Chapter 5: Lovers and Brothers quarrel
The two boys glared at each other for a good while, Gavin's red wine colored eyes not moving from contact with Devin's silver ones. The older of the two outranked the younger in the height department, so Devin had to look up at him as he talked.
"So, I hear you're part of the Brotherhood of evil mutants." Gavin said as he crossed his arms.
"I am, and I'll prove who's better between the two of us." Devin declared with a determined look.
Gavin bent down to his brothers height and looked him dead in the eye. "Yeah, you probably will. But let me ask you something, at what cost?" Gavin challenged.
Devin faltered slightly, realizing his brother had a point, but kept his composure as he made his answer. "I'll achieve my goal by means necessary." Devin responded.
Gavin stood back straight again. "Then I hope you're ready to face the consequences of your actions when the time comes, little brother." He replied before walking off after Rogue, leaving Devin with his thoughts.
Luckily for Gavin Rogue was just finishing up packing. As she closed the door of her locker she saw him walking up to her.
"Hey, Rogue." He said as he walked up to her.
"Um… Do ah know you?" She asked with confusion, not recognizing him.
"I'll give you a hint: Alucard." Gavin replied with a smirk, showing his fangs in the process.
The girl's eyes widened as she gasped. "...Gavin?" She whispered with hope in her voice.
"Yeah, it's me." He nodded. "You okay? You disappeared the last time I saw you. You weren't hurt, were you? And how'd you get here?" He asked, wondering about all of this.
"My foster mom, Irene, brought me here." She told him. "What about you?"
"I'm living in the Xavier Institute for gifted youngsters." He explained. "It's basically a boarding school for kids like, ya know, us."
"You mean mutants?" She asked softly.
"Yeah. And there's another group that's around here called the Brotherhood, and from what I've heard, they're bad guys. So do me a favor, watch out for them okay?" He told her before looking at her with a pleading look. "I mean it, Rogue. Please, be careful."
Rogue looked at him and nodded. "Yeah, ah'll do that." She told him, easing his worries.
Right at that moment the bell rang and they started walking down the hallway as Gavin pulled out a schedule. "I got home room first in classroom 107, you?" He asked her.
Rogue pulled out her own schedule. "Same." She replied after looking it over. "Guess we got most of the same classes."
"Looks like it." Gavin nodded.
Meanwhile Jean was in the middle of breaking up a potential fight between her boyfriend, Duncan, and a new kid, Fred Dukes, who was a heavy set guy who had a Mohawk and wore a pair of overalls over a green shirt and had on a pair of black sneakers with untied laces.
Fred was currently about to hurl an entire row of lockers on Duncan and crush him with it like a bug. "Don't you make fun of me!" Fred yelled angrily as he readied himself to slam the lockers on the blonde football player, who was cowering in fear.
Jean ran up to them and got in between the two. "Hey, stop!" She said as she tried to stop the boy before he could do anything. "Hey could you please not hurt him? He may be an idiot, but he's also our star quarterback." She asked as Fred slowly started to calm down.
Duncan of course got the hell out of dodge and Fred slowly set the lockers down. "Well he shouldn't have made fun of me." Fred told her angrily.
"No, he shouldn't have." Jean told him, before noticing he had a schedule in his hand. "Do you need help with your schedule?" She asked.
"Uh, yes. Please." Fred replied.
Jean gave his schedule a look. "Okay looks like your first class is Chemistry II, which should be that way." She told him, pointing down the hall.
"Thanks." Fred responded before heading to his class. A couple hours later lunch time arrived and everyone was currently trying to get their food.
Gavin had brought his own lunch, which was a few slices of thin crust pizza that was cut into squares, a bag of Cheetos puffs, and two small cans of root beer. He was currently looking for a place to sit.
That's when he saw his brother sitting with two guys he had seen the Professor mention being part of the Brotherhood, one being Lance Alvers aka Avalanche, the other was Todd Tolansky aka Toad. Devin was eating out of a Bento box he had with him, being about a couple feet away from the other two.
"Okay, I think I'll avoid them." He said to himself before looking around and then saw Kurt and Scott, and since there wasn't anyone else around, he decided to sit with them.
