Concentrate

Author: Kryptonite

Rating: PG-13

Disclaimer: I do not own X-men. There I said it, can I go back to typing now?

Summary: And we are awake again. We find out who 'Danny' is and why Tommie was so desperate to get to him. Wonder what Logan'll do when she wakes up *insert evil cackle*

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" Is she awake yet?" Tommie just ignored the voice in front of her, registering that it was decidedly quieter than the last time she'd woken up.

" She should be. We stopped giving her sedatives yesterday." Tommie discreetly tried to move her arm up to pull out the needles. Feeling the restraints she barely contained the scream of rage.

" Tommie?" A little boy's voice asked quietly. " Tommie please wake up." Tommie did her best not to stiffen at the sound of his voice, working slowly on getting her hands free.

" Come along. You'll see her later."

" No, I wanna talk to her now! Leave me alone!" Tommie suddenly lunged up, left arm still trapped to the bed as she made a move to help the boy.

" Ah, so good to see you awake." Danny smiled at her apologetically.

" Sowwy." He muttered, fear shining in his eyes. Tommie cringed at the look before tugging her other hand out of the restraint.

" It's alright." She muttered back. Danny smiled again before climbing up onto the bed with her. Looking back at her once, he grabbed a hold of her ankle and tugged until it too came out of the restraint. He repeated the process with the other leg. By this time Tommie had gotten the back of the bed to sit up.

Danny crawled up into her lap and settled down, his arms wrapping themselves around her waist. " I missed you." He whispered once before shutting his eyes.

" What time is it? Or better yet, what day?"

" My name is Dr. Hank McCoy and you're at Xavier's school for the gifted. You were-"

" Shot, I know. I don't care where I am or who you are. What. Time. Is. It?" Tommie grounded out the question trying to look around the empty room at the same time.

" Thomasin O'Riley you mind your manners." Tommie cringed at the sound of Sarah's voice. Turning to see her she held the cringe in place hoping she'd be spared a smack upside the head. " See you found Danny. Poor thing's been worried sick about you."

" I've been worried about him too Sarah." Tommie muttered, wrapping her arms tighter around him.

" Sorry to break this happy little moment but care to explain? I mean after breaking both our noses I think we deserve something." Logan said, just as sarcastic as ever.

" My name's Tommie. I was put in the camp as one of the first. I haven't seen my brother since those damn agents came in and… Danny plug your ears." The boy obeyed but plugged his ears with his fingers anyway. " And killed our parents. Not only did they have a problem with me and Danny being mutants, but my father got a sex-change for my mom." Logan's jaw, while not actually being dropped looked like it was going to.

" Can I hear now?" Danny asked, looking up at his sister. She nodded her head and his fingers popped out of his ears, going back to their regular shape.

" I told Danny to run as soon as I knew they were following us, Ma and Mattie sent us out the back door to the meadow and the woods beyond. I was hoping they hadn't caught him."

" So you held off how many government agents?"

" Ten. But then one swung a baseball bat at the back of my head and I was knocked out almost instantly." Logan snapped his fingers.

" I shoulda thought of that." He grinned evilly in her direction, causing her to sneer back.

" What can you tell us about the camp?" Scott asked, trying to shoo away Jean's hands going towards his nose.

" Not much. Used as a place to keep mutants 'safe' from the outside world, had numerous laboratories under the ground and it had crappy food."

" Anything else you can remember." Scott asked, pressing the issue.

" Oh yeah. It was cold." After the last comment Sarah did hit Tommie upside the head.

" Well, let Jean take another once over of you and when she decides if you can move or not you can talk to Professor Xavier." Danny went up into Sarah's arms, his little head snuggling into her hair as everyone but Jean and Tommie left the room.

" Here, let me take that off. We've been so busy with everything else and keeping you from hurting yourself or anyone else that we haven't had time." Jean reached towards Tommie's neck with a key to unlock the metal choker placed there. Tommie jerked back, nearly falling off the narrow hospital bed.

" No, it's fine."

" But-"

" I said it's fine." The tone of Tommie's voice warned Jean not to push it any farther.

" Just means I can't do any detailed scans." Tommie actually brightened up at this.

" Perfect."

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A/N: Alright now we know who Danny is. We know the basics of their stories and how they got to be in the camp but why doesn't Tommie want the collar off?

Tell me what you think, have a good life.