Gym class roll call!

[Frostbite]

Lorelai grew silent as the class officially started, her eyes darting over toward Ian’s way as she couldn’t help hearing him talk to his demented Barbie doll, and her eyes narrowed. Ignore ignore ignore best you can do is ignore him. She saw how the others were getting riled up by how Rumble was talking about Aideen. Though she didn’t prefer to take part in making him stop, she just continued feeling sympathy as Lorelai still thought she didn’t get a break. However as she saw her come to class dressed like she was- different than normal- it only made it more obvious why she didn’t. That won’t help her case exactly, but she can handle it. Rumble is freaky with a pinch of scary so I still sympathize.

She saw Ian wipe his mouth out of the corner of her eye and she almost smirked. Hope he gets distracted by that enough to cheat on her too. He’s not even worth it so why should I be bothering? Oh, I know. Cause like a dumbass I like him still and am forced to see him every day. Ok. Ignore. Jumping jacks. Focus. As Ironclad barked out the orders to count aloud while doing jumping jacks, she followed suit with everyone else and counted out loud, though not as loud as other people. She wasn’t in the mood to yell out numbers, and she refused to go any louder than she was as she counted in her head as well.

[Haven]

"Eh?" she looked over to where Diesel's eyes had fallen and saw her best friend and room mate walking out into the courtyard to join her team. Ian had a point, she did look O.K...better than O.K. actually, and Niki smiled at the scene. She saw the subtle interplay between Logan and Aideen for what it truly was- pure unadulterated flirting.

"Yeah..." Haven tried to play cool and have a little fun with her guy since she had been around and knew that men loved the fantasy of two girls together she thought she would have a moment of fun saying "she walks around like that or wearing even hotter stuff when it's just me and her...alone.." she looked over at him and licked the corner of her mouth seductively with her tongue "...at night in our room." She held the facade for a moment more before grinning at her man to break the illusion.

"Yeah, but seriously honey, she looks OK now but that punk ass-" and as she was about to say his name Brock stepped out of ranks to follow after Ember like a dog in heat looking for a leg to hump. "-what the hell!! LOOKIT That freakin' douche-bag !?!" she said and pointed at Rumble. "I swear to God Ian, this ends today."

[Wolverine]

Seeing Aideen as she flowed out of the front of the mansion and smelling her scent Logan's mind drifted back to earlier in the morning, when she was his and he had done amazing things to that body of hers. She was young and lithe and strong and could handle what he had done to her...barely. She had arched her back so far as he had caused her to stand on the precipice of ecstasy for so long she nearly lit the shack on fire. The technique was ancient, he had learned in it the orient, but care would need to be taken he realized as she nearly burst into flames.

She had wrapped her limbs and her lips so tightly around him milking each moment and him as well for all he was worth. He had made her pay for her eagerness and she in turn had drained him dry of every last drop of....strength. They had spent so long holding back that when the floodgates burst nothing could stem the tide of their lustful energies, so sweetly and tenderly they had napped to take the edge off.

Now seeing her, and in her own way she revealed her need for more, he smirked only ever so slightly as she had spoken to him. He said nothing, his mouth had gone dry, and he could only stand there as he watched her walk back to her place among the Corsairs. How he hated to see her go but he loved to watch her leave, his eyes trailing down to the beautiful heart shaped ass that he could recall doing--- Wha!?! --- shaken from his near daydream state by the voice of Brock Van Alstyne, Wolverine looked to see the brash young Hellion as he walked over in blatant disregard of authority to begin to harass his woman.

Walking up right behind him Logan reached a hand up to grab Rumble by the hair of his sideburn and pull him around staring him face to face right in the eyes. He took his other hand and flicked the boy hard right up under his nose, watching and waiting until Brocks eyes teared up before he said "Get BACK in line Bub!"

