SORRY THAT THIS CHAPTER TOOK SO LONG. REAL LIFE GOT IN THE WAY.

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AS I SAID IN THE LAST CHAPTER BUFFY WILL REFER TO JOYCE AS MOM, AND MYSTIQUE AS MOTHER.

THE FIRST LETTER OF EACH NEW PARAGRAPH IS IN BOLD BECAUSE SOMETHING IS UP WITH WHEN IT COMES TO FORMAT.

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Buffy saw her father enter the dinner hall and smiled. She was sitting next to Remy and across from Rogue. Beside Rogue sat Bobby. The four were laughing when a red headed girl and a dark hair boy approached them.

"Hey Willow. Hey Xander. Have you two met Buffy?" Rogue asked them.

"Not officially. She saved our lives last week. We wanted to thank you." Xander told her.

"I'm just glad you guys weren't hurt. Would you like to join us?" Buffy offered and the two took a seat. "I'm Buffy Logan by the way."

"I'm Willow Rosenburg."

"And, I'm Xander Harris."

"It's nice to meet you both. So what's your mutations?"

"I can shake the earth, make the ground move. You remember that cartoon Captain Planet and the Planteers? I'm like that guy only without the fashion accessory. Will, can you pass me the salt please?"

"Sure." Willow looked down at where the salt was and lifted it toward Xander. Right as it reached him it dropped. "I'm still working on control. What about you Buffy?"

"Yeah we know you can fight, but what's your mutant ability?"

"Well, I got quite a few since both my parents are mutants. I have enhanced senses which I get from my father, and this." Buffy shifted into an exact duplicate of Remy. "Will the real Remy Lebeau please stand up?"

Buffy said with an exact accent to the one Remy uses. After a few seconds she tried to shift back to her normal form but her body began changing rapidly. Her eyes were cloudy looking and the claws popped out. The people around her jumped back a couple shrieked. She growled as she jumped up on the table. Her head turned wildly as she decided whether the people around her are hostile predators. She swung wildly at anything that dared to come near her. Buffy began running on the table suddenly feeling the need to be free. She ran from the cafeteria knocking down anyone who was in her way.

At the first scream Logan and Scott turned their heads toward the commotion. Logan instantly spotted his daughter and knew that she had lost control of the animal that been trying to get out for so long. He saw several students barely get out of her way. He knew he had to do something before she hurt someone. In the foyer was where they met up. She turned and moved with a body language that said kill. Buffy went on the offense while Logan went on defense. She attacked her claws heading for his chest. Logan blocked her attack, and she followed up with a kick. Logan had felt that one, but continued to block her attacks. Buffy never saw it coming as all her attention was focused on Logan. She fell to the ground unconscious. A dart was sticking out of her back. The newly arrived Dr. Henry "The Beast" McCoy was standing behind her holding a tranquilizer gun. The blue furred man moved to check her pulse.

"We need to get her down to the lab before she wakes. I do not know how long the sedative will last for."

Logan picked up his daughter and followed the new doctor to the lab. Scott and Remy were following behind them. When they made it to the lab Logan laid Buffy on the table. The restraints were just secured around her arms when she awoke. She pulled hard against her restraints trying to get free. Logan noticed the change instantly. Instead of rage and anger, her eyes were showing fear.

"Get them off of me. Let me go please. Please, don't hurt me. Get them off! Get them off! Please let me go."

The terrified look on her face and the desperation in her voice broke Logan's heart. He and Scott immediately began loosening her straps. Neither bothered to look up when the door opened admitting Professor Xavier. When the last of her straps were undone she jumped off the table and ran into a darkened corner of the lab. Logan and the others followed her with their eyes. Buffy was sitting on the floor with her knees pulled up to her chest and her arms were hugging them. Logan began to approach her.

"Stay away from me. I won't get back on that table. You won't hurt me again. Leave me alone." Buffy began rocking back and forth. "Don't come any closer!"

Logan looked at the other unsure of what to do. He turned back around to see his daughter's head drop slowly toward her knees.

"She's alright Logan. I just told her mind to sleep. She'll be out for hours."

Logan nodded and moved to pick Buffy up. As he lifted her up her head rested upon his chest, and he placed her back on bed.

Logan and Scott were pacing the room nervously while Remy sat in a chair beside the bed holding her hand. It had been several hours since McCoy had checked on Buffy. After her episode he made sure that she was hooked up to a machine that would closely monitor her. McCoy's lab door opened and everyone looked toward him.

"How is she?" "Can you help her?" Logan and Scott asked at the same time.

