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I'm running through the woods, away from that awful place where I have been tested on for years. I had to get out of there, I couldn't take it anymore. As I'm running I start to sense other mutants around me and it makes me stop. I shouldn't have stopped though because the men running after me have caught up. One of them shoots my leg and I collapse. My sense of other mutants is getting stronger until I see the four of them come out of nowhere. I get up and although my leg is bleeding I start trying to fight of the men. The other four start fighting two and that's when I see what they can do. The one closest to me is a telepath, right next to her is a guy that has an optic force blast. The two on the other side of me are unbelievable. The man, who is big and muscular has metal claws coming from his hands and the women next to him looks as though she can control the weather, who are these people. We have managed to fight off almost everyone when I start to feel light headed, I collapse onto the ground but I'm still conscious. I hear the telepath say she is going to take me back to the plane and she tells everyone else to meet her there. She offers me her hand and I take it and she help me walk back to the plane, or the blackbird as she called it and she tells me to sit down in a chair. She then proceeds to take the bullet out of my leg with her powers and bandages my leg. "I guess I should probably introduce myself, my name is Jean Grey. My fellow teammates and I were sent to get you by Professor Charles Xavier, head of a school for mutants". "How did you know where to find me" "The professor has a machine he can use to find mutants. We saw you were in danger and thought we would come help, maybe see if you were interested in coming back with us" "I guess it wouldn't be bad to just try it out" "you much easier to deal with than most of our new recruits". Jean smiles at me and the other three walk on. Jean telepathically tells me who they are. "The one with the glasses is my husband Scott, the one with the white hair is Ororo, but everyone calls her Storm. Then there is Logan, or wolverine as some people call him. Don't be offended if he doesn't talk to you, he isn't one to make conversation easily".
I sit in silence while Scott and Ororo start up the jet and get us in the air. It takes us about two hours to get to the school and by then I can barley walk from all the pain in my leg. Jean helps me up and off the Jet and we are met but a big blue furry guy. "This is Hank, he is going to take you down to the lab and fix you leg, Ill be right there". "Hello, it's nice to meet you. Your name is?" "Emily" I say shyly. "Well its nice to meet you, how about we go get your leg checked out". I'm 23 years old and he is talking to me like a student, at this point I could care less, I'm in too much pain to even care. We get down to the lab and Hank carefully unwraps my leg and cleans it up, meanwhile I'm trying my best not to scream. When he is finally done he wraps it and hands me two pills to help with the pain. Usually I would be cautious with people giving me unknown medication but after everything that has just happened I go with it. Jean comes down and asks Hank about my leg and at this point I'm getting pretty drowsy, its then that I notice Logan is down here as well. "Jeannie do we know what room she is in, she looks like she might pass out". "Yeah just go put her in the one across from you, it's the only empty one we have in the faculty side of the building". "Alright". Logan picks me up and I don't argue with anyone. I'm too tired to care that some guy I don't even know is taking me to a room in some mansion I have never been in, that's not weird at all. He takes me upstairs and but me down on a bed. "Uh, I guess if you need anything I'm across the hall, or Jean and Scott and right next to you". "Ok, thank you Logan" "no problem". With that he leaves and I start to drift off to sleep, still not understanding where I was.
When I woke up in the morning I carefully got up and showered, being carful not to make my leg worse. I got out and got dressed but then realized I had no idea where I was going. As if on cue I hear a knock on the door and when I open it I see Jean and Scott standing outside the door. "We where heading down to breakfast and we though you might need some help figuring out where you were going, care to join us" "sure". I slip out of my room and we walk down to breakfast. When we get there a see what I am assuming are a bunch of students and then I see a table in the back where Logan, Hank, Storm, and a few others are sitting there, I'm assuming that's the teachers table. Jean tells me to go sit down over there and she will grab me some food so I go and do as she tells me. There is an open seat next to Logan when I get over there. "Mind if I sit there" I ask him "No go ahead " He looks at me for a minute and then goes back to his food. I'm really tempted to use my powers to see what he is thinking but I decide its best not to. Jean hands me my food and she and Scott sit down across the table from me. "So you have met Logan, Hank, and Storm but next to Logan is Rogue and Remy, or Gambit. Then we have Kitty, Bobby, and Piotr. "Hi, nice to meet you all" I say shyly. "So, I hope you don't mind me askin but what are your powers," says Rogue. "I have heightened senses so for instance I can sense other mutants and sometime classify them, and I'm a telepath". "The professor was excited to find you, he helped me strengthen my powers, I bet he could help you do the same" says Jean. "Speaking of which the professor wanted to talk to you after breakfast, I can take you up there when you are done" says Scott. "Ok, Thank you' "Not a problem. I finish soon after that and Scott