Chapter 4

"So hank what do you have for us?" Asked Xavier as he and Logan entered Beast's lab a few days after the incident in New York, Beast had been spending the last few days trying to find out the identity of the mysterious young man Scott and Jean and chased.

"I believe I have found the prime suspect in this little investigation Charles but I recommend bringing in Jean and Scott to verify my speculations."

"Very well I'm contacting them now." Said Xavier as he sent a telepathic message to Jean and Scott telling them to come down to the lab.

"Shouldn't we bring storm in on this too?" Said Logan, he had lent back against the wall obviously deciding that he wasn't going to be getting involved in this little get together.

"She is currently taking some of the younger students out shopping for beach supplies before they go on their trip Kitty wanted to go swimsuit shopping so I doubt they will be home soon." He shot Logan a cunning glance, "you are more than welcome to join her if you wish."

Logan was spared answering by the arrival of Scott and Jean both of whom were looking a little flushed and Logan noticed that Jean's top was rather ruffled like it had spent some time on the floor recently. "What were you two up to?" he asked rather nicely just to make sure they knew he knew. Both teens blushed furiously and taking a small measure of pity of them Logan satisfied himself with a smirk and a grunt to prove his victory.

Beast started typing on the keyboard and a screen on the far wall glared into life showing a picture of an average looking brown haired, brown eyed teenage.

"That's him!" jean said rather excitedly, staring at the boy on the screen.

"I thought it might be." Beast said smiling at the fact his efforts weren't in vain. "Everyone I would like to introduce you to Mr. Peter Parker a high school student in Manhattan."

He was interrupted by Logan walking past him to stare at the picture with frightening intensity while mumbling. "Parker I know that name." His voice was soft as though he was trying to remember something and didn't want to scare it off by being too loud.

Beast hit a few more keys and a bunch of new images appeared on the screen. "You've probably seen his work." The images resolved into various shots of Spider-Man. "Mr. Parker was Spider-Man's unofficial photographer until his recent death. He is 16 years old, is in full time education with straight A's, does an internship at ESU's science department and works at the Daily Bugle." He paused looking thoughtful "you know if he has developed mutant abilities as well this young man must be under a great deal of stress with all these extra responsibilities."

At this point Scott who had been sitting out the conversation chimed in."I remember him; didn't they think he was Spider-Man for awhile earlier this year?"

"Yes but it turned out to be rumour that started when he wore a Spider-Man costume for Halloween." Beast replied.

"However..." The professor started to speak in a slow manner as he was making sense of something. "One of the things that came up during that period was why he was the only photographer to be able to get pictures of Spider-Man." He paused as he ordered his thoughts. "It is possible that if he is a mutant he was using his abilities to help him take the photographs." He turned to Beast. "What else do you have on our mister Parker, Hank?"

Hank fiddled with the computer bringing up the profile he had created on Peter. "This is everything I can find online." He pointed to a set of pictures near the top of the page. "His parents were..."

"Richard and Mary"

Everyone stared at Logan but he ignored them, the names of the people on the screen had just popped into his brain and then his mind was set on fire. He fell to the floor and when he landed on his knees his hands where digging into his skull, he let out a savage yell.

"Logan let me help you." Said the professor as he wheeled over to his friend, as soon as he reached him he placed his hands on top of Logan's and expanded his mind. He felt the agony in Logan's mind as the programming he had been put through tried to stop the memory from being recovered. Normally he would have tried to numb the pain but in his past experience with working with Logan he had discovered the best way to help was to uncover the memory because the pain would stop soon afterwards while if he went to numb the pain the memory might be lost but seeing as Logan now knew of the memory he would try to examine it and that would lead to more attacks.

Finally after a tense brief moment he managed to secure the memory and as the pain died down he was given a brief view of the memory. There were Richard and Mary Parker neither was talking but Richard looked very pale as though he had just had a terrible shock and to the side was Logan with a large grin on his face as he said "Congratulations."

