Tara stares for a moment at the place where he'd once stood then runs to the window

Takira was still excatly the same crying quietly into her arms. "Landon?"Tara yells

looking down at the ground. Small slivers glittered on the floor, ground below, and also

along the jagged window ledge. "Landon! Are you ok?!?"she yells again as the siren

grow louder,We gotta get back. "Takira, will you come with me? Landon'll come too

eventually." She moves and crouches before her pulling her arms away from her face.

"But what if she hurts him?"thel ittle girl asks getting up and wiping at her eyes. Tara

sighs and takes her hand,"We can't do anything for him right now, Takira." She nods,

"There's a back way out of here away from the noise." Tara nods and follows her down

a hall and outside just as the police begin to enter the building. Landon you'd better

come back, she silently commands him walking toward the brotherhoood with Takira,

I'm giving you some time, then I'm going after you.....
Landon heard the voices before he became fully awake. "We couldn't have saved the

girl, Professor,"a woman says as something presses against his stomache. He

groans feeling the pain and turns slightly away. "It's ok.....no one's going to hurt you,"the

same woman says placing something that felt like a hand to his forehead. He slowly

opens his eyes feeling as if they were covered by giant bags of sand. His first sight

was a guy with some type of red sunglass things on. "Jean, he's awake...." Landon

saw the woman for the first time as she came around to check his eyes. She gives

him a half smiles, then shines a light into his eyes. "Are you feeling better,

Landon?"the woman, obviously Jean, asks moving to stand in front of him. He had to

admit she was pretty with dark red hair and he wasn't sure about her eye color but

knew it must be pretty. He remains silent guessing the other guy with the shades is

Landon. He groans again as her hand touches parts of his chest, stomache, and face

that cause pain. "Look kid, you're Landon....now do you feel better?"the guy asks

earning a reproaching look. "Scott, go find Xavier." Scott, the guy with the shades

walks out and vanishes from his sight. Landon?he wonders about the name but sits

up realizing that he was naked from the waist up. "Landon, we need you to come tell

us who this girl is that you were fighting,"she instructs helping him up as he notices the

burn marks on his stomache and chest. He felt a wave of fear as she removes a white

sheet from something laying on a table nearby. Please don't let it be Tara, he prays

staring at the bloody, bruised body and turned away with a wave of sickness. "I'm

sorry; do you recognize her?"Jean asks fixing the sheet back over the body as he leans

against the counter. He starts to speak, but only shakes his head. Who's this Tara

that I keep thinking of? "You don't know her?" He shakes his head again. "What do

you know?"she asks as a man in a wheelchair slowly comes into the room. "Uh...just

that my parents were killed in a fire when I was a child." "He tells the truth Jean...he

remembers nothing and we can't force them back into his mind,"the new man tells

her wheeling his chair over to him. "Who are you and why do you want to help me?

Being what I am?"Landon asks moving one of his arms and feeling a sharp pain shoot

through his body. "We're mutan, too, Landon...get on a shirt and I'll give you a tour of

Xavier's Institute for Gifted Youngsters,"the man says now the only one in the room

since Jean and Scott left. He finds a long-sleeved gray shirt laying on the table and

quickly pulls it over his head groaning slightly as it touches his burned stomache and

chest. "Landon, I will now introduce myself.....My name is Charlest Xavier and you are

at my school for children with abilities..."