Notes: griezz - as you can see, this Scanner is named Jana, not Sarah. Totally different person. That woman, by this time in the timeline, is probably dead. Besides, the powersets are entirely different.

Chapter 5: "The Littlest Howlett"

Kate still couldn't believe the name on her schedule at her New York office, but she was smirking to herself about it. JJ had made it clear that he wanted to get his notes organized before he even thought about finalizing a book deal, and besides that, he was reluctant to team up with her, even though, as she pointed out, most of the "how we found the information" part of the story came from her and her team.

But still, she knew Logan and K were not taking his calls and were flat refusing to play when he called the mansion. So she didn't know what he could possibly want with Bishop Publishing.

She had her feet up on her desk and was reading through a couple different manuscripts when JJ finally arrived and headed up to her office, and she smirked at him as he walked through the doors. "Fancy seeing you here," she said. "I thought this was the den of publishing iniquity, the way you report on it."

"If that was true, I wouldn't even consider trying to work with you, Mrs. Wagner," JJ replied as congenially as he was able without totally losing his cool.

Kate tried not to give away how surprised she was by the relatively "nice" JJ standing in her office, though she couldn't hide the raised eyebrows as she motioned for him to sit down. "Well, okay. What can I do for you, Mr. Jameson? Do you want any coffee?"

"Thank you, but no." He looked irritated in spite of the reasonable tone. "I'd like, if I could, to talk to you about those files you sent me."

She leaned forward with her hands folded in front of her. "Okay. What do you need?" she asked. "I can clear anything up if you need it."

He narrowed his eyes and leaned forward. "I'd like to know why you'd give me those files if the possibility of using all of the information in them wasn't an option for the book."

"If you remember, we were sort of fighting an uphill public battle," Kate pointed out. "I wanted to make sure you had all the information — that was the most important thing."

"That's not exactly as I remember it — and at any rate, I can't publish most of what I have because your lawyer is blocking me with an injunction."

"Matt Murdock?" She quirked an eyebrow at him. This was actually news to her. "What's wrong?"

He looked a bit more himself as he opened his briefcase and dropped the legal order in front of her. "I agreed to this little … trade because I thought I had free reign to write it up as the facts came down. I can't use it in reference to the news story if I can't use their names or images."

She looked over the paperwork for a moment and sighed. "I can't control them. You know that. So what do you want from me?"

"I want you to talk some sense into them!" He looked flustered, and the frustration was palpable. "Or set up a meeting so I can make my case to them myself."

She watched him for a moment with one eyebrow raised and tried not to betray her amusement at how completely the ferals had yanked JJ around. "I'll talk to them," she promised. "But you know they'll probably want to take an active interest in the book, read it before it goes to print. I'll make sure they don't change anything substantive, but…" She shrugged. "I'll talk to them."

"The story doesn't have the beef behind it without the names to go with it," he said, making sure that his point was driven home.

"I know," she said, waving him off. "Don't you think I've heard the same thing from my marketing department?" She leaned forward. "I'll talk to them. I will. But it is still their story, so we have to respect that." With that, she let a small smile pass over her face. "We've got some ideas for the cover, though — for when they let us go to print. Do you want me to email you the .jpegs?"

"Are they the ones that have no reference to who it is? Because even I don't want to look at that," he grumbled.

"We have covers for both versions," Kate said. "My design department couldn't resist starting on the version with their names intact even if it's not a sure thing yet." She gave JJ her most reassuring smile. "I'll talk to them. I promise. Try some decaf in the meantime and decompress. They'll probably want to meet up, and you should try not to look like a volcano when that happens, okay?"

JJ just glared at her before he stalked out of the room, and Kate was still chuckling to herself about it as she drove back home to the mansion, where Scott was in the middle of giving three new students the rundown of the school and what would be expected of them.

"Ooh, new kids." Kate all but skipped over to where they were and grinned at Scott. "Where'd you find 'em?"

"They found us," Scott said. "Or … they got the card from Kurt. Either way … they're here now."

Kate paused, thinking of the recent intruders, and tipped her head as she took in the newcomers, who were all sort of avoiding her gaze. "Well, alright then. I'm Kate. I teach archery and sometimes sub for alien tech," she said, sticking out her hand to introduce herself properly.

The girl very quietly introduced herself as Jana, giving the other two boys' names as Cam and Ozzie. "It's nice to meet you," Jana

"You guys all know each other already?" Kate asked, her head tipped to one side.

