AN: Sorry this took so long to post. I was having a hard time figuring out what I wanted to do with it. Oh...I also apologize to all those Scott fans out there. *crickets chirp* Um...I guess there aren't any Scott fans reading this. *shrugs* Go figure. One other thing...I apologize for all the new Dustin fans...you'll see what I mean when you read this chapter. Don't worry though he'll kick Scott's ass again sometime in the future. Anyway...on with the story!

Sarah was still a bit dumbfounded. This couldn't be happening. Stuff like this doesn't happen to people like her. He couldn't be alive. It was impossible. There was just now way it was true. Then she watched an all too real Logan swipe his claws across the metal thing, correction staff, Dustin was swinging around. And just where did those come from? She thought. Sarah watched as Dustin's staff was cut in half. Dustin, unwilling to give up, threw one of the pieces at Logan. Logan dodged it easily and moved closer to Dustin. As Logan was about to strike Sarah's emotions spilled over.

"NO! Damn it! I said No!" Sarah yelled furiously.

As she yelled the ground let loose with a tremor of enormous size. Everyone, with the exception of Sarah herself, was thrown onto the ground. Logan was forced a good ways from where he had been. Dustin staggered towards Sarah and fell, landing on a rock. Ororo found herself thrown towards the mansion. She used her powers to land on the roof without getting hurt. Fortunately the institute had survived worse than this and the only damage to the grounds were the ornate statuary in the front lawn near where they were standing which crumbled. Sarah didn't notice any of this. She was hell bent on one thing. She could see it gleaming there in the grass. She wanted some answers and she was going to get them damn it.

Ororo was about to fly down and help when Sarah leapt cat-like, landing on Dustin with a solid thump. Dustin groaned a little at the impact but it wasn't really that bad, as she only weighed 100 pounds. What he didn't realize in his slightly dazed state was that she held half of a metal pole in her hand and she was ready and willing to use it. Maybe my help is not necessary. Ororo thought amused.

"Alright! I want some answers and I want them now!" Sarah screamed brandishing the pole.

"Sarah what're you talking about?" Dustin asked still trying to figure out what was going on.

"Don't give me that bullshit Dustin. You know what the hell I'm talking about!" Sarah said making sure he could see the pole.

"Look...I'm a little confused here. Why do you have half of my staff in your hand?" Dustin asked.

"Because, you were a dumb ass and decided to attack these people." Sarah replied.

"Ah...I see. You're safe?" Dustin asked not really paying any attention to the pole.

"Yeah. No thanks to you!" Sarah said angrily.

"Whatever. Some people don't realize when they're being saved from impending doom." Dustin replied trying to keep Sarah talking until he could think of a way to get her off him without hurling her into a tree.

"Impending doom? Does this look like impending doom to you? I came here for a reason you know!" Sarah replied incredulously.

"What reason? So they could use you to hunt and kill other mutants?" Dustin demanded getting just as angry.

"How would you know anything? Maybe I came here because I want to hunt mutants? But you wouldn't know that because you didn't talk to me or even tell me you were alive for FIVE FUCKING YEARS!" Sarah screamed in Dustin's ear.

"OW! It's not like I had a choice ya know!" Dustin yelled back.

"Yeah I'm sure Michigan is so dangerous and you've been so busy that you couldn't write to me at all." Sarah scoffed.

"Well maybe it was." Dustin tried to defend himself.

"BULLSHIT!" Sarah roared as she swung the pole at his head.

Dustin's head rolled to the side with a sickening thump when the pole connected. A large bruise formed on his right temple. Sarah blinked, looked down and her hand and dropped the piece of metal as if it were on fire.

"Dustin?" Sarah asked shaking her friend.

No, no, no. This is all a dream...that's right just a bad dream...I didn't really hit my best friend over the head with a metal pipe possibly killing him. Sarah shut her eyes. When I open my eyes again I will look down and he won't be there. It will only be my imagination. Sarah snapped open her eyes and grimaced when she realized it wasn't a dream.

"Oh shit, oh shit, oh shit, oh shit." Sarah said repeating it like a mantra.

With all the emotions coursing through her she was surprised that she wasn't causing another earthquake. I guess I can only do so much. She thought. The world was doing funny things though and right now she didn't really trust herself to stand. Plus she was too worried about Dustin to really move. What if I've really killed him? Sarah thought miserably. I didn't think I could hit that hard. Wow...um.... She barely noticed the arms that picked her off of Dustin. In fact, she didn't notice that she had fallen off of him and had been picked up off the ground. Nor did she realize that she had caused another earthquake. She was too far gone by then.

"Can somebody stop the ride? I wanna get off now." Sarah mumbled not realizing she had said the words out loud.

The last thing she saw was Dustin lying, unmoving, on the grass. Her body finally decided that it had had enough and she passed out.