Bayville High
"Will somebody get this lunatic off me?" Pietro yelled as he shot angry looks at his three friends. Eli pushed him harder against the wall.
"I'd like to see them try," he said through clenched teeth. A crowd of students had started to form when Kitty and Kurt ran over to the boys.
"Eli!" Kitty screamed, surprised. "Let him go, we're at school!" Eli's eyes stayed on Pietro.
"This prick knows where my sister is," he informed her. Kitty quickly glanced to Lance who shrugged.
"Well that doesn't mean you can just go slamming him around."
"Aw gee Kitty-cat, I didn't realize you cared so much," Pietro said in a faux-sweet tone. Lance folded his arms over his chest, refusing to even attempt to help Pietro now.
"Kitty is right mein friend," Kurt added as he placed a hand on Eli's shoulder. "Pietro is not worth it." Eli glanced to the elfish boy before releasing Pietro. The crowd dispersed when they realized nothing was going to happen now.
"I suppose you're both right," Eli admitted as he rubbed the back of his neck. "I just got carried away." Pietro ran his palms over his chest, smoothing the wrinkles out of his shirt.
"If these don't iron out you owe me a new shirt pal!" Pietro angrily yelled. Lance rolled his eyes as the silver-haired boy continued to do what had gotten him into this mess, talk.
"Just shut up Pietro!" Kitty demanded. Eli turned back toward him.
"Listen, I dunno what you know about my sister, but I promise you that if anything happens to her, I'll rip your head off with my own two hands, got it?" Eli threatened. Toad swallowed hard before grabbing his throat.
"I could care less about your stupid sister," Pietro shot back.
"Good to hear. I guess I'll be seeing you boys on the battlefield then." Eli sent a smirk Pietro's way before walking into the school. Kurt followed after him and Kitty gave Lance a stern look.
"Do not hurt my friend," she said to the entire group while her eyes stayed on Lance before running after Kurt and Eli. Pietro scoffed and his housemates turned toward him.
"What a bunch of psychopaths."
The Brotherhood House
Ellie flew from room to room with a can of disinfectant in one hand and air freshener in the other. She doused everything that she could with the sprays before planting her feet on the freshly mopped floor of the hallway. She tossed both of the empty cans into a trash bag that rested against the front door before swiping her arm over her forehead.
"Well, this floor is finished," she told herself as she examined the clean area.
For a brief second she could feel herself smiling at her accomplishment, but she quickly pushed that feeling out of her mind. This was not her home and she was not cleaning just because she could. She had a debt to repay to the Brotherhood and she needed to remember that. Ellie pulled a folded piece of paper that had a list of groceries on it out of the back pocket of her cut-offs and fiddled with it before turning her attention upstairs.
"Stay out of my room," Pietro's voice echoed in her mind. The way that Ellie recalled him saying this was not in a tone that anyone who wanted privacy would say it, but in a tone that indicated Pietro had something to hide.
Ellie had now made her way up the stairs and into the second floor hallway. She knew it was wrong to deliberately disobey someone's wishes, but she didn't really care about Pietro's feelings. Anything that Pietro would feel was worth hiding from her was something that she desperately needed. Ellie's hand coiled around Pietro's bedroom doorknob and she promised herself that she would never do this again. To her surprise the door was unlocked and opened effortlessly.
Taking a cautious step into the fairly clean room, Ellie made sure she did not step on or touch anything that would alert Pietro to her intrusion. She tried not to think about what she was doing and made her way over to his desk. It was quite organized with a few pencils and pens seated on top. Just as she was getting ready to move on, she noticed that the bottom desk drawer was open slightly.
"No, no way," Ellie said to herself. "This is wrong." With that, Ellie left the room, shutting the door behind her.
Feeling a bit guilty and angry that she didn't find anything right away, Ellie gripped her grocery list in her hand and left the house. Still unfamiliar with the area, it took her nearly an hour to find the grocery store that was only fifteen minutes away from the Brotherhood house. She grabbed a shopping cart and quickly exchanged it for another after discovering the wheel squeaked. Her grocery list rested in the cart where a child would sit as she walked through the store, grabbing items she wanted.
Ellie placed a sack of oranges into her cart when she noticed three bananas sitting with the apples. She looked around before picking the produce up and flipped them over on the back of her hand. She lifted her eyebrow at her reflection in the mirrored wall behind the wall of fruit.