Not losing his grip on the lock of hair, the tenderized scalp under it granting him near complete compliance, he pulled Brock over to the Hellion area. "Inflict!" he said loudly as he passed right in front of the Hellion Team Captain "You're up Mr." He shoved Brock by the side of his head right back into his place in the rank and file of his team of wanna be hard-asses. He stood there right in front of Rumble, staring him down, waiting for him to make his fatal mistake.

[Torri]

Jumping Jacks?! ’Oh NNNnnnnnOOOooooOOOOoooo!!! THIS is why I hate P.E! Why does it have to be jumping jacks, and why did it have to be Wolverine to take this class, he just scares me into exercising. I don’t want to exercise!’ The tiny Acolyte groaned internally as she spread her arms out and began her jumping jacks. Each jump followed by an internal groan. Why had she never attended P.E. before, this would have been so much easier. ’No-body else is complaining! But … wow … my legs … oh oh ohoh OW! CRAMP!’

Torri knew that this would happen if she didn’t stretch, but she never got the hang of really buckling down in time. She enjoyed being around her team mates, although everyone was acting a lot more serious and it was making her feel a little … young to be honest. She couldn’t see how anyone could be so serious and not want to laugh, or jump on the spot or be loud! Why couldn’t anyone really just want to be. She did, for once she just wanted to have fun.

Once the horrendous torment that the jumping jacks where was past, She felt her arms sag by her side and her shoulder slump. “NNNnnnnnGGhhhhh I don’t like P.E.” She mumbled quietly, moving her shoulders painfully and forcing her legs to stay upright to ignore her wobbly knees. Her pain was subsided by shock and a little bit of fright when she heard the teacher shout at the scary older kid. That was terrifying. He was shouting at the both of them, that Inflict person and … Rumble … Torri shuddered at the thought of him and his lewd comments. Crowding her arms across her chest tightly as she waited anxiously – and painfully – to get her next part over with.

’I’m so getting myself set as a reserve in the sport games. No way I’m going to do anything else after this.’

[Ironclad]

Mason eyes went wider than they probably ever did before, mainly because he was never really surprised. When he saw Aideen come out of the mansion looking like that after the incident in the gym, he could honestly say he was surprised. What happened to our hardcore Fox? Now Fox really is a fox, well she already was one, but damn. "Hey! Whaddit I say about staying in form?!" he shouted at the younger males that stopped undoubtedly to stare at this new sorta Aideen.

His teeth grit at the sound of Brock's voice and he had stopped to bend down for his gun, but Wolverine got to him first. A slow smirk formed on Mason's face as he led them through the final stretches. He even went as far as to chuckle under his breath while walking back to his spot when he finished, smirking at Aideen. "Where'd you go Fox?" he said in a low voice with a smirk. The clothes were one thing, but the new seductive attitude that he used to see only in short bursts was now full on.

Mason leaned over to Tracy before Inflict started his routine. "She doing okay Dollface? Is that really our Fox over there? Cause this ain't normal," he whispered. Mason had a tremendous respect for Tracy's power and respected her enough not to ask unless he was truly concerned. He never asked for the extent of anyone's feelings, just a general read on whether he has something to worry about or not.

[FreezeFrame]

Chase was suddenly thrust into something bigger than he thought he wanted, but looking around at his team he realized he might be the best suited for the task of leading them. Veronika was a bit too concerned with herself, and 'Ig and Oog'- better known as Lian and Sky- were way to hung up on silliness and ducking out of the hard stuff. Kris was far too much of a fop to be taken seriously by anyone and Katana was just about worthless as far as he was concerned. She had issues that were so deep they weren't just issues- that girl had subscriptions. "Yo! Settle down!" he had said at the start of it all.

His voice sounded weird even to himself, it wasn't really his style but for some reason it came out, and it had a sound of making sense. He let the comments drop, not telling Lian he had her 'Mary' right here while grabbing his crotch and jerking it around a bit. He also refrained from his joke to Sky that he she jumped a lot of guys so why would she hate jumping jacks. For some reason he just decided to take this as a chance to prove himself.

