Pietro walked into the den. The X-Men, New Mutants, and Brotherhood were there.

"Hey," said Pietro.

"Hey," said Wanda. "How do you feel?"

"I'm fine. Was I. . altered?"

"No."

"We saved you just in time," said Lance.

"That's good."

"There's something I need to ask you," said Scott.

"Shoot."

"You spent a lot of time with villains to know how their minds work, right?"

"Yeah."

"Then, did you know Sinister wanted you to come after him?"

"I did."

"Then," said Jean. "Why did you go?"

"Why did you want to save Scott and Jean?" asked Evan. "What? Did you want a challenge like you always do?"

"No," snapped Pietro. "I went because. . ."

"Because why?" asked Ororo, softly.

"Becuase I felt it was my fault. And because I knew my dad would never save anyone and don't want to end up like him. And I did it because I know they'd save me."

There was silence.

"Facing danger even when you know you may not make it out," said Logan. "You're X-Man material."

"Yeah, well," said Lance. "He's coming back to the Brotherhood."

"Yeah," agreed Todd. "He stayed here long enough, yo."

"Let's go."

The Brotherhood, minus Pietro, headed to leave but him.

"Pietro?" said Wanda.

"I've been thinking and. . I don't want to leave."

"WHAT?" exclaimed Lance, Todd, Fred, Megan, and Evan.

"You high, yo?" asked Todd.

"You can't stay here!" cried Megan.

"Why would you want to stay?" asked Fred.

"Leave!" yelled Evan. "Go back with them!"

"Tro, why would you want to stay with these losers?" asked Lance. "Gimme a good reason why you want to stay."

"Because I don't want to be evil," said Pietro. "I don't want to end up like Magneto or Sinister. Plus, here I'm safe from them."

"He's right, Lance," said Wanda. "There's less of a chance either of them will get him here."

"But," said Todd. "But you're our brother! We're the Brotherhood!"

"I'm still you're brother, Todd. I just won't live in the same house anymore."

"I understand," said Lance. "Take care."

"You too," said Pietro.

Their knuckles clashed together.

"Bye, brother," said Wanda.

"See ya, sister."

Pietro gave his twin a hug.

The Brotherhood left. Evan went into his room and slammed the door.

"It'll take awhile for him to get used to this," said Kurt.

"That's fine," said Pietro.

"Welcome to your new life," said Scott.

I'm going to end the story here because I'm having some writer's block. I might start up on it again or write a sequel.

Right now, I'm going to try and write some new chapters for my story Meet The Children. And I'm working on a new story too.

Hope you enjoyed this story.

Thanks for reading.