I'm just rolling right along here...
Two weeks had passed since Logan brought Sam back to the Institute in his strange coma-like state. The teen hadn't so much as twitched the entire time and the Professor still couldn't reach him mentally.
In order to distract themselves most of the other students had decided to delve into the clues to Sam's past that they had found in his music box. "Alright, searching for anyone missing under the name Sam Vance." Evan said as he clicked on the search button on the computer screen.
After several minutes, the computer screen fully loaded with almost six hundred hits. "Oh man…how come there's so many Sam's in the world?" Kurt asked seeing the large number of results they had gotten.
"What about if you include the date?" Rogue suggested.
Evan nodded and quickly added 'December 3' to his search bar. Once the next screen loaded the results had been cut down by a little over half. "That's still a lot, Dude…"
"Well, what do you expect? If it was that easy don't you think Sam would have done it himself already?" Scott asked from where he was sitting on the couch with his English Textbook. Him and Jean had steadfastly avoided joining the others…at least outright. They were still giving a comment every once and a while.
"How about if you, like, used the newspaper clipping?" Kitty said before phasing through Evan's chest –with a slight protest from Evan- to type the headline into the search bar herself.
This time over a thousand hits, since Kitty had gotten rid of the other search parameters. "Whoa…" She slipped back through Evan. "That's, like, a lot of missing kids…"
"Over two thousand kids are reported missing each day." Jean informed. "Try adding everything into one search." She suggested looking over at where the others were crowded around the computer.
"Right." Evan quickly typed in everything their snooping had found.
After several minutes, they still had a little over a dozen matches. "Oh, man, this is hopeless…" Kurt groaned as he flopped half over the back of Evan's chair.
"Nah, man, fourteen are a lot easier to search than six hundred." Evan pointed out before clicking on the first result. It wasn't long before they discarded that result as an option. That Sam Vance had been sixty and his teenage nephew had gone missing, not him.
The second was a woman named Eliza Vance who went missing with her infant daughter Samantha. That one was discarded too. After almost an hour they had gone through all fourteen hits and still found nothing. "It's like he never even existed." Rogue said as they discarded the last option of a teen named Samara Wright who went missing with her boyfriend Jon Vance.
"It'd help if you had his real name."
The teens turned and saw Logan leaning against the doorframe with an apple jabbed on the end on his claws. "Mr. Logan? You, like, know Sam's real name?" Kitty asked with a little surprise.
"Yep." He said before taking a bite out of his apple.
After a minute of waiting, Logan still hadn't shared his information. "Well, what is it all ready?" Rogue asked exasperatedly.
Logan waited another several minutes before tossing a crumpled up piece of paper at them. "I never gave ya that." He commented before turning and quietly leaving the room with his apple still stuck on his claws.
Evan, who had caught the paper, quickly flattened out the paper ball on the desk. Scott had even abandoned his book to look over his shoulder. "Sampson Vance LeRoux…" Evan read aloud.
"French. I guess that makes sense." Scott commented.
Evan typed the name into the search bar and clicked on the first result that he was given. The result was a newspaper archive with the headline "SEARCH ENDED FOR LOCAL TEEN". "I think this is it…" Kurt said getting a little excited.
"That's what you, like, said three time already." Kitty pointed out.
"The search was ended yesterday for local teenager, Sampson LeRoux." Scott read. "Authorities say that they have found no evidence of foul play in the disappearance and the teen had a history of depression and erratic behavior."
"Sounds like him." Rogue commented blandly.
Scott frowned a bit and continued to read the article aloud. "Sampson disappeared December 3rd after leaving his home in Tioga for a party at a friends house."
"Tioga? Where's that?" Kurt asked curiously.
"Tioga County, it's here in New York. Over near the Finger Lakes." Jean supplied finally abandoning her own reading for the more interesting article that the others had found. "My parents go up there every once and a while for the wine."
"Sampson's parents deny the claims that their son was suicidal and insist that something had happened to him during his walk across town. 'Sampson wasn't like that', his mother said Saturday, 'he'd have never killed himself. He had bipolar, but it was under control.' Mr. And Mrs. LeRoux have two other children in middle school both of which claim their brother wouldn't have run away without telling them." Rogue continued where Scott left off.
The rest of the article wasn't particularly helpful, citing rising crime rates and increased number of runaways reported everyday. "Looks like they just assumed he ran off." Scott commented.
"I wonder if Sam knows he has siblings…" Jean mused thoughtfully. "I just sorta assumed he was an only child."
"Me too." Kitty said "You think he'd, like, be a little friendlier if he had brothers and sisters…"
"Well, dude did forget his own name." Evan pointed out.
"At least we found something though." Kurt said pointing to the article. "We know his parents are still looking for him! That ought to make him happy, right?"
Scott frowned a bit. "Kurt, this article is from nearly three years ago, that's a long time to keep looking for someone."
"B-but…they're his parents."
