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A/N: I saw Captain America: Civil War on Friday and It was awesome. i will admit I thought it would be a bit more intese but I still loved it. I love Bucky and his whole character and just, ahhh.

Chapter thirty-six

~_~_~_~_~_~_~_~_~_~_~_~_~ Pietro ~_~_~_~_~_~_~_~_~_~_~_~

After the fiasco of a fight that he has just had with his girlfriend, a fight that had originally started out as them just talking and quickly escalated to shouting and yelling, Pietro sped off towards his room and began to pace back and forth in it at such a superhuman speed that all anyone would see was a barely discernable blur. Pietro was furious with himself and with how he had handled his first fight with Norah, he was frustrated beyond belief with Norah and with how she's been acting towards her birthfather, Tom, since the moment he stepped foot into the tower. And to top it all off Norah Blinked herself to wherever it was that she had decided to go to in her state of anger and didn't tell anyone where she was going and that she was okay – no phone call or text or anything whatsoever. This was the first time that Norah has Blinked herself anywhere in almost a month or more and though Norah seemed to be back to her old self for the most part there was a reason that Cho told her to not use either of her powers until she medically cleared her; she could hurt herself if she tried to Blink too far of a distance, she could be using her powers too soon and accidentally not Blink all of herself to her destination and that in itself would be a mess and….well there were so many possibilities of things that could happen.

Pietro understood that Norah didn't want to talk or see him at the moment and that was fine, the two were just in a big fight (their first fight) it was probably best for them to have a bit of space to cool down and just think on what just happened. But be that as it may, it didn't mean that he didn't want to know that Norah was okay and made it safely to wherever it was that she was; she could call her sister, Wanda or even Steve to let them know she was fine. Physically at least.

"Ovo je glupo, tako glup. Mi ne treba da se bori zbog ovoga. Prokletstvo." Pietro muttered to himself, glaring in anger at the situation he was in with Norah at the moment.

This….this had not been how he envisioned his talk with Norah going, not even close to it. Pietro had only wanted to help; he's talked to Tom a few times and listened to him talk about the sort of person he was when Norah and her sister had been growing up, about how the drugs and alcohol were the only thing he cared about, about how he never really spent time with his daughter's unless he had no other choice. While he listened to Tom talk, Pietro could see the regret in Tom's eyes, he could see and almost feel how much the older, haggard looking man hated himself for what he did to his family and he could see that Tom blamed himself for his wife divorcing him and for the estrangement from his daughter's.

Pietro felt bad for the man, here he was all the way in New York far from home and the daughter that he came all the way to see won't speak a word to him or even stay in the same room as him. Pietro did not think that Tom deserved this sort of treatment, he did agree that how Tom had acted when Norah had been younger was not how a parent should treat a child nor how a child should have to grow up but people change – like he and Wanda had during the Ultron situation – and Tom has changed from what it sounded like. Tom wanted to be a father, he wanted to see and talk to Norah, he wanted to have a relationship with her. But Norah was being stubborn about her father; she refused to listen to anything that Pietro had said about him, refused to believe that he's changed, refused to give him a second chance and just wanted him gone and out of her life.

"Aghhh!" Pietro yelled, griping at his hair in frustration at the whole situation with him and Norah and continued to pace back and forth in his room.

It was at this exact moment that Wanda came into Pietro's room – without knocking of course – and rather than saying anything to her twin to let him know that she was there, Wanda instead decided to observe him and watch in amusement at Pietro continued on speeding back and forth across his bedroom floor. Leaning against the door frame and a small smirk on her face, Wanda crossed her arms and watched her brother in amusement. She swore that if he went any faster that he may turn himself into a tornado. Wanda felt for her brother, he has not been in many serious relationships and none that lasted all that long and none where he cared as deeply for the other person as he did Norah. But as much as sympathetic as she felt for her brother she was also terribly amused at the whole situation he currently found himself in.

