DISCLAIMER: I am not Stan Lee or Marvel and as such don't own X-men….though if I did half the characters that are dead wouldn't be and there would be no Decimation….

The alarm in Room 754 rang loud and clear, starting both Sooraya Qadir and Laura X awake.

"Damn" mumbled Laura as she grabbed a ribbed violet racer-back tank top ,a pair of black Mavi jeans, black sneakers and a bronze ankh charm on a gold snake chain. Kitty Pryde, Rachel Grey and Betsy Braddock had taken her shopping on Sunday although she hadn't seen the point.

"Your turn for a shower, I had one yesterday." Sooraya said while pulling her black burka over her head. Laura nodded. She headed to the bathroom and picked up the only bottle of shampoo there was, some hideously strawberry scented one. When she emerged she grabbed Sooraya's blowdryer and flicking it on began blowdrying her long black hair as Sooraya prayed for the deceased.

"When are the memorial services?" asked Laura quietly. The mental scars didn't heal as fast as the physical ones had.

"Tomorrow…" whispered Sooraya once she finished praying, "I never got a chance to thank you for going in my place, you saved my life".

"But I couldn't save his…" Laura said almost sadly.

Suddenly there was a knock on the door, "Sooraya, Laura, hurry up!"

Laura opened the door and Cessily Kincaid smiled. Cessily was wearing a mint green baby doll top and a pair of jeans. "Come on, I really don't want to be late." The three girls headed to first period Math with Ms Pryde. Laura was walking a bit behind and not really paying attention when she slammed in to someone. Her eyes traveled up from expensive sneakers, to jeans to navy blue polo shirt to dark blue eyes to black hair, Julian Keller laughed as he picked up her math textbook.

"Um…I'm uh…sorry bout that…oh…um…thanks…for saving me during…the…um….danger room thing…" she mumbled.

"Uh…no problem?" Julian said

What happened there? It's like the battery in my brain died or something she thought as she watched him head in to the class and jumping bolted in so she wouldn't be late. Ms Pryde was putting some trigonometry notes on the board. She wasn't sure why she needed to be here but like everyone else she started copying it down. Surveying the class she noted that it was pretty normal sized with all the survivors in the one class. Just then the door opened and a tall boy with brown hair and brown eyes dressed in a leather jacket, long black pants and a black t-shirt slouched in.

"Kevin!" Cessily yelled as she jumped out of her desk, pretty soon Julian, Sooraya and Santo stood around him too.

"Where is Brian?" Kevin asked quietly.

"He…he's dead" Cessily mumbled to him.

"Stryker, He killed 43 other students too as well as Laurie and Jay Guthrie." Julian said angrily.

"That BASTARD and he calls himself a priest!" Kevin whispered.

"Kevin, Cessily, Santo, Julian, Sooraya, please sit down" Kitty stated calmly.

"Sorry, Ms Pryde," they mumbled as they took their seats.

Cessily smiled as she whispered, "This is Kevin Ford aka Whiter. Kevin meet Laura X codenamed Huntress."

"Hey", he mumbled, "are you new?"

"You could say that…" she smirked.

"Laura's Sooraya's roommate and Wolverine's clone/sister," Cessily explained, "She showed up a little before you left so I doubt you really met her"