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"What the hell?!" Courtney said, completely confused and a little dizzy. The Brotherhood house was like a circus, except chaos instead of clowns and no ring leader. It was drasticly different from the Institute, because there Corky could hibernate in her private suite and no one would know the difference. "What kind of shopping and who, exactly are you? Or the rest of you?" She thought she was going shopping with Wanda and Noko, but now that the kid in need of Ritalin brought all three to the living room, she wasn't quite sure what the plan was.

OCC:Edited about Wanda and Noko

John glared deathglares at pietro and looked for his lighter. Noko slapped pietro's hand away. " listen boy. Im going shopping and im calling the shots So your welcome to go however.." she said pushing john back under the covers and throwing them over his head. Reaching up she started to rub the back of his neck from top of the covers. Soon loud snoring was heard. " forget you ever saw that pietro. " She said standing up. " now let me change. " she said walking into her closet turning on the light and closing the door. Looking around she finally settled on a green tank top. Black bootcut jeans and a silver snake bracelet. She dubbed herself suitibly slytherin. Walking out of the closet she grabbed a brush and hauled her curls into a ponytail with a green scarf. " there.. " she said streaching out. " first the mall. then Groceries. "

OOC: Regina forgot Morgan, Jacen, and our arbitrary NPCs Iceman, Kitty and Rogue smile

"It's that way," Penny pointed down the hall for Blair. There might be some other guys in there. She pointed down the girls side ala Wizard of Oz Scarecrow for Teagan (who left ala her previous post), "The girls room is that way. I'll see you guys around, there's always dinner around 6:30 downstairs... usually some kind of game going on outside too."

Penny went back to her room and caught up with Regina. She threw a few more things into her suitcase that was strewn on her bed, "So my dear sweet Regina, why did Porter look positively giddy when I saw him earlier? Are you holding out some information on me."

Regina blushed and Penny laughed knowing she was right that something did happen. Regina told her what happened after she had left the hospital room. Smiling, Penny gave her friend a hug, "That's incredibly sweet. I have to say he totally gave me a different impression about himself when he first came on board.... Guess this means now I have to discuss with him what his intensions are with my Regina."

Regina threw a pillow at her and gaped, "You behave! You're just as bad as Freya!"

Penny shook her head and grinned, "Not quite so suggestive."

"So what happened with you?" Regina picked up her purse and pointed to the time reminding Penny they needed to get to the store to shop.

Penny grabbed hers and thew it over her shoulder and sighed, "Nothing. Why can't two people be friends and not have the whole world comment?"

Regina rolled her eyes, "Please. Evelyn Chayse I know you better than anybody else here. I've never seen you jump to somebody's rescue so fast in my life."

Penny sighed feeling completely misread but kinda feeling that may have been a partial truth, "I would have taken a blade in the stomach for any of them..."

"Okay, then why did you invite him on vacation or to the prom?" Regina led them down to the garage where she opted for the driving this time, "You get to be Robin today."

"Holy unfair seating arrangement, Batman," Penny said and jumped into the passenger side of the car. She looked at Regina, "And why are you giving me the third degree today?"

[OOC: and the correct response from Ginko would be "because that's how you wrote me today, Jedi." smile ]

Regina laughed, "Because it's fun seeing you defensive."

Porter turned off the television when he walked past the lounge and Danielle was asleep, "Shame, funny movie."

The girl had done well and was positively exhausted. He picked her up from the couch and brought her up to her room. Shutting the door he said in, "Good work today Dani. You were a real X-Man today."

After he shut the door he went down to a teacher's meeting inside the professors office. Of course, Scott looked pissed off at the world and Porter was pretty sure it had something to do with what had just happened.

"We can't have a bunch of kids running around calling themselves X-Men..." Scott is such a whiney b***h, Porter thought when he was done speaking. The guy was only about 20 and had a lot to learn.

"Why, Summers, you afraid my team is going to show you up? You worried because they seem to jump into things that you won't touch?" Porter wasn't about to let the guy talk badly about his team.

Xavier chimed in, "Gentlemen, we are running a school here. Petty differences have to be left aside. We have quite a few new students now so we need to make sure things are run smoothly. Officially, I am making Porter's team an X-Men squad. I will not call the the Junior X-Men, but they will not function as the senior X-Men do. They are still training."

