A/N Hi again. Sorry this took so long to get out; I've been kind of busy. Hope you like this chapter. Thanks to Rogue14, hollypotter5253, xmengirlzrule, and ldypebsaby (hope I spelled it right) for reviewing both chapters. And hollypotter5253, I'm not sure if I'll put Rogue in this fic, at least not yet, I want to work with the new recruits first, but thanks for the idea, I'll think about it. Now, on with the story!

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Jamie lay in his hospital bed, patiently waiting for his first visitor to come. His right arm was in a cast, and his left arm had an IV in it, and he couldn't move without it hurting. He tried watching TV, but it only had about 7 channels.

"News." (Click) "Spanish." (Click) "More Spanish." (Click). "Grr...even more Spanish. Multiple," he said, kicking one leg into the other. "I want you to go to the institute, and learn Spanish. Okay?" The multiple nodded obediently, normally, he wouldn't listen, but he also wanted to know what the heck the people on the TV were saying. It was rather annoying not knowing. They could be insulting him for all he knew.

"Ah, cartoons," Jamie said, finally finding a channel with his beloved cartoons. It took a few seconds before, "No! It's in Spanish too!"

After deciding he was cursed to only watch Spanish shows, he took a nap. He never was able to sleep in the middle of the day, even as a little kid, and he marveled at the fact that he was able to fall asleep so easily.

"This is pretty nice," he said to himself, wondering if he could make Logan have naptime an official part of the day.

"Hey, Shrimp," a voice said from the doorway. Jamie groaned; his first four hours would be spent with the blonde lunatic Tabitha.

"So, anything on TV?" she asked, plopping down on one pf the chairs, and putting her feet on his bed.

"Yeah, if you speak Spanish," he replied bitterly, kind of upset at being woken up from his nap.

"Well, you're lucky," Tabitha said, "I brought a ton of movies for you to watch."

She pulled out movies like "The Blair Witch Project," "Terminator," "Feardot Com," "My Cousin Vinnie," and a few movies that Jamie had never even heard of. Looking closely at the backs of the movies, he noticed a common theme between them all.

"Uh...Tabitha? These are all rated "R."

"Yeah, so?" She asked, starting to put one of them in.

"You know I'm only 12, right? And that the Professor said I'm not allowed to watch R rated movies. Hey, he said you weren't allowed to either," Jamie said.

"So? Do you see him now? He's not here, and what he doesn't know won't hurt him, right?" She said, sitting back down now that the movie was starting. "Now be quiet, I like the beginning."

Jamie decided that now would be a great time for a nap, mainly so that he could say he didn't watch anything bad if Logan ever found out.

After two hours, lunch came, and since Jamie couldn't use his hands, Tabitha had to feed him.

"Okay Jamie," Tabitha said, holding a spoonful of peas, trying to pry Jamie's mouth open, "open the tunnel for the train." It turns out, Tabitha isn't the ideal person you want feeding you. If it was something Jamie didn't like, she would force his mouth open.

If it was something he did like, she would hold it right in front of his mouth, and rip it away when it got near his mouth. After twenty minutes of this, Tabitha got bored, and decided to just feed him normally. Of course, by then, all his food was cold, so all the normally awful food was ten times worse.

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After Tabitha's four hours were up, Amara and Jubilee came to relieve her.

It had only been about five minutes when the two girls decided that talking to Jamie was no fun, and decided to ignore him the rest of the time. They talked about shopping, and clothes, and cute boys, and anything else normal teenage girls talk about. Unfortunately, since Jamie was a 12 year old boy, none of it meant anything to him.

"Did you happen to bring any movies?" Jamie asked after a while.

"Oh yeah, I forgot about those," Amara said, pulling out a stack full of movies. The two girls went back to talking.

"Uhh...can you put one of them in for me?" Jamie asked, pointing to the TV.

"Sure Jamie, why didn't you just say so?" Jubilee asked, putting in one of the movies.

Sadly, Amara and Jubilee were as bad at picking out movies as Tabitha.

"Pinocchio? Come on, tell me you brought something besides Pinocchio," Jamie whined.

"Well, we brought the 'Emperors New Groove.' Does that meet up with his highnesses wishes?" Jubilee asked sarcastically.

"Yeah, fine, put it in," Jamie said irritably. He really hoped the next few hours wouldn't be as bad as the last.

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After awhile, Roberto came in.

"Okay girls, your shifts up, my turn," he said, kicking the two girls out of the room.

"Please tell me you brought something good to do," Jamie said, trying to see into the bag Roberto was carrying.

"I brought a few board games," Roberto said. "Do you like Scrabble?"

"Roberto, my arms are either in a cast or hooked up to an IV, how can I move the pieces, and second of all, I'm still kind of drugged up, they keep giving me medicine's, I'm not thinking exactly straight.

"Okay... so I guess you don't want to play Clue or Monopoly, huh?"

Since Roberto didn't bring any movies, they were forced to talk. After five minutes, they ran out of things to talk about.

After 15 minutes, Roberto fell asleep in his chair. Shortly after, Jamie fell asleep.

After an hour, they had both woken up.

Within ten minutes, they had run out of things to talk about again.

Roberto tried telling Jamie about school, but since Jamie was home schooled, he didn't really care much for it.

