I was born a small frail child. Mother was always worrying about me and whether or not the cold I had would kill me. I was moved to the death ward when mother found out that I was dying. Of what no one knew but I was dying and I didn't have much time. I was spared the fate of an early death yesterday; a woman by the name of Sarah decided to help us. I am now perfectly healthy, how she did it I don't know but I'm glad she did. There is nothing worse than seeing your mother cry and being unable to do anything. My name is Seth Gavin Rose and I am now free.

Seth smiled as he wrote his last entry in the journal he'd been keeping to pass the time. He stashed it under his mattress and waved a fond farewell, he knew he wouldn't be seeing that room ever again if he could help it.
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"Did we get everyone?" 37 asked checking to make sure the kids in the back had their seat-belts on.

"Yeah," Artemis replied, she sounded very uneasy.

"Worried about your students?" 37, otherwise known as Chassidy, asked.

"Slightly, I know they are more than capable of taking care of themselves until I return. The one I'm worried about is Didge, she is a very fragile soul and doesn't handle separation very well," Artemis said, looking back at the school.

"Artemis! Please don't leave!" a girl who was running full tilt towards the pair of mutants shouted.

The girl was rather strange looking for a twelve year old, she had scars that covered her entire body (though Enigma could only see them because she actually looked for it) the most prominent of which being a wine coloured scar on the top of her lip. That particular scar was what caught her attention most because it looked like a burn. The rest of her features were actually quite pleasant, she had a small nose and vibrant grey-blue-green eyes. Her hair was a burgundy that usually only came from a bottle, it was styled into a cute pixie cut which complimented her face perfectly. Her clothes were well worn and by the looks of it on their last legs. The thing that made the girl so strange was the fact that she dressed like someone who was ready to run at a moment's notice. By the looks of it she had everything but food, drink and shelter on her something that was very common among abused children who ran away.

"I won't be gone long, Didge, I promise," Artemis knew she was probably lying but what could she do, an unhappy Didge was never a good thing.

"Can I come with you then? I promise I'll behave, and I've gotten better at controlling my powers. Electronics don't go haywire whenever I get too close anymore and I can tune them out too. Please- please let me come. I won't be any trouble honest!" Didge sounded so desperate, it made Enigma half wonder what happened to the kid to make her so clingy.

Enigma is there any way you could convince this headmaster of yours to let her come along? I'll take responsibility for her actions, after all she is my student, Artemis asked. Enigma noticed that Artemis had an almost motherly affection for all of her students and staff, it reminded her very much of Charles in the early days: kind and willing to teach but completely in over his head.

Maybe, I'll see what I can do, Enigma said before breaking her connection to her.

Enigma opened the link she had with Charles and was surprised that he was already there, he never came to a recruitment site- ever. Before Enigma could give Artemis half a warning he was already right behind them.

"Well you have managed to hide yourself pretty well Artemis." A male voice said kindly, "I'm Charles Xavier."

Artemis turned to face Charles with fire in her eyes, "YOU! You knew about our school for a long time- didn't you? You sick twisted bastard! How dare you! Who do you think you are? God? Do you know how long I've been watching my own son die because of you? Do you even care about what the hell we've been through?!"

Enigma made to freeze Artemis mentally but Charles stopped her saying, "I understand her anger. She's a mother and mothers are always quite fierce when it comes to their children. I should have been able to find some of these kids with Cerebro but for some strange reason I couldn't. It was like they were shielded from me."

"Are you saying that this is my fault? Are you saying that because I hid the school from Friends Of Humanity and worse, I put my own kids in danger? For all I know you could be lying! I would never do anything that would put my students in danger!" Artemis was at the point of tears. She always found it odd that she cried when she was angry.

"Neither would I," Charles replied, a sadness creeping into his voice.

He finally realised why Enigma had bonded so quickly with the child, she was Magneto all over again. He realised that the pain he had felt two blocks back belonged to the fiery woman that stood before him. He knew that if he didn't try to help this girl now he would have to pay the price in bodies later.

"If you understand me so well why didn't you come sooner? Why didn't you help us? Why, you bloody hypocrite! Why? why?" Artemis was on the brink of sobbing now. This man brought emotions that she had long since buried into the light, and she wanted to know why.

What are you doing to me? She half shrieked.

I'll tell you if you let me live, one more outburst like that and I'm as good as dead, Charles tried to rebuild the blockades that she had torn down like tissue paper but soon realised that would be impossible.

He was facing a telepath as powerful as he was and that frightened him. The last time he was caught off guard like this was with Jean and her angry secondary personality Phoenix.

Sorry, you and your sister are the first telepaths, other than myself, that I have encountered. I've never been good at gauging other people's resistance to my telepathic outbursts so you'll have to forgive me for that. I promise it won't happen again, Artemis said calming down slightly.

She had a very unique personality mesh. He could see several bits of himself scattered about the labyrinth of her mind, but there were several bits of the Erik that he knew, the one that became Magneto, in there as well. That was what made him nervous.

No need to apologise, your still new to this. In answer to your question I am not doing anything to you, you are more than capable of feeling on your own, Charles said calmly.

I still don't trust you, Artemis said before slipping out of his mind.

She couldn't understand it, he had every right to be angry at her especially given all the things she called him. He was a very curious man indeed, curious and kind.

"Mom, he's not lying," her son said snapping her out of her thoughts

"Seth, why aren't you in the Blackbird?" Artemis asked.

"I heard you yelling at someone, and I was curious as to why," Seth replied his slate eyes staring back into her emerald.

"I tried to catch him but I couldn't keep up. He's more of a monkey than me, and that's saying something!" Kurt said as he finally caught up to the surprisingly agile child.

"Artemis?" A very nervous Didge asked.

"Yeah Didge?" Artemis replied.

"Please come back," Didge quickly hugged Artemis and ran off tears stinging the corners of her eyes.

"We have more than enough room if she would like to come with you," Charles said.

"Really?" Artemis asked.

Charles simply nodded and smiled. Artemis didn't even have time to whistle before Didge came running back with a gigantic grin on her face.