"We met before we enrolled, yeah," Ozzie muttered. "Sc- uh. Jana found us."

"And she's been bossing us around ever since," Cam muttered under his breath.

"I was just telling the kids they were coming in at an interesting point this year, seeing as Erik will be covering history for the rest of the semester, and self-defense is going to be rotating instructors," Scott told Kate before he turned back to the kids. "Usually it's more steady."

"Special circumstances this semester," Kate agreed with a nod, still with her head tipped. "And your name's Jana, right?" she asked the girl.

Jana nodded.

Kate just pursed her lips for a moment and shot Scott a look before she passed the kids on her way to go find Kurt and Krissy. "Don't tell them about the swimming pool on the roof 'til they earn it." With that, she slipped off to find her two favorite people.

When Storm and Forge returned from their trip together, the first person they sought out was Kurt. He wasn't hard to find, either — all they had to do was follow the sound of Krissy giggling.

The little girl was running as fast as she could on the ceiling — away from her father. She was cackling, and it was impossible not to get caught up in her joy — or in Kurt's as he chased her around, never quite 'catching' her but allowing her to think she was beating him.

He paused and smiled at both of them before he snatched Krissy up and simply started to tickle her before he dropped to the floor and flashed a smile at Storm and Forge. "I trust you both enjoyed yourselves?" he asked with a smile full of trouble.

"As ever," Storm said with a smile that widened as Forge put his hand on her waist.

"Actually, we wanted to ask you a favor," Forge said.

"Oh?" Kurt couldn't quite stop his smile, especially because he was already sure he knew what it was, given the way his friends were acting around each other. He recognized the expressions of happiness on their faces, and he was just waiting for their word.

Storm laughed. "Don't act like you don't know," she said, shaking her head. "You may be an excellent actor, my darling Kurt, but I know you far too well."

Kurt chuckled at that. "Ah, but there are some things better heard aloud."

Storm smirked. "Careful now. My first response when he proposed was to suggest that we simply move. Act on our feelings immediately."

"Don't worry; I wasn't going to let you guys miss the wedding." Forge gave Storm an affectionately, falsely severe look and then stole a kiss. "It would be no good if you ran off and got married and didn't tell anyone — again."

Kurt couldn't help but chuckle. "At least one of you has sense."

Storm smiled and rested her hands on Kurt's shoulders. "Only because we want you to marry us — rather than leave it to a stranger."

Kurt drew himself up taller and then flashed his teeth with his grin. "I would be honored. After all, my beautiful sister deserves only the best."

Ororo laughed and kissed his cheek. "I knew we chose well."

As Kurt positively beamed, Krissy held her hands out to Storm to be swept up in a hug, too, and as soon as Storm obliged, Krissy giggled and kissed Storm's cheek. "Kiss, kiss!" she said, perfectly pleased.

Storm smiled and ruffled her hair. "I love you too, my favorite little princess."

The three new kids at the school were fairly well swamped trying to catch up on all the classes and such that they were late coming to. There were definitely school policies in place to help newcomers, since there was no telling when any student would show up at the institute or when any one mutant would start manifesting their powers, but that didn't make the experience any less overwhelming.

Even though it was Thanksgiving Break, then, the three of them were loathe to go back to Sinister to report to him — and not just because they didn't have any pictures of the ferals. They'd heard people talking about them, but they were just so busy… they didn't have what they'd been sent for: proof of location for the mutants he was studying.

But it had been long enough that they were nervous he might ask someone else to go in — and he had promised they could get cooler superpowers.

It was just that…. This place was actually really cool. The teachers were fun, and they were nice, and Jana took to the alien tech class so fast. Especially with Professor Hawkeye when she would sub for Noh when he had to take care of Sying.

"Teacher's pet," Cam said when he noticed that she was still reading over her notes from the class.

Jana rolled her eyes at him. "It's part of the cover," she said. "You know she's close to Wolverine and K."

"So is Jubilee, but you're not kissing up to her," Ozzie muttered.

Jana shot him a very angry look. "She's one of the ones on the list."

"And you can't be friendly with her why?" he replied.

"I am friendly with her," Jana defended.

"You define friendly differently to anyone I've ever met."

"Shut up, Oz, or I'll do it myself," she snapped his way as they arrived at the castle. "Besides, easier to kiss up to the teacher when you do well in class. Unlike someone in self-defense."