Jamie tried telling Roberto about some of the pranks he would pull when he got better, but since Roberto was usually the butt end of most of the pranks, what with his huge ego, Jamie didn't want to let too much out, and stopped after a few minutes.

"So..."Roberto started, desperately trying to think of something to talk about. "Did you see Kitty's face last week when Bobby stole all of her underwear?"

"That was Bobby?" Jamie asked. "I thought she had broken up with Lance, and he got Pietro to do it or something."

They had finally found something to talk about. Funny how talking about other people's pranks could bring out the friends in two semi-enemies.

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Bobby was next in the group of visitors. No one had actually told him that it wasn't his fault that Jamie was sick, and he was still kind of worried that Jamie would be mad at him.

He spent the first half hour apologizing for every bad thing he did, every rumor he had spread, every prank he had pulled on him. Jamie was slightly surprised; he didn't know half the stuff Bobby had done to him, and a lot he blamed on the other new recruits.

"Okay, Bobby, shut up," Jamie said after awhile. He didn't really want to hear about what happened behind his back. It was kind of sad, thinking about all the mean things the other recruits had either done or were planning.

"Okay Jamie, but I just wanted to let you know, from now on, no more pranks, or tricks, or anything like that," Bobby promised.

Jamie laughed slightly. Guilt was a wonderful thing, to bad once Bobby found out that it wasn't his fault that Jamie was sick, or that Jamie wasn't going to die, he would suddenly "forget" his promise to Jamie.

"Sure Bobby," he said. "Did you bring anything to do.?"

"Well, I was going to bring you a coloring book and crayons, but I didn't want to go to a store and buy one, so I settled on cards. Do you know how to play BS?" Bobby asked, pulling out a deck of cards.

"Isn't that for three people?" Jamie asked, studying his hands, wondering if he could play cards in his current condition.

"Oh yeah, I forgot. Hey, I've got an idea," Bobby said, reaching for the phone on the drawer next to Jamie's bed. "We'll call everyone down and throw a party."

Since Bobby had already called everybody, and he looked so happy about making things up for Jamie that he decided to not tell him that there wasn't really supposed to be more than two visitors at a time. They had gotten away with it the first day, but he doubted the nurses would be so kind now that they had to come in every two hours to take his vitals and a blood test.

All of the new recruits had settled down on or around Jamie's bed, playing BS. Rahne, who wasn't really that good at the game, had decided to play as Jamie's partner, putting down cards when he told her to. It turns out she was a great liar, and they won most of the games.

"Okay, two... shoot, Jamie, what are these supposed to be again?" She dropped her voice down to a slight whisper, knowing the others could hear her.

"Jack's," Jamie whispered back, hiding his grin from the recruits.

"Oh, yeah, that's right," Rahne declared proudly. "Two Jacks."

"BS!" Nearly everyone else yelled.

Rahne and Jamie smirked, turning over the card, revealing that they were actually two Jacks.

"Weren't you raised by a priest?" Tabitha asked sourly, after picking up yet another stack of cards when she had fallen for the redhead's lie.

"Oh, this is just for fun," Rahne laughed, "I don't really lie...a lot."

"I'm getting bored of this game, let's play Poker," Ray said.

"Strip poker or regular?" Bobby asked.

"Hello, I'm only wearing a hospital gown and underwear, I don't want to play Poker," Jamie said.

"Yeah and we don't have any chips," Sam pointed out.

"Anything else we could play?" Jubilee asked.

"I think it's time you all go home," a voice said from the doorway. The recruits looked up to see Ororo and Logan walking into the room.

"We could hear you twerps from the elevator, and it won't be too long before we start hearing complaints," Logan said.

"Okay," Rahne said, standing up from the bed. "I'm tired, it's already 10:30, and I have first shift with Jamie here," a pause so she could ruffle his hair, "who's driving home?"

"I'll drive!" A voice called from the hallway. Kitty walked in the doorway, swirling a key ring around her finger.

"When did you get here?" Jamie asked.

"I came with Mr. Logan and Miss Monroe," she replied. "I know hospital food is really yucky, so I decided to make you some muffins."

Jamie groaned slightly. It was true that the food from the hospital sucked, and he had barely eaten anything, but one of Kitty's muffins was like a death sentence.

"I'll save them for later, okay?" Jamie asked, silently reminding himself to throw them away the second she left.

"Well, okay," Kitty said, obviously upset that she wouldn't be there to see him enjoy her muffins.

"Let's go you guys," Bobby said, and they said there goodbye's to Jamie, and left, leaving him with Ororo and Logan.

"Well Jamie, did you have fun today?" Ororo asked, cleaning up the mess the recruits had left behind.

"It was...interesting," Jamie said, trying to think of a better word to describe it. "It was kind of tiring to," proving his point; he curled up in a ball and fell asleep.

"Yeah," Logan snorted, "must be exhausting lying in bed all day." Ororo glared at him slightly, but he ignored her, looking through the video collection in one of the drawers.

"Ugh, Disney movies, didn't he watch anything good today?" He asked under his breath when he saw the movies underneath the kid shows. "Hey! These are mine? Who stole my videos?"

Sniffing the tape slightly, he growled. "Tabitha... she is dead meat."