THE WRAITH CHRONICLES

Making The Rounds

The first place Kurt took Wraith (after filling her in on his painful parentage, abilties and so forth) was down the hall to see their common room, in which was a couch or two and a spread of people. Kurt introduced Wraith to a dark skinned, yellow haired boy who was avoiding his Aunt. She found out his name was Evan Daniels, aka Spyke, and he seemed to her to be slightly self assured and the skater type, who had his heart in the right place. A tall white haired lady who Kurt later said was Storm walked into the room and dragged Evan off saying something like "This is you're vacation as well Evan but you must finish your packing or else I'll leave you behind!"

"Have you already finished your packing Kitty?" Kurt asked a girl with brown hair in a ponytail, who was lounging on a couch, nose deep in a book.

"Mmmm..hmm..." she said and then looked up and noticed he wasn't alone.

" Oh! Like, who's the new girl?" she asked looking at Wraith.

" I'm Wraith ," she said answering for herself, "whatcha reading?" she asked pulling the cover around so she could see. "Hey great book!"

"Oh so you've read it? Have you, like, got the new one? I've heard it's,like, really good!"

"Yeah! She is such an awesome author..." Wraith replied and she and Kitty would have gone on, from there, for hours if Kurt hadn't interrupted saying that the Prof wanted Wraith shown around, and they had to go and meet everyone else before they took off, as he dragged Wraith out of the room. Kitty called after them that she was glad to meet her and hoped they could, 'like, get to know one another properly' when she got back.

"She seemed really nice." Wraith commented as they walked away. The next person they encountered in the corridor looked quite fierce, and Wraith was sure she'd have to mind her p's and q's with him. He was another adult and was dressed as though he was going to go on a long ride on a moterbike ( which as it happenes is exactly what he was going off to do ). He saw Kurt first and said gruffly "Hey Elf, whatcha wandering round the corridors for. Go and make yourself useful, I'm just heading off." He then noticed Wraith, who was beginning to feel almost invisible ,the way people kept ignoring her on their first meetings. Before Kurt could say anything the man started again saying, "So you're the new kid Charles told me was arriving, a bit runty looking, but you'll do alright. Good to see you doing somethin Elf," and to Wraith, smiling slightly, "I'll see you round sometime kid." He then put his helmet under his arm and stalked off.

" Vow! He must like you." Kurt said looking slightly awed. "Yeah...." Wraith replied with a look of deep concentration on her face. She was thinking that he would be an interesting person to talk to if she could get him to talk more than a couple of sentences at once.

Throughout the rest of the afternoon she met most of the occupants of mutant manor, as they called it. There were some she connected with straight away, like Rogue and Kitty, but then there were some, that she was sure she could live with but would never fully like. Tabitha, Jean and Bezerker for example. She decided that Jean was nice and all, but she was too responsible and perfect. Tabby was a loud extrovert and was too way out there for Wraith to handle for long. And she just got this feeling from Bezerker, she didn't know quite what it was. But she thought it best to avoid him for now.

Kurt left her at her room and Wraith flopped down on her soft, comfortable bed. She decided that she would thouroughly like living here and couldn't wait to explore more, both the people and the institute. Before she went to bed she finished unpacking her stuff ( which by the way wasn't as much as you'd expect ) and set everything in it's place. She put her favourite light blue, fuzzy, teddy bear on her dressing table and then snuggled under the warm, clean sheets with a sigh.

"Now everything is perfect." she thought to herself and promptly fell asleep.