"I'm cold" Ruby shivered in her room. She hadn't moved much since … well since Kitty last came in. She was on autopilot. Basic bodily functions were about all she could manage right about now.

All her energy had disappeared since she'd stopped playing her music. Even whistling, humming and singing were off limits to the red head. This wasn't something the professor had advised; it was a totally self-admonished ban by Ruby. She was scared of what she could do to people.

A week had passed since she had hurt Ray, and she had not come out her room apart from when she had run screaming from Scott.

Ruby looked at the ceiling, green eyes slightly vacant as she remembered….

Scott had burst in, the door slamming the side of the wall. Thus causing Ruby to run to a corner and shiver. A haunted look entered her eyes as she tried to make herself smaller.

"What did you do to Jean?" He demanded angrily whilst advancing on the terrified girl. She stood up and ran around so that she was behind him, he whirled and she yelped.

"She keeps murmuring about the song…you did it didn't you! You hummed and hurt her!" Scott said angrily and raised a hand to his glasses.

"You have no control do you. You hummed or whistled or spoke and hurt her. How can you sleep when you do this to people?" Ruby couldn't take anymore. Screaming the windows smashed and as Scott's glasses ruptured scarlet beams emitted everywhere. Blasting a hole through the wall.

Ruby ran through the door that Scott had vacated, with his cries of "No stop wait. What have you done to my glasses?"

She ran down, stairs, ramps and eventually she found the place where she had been before. The infirmary and it's neighbour the danger room went past her vision as she just ran.

Around her things broke and smashed, the scream had continued in her throat, high pitched beyond normal human hearing.

All over the institute certain mutants yelled, covered their ears or merely stuck their heads under a surface. But nothing blocked out the scream in their ears.

Logan, Beast, Wolfsbane, Nightcrawler and oddly enough Daphine yelled their pain. Jean broke out of her reverie and contacted the already alerted professor.

Ruby ran into the holding bay where the Cajun queen Daphine resided. Not knowing of course that she had been here before Ruby was just running in sheer terror. Imaginings of a hundred Scott's chasing after her ran through her mind and she didn't stop until a hand grabbed her arm.

"Let go of me! Please?" She yelled, Daphine sighed and held a hand to her ear.

Holding against the chains was chafing her wrists but there was nothing new about that to this Cajun.

"Non, calm dow' chere 'lest you 'urt moi non?" Daphine said calmly and Ruby sank to her knees. Thankfully the screaming stopped in her ears as Diamond surveyed the girl who had burst in.

"Now.. Wha' 'appened with de screamin'?" She asked, wondering if she had a chance to escape. Of course it was a foolish notion when the entire institute was alive with suspicion about the girl that had come to terrorise it.

"this man…I don't know him…he blew up my room because I hurt someone. I didn't mean to, it was an accident and I don't want to be hurt again" Ruby said quickly and then for the first time looked at her confidant.

"Your that girl that the professor was talking too. The one that he wants you to calm down…" Ruby trailed off as Daphine sighed and turned away.

"Yea- dat be moi but ah jus' wanna go home. Ah wanna see moi cousin an' moi teammate. Ah don' wanna stay 'ere" She said with a trace of sadness in her eyes.

Ruby paused then smiled. "I'll come and see you again, I promise. I'll bring you some new clothes and one day I'll help you out of here." She finished, then turned and ran outside the room to find a stalking Wolverine coming down the corridor.

"What did you do?" He asked angrily and Ruby squeaked. "That's it, I'm taking you to the professor" He said and poked her so that she walked all the way to the professor's office.

What had followed was the pep talk of all pep talks and a new room for Ruby. A room away from everyone else's in a wing of it's own. And who said that screaming doesn't get what you want.