"Muttering to yourself will not fix things Pietro," Wands spoke with amusement, her brother turning in surprise, not realizing that his sister had come into his room. "You made mistake with Norah. You said things that made her angry and unhappy, this is not how a boyfriend is supposed to act towards girlfriend. You need to fix this." She said pointedly, giving her brother a look that made him feel as if he was five years old getting caught stealing sweets from the kitchen by their mother.

Wanda loved her brother, he was her first friend and has been her constant friend through their entire lives and she knew that she could always count on him when she needed him but Norah, Norah was her first true friend that she has had in years and god damnit she's missed having a female to talk to about everything and anything, she missed having shopping days or days of just being girls and getting a coffee or something and gossiping like normal girls her age did. She wouldn't let Pietro jeopardize that because he felt bad for Norah's birthfather Tom and wanted to help him reconcile with his youngest daughter.

Pietro pursed his lips and ran his hands through his hair and looked at Wanda, "I did not want to have argument with Norah, she is not understanding what I and wanting to say to her. I cannot get right words out to make her understand." He explained as he finally stopped his pacing and sat down on his unmade bed.

"I know what you were trying to explain, what you want her to understand." Wanda said as she looked at her disheartened looking brother and then went over to his dresser and glanced at a few books that he had on it, one of which was a collection of Shakespeare's sonnets which made her give him an odd look, he wasn't exactly a classical literature fan. "You are trying to change her mind on something you can't change, you want her to like her father, to speak to him, to have relationship with him. Yes?" she questioned as she turned towards him once again.

"Yes! That is exactly what I try to do." Pietro told her, a tone of exasperation in his voice. "I want her to be happy."

Wanda raised her brow at Pietro when he said that, "You want her happy and think that talking with her birthfather will make her happy?" she questioned curiously, wondering what Pietro's reasoning for this was exactly.

"Yes, I am trying to get her to talk to her father so she can be happy. So she can have all of her family in life." Pietro said to his sister, imploring her to understand him at least a fraction.

"Pietro, Norah has a family. The Avengers are her family, Pepper and Tony are her family." Wanda explained to him gently.

The two of them may have gotten off on the wrong foot with the Avengers in the beginning – them siding with Ultron – but they did change sides and realize what they were doing was wrong, that they were on the bad guys' side and needed to do something about it. And Tony may not have trusted them all that much, which to be honest neither Pietro or Wanda really trusted the man all that much especially since it was his weapons that had killed their parents, but the Avengers are a family and Norah saw Tony as her father figure and the others as siblings of a sort.

Looking at his twin Pietro sighed, "I know Norah see's them as her family, they took her in and accepted her, did not judge her because of her being Mutant but I think she needs her blood family in life too. She needs to have father in her life even if she says she doesn't, she says she doesn't want relationship with him but I think she needs to talk and give him few moments so he can prove he's changed. She will not believe when I tell her, I try and try to tell her that he's changed, that I've talked to him and all he wants is to talk and have chance but she will not have anything to do with it." He said and closed his eyes for a moment and wishing something he said would have changed Norah's mind rather than ending up with the two of them getting into an argument.

"You went the wrong way to try and explain things to her," Wanda said after a few moments of pause. "You and I are different from Norah, Pietro. We grew up differently than Norah; our country was always at war, it is poor and people are always angry at one and another. Norah grew up being Mutant, she did not have parents like us and did not have usual family like we did either. She grew up with single mother Pietro who worked a lot so provide for kids, her sister is nearly decade older than her and her father is not like ours was. This….Tom is not who you are hoping he is." She said regretfully to her brother.

Wanda could understand why Pietro was so adamant in having Norah talk to her birthfather; she understood why he was so passionate and so….so intense about this whole situation. The two of them had lost both of their parents at such a young age and it had left a gaping hole in their hearts, a hole that will never fully heal no matter how much time has passed by. It was that horrifying experience that made Pietro so desperate to get Norah to talk to her father and have them reconcile their differences – he did not want her to regret not talking to her father.

