So, yeah, I'm starting this chapter right after posting the other chapter, so I don't have any reviews, so you'll just have to wait till the end to find out what I say to you, not that I say much. but shh on that later part.

And note, all of that is using my imagination; I have no personal experience in medicine or cardiac arrest. I'm 15. If you know something isn't right, don't go 'your such an idiot, you clearly don't do blah blah blah…..

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I don't know how to describe the feelings I felt as I slowly regained consciousness. First there was a sense of confusion, for I knew that I should have died. It would be almost impossible to survive that rockslide. For a moment I believed that this might be heaven, but no, that couldn't be right. I fear a constant dripping noise, like water out of a leaky faucet. I felt like that the earth was trying to drag me through the floor, blood was rushing everywhere, and I couldn't get my head to stop spinning like crazy. Something was sticking into my right elbow. I tried to remember what had actually happened, but that brought wave after wave of agony and pain, my body left like it was being squeezed through a tiny hose. I yelped in pain, and heard a rushing of feet.

"Hurry, someone get a doctor. The patient is going into cardiac arrest." Someone said, but I couldn't understand it. I felt my chest shot up, and I threw off a blanket. Someone shoved me down, and then someone joined him or her in holding me down. I wanted to rip right through there arms, and get out of there. My head felt like it was exploding from the pressure. Suddenly, someone pressed two things on my chest and I felt, I don't know how to describe it, a sudden wave of agony move through my body. Tears formed around my closed eyes, and they began to drip down my cheek.

"Ok, I need a sedative here, stat. His heartbeat may be getting back to normal, but this could happen again. Give him a shot of a sedative, and let's hope when he comes to again, this won't happen." Someone gave me a shot, and I started to fall gently asleep, no matter how hard I tried to stay awake, but the tingling sensation you get when you sleep on your arm spread through my body. It started with my arm, and then moved rapidly into my chest, followed by my other arm and legs. Finally it went to my head and I feel gently asleep.

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Suddenly, viciously, I woke up screaming, feeling my whole body tense, my mind tried to take everything in at once. I was in a white room, surrounded by curtains. Apparently I was alone, for no one seemed to hear my scream. Suddenly I coughed up blood; this pain in my chest was nothing though, compared to the pain I felt as I remembered what happened. I shouldn't be alive, I should be died. I knew that Lauren was dead, somehow. I couldn't dare to show my face anywhere. Footsteps were heading this way; I threw myself back on the bed and pretend to be asleep. I heard the curtains being swept aside.

"Hmm, I could have sworn I heard a scream." Someone said, and then closed the curtains. I laid there for god knows how long. People would come ever once in a while to check up on me, and someone even took a picture of me. My fist clenched tightly, but I didn't want to face reality, knowing how I had survived but Lauren hadn't. After a while I did really fall asleep, and I dreamt of a place in the mountains, where I was alone. No know knew where I was, and I didn't have to face any conflict. It was a nice dream, and I woke up for it in a daze, and looked around confused.

People were around me, dressed in white coats, some had clipboards and others were smiling.

"Welcome back to the living." A female said to me and smiled. "Your pretty lucky. Can you tell me your name?"

"Yeah it's ummm, it's umm, David. Yeah, it's David Spendel." I shook the last ounce of sleep from my face. "Was there an" I started to choke on my words "girl with me?"

"See for yourself." The nurse pulled back a curtain and showed Lauren lying on the bed. She had tube sticking in her arm, her eyes closed like she was in a peaceful sleep. She rolled over to her side so she was facing me, and slowly opened her eyes. They were very dazed, but still as beautiful as ever. I felt my cheeks blush as I saw her eyes widen in shock.

"What… what happened?" She asked.

"We fought Avalanche, and he caused a rockslide. We were both knocked unconscious I guess. What's the last thing you remember?" I whispered as quiet as I thought I could.

"It's all such a blur. I think it was when you grabbed hold of me. How's Ann? Is she ok?" Lauren looked deeply concerned, and was confused when she heard my sigh. Of course she couldn't remember that last moment, that would be to fair for me. Damn you universe.

"She and Kitty were teleported out of there. Everyone is safe I think. Don't worry about Ann. I'm glad you're ok." Whispering, I put on a real smile, and was glad to see her return it. "What happened was basically we both leaned on each other trying to get out of the rockslide until we both collapse, and we started to crawl until….." I blushed when I remembered the look in her eyes, when the moment of truth came out.

"Then what?" She asked, confused at my silence and blush.

"I collapse. I woke up here. Underneath an unfamiliar ceiling." I said, reminded of the second episode of Evangelion. I laughed a bit. "Oh, it's an Evangelion thing. We have to contact the Professor; they are going to be worried about us. I hope they don't think that we are died."

