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AN: This is my first Laura/Julian fanfiction. Julian doesn't show up till the third chapter so please be patient. :) Also I got the idea from the song Paradice by Vanessa Carlton

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Xavier Mansion

Logan carried Laura into the infirmary with Professor Charles Xavier right behind him. He placed her on the examination table. He had found her unconscious out side the mansion's gate looking like she'd been in a fight of some kind. Her clothes were torn, covered in blood but her wounds were healed. Logan stepped away from her so the Professor could do his job.

Wheeling over, Xavier put his hands on either side of her head and closed his eyes to focus. After a few minutes, Xavier's eyes sprung open and he pulled his hands away from Laura's head. "She seems to be trapped in some kind of loop," He told Logan who was hovering with his arms crossed.

Looking rather irritated and trying to control his anger, Logan spoke, "Anyway to knock her out of it?" He didn't understand what was happening to her. Her body was completely healed yet no matter what he or anyone else did she wouldn't wake up.

The Professor shook his head. "I'm not sure, it seems to be psychological but it could also be--"

"Just fix her while I find out who did this to her" Logan told him, his hands clenched in fists. All he wanted to do was beat the sh*t out of whoever did this.

Letting out a sigh, Xavier replied, "I will do my best, but you must remain calm until I can wake her up"

Logan grunted his teeth trying to hold back his anger. He needed to get it out before he snapped. "I'll be in the Danger Room. Be back in a few to check on her." He started for the door. "Anything changes send me a wave"

After watching Logan leave, Xavier returned to Laura entering her mind again. The girl seemed to keep reliving past memories over and over. Now the girl seemed to be huddling in the corner of what looked like a white room with a cot as a bed. "Laura?" He asked walking over to her slowly. She was dressed in a what resembled a hospital gurney. In the real world Xavier was confined to a wheelchair, but in this realm both his legs worked.

Crouched in the corner, Laura had one claw out on her right hand and was digging into her left forearm trying to release the pain. Blood ran down her arm, her claw remaining where it was as she looked up at the man. She didn't say anything, just continued what she was doing.

Xavier crouched down beside her, his brow creased in concern. He reached to take her arm to look at it. Her wound healed and Xavier was perplexed as to why she was doing this to herself. "Why are you hurting yourself?"

She looked at him with a blank stare. No emotion. No nothing behind it. "Bad, must be punished" Laura pulled her arm back to her and began to cut into it again. Xavier watched being increasingly concerned as the young girl made X's on her skin. He tried to stop her again, but his hands went right through her as if he was a ghost.

The scene changed and Xavier was launched into a room were Laura was strapped to a table and a man was standing over her with a big smile on his face. Her claws weren't coated in adamantium yet, they were still bone. "Are you afraid? Do you feel Weapon X?" Xavier raised a brow at the name Weapon X. That was Logan's code name while he was in the program, not Laura's. At this moment he wished he was able to read other people's mind in memories,, beside's Laura's to see why the man was so full of hatred toward the girl.

Watching the memory, Xavier was appalled by what he was seeing. The doctor was removing Laura's claws one by one. They were sharpened, coated, and placed back in. Out of all things, she was awake for the whole thing. Finally when the red head was done Xavier let out the breath he seemed to be holding.

"Dr. Rice, Martin would like to see you if you're done" Rice turned as a man walked in and nodded before turning back to Laura. How could someone be this curl? The scene started to fade away and Xavier hoped he would be able to get Laura out of this loop...fast.

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AN: What you guys think? Please send me a review/comment so I know if I should work on anything to make it better ^.^