Porter nodded, "And my role?"

"Evelyn and Regina are officially the leaders of the team. Jonothan, I want you to help them train the team and to go on all field missions. You are more of a 'consultant' to the team. You will still serve as counselor to those who are in high school."

"At least this way the kids will probably try to stay 'in line' with us," Jean put her hand on Scott's shoulder, "That has mission was dangerous."

"They all are," Porter said.

"It's not bad. It's pretty homey." Teagan said, looking at Gen. She had a feeling she was going to enjoy staying here.

"Excuse me a second, I forgot something in the locker room!" She said, realizing she had left the clothes she had picked out sitting on a bench in the Girl's Locker room. She dashed down the hallway, walking into the locker room and collecting her clothes.

Finally, a place I can feel..normal. No one will treat me weird here. I don't have to be afraid of anything anymore. Everyone seems so nice. And Blair's pretty cool. Atleast we've got eachother to talk to. She thought, looking at herself in the mirror before walking back to her room.

Danielle woke up in her bed, 'Must have fallen asleep.' She thought. She made her way to the showers. "Hey Dani, Tomorrow everyone's going to the beach. Do you wanna come?" He asked.
Danielle turned around and saw Kurt. "Sure." She replied with a smile.
"Great see you there." Kurt said then walked off.
Danielle took a quick shower, then ran up to her room to pack.

Jacen was sitting at the kitchen table devouring a bowl of Lucky Charms. A simple luxury not offered in the squalor where he lived. And damn if he didn't enjoy a simple bowl of cold cereal.

"Stay here for a night and you make yourself at home," Wolverine said as he walked into the kitchen and grabbed a soda out of the fridge. Jacen didn't say anything, instead he focused on finishing up his food in front of him, before pouring himself more cereal.

"Not talkative today, kid. Something's bugging you," Logan said as he sat down across from where Jacen sat and popped open the can.

"What? Can you smell that on me or something?," Jacen said with no small hint of sarcasm in his voice.

"It's written all over your face."

"Oh. Yea....I can imagine," Jacen said before taking another loving spoonful of cereal and eating it. "And I'm sure you're not going to leave until you bother me about what it is, right?"

"Nope. Your business is your business," Logan said as he pulled a cigar out and lit it. Jacen realized for the first time in awhile that he'd been without a cigarette in a few days. And he didn't feel any weirder. "I can tell you though, people getting in someone's head and toying around is not fun. I've been in the same place you've been."

"I know," Jacen said, "Magneto has files on the X-Men. They are especially detailed, the senior members." He quickly drank up the milk in his bowl and wiped away some of the excess that dripped from his face.

"So what are you going to do now? Go back to the Brotherhood?," Logan asked.

"If nothing else than to pick up some of my things. It seems Penance wants me to go on this beach excursion with everyone else," Jacen said with a sigh. "I think all I want is some solitude."

"That's not a good gig to have, bub," Logan said as he exhaled a rather exorbitant amount of smoke. "You stay in solitude too long, especially with the friends you have here, you'll truly find yourself alone."

"I'll take that into consideration." Jacen stood up and took care of the dirty dishes in front of him, and Logan noticed that Jacen was still limping around, and was going to be for awhile.

"Hey. Kid. You need a ride back to your place?"

".........Sure. It'll save me from limping around town barefoot. Let's go."

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In a matter of moments, Jacen found himself being dropped off at the front door of the Brotherhood house. When Jacen stepped out, he had a sinking feeling in his gut that he could not explain. Before he headed to the door, he turned and told Logan, "Wait here.....I have a feeling I won't be long. And I think it'd be best if I were at the Institute when everyone leaves for this trip...." Logan grumbled a bit about having to wait, but threw the car into park and sat there diligently. And Jacen limped back to his home.

When he walked in, he heard a loud squabble of people. Pietro was mobilizing a trip to....the grocery store? Jacen blinked once. Then again. Here was the person that was supposed to lead the Brotherhood.....telling them that they were all going to the mall and grocery shopping?

