NUMB

Linkin Park

I'm tired of being

What you want me to be

Feeling so faithless

Lost under the surface

I don't know what you're

Expecting of me

Put under the pressure

Of walking in your shoes

Lina Lebeau stood in the kitchen of her supposed home. In front of her stood her foster parent Eric; aka Magneto. Again he was lecturing the 16 year old "orphan". "If your parents were here to see your actions ---"

"They would be ashamed, right?" Lina snapped back. "I'm sick of being compared to them! They're dead!" She ran up the stairs to her bedroom, slamming the wooden door in his face. She fell to the floor cluching the sides of her head.

(caught in the under tow

just caught in the undertow)

Every step that I take is another

Mistake to you

Eric swung the door open, hard. "What possessed you to go off like that?! Do you know what would happen to this school if we were to be found out?! What would happen to me! We are the future X-Men, Lina, Not the fucking Brotherhood!"

"How ironic is that?" Lina laughed. "The X-men are dead! I'm sick of trying to follow in their fucking shoes! It's me LIFE!"

"It's not your life until you are 18!"

I've become so numb

I can't feel you there

Become so numb

So much more aware

I'm becoming this

All I want to do

Is be more like me

And be less like you

Lina ran to her desk after Eric had locked her in her room. She pulled out a small notebook and quickly began to right her good bye note:

Can't you see that

You're smothering me

Holding to tightly afraid

To lose control

'cause everything that you

thought I would be

is falling apart

right in front of you

every step that I take

is another mistake to you

and every second I waste is

more than I can take

She left the note on the desk and stood at the open window. "You know, Rogue," she whispered to the sky, "I used to be able to feel apart of you guys inside of me. But guess what," she climbed so that she could swing her legs out of the window. "Fuck YOU!"

And I know I may end up

Failing too

'cause I know, that you were

just like me with

someone disappointed in you

As she fell, her eyes shut as tight as possible. She didn't feel her self hit bottom. She heard a laugh as she slipped out of consciousness.

+End Chapter 1+

Author's note, well what do you think? Did she die, didn't she die, that is the question!

Disclaimer: I do not own any of the X-Men characters, however I do own Lina Lebeau!