Logan carried Nikki into the infirmary where Xavier looking worried met him.
"Logan, what's going on?" He asked wheeling over Logan as he laid Nikki down in a bed.
"This kid's a mutant, he just healed Luke." Logan grunted turning and folding his arms over his chest.
Xavier furrowed his eyebrows and turned as the others came in.
Lance, with Scott's help, came in, also depositing Luke on a bed.
Scott looked over worriedly at Xavier, "He was... there was blood and... he was ... dead..." Scott stammered, somewhat in shock.
Lance grabbed him and held him and told him to shush, before talking to Xavier, "What if whatever ... killed Luke is still out there?" He asked coolly.
"I don't know Lance," Xavier frowned, "B-"
Luke started to cough cutting Xavier off in mid word.
Scott jumped and went over to help the boy sit up, "Luke? You're okay; you're in the infirmary. Relax, you're okay." He said, not wanting to push the boy too far too soon.
Luke swatted at Scott then took a deep breath, "N... what happened?" His voiced cracked slightly and he coughed again.
"That's what we'd like to know." Logan grunted now standing beside Scott.
Scott explained. "We found you outside, you were..." He swallowed. "There was a knife in your chest, and a lot of blood and... you were dead." He stopped to let this sink in.
Luke blinked, "A knife..." He repeated furrowing his eyebrows and trying to think back to what had happened to himself, "Oh God," He groaned covering his eyes with his hand, "Was it a Swiss Army Pocket knife?" He asked looking up.
Logan nodded.
Lance cocked his head. "Why? Did you see something? We need to know if the Institute's gonna be in any trouble..."
Luke shook his head, "I've always carried a pocket knife with me, stole it from one of the orderlies at the asylum and kept it hidden..." He frowned at the thought then blushed, "I took it out and was cleaning it with my shirt when I heard something. I must've turned to fast or something cause the next thing I knew I was falling."
Scott looked at Luke blankly, but Lance burst out laughing... "You-you..." He laughed till he couldn't stand, sliding down the wall, more a release of stress than cause of any actual humor.
Logan scowled at Lance then at Luke and walked out of the room. Xavier shook his head a look of relief washing over his face.
Luke smiled warily, "But wait..." He furrowed his eyebrows, "didn't you say I was dead...?"
Scott nodded. "Seems like your friend isn't as human as you thought." He said, pointing to where Nikki was lying, apparently asleep.
"What?" Luke glanced over at where Scott pointed then back to Scott, "What happened?"
Scott shook his head. "He just kinda got really... focused. Then he just put his hands out over you like this." He demonstrated. "And it got really hot.. I mean, the grass burnt. And then you were breathing and everything went back to normal and then I guess he must a passed out."
Luke looked down at his shirt finding it covered in dried blood. He frowned and pulled it off and examined his skin, there weren't any new scars on him, just several old ones...
"He... he can heal?" He whispered looking over at Nikki's sleeping form.
Scott shrugged. "Looks like it."
Xavier wheeled up next to Scott, "I will look into Nikki's Mutation when he wakes up, but until then you two should get some rest." He then looked to Scott and Lance and nodded before leaving the room.
Scott nodded. "He's right... as usual. " He grinned and Lance rolled his eyes. "We'll see you later ok... if you need anything, just press the intercom button." He said before Lance turned and waved bye to Luke, pulling his boyfriend out of the room by his arm.
"See ya later Luke. Come on Scott, you heard Xavier..."
Luke watched the two leave then sighed looking over his old scars again.
"Damn asylum." He muttered then climbed out of the bed.
He found that his pants were also covered in blood but ignored it for the time being as he approached Nikki. He frowned then turned away finding a mirror.
God he looked awful.
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