"Pietro," Wanda said softly as she used a placating tone on him. "You know I miss mother and father as much as you do, that I think of them constantly and wish things could be different. That I wish they could be here with us but you cannot force views onto Norah. You are forcing your views and thoughts onto Norah, we had good relationship with our father, he loved us all through childhood and would do anything for us and you are forcing the feelings that you feel for our father onto Norah and wanting her to feel the same way towards her father as we do for ours." She said and grabbed Pietro's hand for a moment, squeezing it in understanding and looked at his face. "You cannot do that brother, do not do that to Norah."

In most cases Wanda was usually on her brother's side, there had only been few and far between instances where they were in disagreement with one and another, it seemed that this time was one of the times where they had differentiating opinions. If Norah didn't want to have anything to do with Tom then Wanda would support her wholeheartedly, she saw into Norah's mind during the shipyard and saw the sort of person that Tom had been, the sort of parent he was, the sort of company he had kept and the things he had done while Norah and Niki had been growing up. She saw how neglectful Tom had been, she saw how badly Norah just wanted to get five minute of attention from Tom and wanted to make him proud but he never seemed to care. It could be true that Tom changed, that he wasn't that person any longer and that he truly did want to reconcile with Norah and Wanda could find out if she really wanted to but she would trust her friend.

"I do not want her to regret later on," Pietro finally said to his sister somberly, memories of their parents going through his mind at the moment. "She does not realize what she has or what she could lose until she doesn't have it. I want her to have relationship so she won't regret." He said with a heavy sigh, his shoulders slumping as he leaned forward onto his knees.

"I know you think that, and maybe Norah will regret it when her father passes and will wish she would have tried to have a relationship with him but she is an adult Pietro, she is not child like you were making her feel like. She is twenty-two years old." Wanda said and patted her brother's cheek, a small smile on her face. "Part of being human and being an adult is making mistakes. Maybe this will be a mistake for Norah, her not talking to her father, maybe she will regret latter on down the line but at least you can say that you tried. But, you cannot force your views onto Norah. You need to respect her choices."

Pietro gave a groan and pressed the pal of his hands to his eyes before flopping backwards onto his mattress, "Svi ste tako komplikuje." He exclaimed despondently.

Wanda chuckled at that as she flicked Pietro's ear, "We are female, it is what we do." She told him and pushed herself off of the bed. "Think about what I say and try to see things from Norah's view. And don't ruin my friendship with Norah because of this fight of yours." She told him threateningly, her eyes going red for a moment and poking him with her red wisps of energy just to make sure she got the point across and then made her way out of her brother's room so that he could think about everything that they had just talked about.

~_~_~_~_~_~_~_~_~ Norah : Xavier's School for Gifted Youngsters ~_~_~_~_~_~_~_

Norah, like Pietro, was pacing back and forth only instead she was pacing in the Rec Room of Xavier's complaining and venting to her group of friends who were watching with rapt attention – she was barely pausing while she was talking and barely taking any breath's between sentences and looked pretty damn intense at the moment. It was obvious to almost anyone that she was pissed, frustrated and angry with the whole situation that she was currently in.

"Can you believe him, I mean really. Who in the hell does he think he is telling me that I need to give the asshole, Tom, a chance. As if I haven't done that hundreds of times before," Norah said scoffing at the idea of giving her birthfather a second chance at being a father, though truthfully it would more likely be his tenth or twentieth chance (which he definitely didn't deserve). "Like I'd ever think of doing something stupid as that," she said shaking her head and continued with her rather angry pacing. "No matter how many ways I put it Pietro just doesn't seem to get it, he just doesn't get this whole shitstorm of a family drama thing that Tom and I have. He doesn't get who Tom is, who he really is. Tom is nothing to me as far as I am concerned; he's not my dad, he's not my father, he's not my family member in any sort of way and he's definitely not someone who should have ever have become a parent."

