For those of you who dont know who Lance/Avalanche is (I've based him on X-Men Evolution character... kinda). But anyway! He has the ability to cause the Earth to move, such as earth quakes, mudslides or Avalanche's for example. Okie dokie...?

Now are you sitting compfortably? ... then I'll begin. Grin

X - Angel

Chapter 10

Piper walked into Xavier's office, to see him sitting behind his desk, looking through some paper's. "Piper, I've been expecting you." He looked at her, with a slight look of sympathy. "Sit down, make yourself compfortable."

Piper, sat down on the Leather Sofa, and brought her knee's up to her chest.

"Would you like to talk about it... you might feel better for it." Charles suggested. "Or would you rather be alone..?" He asked, glancing up at Warren, who stood protectivly by the door.

"No, it's alright. He can stay." She smiled briefly, as the Angel came and sat down beside her.

She drew a breath, and hesitated to speak. "It started when I was Nine... I had alway's known I was a Mutant. My Mother was one, and so was my Brother, Alexis." She paused, Warren could see her biting back a sob. "We were in the orphanage, when a Middle aged Woman, with jet black hair, and glasses came to look at us both.... she called herself Ms. Darkholm." She paused again. "Anyway, cutting to the chase, she adopted us... and when we got to her house, we saw other adopted Children there... All of them were potential Mutant's."

Warren gave a gentle squeeze to her hand. She squeezed back in reply. "Alexis was Eleven at the time, and his Power's had just kicked in..." She let out a smirk. "He could turn himself invisable, and walk through wall's." She paused remembering. "They called him 'Ghost'..." Her thoughts trailed off.

"Then what happened?" Xavier asked, in his usual kindly, unthreatening manner. Not wanting to search the girl's mind, as he deemed it unfair, as she was explaining aloud.

"Well,... once they had trained him up to gain control of his abilities... he started dissapearing during the night... Sometimes, he would be gone a few hour's, sometimes a few day's. Ms. Darkholm explained to me it was nothing to worry about. 'Survival Training', she called it." She flicked her eyebrow's, as she looked at the floor. "Then before I knew it, they had started training me up on my abilities... I could defy gravity, by placing an artificial shield of anti-gravity, around by body. It allowed me to walk on wall's, and ceiling's..." She drew another deep breath, as she thought about what had happened. "After a while, when I was Thirteen, they took me out with them."

"Who?" Warren asked.

"Some of the other Guy's. Lance,... was a year older than me. He alway's had his eye on me, 'looking out for me'... That was his excuse." She gave a sideway's glance to Warren. "I soon found out that all of our training session's was in practice to cause harm to people, people against mutant's. They made us break into building's, to steal thing's... to help the Mutant cause. Alexis and I were put into a pair. We knew eachother's stregnths and weeknesses." She nervously looked up at Xavier, who watched her cautiously, but also read into her mind, as it seemed she let him. "I was at first, very loyal to them all,... they had taken myself and Alexis out of the orphanage, and had given us a roof over our heads... but my conscience never let me go. I knew what we were doing was wrong, but I learned to live with it. And in time, I delt with it, pushing it to the back of my mind. All that mattered to me, was that of myself, and my Brother." A tear fell from her cheek. "That was untill I saw what happend." She let out a sob, and Warren compfortingly ran his hand up and down her back.

"You dont have to say anything if you don't want to Piper." Charles sympathised.

She shook her head, wiping her face dry. "No, I want to." She said, letting out a sigh. Regaining her thoughts, and her next words.

They waited for her to continue, but she was building up the courage to remember. "I saw... Lance, and Alexis, on 'one of their missions' -stealing the Prime Diamond from the museum.... they were running away."

She continued to speak. "Lance had triggered the Alarm, and they were running through a corridor. Alexis was invisable, and right behind Lance. There was a gunshot fired from one of the security guards..." She paused, the tension mounted in her voice. "Alexis got hurt. He was shot in the back, and Lance just left him there... He died, I saw it." She broke into tears. "That shot was ment for Lance!" She wept bitterly.

"Were you there?" Warren asked.

"No,... I never told anyone I was a slight Psychic... I get vision's of event's, weather they be, past, present, or future. Although, I know instinctivly in which order, and time they are. What I was seeing at that moment, was the present. And I fled, with the little amount of money, and clothes as I could gather."

"And you had been living on the streets since then?" Warren asked.

Piper broke down in tear's once more, and nodded her head. Warren, I think you should take Piper upto her room. The other's wont be back for a while. Leave her to have some time on her own. Xavier instructed telepathically.

Warren nodded in reply, to Xavier, and helped Piper get to her feet, walking her upstairs to her dorm room.