"We've already had two different teachers," he defended. "I can't make all of them happy."

"Me and Cam don't seem to have that problem," she said low under her breath, though they fell quiet when they got to where Sinister was waiting for them.

"How is your mission faring?" he asked in an almost conversational tone. "I trust you've made some progress."

The boys looked at Jana, who handed over her phone with a few more pictures. "Um ... should be a few more people coming for Thanksgiving," she said. "They… they said anyone who doesn't have a place to go can stay, but it'll be pretty hard not to get caught with more X-Men around."

"Anyone just coming in for the weekend will be incidental," he said with a wave. "The important part is that you're inside and gaining their trust."

"It's a lot of work," Cam said, and Jana kicked him in the shin.

"We can handle it," she promised quickly.

"Any spotting of Wolverine or his wife yet?"

"No," Jana admitted.

"But that little girl is theirs," Ozzie cut in. "For sure. I heard Sophia playing with her."

"Why is the girl there but they aren't?" he said quietly to himself before turning to the kids again. "If you can get a confirmation photo, text it." With that he waved them off, but as they were leaving, he called out to them again. "I'd like photos of the little ones. To see for myself who belongs to who."

"Do you want them with their parents?" Ozzie asked before Jana could stop him.

"That would be optimal," he nodded, smirking to himself. "But not necessary."

Jana glared at Ozzie for a second before she looked to Sinister. "It's pretty obvious from the pictures we've sent, right? I thought you were studying genetics? I mean ... they look like their parents. I know the pics aren't from the front or anything but... "

"Go," he urged. "This is a weekend that will give you opportunities for that much at the very least."

"And then we can get better powers, right?" Ozzie asked quickly.

"When I get what I require from every person on that list — yes. You'll be enhanced," Sinister said in an almost gentle tone.

The kids glanced at each other and then nodded. "We'll be back," Jana said.

It was snowing, and all was quiet in the mansion. Considering it was the weekend, no one was surprised when most of the staff got a late start, though Bobby was a bit irate when it was nearly ten o'clock and there was still not even one pot of coffee made.

He was grumbling to himself as he got it brewing and flipped the news on. JJ was on a rant — but he seemed to look a bit more strained the past few weeks, and he didn't have his full fire. Bobby was smirking at that fact when his thoughts were interrupted by Logan and K ... or … more accurately … by the little bundle that K was carrying.

"I hope you got the coffee right," she said quietly as the two of them took a seat in their usual spot. "I had an early morning."

"No kidding," Bobby said, the grumbling early morning mood giving way to shock as he stared for a moment. "What… what time? I mean ... how early?"

"He's worried about the bet," Logan said quietly to her, and K smirked and nodded in response as Logan kissed her temple.

"I don't know if we should tell him or leave it to Hank to break the news." She looked up at Bobby with a little smirk. "Who's in the running?"

"Kate had the 29th, and — believe it or not? — Pete said Daken had today. So, if it was early enough, it was Kate, but if not…"

Logan stared at him for a moment in disbelief. "You gotta be kiddin' me. Why would he pick today?"

"I think Pete said something about a birthday present if he was right?" Bobby shook his head and shrugged. "It was probably better coming from him in person."

"Guess we'll wait and see Kate first," K said with a little sigh before she gave Bobby a little sweet smile. "Would you mind grabbing me a cup of coffee?"

"Oh — yeah, sure," Bobby said quickly as he grabbed a mug to fill it up for her, handing it to her as the first of the other mansion residents started to file in.

Scott and Annie and their little entourage were the first to arrive, with Chance and Elin hand in hand and giggling at each other. Charlie had hold of her mother's hand as she was telling Annie how much she liked having Elin over for sleepovers. Annie and Scott were so distracted with the little ones that it took two double-takes before Scott even realized that the ferals were at the table with a new little bundle — and he broke out into a huge grin.

Without really thinking about it, he swept Elin up to his hip on his way over so she could see the new little Howlett too. "How long have you two… you should have come to get us!" he said as the grin kept widening and Elin leaned over to investigate.

"We didn't want to wake anyone if we could help it," K told him. "I'm just into the first cup right now. Haven't been here for more than five minutes." She tipped the little guy for both of them to see a bit easier before she gave Scott a little smile. "Wanna trade me for a second?"

"Please," he said softly as he let Elin down and waited only until she was settled before he held his hands out for the little guy, holding him as gently as it was possible as he melted into a huge, warm smile all over again.

