Disclaimer: Don't own them, but today's my birthday, how about the WB gives them to me? No? Okay. Fine
A/N: So sorry this took me forever to add to! I had a huge block and I just got over it because I forced myself to write. I think I'm going to do that more often. Please review and I hope I haven't lost anyone. But anyways, in honor of my birthday, lol, here you go!
Lance, Todd and Wanda stood there, staring at the doorway, their mouths dropped open. In the doorway stood Scott, his arms crossed over his chest with Jean standing right behind him. Lance slowly raised his hand and shook his head.
"No. No way are you coming in here and telling me that you figured out everything." Lance growled. "Get out."
"Lanc-" Jean started.
"I said, get out. Did you not understand me the first time?" Lance said again, walking towards the door.
"Yeah, I heard you." Scott smirked, "But the fact is you need me." Lance looked towards Scott, brows raised as he smiled and started laughing. Todd and Wanda looked at one another and then back towards Lance.
"I need you?" He questioned, "You're saying that I need you?" When Scott started nodded, Lance grabbed his shirt and slammed him against the wall, causing his head to bounce back and forth a moment. "You listen to me Scott Summers, I will never need you or your damn little posse. You understand that?"
"Lance. Let him go." Jean cut in.
"You shut up." Lance said, "I don't see you ever defending any of my gang when he starts goin' off on us." Jean frowned and crossed her arms as she looked towards the two of them.
"You're right. I didn't help you when I should've, but slamming Scott against a wall and not paying any attention to what he has to say is going to do any good if you want to find Pietro." Lance sighed, loosening his grip on Scott's shirt before he turned to Jean.
"Listen, I don't really care what either of you have to say to me or to anyone else. I've tried and tried to get you to accept me, hell, I even joined your damn little X-Men, but still, nothing I do seems to change your opinion on me. Not even when I started dating Kitty did you give a damn. Why listen to you now?" Lance said, letting go of Scott.
"Because this is something that involves both sides." Jean murmured. "You said yourself Lance, something is wrong because Pietro's not around. And to be honest, I'm worried about Rogue."
"And you? What's in it for you Goggles?"
"Look, I really don't care if you want to listen to me or not. Fact is – Pietro's missing and if Mystique and Magneto have something to do with it, it involves the X-Men." Scott replied.
"And why the hell does it involve you Scott?" Lance argued, "You're not the one who's lost a team member."
"No. But if we don't do something, we might just lose Rogue and then Kurt goes to."
"So you're only interested in saving your own damn ass team." Lance growled.
"Would you stop for one second and listen to yourself Lance?" Wanda cut in. "My brother is missing, his girlfriend is worried sick and because of your stubbornness we might not be able to find him." Wanda crossed her arms, walking to Scott's side. "And that's something that I'm not willing to risk."
"Yeah, me neither, Yo." Todd said, walking towards Wanda before he looked towards Lance, "Look man, we gotta do something and doing something doesn't involve standing here. We teamed up with them once, we can do it again man. What's it gonna hurt?" Lance looked towards his two friends and looked back down towards the floor.
'What could it hurt?' He thought. It could only make their group non-existent. Lance always had the fear that one day, they would team up with the X-Men again and then from that moment on, the Brotherhood would no longer exist. Then again, Kitty always teased Lance of being paranoid.
"What do you know?" Lance murmured.
Rogue sighed as she stared out the window of the Institute. It was nerve racking just sitting there and not doing anything. She should be out there searching for Pietro, but before she could even move towards the door Lance had come in and talked with her and Kitty. Kitty then suggested telling Jean, who told Scott.
Then they scanned her memories, using Jean's powers.
That's how they knew that Mystique had been tricking her all along. Putting that together with what Lance had to say, it was only a matter of time before they realized that Pietro was missing.
Now all they had to do was find him.
Tabitha grinned as she walked through the gardens of the Institute, hands in her pockets as she danced to the latest song blasting from her headphones. She wasn't one to really listen to one specific type of music so it only seemed to fit that today was country. She laughed as she started singing along.
"Well I'm an eight ball shootin', double fistin' drinkin' son of a gun. I wear my jeans a little tight just to watch them little boys come undone." Laughing as she walked along the small wall that surrounded the pool she let the corner of her lip curl up as she saw Kurt lying next to the pool. What he was doing there she didn't really care. Time to have some fun.
