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Chapter 2: Seeing the Haunted
The X-Men students all quietly sat in the living room. It was past dinner, but the evenings past events had dampened the mood. A few students talked, some read, most of them though just sat around and did nothing. It had been 4 hours since the girl had arrived and there was no news. Two of the students went to go see what was going on in the med bay, only to come back a few minutes later explaining that Logan had been sleeping just outside of the door. It was obvious that the staff didn't want any visitors.
Footsteps came from down the hall. They all turned their heads to see who it was.
"Who's hungry?" Scott Summers asked, walking in with sacks of delivery pizza
Everyone turned back and stared at the floor. Even Kurt, who seemed to be always hungry, stayed motionless, disinterested in the food. Scott frowned and put the pizzas down on a table.
"Come on guys! I can't eat all this by myself!" Scott grinned at the students. He got a few glances in return.
"That's alright Scott! More food for us!" One of four Jamie's said as they all took a piece of pizza.
Scott gave Jamie a pat on the back, even though he wanted to hug him for helping him out like that. Students soon started to stand up and grab pieces of pizza one by one. Scott let out a sigh of relief. They were still were pretty glum but at least they were eating. He wished Jean were here. She always had a way to make them feel better.
Logan wearily walked into the room following the smell of pizza. In a blink of and eye, students went rushing up to him asking questions like " What's going on in there? Why were you guarding the door? Why is it taking so long?" Logan looked from one student to the next, pleading for the madness to stop.
"Whoa, whoa whoa, one at a time!" He yelled pausing for a moment to enjoy the quiet bliss. "Hank managed to stop her bleeding, and needs to give her a blood transfusion. I was guarding the door so that you little runts wouldn't disturb Hank and Ororo. Finally the last I heard, the girl had building blown on her and got beat up pretty badly, so it's going to take a long time. Can I eat now?!?"
The children paused for a second, but then continued on asking questions. Logan's eye began to twitch. Thankfully, Professor Xavier rode in just before Logan went crazy with all the questions. The professor could not help laughing at Logan's situation.
"Children… I believe Logan has had a tiresome day and would like something to eat."
The children paused for a moment thinking of what to do. This gave Logan enough time to sneak past the crowd, grab a box of pizza, and run behind Charles for cover. He gave his friend a nod of thanks and they began to go down the hall towards the med bay.
The professor had been trying to gain some information on the mystery lab ever since the Logan had arrived. This wasn't the first time the X-Men had come across mutant testing labs. It also wasn't the first time they he come across one that tested on children. This lab was the first they've seen that had so many test subjects.
"Do you know whose lab it was? Was it Hydra?" Logan asked after they had left the students.
"No, they succeeded on covering their tracks. I have no idea who was responsible for it. Though I do believe that there must be more than one laboratory if they can so easily abandon what they are doing."
"The kid might have some useful info if she wakes up." Logan added.
"We shall see." The Professor replied.
They arrived at the medical bay and quietly walked in. Hank McCoy was sitting at a desk looking through a microscope. Logan put the pizza down by Hank and cleared his throat to get his attention. Hank was too absorbed in what he was doing to notice and continued on with his work. Charles chuckled lightly as the large blue mutant continued being unaware of the visitors.
Ororo walked in and smiled. "Hello Charles".
Hank popped his head up away from what he was doing. "Oh Hello didn't hear you come in. How long were you standing there?"
"Not long." The professor lied. "How is our new guest doing?"
"Considering the amount of blood she lost, a broken rib, bad burns, and a concussion… pretty well." Hank stood up and led them into a room where the girl was. She's having a transfusion right now and is under mount of drugs and pain killers, so she won't be awake for a while."
The girl lay asleep on a bed. She had wires, tubes, and IV lines attached all over her arms. Jean was sitting in a chair next to the bed, putting bandages on the girl's cuts and burns. Jean smiled at the professor and he nodded back.
"She was lucky Logan found her when he did. She almost didn't make it." Ororo said.
Logan yawned and cracked his back. " Well if you excuse me I'm gonna get some shut eye."
"Yes I believe a will get some sleep. Jean, are you coming?" asked the professor.
"No, I think I will stay with her tonight. Just in case something happens." She replied.
"Well in that case I'm going to bed as well. Thank you Jean." Hank yawned.
Everyone but Ororo left. "Aren't you going?"
Ororo shook her head no. "I will stay here, that way if something should happen you won't be alone."
Jean smiled. "Thank you."
They sat done on chairs near the bed, both staring at the girls face.
The room was covered in darkness… Bright lights suddenly filled the room… Standing in a tank, water began to pour in…. Men and women stood out side of the tank pushing buttons... The water level began to rise... Electricity zapped through the water... Pain was everywhere… Alarms began to go off.
