"Hello Brooke, its Eric Lensheer, from the brotherhood. Now that you are fully awake and conscious of the decisions you have made I decided to ask you a question once more. Would you like to come and stay with the brotherhood, you are welcome to come and leave as you wish." The greeting was without warmth and the proposal sounded interesting.
"I'm not sure exactly what I want at this moment." She carefully replied not wanting to upset such a generous offer.
"Of course I thought you may say that, so I am prepared to wait as long as it takes to get an answer. Just mull it over for the next few days and call me back when you have reached a decision." He told her before giving her a number to reach him at.
She thanked him twice and hung up to turn around to see Scott was still in the room with her. She gave him a polite smile before returning to her car to grab her bags, on the way she found Piotr who offered to help her carry them up to an extra dorm room. They did this in complete silence as Brooke thought over Eric's offer, for some reason perhaps it was her run in with Mystique, but it sounded more and more pleasing. After all she had said they knew about her so called parents and had tried to warn her, and they did check to make sure she was alright afterwards. This group sounded like it had more of the ideas and answers she needed to have around her. Leaving Piotr would be the hardest part; she didn't know how she would tell her only friend that she was leaving him for his obvious enemy. Finally Piotr broke the silence between them.
"What is wrong tonight Brooke, you never had a chance to tell anyone why you are back so soon with all these belongings? You seem to have a full mind, would you like to talk about anything?" His voice was full of obvious concern for her welfare.
She sighed and started at the beginning, that she was adopted and why so. While they were having this conversation there was yet another meeting downstairs discussing the next step to take with their new student.
"I don't know Professor, Eric seems real eager to get his hands on her perhaps we should put more thought into this before we just let her leave if she wants. We don't understand her full powers yet, she had wings in the garden and the rain started when it shouldn't have, plus that machine that exploded. It all seems too irrational." Scott sighed defending his viewpoint as best he could.
"I understand your point of view Scott but what are we supposed to do with the girl lock her in a closet until we have some answers we need?" the professor calmly asked back as Scott paced the floor.
"I don't know what to do, couldn't you try and help jog her memory the way you helped Logan? I mean it wasn't the bet ways to do things but it'll give us another step in the right direction wont it?" Scott continued to push his thoughts.
"We can only do that with her 100 approval and even that may not help us. The information we did receive from her scan before the explosion was inconclusive. We don't have one specific thing to look for in her memory, but if you can get her to agree then we could give it a try." Jean replied reluctantly to the obviously distressed Scot.
"Good then it's settled, I'll go talk to her in the morning she needs some rest now that she's returned from that ordeal she was sent to." Scott sighed and in that motion the meeting was disbanded until the sun rose again.
Brooke was left by herself in her new dorm room and attempted to sleep after having a hot shower and changing into her pajama pants and tank top. The room seemed empty to her as she rolled over and closed her eyes. Just as she drifted asleep that's when the ground began to move.