The rest of the room looked on as the professor backed his chair up and Logan pushed himself upright scowling at the pain.

He shot Xavier a glance "thanks chuck." He turned to stare at the photos once again. "I knew them maybe they can fill in some of the blanks for me." His gaze then fell on a picture of them hugging a young child. "Well we have an in with this kid at the very least."

Jean and Scott looked excited and were about to ask a bunch of questions when Beast sighed and gave Logan a sad look. "I'm sorry Logan but they died, 12 years ago in plane crash."

The pang of grief Logan felt though small was very familiar to him. He wondered how many people he had forgotten, how many had died, how many were still alive thinking one day he would contact them. He had no idea how old he was, his earliest memory was the second world war and he looked the same now as he did then.

He was brought out of his thoughts by Xavier talking to Hank and forced himself to pay attention and not focus on his lost past.

"So who raised Mister Parker then or was he put into the foster system?"

"He was raised by his only living relatives his Aunt and Uncle, but it appears that his uncle died a little over a year ago in a carjacking."

Jean looked sadly at the close up of Peter's face. "How tragic he's suffered so much."

"We must recruit this young man," said the professor his voice steady and determined, "if he has developed powers he could be a danger." The rest of the room looked at him in surprise. "What we have here if a very gifted individual who has had his family taken from him in the cruellest of ways. He is obviously intelligent and hard working but that kind of pain can take root in someone and causes them to act out at the world which has hurt them. Magneto started out on this path and it is our duty to make sure Peter Parker doesn't go down the same route. We must teach him that it is his responsibility to use his gifts for the betterment of mankind."

FORREST HILLS

"Peter dear, dinner!" Peter was up in his room and was just examining his newly fixed web shooters when he heard his aunt yell up to him. He quickly got up threw his web shooters under his bed and made his way downstairs in a very good mood. His thoughts were solely on one topic. 'Just got to finish my new costume and then look out world here come the return of one and only Spider-Man, but this time I'm going to make some spare costumes, I keep getting my main one torn to shreds.' He was so focused on his thoughts by the time he reached the kitchen that he didn't notice his aunt wasn't alone until someone spoke to him.

"Hey there tiger."

"Hey MJ... MJ, what are you doing here?"

"Your aunt invited me and my aunt round for dinner; I take it she didn't tell you."

Peter nervously scratched the back of his neck. "Well you see I've been up in my room err... doing an experiment."

Mary Jane gave him a look that was part exasperation part humour. "Pete you do know we are on summer vacation right, you can lay off the learning for a bit."

"Says the girl who spent three weeks preparing for her play." He countered; soon they had settled into a conversation and were soon joined by their aunts carrying dishes, who insisted they eat up.

Later while everyone was enjoying Aunt May's famous pie the conversation turned to the party Mary Jane was attending later that night. "It's basically a wrap party since we had our last show yesterday." Mary Jane was explaining, "We were going to do it right after the show but everyone was so tired and we had to take down the sets so it was decided to do it tonight."

"Oh that sounds wonderful. Are you going alone or do you have a date?" Asked May as she gave Mary Jane a small smile, if Peter had been paying more attention he would have suddenly had a very suspicious feeling.

"Nah I'm going by myself" she twisted in her seat "unless you want to come Peter?"

"I don't know I was going to do something..." Peter stammered only for his aunt to cut in.

"Well I think you should go Peter, it would do you good and its summer you should be having some fun."

At this point Anna Watson jumped in as well. "Well I for one think it's a good idea, Peter you would help put my mind at rest as I would know you were looking out for Mary Jane."

Peter looked at the three women waiting for his response and sighed inwardly. 'I can fight six super villains at the same time but I can't stand up to three women. Great' he thought 'well at least no bad guy is likely use this tactic otherwise I'll be in serious trouble.'

"So tiger you coming with me then?" she asked while giving Peter her most beautiful smile, Peter smiled back. 'Well there are worse ways to spend the evening.'

