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Author's Notes: Taima, Garion and Sakura are my freeform X-Men RPG characters that exist within an alternate X-men universe with another Fanfiction.net author, Lauria.

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Displacement Ch. 2: Forget-Me-Not - by Taima

Doctor Taima Lo frowned as she looked over the now sleeping body of her son, Garion, who had decided to assault another student earlier on that evening. "Garion what am I going to do with you? You father is not going to be happy about this... " She sighed as she looked around the health room, his injuries weren't too bad, just some minor internal bleeding in addition to the minor external scrapes. But, Garion's healing factor had seen to those "superficial" wounds, he'd live if she didn't kill him first.

Jean entered the Health Room, with a frown across her face. Taima didn't look over to Jean as she entered, "Smells like Witch Hazel.. Jeannie. Has anyone found Miss Marie Ketsurui yet?" Taima turned to face Jean.

"Not yet Tammy. She hasn't stopped displacing herself yet so we can't get a fix on her location until she stops. Has Garion woken up yet?" Jean sighed as she pushed a strand of red hair out of her eyes.

"He hasn't yet. Any idea what happened other than the fact that my son is an idiot?" Taima looked at her son again, he was in REM sleep so he wouldn't be waking up for a while now. She looked away from her son to a small potted plant that had started to wilt. "Oh no.."

Jean looked over at Taima as she examined the plant. "I guess whomever was supposed to water the plants today forgot about that one..." Jean watched Taima closely as the woman touched the plant and a small intrigcate vine tattoo appeared over the Taima's right cheek. "Out of curiousity, what do you associate Marie with?"

"Marie?" Tammy smiled softly as the plant perked up and took on a healthier glow. "That girl.. she reminds me of.. forget-me- nots." She looked over to Jean as the tattoo faded from her cheek once more.

"Why Forget-me-nots?" Jean looked at her curiously.

"It's just a scent that she has, like you remind me of Witch Hazel, Logan reminds me of Daisies, and Scott reminds me of Skunk weed. It's hard to explain, but I feel that the plants represent the personality in some aspect. But, in Marie's case I think it's more because she is alone and that she doesn't want to be alone anymore, despite what she says."

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Marie found herself on the other side of Niagra Falls when she finally stopped to catch her breathe. The boy had scared her and she had scared herself. "Did I really do that? Did I really displace him?" She pressed up against the side of a pine tree as the cold water spray cooled her skin. "What am I going to do now?"

From a distance, Sakura Lo watched Marie appear on the other side of the Falls. She had decided to visit the Falls on a whim, since the Academy was getting on her nerves. She had often wondered if her mother ever thought of her or what she was doing since their falling out but she figured that she would see if her mother would make an appearence if you caused some trouble. But this girl across the Falls had caught her interest... this girl had simply appeared, therefore, she was most likely a mutant and in theory- one of Charles Xavier's kids. Sakura smiled softly to herself, yes, this would be the perfect chance for her to recruit a new girl into the Academy and probably piss off her mom. "Heh, this is going to be fun."

When Marie looked up again she noticed that someone was staring at her from across the Falls... it was odd but she could swear that the person was really looking directly at her without a pair of binoculars. But she could hear someone whispering something in her ear.. 'Hello there, who are you hiding from?'

Marie blinked a bit, she knew she was alone but she could hear someone right beside her.

"I'm not hiding... but you are hiding from me. Show yourself!"

'Now now, no need to shut, I can hear you perfectly. And I am not hiding from you, you can see me just fine.' Marie looked back to the person on the other side of the Falls again, they were out of focus for Marie but she saw the person wave to her.

"So that's you? How can you see me from over there?"

'Such a silly question. How did you magically appear over there my dear?' The voice chuckled, and Marie could now tell that it was a woman's voice.. probably not that much older than her.

"You're a mutant too?"

'You say that word with such disdain, but yes. I am one of the enlightened.'

"Stay away from me, there is no way I'm going back to the School..."

'And what makes you think I want you to go back to Xavier's?'

"You're not from the School?"

'Well.. technically, I used to be.. but that was a long time ago. But if you'd like, I can help you understand your powers a little better.. unless of course you really want to go back..'

Marie blinked a bit, did she want to go back to the School? She didn't answer the voice, she really didn't know what she wanted anymore. She thought that she really wanted to be left alone but yet.. she hadn't thought of leaving the school until now. She wondered aloud, "Isn't anyone trying to find me?"

To be continued..