I don't own X-men, but regardless the original characters that I'll be using in here do belong to me.

Dun dada dun! Chapter forty, the long awaited encounter with daddy. Read and see if it ends pretty ~doubt it, highly doubt it~

Shout outs!

Kali3110: You're so cute! I love that you wish to kill him, I would love to see the mob of readers in attacking my characters.

Firewhisperer: Lessee... Sparky is sweet under it all, she's just over the top in everything. Just wait til' you see her really angry, like... about Naomi's dad. lol. Okay, so the reason she's scared of her dad even though she's gotten stronger is cause in her mind she doesn't think she's strong enough yet cause back then she had her powers and her dad still ended up with all the power in that situation so somewhere in the back of her mind Naomi's scared that it doesn't matter how stronger she gets her dad would still end up with the power. Its true that she'd probably end up in social services, that's probably why her dad would just move away and vanish. So here comes the battle!

Chapter 40

Hank spent most of the rest of the day on the phone. Naomi, not one to stay still asked Siren and Sparky if they could help her with something. Rune was barred from following them downstairs into the training room. Though annoyed at this Rune couldn't get down the stairs. Mara, or Granite was standing at the doors with a book for herself to pass the time. Rune decided not to try getting hit by a her and went out to the garage.

Circuit passed him on his way out, he paused and looked Rune over for a moment, "You are annoyed."

"And you're not Hart." Rune replied shortly. He pulled out some of the tools and started working on taking the flat off the motorcycle that he hadn't changed since the dance. "Where are you off to?" He didn't really care to learn.

"Taking Curse to a movie." Circuit replied smiling. "I heard there was stuff going on in the main house."

"Yeah... lots of shit going down." He sighed and leaned on the bike, "You like Curse right?"

Circuit blinked, "Well, yeah. Why?"

"Would you try and keep her safe, even if she was probably hurting herself?"

He walked closer to Rune, "What's Naomi doing?"

The lights in the garage flickered then floated the two boys into complete darkness for a moment before turning on again, "Something with Sparky." Rune replied looking at the lights, "and that isn't a good sign." They both went toward the house and to the basement door, there was a small crowd of people standing there. Including Storm, Wolverine, and Beast.

Mara stood resolutely in their way against all manner of threats. "They told me not to let anyone down until Siren gives the okay."

"Then you know what their doing down there, Mara if they're doing something dangerous you have to let us go down there." Storm replied, "What are the three of them doing?"

Her phone went off, she held up a finger and answered the phone. "Yeah?" The person on the other end chatted with her for a while, then she nodded, "Alright, yeah, sure." She closed the phone and turned to the gathering, "They're done for now." She wiggled her way through the crowd as they tried to go down the stairs and she headed for the kitchen, they'd grabbed her just before she'd made her lunch she was starving.

When they opened the door Naomi was laying on her back staring at the ceiling, Siren was squatting next to her talking quietly and Sparky was leaning against the opposite wall panting.

"What in the world were you doing down here?" Storm yelled, her voice echoing.

Naomi rolled her head to look at the crowd, all but the roots of her hair was white, and all the skin they could see was glimmering black. She sat up, Siren gave her a hand in standing. "If you've got to punish someone, then punish me. I'm the one being reckless, they were just helping me."

"With what Naomi?" Beast asked, from behind him the kids were all trying to look over his massive blue form to see what was going on, Rune went past them and into the control room for a better look, as well as to look at the tapes.

"Defense," Naomi stated. "I got done what I needed to get done so I'm going to my room. You can text me my detention date if you want."

She walked past them all without another word, Hart shouldered his way into the room and went over to Sparky. The two of them spoke in soft tones for a moment then he gave an annoyed look at Siren then in the direction of the vanished shadow walker.

Wolverine walked over to them, "What did they do?"

Hart sighed, "Siren was singing, that was why they didn't want anyone else down here."

Sparky tugged on his arm, "You can't tell them anything!" She hissed, "You'll ruin it."

"What did you do to make the power go out?" Wolverine asked her.

"She threw a ball of compressed lightning." Rune said loudly walking into the room. "It hit the wall and disrupted the electricity." He leaned his head toward the control box, "I saw it on the recording." He then walked away up to the first floor.

Wolverine began sorting out the punishments for Sparky and Naomi, the other two didn't do anything really life threatening, though Mara may just get detention for blocking the way.

Naomi worshiped her shower for a good hour or more letting the cool water run over every inch of her black skin. There were lancing marks on her skin where Sparky's attacks had hit and burned the skin. She was glad they'd waited for the smell of burnt skin to lessen before calling Mara. Wolverine likely smelled something but she was glad he didn't say anything.

She ran her hands through her hair repeatedly and washed herself multiple times. By the time she exited the shower it was almost dark out. She hadn't been aware of the passage of time since going down stairs. He'll be here tomorrow... she thought to herself. Was she going to be strong enough this time? Would everything she just worked on be for nothing?

"I watched the recording."

Naomi held her towel tightly around her and turned to the door, it was open but no one was there. She bit her lip then closed the door, she hoped Rune would forgive her for keeping him out. He would of stopped them before they'd even started if he'd heard what she'd done. She changed into her pjs and climbed into bed, exhausted. "Don't be mad..." she whispered.