He snarled to himself, knowing there was a great rage buildling inside of him. He could feel his heart racing and a cold sweat formed in the palm of his hand. <******** them," Jacen said as he walked through the living room where everyone was standing.

"Excuse me? ******** whom?," he heard someone say out of the group. Jacen didn't answer them at all. He just trudged up the stairs to his room to pack his things. When he got to his room, he noticed that alot of his things were thrown to the far side by where he kept his uniform and saw that there was someone else inhabiting his area. Not kosher. <******** bastards," Jacen said rather loudly as he rifled through the piles of his clothes in the corner of the floor. After about ten minutes, all of his things were accounted for, and he had his duffle bag out ready to be packed. As he packed, he looked at his weapons; the gauntlets that Magneto had custom built for Scion. He remembered what he said when he left for prom that night....and he wasn't about to be caught without them again. He decided to pack them and his cloaked uniform as well.

Before he left though, he took it upon himself to quickly change out of the training uniform that was given to him by Penance and actually get into his own clothes; a pair of baggy cargo shorts, a black tank top, some heavy socks, and a pair of boots. He would have been mistaken for a Neo-Nazi...if he didn't have his somewhat shaggy long hair. Again, as he was leaving, he was sidetracked, and remembered the card that Emma gave him a few months ago. It took him a bit due to everything thrown around on the top of his dresser, but damn if he didn't find it. And as he left, he slipped the card into his backpocket and headed down the stairs.

As he walked through the living room area, he noticed a few of his 'friends' looking at his bandages with wide eyes. "Yea. This is what happens when you get mind ******** and your friends leave you for ******** dead," Jacen said rather loudly at those who stared at his wounds. At this point, he was positively livid and about ready to rip off all the house's inhabitants heads off, even the new girls he saw standing around. "And you know what? I'm done with you idiots." Jacen didn't even say another word as he stormed out of the house. His choice was made, set in stone, and he was going to live with the consequence. He'd die eventually, but damn if it would by Magneto's order of execution.

Harshly, Jacen slammed the door of Wolverine's vehicle and said only, "Drive. I want to get the ******** out of here."

"Come on, Reg. Gotta claim a window seat," Penny dragged her suitcase into the hallway. They were running somewhat late. Being on time wasn't exactly one of their strong suits, "Swim suit, check... shorts, skirts, tops, bras, underwear, sandles, running shoes, shampoo, brush, conditioner... check check check. I know I'm forgetting something."

"We always do. sun screen? Or do you want to be a lobster this summer?" Regina teased, thinking of other ideas.

"Lobster, bad idea," Penny put her room keys between her teeth and grabbed the bottle that was prominantly sitting between the door. She muttered, "Purse." and grabbed that.

"Very bad idea. Though, the aloe treatment I could get afterwards would be nice..." Regina laughed at herself. "I'm such a dork..."

Penny laughed putting her keys back in her hand and locking their door, "Be good. There are no cold showers on the jet."

"Hey I am being good." Regina returned. "It's you and Freya putting all these naughty ideas into my head, it really is." Though she knew it wasn't it was at least nice to think she wasn't a total in the closet pervert.

Penny really laughed that time, "Hey hey hey, Freya is in a class on her own on that one... okay you caught me there. Oh crap, we forgot we had to meet Porter... I mean Jonothan... you think he'll mind if we pow wow on the jet?"

"We're already half way there. It'd be pointless to backtrack just to meet up with him." she shrugged, though she would have liked to do just what she logically said was a bad idea. "Our cases are getting heavy."

Penny dragged hers behind her and just about ran herself over down the steps, "Who knew I could pack so much. You know, we're going to have to make vacations a regular occurance now that we're done with school. This is completely too much fun already."

Regina laughed, nodding and pushing her own suitcase down the stairs. "Back away from the stairs, incoming!!!" she shouted a warning, glad that no one was there. "We'll probably end up on training missions more than vacations... from now on. It's only one more step till we're xmen..."

Penny thought about that for a moment and frowned, "Honestly, I don't know if I want to be one sometimes... if it means being a p***k like Summers."

"I think you and Jonothan have that in common. I've heard him bicker with Scott at times." Regina pressed the elevator button that got them to the secret room under the institute that housed the XJet. "Can't believe we're taking htis to our vacation spot."