"Look at me, I'm Wolverine," she whispered in a fake manly voice as she jutted her hand out in a clawing motion. "What's the matter, blondie? Scared of my banana claws?" She jumped and fumbled with the bananas when someone cleared their throat from behind her. She turned to see a man with white hair staring down at her.
"Excuse me Miss," he started. "Would you mind moving your cart? I need to get to the strawberries." Ellie was certain that her face had turned the same color of the fruit he was describing.
"Sure thing, sorry about that," she apologized as she pushed her cart out of the way. The man gave her a nod and a smile before grabbing a plastic box of strawberries.
"Was that Wolverine that you were imitating just now?" he asked. Ellie looked to him.
"Oh, you heard all of that?" she asked, embarrassed. The man chuckled.
"It was quite a good impression. Tell me, do you know Wolverine?" Ellie tensed up.
"Doesn't everybody?" The man nodded.
"Ah yes, he and the X-Men are on television quite often aren't they?" Ellie nodded, thankful that this was true and she was not found out. "Is he your favorite?"
"Favorite?"
"Well everybody has a favorite." This small talk was becoming too intense for Ellie's liking.
"No, he's just the easiest to make fun of I suppose. Well, I'll be going now." Ellie pushed her cart away from the produce and into the cereal aisle away from the white haired man.
"What a creep," she thought to herself as she dropped a box of cereal into her cart. She scribbled on her list, crossing off everything she had already gotten and placed her pen behind her ear.
As she was pushing her cart out of the aisle, another cart slammed into hers, ripping the bar out of her hands. She angrily looked to the person who had rammed into her. Her anger grew as she stared at the white haired man who was smiling back at her.
"Well it looks like we just can't get away from each other," he laughed. Ellie grabbed the bar of her cart and pushed it forward without saying anything. "I do apologize for our accident."
Ellie waved her hand over her head to indicate that it was fine as she walked into another aisle. She found herself checking over her shoulder for that man every few seconds. His deep voice repeated over in her mind and the familiar smirk that he had been giving her sent chills down her spine. She quickly gathered the rest of her groceries and checked out. Sighing from relief she walked into the parking lot with her grocery bags hanging over her arms and pressed against her chest.
She did not factor that she was buying too many groceries to carry home and she wished she had. Awkwardly balancing everything in her arms she took a step forward only to jump back as a black car pulled up in front of her. The tinted window rolled down and the white haired man smirked back at her.
"Need a ride somewhere?" he asked her. Ellie clenched her jaw as her heart started to beat a little faster.
"What is your problem?" she snapped at him. "I'm a teenager, pal. Stop being a creep and leave me alone." The man laughed.
"I was simply showing you kindness Dear. It appears that you do not have a car and have too many bags to carry all the way home."
"How would you know how far away I live?"
"Let's make this easy on ourselves, get in the car Miss." The car door opened and Ellie took to her instincts, shooting into the air and flying through the sky as fast as she could. The white haired man scowled up into the sky.
"Well, I didn't see that one comin'," the long haired driver of the man's car grumbled. He shut his car door angrily.
"Just drive, Sabretooth," he ordered.
Bayville High
"Man it feels good to be outta there!" Toad happily said as he and his housemates walked out of school together.
"You ain't kidding," Lance added as he stretched his arms over his head and groaned. Pietro looked around the area for any sign of Eli.
The three boys jumped when Toad screamed. He grabbed onto his greasy head and rolled around on the ground groaning. The three boys that were still standing exchanged confused looks.
"I'm dead, I'm dead! I just know it!" Toad cried. Pietro lifted his eyebrow at a green apple that was lying on the ground next to him.
"You're not dead you idiot," he informed Toad before picking the apple up. He examined it before looking up only to see the blue sky.
"It's a miracle!" Toad exclaimed, jumping up.
"Where'd that come from?" Lance asked, his eyes searching the sky.
"Dunno," Pietro answered. Toad snagged the apple from his hand and took a bite out of it.
"Who cares its food!" he told them with a mouth full of apple. Pietro shrugged before making his way to Lance's jeep.
"Man, I sure hope Ellie bought us some more food," Fred said as he rubbed his round stomach. "I'm starving!"
"Don't get too excited Blob," Pietro told him. "I'm sure that girl is long gone by now." Lance buckled his seatbelt in the driver's seat.
"Is that what you want?" he asked.
"What?"
"Do you want Ellie to be gone?" The other two boys in the back of the jeep listened now. Pietro folded his arms angrily.
"I don't care. Now shut up and drive." Lance started the jeep and Pietro angrily stared out of the window as everything passed by the jeep, wondering if that was what he really wanted.