As he sat down with the two he opened up his lunch box and got out his food, which was a pizza with pepperoni, onions, sausage and bacon, mushrooms and lastly jalapeños of all things. Gavin's mouth watered as he started to dig into it. "Jalapeña pizza, best stuff around." He grinned, his New York accident showing through like a bad makeup cover.
"Dude, you really need to learn how to get those fangs of yours hidden." Scott told him as he pointed at the boy's still visible elongated teeth.
"Oh. Whoops." Gavin got out before willing his fangs to retract.
"So, you adjusting okay?" The shaded teen asked. "Cuz I saw you had your 'bed' shipped down here for yourself."
"Yeah, it really does make me feel more at home." Gavin nodded.
"Vhat's good." Kurt smiled. "And… Did you see Rogue?" He asked in a low tone.
"Yeah, I did." He told them. "She seems to be okay. I also told her that she should be careful about the Brotherhood."
"Good move there." Scott said, nodding in approval of Gavin's action.
"Still, I'm not sure if that's really enough." The pseudo vampire mused as he continued to eat his pizza.
"Well, we can only do what we can." Scott shrugged.
Kurt nodded in agreement as he ate his lunch. As the three kept eating they saw a rather rotund boy walk in to order food, and then proceeded to have the lunch lady fill up his tray with every food that was offered that particular day, before he started walking to a table.
Kurt looked at the guy in surprise. "Hey, check out dat guy." He told his friends, pointing at him.
They turned to when he was pointing and were surprised at the sight of said boy and his tray of food.
"Yeesh, and I thought you ate a lot." Scott said, his eyebrows raised as he elbowed Kurt lightly. Both laughed as Gavin looked the guy over, he was definitely big, but something seemed familiar about him. Then it clicked.
"Hey… Isn't that the guy Logan and Jean went to see last weekend?" He inquired causing the two to stop laughing and think it over for a moment.
"... Hey yeah, you're right." Scott said in realization.
That's when they saw the guy accidentally slam into Duncan and cause food to fly all over the place. This covered both them and the floor, causing everyone to go into an uproar of laughter.
Duncan glared at the boy, Fred, as he wiped the food off of himself. "Hey, why don't you watch where you're going, ya big blob?"
Fred glared at Duncan before he threw him into the next table, causing food to fly everywhere and before anyone knew it, a food fight had started.
Gavin facepalmed and groaned. "Well, there goes my appetite, later guys." He said as he slowly dissolved into smoke and disappeared, no one else noticed this because he had disappeared through the air ducts.
(A couple days later)
A couple days after Fred first arrived, things kinda calmed down, but the weird thing was that the big lug had actually started taking a liking to Jean, having in fact tried (and failed) twice at trying to ask her out.
And as for Gavin and his twin Devin, the two had actually had a set of mellow interactions over the course of the week, though given that they were objectively on opposing sides there was still plenty of hostility.
And to top it all off, Principal Darklome had put Rogue on a very tight leash after she had found out that the southern belle had started talking to Gavin, which both teens really resented extremely.
Speaking of which, both Jean and Gavin were currently having to deal with their respective problems and each were honestly trying not to let it ignore them.
With Jean she was currently talking to Fred, who was-again-trying trying to ask her out, they were currently standing right next to a sight of school construction.
"Fred, I told you before. I'm already dating someone, I'm sorry." She told him.
"But why don't you try dating me? I'm sure I'm better than that Duncan guy." Fred protested.
Jean sighed. "Look, I'm sure you'll find someone that's for you, but I can't. I'm sorry." She told him as she started walking away. Fred suddenly grabbed her arm and as she tried to struggle, she telekinetically sent several bricks flying at him.
Fred growled as he held his arms up as he blocked the bricks. "You're just not going out with me so you can make fun of me, well, I'm not gonna take it anymore!" He yelled as he slammed his arm into one of the support pipes of the catwalk above them and caused it to crash down on top of Jean.
She was luckily able to stop it with her powers but the mental strain caused her to become weak and pass out. Fred then picked her up and then started carrying her off. All the while, he was seen by Devin and a very familiar red and white haired girl.
Meanwhile Gavin was looking for Rogue when he saw her rounding the corner. This caused him to grin as he ran up to her. "Hey Rogue!" He called as he came up to her.