"Sure Red why not."

LINCON YOUTH CENTRE

The music was already blaring loudly when Peter and Mary Jane entered the party, Peter was dressed in his usual attire but Mary Jane was another story.

"Not that I mind but why are you dressed up for this?" he cast his gaze over MJ's short dress and matching heels.

"It's just my LBD Peter I wear it all the time for parties."

"Well I've never seen it and what does LBD stand for anyway?"

"Well you hardly come to the party scene you always say you're busy and LBD stands for little black dress, genius." She said brightly with no trace of a mocking tone in her voice. "Every girl had an LBD because you can wear it for pretty much anything." She turned to look at the crowd of teens and waved to a few people. "Hey tiger I'm going to say hi to people can you get us a couple of drinks?" and as soon as Peter had nodded she practically leapt into the crowd of dancing teens and was greeted with a loud cheer.

"One of these days I'm going to figure out women and then I'm going to publish a book and become rich and famous." Peter mumbled to himself as he made his way over to the snacks.

"Yeah right, like you know anything about women. Hahahaha." Peter turned to see Flash leaning against a wall staring at him with a small grin on his face. Though he hated to admit it Flash hadn't been completely intolerable lately mostly due to his dating Sha Shan but Peter still didn't really see him as a friend more a slight annoyance that had to be dealt with every now and then. But that didn't mean they couldn't hang out with each other.

"So Sha Shan dragged you along I take it?"

"Yep." He said popping the p. "MJ got you to come out for a change then." Peter just shrugged not really caring what Flash thought. He turned his sight to Mary Jane shaking her body on the dance floor but still heard Flash making a whipping noise which he pretended not to hear. Flash wasn't content to leave it however, "What's with you two anyway? I mean you two always hang out together and now you're on another date."

"Whoa this is not a date we just came to the party together." Peter replied hotly.

"Suurree." Said Flash extending the word with a smug look on his face, happy he'd got a reaction from Peter.

Peter decided it was time to return fire. "What's with all the questions about MJ, Eugene, planning on dumping Sha Shan to chase MJ?"

"He'd better not." An annoyed female voice made Peter and Flash jump as they tried not to look guilty.

"Hey babe." Said Flash trying yet failing to keep his voice stable. "I was just asking the geek here about his date with MJ." Peter was smart enough to realize that Flash had done something clever (for once in his life), he knew calling Peter a geek was something that annoyed Sha Shan and made sure to imply Peter and MJ were on a date. This shifted all attention on to Peter and MJ and insulting Peter meant that Sha Shan would be annoyed with him for something minor rather than fixating on what Peter had said.

Sha Shan turned her disgruntled face to Peter who decided to try and change the subject. "Hey Sha I thought you were really good in the play." She sighed letting her face fall back into its natural beauty. "Thanks Peter I'm glad you liked it, I'm going to say hi to MJ."

As she turned away Peter was smacked on the back of his head. He hadn't paid attention to the very weak tingle of his spider sense as he was too worried about Sha Shan and what she might do to him.

"Thanks a lot now I've got an angry girlfriend to deal with."

Peter stared at Flash in outrage. "Me? You started this you stubborn jackass."

On the other side of the room MJ was just letting go of Sha Shan after giving her a hug. "Hey girl I'm so glad you came, did you convince Flash to come as well?" Sha Shan pointed to where Peter and Flash were arguing.

"So you got Peter to come then," she paused for a second and kept staring at Peter "you know sometimes I wonder how you two are friends I mean you two have so little in common."

"Like you and flash have so many things too share." Said MJ teasingly.

"Doesn't count we're dating, but you and Peter are like best friends."

"Only because Gwen and Harry got together, tiger was just the odd man out in their clique and he needed me."

"You sure there's nothing going on between you two?" Sha Shan said before she started to chuckle into her glass.