"Yes, but I think we're going to need the Professor down here. We're going to need him for the second part. The blood samples I took from Buffy had an unknown compound in it that unless you're specifically looking for it will go undetected. It was designed to look like a red blood cell. The scan I did show's that over seventy-five percent of her blood is still filled with this compound. I believe it's designed to make her feel more aggressive. While at the same time produce images of fear to make her mind weak. I believe it's activated when her emotional state reaches a peak setting off something in her mind. I anticipate that this will begin cleansing her body of the compound."

Dr. McCoy took his compound and injected it into her arm. Buffy grunted slightly, but remained asleep.

"The computer scans I did of her brainwaves are quite dissimilar from the ones I did when I first arrived a week ago. Look at the difference."

He showed the three of them the different scans he had taken. The first scan was from when he first arrived. The second was from when the panic attack started. They were all looking at the scans when the Xavier entered.

"I'll see what I can do about her mental state. I suggest you replace the restraints on her. She may become violent."

With a bit of reluctance Scott and Logan began reapplying the straps.

Professor Charles Xavier took a deep breath as he prepared to enter Buffy's mind. He closed his eyes and began concentrating. Upon entering her mind he instantly felt the overwhelming presence of the beast that had taken over. There was a very small amount of the fear that had shown itself before. There was no sign of the Buffy that he had come to know the past week. Moving with great caution he hoped to delay any conflict with the beast as long as possible. He found himself amazed at the mental walls she had formed. It took a great deal of his power to get past her barriers. The process was tedious and he knew that the beast could detect him at any moment. Upon getting through another barrier he saw Buffy chained to a wall and the beast loomed over her. He moved to get a closer view but received a shock upon touching the invisible wall that separated them. He already knew that this last barrier would be the strongest.

"Buffy! You have to fight it. The beast is a part of you. You have to come to terms with the fact that it will always be a part of you, but not the part that is going to be in control of what you do." Buffy's head slowly looked up and toward the Professor. "This is your mind Buffy. You control what happens."

"I can't. He's too strong."

"No, he's not. He just seems stronger due to the chemicals Hank found in you. This is all part of Stryker's plan to turn you against your father. Don't let him win!"

Xavier saw the look that was forming on Buffy's face, and knew that his speech had worked. She had closed her eyes as if to gather her strength and soon he saw that she was free of her chains.

"This is my mind! You have no control over me!" Buffy roared at the beast. The beast roared and moved to attack her but found it couldn't move. "You are a part of me that I embrace."

Buffy moved and hugged the beast tightly until it disappeared. She turned toward the Professor.

"Are you ready to go home now? You've got a lot people who are worried about you."

Buffy nodded and the Professor offered her his hand.

"We've got one more thing we need to take care of before we return."

Buffy nodded knowing that the Professor meant the brainwashing command to kill her father that Stryker was trying to implement. She realized that she had come very close.

Buffy was now lying in the lab waiting for McCoy to give her an alls clear. Her system was still showing signs of the chemical Stryker was injecting into her. After reassuring her father and Scott that she was fine she made them leave to sleep in their own beds. Remy had been forced out by Beast as he claimed she needed rest. Now she laid there unable to sleep. The door slowly opened and Buffy thought it might be Hank coming back to take more blood. It actually turned out to be Bobby, Rogue, Willow, and Xander.

"What are you guys doing here? Does McCoy know your here?"

"We came to see how you were doing," said Willow.

"Yeah we waited for the Doc to leave. Remy told us he wasn't letting you have any more visitors," replied Xander.

"So how are ya doing?" Marie asked.

"Better. That bastard Stryker had been pumping me with some kind of chemical to make me more aggressive so that my wild side would come out more easily. Professor Xavier helped me to get control over my inner beast. Once the chemicals are out of my system I'll have better control."

"So when do you think you're gonna be sprung?" Rogue asked.

"Tomorrow, I hope. Scott and dad are taking me to see mom the day after."

The door to the lab opened again making the teens jump slightly, but they relaxed upon seeing Remy entering carrying a bouquet of flowers.

"For you mi amour." Remy handed Buffy the flowers.

"They're beautiful Remy. Where did you get them? You've only left out of here an hour ago."

"A man can do a lot in an hour."

"We're going to head out before we get caught. We'll see you around Buffy."

Willow said as she and the others headed toward the door. Buffy moved over so he could sit on the bed beside her. She instantly snuggled closer to him.

"Remy, I was hoping that maybe you could go with us."

"Are sure? What would your Pere and Scott say?"

"I already asked them. They said it was all right with them. Will you come?"

"If that's what you want." Buffy smiled and rested her head on Remy's chest.

"Will you stay with me tonight?"

"Anything for you Chere."

Gambit told her as they both settled in for the night. Both content to bring comfort to each other.

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