He saw the girl from the Corsairs arrive late, and noted too how her arrival caused such a stir. Almost every eye was on her, most of the guys staring and he found himself looking too but with different thoughts in his head. He hadn't gone to Limbo, come to think of it no one on the current Paragon roster had, but he had heard about what that girl had done there. She was built too, 'built like a brick shithouse' his alcoholic Uncle would have said. So if girls like that were what guys like him went for why the hell did that drunk son of a bitch touch me? he wondered suddenly starting to get mad.

Then it happened! All of a sudden the cute kinda scary one on the Hellions went over and Wolverine freaked! It was insane for a second as he watched what the teacher did right there in front of the whole student body. "Holy-!" was all that escaped his lips as he stood knowing he had better keep his crew in line, Wolverine was expecting him to.

[Allure]

Veronika struggled for once to keep up her adorable curious expression when the one person that she inexplicably hated beyond understanding in many terms showed up dressed in clothes that did not look as good on her as everyone seemed to think. Veronika knew she would look so much better in them then the harlot ever could.

That horrible harlot. She thinks that's gonna make her look anywhere near as good as me? Hardly, my breasts are much nicer than that and what kind of a male is attracted by such a figure? Women are supposed to be softer and not have bodies like a female gladiator. How grotesque, she must be doing something to them, I know it. Gypsy magic spell perhaps? She does look like she's part of that horrid group of people. Pagans and lowlifes, she would fit right in. Then again, I should perhaps enjoy the show, as they say. The hairy half ape of a man is defending her from the gorgeous, well built blond Adonis. His intelligence certainly comes from primates I am sure. What girl would choose a hairy half ape man over such a perfect looking reincarnation of Adonis himself. Pathetic, but that harlot isn't too high above him. She would prefer a vile man like him over the obvious choice, stupid girl. Not that I care, I unlike her am smart and can have anyone I want.

She wiped the small sweat that formed on her brow and her large sapphire eyes went wide. "Oh my goodness," Veronika whispered at the ferocity in the half ape, not to let anyone think how truly disgusted she was with the situation. She looked over at Kris and then at Chase with angelic eyes. Veronika tucked a loose strand from her bun back and kept her posture perfect for the next exercise. She continued watching curiously, amused more than anything else about the situation. This is exactly why I need to be rid of that harlot once and for all.

[Hotwire]

Ariel was unable to just focus on the Phoenix statue because Rumble had to open his big black hole of a mouth and start up again. She sent a glare his way and took deep breaths so that electricity wouldn’t course visibly through her arms. When Mason went up to start the warm ups she let the gathered electricity energize her to finish through her jumping jacks quickly, and finished in time to let her eyes fall on Aideen, who looked extremely hot in that outfit of hers. There was something different about her as well besides her attire, and Ariel liked it all. Aw holy shit, come on man that’s just not fair. I would so try something but since I value my life and know better not to….I shall suffer, but looking works for me, she thought as her eyes trailed slowly and discreetly up and down Aideen’s body. “Very nice Aideen, works well for you,” she told her with a wink, unable to resist just a little wink.

She was drawn out of lovely thoughts by Brock starting up again and being the psycho bastard he was already breaking the terms of his restraining order. Another surge of hidden electricity was building up in her arms but she loosened up a little as Wolverine was quick to grab him and push him back to where he was supposed to be. Looking back to Aideen and keeping her eyes on her face Ariel too waited for an answer about her whereabouts. If she’s looking like this after being in the gym, something had to have happened. Whatever it is should happen more if she’s gonna act and dress like this…maybe she’ll get more skimpier with her clothes? Ariel wondered to herself hopefully, though the thought didn’t touch her face.