MJ was mildly annoyed but casually replied. "You know I'm too much of a free spirit too be tied down to a single guy when there's so many out there. And besides what guy could keep up with me?" and as if to prove her point he danced through the floor snatched Peter and dragged him to the centre of the dance floor.

Half an hour later Peter had finally convinced MJ to take a break from dancing by pretending to worn-out but really it was because he could only take so much dancing as he found it boring and wasn't particularly good at it, knowing a grand total of 4 moves. They found Flash and Sha Shan standing by the large punch bowl examining it.

"Hey what's going on guys?"

"Something off with this punch, maybe its god bad here you try it." Flash handed Peter and MJ a couple of cups and both took a swing.

"Yeah I see what you mean." Said Peter, he took another swing, trying to figure it out. "It tastes like cherry but it's got a weird after taste."

Mary Jane downed he cup and grabbed Flash and Peter. "Come on boys it's time to dance you can talk about the punch later." And with that she proceeded to drag both boys away from the snacks with Sha Shan following.

The next two hours went by in a blur leading to Peter and MJ waiting on a corner for a taxi. Thankfully it was a cool clear night and the fresh air was doing them the world of good. "So it safe to say the punch was spiked." Peter's statement was cut off by the fact MJ who had just fallen down before hand started to giggle. He helped her up while trying to keep his own balance which was proving harder than he first thought. 'Looks like alcohol affects me just like a normal person, I actually have to think about keeping my balance for the first time in over a year.' Peter thoughts were interrupted by Mary Jane placing her head on his shoulder and yawning.

"Come on tiger lets go I'm exhausted, we must have danced for hours I have no idea how were still on your feet." Peter had to smile at that as MJ made it very clear it was up to him to do the work, not that he could blame her she had had a couple more glasses of punch than him.

As they waited for a taxi to appear Peter felt MJ shift on his shoulder. "Hey tiger how did we get here? I mean how did we become ... friends? All I know is Aunt Anna told me you needed a date for a dance and I thought it sounded like fun."

"Hey MJ hold that thought. TAXI!" Mary Jane almost fell down as Peter shouted right into her ear. She forced herself to wake up a bit as they got in the taxi and gave the address. Once they got moving we turned to Peter and tried to organize her thoughts. "So tiger why'd you agree to take a girl you had never met to your high school formal?" a memory flashed before her eyes causing her to smirk "was it to win your bet with Flash."

Peter let out a small chuckle as he remembered Flash in his cheerleader costume he let the image go as he tried to remember everything that led to him taking MJ to the dance. "Nah the only reason I made that bet was because I already had a date with Betty, this girl at the Bugle, but when I told Aunt May she convinced Betty that she was too old for me." He stopped and let out another chuckle "she schemed for me to take you and did everything she could to make sure it happened. I mean I never even actually said I'd go with you, Aunt May just told me I was taking you two seconds before you knocked on the door."

"So why didn't you want to take me?"

"Well all I had been told about you was you had a lovely personality and well Aunt May was the one trying to set us up so you know..."

"You thought I was going to be a troll."

"Yes ...No...Well..."

Mary Jane just sighed and leaned back into the seat waiting for Peter to stop being an idiot when Peter's voice broke through her stupor. "You know I wonder why Aunt May was so desperate for us to go together I wouldn't have thought you'd be the type of girl she would want me to be with. I mean you're a smoking hot party girl I would have thought Aunt May would have wanted me to get together with a girl next door type."

"Hey I only live 3 doors down, that's pretty next door." Though her response was quick Mary Jane's thoughts had exploded within her mind. Her entire history with Peter and his Aunt played in an instant. The next thing she knew Peter had walked her to the front door and said he would see her later, she crept upstairs and fell onto her bed crawled into her covers and fell asleep.

