*************** People in the room right now: Kurt, Cat, Professor Xavier, Logan, and Ororo *** "AndIwillgotothedangerroomrightnowbye!!" Kitty ran off.

"Ummm... Translation?" Kurt blinked.

Cat's/Ten's eyes turned gray.

Kurt jumped, "Vhat ze- Vhat vas ZAT??"

"I call it a picturethought," Ten said.

"Vhich vould be?..." Kurt prompted.

"A telepathically sent image, sound, or memory," Ten explained.

"Ummm... Right..."

Logan left the room.

Ten smiled self consiously, "Sorry, I have a habit of either speaking child- talk or using a too large vocabulary for anyone to understand me."

"Alright, then, Ten, do you have anything you need to get from anywhere? For in your room?" Ororo asked.

"Niken." Ten said.

"Vhat?" Kurt asked.

"Huh? Oh, sorry... I meant to say, no, I do not have anything to get."

"Were you speaking in another language, Ten? I didn't recognize it." Ororo asked. (AN: I don't know a thing about Ororo's personality, so don't expect anything for her, just a warning.)

"Yes, it is called Nika." Ten said.

"I never heard of that language...?" Ororo tried to get more information out of him.

"It is a supposedly dead language. Although since it was my first language, I do not believe it truly can be clssified as that." Ten pondered.

"Oh? So English is your second language?" Ororo asked.

Ten nodded, "Yes," He seemed to be about to say something else, but stopped himself.

"Well... Do you want me to show you to your room now?" Ororo suggested.

Ten nodded, "That would be a good idea..." They headed upstairs.

"So, Ten... Vhen did you learn English, if it's your second language?" Kurt asked.

"When I was six or seven," Ten answered.

"So... Did you learn in school, or vhat?" Kurt continued his questioning.

"Kitty taught me," Ten said simply as they reached his new room.

"Huh? How long have you known her, anyvay?" Kurt asked.

"Since I was six," Ten said.

"How old are you now?" Kurt continued interrogating Ten.

"Sixteen," Ten said.

"Alright, Kurt. Stop cross-examining Ten," Ororo ordered, "This will be your room, Ten. Kitty's room is over there, and Kurt stays in that room. Do you need anything else?"

"No, Mrs.... Munroe. I will be fine," Ten rolled his eyes.

"Alright, then... I'll be downstairs if you need anything," Ororo walked off. 'I don't remember telling him my last name...' She thought.

Ten and Kurt went into the room. It had blue walls, and a white ceiling. The bed had navy blue bedclothes.

"If I am going to be staying here, will I have to have danger room sessions, do you think?" Ten asked.

At the same time Kurt asked, "How did a five year old teach someone to speak English?" They both laughed. "I don't think so, unless you join ze X- men," Kurt answered Ten's question.

"And in case you have forgotten, five year olds are the best sort of teachers," Ten answered Kurt's question.

They smiled at each other. "So, how exactly did you meet Keetty?" Kurt asked curiously.

"Let's see... I... switched places with her toy cat... in the middle of the night... And she understood Nika, for some reason, so we talked for awhile... And then her parentrs heard the noise, and came in, and the second they came in I went back home, so they did not see me, and she told them about the little boy who had comne to visit her, and they thought she had been dreaming, and then I came back the next night, and she spoke of me to her parents again, and etcetra, so, eventually they decided that she was lying or hallucinating, so they sent her to a phsyciatrist, who decided that she was hallucinating, and-" Ten stopped in the middle of the conversation.

"Vhy'd you stop talking?" Kurt asked.

He turned around and came face to face with...

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Okay, I just wanted to try to tell people ahead of time- I'm going to be really busy and won't really have time to write, so a friend of mine, Persona the ITG, is going to be taking over this fic... Okay? Just warning you ahead of time.... Or trying to....

Yeah...

~Flamekiller