Ariel crossed her arms over her chest while she waited for a response, and waited to continue with the warm up. She resisted the urge to roll her eyes as it was now Inflict’s turn to lead, and worked to keep her line of sight away from Aideen. With her looking like this, Ariel’s sense of focus might begin to waver and that was something she didn’t want, especially when she had to focus.

[HeartString]

"Yes, that's really our girl...she is... well-" Tracy was not one to tell of other peoples emotions, especially not a friend and never in such a mix of company. When Ember had come to her right before class she had healed her, not just her head but she had been through something serious...her whole body was hurting she said, but her face was lit with a light smile and her heart had wings. Tracy didn't pry, that was not her style. She did care, but Aideen was a very private person and having learned to build trust one had to allow it to grow, Tracy gave everyone their space.

She did however find it a bit odd that Logan and Aideen became so relieved and then suddenly so emotionally excited as the two of them caught sight of each other. It was not just one emotion, but many, and she was having to filter out a lot of additional emotional input as well. It was hard to pick through all that was happening with the rage, the stress of the class and now the mix of so many emotions pouring from Wolverine and Ember. "Good to have you back sweetheart." Tracy said to Ember as she joined the team lineup.

"She seems uh, surprisingly good Mason, I think she's gonna be fine. Rumble and the rest of the Hellions though, well that's another story. I don't suppose I have to say we all need to keep our guard up, but I'm staying ready." She winked at him and then nodded at Ariel, Aideen and Kelly. She could feel that Brock was not alone in his rage, Inflict held some massive amount of anger and she supposed it had something to do with Brock and Ember and the Corsairs interaction this morning. Norrison rarely had as sharp an edge to his rage as when he was angry at the Corsairs as a whole.

[StormHawk]

Along with just about every other guy there, Gavin's mouth dropped open at the sight of the firebender. He wasn't dumb enough to think that he had a chance with her, but he was only a guy, he couldn't help but stare. Somehow his body automatically kept up with the workouts, especially when Ironclad yelled at them to keep in form. Wow... shes so hot. I swear its like a movie or something, theres this dynamite hot chick that no guy has a chance with, even that Yahoo Hellion has no chance, Gavin thought still glancing over at her.

When the Hellion was going over to her and Wolverine grabbed him, Gavin's eyes went wide for a whole other reason. "Oooooh damn," he said in a low voice looking over at his team. It was well known that Ember was Wolverine's favorite student, seeing as she was the only one he never yelled at for any reason. The fierceness of such an action even made Gavin take a step back.

He leaned forward and caught Heather's eye down the line, glancing from her to the dangerous gym teacher. He shook his head looking at Heather and then broke eye contact to get ready for Inflict's workout. Gavin didn't really like the guy, who was a definite reminder of the people he used to hang out with and that was a big push for Gavin to not want anything to do with a guy like that.

[Inflict]

Who does this freakin guy think he is! Goddamn Wolverine son of a whore- I oughta make him hurt for what he's doin to my number 2 here. He watched out of the corner of his eye as Mason went back over to his team That little group of wussies, took all of em to take down one Hellion and looking at how Logan stood there, just tempting Brock to do something Norrison stopped in his tracks, hesitating.

I can reach right over there, right now and freak this guy up big time. His healing factor will kick in, but I know it's coming so I'll have to pour it on.. just over-compensate, try to kill him or re-kill him rather, and keep him down. He looked at his team, they'd back whatever move he made. This was the way they had been raised, trained and cultivated to kill and in the most unscrupulous of ways since their youth.

But what then genius? Where to then? And for what purpose...Brock's crush on that little fire girl? Heh she's cute but she don't hold a candle to my Rose- nah shit and then all these little shits will rat us out? Damn this is lose lose out here in front of everybody He was considering his options and the motivation for his options as something else hit him.

There's no fear anymore- when did they stop fearing us!?! This whole place used to cringe when the Hellions walked in, goddamn Gina and her soft hearted shit -treatin little kids like they actually count as people- hell treating anybody like they count? Shit no, Emma never wanted us to be this...When it all started we were supposed to be something better than this, something incredible and now look at us... when did it all go away? His hesitation was becoming evident as he stood for far longer than a few seconds now.