A gentle bird song sounded in the morning air, its sweet tones a joy to hear, except in the case of one Mary Jane Watson to whom it sounded like nails on a chalkboard with a broken blender in the background. She opened one bleary eye and prayed to god to stop all noise, unfortunately the noise continued so she pushed herself up and went to have a nice hot shower. A while later while wearing her comfy dressing gown, she made her way downstairs in hopes of finding breakfast. However when she entered the kitchen she found something quite different May Parker and Aunt Anna were sitting at the table having a cup of tea and a chat. They both looked up at her and broke out into identical smiles as her aunt got up. "How are you feeling dear?"

"I'm fine Aunt Anna why do you ask."

Though Mary Jane had directed the question at her aunt it was Peter's aunt who answered. "Peter told me the punch had been spiked last night and you might be a little worse for wear." Her kind eyes gave MJ a once over before she continued. "So I thought I would bring these round to help you feel better." She offered a covered plate to MJ who took it and took of the foil revealing...

"Cookies."

"Ginger nut Cookies dear, they will help settle your stomach and make you feel better, also be sure to drink plenty of fluids."

"Thank you May that's so kind." As she started to nibble on a cookie Mary Jane thought back to her conversation with Peter in the taxi. She swallowed her mouthful and wondered how to begin when her aunt set a cup of coffee in front of her, she smiled her thank and took a sip letting the coffee wake her up a bit and decided to be blunt. "So why do you two want me and Peter to get together?"

Both ladies started and looked to each other trying to figure out what had brought this on. Mary Jane simply stared with a small smile on her face happy she had got a reaction instead of an instant denial. She had decided she needed to know why their aunts wanted them to be together; for god's sake they had tricked them so their first meeting was a date. After a few moments of non spoken communication between May and Anna, May turned to MJ and said "Why did something happen last night?"

"Yes, Peter told me he never agreed to take me on that date that you tricked him in to taking me."

The hopeful smiles on the old ladies faces died leaving a look of slight guilt. Mary Jane felt slightly bad about this but she and Peter didn't want a relationship and their aunts would have to deal with it.

Aunt May sighed and got up; she put a hand on MJ's shoulder. She looked MJ in the eyes and spoke kindly, "we thought you would be good for each other."

MJ looked at the woman trying to figure out why she had said that because there was no way she truly believed it. Both May and Anna knew she would never go for a permanent relationship, she had vented to her aunt about her home life enough and she knew Anna had told May. She just wanted to have a good time, not get stuck like her parents which would lead to nothing but pain. She was a party girl who was only interested in acting. Tiger was a smart guy who was going to go places. He would need someone like Gwen, who could support him in every way, hell that's one of the reasons she had pushed for them to get it together.

May's voice broke through her thoughts. "Mary Jane I love Peter but he's always been a bit shy and withdrawn, it's not his fault with what he's gone through, but if he going to be happy he has to be more outgoing and sociable and I believe you would do that for him, you would force him to have some fun and be a more complete person. But I also believe that you Mary Jane could use a stable, responsible, dependable man who would always be there and faithful to you."

"You're sure who two haven't gone senile?" said MJ try to laugh it off, but the fact of the matter was she was rattled by what they were saying.

"Mary Jane just because your parents have a bad relationship doesn't mean all serious relationships are doomed to fail." Her aunt had on her patented 'let's talk about it' face.

"Aunt Anna this has nothing to do with my parents, it's to do with the fact you and May have latched on to this idea of me and Peter. We are just friends, that's all we are. I don't want any kind of relationship especially after what happened with Mark." We turned to face May at this point of her rant. "And what about Peter, he wants to be with Gwen. Doesn't that matter?"

"I love Gwen but if they got together Peter would retreat inwards when he should be venturing out."

Mary Jane grabbed at her favourite argument for relationships. "Look I'm a free agent, a party girl, Peter is a brain, I wouldn't be good for him so even if we became a couple it would lead to us breaking up and destroying our friendship."

May looked through her glasses at Mary Jane and MJ felt she wasn't being looked at but looked through. "Mary Jane don't sell yourself short, if I truly believed that that was all you were I would have never set you up with Peter."

