1

X-23 stood at the main entrance to the professor's ancestral home. She hugged herself, uncomfortable in the sheer and translucent cloth top. Not because it was not opaque enough for modesty's sake: it was. But because of how easily it could be cut through. The same for her cloth leggings leading to a short skirt and belt combo that said "punk rock" louder than the worried frown on her face could.

Rogue stood at the main entrance to the professor's ancestral home. She hugged herself, uncomfortable in the heavier leather bomber jacket: a replica of the brown with X insignia one Scott had taken to wearing all the time. Thick, cut resistant pants and gloves with combat boots allowed her to keep her dangerous skin covered without using her regular wardrobe to be as darkly intimidating as it typically was.

Jean stood inside the mansion's entry hall shaking her head.

"What's bothering you?", Kitty asked between bites of an apple.

Jean was about to answered but then caught the thought that Kitty was the one person she wouldn't have to explain this situation to. Or at least shouldn't. Maybe she should start just reading people's minds casually instead of getting the wires crossed with stray images.

Kitty looked back at the two girls. "Yeah, so?

"Sure it's their first date. Maybe they can support each other."

"You know about this?", Jean asked incredulously.

"Sure I do.", the brunette assured. "I helped pick out their clothes."

"What made you think that it was a good idea to support them both going out with Toad simultaneously while dressed like each other?"

Kitty's apple hit the ground with a thud as her eyes blinked and watered. "What what what with who and how now?"

2

Todd tried to smooth his hair with a comb. It didn't work. He held out a palm to spit in.

"I will beat your amphibian ass.", Wanda informed him.

The boy waggled his eyebrows in the mirror. "And here I was saving up to pay you for it, be-utiful."

Pietro materialized next to him. "What'stakingsolong?Getmoving!"

"Okay, okay.", the slower boy replied. He looked back at his reflection.

"Do you think X-23'll like this shirt?"

The Maximoff siblings looked at each other. "Who?"

"The girl I'm going out on a date with.", Todd said slowly.

The two shook their heads in unison. "Rogue's the one girl that managed to stomach asking you out.", Wanda told him.

Todd froze. "Huh, I do remember that. Man, I am a stud, yo. At least that's on Saturday."

A breeze later and Pietro was holding a calendar in front of Todd. "That's why Lance is lending you his jeep, remember?", Wanda continued.

Todd looked Pietro right in the eye. Then (possibly for the first time), he looked Wanda in the eyes without so much as dipping beneath her neck. He then turned back to his own reflection.

His reflection shrugged back at him.

"I guess that's that.", Todd lamented. "Time to split."

In a single leap he was at the window. Pietro managed to grab the squirming Todd before he could leap away. "Lemme go! I don't wanna die! You can't make me!"

"The hell I can't.", Wanda replied. "You are our 'in'. And that means you will drive Lance' jeep past that mansion's security. You will take some of the X-geeks away from that said mansion. And you will do nothing that says anything other than that you are very thankful for the opportunity bestowed upon you."

"What opportunity is that?", a stock still Todd asked.

"Keeping my boot off your backside, Toad!", Wanda screeched.