K.

"You could say that." And without another word Logan hooked his arm around K's neck and before she was scarred for life, Greer quickly found someplace else she had to be.


Je pourrais jeter cet homme d'un immeuble - I can throw this man off a building

Je vais vivre - I'll live

Puis-je vous aider? - can I help you?

Petite froussarde - Little coward

Putains - whores

Ballot - Nerd

"D'accord…. Maintenant, je suis entendre des choses … C'est Magnifique - ok, now I'm hearing things. Wonderful.

Non, mais vous devriez toujours regarder votre langue, petite fille - no but you should always watch your language little girl.

vous avez certainement ne pas agir comme une jeune femme respectable. Je l'ai vu la façon dont vous parlez à Greer et personne ici qui essaie de vous aider. Vous avez l'embarras. Ingrat. - you certainly do not act like a respectable young woman. I've seen how you talk to Greer and anyone around here who tries to help you. You are spoiled. Ungrateful

Vas te faire encule - Screw you