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Chapter 4. Awake

Liam sat up out of habit even before he woke up all the way. His hand hurt a little but it wasn't the excruciating pain he was feeling just a little while ago. A while ago how long ago was it that he was in such pain?

Where was he? How long had he run to protect them? He didn't know any of these things but this place was warm, very metallic, and plastic, it felt like home but warmer some how.

The room was mostly white, there were many medical utensils, and lots and lots of computers and consuls. Liam was not sure where he was, but to be sure it wasn't home, maybe a little alike but not home.

He decided to get up and have a look around his head was fuzzy but the world was coming into focus slowly. Liam found that he was on a hospital table with little monitors hooked up to him and an IV stuck in his arm.

He took off the pads holding the wires that connected him to the monitors and took out the IV. Instantly there was a blaring whine from the monitors. He said, "shush!" And it went silent, that startled him a little but he was so out of it, he didn't really notice it.

A door opened and a girl came in she was bright and kind of bouncy as she walked into the room. "Hello." she said as she walked in and sat on the hospital table next to him.

"Um.. Hi" he said. He was curious and slightly put at ease by her presence, she was new to him the way she was dressed so colorfully no one dressed so diversely where he came from.

Not only the clothes but the way she spoke very off hand and sincere, upfront and relaxed. Her hair was up in little, tiny spouts of hair coming off her head at odd angles over a set of goggles, who was this girl?

"My name is Amelia, what's your name?" She said in the same manner she had sat on the table he was using for a bed.

He didn't even think he just let it slip out "Liam" and he didn't even think about why he was here just that he was talking to a person who thought the way he thought.

"Well Liam, Would you like to go get some thing to eat? I'm starving and I have to go upstairs would you like to join me?" she said getting up and walking two steps before twisting to see him reply.

"Yes thank you! I don't know when I last ate" he said with a little growl coming from his stomach. He got up and followed her out the door that opened and closed with a decisive (jshk!) and to a tube in the wall.

"It's ok you can get in with me it's an elevator" She explained swinging her arms as she hopped in. As soon as he got in she started to press buttons and the elevator rose up.

As the elevator stopped and the piece of wall slid away, Liam could see a room with a table in it only this time it was a table covered by a green piece of cloth and had a bowl with fruit in it in the center.

Liam, was shocked into a stationary position, so Amelia came up to his right taking a hold of the hand which was wholly flesh, and said, "Come on in I'll show you around and get you some thing to eat"

"Ok" he said and was half dragged out into the spacious room. Liam noticed as he was being pulled around that the room was big and there were Plants in big clay pots that were holding up the ceiling.

There was a kitchen with its very clean counters where she opened a big refrigerator and took out food, and the dinning room where there were lots of people eating. At this point Amelia asked him, "would you like to meet some people now or later?"

He was a little panicked so she just started to walk down the hall way dragging him along, to a nice room at the end with couches and a pool table and a beautiful painting of an island in space covered in glass domes.

"We can eat here, lets sit on the couch!" she said letting go of his hand and plopping down on the couch patting the seat next to her.

He sat down and asked, "Please tell me, where am I?" She looked at him, took a deep breath and said,

"We are in the X-Mansion Founded by Professor Charles Xavier. Professor X is what we call him. Professor X was rich back in the day and he was psychic so he just got richer and Made the X-Mansion into a School for Gifted Children, he had this place tricked out to protect him and his Students who were almost always mutants."

AUTHORS NOTES

Ok so I know it's a slow chapter but bare with me it's my x story in progress. PS thanks for reading and please review my work!