A/N: Sorry for the wait, exam week was hectic and life caught up to me for a short while. Kudos to anyone who reads and reviews Spitfire47

Danica sat in her room alone, she didn't want anyone to be around her, she didn't want anyone to bother her, she just wanted to be by herself and in silence. She stood by the window and watched people outside, then she laid on her bed for a while before standing back up again. Danica would have been bored out of her mind, but her mind was busy working over Project Shadow. She tried to figure out how Stryker would be able to transfer her powers into soldiers to create super soldiers. Danica had never heard of anything like that existing or being possible, the transfer of unnatural molecules were highly dangerous and had many outcomes. She went to her laptop, typed in the insertion into the private networking system and then read through the messages that were before her. She then sighed and typed in another password. Maps, layouts and blueprints were before her and Dancia studied them for a long time before a message for her popped up in her PM. Danica glanced over, typed in another password before being given access into her PM then read the message.

Danica

North woods 6pm Alcatraz 9:00pm

Danica read the message over again and then realized what was going on. She closed the window logged out of the system and then stared blankly at the screen. Danica looked out the window, then at her door wondering if she would ever see it again, she wondered if she would ever see Lane, Wade, or Bradley again or if everything was going to go down the drain into ultimate disaster. The rebels were going after the cure.

Downstairs Bradley was waiting for Danica to come back down. Some of the X-men had left along with Xavier who had gone on an important errand that needed to be run. Wade had gone with them along with Lane who declared he was bored. Bradley sighed and then took out a small robot from his pocket, it was the first robot Dancia had won during a poker game on Stryker's private military base. He shuddered at the thought of the horrible man then stuffed the robot back into his pocket, he didn't want to this of that he only wanted to think of Danica and how she was coping with everything going on. He knew that they shouldn't have told Danica about Project Shadow, he knew that they should have kept their mouths shut and that he could have told them no. Bradley felt the weight of the dormant robot weigh down in his pocket and he felt the same weight in his chest as he thought about Danica. He understood that it must have been hard to hear something like that, he worried that Danica would leave again without a notice or that Danica would do something drastic. But she would...would she? Bradley sighed, got up and then went to Danica's room.

"Danica?" he asked knocking softly on the door.

The door opened and Bradley saw Dancia lying on the bed, pieces of shadow furniture floating, molded and attached themselves onto Danica or each other. She seemed to be sleeping but Bradley knew that Danica concentrates better when she was in darkness therefore her eyes were closed. He looked to see his own shadow detatch itself from him, float towards Danica and then Danica's eyes snapped open. The shadows retreated immediately into it's original host and Danica looked at Bradley.

"Hi," he said.

Danica sighed and then scooted over a bit so that Bradley could come and lie beside her.

"Are you alright?" he asked.

"Yeah," Danica said her voice was hoarse and it seemed that she was tired.

"You look tired." Bradley wanted to slap himself for saying something rhetorical like that but Danica only smiled and nodded slighty, "A little." Bradley then embraced Dancia and nuzzled her, Danica kissed him on the cheek, then it moved to the mouth and finally Danica made grabs for the covers.

Everything was going great for Danica, she felt high in the sky and she never wanted to come back down. But then her laptop suddenly started to beep and it got louder and louder until it became nothing but a deafening shriek. Danica groaned and then maneuvered her body through the tangle of covers and Bradley who laughed everytime Dancia moved into him. Danica sighed, "Move it Tech-Boy!"

Bradley laughed again and then said, "Oh leave it, it is just a message."

"Who's it from?"

"Me."

Bradley kissed her and Dancia snorted, "Seriously who is it from?"

Bradley shrugged, "I dunno, it's anonymous."

Danica sighed and then threw off the covers and quickly wrapped a towel around herself before going onto her computer. Bradley started to get dressed again and Danica looked at the message and tried not to destroy the computer while reading. It was yet another message from Barricade about the meeting tonight in the North Woods and then the protest again Alcatraz where the cure is suppose to be held. Danica had gotten at lease fifty messages from him but she ignored each and every one of them because they began to extremely annoy her. She knew she was suppose to be in the North Forest at 6pm.

"What is it?"

"Junk mail." Dancia clicked 'delete' and watched as the message vanished from her inbox. A small ring came from Bradley's cell and he flipped it open then talked. Danica was swimming in her own thoughts while Bradley was talking.

"They're back." Danica didn't hear him.

"Danica?"

"What?"

"They're back, Wade and them..they're here."

Danica got up and then looked over at the clock; 5:30pm. Shit! Danica had only thirty minutes until the meeting started and she said, "I have to go."

Bradley shrugged, "I'll come with."

"No! I mean...I'm just going to be a few minutes. I'm going to the library for a few books for my psychology ISU."

Bradley nodded, "Okay..."

Danica dashed out of the room and then Bradley shouted, "Do you want me to come with you?"

"NO!" Danica shouted back, "I'll be back."

She shifted into a shadow and started to jump through the shadows to speed herself up. Danica moved quickly and then without knowing it, jumped through Storm's shadow. As she went through her minds crossed Storm's strongest thought and it shocked Danica.

Xavier is dead.

It was such a shock it almost made Danica stop...almost.