Chapter 1 – Letters To Alexis

a/n My apologies for not updating sooner, life and the ending of the story kept getting in the way. This chapter is written journal style so that I can kinda fast forward over several months, but things will get more action packed soon.

Disclaimer: I don't own anything in this fanfic except for Alexis, Elena and to my knowledge the "pack mentality".

Day 1 – Dear Alexis,

It has been a day since you disappeared and you still haven't come back. The people in charge have tried to suggest that I might not see you again but I know they're wrong!

The morning after you left Professor Xavier offered to fly me home. He is a really nice guy and said you had been looking into coming to the school. I figured I'd take him up on the offer; get my stuff and see if you were at our house. As soon as I was ready the Professor and I boarded the school's private jet. I must say you left me at a pretty snazzy place! Anyways, Ms. Monroe made sure we were all settled in and before taking her place in the pilot seat. Ms. Monroe is my favorite so far, she can control the weather and doesn't push me to do anything I don't feel ready to do.

Well we landed shortly after noon in the woods out back and walked the rest of the way to the house. The place was crawling with police and detectives. They tried to get us to leave until they found out who I was. Then there was the usual round of condolences and questions. What had happened? Did I see who did it? Where was I during and after the murder? I think I understand why you hated talking about what happened to you now. They tried to be sympathetic but it wasn't their strong suit, especially when they found out where I had been staying.

They let me go in and start collecting my things while they made some calls, trying to figure out who was supposed to be in charge of me I guess. By then I wasn't starting to regret coming back. It didn't feel like home anymore. I just threw my stuff into a couple of suitcases and was heading out when I passed your room. Even though no one had seen you I was still holding onto the hope that you were coming back so I started pulling clothes out of your closet and adding them to the suitcases. It was there that I discovered the safe in the back of your closet. Ms. Monroe had come upstairs to check on me and I asked her if she knew anyway to open it. She said she had never seen that type of lock before but it looked like it was set to read two different bio-codes. By the way, I don't want to know where you got your hands on that type of technology, I have a feeling it wasn't legal. I placed my hand on the scanner and a electronic voice said to display power. I didn't know what it meant until Ms. Monroe pointed out that I was mutant. It took a couple of tries but I managed to make a small ball of light and press it against the scanner. The door instantly popped open. Why didn't you tell me you had a picture of your dad? And what's so important about a stupid flash drive? I haven't had a chance to look at the other stuff yet but I'm sure it's important, why else would you keep it?

Day 2 – Dear Alexis,

So when were you planning on telling me you were going to move to the school? Were you just going to disappear in the middle of the night? It ended up working out though, the paperwork was all in order for you to go and since I was the only high school student available the police let me go instead. I get my own room for now because you had been deemed "a sleeping hazard". I knew your nightmares were bad but really? "Sleeping hazard?

Today I met the rest of the teachers and they designed a class schedule specifically for me. The Professor will teach my psychology class, Mrs. Monroe history. Scott Summers is in charge of math. You aren't going to like him; he is a real stick in the mud when it comes to rules. Jean Grey teaches the science class and is dating Mr. Summers.

On top of the normal schoolwork they have a special P.E. class designed to help us learn to control our powers. The training center is in the basement and is full of really advanced technology. The students call it the Danger Room. You would love it!

Day 3 –Dear Alexis,

Today I got around to going through the stuff you had in the safe. I started with the flash drive figuring you had made a video of what I was supposed to do if you disappeared. File footage from your kidnapping was not what I expected. Watching them experiment on you was awful but the video only went so far. I guess they figured out that you were destroying all the cameras. After that it was just pictures; armor, bodies, an arm with bone claws sticking out of bloody flesh. When I read your profile information that kept calling you "The Shadow Weapon" and said you were "unstable". Who are these people Alexis?

Day 4- Dear Alexis,

I keep the picture of your family safe under my pillow. I know, so typical, but not all of us have top secret safes to keep things in. I wear your dog tags all the time and have been scouring the internet for references to the numbers on them. After seeing all the horrible things on the flash drive I was hesitant to look at the CD but I was glad I did. The old home movies made me homesick but also reminded me of when things were better. And the oldest ones, from when you were a baby got me thinking. You dad didn't seem like the type who would just up and leave. And don't kill me for this but I watched you in your sleep once. You were talking and laughing at first, but then you started calling out for your dad. You two must have been really close and I'm wondering if maybe he didn't abandon you.