Norah clenched her fists and resisted the urge to fling them out in anger while she talked – Xavier would probably appreciate her not blowing things up or scaring the younger children while she was visiting. Pietro wanted her to give Tom a second chance, a chance to talk and make things up to her, a chance to apologize to her for everything that he has ever done to her and for every mistake that he has ever made but what Pietro seemed to have problems understanding was that Norah has done that already in her life. There has been so many second chances that Norah lost count of them years ago and eventually just gave up, Tom has had his chances to make things right between himself and Norah, she's held out hope for him so many times and hoped and pleaded that he would make it to this one concert, this one play, this one school even this one time and she'd never ask for anything from him again but she'd always end up disappointed. Tom would always either not show up or would call and cancel and tell her that something with work came up or that he was sick (more likely that he was hungover and couldn't drive).

"God, with anyone else I wouldn't care or be this angry either." Norah said as she glared and looked out the window of the Rec Room for a moment before looking at her friends and continuing with her pacing once again, she was going to make them dizzy soon if she kept on doing so. "We haven't known each other that long and we've only been dating officially for a month maybe, and really, aren't fights supposed to be after the 'honeymoon' period when you first start dating. Like three months in or something, I didn't think we'd be having such a big fight so soon into our relationship." She said and let out a noise that sounded like a half groan and a half growl of annoyance. "I'm not even overreacting, I haven't tried to blow him up or anything yet."

At that Remy couldn't help but give a sarcastic scoff which he had to quickly hide it with a cough when Norah turned her eyes to him, a steely look in them just daring him to counter what she had just said. Rather than wanting to argue with the girl that could teleport and blow things up with just the flick of the hand, Remy instead took on an innocent look and pretended he never scoffed at the blonde in the first place.

Looking towards his girlfriend, Remy whispered, "She is overreactin' a bit, oui?" he questioned with a raised brow as Rogue turned her green colored eyes to his black and red ones.

Rogue looked at her crazed friend for a moment, who was still ranting and raving about her boyfriend Pietro and her father, and then looked back at Remy and nodded slightly at him. "A little bit." She said and motioned with her thumb and forefinger a 'little bit'. "But Ah'm not gonna be the one to tell her. Once ya see what she can do with her power's she ain't someone ya wanna make angry at ya." She whispered to Remy.

Piotr, who had joined near the beginning of Norah's ranting and had been filled in by Kitty what was exactly going on and what got Norah so worked up, attempted to interrupt his friend. "Norah-" he attempted but instead Norah kept on talking and ranting and raving about stupid superspeeding men who didn't understand, about her asshole – her words – of a father and there were quite a few other choice words thrown out there as well.

"But still he-" Norah said without even looking at her friends.

"Eleanorah!" Piotr finally boomed, finally gaining Norah's attention after many attempts by himself, Rogue and Kitty.

"What?" Norah asked almost viciously, looking at him with a quizzical look on her face, wondering why exactly he interrupted her ranting.

In all the years that Piotr has known Norah, he has been there for her and has been her friend along with Kitty and Rogue he has never seen her act as she was now. He had never seen her get so worked up over a guy or get so angry, he knew that she cared a lot about him because of how much she was venting and complaining about the fight the two of them had, he could see how frustrated she was with the fact that the two had a fight about something that she thought was meaningless.

Piotr looked at Norah with serious eyes, "I know you might not want to hear this right now, that you are still angry from the fight you had with…Pietro?" he said making sure he got the name of her boyfriend right. "And I support you in whatever you choose to do when it comes to dealing with your birthfather, if you wish to ignore him and never see him for as long as you live then I will be behind you one-hundred percent but you need to see things from Pietro's perspective. You need to look at things from his eyes rather than your own." He said to her. "You are being a bit single minded and only seeing thing from your perspective, you know all the facts and know everything that happened that brought you to decide to not wanting to have a relationship with your birthfather but Pietro does not know. All he sees is a girl who does not want anything to do with her father who is trying desperately to have a relationship with her, all he is able to see is a man who he thinks is changed from the man he said he once was."

