"Sir.." Rose knocked quietly, poking her head in. James sat in the observation room watching the small group of kids surrounding the bed that Fourteen slept in. "There's a woman out here." Rose mumbled. "I think you'd better talk to her." James nodded, standing from the chair.

"Stay watch, if she wakes up page me 911."Rose took the seat that James had been in. He straightened out his suit before heading out of the room towards the nurses station.

"I realize how crazy this sounds, but you need to let me see them." The woman standing at the desk waved her hands around as she spoke. "I need to know that they are alright! Dammit!" She kicked the desk.

"Hello, my name is James Taylor and I am the head instructor here. I understand your frustration, Lucy, but I need you to stay calm." The woman turned to him, her eyes wide.

"How did you-."

"I am a Gifted, like the kids you are looking for." James searched her thoughts, learning everything he needed to know about the woman before him.

"I need to find those kids, I am not part of the School I swear! I helped them get out and i…I just need to know if they are ok." Lucy eyes filled with tears.

"So, you're looking for the 6 kids that came in yesterday you know?" Lucy's eyes went wide, her tears flowing over the brim.

"Only six?" He could hear the pain in her voice.

"How many were at this "school"?" James' brow wrinkled, searching Lucy's thoughts for an answer before she could give one.

"It's all over now…It's destroyed. Those kids were the only ones who could escape and they made it. I want to help, I need to help them be kids. They have been there their whole lives and now they have the chance to be real kids." Lucy sobbed, her heart pounding in her chest.

"This is an institute…for the gifted. It's a school like any school with normal classes, but it's also a training school. We do our best to train these kids to use their gifts and to control them." James spoke. "Will you help us help them?" Lucy nodded, taking a deep breath. "So, two boys have been taken to surgery after some internal injuries. They are both in the ICU, recovering very nicely. Two girls have a few bruises and cuts but seem to be fine. An older boy is covered in blood and soot but won't let us get too close to him."

"Josh, sounds like him." She wiped her eyes. "Ten, that's what they named him." James watched a sense of relief wash over her. "Wait you said six, that's only five?"

"Yes, Ten seems pretty focused on the girl we found four days ago. She came in a good day and half before the others. When she wakes up the power goes out, so we have her sedated." James motioned for Lucy to follow him. They walked quickly down the hall to the observation room.

"Oh my!" Lucy gasped. The kids hadn't moved from the last time James had seen them. Ten leaned against the bed that Fourteen lay in, he held her small pale hand. The other two sat in chairs around the bed.

"They refuse to leave her side until she wakes up, especially Ten." James nodded to Rose, giving her the okay to leave the room. James paused, unsure as to what the information he was about to say would do to Lucy's mental state. "Lucy how old is the girl in the bed?"

"That's Fourteen…I believe she is 15 years old." Lucy gulped loudly. "I haven't been around, I left years ago. I've always kept tabs on the School, I wanted to make sure that Josh was okay.." She left her words hang, knowing that he wasn't okay.

"She is 14 weeks pregnant." Lucy stumbled back, hitting the chair behind her. "They are both very strong, but she hasn't woken up since we last knocked her out." James let out a sigh. Lucy fell silent, her eyes on the kids in the room.

"I was young, just starting out as an intern." Lucy spoke after a long silence. "I had no idea what I was getting myself into. My mom had warned me when I changed my major to Human Sciences. She had said it was going to be a lot." She gave out a dry laugh. "When I got pregnant it was an accident, my boyfriend left me and I had no idea what I was doing."

"Lucy.." James whispered.

"They took him while I was still pregnant, early in the pregnancy. They took him and did…experiments on him." Lucy looked down at her hands in her lap. "I met him for the first time when he was five, right before I quit." She sighed heavily. "They put wings on him, my baby boy, with these big black, beautiful wings. And he can fly!" She became hysterical. James' eyes went wide, realizing what Ten's ability was.

"Okay, Lucy, I need you to take a deep breath." He waited for her to calm before speaking again. "We can't know for sure but, based on Ten and Fourteen's behavior, we think that Ten is the father." James gave a small laugh, rolling his eyes as Lucy fainted. He waved in two interns to get Lucy into a bed before leaving to go find Ten.

He found him quickly, right where he always was: Next to Fourteen. He laid next to her, her head rested on his chest, his arms wrapped around her. He even had his left wing opened almost as if to protect them. "Ten.." James whispered. "I really need to know everything, it'll make taking care of you and her and them so much easier for us." Ten nodded, glancing down at Fourteen who slept soundlessly.

"You'll help her? Help them?" Ten mumbled. James stuck out his hand for Ten to shake.

"I'll do all that I can, I promise." Ten reached, taking James' hand shaking it.

As their skin touched, James froze. Like a movie on fast forward, the flash of Tens life flew across James' line of vision. He saw all the experiments, all the testing and probing. He watched Ten learn to fly and then learn to fight. James learned everything about Ten, from Ten's point of view, including his love for Fourteen and how she had gotten pregnant.