"You were right," Logan said to K just loud enough for Scott to hear. "Glad he got to meet his godfather before Kurt."

Scott's head popped up fast at that. "Wait. What?"

"Unless you're not up for the job," Logan countered.

"No, I—" Scott shook his head, completely at a loss for words.

"His name is James," K told him. "You know. Because no one else was using it."

"James." Scott nodded at the name, still looking a bit flustered, before he looked back down at the little guy in his arms and finally broke back into his wide smile. "Yeah. Good. It suits him."

"You know Kurt's gonna want to fight you for that," K warned.

"For what? Holding my godson?" Scott shook his head. "He can wait," he added, this time with a lot more confidence in his tone as he seemed to have wrapped his head around it.

She grinned at him. "Knew we picked the right horse."

Annie leaned over Scott's shoulder to see the little guy as well and broke into a delighted sort of laugh. "Oh, he looks like you, Logan."

"Poor kid," Logan replied without missing a beat before he and Elin went to get more coffee for himself and K.

"Can I see?" Charlie asked, directing the question both to her dad and to K.

"Please," K said. "Need you to make sure we should keep him."

The twins glanced at each other before they quickly climbed up onto the table to peer at the new little boy, and Charlie nodded very seriously at K as Chance looked simply delighted. "You should keep him," Charlie told her earnestly. "I can help."

"You are a great helper," K said before she pulled Charlie down to give her a quick hug and tickle her before Logan and Elin got back with the full mugs of coffee.

Chance rushed over with a grin. "Ewin! Ewin! Your baby brother. So little!" he gasped out. "Come say hi!"

She let Chance pull her over by the hand, and the two of them looked at the little guy where Scott was still holding him — sitting in the chair on the other side of K and still just… melty.

Elin laid a hand on the blanket wrapped around the little fella and leaned forward to kiss his forehead. "Hi, baby," she said softly, smiling as he slept on.

"I teach him playnin," Chance promised Elin. "We play lots."

"No, no," she said, shaking her head seriously. "Hugs."

Chance tipped his head to consider this suggestion before he nodded and very carefully leaned over to give baby James the most careful, gentle, soft hug he could manage. Scott couldn't help but laugh at the little face James made — all scrunched up for a second from the hug before he squirmed a bit and settled in again with a sigh.

"Oh. My. Gosh." The door had opened to admit Jubilee and Noh, and Jubilee was standing there with her mouth slightly open in a huge grin as she took in the scene before her. "How long has this been going on and no one told me?"

"Which part?" Logan asked as he sat down again with Elin half snuggled in.

"All of it," she said, gesturing at Scott, Chance, James — the whole group. "The baby snuggles, the baby. All of it."

"Not very long at all," K promised. "Come say hello to James." She looked over at Scott for a moment. "You might have to share at some point."

Scott looked up with a grin and a long suffering sigh. "If I have to."

"I didn't say when," K replied, shaking her head lightly — though it only had Scott grinning widely.

Jubilee didn't actually say anything — her response to the whole thing, and especially to James' name, was basically to let out a squeal of delight and run over to demand her turn holding the little guy as Noh peered over her shoulder and gently rubbed James' cheek with the back of one finger.

"Hello, little brother," Noh said with a smile before he glanced at K. "He's just as small as Elin was."

"Yeah, I wasn't expecting anyone much bigger," she replied. "Not sure where he'd have gone if he was any bigger than he is. I already couldn't breathe."

"Well, he is darling," Noh said as Sying in his arms leaned over to see what everyone was excited about and let out a shy sort of giggle as he waved at the little boy.

"Hi," Sying called out, though he was half hiding in his dad's shirt as he investigated the newcomer.

"I don't think I've ever seen Jubes this quiet for so long," Logan teased Jubilee's way as he leaned toward K.

With that, Jubilee finally looked up at him and gave him a little sniff. "He's perfect, and he's mine now. Isn't that right, James?" she cooed down at the little boy.

"He's yours until Kurt and Kate get here — then you gotta share," K agreed. "So snuggle up while the snugglin's good."

Jubilee sat in the nearest chair and started to make over little James, with Noh leaned over her as Sying ran over to go to Chance with a little look of confusion over how far gone the adults were over this new baby.

"Ewin is a big sissy," Chance explained as best he could, but when Sying sort of frowned and didn't get what the big deal was, Chance grabbed him by the hand to go off and play somewhere else.