takes me up there while everyone else goes to class. "So what's the deal with Logan, everyone else seems so talkative and then he just kind of keeps to himself" "Logan was used for different experiments because of his powers much like you. If you want to know details talk to him but he is fine once you get to know him" "Oh, that explains it" "you seem closed off as well. Is it because of your past or because your just trying to figure this place out' "It's a little of both" I admit to him. "That's ok, keep in mind we were all new here once too'. Scott then opens the door in front of us and I see a man in a wheelchair sitting behind a desk "Come in Emily, Thank you Scott for brining her up here, you can stay if you would like to". "No thanks professor, I have to go run Danger Room for Logan but someone will be back to get her after that" "Alright, make sure Logan doesn't work the students to hard" "since when have you known Logan to go easy in the Danger Room". With that Scott leaves. "Please take a seat Emily" I sit down across from him and look at him. "I know it must be strange for you to be outside the lab after spending almost your whole life there" "How do you know about that" "I'm a telepath as well, I'm not going to hurt you or anything but the reason I called you up here was so that I could get a better understanding of your past" "There is some stuff I just don't want to talk about" "You don't have to talk at all my dear, show me. I know it may be hard to relive those memories but in order for me to know who is now after you I need to see your past." "Okay" I give him my hand and I surrender my mind to him. I can feel him searching for the very beginning of my suffering. I don't want to relive this but I must, in order to keep me safe.
It's a dark rainy night and a man and women are driving in the car with their 8-year-old daughter, it's my family and me. The father is watching the road as carefully as he can but what he fails to miss is the car coming straight at him, a drunk driver and a heavy storm don't tend to mix well. The car hit us and both my parents were out on impact. I closed my eyes expecting myself to die but nothing happened. When I opened hundreds of little pieces of glass dropped right in front of me, anything trying to come near me had been stopped. I was scared more now; I had no idea what had just happened. The police and ambulance got their 15 minutes later; it was deemed that I was the only survivor of the crash. Everyone was stunned; I had only come out with some minor cuts and bruises. I was too scarred to tell anyone what had really happened, I also felt guilt. I was the only one to survive and why, because of some stupid power that had just decided to make its self-known. What if I could have saved my parents? To make matters worse I was taken to an orphanage, both my parents were only children and their parents were in no condition to take care of an 8 year old girl.
I was at the orphanage for 3 years before the people came and took me. I suspect they had been watching me, how else would they have know about my powers. In the three years I had been there I had discovered that not only could I read peoples minds but my senses were on overdrive, imagine everything you see, touch, hear, smell, and taste but 1,000 times stronger and I could control small things with my mind. The people that took me away came in silently, what awoke me was their thoughts but by the time I knew what was happening, they had drugged me and where taking me away.
The twelve years that followed were hard and depressing. My life at the lab was filled with torture, beatings, and experiments. Those were the worst years of my life. They did all sorts of work with me. They tried to figure out how to take my heightened senses and use me as a weapon, luckily they could never quite figure out how to keep me under their influence for long but every time they tried it drained me. They tried to use me to locate other mutants to experiment on but I wasn't strong enough for that, my telepathy and senses weren't lined up right. It didn't matter how many experiments they tried on me, they always failed and when they failed they took it out on me. Then we get to last night, I had been planning this escape for a few months. After they had finished experimenting on me I played weak I didn't get up, didn't move. They usually leave me alone, no one wants to take the time to help me, and I'm like an animal to them. After they all had left I sneaked down the hallway and over to the tower where there was a window. I climbed out and carefully started to climb down the jagged side of the building. Of course they had been stupid enough to leave the windows unlocked. I started to run after that. I didn't know where I was going but I knew I had to get out of there. I could hear dogs and men behind me now, they knew I had gotten away but I just kept running. After that is when the others got there and helped me.
The Professor releases my hand and looks at me for a second. "Did they ever succeed with any of their experiments?' 'No they just kept trying and failing, I was a lab rat to them, a playground for them." "For so long they have kept you, how did they find you?" "I'm not even sure, no one would ever tell me" "I'm so very sorry my dear, sadly you are not they first of us who have lived this way, nor will you be the last, it quite sad." "your right" "Jean is here to show you around if you would like to go with her." "Thank you professor." "Emily I am truly sorry you had to relive all of that but it helps me understand where you come from" "I understand professor" "Thank you Emily" "Your welcome". I quietly leave and meet Jean outside the door. "You ready for a tour" she smiles at me. I force a smile and nod to her, this is going to be a long day.