The image in her mind was clear. A large cluster of trees near a tunnel and a foot path. It was an image from center park. Alexandria wasn't sure who or what she was about to fly into. All she knew was that he'd been in her mind and he'd asked for her help. The winds that swirled around her slowed as she began to lower herself from the cloud cover she'd created into the tree tops and then came to a complete still as her feet hit the ground with a soft thud. She stepped out of the cluster of trees and on to the path and began to lift the fog she had used to conceal her landing. The park was full of foot paths and tunnels but somehow she just knew which one to go to. She walked slowly, her guard up, something inside her told her this could all be a trap, but a bigger part of herself told her it was him.

"Erik?" She called out softly.

There was a gentle rustle from behind a bush and she stepped closer. Carefully and defensively she peeked around the bush and sure enough there he was. The tall handsome young man with the brown hair and the eyes the color of chocolate. The young telepath that Alexandria had thought was back in the other reality. The young man who was laying, hiding as best he could near the bush, bleeding.

"Your hurt!." She said softly as she knelt beside him. She quickly looked him over and noticed that he was bleeding from a wound in his side. "Erik, what are you doing here and what happened to you?"

Erik smiled weakly up at the white haired - blue eyed girl who was looking around to see if anyone was around. "I.. I came.. I can't control it anymore." He said weakly.

He'd lost a lot of blood and more was spilling onto the ground at her knees. Alexandria looked around nervously not sure what to do. She took her jacket off and pressed it to his wound to stop the bleeding but knew she had to get him to a doctor.

"Erik we need help but I can't seem to reach out to anyone telepathically."

Erik closed his eyes and turned his head away from her. "I can't control it. It's gotten to strong."

Alexandria looked down at him confused. "Can't control what?"

"My powers." Erik said as he put Alexandria's hands over his wound. "Help me."

She shook her head and pulled her hands away. "I can't. I can't do that I don't know if it'll work or not. It.. It was a fluke. An after effect of what I did to the Collector. How'd you..."

"In your mind. I saw the memory."

It had been a few weeks after she'd been cleared by Hank after her battle with the collector. Rachel had been helping her to build her powers back up when she had blown her sister out of the sky and into a tree. A tree who's branch had sliced though Rachel's arm. Alexandria panicked when her sister hit the ground and all the blood sent her mind wheeling. Everything after that happened fast in her mind. Alexandria reached out and cupped her hands over the wound. Her hands buzzed and glowed like they did when she was forming a ball of lightening. When she moved her hands away the gash in her sister's arm was gone. Hank had told them later that it seemed Alexandria's powers were merging in the way they had suspected Logan Jr.'s would.

"I don't know how I did it."

The look in Erik's eyes was all she could bare. Alexandria placed her hands over the wound and closed her eyes. Her hands began to glow and tingle and crackle. Then everything went dark.

Logan had picked up Alexandria's scent once he made it back to the mansion, and from what he could tell it was heading off in the direction of the city. The problem was that his daughter like his wife could fly and their scents became faint the higher up they went. He was just barely catching traces of his daughter's scent as he, Jean, and Bobby headed towards the city in Logan's jeep.

"Anything?" Bobby asked as he looked at the other two.

"Nothing yet. The new presence on the PSI plan that the Professor picked up might have something to do with what's blocking her PSI signature." Jean said softly as she tried to hide her fears. "It.. It almost seems familiar though."

Logan looked into Jean's eyes. Something was telling him that the new force she and the Professor were feeling was an old friend, and there was a reason that he felt so familiar to them. He had known that sooner or later the boy would show up. Erik had powers that he would need to be taught to control, control that could only be taught by the Professor.

Ororo stood and watched as Scott and Elizabeth finished with the clean up after their fight with the F.O.H. The attack had happened fast and luckily they had made it though with very little injury to their team. The F.O.Hers however weren't as lucky. A small smile came across her face as she watched Kitty approaching her.

"Did you get all the wounded off to Muir Island, Kitten?" Kitty nodded but there was a look in her eyes that Ororo didn't like. "What is it Kitten?"

Kitty sighed. "I checked in with the Professor, 'Ro. You need to get back to New York. It's Lexie."

Ororo's whole body went ridged. "What's happened, Kitten?" Kitty explained to Ororo what the Professor had told her and Ororo nodded. "Inform Elizabeth that if she is returning to New York with me then we need to leave now."

Kitty nodded again. "We're right with you, 'Ro."

"Lexie wake up. Lexie wake up!"

Her whole body hurt, including her eye lids, which Alexandria opened slowly. "What happened?" She asked as Erik's face came into focus.

"You passed out after healing my wound." Erik replied as he helped her sit up.

Alexandria didn't want to move. It hurt to move and there was a god awful pain in her side. She looked down, half expecting to see the open bleeding wound Erik had had now in her own flesh, but there was nothing there but the pain. Then she looked up at Erik. "How are you?"

"Weak but no longer dieing."

She nodded. "We need to get out of here."

This time Erik nodded. "I couldn't agree more. So how do we do that? Your in no shape to fly and I well can't."

"I couldn't fly you even if I could." Alexandria said with a sly smile. "I can barely steer myself." She closed her eyes to reach out to her Aunt Jean for help but her mind was still in this thick hazy fog. "Something's wrong. I can't contact my Aunt or my grandfather."

Again Erik nodded as he sat beside her. "I can't stop it. It's gotten to strong and I don't know how to take it down."

Erik looked scared and sad and Alexandria put her arm around him. "Your powers." She said knowingly. She knew what it felt like to feel hopeless and helpless in the power control area. "I didn't bring any money so taking a bus is out. So I guess the logical thing is to find a pay phone and hope someone will accept a collect call."

The two teens staggered to the feet and slowly made their way down the foot path. Neither said a word for a while but then Alexandria had to ask. "What happened to you?"

Erik sighed. "I walked out of the gateway in the middle of the park and I was seen by...."

A loud yell and the sound of metal baseball bats on tree trunks made the two teens look over their shoulders. "THERE'S THE MUTIE! GET THE MUTIE AND THE DIRTY MUTIE LOVER!"

"I think I get it." Alexandria said. She knew better to start a fight in a) the park, b) when they were out numbered, and c) when she was hurt. So she did the only thing that made sense. "Erik! RUN!"

The two teens took off down the foot path as fast as they could with the group of men with bats and sticks behind them.