After a long moment of silence Xavier spoke. "Storm…you must understand that you can tell me anything…why didn't you tell me"? "I cannot tell you how sad it makes me to know that someone had been hurting you for so long" he said looking away from the girl before him. Ororo looked down at her shaking hands and tried not to allow the tears that were threatening to spill from her eyes achieve their goal. "I'm sorry Charles I…I didn't want anyone else hurt". Xavier nodded in understanding but Ororo could still see the pain etched in his face as he pulled away from her. ""We could have protected you" he assured to the bookcase Xavier took out a thick brown book bringing it on his desk.
"The men you saw, I've seen them before somewhere" the man stated. Flipping through a few pages he set the book he had chosen down on his desk nodding for Storm to join him. "Before Friends of humanity became such a large organization it went by a different name, the human brotherhood, do any of these men look familiar to you" he asked. "Your mind is still hiding much of your memory; I was only able to see outlines and pieces of what you experienced" Xavier explained. Storm remained where she was for a moment, hesitant about looking at the pictures and scared of what hidden memories they would reveal. Her mentor waited patiently for her to move and when she did it was if she had not taken any time at all. The book consisted of a series of pictures. Documentation of almost every member of the brotherhood from its founding to the present with each profile consisting of a picture of the described member.
Turning the pages back so that they showed some of the first few members Storm scanned the few beginning pages stopping at a man's picture on the third page. She would recognize those green eyes anywhere. "This is the one who…who…" shaking her head she turned the page and her eyes stopped on another familiar face. "Mr. Toler" she felt her lips word. Even after all these years she couldn't bring herself to say his first name. "We may not need Brenda to tell us anything after all" Xavier said. "This man serves as principal at the high school". Storm's eyes grew to nearly twice their size as she searched Xavier's for some form of uncertainty but found none. "I…I don't understand Mr. Toler stopped working at that school two months before I graduated, he had left for…" Storm was quiet. "That can't be" she said speaking more to herself than Xavier.
As Storm spoke Charles pressed a button on his desk bringing up a holographic image of the computer system's internet. "Search for Greg Cornelius Toler" he commanded. A few moments later the screen blipped bringing up a picture of the man mentioned. Reading the information beneath it Charles leaned back in his chair forming a pyramid with his fingers beneath his chin. Looking to Storm he waited until she had calmed herself before speaking again. "It seems he has been reinstated…as of this year".