Chapter 3:It Won't Be So Bad

'I can't believe I'm actually doing this. What are they going to think of
me, Will they hate me? Will they forgive me for what I did to them? I
don't know if I can do this.' Those were her thoughts walking up to the
mansion with Logan. For some reason in the night she had decided that she
would go back to the institute with Logan.

Don't worry child. My students will learn to accept you in time. It may be
hard at first, but give it time, you will find friendship here.

Who are you?

The front door to the institute opened. "I am professor Charles Xavier."
She remembered him from that night. If this man was willing to forgive her
for what she did then maybe there was a chance that the rest of the children
here would accept her.

"Oh my god!" came a reply from a goth dressed girl heading for standing near the stairs.

"What is she doing here?" came from another girl to the side of the goth. In fact the room was filled with students. Some welcoming party she thought to herself.

The professor turned around, "Now now children, this girl will not be
treated this way under any circumstances." She was very troubled last time
she was here. She's fighting within herself enough with thinking that you
won't accept her. Give her a chance, you will find that she is just like
all of you, only with a little of Wolverine in her. He communicated to his students. Then looking to Kurt. "Now Kurt, will you do
me this favor and take X23 to her room, and show her around."

"Sure thing professor." He got up but Alex was quicker. He pushed Kurt to
the side and rushed over to the girl and took her hand. Bringing it up to his mouth he paused a second before kissing it.

"How 'bout you let me show you around, besides I'm more exciting than 'ole
fuzzy over there anyways." This caught a growl from Logan but X23 thought of something to surprise him. She extended her claws a little where they were barely against his skin and brought her eyes level with his and winked at him. At that she walked past Alex to Kurt, then looked over her shoulder.

"I'll take my chances with fuzzy here." Logan didn't know what to think.
She wasn't here 5 minutes and already the students were crushing on her.
This fatherhood thing may be more than he was cut out for. At least she could defend herself.

Bamf! And now Kurt was at it too.

"Wow, that teleporting thing is like nothing I have ever done before." She was so excited the first time he did it, that she made him do it room to room.

"Indeed, it is very cool, and it's the better part of my mutation." He said looking down.

"What do you mean?" She asked, last time she was here, she really didn't pay attention too much to the students powers.

With that, Kurt turned off his image inducer to show his true self. He didn't dare look her in the eye but she did something he wasn't expecting. She rested her hand on his shoulder, "You know its not really that bad. People are idiots."

"So this is your room." Kurt said not really ready to see where this was going to end up.

She looked at him kind of sad that he cut her off. But she had plenty of time to get to know him. "Thanks Kurt, I really appreciate everything."

"You know… X…"

"Call me Laura Kurt, that's my real name."

"Ok then, Laura, when the professor first told me you were going to be coming
here. I was kind of scared at first. But after getting this chance to
spend time with you, I'm glad you decided to come here." This brought a
smile to X23's face and she started to give Kurt a hug.

Snikt tawt, growl Logan ruined her moment, her first moment with a boy and her new found dad ruined it. Great. "Hey kid…" she started to interject but he
continued on. "I know, I know, don't call you kid, It's going take some time for me to get used to the fact that you have a name other than X23. Anyways, the professor would like to get the chance to meet with you and then he wants Hank to run some test, and make sure your running smoothly." He turned around and started walking off. "Oh and Fuzzy, your coming with me. We're going to do a little danger room session, just the two of us." Kurt looked up disappointed because for the first time since Amanda a girl was being forward with him, even though he was probably one of the first boys that Laura had met. Now he just had to deal with Logan's antics.

This mansion was as big as she remembered. She was definitely glad to be here under better circumstances this time. Now only if she could find her way around this place. As she was turning a corner she ran into a girl on accident. "I'm sorry."

"Oh its oka…, oh its you." It was one of the girls from earlier. "Look I'm sorry for being rude earlier. It was just weird seeing you after all this time. Anyways I hope you can forgive me." This took Laura by complete surprise. This girl had no reason to be sorry for the way she treated her but she was apologizing anyways.

"Yea, yea its no problem, I'm the one show is sorry for what I did last time. I had it all wrong. I thought Logan was a part of it all but it turned out he was used just like me." The girl started walking with her down the hall. She was now interested in what she had to say.

"Yea, you and Mr. Logan have a lot in common when it comes to that type of thing." The girl linked her arm through Laura's. "Oh I almost forgot, the professor sent me to come get you. My name is Kitty, we're going to be meeting the rest of the team at the Danger Room." She didn't know what to think of this girl, but it seemed like she had made a friend in her and that was good in itself.

"Thanks Kitty."

"Oh, its no problem. " Kitty said and then with a twinkle in her eye, she looked back to Laura. "So what do you think of Kurt?"