MJ felt like running away or simply screaming, why didn't they understand she didn't want a relationship, she didn't need to define herself by being a couple. She grabbed another cookie and changed the subject which thankfully was allowed as she began talking about her plans for the day her mind couldn't help but wonder what Peter was up to.

FISK FOUNDATION PRESS CONFERENCE

"... and that's how Dr. Ohnn intends to study time dilation." The press conference had ended and Peter was now helping Ned understand what the grant winners were researching and why it was important to the science community.

"He wants to build a black hole? Is he insane?" Ned was already thing how this could be a goldmine of a story black holes, mad scientists this could be great chance for him.

"No it's more an artificial wormhole but at the moment it is purely theoretical it will take decades for something of that scale to truly produce results."

While Peter and Ned were talking to men entered the hall and looked around. "I don't see any teenagers chuck are you sure the Parker kid is gonna be here."

"Hank, with a little creative computer work, found that press credentials for Peter Parker had been approved for this event." Xavier once more looked around the room trying to spot a single teenager. "So he must be here unless he never made it.."

"Excuse me."

Logan and the professor turned around to see the grinning face of Peter Parker. "Would you be Professor Charles Xavier?"

He nodded amazed that the person he had been searching for knew who he was especially since there was no logical way this teenager could know about him.

"Oh it is such an honour I have read all your work on mutation even though it's out of date it is the most amazing piece of work."

Xavier nodded once again surprised this teen had read some of his earlier work it wasn't exactly well known. His current research had never seen the light of day but his earlier work still existed though most of it was now completely obsolete.

He interrupted the boy, who seemed to be about to launch a bunch of questions at him. "Would your Name be Peter Parker?"

The boy froze in surprise or at least he assumed it was surprise. But when Peter Spoke it was with a voice filled with caution. "Yes how do you know who I am?"

"You could say who had a run in with some of my students a while ago but it would be more accurate to say you ran away from my students." He watched Peter's entire frame become ridged and tense and could feel the nervousness that the child gave off. "Perhaps we should find a more private place to talk."

XXX

As Peter followed Professor Xavier and the other guy to the back of the hall far from prying eyes, his mind was working in overdrive trying to figure out what was happening. 'Okay the only people I've run from were those guys when I saved that girl from the car hitting her, so maybe it's nothing maybe he just wants to thank me for saving his student. But then how does he know that it was me or where to find me and if he was going to thank me why do we need to go somewhere private.' The thoughts kept whizzing around his head as he tried to figure out what was going on when he remembered that weird feeling of something entering his mind seemed to come from those teens. Suddenly on guard and weary Peter began to view them as threats and assessed them in his mind. 'Professor Xavier shouldn't be a problem in that wheel chair I could be gone in seconds unless he has some kind of nasty surprise for me, however the other guy looks dangerous short but muscular and has a certain edge about him making me want to stay on guard. Okay I'll stay and talk for a few moments' fish for some info but get out of here as quickly as possible.'

After they found somewhere backstage where no one was around and the other man who had been addressed by Logan went to make sure they weren't disturbed, Xavier turned to Peter and looked him in the eye. "Mr Parker let me be Frank."

"Only if I can be Carl." Peter couldn't help himself how often to people set you up with 'let me be frank'. To his great surprise Xavier actually let out a small chuckle. "Wow someone who actually laughs at my jokes I never thought I would see the day."

"As I was saying, I wanted to speak to you today because I believe that you are like me."

"No I'm not bald. See." He said giving his hair a tug. "Not a wig."

Professor Xavier raised an eyebrow but continued on. "I think you know what I mean, you like me have a special gift."

Peter put on his best puzzled face hoping to bluff his way out of this, only for his spider sense react as the voice of Professor Xavier entered his mind.

"You understand Peter don't you? You're like us a Mutant."