At that Norah looked at Piotr in frustration, "I know Piotr, I know that Pietro doesn't have all the facts or doesn't know everything that happened and I've tried telling him a little bit so he can get why I won't see or speak to Tom but…ugh, I don't know. It's not sinking in or something." She said and flopped down into a chair, an almost childlike pout on her lips.

"Norah," Kitty said to her softly as she looked at her knowingly. "Have you told him all that much about some of the things your dad has pulled, have you told him about all the times he left you alone when he was supposed to be watching you and spending time with you, about the times he let you down, about…..everything?" she asked.

Norah knew that she probably should have told Pietro more about the things her father has done but she just never did, never could really bring herself to talk about them because when she thought about those times she got depressed and bitter. Thinking about Tom and how no matter how hard Norah tried to be good enough and to impress Tom enough that he'd actually want to be a father and would want to spend time with her and Niki that it was never enough, that nothing she ever could do was enough. She remembered everything he ever did to her, every promise that was broken, every time he would go out with his friends to drink rather than spending time with her, she remembered everything that he did instead of being a father. It hurt so much to think that he never really was a father to her even when she tried so hard to be whatever she thought he would want in a daughter but the truth was that he never really wanted to be a father, and it hurt so much to see all these father/daughter pairs out having fun and being a family while she didn't get that. All she wanted was him to be a father and now after however many years of him not wanting to be a father to either her or Niki and years of her being out of his life he now wants to be a father. It just made her even more angry, bitter and made her want to just be swallowed up by the earth so she wouldn't have to deal with this shit.

"I know I should," Norah began to say, a somber look on her face as she looked at her friends in front of her and then out the window of the Rec Room. "I should talk to Pietro about all of this, tell him about everything my father has ever done, or rather not done but I just can't seem to bring myself to do it. I've told him the vague idea of the person he was, of what sort of father he was and how he's let me down time and time again but I just can't get everything out there. I'm afraid once he knows about everything that he wouldn't want to be with me anymore."

Hearing that made Remy burst out into laughter which had earned him hard glared from Kitty, Rouge and Norah, he responded by raising his hands innocently. "Remy mean no harm by dat, ah just can' help but laugh when yah say things like dat. Yah say yah are afraid he will not want to be with femme such as yourself when he finds out all about your père, but Roguie here say dat you and him faced Ultron together, dat you and other Avengers had fought and won. I think dat if he is willing to fight robot dat was tryin' to kill all us humans and Mutants alike dat he would not be frightened by what you tell him of your père." He said to her reasonably as he played with a deck of cards in his hands. "If dis boy like you as you like him den he will not be frightened away by dis."

Rogue nodded her agreement, "Like Remy said Norah, if this Pietro truly likes yah like you say he does then he won't be havin' any problem acceptin' you and your family problems and all, that is a part of havin' a relationship darlin'. I accept Remy for his faults," she said as she gently pinched her boyfriend's cheek with her bare hand – it took her a while but she managed to get control over her powers without the fear of accidentally killing someone with one single touch. "And trust me he has faults, a lot of faults and ah mean a lot." She said with a cheeky grin.

"I think dat she gets the point chere," Remy grumbled to Rouge, crossing his arms petulantly. "I do not have dat many faults as you say." He said quietly, his red and black eyes narrowing in annoyance.

Rogue turned and raised a brow to Remy, mimicking his crossed arms. "The crazy ex-wife, crazy ex-wife's crazy family, thief, gambling, being a swamp rat. I could go on." She told him.

Remy leaned over and stared into her green colored eyes, "Now, swamp rat isn't all that bad, is it. River Rat?" he questioned teasingly.