The boys had only just gotten out the toy cars when Kate and Kurt arrived as well — and Kate immediately smacked both hands over her mouth when she saw the little bundle Jubilee was holding, all but dancing in place with excitement as a little squeak escaped between her fingers. Of course, the bamfs weren't nearly as restrained and teleported to crowd around Jubilee and Noh to get a look at the little guy with wide eyes and little grins.

Kurt was simply beaming as he made his way over to peer at the little boy as well. "Welcome to the world, little one," he said as he leaned over to gently boop his nose.

"They named him James," Jubilee whispered to him before she offered him a chance to hold the little guy.

Kurt's eyes were wide and his mouth slightly parted open as he gently tucked the tiny boy into his arms, with pure delight in his gaze. "Hello, James," he said at what was basically a whisper.

"He looks like his dad," Kate said over Kurt's shoulder with a warm smile Logan's way. "Fitting."

"Suppose it was bound to happen sooner or later," Logan replied. "Just be glad he's a boy with that nose."

"No, he's perfect," Kurt insisted with a still-growing grin, gently touching James' nose once more for emphasis.

K waited for both of them to have a seat before she broke the news. "Sorry, Kate; you lost your bet."

Kate glanced up and made a little show of pouting for just a moment. "So it happened after midnight, then," she surmised. "So close."

"By a good margin," Logan told her. "Close to four this morning."

"Four hours. That's still not a bad margin to lose by," Kate said with a dramatic sigh and a shrug as she leaned onto Kurt's shoulder. "So, who won? Who had today?"

"Would you believe it's Daken?" Bobby said, shaking his head.

Noh's head popped up at that. "I certainly would not."

"News to us," Logan said. "But that's what Bobby said earlier — so at least he's sticking to the same story."

"Hey, I wouldn't kid about this. I'm not that good of a liar," Bobby pointed out. "If I was going to kid, I'd do something more believable!"

"It is certainly a fantastic story," Noh muttered to himself, though he was slightly distracted as Krissy, in her efforts to see the new baby, temporarily lost control of her tail and hit Noh in the shoulder with it as she was leaning over.

Kate giggled as she set Krissy down on the table so that not only could Krissy get a better view but also Kate could steal James for herself. And she almost immediately went into making him over with little kisses and half-cooed whispers.

"Make sure to really get that glitter all over yourself," K muttered her way.

"Hey, I won't complain," Kate said with a smirk before she went right back to snuggling James.

K and Logan had leaned into each other after Elin had headed off to play with the other kids, and they were perfectly content to snuggle until K decided it was time to shake up a few people. "Hey Kate, why don't you hand him back to his godfather. I think he's having withdrawals already. Look at him."

Kate looked up almost without thinking about it to Kurt, but Scott was already leaning forward with an unreadable sort of grin on his face that Kate had never seen before. "Wait… what?"

At that, Scott grinned even wider. "You heard right," he said simply before he took advantage of her surprise and scooped James back out of her arms to settle in with his little godson, wearing the proudest look Kate had seen on his face since the twins had learned to say 'dad'.

Kurt's tail was practically standing straight out behind him, and his eyes were wide for a whole new reason as he looked between Scott and James — and Logan and K.

"Don't get too upset; you got the firstborn," Logan said with a little wave.

"And his middle name is Wagner," K added. "Consider it a consolation prize."

Kurt stared a bit more as Scott's grin widened before, finally, the Elf smiled and set a hand on Scott's shoulder. "You'll spoil him rotten," he teased gently.

"Of course he will," Annie said with a little laugh, clearly enjoying the look on Scott's face.

Jubilee was beside herself at that little tidbit of news as she turned to Logan. "Congratulations — and happy birthday too."

As the morning progressed, more and more of the mansion residents came down to the kitchen — and everyone was thrilled with the surprise birthday present for Logan. Tammy in particular laughed off Jubilee's warning that Scott wouldn't give James up easily and simply levitated both James and Scott over to where she was. And that if nothing else was enough of a determined move that Scott finally reluctantly handed him off to Tammy … only so she could cuddle him briefly and then hand him to Tyler — because Tyler clearly wanted to hold him but wasn't saying anything. The big blonde simply melted into a puddle over the little guy, who snuggled right into him, and it wasn't until Tammy pointed out that he should probably share that he finally handed James off to Spidey.

