I haven't heard anything about this yet but thought that I might as well do an update anyway.


Amanda was not sure how long she had been out but when she finally awoke she was confronted by the concerned face of the Professor,

"Wha ... what happened ?" She asked

"You fainted when speaking to Nathan." He replied. "You saw something before you collapsed did you not?"

"I saw a death." Amanda whispered.

"Are you sure it was Nathan that you saw?"

"Yes. It was certainly him, he looked a bit older than he does now but I am sure that it was him. Will you tell him that I'm sorry, I don't want to see these things, I can live with it but I do not want to see people die when I tough them."

"You don't need to apologise to me. I've known that I'm going to die young for years now. Nothing I can do about it that's just the way my life is going to go." Nate said stepping into her field of vision, suddenly the look of age in his eyes that she had noticed before began to make some sense.

"That's horrible." Amanda said sitting up and looking at him. Nate just smiled.

"You must be hungry Amanda, do you wish to go down to join the others for a meal or do you want me to get someone to bring something up to you?" Xavier asked

"I'd like to go down, if that is no bother." Amanda said

"I'll take her down and keep an eye on her. Is there anyone that you want me to introduce her to?" Nate asked

"If Kurt is down there then introduce her to him and Logan as well." Xavier said and with that wheeled his chair out the room.

"Do you want to freshen up before you go down, I kinda just grabbed you and got you up here as quickly as possible." Nate asked. Amanda got to her feet and looked in a mirror, seeing the state of her hair she knelt down at her travel bag and pulled a brush out of a side pocket and proceeded to set it straight, when she was happy with the result she set the brush on the side by the mirror and turnned to face him.

"I saw two other people in my vision and I didn't recognise either of them" Amanda said to him.

"I Might, would you object if I looked into your memory to see who they are?" Nate asked. Amanda shook her head, it took a few seconds before she felt another presance in her mind.

"Nate?" She called cautiously

"Don't shout please." he replied and she felt a mental wince at the volume.

"Sorry. I didn't realise I was. I've never had anyone inside my head before and it's slightly strange. Do you recognise them?"

"Yes. It's Jean and Scot. They're not here at the moment but they are close to parents to me" Nate said. Amanda could here the sadness in his voice and she tried to see what is was that upset him so much. She had a brief glimpse of an inhuman face laughing at him and then the man - Scott - trying to save him.

"Nate what was that?"

"Nothing that you need to know about at the moment. Come on lets go down and join the others." With that comment all trace of his thoughts vanished from her head leaving her feeling curiously alone in her own head.

The room that Nate led her to was a very large kitchen with various people sitting around and talking animatedly to each other. Two people were over by the cooker and dishing out Pizza and chips, Amanda's attention was drawn to a amn shaped figure sitting talking to the others, however he was covered in blue fur and when he looked up she could see that he looked like a demon. On seeing a stranger standing in the doorway he flickered and changed so that a an with pale brown hair sat there instead.

"Who's the girl junior? You know you don't bring strangers back here without checking with us first." A short man growled at Nate.

"Logan this is Amanda Palmer, she just arrived here and is a new student." Nate replied. "Amanda this is Logan, don't mind him if he growls at you it's just his way."

"Hello." Amanda ventured feeling intimidated by the man and by the others that were looking at her.

"Rogue, Gambit is any of that Pizza going begging at the moment?" Nate asked the pair at the cooker.

"Help yurself Sugah." The woman replied. Nate smiled a thanks at her before helping himself to pizza and a generous helping of chips, Amanda followed his example and put some food on a plate before sitting next to Nate and eating quietly.

"Nate?" Amanda called quietly searching for his thoughts

"What's wrong?" He replied slightly surprised that she was speaking to him.

"Who are all these people, are they like us?"

"Yes. Everyone here has mutant abilities of some type or another." Nate replied before switching a more verbal for of communication. "Kurt, could you come here and meet Amanda, Xavier asked me to introduce you to her." The man who Amanda was sure had been covered in fur before got to his feet and walked towards them.

"Hello Fraulein." Kurt said when he sat next to them.

"Err hi. Umm don't take this the wrong way but weren't you blue and covered in fur before?" Amanda ventured.

"Why do you ask?" Kurt asked cautiously

"I thought you were before you saw me and I just wanted to say that it didn't bother me at all."

"Then yes." A quick gesture swithched off the image inducer and Amanda was able to look at the man in front of her, despite his appearance there was nothing about him that scared her he was just different as all of them were.