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Luke grinned opening the fridge, "You sure you don't want anything Nikki? I make the BEST omelets."
Nikki nodded, sucking on his thumb once again.
"You sure?" Luke prodded pulling out a carton of eggs and a package of cheese.
Nikki walked over and pulled himself up onto the kitchen counter, sitting and swinging his legs.
"I'm not hungry." He said.
Luke nodded finding himself a frying pan and set it on the stove.
"Alright, alright." He sighed looking for the bowls.
"God this place is huge!" He muttered to himself, "So what do you think of everyone here so far?" He paused his search and glanced over at Nikki.
Nikki tilted his head.
"I like Lance and Scott... there cute together." He giggled. "That Todd boy is cute. And I like the white-haired lady, but the man in the wheelchair smiles at me too much." He shifted uncomfortably.
Luke nodded cracking several eggs into a bowl and began beating them with a fork.
"Yea, I think Xavier's just a little overly friendly. Either that or after loosing so many of his friends, his sanity might've..." He trailed off pouring the eggs into the now hot pan, "Well I've been set up to have something called a 'Danger Room Session' tonight, sounds...interesting."
"A session! Why? What did you do?" He started crying. "Don't GO Luke, please don't go."
"No, no, no! It's not like that Nikki!" Luke walked over to the counter, "It's a training program, to help me control my mutaion a little better, that and work out a bit. Maybe once I've tried it out and you've gotten used to this place I can help you out with learning how to fight." He smiled softly.
Nikki sniffled, and looked at Luke uncertainly. "What if they're lying?"
Luke shook his head, "I don't think they are. But if they are, and that's an IF, then we'll be outta here real quick. Okay?"
Nikki nodded, confident that Luke would look out for him. "Whatchya gonna eat?" He asked
"Umm..." Luke looked over his shoulder at his omelet that was starting to burn; he rushed over to it and turned the heat down, "An omelet." He smirked unwrapping two slices of cheese and placed them on the hot eggs.
Nikki stuck his tongue out. "Gross."
Luke grinned opening the 'fridge again and pulled out a bottle of ketchup, he frown looking at his eggs, "Too bad I didn't make any potatoes... oh well." He smiled setting his plate down on the counter and poured some ketchup on the eggs.
Nikki looked confused. "You can make potatoes? I thought you had to grow them?"
Luke nearly choked on his mouthful of eggs, he swallowed quickly and began to laugh, "I meant hash browns." He grinned digging back into the omelet.
Nikki still looked grossed out. "Food's gross." He said. "I dunno how you can eat... " He looked off to the side, trailing off in his speech. "Luke..." He said, faintly, then slid off the counter top.
"Hey! Nikki!" Luke panicked jumping from his seat.
Nikki stood transfixed by the looming darkness that stood in front of him. He couldn't make out what was hiding within it, only that whatever it was was scaring him shitless. He heard voices coming from it, nothing he could make out except a few words.
"climb... jump.... climb... jump...climb..." He couldn't move, stuck in the tragedy of his own mind, but called for Luke.
Luke panicked kneeling by Nikki's unconscious form, "Nikki wake up!" He shook the motionless boy's shoulders, "Nikki! Somebody help!" He cried over his shoulder picking up Nikki and cradled him to his chest, "Help!!"
Logan, the only one in hearing distance came running in, "What's going on?" He grunted looking to the boy in Luke's arms.
"I don't know, he just fainted!" Luke replied trying to stay calm.
Logan nodded.
"Gotta get 'im to the infirmary," He grunted, "Follow me."
He then raced out of the kitchen with Luke on his tail.
Everything was a blur until Luke and Logan reached the elevators then everything seemed to slow down to a painfully slow pace. Luke glanced at Logan whose eyes had glazed over slightly; he blinked and looked over at Luke.
"Xavier and Ororo are on their way."
Luke nodded hugging Nikki closer to his chest. The doors dinged open and the two exited into a large metallic brightly lit room.
"Set 'im on that table there." Logan instructed a few minutes later Ororo and Xavier came in.
"What happened?" Xavier asked wheeling over to Luke as Ororo examined Nikki.
"I don't know," Luke shrugged never once taking his eyes off of Nikki, "He just passed out."
"I can't find anything wrong with him Charles." Ororo frowned.
"Yes, I believe that the problem might be mentally," Xavier frowned, "I'm going to see if I can wake him up."
Luke watched apprehensively as Xavier wheeled over to Nikki and placed his hands on his head then closed his eyes.
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