"Are you two going to kiss now, or what?" Norah asked in amusement as she watched her friend Rogue flirt with her boyfriend. "I just want to be warned, you know. So I can cover my eyes or something." She elaborated when the two turned and looked at her.

"Ah, shut your mouth." Rogue said and threw a pillow at Norah who just Blinked out of the way and sat over on the windowsill, an arrogant smirk on her face that looked very much akin to the one that Tony did all of the time. "Cheater!" Rogue accused. "Ah didn't use mah powers on you, so no fair for you to use your powers."

At that Norah stuck her tongue out at Rogue, "Poor sport." She responded, a teasing smile on her face.

"What are you two, five years old?" Piotr asked, a small hint of a smile on his face.

For a few moments the group forgot about the reason why Norah had come to them and forgot about all of the complaining and venting she had been doing about Pietro and about him not understanding her situation with her father, for those few moments they were a bunch of friends hanging out and teasing one and another. It was something that Piotr, Kitty and Rogue didn't get to do all that often, and Remy as well. They were with the X-Men and they had to go on missions once in a while and sometimes those missions led to injuries and when they weren't doing missions they were training or helping train the younger kids so there wasn't all that much time for socialization and just hanging out, especially considering the majority of people here at Xavier's were either five or more years younger than them or were their former teachers.

"Norah? Kitty questioned, an uncertain look on her face as she looked at her curly haired friend. "I'm not trying to offend you or make you angry so please don't get grr at me for what I'm about to ask you." She pleaded.

Hearing that Norah looked at Kitty oddly, wondering what exactly she wanted to ask her that might offend her without Kitty meaning to. "Okay." She said. "I'll try my best, but no promises." She stated.

Kitty supposed that was the best she was going to get and hoped to god that Norah wouldn't get too angry with what she was going to ask her, "Okay, um, so have you ever tried to see things from Pietro's perspective. To see how he sees this whole….situation thing that you have going on with your birthfather?" she asked her curiously as she moved to sit on the arm of the chair that Piotr was sitting in at the moment. "I mean you said that he lost his parents when he was young, like not even a teenager yet." She said continuing on before Norah had a chance to say anything or get offended at her as of yet. "From what you said he and his sister had a good relationship with their parents, loved them and miss them a lot. I mean if I was in his shoes I would give anything to see my parents again, I would do anything to see them again and seeing you act how you do with your own birthfather probably is like a slap in a face to him."

When Kitty said that Norah smiled sadly and closed her eyes for a moment before she said anything. "I hate that they saw how I acted to my father, I hate that they have to see how much I dislike and want nothing to do with my own father when they have neither of their parents. I'm not stupid, I do know how much that hurts them both even if Wanda is on my side and agrees with what I am doing to Tom. I wish there was another way to go about it, to save them the pain of seeing me avoid my father at all costs but there isn't. I didn't even want Tom to come but my Ma forced him to come, I'm pretty sure if she wouldn't have forced the issue that he wouldn't have. I just don't know what to do."

Remy felt sympathy for the girl, she seemed to be going through a lot at the moment. First she was in a fight with Ultron, was shot by him multiple times and somehow managed to survive injuries that could have damn near killed her, she's reunited with her mother and sister who she hasn't seen since she was fifteen or so and recently met her sister's husband and daughter and on top of that she is dealing with her birthfather who she had written off years ago and now she and her boyfriend are fighting about that whole situation. In all it seemed like a situation filled to the brim with stress.

"Remy does not know your father," Remy began, reverting to talking in third person, something which Rogue has been trying to break his habit of. "I was an orphan before my family took me in so I can't say much on my birth family, but it seems to me dat you have a lot of pent-up frustration, anger, and resentment towards your père, you is angry at him for not being there for you, for not being your père like other enfants had while growin' up, it is unfair that you had dat but maybe you need to talk to him. You don't want to talk to him but Remy think dat you may need to talk to dis père of yours, so you can move on with your life, so you can come to terms and move on. Remy can see dat even though you have decided to not have relationship with père that you is still affected by his negligence, you just push it to the back of your mind and don't think about it. Dat is not healthy."

