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Sarah was grinning at Victoria even as she got another snowball ready. Once that was done she threw it at her. "Oh come on now Victoria...don't be such a grouch." She said and her grin widened as Rogue grabbed up some snow and armed herself. With a laugh Sarah vaulted down the stairs and scooped up some snow herself. "What if I do? What then?" She asked Rogue.

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"Afternoon Markie." Lizz said as she waited for her soup to be done. She groaned and got up excusing herself. Once out in the hall she blew her nose again. Returning to the kitchen she disposed of the used tissue and washed her hands.

Shandra walked over to the window and opened it up. Almost cringing she grabbed some of the snow that was on the seal. She looked at it and decided against it. It didn't matter if people could detect her right now anyways.

She strolled back over to the fridge and pulled out a carton of eggs and a few pounds of beacon. She brought out two large skillets and started on the eggs. She made four sunny side up, four over-easy, and the remaining sixteen were made into scrabbled. The bacon she just cooked until it was done and put everything onto two serving trays.

She picked up an over easy egg and a few pieces of bacon to go with her strawberry drink before going back over to the window seat and starting on her small meal.

Conner left Becca entering the Prof's office and made his way to the kitchen, it looked like someone had already made herself breakfast. Conner didn't recognize her, but that didn't surprise him, if he wasn't stuck in his room studying or in the hanger and garage working he was down town grifting.

Conner didn't feel like cooking anything so he grabbed an apple and a bottle of water and sat down at the table. He took out a notebook and pen, flipped the book open and began to tick off all the Velocity's electrical systems that had checked out, the list ran through a quarter of the book and most of it had checked out, he sighed and began mentally adding up the time it would take to take apart the whole command console and check everything; on his own he reckoned that he would be finished inside of two days, if he was lucky.

The quiet of the kitchen made Conner wonder where the rest of the institutes occupants were.

'What's school going to be like?'

She drew her legs to herself and sat silently, looking out the window into the snow. She kept drumming her fingers against her leg and humming quietly so she wouldn't turn invisible. She really did have to work at that if she wanted to actually sit in classes once more. Shandra knew she had a problem in her educational fulfillment section of her life because, sadly, the teachers would mark her absent from class when she wasn't.

'It's my fault that I forget to move differently every now and then...they stop detecting me when I forget to fidget.'

She turned her eyes to the new person that walked in, noticing that he had just grabbed a piece of fruit.

"If you wanted some eggs or bacon...there is some on the stove, I made it for anyone who wants some," Shandra said after she had swallowed her yolk covered piece of bacon.

The person at the table was working on something, she figured, and it took a lot of his attention. She had never seen him around before but then again, she hadn't been around long either. Shandra had to wonder, though, just what he was working on. She always was the curious type even though she told herself that curiosity could be a bad thing among so many people who were made out of secrets.

Shandra got up and set her plate in the sink and went back to the window alcove.

"Soup's almost ready, so that should thaw you out," Morgan said, stirring the contents of the pot periodically, so that everything didn't settle to the bottom and get stuck.

"Get your bowls! Soup'll be done in a minute or two, so have your dishes ready," he said, taking a sniff of the broth. "Ah, chicken noodle. Nothing quite like it on a cold day," he said.

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"Oooh, soup time now, yes?" David said, somehow managing to hear Morgan from the other side of the house. He was getting better at picking up sounds and other vibrations from the air, but he was far from perfecting this ability. At the most, he would usually pick up just a few words here and there. Fortunately, the words "soup" and "done" were the words he happened to pick up this.

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"Yes, just about. Get your bowl," Morgan said, glancing over at David, who had poked his head into the kitchen once more.

Conner looked up at the girl when she spoke.

"I'm fine hen, I don't tend to eat much when I'm working and I've got to get back down to the hanger in a minute." He flipped over a page in the notebook and started to plan up his nights work also, he started it with 'lock picks' and went down the moral ladder from there. "So how you finding the institute?" He asked the girl.

"Good afternoon," came the Professor's cool and collected voice as his newest recruit made herself known just outside his office. He could not help but chuckle inwardly as she peaked in, just barely, from around the heavy, oak door. The two had yet to meet face to face, so it was quite obvious the young female did realize what his own abilities were: The Professor knew who she was a that she came to see him long before she stepped into the X-Mansion's vast ground.

"You wished to see me?" he said, and motioned to the lush chair just across from him, on the opposite side of his desk. "Please, have a seat, Rebecca, and make yourself comfortable."

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"Well," thought Victoria aloud, and she flung a few more snowballs at the X-Mansion to keep herself occupied. "Save for the adults, there's really no one else here, is there? So," she continued slowly and glanced at Sarah and Rouge on occasion, to see if they could guess what she was insinuating. "How's about we cruise over to a particular part of town in search of worthy victims?"