Day 7 –Dear Alexis,

Life at the school is settling into a routine. Classes in the morning and learning to use my powers in the afternoon. I've made some friends and everyone is trying to help me with my powers; Mr. Summers tried to teach me using drills and repetitive actions. I guess he was the first pick because our powers are similar. He shoots red beams from his eyes and get his power from the sun. However his methods are boring and when I'm bored I lose focus. You already knew that from living with me but now I start to glow and, well, blowupatree. So far working with Ms. Monroe has had the best results, while I the source of my powers may be the same as Summers' I control it like her. She's taught me how to pull the sunlight towards me and focus it into various forms and the adults think I might even be able to make it solid someday!

Day 31 – Dear Alexis,

One month since my parents were killed and you disappeared. One month since I discovered that I am a mutant. Nothing I do seems to help when it comes to searching for you.

Day 60 – Dear Alexis,

The nightmares must have been ten times worse for you.

Day 75 – Dear Alexis,

For part of my psychology class we had to pick an animal trait and write a paper describing similar human behaviors. I decided to do wolves and write about how teenage cliques have a pack mentality. But when I actually started researching I found out that there is so much more to it than just who is the top dog. As a pack they maintain a larger territory, everyone looks out for the pups and there is a really strong "all for one and one for all" mentality. I think you are the best example of what happens when a wolf is separated from its pack; it becomes more aggressive because it constantly has to be on guard and doesn't have anyone to watch its back. Maybe when I see you again I can help you find your pack.

Day 90 – Dear Alexis,

You'll never believe what happened last night! The Professor had sent Cyclops and Storm, that's Mr. Summers and Ms. Monroe hero names, out to stop an attack on these two mutants, a guy and a girl. Turns out the attacker was a mutant who goes by the name of Sabertooth, and the guy he was attacking just about killed him! The only reason he didn't finish him off was because Sabertooth hit him with a tree. Sabertooth took off when Cyclops and Storm showed up and the brought the two mutants back to the mansion. The guy was pretty beat up but still breathing and the girl was really skittish. I happened to be in the lower level practicing my powers, I'm getting really good by the way, when they returned. Since I had an available bed I offered to let her stay in my room.

I found out her name is Rogue and the guy's name is Wolverine. I got a good look at Wolverine when they took him to the medical bay and the creepy thing is, he looks a lot like the picture of your dad.

Day 93 – Dear Alexis,

A lot has happened in the past couple of days. Rogue seemed to be settling in just fine, I introduced her to some of my friends and I think Iceman really likes her. Our room is right above Wolverine's and we heard him thrashing around the other night. Rogue went down to see if he was ok and I went along because honestly that man fascinates me. As Rogue went into his room I heard him mumbling something. It was really similar to stuff you said during your nightmares but it didn't make any sense to me. Rogue tried to wake him up by shaking his shoulder when all of a sudden he sat up and stabbed her in the chest with these long metal claws that came out of his hand. He woke up right after and started yelling for help. I was so shocked by the similarities of his claws with the picture on your flash drive that I forgot that Rogue was hurt. Just as the adults got to his room she put her hand on his face and her wounds started to heal but it made him pass out. He doesn't remember much of his past so I wasn't able to ask him what he was talking about in his sleep.

The next day Rogue ran away and Wolverine took off after her. The Professor said she had gone to a nearby train station. Don't ask me how he did it, it involves his telepathy and some machine called Cerebro. Anyways, Wolverine found her but there was a huge fight with a guy named Magneto and his gang. Magneto kidnapped Rogue and knocked Wolverine out. I swear that guy spends more time unconscious then awake.

Magneto was going to try and use Rogue's ability to steal mutants' gifts to power a machine that would make any human nearby into a mutant. There was an epic battle on top of the Statue of Liberty and Rogue almost died!

Everyone is back at the school, safe and sound. Wolverine has gone to try and find out more about his past but he promised Rogue he was going to come back. He left his dog tags with her as proof. Earlier tonight I asked her if I could see them. I put yours right next to his and the numbers were almost exactly the same. His was 458-25-243 yours was 458-25-244.

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