Professor Xavier snapped awake. "Professor it's Jean… Something is going on with the girl. You need to come to the med bay quick!"
"I'm on my way." replying with his powers.
Xavier arrived at the med bay. He went into the room where the girl was. An alarm was going off. "Charles, her brain activity and heart rate are off the charts." Ororo pushed some drugs into an IV bag.
Jean was concentrating hard on the girl's mind. "She's having a nightmare! We've been trying too calm her down but so far it's not working."
"If we don't calm her down she's going to go into shock!" yelled Hank as he mixed a new set of drugs.
The professor rolled up to the bed and closed his eyes and concentrated on the girl. He focused on the part of her mind that was giving her the dream and shut it down momentarily. It's all right… you're safe. There is no need to worry. He felt Jean's presence in the girl's mind trying to show her that it truly was all right.
Slowly the girl began to calm down. Everyone let out a sigh of relief. Jean shakily checked her watch for the time. 3:35, she walked out and breathed slowly for a minute.
Jean quietly walked to the kitchen and made herself some coffee. She sat down and drunk her coffee. The dream she had, the dream the girl had, was terrifying, and the poor girl was under so many drugs she couldn't wake up. The Professor came in, poured some coffee and went next to her.
"Did you see her dream too?" Jean said after a moment.
"A part of it, yes. I sense you saw more if though. Would you care to elaborate?"
She was quiet, engulfed in her thoughts. "There were other children. People in suits were poking them and prodding them with needles and other equipment. There was a room filled with body bags. There was also a man but I didn't understand what he was saying… Her dream was her memories, she was being haunted buy her memories."
"Did you see any thing that might tell us where another lab may be?"
She shook her head. She sighed and stood up. "I'm going to go get some sleep before all the students wake up."
Xavier nodded and watched her go. No doubt the student will be curious of the morning event. He decided to have Logan distract their curiosity with an early session in the danger room.
"Look out!" Bobby yelled to Kurt, as a laser beam aimed for him. Booby threw an ice wall in front of him.
"Thanks! Rogue, twelve o' clock!" Rogue jumped out of the way and threw some disks at the target.
"Jamie is stuck in the cage."
"I'm on it!" replied Kitty and she phased him out.
"So why do you think we are having a morning session all of a sudden?"
Rogue and Kitty ran behind a wall.
"Ah'm pretty sure they are doin it so that we go snooping around."
Bobby collapsed behind the wall out of breath. It took him a couple seconds to speak.
"Hey… you realize that if one of us gets hurt we get to go to the med bay."
"Yeah, but Logan is watching. He more than likely would catch on." Kitty stuck he head through the wall to see what was going on. "There is a clear path to the stop button."
The other two mutants nodded and ran out from behind the wall.
Kurt joined them as they ran. "Amara is going to go for it."
Amara flew over the team and straight to the button that ended the session. Right as she was about to touch it when a robotic arm slammed her against the floor. Seeing the opportunity, Kurt teleported straight to the button and punched it down. A bell rang and the room closed up.
"Not bad," Logan said over the speaker. "If you didn't have Kurt to teleport over, you all would be still fighting. Someone should have backed Amara up. That's enough for today though. Wash up and head down to breakfast."
The students cheered and rushed out of the room and headed towards the kitchen. They had been woken up early in the morning danger room session. Needless to say they weren't too happy about it.
"This is not how ah wanted to start ma Saturday." Rogue stabbed a pancake. "As soon as ah' finish eating ah'm going straight to bed."
"It looks like Bobby is way ahead of you Rogue." Kurt said. Bobby was sound asleep in his chair with drool coming out the side of his mouth. Some of the younger students were aiming grapes at his open mouth.
Jean walked in and stood in the doorway looking around. Scott jumped up and embraced her. They walked to a table together and sat down. "Hey Jean, what's going on? I haven't seen you all day."
"I was helping out with the girl." She grabbed an orange and started peeling it.
"What happened? You're quiet and tired for a reason."
" I stayed up watching her and she had a nightmare." She decided not to go into details about her nightmare because of curious students around her. Scott was about to ask another question but she stopped him. "Your are starting to sound like the kids."
He smiled but could tell something was up. "I have been hanging around them too long."
She laughed and finished her orange. "I'm going to head back to the med bay." She stood up. Scott sighed and stood up as well.
"I'll go with you. I haven't seen the kid yet and I think this is the only I'm going to be able to see you."
Jean smiled and they walked together to the med bay.
Authors Note: Hi everyone! I hoped you liked the chapter! Sorry it took so long for me to update!!! Hey I already have a power in mind for the girl but I want to hear some of your ideas on some powers that I could use later on in the story! R&R!!