AN: Another Update! I hoped I could update sooner but strange circumstances forced me to have to go looking for the notebook I wrote this story in. Next time, I put like a bell or something on the book so I know where to find it. I'm not really sure what a bell will do but it could work. Anywho, I'll try to get the next update up a bit sooner or something. Please, continue to read and review my little misadventure in the world of The X-Men. I greatly appreciate any and all reviews I get.

LJP: Hiya there! Hope's trying something but it might or might not work. You'll see soon what comes to pass.

Disclaimer: I own nothing except a handful or two of made up characters. All of this wonderful stuff belongs to the geniuses at Marvel Comics. I'm just playing in their world. I'm broke and in college. All I own are my Pointe shoes.

From the journal of Hank "Beast" McCoy

Despite our best efforts to combat the infection plaguing young Hope D'Amichi, her status remains the same nearly three weeks after her auspicious entrance into the world. Even with the most powerful antibiotics I have available to me, the bacteremia does not seem to want to abate.

Thus far, I have tried several of the more common antibiotics with Hope to no avail. The strains that are coursing through her underdeveloped circulatory system appear to either be resistant to any known treatment. Unless, of course, science had played one of its many wonderful jokes on us and allows us to kill off the weaker bacterial strains, leaving only the strongest- and most resistant- strains to flourish. If this is the case, I find no amusement in it as the child is suffering greatly.

Since she was born prematurely, Hope lacks the proper immune system to combat this infection. Normally, a child's immune system has time to develop post birth and can be augmented by a mother's choice on how her child is to be fed during the first few months of its life.

Angelina- Hope's mother- lacks this option for several reasons. She, herself, is on strong doses of IV vancomycin in order to combat her own case of bacterial blood poisoning. She is; of course, under careful observation as this antibiotic has many side effects I do not wish to add to Angelina's laundry list of problems. I do not believe these strong doses of antibiotics will be beneficial for Hope as her system is already under great amounts of stress. Also, Hope is unable to perform any of the necessary reflex actions in order to be able to take such nourishment from her mother. Even if the child was able to, the respirator prevents her from doing so.

I have started trying to passively immunize the child in the hopes that, by giving her packed white blood cells, she will be able to fight the infection in her blood. Thus far, the treatment seems to be only working minimally.

If Hope is able to pull through this experience and come off the respiratory, there is still cause for concern. Genetic testing I have done- With permission from Angelina and Matthew, of course. - has provided me with something of an interesting conundrum. Hope is an eventually that we could never have anticipated.

It was once though that a child with such gross genetic mutations as I am seeing in Hope could not survive long, even if said child survived to some point in the pregnancy. Hope seems to have survived somehow, attesting to the power of the so-called "X-gene."

What worries me most is the strong abnormality she seems to be showing in chromosome seven. There is only one mutation that I can think of, off the top of my blue furred head that comes from having such an abnormal chromosome seven. Still, I do not know if this will be the expected result as Hope's karyotype shows many different types of mutations. I am unsure, at this point, of how these mutations will interact with one another. That is, if they interact at all.

As I sit here in the medical bay, just finishing checking Hope's incubator, one must wonder what force of nature decried a child like this to be born. A daughter of mutants, born under the worst possible circumstances I could think of. If she manages to survive, what type of future will she have?

Though it sounds cruel and heartless, I am glad her mother is allowing those here at the Xavier School for Gifted Youngsters the opportunity to "study" her daughter. She is an interesting case, something that may warrant journal articles to be published about her unique genetic make up.

So long as we also understand she is human as well. She is a child and not a lab rat. I must remember this in order to fulfill my duty as Hope's Godfather.

My stars and garters,

Beast