"Oh, wow ... um…. I'm really more the guy who just … takes the pictures, not holds the tiny ones … particularly tiny ones that belong to very protective and dangerous parents," Peter tried to argue as Tyler tipped James into his arms.

Kate giggled delightedly when James seemed to be perfectly happy with Peter, though. "Aww, Pete, I think he likes you."

"Of course he does, it's genetic," Peter pointed out with a little smirk. "Besides, who doesn't love your friendly neighborhood Spider Man?"

"Only dumb people and J. Jonah Jameson," Kate teased him. "Which, you know, was a bit repetitive."

"The dumb people part or all of those J's?" Peter asked without missing a beat.

"Yes." She grinned right back at him.

"Well. We should institute a rule — no talking about monsters around the little guy," Peter said. "And that guy is a monster."

"We'll only talk about floor monsters and tickle monsters," Annie promised with a laugh. "But I don't think those count anyway."

Peter smirked as he walked across the room lightly bouncing the little guy. "Well, I can't believe it, but your big brother won the bet," he said to James. "And … I'm going to have to actually talk to him ... and then take a shower. Maybe two showers." He smirked as he handed James over to his father with a whispered congratulations.

"Well, as fun as all this socializing has been … I think I need a nap," K said as she and Logan both got to their feet. "Annie, can you bring Elin up if she gets to be any trouble?"

"Oh, I'm sure she won't be, but yes, I can do that," Annie said easily, gesturing to where Elin was playing with the other kids and babbling happily back and forth with Krissy.

"Thanks," Logan said softly as the three of them headed out of the kitchen and toward the stairs, passing three almost shocked looking teenagers on their way through.

Cam elbowed Jana in the ribs as she all but blinked back into reality and very quickly and clumsily pulled out her phone. "That's Wolverine," he hissed unnecessarily, since clearly, all three of them could see that.

"Yeah, figured that out, thanks," Jana replied as she gave him a dirty look. By the time she tried to snap the picture, the little trio of ferals was already out of decent range. She swore a bit under her breath and pocketed the phone, turning to face the other two — but Ozzie was already headed for the door. "Where do you think you're going?" she asked him.

"We might not have pictures, but we can at least tell him we saw them," Ozzie explained.

"He said to just text," Cam replied. "Less obvious that way, genius."

"Yeah, but I want to make sure we get credit," Ozzie insisted. "And besides, he doesn't know about the new one," he added, gesturing up the stairs toward where the ferals had disappeared. "Don't you want to get credit for that?"

"I think if we want that kind of credit, we better wait until we have pictures," Jana said in a tone that clearly read she wasn't going to argue that particular point.

Ozzie rolled his eyes hard. "I'm tired of homework and waiting around here," he muttered. "I want to get moving." He held out both hands and camouflaged them against his jacket. "I want better powers," he said as he wriggled his fingers — they were clearly visible now that they were moving, despite the coloring.

"Maybe you just need to learn to stand still," Jana replied.

"Easy for you to say," Ozzie shot back her way with a glare. "I heard you and Professor Hawkeye — I heard her telling you yours were cool." He crossed his arms over his chest and drew himself up. "Don't tell me you want out just because you got sweet-talked by a human!"

"Hey." Jana drew herself up to match him — they were both about the same height — as she poked a finger in his chest. "Don't forget who it was that found you two and introduced you to Dr. Essex. If it weren't for me, you'd both still be picking pockets and wishing you got this close to the X-Men!"

"Hey, hey," Cam said as he tried to get between the two of them. "Look, we'll — we'll just get a picture later. Okay?"

"They've been hidden away for weeks!" Ozzie shot back. "It could take us ages to spot them again, and Jana here totally blew it!"

"I didn't notice you taking any pictures," Jana countered with a glare.

Ozzie glared at her hard for a long time before he spun on his heel. "Don't screw this up, Scanner," he added over his shoulder. "What would your favorite professor think if I told her what you're really here to do?"

She squared up with him and took a few steps toward him. "You wouldn't dare," she challenged.

Ozzie glared harder at her. "Hope you sleep with that phone under your pillow," he said. "I'd hate to think what would happen if someone were to have a fit of remorse and give it to Professor Hawkeye and tell her all about how you introduced us to a life of crime."

"You better watch your back," she shot back. "Before someone has to take you down to introduce yourself to the resident doctor when I kick your ass."

"Enjoy it while it lasts. When I get my enhancements, you better hope you're still on my good side," he shot back before he just stormed off.