A.P. squirmed in her seat uncomfortably. She felt all of the teacher's eyes on hers and she silently prayed that lightning would strike and the room would catch on fire sparing her from this moment that she thought she would never have to face. Desperate for a distraction she fiddled with her hands before she started to speak, "There was this place.....a lab. They kidnaped regular people and turned them into mutants. Or they tried to." She paused looking down on her lap to avoid looking into the eyes that were looking right through her. She felt vulnerable and naked, never had anyone known of her past or where she came from.

"So you are not a mutant?" Jean asked intrigued. With a sigh A.P. swallowed her fear and nervousness and continued, "They tried to give normal people powers but only me and Cole could really take it. Everyone else was sick or fainting or dying." "That's why your x-gene isn't normal. They gave you you're powers," Jean talked as if she was relieved that her theory hadn't been proved wrong. "Not all of them," Jean looked at A.P. the wheels in her head were turning while they sorted out all of the new information." "The visions. They didn't know you got visions." Everyone looked at Jean, even A.P. wanted an explanation on why she and Cole weren't affected they way the others were. "You already had an x-gene that's why getting the different powers didn't hurt you. You could handle the powers better then everyone else it just takes away a lot of your energy." All eyes were still on Jean, "Don't you see. They died because their bodies couldn't handle the powers. You just use so much of your energy that you have to eat and rest more then usual and you can get hurt easier," Jean seemed pleased with herself, but there were many questions that had yet to be answered.

"That still doesn't explain why you hate Cole," Scott was eager to find out if any of his students were in danger. He disliked the fact that the professor had just let Cole go. A.P. took a breath and started again, "No, that's not how they died. Not all of them. It is just how they got sick. We had a plan to get out. All of us were going to escape. We had all the pass codes to the doors and the times that the guards switched and everything," she felt a tingle in her nose that told her she was on the verge of tears. She swallowed them and went on, "There were two doors left and Cole started to yell for me to leave them. He said we could run and that they would never make it anyway." Her voice cracked and she was fighting with herself to keep the tears in. Her mind flashed back to that night. Cole opening the door, her screams being in vain, the men on the other side of the door, Cole stepping back with them, the look on his face as he stared at her. She felt a tear she hadn't known she shed fall onto her hand. "But when the door opened they were all there. All the people from the lab. Cole told them. He told them everything." A.P. looked up to see everyone's reaction. Her vision was blurred by the tears in her eyes, but she watch them as she continued. "He betrayed us all. He always had. They never even did anything to him." Streams of tears were falling freely down her face. The professor and the others listened silently with sadness and empathy on their faces. "The only reason Cole was there was in case one of us decided to use our new powers in a way that didn't suit with the lab. If one of us lost it Cole was there to keep us under control. That's his power. You get hit by that blue ball your powers are useless until he decides otherwise." She turned her head to the professor with a pleading look in her eyes. His image was distorted by her tears but she could tell he was sitting calmly behind his desk. "Professor you can't let him just walk around this place. You're putting us all in danger if he-," the professor cut her off.

If I thought he was dangerous he would not be here." A.P.'s face looked as if she had been betrayed. She had been here with these people a lot longer then Cole and they didn't believe her. She had been told only that these X-men are people that she could trust. Why couldn't they put their trust in her?

A.P. was thrust further into her rage. She stood and kicked the front of the professor's desk in anger before she turned to leave the room. Surprisingly, Scott moved out of his bodyguard stance and let A.P. through the door. Classes were still in session and the halls were clear. Not that A.P. noticed. Anger was written all over her tear stricken face and the closer she got to her room the quicker her pace became. She threw herself face down on her bed and buried her head in the pillow. Thoughts were swirling through her head and she couldn't straighten them out. She wanted them to believe her and make him go to some mutant prison but then there was part of her that seemed as if it would be satisfied if she went and took her rage out on Cole. It didn't take long for her to get tired of fighting with herself and she decided to take a hot shower to clear her head. XXX "Why did you tell me to move professor? There are still a lot of things we don't know," Scott was lost in his confusion. He wanted a lot more questions answered. "Yes I am aware that there are a lot of things that she is not willing to tell. But we cannot force her to tell us she must do that on her own." "Are you sure that Cole is no danger to anyone?" Scott was still concerned about the other students. He didn't want anyone to get hurt because of Cole and A.P.'s feud.

"He is not a danger to anyone until he thinks we have taken A.P.'s side. As long as he thinks we believe him he will not harm anything." But the three X-men were still not satisfied. The small amount of information they had been told only gave way to more things they wanted to know. "Why would there be a place to turn regular humans into mutants?" Storm asked curious to what kind of lab A.P. had been brought to. The professor looked her in the eye the same question had been bothering him, "I don't know." "I think we need to know what else happened at that lab," Storm stated bringing their talk to an unsatisfying end.

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A.P. stayed in the shower for what felt like hours. She didn't want to think about anything. She wished for a switch that could turn her head off. No more thoughts or worries just the wonderful feeling of emptiness. That had been what it was like before she came here. She had made it a special point to not make any friends that way the only thing she would have to worry about was herself.

There has to be some way to feel like that again, she thought to herself. Absentmindedly, she pulled on her clothes and tried to rub some of the water out of her hair with a towel. Opening the door with a creak she saw she wasn't alone in the room. John was lying on Rogue's bed reading a book. He looked up at her to see her looking back at him. She looked like her old self again, baggy pants replaced the tight ones and her uncombed hair hung in a soaked mess around her face. The only thing that remained of Rogue and Kitty's teachings was the white spaghetti strap shirt that clung to her figure. John couldn't help but look a little. "I used to have this room to myself when Bobby and Rogue have their romantic moments in mine. They get really sickening sometimes." A.P. paid no attention to what he said and looked at the book on the bed.

"You can read?" John stood up to look her in the face, but his eyes wandered, "Just look at the pictures." All thoughts of Cole and her worries left her head. "Are you even trying to hide the fact that you're checking me out or.." she walked close to him just to play with him she brought her face close to his so they were almost touching, "do you just not care?" He smiled knowing what she was doing and, seeing her shiver slightly he decided to play along, "Cold?" he asked and circled his arms around her, pulling her into him. A look of satisfaction crossed his face when he felt her breathing hitch for a split-second.

A.P. was surprised by her reaction and pulled away without wanting to. "Not cold, just-," "Hungry?" John finished for her. "Yeah, just hungry." He walked over to her to follow her to the kitchen, "OK but you started it." "Wha-," she started, whirling around to face him, "I wasn't the one checking me out!" "Well could you blame me," he stated perfectly calm.

"Oh please you-," she stopped abruptly when his words sunk in. "What?" her confusion was on her face. "I said could you blame me," John watched as A.P.'s surprised face turned into a smile. "You saying I'm hot?" she asked, crossing her arms across her chest.

John walked close in front of A.P. and she looked up at him, "Nope," he said as he walked past her into the hallway. She wasn't far behind.

"You know you think I'm hot," she yelled as she ran down the hallway after him.

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