"Yeah, we should do that." Lauren said, and then started playing with her toes. Suddenly, the doors sprang open and there was a blur of motion. Something ran straight towards Lauren and almost tackled her. It was Ann. Tears filled her eyes, and they must be tears of joy. She was follows by Jean, Scott and the Professor. Jean walked slowly to Lauren; her eyes were puffy, likes Ann's. And I assumed from crying. I looked off into the window, but suddenly I felt a hand on my shoulder.

"You did good, you really did." Scott said, and gave me one of his cocky smiles.

"Thanks, but I was lucky." I said with a sigh. "I'm just glad that she is alive. So what was it like when you thought us dead?"

"Pretty quiet. I guess that was a much needed shock for us, to realize that we could die at any moment in time. Not that we plan on it. Well, I was thinking, to lighten up the mood, we should have a party, you know, for fun. Just us mutants, a mutant fest if you want to call it that."

"Sounds like fun. Let me help out in the decorations, I have a few ideas that I wanted to try in my last school, but they lacked the ummm ambition." I gave him a very broad grin, and he threw his head back laughing.

"Just don't burn down the institute."

"Darn. That was going to be the finale." I grinned, "So when are we getting out of here?"

"Pretty soon, I would think. They say that there is nothing wrong with you anymore; you guys were pretty lucky. I think that you guys will be out in a day or two." Afterwards, Jean and Scott questioned us about what we remembered, and I kept that last moment only to myself. Lauren didn't remember anything else. Ann pulled me aside as much as she could.

"What really happened?" She looked directly into my eyes, which made me turn away.

"What do you mean?" I asked, looking at the pillow, and grabbed my face and made me look at her.

"You blush every time you tell the story, and you won't make eye contact with Lauren at all. Tell me." She pleaded. Why is she so curious? It's not let its going to happen again probably, knowing me and women. Arg, I wonder if it was all a dream, a piece of hope that my mind gave me to pull me through it.

"Its nothing, I don't even know if it's real." I managed to say, and saw Ann give a frustrated look and departed. I pretended to be tired and needed to go to sleep. The nurse agreed, and ushered out Scott, Jean, Professor, and with more difficulty, Ann. She wanted to stay with Lauren, and maybe get something out of me.

Scott was right. We were discharged the next day, and after a rather uneventful flight home provided me the time to think about my next move with Lauren. What came out was the fact that I thought that it was a dream, and she couldn't possible like me that way. Afterwards, I fell asleep. I was woken up to discover that it was midnight, and everyone left to go to bed. I walked to my dorm and collapsed on my bed, too lazy to feed my ever diminishing addiction. Amazing what a near death experience does to you. I felt invigorated, ready to take on anything. What could be worse? That's what I thought to myself. But there was a side effect to, ordinary stuff felt even more boring than ever. I later discovered though, the danger room was more than enough to keep my adrenaline satisfied. But that's not what's important; what's important is what happened at the dance.

By some miracle, we managed to get the dance ready in two days. You'd be amazing how this ability all of us posses help out with chores. I can reach the highest place with easy, Jean can move anything anywhere. Lauren could lift heavy things, and Ann could get rip of the trash, she seemed to have gained more powers. Her eyes changed colors and she could throw the fire she controlled. She also was agile as hell, and jumpy. She would jump down the stairs, from the top directly to the bottom. Gorge was working on a way to figure out how I defy gravity, but I don't care about any of it. At the dance, I was the person who was in charge of the fireworks. This meant that I was working around the clock, first getting a plan, then buying the fireworks, then tying fuses together, or even setting timers on fuses. This meant that I pulled an all nighter the day before the dance, and slept through till an hour before the dance, only cause I was woken up by the amount of commotion in the hall way. Rogue and Jean were having a row about one thing or another. Sleep was still affecting my brain, so I decided to look at a clock to see what time it was. I quick took a shower and changed into dark blue jeans and a black undershirt. I put on my final fantasy 8 Squall necklace.

"David, hurry up, we need you at the fireworks place." Jean said as she rushed off after Rogue.

I walked towards the pool ground, we where having the dance near there, but I had set up the fireworks there. I needed to set the timers, and place the fireworks that I had planned to automatically set off. I left about half to be launched when I felt like it during the dance. A huge tent was made for the dance, with its own floor, and drinks. All the adults were not going to be there, besides Logan who occasionally checked on us every once in a while to see that we didn't die. Tonight was going to be something; I could feel it in the very fiber of my soul. I smiled and walked out towards the tent, making sure that no one was on the lines I had set for the beginning. I grinned, and saw the crowds coming.

"Well, what are we waiting for?" I urged them along, and turned my back on them, and looked at my watch. 30 more seconds to go. People had just arrived and were starting to go into the tent. 15 seconds left, everyone was in the middle, and no one was lingering at the side. Good. 3 Seconds to go, I couldn't help put smile.

"Show time." I said, as the flames ignited….

Yeah, it got longer than I thought so I had to cut it off. Responding to reviews.

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