The girl turned and saw him. "Gavin, Ah was looking for you." She told him.
"What is it?" He asked.
"It's your friend Jean, that guy Fred's got her." She revealed with an urgent tone.
"What?! Where'd he take her?" He questioned, fearing something really bad might have happened.
"An abandoned warehouse behind the school, you better get the rest of your friends and stop him." She explained.
"Alright. Thanks Rogue, I owe ya one!" He said as he dashed off to find the others.
Rogue sighed as she leaned against a wall, only to be scared to near death when a section suddenly separated, took a humanoid shape and turned a silver color before slowly morphing into Devin.
"Wha-What?!" Rogue gasped as she jumped back. Devin gave her a disapproving look while his skin rippled silver again.
"You are playing a dangerous game, helping my brother while being in the Brotherhood. Do you honestly think you can keep this up for long?" He questioned.
"Ah don't see how that's any of your business." She growled at the boy.
"I'm simply stating the facts." The yakuza boy shrugged. "Now that begs the question: Where exactly do your loyalties lie, Rogue?" Asked Devin as he turned to liquid metal again before slowly disappearing into a storm drain.
Rogue stood there as she watched him leave, his question fresh in her mind. Who exactly should she trust? She wondered. Hopefully, as things continued to unfold, she'd be able to find out soon.
(At an abandoned warehouse)
Gavin and the other had just suited up as they stormed into the building and Fred came storming out. Scott stepped forward and readied his visor.
"Where's Jean?" He growled, cranking the dial of his visor.
"Ha! Like I'd tell you!" The large boy laughed.
"Wrong answer." Scott said as he shot a laser straight at the Blob, sending him skidding back as it hit him in the stomach.
Fred quickly (or whatever counts as quick for him) raised his arms to block the beam. "Ha! You think that'll stop me?" He yelled as he hurled a giant generator at them. Kurt teleported out of the way and onto Blob's back, Gavin turned into smoke and reappeared in front of the guy with his sword drawn, Kitty phased through the floor and into the room where she thought Jean was, and saw her tied to a chair. The room itself was, oddly, set up like a date was going to happen.
As she tried to help the redhead out of her trap, Scott tried to blast the generator to avoid being crushed, but the resulting explosion caused him to crash into the wall and his visor was knocked off, the blow causing him to be almost unconscious.
Blob, meanwhile, managed to get Kurt off of him but then yelled in pain as he was slashed across the chest with Gavin's blade and then received a bicycle kick to the face from him, causing him to stagger backward. When he tried to charge at them, he was then blasted back by an extremely powerful laser blast. The two boys turned around and saw that it was Rogue, her eyes were glowing red and she was walking up to the three.
"Hey, ugly, didn't anyone tell ya not to pick on people who ain't ya own size?" She sassed at the lumbering mountain of lard.
"What are you gonna do? Knock me out?" He taunted as he readied to punch her.
"Nah. But tell me, did Mystique tell ya what my powah is?" She taunted back before dodging his punches and getting on his back before touching his face. "Mah power is your power and ah can take more than one!" She said this as she flipped him over her shoulder with his own strength, and hurled him into a wall, causing rubble to fall on top of him.
A few seconds later though Blob appeared again and didn't even look phased. "You think that can hurt me? I'm the blob!"
"Nah, yer just a piece of trash that wanted a date, and tell ya what? I'm taking you out!" Rogue yelled as she grabbed him again and hurled him into the air and blasted him with Scott's laser vision and sent him through the roof.
After all this, Rogue helped Scott get back up and put his visor on. "Sorry, I took your powers temporarily, you should be fine soon." She told him.
"Thanks for the help Rogue." Gavin said while smiling. "Looks like we all owe you one."
"Yeah… Ah guess ya do." She smiled back at him.
"You know Rogue, the offer to join us still stands, we'd be happy to have you." Jean tells her.
"Thanks, but I can't, not now at least. But I'll think about it." The pale skinned girl replied.
"Well, whenever it is that you decide you want to join us, our doors are always open." Scott said as he sat up.
"Yeah, I'll keep that in mind." Rogue nodded.