He couldn't help it his rage took over, his anger at the world changing around him. How his place in the world and his Team's place in it had been swept aside into some gutter where they were less than what they were. He reached out his hand and touched Wolverine saying "Hands off the students BUB! It's a rule for a reason..." He wanted to pour on his power. Watch gleefully, almost horrified and yet in a state of awe at how the man's flesh would peel open before his eyes. A thousand wounds revealed as their Gym teacher, the mighty X-Man Wolverine would fall before them. Instead he simply said "The students just might touch back, right?"

His message was clear. There was a line, there was only so much any one person would take. He knew there was fear now, and he knew as soon as he let go he would feel Logan's wrath, but he was going to make his point. However, it suddenly dawned on him, in going through this whole thing to it's logical conclusion he realized that Brock had crossed the line as well. "Nobody ever came to me Logan. I'm his Captain, he listens to me. Now it's too late and we're all in it up to our necks. Well you ain't playing pincushion with my guts and I'm done having my guy here messed with. I'll kill you again and again if I have to, keep you close to death as long as I can."

He looked at Brock and his face was serious. He had done something for his team-mate that only family does, he had put himself on the line now and it was showing in his face "But I can only do that for so long then this freaker will get up and kill me for real my friend. So enough Brock, yeah the girl's fine and all but this ain't Troy and she ain't worth goin to war over. You want her? Too bad. There's a line and we just crossed it...all of us involved in this, you-the Bluebells over there-Cyclops-Wolverine and now me, we all crossed it. I'm willing to go down for you if the reason is worth it...but pal she ain't worth it, not by a long shot. Look at her and tell me how important getting your little pecker wet is compared to all we'd have to lose...cause now there's a whole lot more at risk than just you 'killah'. I'm your friend and your brother, but I ain't dying for that cunt over there. This is done now because I say it is. Logan..."

Norrison kept his eyes on Brock as he slowly took his hand off of the berserker with the metal claws and unbreakable bones. He didn't know what would happen but he knew a whole lot had just been said. He walked out into the center of the courtyard and standing there, his eyes still fixed on Brock's he nodded to let him know his word was final. He was his Captain and he had his back. There might come a time where they could let lose and have their way but now wasn't it.

"Next exercise...Mountain climbers! Four sets of twenty. This is a four count exercise- I'll count the cadence, you count the number...Starting positions..." he waited to get down in position until he saw that everyone had gotten down and then he did as well leading them all "ONE-TWO-THREE..." and hearing them all count One. "ONE-TWO-THREE..." Two and so on until everyone's legs burned with the agony of fatigue and muscle strain.

[Aqua]

Aideen's surprise entrance made Heather's eyes widen. The fire bender looked... amazing! And she couldn't deny it, the girl was hot. Heather wasn't confused about her sexuality or anything, but she was able to admit when a girl was attractive or gorgeous. Aideen was glowing and the water manipulator didn't know why. But she was glad that the girl seemed to be having a good change in her life. Unfortunately Rumble saw it too and he was going to act upon his instincts. Heather was even more shocked when Wolverine got involved. Something was up and Heather didn't want to get caught in the middle. Observing the situation with the rest of the students, she folded her arms worried as heck. Seeing Gavin's reaction she bit her lip and shrugged with a sigh. What else is new? she thought to him.

Inflict's whole stunt was rather noble, however Heather didn't like that guy either. The majority of the Hellions were just scary people filled with egos and attitude. But Heather made sure to never say anything or do anything stupid of the like. Instead she moaned a bit when the new exercise was the mountain climber. Heather was fit, but not that fit. She knew after the third set, she would start to feel a bit tired and gym was not close to being done anytime soon.

