Chapter 12
Sami had first met Wolverine one evening in the library at school. The library had been her special place. It was almost always quiet and deserted and it was there that Sami was happiest, away from the vicious stares and taunts of the other students at school. Sami always held herself apart from her peers. She was reading one of her favorite stories that night, when suddenly she'd heard the door open and close and then whispering. She had gotten up slowly and tiptoed over to the stacks. She'd peered out from behind a bookshelf and had seen a group of boys from an older grade in a huddle, moving towards the back of the library. "Come on and lemme see it!" One of them had said. "Is it loaded?" Asked another. Sami crept quietly down the aisle to get a better look at what they were doing. She sensed that it was something they should not have been doing, because of their whispers and besides, no one but herself and teachers ever came into the library. She stopped when she had a good enough view of them and recognized a few of them as being troublemakers in the school. And then she saw what they were talking about.
"Check it out." A boy who was nicknamed Toad held up a long shiny pistol in the air. "You sure that things real and you're not just pulling our legs?" Another boy named Lance asked. "Sure it's real, check out the bullets." Toad said opening the chamber and showing the bullets to his friends. Sami gasped and the boys heads turned at once toward the place where she was hiding. "Who's there?" Lance called out as two of the other boys walked towards where she had been hiding. She tried to run for it, but the boys reached her and dragged her back to where Toad and Lance still stood. "Aww, it's just the little runt that's always hanging around Professor X." Lance said. "That ain't all!" Toad said "She'll go back and tell on us and get us in trouble. We gotta take care of her." I will not!" Sami said ceasing her struggles to break free of the grip of the two boys holding her arms. "I promise, I won't say anything. Just let me go." Toad pointed the gun directly at her. "Cut it out, Toad!" Lance said to him. But Toad continued to point the gun at Sami and said. "No way, she's gotta be taught a lesson. She's gotta learn not to go around poking her nose where it don't belong! They call you the ice queen, right? Well let's see what happens to ice when a bullet hits it" Suddenly Sami's whole body began to shake violently. Her eyes were fixated on Toad and on the gun in his hand even though her head felt as though it were going to explode. "What's she doin?" One of the other boys yelled as the pistol began to turn of it's own accord in Toads hands and then all of a sudden there was a loud bang and Toad slid to the floor.