As much as Norah wished she could deny what Remy said to her she couldn't, she couldn't deny that most if not all that he had said to her was pretty damn good advice and he hasn't even known her a day and he could see right through her it seemed. She wanted to tell him that he was wrong, that she wasn't still affected by her dad's abandonment and neglect, that she wasn't still affected by the memories of him cancelling or disappointing her yet again but she couldn't – her therapist had told her the same thing years ago. It was one of the reason's she stopped going, her stubbornness got the best of her and decided that her therapist wasn't worth her time if she was telling her shit like that about her birthfather. Even if the therapist was right.

"Well," Norah said suddenly breaking the gloomy silence that had settled in the room. "I think we can move on from heavy subjects now."

"Norah if you need to talk more we are-" Kitty began to say but before she could finish Norah Blinked herself over to Kitty and covered her mouth with her hands.

Norah looked at Kitty with a half-hearted smile, "I know, you'll listen and talk it out with me and all that jazz and really, I appreciate it and you guys have given me some awesome and really good advice but I need to think on things. Mull it over and whatnot, you know." She said as she moved her hand from Kitty's mouth and grinned at both Kitty and Rogue before she looked at Piotr and Remy. "Well boys, it's been fun but now it's time for girl time and you guys are so not invited, even if you do have the hair for it Remy." She said off hand to which Remy frowned and pulled at his hair. "So, buh bye!"

And with that, Norah grabbed the hands of Rogue and Kitty and Blinked the three of them out of the Rec Room and more than likely to one of the girls' rooms so that they can gossip and giggle like they were teenagers once again.

"What not even a kiss goodbye!" Remy yelled to the relatively empty room.

Piotr raised a brow at Remy, "You're not my type." He said with a small smirk on his face.

Rather than heading back to Stark Tower after she had a bit of time to cool off and think over everything that happened that day and to think over what Kitty, Rogue and the others had told her Norah instead opted to stay overnight at Xavier's. After all, it was home to any Mutant if they needed someplace safe to stay. It had been her home at one point, so why not just stay the night. She, Kitty and Rogue kicked Remy out of Rogue's room and told him to go bunk with Piotr or sleep on the couch, they were going to have a sleepover.

The sleepover was a success, they watched Netflix, watched old movies from when they were younger, listened to music, talked and gossiped like teenage girls and did each other's nails and everything and anything that a stereotypical sleepover consisted of. But Norah couldn't seem to fall asleep for more than a few hours, maybe it was from the stress of the day or hating that she and Pietro were in a fight about something she found small or just everything in combination. The fact of the matter was that she couldn't sleep which was how she found herself sitting in the kitchen of Xavier's eating strawberry ice cream out of the carton.

"I heard you were back." A voice said from behind Norah, making her jump and almost choke on the spoon that had been in her mouth at the time.

"Hank!" Norah admonished as the rather large and furry beast of a man came around and sat on one of the barstools in the kitchen. "Didn't anyone tell you that you shouldn't sneak up on unsuspecting people like that." She told him with a pointed look and then ate another spoonful of ice cream.

Hank laughed at the younger girl and gently tapped her on the nose as he would a misbehaving three-year-old, "Didn't anyone tell you, Ms. Norah, that you should eat ice cream out of a bowl and not the carton, other people live here that eat that ice cream you realize." He told her.

At that Norah rolled her eyes, "You realize that this carton isn't going to last to see another day." She said to him, a smirk on her face as she ate some more strawberry ice cream.

"Still as troublesome as you were when you lived here I see." Hank said as he grabbed an apple from the table with his blue colored hand and took a giant bite, his fangs showing and all.