[Calorie]

"God DAMN!" Kelly said out loud as his mouth fell open looking at his teammate in this very nice change of clothing. "Why the hell didn't you start dressing like that sooner? Do you know how interesting practice would have been then?" he exclaimed and then shut up when he saw the look Ironclad was giving him. His eyes were now on Wolverine and that scene with the Brock and Norrison.

Kelly didn't hate anyone, it just wasn't in his nature. He wasn't dumb enough to know that it wouldn't end well if something started. When nothing did start, Kelly heaved a sign of relief. "Oooh man that would have been bad. Glad I didn't have to step in, cause let me tell you that wouldn't have been pretty," he said with a nod as if it was really true.

"I hate mountain climbers," Kelly muttered to himself as he did them grudgingly.

[Ember]

Aideen didn't care about the comments for her attire or her outlook in general, she wore the outfit for only one person and she cared only about his reaction to it. She glanced at Mason and Ariel plainly and shrugged. "Just out," she answered them simply. A small smile broke through her face to her team and she caught Haven's eye before her attention sprang on Brock and Logan. Aideen hid a smirk at his ferocity, but that hidden smirk was short lived when Inflict got involved. Her heart sped up in fear at the way this scene was looking. Aideen stiffened up and locked her eyes on the scene, ready to spring to action if anything.

The idea of Logan getting hurt was not something she liked at all. It made her stomach drop in fear at the thought of him experiencing all that pain triple time that she knew he faced only from the couple of months she's known him let alone his whole life. Her dark eyes went hard as she stared at them, only waiting for someone to make a move. He's going to get himself in trouble if he keeps running to my defense. I want to go over there and break Inflict's disgusting hand, but I can't. I guess that's why he did it to. I don't want him hurt over me. Aideen swallowed a lump and let out a breath of relief when Inflict took his hand off Logan. She knew she may not be able to do much if his little posse stepped in, but she'd definitely do some damage that none of them would forget.

While Aideen did her sets of mountain climbers almost automatically, her mind worked in overtime at her bodies natural reaction to the potential threat. I don't want him hurt, not for me. I guess that love does that to you. I didn't think I'd ever feel like this... but I'm not giving it up. No not now when I just found it and feel... well like there is a little more to life then I generally thought. I need to calm down though if I don't want to be found out. Aideen finished her sets smoothly, calming herself down in the process enough to look fine. Right now all she wanted was to go back to the morning, or at least go back to him. She yearned for it to be just the two of them again. She wanted to be in his embrace, where the world melted away and all seemed alright for that moment. It was new and odd to her, but she liked it.

Plans already formed in her mind for what she planned to do after class, but Aideen needed to seem as normal and as alright as possible. She stood up to wait for the next exercise, but not before exchanging a look with Logan with slight concern in her usually unreadable eyes to those who didn't know her well. Just another hour... I can wait.

[Katana]

Happy that her reception from her teammates was cold and uncaring instead of hot and angry, Katana sighed and began her jumping jacks. Instead of doing her normal sloppy, half hearted attempts she made each jumping jack slowly and carefully, getting the full stretch and the full burn. As Rumble started boasting and bragging about what he would do to Ember at first Katana was amused. Serves the little bitch, right. She's so f*cking smug. But as his language got more coarse and as it became more clear that he was doing more than blowing off steam and that he might actually rape her Katana started to feel disgusted and scared and she momentarily stopped her jumping jacks until Wolverine's disciplining of the Hellion made her feel more at ease. Then she started them up again, but not before seeing Aideen out of the corner of her eye and noticing the slutty outfit, shooting her a look of utter contempt. Wolverine's rightfully pissed off and when he's done with Rumble he'll come after me if I'm not careful. Yelling at me is his number one hobby. All of this, however, had caused her to lose count of her jumping jacks, so she yelled over to Chase "Hey, I lost count due to the commotion. You want me to start over Chase? I think I was around 11, but can't be sure?"