Thankee-sai to all who reviewed. You make me happy. You're in luck. I found a fourth chapter. I should really clean out my documents more often. Here it is.

Disclaimer – me no own x-men.

From the desk of Charles Xavier

Our young intruder was apprehended naught but a few moments ago. Logan has informed me that he smelled a presence in the Danger Room and then hit the alarm as a great wind blew past his face. Subsequently I detected the presence of a mind moving quickly through the halls and did my best to halt it. Unfortunately the girl struggled valiantly against me, and probably gave herself quite the headache for it.

She was found in the hallways leading to the lower levels. No one knows how she got there, nor is there any indication of an intruder in the security tapes. She's young, as I've said before, perhaps 18 or 19. Shoulder length, brown hair, average build, maybe 5'8", 5'9". She's quite pretty (Gambit got a look at her as we were transporting her to the infirmary gave a low whistle … much to Rogue's chagrin) and so far has yet to awaken. Speak of the devil, here she comes now.

'Good day, I'm Professor Charles Xavier' said baldy.

'I KNEW it!' I exclaimed (okay, not my best tactical move but hey …)

'Knew what exaclty?' asked Xavier.

'That you had something to do with the X-men!' I once again gave my secrets to a strangers … definitely not cut out for interrogations.

'What do you know about the x-men girly?' said the furry dude.

'Uh … well, just what I read in the newspapers … oh I and saw you once, actually, you guys probably saved my life that day …' I kinda trail off at the end.

Redhead seems to have some sort of insight because she then exclaims 'oh!'

'what?' asks shades.

'you were running from the FOH that day, werent you?' she directs her question at me 'that was what? Three, four months ago?'

'something like that' I answer. 'after that I just started keeping an eye out for stuff about mutants, and eventually figured out that this place had something to do with the x-men.'

'Eventually figured out my ass' snorted hairy

'fuck you man'I said 'just cause you're a moron doesn't mean everyone else is too'

ookay … that was probably a bit of a mistake. Damn me and my big mouth. Well hairy was definitely pissed off, and red looked a wee bit shocked, but shades seemed oddly enough to be smirking and the 'professor's face was decidedly controlled to show no emotion at all.

'well, yes' said the professor 'now that you're here, there is still the question of what to do with you'

At this I blushed a bright red and mumbled a bit under my breath. Apparently hairy has extra-sensitives ears as well as his sniffer, cause he was the only one who actually heard me.

'you want to join the x-men!' hairball exclaimed loudly and with as much contempt as possible

man … now I was close to tears, this was sooo humiliating.

'well, not right away' I managed to stammer out 'I thought maybe I could just find out more about your school and stuff and … uh … I dunno, I just wanted to see other people with powers who werent afraid to use them and talk to others like me without getting the shit kicked out of me for trying and …'

by this time I actually was crying … well sniffling, with tears running down my cheeks, oh fine, I WAS crying … jeez, just trying to preserve some dignity. But at least hairy was looking mollified, and red sat down on the side of my bed to give me a comforting hug.

'oh sweetie' she said 'I know its been hard for you, and you're welcome here anytime for as long as you want'

'really?'I was looking pretty astonished 'but I don't have money for tuition and shit (I really didn't, my parents wanted me to go to college, but I was supposed to pay my own way)'

'that's not required' said the professor smiling gently 'we accept anyone at our school and teach them how to control their powers. There are no fees, we work to bring peace between mutants and normal humans.'

'it hasn't really been working so far'I said in a low voice

'don't matter'said scruffy 'it will one day' he added with a meaningful look at the professor.

Not really getting that particular exchange, I was ready to go home and think this whole thing over …not to mention there was going to be some big discussions going on between me and my parents that I had to be prepared for. They still didn't know I was a mutant (although I'd always thought my mom had an inkling) and it was time I told them the truth. But as I went to get up out of the bed, a certain nauseating feeling of dizziness and my pounding headache returned to me and I thought maybe standing upright wasn't such a good idea after all.

'woah there girly,'said hairy, as he caught my shoulders 'maybe you should just stay lying down for a bit more'

'in fact,'said red 'you should probably stay the night. A head to head with a telepath like you had doesn't usually leave both parties unscathed'

'that means yer gonna be hurtin a while' explained hairball.

'right'I sighed 'but I have to call my parents'

'I'll bring you the phone' said shades, and he left the room.

'in the meantime, allow me to introduce my xmen … unless you already know their names?' said professor, with a ghost of a smile

'nope'I said with a grin 'guess I aint figured that much out yet after all', looking apologetically at the hairy one. He nodded in recognition. The professor continued

'the one who left for the phone is Scott Summers, also known as Cyclops, he was my first pupil

the young woman sitting beside you is Jean Grey, also known as the phoenix and the 'hairy one'as you've been thinking of him (I jumped a little at that) is logan, known also as wolverine.'

'you're the spook who gave me the whopper of a headache!' I exclaimed 'have you been reading my mind this whole time!

'no, I have not' replied the professor 'I don't read peoples minds without permission. Ever. But there are certain thoughts I can hear if they are being projected loudly enough'

'oh'I said, and grinned sheepishly at logan, who just raised his eyebrow at me

So that's how I ended up spending the night in the x-mansion, as they referred to it. Later that evening (once I no longer felt like I was gonna hurl every time I sat up) I met the rest of the x-men. There was an absolutely gorgeous guy … Remy LeBeau, aka Gambit, his spectacular girlfriend Rogue (bitch) … well, I cant say that, she's really nice too, a couple blue furry guys named Beast (Hank McCoy) and Nightcrawler (Kurt Wagner), Ororo Munroe (Storm) and I was assured there were others, who were away on missions, or had different lives now, etc. I also met a few of the students, there was Jubilee (Jubilation Lee), Husk (Paige Guthrie), and Jonothan Starsmore (Chamber). I seemed to be between their ages, not quite old enough to be an X-man, but a year older than the oldest student. Not that it makes that much of a difference. During that time I also had a long discussion with Professor Xavier, mostly about how the school was run, what subjects I was interested in, and how much control I already had over my mutation. Here, if not in other areas, he was impressed by the amount of practicing I had already been doing. Afterwards I was shown to a guest room where I then fell prompty asleep. Normally I have trouble sleeping in a new place, but at that time I was pretty damn exhausted.