I do not own the X-Men. They are owned by Marvel and Disney. I only own the non-recognisable characters, like Alika (AL-ick-ah) and Beta (bet-AH)

If I did, Logan would actually be married to Storm, and have kids.

Chapter 1

Beta

The Man had hit her again. She hadn't answered him fast enough when he asked her if she had broken the cheap, knock-off vase that he had gotten at a garage sale ten years ago. She told him that she hadn't, but he didn't believe her, because he never believed her. The real culprit was his real son. He had been playing baseball in the house. She told him that, but her adopted father just scoffed.

He had said that his son would never play baseball in the house because breaking rules was something only mutants did. So Beta had simply said that his son must be a mutant. The mean, bald, fat man hadn't liked her saying that, so he slapped her to make her be quiet.

Now she was in the small room that her adopted family had provided for her, crying. She hadn't done anything wrong, but she was still being punished. It didn't matter if she was innocent. She was the different one, so, naturally, all the bad things in the world had to be her fault. Because she was a mutant.

She got up and locked the door, not wanting her adoptive brother to wake her up early just to be mean. He was always doing stuff like that. Beta didn't like him. She hadn't since the day she had come here after her mother had died.

Beta, or Bets, was four when her mom died from the brain cancer that had been eating away at her body and mind since before Bets had been conceived. Bet's mother had been crazy, hence the odd names of her and her sister Alika, or Ally. It had been three years since. When her mother died, Beta was placed in the foster system and adopted to this family. The family had been nice until her powers began to come in.

Beta missed her sister, and needed her to comfort poor, tired Bets. Drawing up an image of her sister, her pretty face, black hair with blond highlights, and everything else that she could think of, she thought hard on teleporting her sister to her. There was a puff of vanilla smelling gold clouds, and her sister was there, by her little bed, with a slightly annoyed look on her face.

"What's the matter, darlin'?" Ally asked, her annoyed, yet concerned tone matching her face. Beta could see why. It was the third time this week, and both other times Ally had been walking out in public. Beta could only imagine the panic the people had been in when the young teen had suddenly disappeared in a puff of vanilla scented, golden smoke.

"He hit me again," Beta informed her sister glumly. "This time it started bleeding." Ally sighed sorrowfully, but didn't bother to look for her sister's wound. It would already be gone, thanks to their healing abilities that they had inherited from their father, whom they had never met, even though the sisters were seven years apart.

This time it was Ally that closed her eyes in concentration. Two animals appeared out of thin air, a wolf and a cougar. "Do you want Wolvie or Cougy to stay with you tonight?" Ally asked, giving her sister a choice between her companions.

"Can't I pwetty pwease have both? I ain't gonna be able to sleep if I don't have both," Bets pleaded in her adorable adolescent voice. She knew her sister couldn't resist her request when she used that voice. She only used it for super special occasions. Like not being able to sleep, or to get ice cream. Beta LOVED ice cream.

Ally raised her eyebrows, but only said, "Fine, but just for tonight." To her companion, she said, "Keep her safe. Stop any intruders that try to get to her, unless they are blood kin to her." By this she meant only her, not realizing that this would be a huge mistake. There was another cloud of gold vanilla, and Ally disappeared, leaving the two feral animals to watch over her sister.

Beta laid back on her bed, facing the ceiling, the feeling of foreboding plaguing the child, making it difficult to sleep. She didn't want to be teleporting anything in her sleep, because that would just get her into trouble. Beta didn't like trouble. Ally said that trouble was a black cloud that seemed to follow their family.

A/N: Hello! I am back! If you have read this before, then it is because I had it on my old account, and am just now deciding to put it back up and such. I did change it up, and many chaps to come. I am sorry that it is such a short chapter.

~Wolfy~