XXX

As Xavier made contact with Peter's mind he felt the same buzzing that Jean had described but he knew he had made contact when Peter's body reacted like it had been electrically shocked. He stared thoughtfully at the boy as he realised the look on his face wasn't surprise and shock but anger.

"Stay out of my mind." Xavier was surprised by the threatening tone that came out of Peter mouth.

"So you have encountered a psychic before." It wasn't a question Xavier could see that Peter had had a bad experience with psychic abilities by his reaction and immediately altered his pitch he was about to deliver.

Peter didn't reply so he pressed on. "I am a mutant and I have the ability to read minds." Once again there was no look of surprise or shock just anger. "I can assure you that I do not read someone's mind without their permission." The look of anger faded but the look now on Peter's face could in no way be called happy.

"I run a school for people like us where you can learn to use your powers in a safe environment." No reply came from Peter.

"Would you like to tell me exactly your power is?"

"I'm not a mutant."

"Excuse me."

"I have read your work. I know the definition of a mutant is someone born with different genes than the standard Homo Saipan."

"Yes and you feel that does not apply to you?"

"Look you seem to know that I'm not normal so I'll level with you and then you leave me alone."

"..."

Peter the lack of objection as a sign of agreement. "I got these abilities by accident I can't tell you how but I was not born like this, I'm a mutate not a mutant."

Xavier sighed and stared and the young man trying to give off a compassionate air. "Peter you are in denial you need to realise your true self and I can help with that. If you agree to attend my school we can help you accept who you are and train you so that you are in complete control of your abilities."

Peter stared at him in disbelief, he shook his head and got up and grabbed a metal pole that had been left over when the stage had been assembled.

"1 I know exactly who I am I don't need your help and 2 I have perfect control over my abilities." He bent the reinforced steel pipe in half without even the slightest sign of effort.

Xavier was surprised he had believed the boy had some kind of mental ability due to Jean's description and is own experience with trying to read Peter's mind.

Peter sat back down and stared at Xavier. "Now you seem like a good person so I going to leave and we will both agree to stay out of each other's way, you leave me alone and I won't go to the press with a story about a interesting school run by a noted geneticist ."

"Peter I ask you, please come and see my school and then decide if you would like to join us I promise you that you will be able to make your own choice..."

Peter cut him off before he could get too far into his pitch. "Look my place is right here I'm fine by myself I'm not joining anything and I never want to see you again."

Peter got up and turned to leave to see Logan standing in his way. "Kid if you walk away your going to be making the biggest mistake of your life."

"No I'm pretty sure that was buying a Zune instead of an Ipod."

And with that comment Peter leapt from a standing position clear over Logan's head did a perfect landing and started to run away.

Logan growled, he was torn between chasing the kid and bringing him back or going and beating the hell out of him for being so disrespectful. "Well that went well. Want do you want to do now Chuck."

"That young man must be made to see that we are trying to help him. If he continues like this he could become another enemy. He has to learn to be responsible with the power he has been given."

Xavier placed his had together as Logan wheeled him out the building. "Perhaps we should pay a visit to his aunt maybe she will be more open to us."

A couple of streets away Peter sat on a bench wringing his palms. 'Okay some guy who thinks I'm a mutant want me to go to his school for mutants, yeah that sounds like a good idea. Okay well at least he didn't call my bluff. All this hanging around with MJ seems to helped my acting skills, I can't believe he brought that hard case act I pulled but now hopefully baldy locks will disappear now I've told him I'm not interested in his offer.'

Peter looked up at the sky whishing his life was less complicated.

AN: Well there you go finally a new chapter, I'm sorry about the wait but I did warn you in the first chapter that the waits would be long. The problem I have is that I lots of ideas but cant actually get them down on paper/computer. It is one of the reasons I had a go at fanfiction and I think this has helped me I can type faster and have better spelling and grammer than before. I would like to thank all the people who reviewed you are too kind, seriously your too kind some of you have accused me of having style and knowing what im doing. I can assure you I don't.

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