Alex Summers is walking through the woods because the Professor felt a disturbance. He isn't really expecting to find anything, a day after the event, but the mansion was a school now and he was a teacher and he couldn't really ditch his classes to wander the woods. But he's walking in the woods, and it's a pretty normal wood. Trees and squirrels and grass and bugs and all that. As far as he knew just normal stuff in normal woods. And then he saw the ten year old girl lying in a crater.
That was a little less normal.
He walked carefully into the softened dirt to where the child lied in the center of it looking like the source of the impact.
A disturbance, Charles had said.
Alex felt for a pulse and shook his head.
One hell of a disturbance.
She woke up with a light in her eyes.
It only took a moment to register that it hurt, and then to register that everything hurt. She blinked her eyes wishing the light would go away or dim or something. And then suddenly with a crackle it went dark.
She opened her eyes and blinked a few times again.
She was in a shiny room, everything grey and metal except the soft white bed she laid in. There was a blanket pulled up to her chin. At the foot of the bed a man with brown hair was reading thick book.
He looked up and smiled at her.
"You're awake."
She stared at him.
"My name is Charles Xavier. You are in the medical area of the school I own. One of my teachers found you unconscious in the woods not to far from here." His eyes were blue and sparkly, and his voice was soft and pleasant. "Do you remember how you got there?"
She thought for a moment, trying to remember woods.
She shook her head.
The man nodded grimly.
"I had thought as much. Do you remember anything at all?"
She searched for something to tell him, and found that she could not.
She shook her head again.
She frowned then. She was pretty sure that people were supposed to have memories.
"Do you know who I am?", she asked. The man shook his head gently.
"I'm afraid not, dear."
"Oh"
She paused, feeling pressure in her chest and her eyes starting to burn.
"I think that I might be very scared, Mr. Xavier."