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- another man shot her, this bullet killing her.

Bang, my little brother.

Bang, my father.

The evil man turned to the giant, who was looking out the window. This giant man carried no gun, but he did not need one. His sharp canine teeth, his hard muscled body, his long claw like nails looked to be made of metal, proved that he needed no gun. This cat man, with his yellow eyes. This, this beast, just ordered my family's murders because they would not tell him where I was.

"I-I'm sorry sir. You heard, they would not tell. I'm sure we'll find her." The man whimpered, my family's blood splattered on his shiny black boots.

"I'm sure as well, Captain, with no help from you." With a cat's agility, the man snapped the captain's neck. Then he calmly turned to the other men who followed his orders, fear radiated through the room. "FIND HER!"

I awoke from my nightmare, screaming. My scream echoed, filling my ears. It took me a second to realize that I was not the only one screaming. My roommates were screaming as well, tears running down their faces. I could hear the screams of others coming from all over the floor. I felt a wave of others' terror, horror, fear, sadness slam into my mind; adding to my own.

"What the hell?" I asked, confused and afraid.

Storm, Jean and another female teacher rushed into our room.

"The source is coming from this room." Jean yelled over the screaming girls. "Shadow, what's going on?"

"I-I don't know! They just started screaming and crying." I stuttered.

Jean closed her eyes and I heard (and felt) her call to someone.

"Professor! We need your help! Fifth floor, girl's corridor." She called.

I felt something that seemed like a acknowledgement. It seared through my mind but immediately after, the screaming stopped and I no longer felt the distress of the other girls.

I looked over at my roommates. Both Rogue and Kitty were sound asleep again, as though nothing happened.

"What-" I started to ask.

"Professor Xavier put them back to sleep, blocking out what they saw." Jean said tiredly. "Please follow me, Shadow."

I looked at her confused. What had I done?

I followed the older women down the hall and into the elevator. I looked at each of them, hoping for answers. But I saw nothing. Storm tried to cover a yawn, and rubbed her eyes. The unknown teacher was extremely pale, and kept looking at me with pity. When she noticed that I saw her, she just concentrated on staring straight ahead of her. Jean's eyes were closed and she kept rubbing her head. I wanted to know what was going on, but I wasn't about to use my powers to find out what these women knew. My head still ached from what Professor Xavier did.

The elevator stopped on the ground floor and the older women stepped out. I followed them to a room I knew to be the teacher's lounge. Dr. Grey made a point of telling me of it, in case I needed something. Usually the students went to Xavier's study if they needed help with something important, but I didn't have that option.

They opened the doors to reveal the staff in their assorted pyjamas. Kurt, Nightcrawler, hung up side down from the ceiling, fast asleep. A couple of unfamiliar teachers sat on a couch talking quietly. Logan was leaning casually against the wall, drinking a beer. And to my shock, he was only wearing boxers. Scott hurried over to Jean, a concerned look on his face. I sensed that they were communicating telepathically, but I didn't bother finding out what they were saying. Dr. McCoy gave me a small smile and wave before going to confer with Storm and the other woman teacher that escorted me down.

The only person dressed was a tall handsome young man with red on black eyes. I guess he just got back from a late date and that was why he was still dressed. He smiled cockily at me, and nodded his head. I sensed that most females he did this at fell for the flirty trick easily. It had no affect on me, but I continued to stare at him. He reminded me of-

The memory hit me. He was the man Rogue felt so strongly for. The one she was dying to touch, to love. The one person she had wanted to love her back.

My thoughts and shock was interrupted by Wolverine.

"So Red, feel like telling us what's this all about? What was wrong with those girls?" Logan asked.

"Shadow was having a nightmare, and her psychic powers transmitted it to most of the girls on her floor. Including Storm, Dani and I." She said grimly. "Xavier put them back to sleep, but we're not sure if we can erase their entire dream. It was backed by so much power and buried so deep into their subconscious."

"How could such a petite do something like dis?" The man Rogue loved asked in a thick Cajun voice. He stared at me sceptically.

"She didn't mean to, she did it subconsciously." Dani defended.

"And if she can do something like dis subconsciously, why don't you people do something to prevent it. Seems like a good idea to Gambit." Gambit shrugged, running his hands coolly through his hair.

"Dr. Grey and Hank have been studying and monitoring her powers." Scott snapped. "Why are you even here? You're not a teacher and this is a private meeting."

Gambit shrugged again and gave a charming smile. "Gambit was looking for some fun and heard there was a party happening in the teacher's lounge. Didn't hear it was a pyjama party though."

Scott rolled his eyes at the younger man.

"Lets stick to the subject people." Logan growled. "Kid, are you alright?"

I nodded, feeling a little better now that someone was remembering that I was in the room.

"How long has this been going on for? How long have you had those awful nightmares in your mind?" Dani asked me, giving me a look full of pity.

"Since they were murdered." I said quietly. "I wasn't there, I had gone out into the woods by our house for a walk that night. I wasn't feeling good, whenever something really bad is going to happen I can sense it and it effects how I feel. I didn't know that then though, so I couldn't warn my family. Its my fault they are dead. Its my fault those men killed them. If I was there, they would have left them alone."

Everyone looked at me in shock. I knew I was crying. Storm, Jean and Dani came over to me and tried to comfort me by hugging me and saying everything would be okay. Wolverine started roaring that he'd hunt down the bastards. Nightcrawler started praying. Cyclops was talking about something but I wasn't listening. Suddenly I was terrified and needed air. They shouldn't know, they can't know!

STOP! I mentally screamed.

And they obeyed. Everyone in the room became statues, not even their minds were working. They were living statues.

"Thank you for your concern, but this is something I have to deal with by myself." I told them quietly, knowing they couldn't hear me.

I closed my eyes and concentrated. I removed the memories they had for the last hour. They never were woken up by the school girls' screams on the fifth floor. They were never summoned by Jean to the teacher's lounger for an emergency meeting. They never heard my confession.

Once they were erased, I commanded them to go back to bed, having no memory of coming or going from here. I erased the dream from Storm, Dani and Jean.

I too went back up to my room. I scanned ever student on the floor for my nightmare and took it from them. Jean was right, it was shoved in pretty far so I could not completely remove it from the other students. They were left knowing that they had an awful dream, but not remembering what is was about.

With my head screaming in pain, I crawled back into my bed. My nightmares were my own, no one else should have to suffer them.