Penny leaned against the elevator wall and watched the numbers light up on the display, "I don't think putting all of us on a commercial flight would have been an easy thing... for some reason I can just see Bobby Drake frosting something over, Kurt going poof out of the plane... we'd wind up detained by the FBI or something."

"Oh. good point... but won't the xjet be kinda... obvious?" Regina asked, yawning.

The door opened to mad chaos... of Kurt teleporting and Bobby Drake freezing something over and joked, "Huh, seems I have precognition too. I'm sure they've got it handled... otherwise we can just have the guise of rich spoiled brats who have their own private jet."

"Oiiyyy..." Regina sighed, watching the gathering. Gen was in a corner simply watching Bobby. "I think Gen has a crush... they did go to prom together."

"That's sweet," Penny watched Gen for a bit as they decended down the stairs, "I wonder how she's holding up."

"ANYBODY UNDER THE AGE OF 18... WHICH MEANS ALL OF YOU, GET YOUR LUGGAGE ONTO THE JET FOR THE LAST TIME OR WE ARE LEAVING YOU," Porter managed to yell over the choas looking completely exhasperated. Whoever thought it was a great idea to give away a trip to a group of teenagers was insane. Seeing Regina and Penny he walked over and took both of their bags for them.

"I'm 19." Regina said with a grin. "Thanks, those were getting a bit heavy... can you handle them?"

Porter gave a fake insulted look, "Will you relax and let somebody be chivilrous for once."

Porter walked off and Penny slung her purse over her shoulder again, "Oooo... you found a good one Regina."

"I'm not used to chivilary..." Regina muttered, following with a small over the shoulder bag that held a book and some snacks. "But it's kinda neat."

"Hey," Penny said abruptly and pointed at him and he was loading their bags up into the jet, "He doesn't have his glasses on."

Regina blinked. "You're right... think he'll be okay...?"

"That's just weird... I'm sure wouldn't be doing that carelessly," She shrugged and took a head count. Just about their entire group was there, "Oh boy, this is trouble waiting to happen."

"Our entire group, two extra... hey, where is Jacen? he is coming right?" Regina asked, looking around and noticing they were short Freya and Jacen.

She bit her lip for a second and looked around. She was actually diappointed he wasn't there yet but did realize that she wouldn't blame him either for making a swift exit from the Institute if he had, "Yea, he said he was. I'm sure they'll pop up. We have a bit...."

Regina nodded. "I'm sure he's just getting some things from the brotherhood house. Nothing to worry about. I mean, he didn't have any clothes or shades here." she stated, trying to reasure penny.

"Oh god... I'm sure that will go over well," Penny shook her head and stuck her foot out to trip up Bobby Drake as he sledded by the two of them, "No ice tracks by the jet, Bobby."

Porter came down from the jet and leaned on a pillar near the girls, "Hey, the only thing I wanted to talk to you guys about was the team. Xavier wants you two to lead it... be like a junior X-Men squad."

"Us?" Regina blinked, and then looked at Penny. "I guess we sorta do it anyways, might as wel make it official."

"Yea, well, I'll still be hanging out with your craziness... and don't expect this to mean you're seperate from the X-Men. After hte last few days, they may reign in the leash a bit... but of course, you guys have a better head on your shoulders than some people," Porter, of course, motioned towards their dear old friend Scott Summers who was looking particularly cranky, "Just do what you always do."

"Go our own way but always think about everyone on the team." Regina said. "Got it. Why does scott look so ticked off today?"

"Cause you didn't invite him?" Porter shrugged. Penny had to interject with the obvious rude comment, "Cause Jean didn't give him any last night."

Regina snickered. "You two are horrible... But so true. In any case, we'll wait a bit and see who else shows up." She glanced at Porter, actually meeting his eyes and surprised to find that nothing happened.

Porter caught himself instinctively looking away. It had been a trained reaction for so long. He smiled at Regina, "Yea, I'll explain that to you later. Listen, I need to get back into the jet and make sure we have everything and everybody before we go. I was a nice guy and saved you both your favorite spots on the jet."

"Awesome... thanks." She smiled back and watched the rest of the students as they got ready to go.