Norah smirked at him playfully, "Like you guys would want me any other way, besides," she said with a teasing smile. "I'm keeping you guys young this way."

Hank shook his head at Norah, she always was a form of amusement at the school or at least she was once she got comfortable around everyone rather than being terrified if someone so much as moved a muscle. He was amazed at how far Norah has come since the first time he had seen her when she was fifteen years old, she had looked starved, terrified, she had a few injuries and needed a good soak in a bath to get all of the grime off of her. Hank remembered that they had to hold her down and sedate her just to make sure she was okay and that she didn't have any life-threatening injuries that need to be attended to immediately. It was during her examination that they found what exactly caused her injuries, something…..beyond horrible that he would never wish onto anyone, to any woman and definitely not onto a young girl of fifteen years age.

When they realized what happened to her Xavier arranged for therapy sessions for Norah twice every other week, that sort of event was not something someone just ignored and brushed under the rug never to be thought of again. Something of that scale needed to be dealt with, it needed to be talked about with a therapist who could help the person cope in a way that best suited them. It was definitely not something you just pretended didn't happen. There was a lot of anger, yelling, bitterness and fear when Norah had to go to those appointments; the only time she acted out when she first arrived at Xavier's otherwise she was rather quiet and reserved. It was a long healing process for Norah but eventually, with the help of the friend's she made at Xavier's, she managed to process what happened to her.

"You've changed my dear," Hank observed as he looked into Norah's dark brown eyes as she finished up the last bit of her ice cream. "I think for the better. You suffered when you were younger and still you were able to come out on top."

At that Norah just looked down at her hands and gave a shrug, "Yeah, well. Didn't have much of a choice. Either move on or wallow in my own pity. Doesn't seem like much of a life to just pity myself and feel sorry for myself for the rest of my life." she told him quietly, she didn't like talking about what happened and being reminded of what happened to her then, it's a subject she barely talked about if at all possible.

"No, it doesn't," Hank said in agreement.

He remembered Norah when she had first come to Xavier's, he remembered how skittish and terrified she was, how quiet and withdrawn from everyone she was, how she avoided contact with everyone and didn't speak up much if it wasn't absolutely necessary. Kitty had taken to her right away and wasn't bothered by the fact that Norah didn't talk much at first, she just told Norah that she talked enough for the both of them and somehow over the months Kitty, Rogue, and Piotr managed to befriend the traumatized fifteen-year-old. Now Norah was a strong, independent, fiercely protective, stubborn and hard-headed woman who wasn't afraid of speaking her mind and doing what was right.

"You've had to deal with a lot, and that….event was a lot and I just want to tell you that I'm proud of you. Of how far you've come with everything. Other's don't always adjust as well as you have." He said.

At that Norah smiled tightly, "I try not to think about it." She told him honestly and then stretched her arms up above her head. "Well, I think I'm going to head to bed now. I have to head back to the tower tomorrow before they decided to send a search party for me or something just as dramatic." She said.

"Good night Norah, I do hope you work things out with your boyfriend," Hank said to her.

"Seriously!" Norah said with a glare. "Does everyone have to know everything here." She said with a shake of her head as she left the kitchen and made her way down a hallway and towards a set of stairs that would lead her to Rogue's room.

Hank just chuckled in amusement, pushed is glasses up his nose and continued eating is apple. "Young people these days."

~_~_~_~_~_~_~ Author's Note ~_~_~_~_~_~_~_~_~_~

Sorry that it's taken me so long to put this out, I've been busy with life and stuff. So sorry.

All translations done by google, sorry about anything that is mistranslated.

Translations:

Ovo je glupo , glupo . Mi ne treba da se bori zbog ovoga . Prokletstvo. : This is stupid, so stupid. We do not need to fight over this. Damn it.

Svi ste tako komplikovano : You're all so complicated.

Chere: dear

Pere: father/Dad

Enfant : Children/Child