Ducking behind the bushes, Tabitha created a small explosive and she rolled it Kurt's way, tossing it just hard enough for it to land in the water.
Boom.
"Tabitha." Kurt yelled out as the huge wave of water smacked him right on the chair he laid on. Tabitha grinned as she stood up and kept dancing a little as she walked up towards Kurt.
"You know I'm here for the party," She sang, "And I ain't leavin' till they throw me out. Gonna have a little fun, gonna get me some, I'm here." She trailed off before she leaned forward and kissed Kurt softly. "Heya Blue."
Kurt sighed a little and tried drying off a little as he rung his shirt out. Looking towards Tabitha he smiled a little as she took her headphones off only long enough for him to hear the tail end of the song she was listening to. "Hey Tabs." He murmured. Tabitha frowned.
"What's wrong Blue?" Kurt shrugged slowly as he watched her carefully. He grinned as he noticed Tabitha taking her CD player off and placing it to the side as she walked closer towards him.
"Oh nothing." He said softly. Just as Tabitha got close enough, Kurt looked up to her with an evil grin on his face as he grabbed her and jumped into the pool.
With Tabitha fully clothed.
Xavier sat in his office as he looked out the window, seeing Tabitha and Kurt getting along so well brought a smile to his face. He didn't even turn as the door opened and Logan and Ororo walked into the room. He sighed as he didn't bother turning around, knowing exactly what both were going to say.
"They got him didn't they." He said softly, turning his chair to meet their gazes, Xavier rested his arms on the sides and put his hands together, his fingers resting against his mouth. Logan crossed his arms as he leaned against the table.
"Yeah Charles, they got him." Logan growled, "Course I don't know what you're wanting to do about this. Those kids have already gotten themselves together to figure out how to get him out." Ororo sighed.
"They've already tried using Cerebro." She added as she sat down, her hands rubbing together.
"I know." Xavier said softly, "I don't think there's anything we can do that hasn't already been done. Besides, I know that the students here will want to prove themselves, maybe this is their opportunity."
"Charles, how do you expect us to sit here and not do anything? Those are our students out there." Ororo cut in, her gaze set on him. Xavier sighed.
"If there was a way for us to do something, I would've tried to stop this from happening. The point is, we knew this day was going to come. We knew that Magneto was going to try and divide the fight completely in half. Now, it's up to our students, and the Brotherhood to really decide what side they're on."
"Do you have an clue as to how bad that sounds Charles? You're sending them out to fight Magneto dammit." Logan slammed his hand against the desk, causing Ororo to jump slightly.
"And I know that Logan. I wouldn't have allowed things to happen this way if I could've figured out another way. You, of all people, know that." Logan rolled his eyes as he crossed his arms.
"Point is Charles, this is going to either break everyone or it's going to create one hell of a team."
"We're going to have to see then. In the meantime, we can just keep tabs on them, make sure that they don't do anything that could hurt anyone involved, especially themselves."
"How are we going to manage that without getting completely involved Charles?" Ororo asked as she pushed her hair from her worried face.
"Simple. Watching them."
Pietro felt his body and he felt every cut that tried healing, every bruise, and every broken bone. He knew that he had been in a battle. What happened in that battle – he had no idea. He just knew that his body felt like it was on fire and his super speed ability wasn't making the healing go any faster then it could. There was nothing more that he wanted at the moment then to just go back to sleep.
Except Rogue.
He'd been thinking about her. Dreaming about her if he could remember half the shit he'd been through. Whatever Magneto and Mystique had been doing to him, he knew that it was affecting his memory. But Rogue always remained constant in his mind. She'd come for him.
It was only a matter of time before she'd burst through those doors, wherever they were, with her stupid little X-Men team and she'd unlock the chains that held him down and she'd take him home.
Rogue would take care of him.
"Ah, you're awake." Pietro closed his eyes before he turned to look back at Mystique. It was hard for him to imagine Kurt coming from the thing that stood in front of him. She didn't even have a heart, it amazed him that she was still kicking. The old bitch.
"Yeah, so what? You gonna beat me a bit more and then leave me to rot?"
"Maybe." Mystique laughed a little and shook her head. "But then again, your father wouldn't approve of that. And I wouldn't want to disappoint him." She murmured, picking up another needle. "Just a few more of these, and you'll be ours Pietro."
He felt the needle slip under his skin and as he did, he shut his eyes and murmured under his breath.
"She'll come for me."
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