Marcos arrived with the man, that introduced himself as Alex in the Headquarters. Introduced would be a inaccurate word, it was more like Alex gave him his name to look into it later, as Marcos said to check if they could trust him. Marcos was sure that he had heard of the X-man Havok before. He just didn't remember when. If that was true, then they would have a former X-men on their side. That was an useful advantage, considering the Frosts involvement in the whole situation during the past weeks.

Marcos was still angry at what Esme did. He was more angry at himself, because he let it happen, even when he was sure that the idea to attack Trask Industries was bad. She had come into their lives, screwed their plans a little bit and ended up winning as she gained back her sisters and the Underground lost Sonya. Esme convinced them to go and try to infiltrate the lab. They shouldn't have listened to her and now the price was paid for that mistake.

The trip to the Headquarters was a silent one. Neither of the two man talked. Marcos didn't mind that at all, but silence gave him plenty of time to think. He had found his thoughts driving back to Sonya. Another one of his friends dead. The thoughts he had overwhelmed his mind with weren't pleasant.

Marcos went to Sage with Alex following him.

"First, we need to check up your history as I said earlier"

"Sage, can you check a name for me? " Marcos asked looking at the mutant. She looked past his shoulder at Alex and narrowed her eyes

"Of course." She nodded

"It won't take you a lot of time, I am sure" Marcos said ''The name is Alexander Summers. You should look up for a mention of the codename Havok."

Sage began typing on the keyboard, the sound reverberating throughout the whole room filled with computers and hard drives.

"I found the information" She declared and Marcos looked at the screen.

There were a couple of decoded files from the CIA and a little more information here and there. A document that made Alex an offcial gardian of a kid named Scott. It wasn't written straight away, but it was true. He was an X-man, part of the first class founded by Charles Xavier originally called Division X. Of course, there was a chance that this man could be lying for everything and had just managed to steal a former X-men's identity and the whole information.

Marcos found that a way too paranoid thougt, but he decided to keep an eye on Alex for a while, just to be sure. He couldn't consentrate only on that though. Right now the situation in the Underground was intense enough, because of the triplets. Some of the members didn't trust them at all, some thought that they have saved them. Marcos was the first type, but he was also sure that they will be coming back. These girls wanted something, so they would take it, it seemed logical.

"Thank you Sage" Marcos said and looked back at Alex.

"It's all good" He said

Alex only nodded when he told him. Marcos got the feeling that he wasn't the talkative type or he didn't talk if it wasn't necessary.

"Now I will introduce you to the other leaders" Marcos said as he saw John going down the stairs with with Lorna behind him. Great timing. He approached them and he saw Lorna freeze her eyes widened. She was staring right at Alex like she had seen a ghost.

Her lips were moving wordless and Marcos frowned. What was happening? "Lorna are-" He couldn't finish his question as Lorna interrupted him in mid sentence.

"Alex?" She asked her voice only a little over a whisper.

In this moment Marcos had a million of questions he could ask Lorna, but now was not the right moment. Also, he was sure that she would explain everything in time. She looked shell-shocked, he face a mixture of confusion, happiness and anger. Marcos could definitely read the angry spark dancing in her eyes. What the hell was going on?

Lorna and John had gone both downstairs to check if Marcos was back from the meeting. She had tried to talk to John about Sonya while Marcos had been gone, but she couldn't find the right words. Lorna felt like she had to say something. She had agreed to this plan too, after all. It felt like she had owned her friend a little bit of support.

"I am sorry" She had finally said to him.

"It's not your fault, Lorna. There is nothing to be sorry about" John had said

"I am sorry that we keep losing the people we love, because of this war of survival" She had said "I am sorry that I listened to Esme and her stupid idea, even if we weren't ready to go in there." A feeling of guilt finding its place in her chest.

"You weren't the one who pulled the trigger. It was Campbell. It is his fault." John had said the pain and anger noticeable in his eyes, in his stance, in his very aura. Lorna could see that he was hurting from a mile away.

"We will make it right" Lorna had stated feeling the guilt fly away to make place for the anger that had rotted in her heart now. Campbell would pay by any means necessary and that was a promise she had made to herself then.

''I know" John said with a look of determination.

"And if you need something, I am here" She had said

"I know that too'' He had smiled slightly

Lorna spotted Marcos walking over to them. A man with a familiar blond hair and blue eyes was following him. Lorna concentrated, trying to remind herself, why was the man so familiar. He had looked at her right in the eyes and then Lorna remembered. Everything was the same, except for the burned left side of his face. His nose looked crooked too. There was a big scar over his right eye that wasn't there before.

Lorna felt herself freeze in one place. She couldn't move, couldn't think, so many emotions coming back hitting her with full force. Suddenly all of the world around her didn't matter anymore. All she could see were the deep blue eyes staring at her, expecting her to react, to say something. That couldn't be possible, but he was standing right in front of her.

Alex looked away from the window turning back to Lorna, who was observing her hair in the mirror.

"You know what is fun? " He asked moving towards her.

"What?" She asked looking at a lock of her green hair.

"Well, your favorite color is green and your hair is green now. It would have sucked if it was pink or blue" He said giving her a smile, trying to cheer her up.

Lorna chucked "You really are thinking about that right now? Why are you even telling me this? "

"To make you feel better." He stated sympathy in his eyes. "Are you afraid of what your parents will say?"

"I... I don't know „She said her voice cracking. Lorna wanted to believe that they will accept her with her mutation and hair, but she didn't know if they would. However, Alex did accept her and that was the most important part.

"I have an idea" Alex's face lightened up. "I am gonna go to the store and buy you hair dye. Then we will use it to make your hair the same as it was before, we can do it every time you see the green showing up"

"You will do that?" Lorna asked feeling tears gather in her eyes. How could she be so luck with him? She pushed them away and looked back at her friend.

"Of course" Alex said his tone serious „I will always help you Lorna, I will always be next to you"

Lorna broke the distance left between them and hugged him, digging her finders into his back tightly.

"I love you" She whispered in his ear.

"I love you too" He said, hugging her back.

She snapped back to reality where her oldest, best friend was looking at her with the same blue eyes, that she had looked into so many times before.

"Alex?" She finally managed to say her voice almost a whisper.

Lorna knew that Marcos and John were watching her, confused. They probably didn't know what to make out of the situation. Heck, she didn't even know what to make out of it herself. The only thing she knew was that Alex was here, alive and well. Everything else drowned away.

"Lorna?" Alex looked shocked as well, but Lorna saw a flame of shame in his eyes. How was that even possible?

"You are alive?" She asked her voice choking from the emotion.

Lorna wasn't even sure what she was feeling herself. Was she happy to see him or angry that somehow he ended up alive and she didn't know. She haven't seen him for almost a decade now. A wave of anger went through her. He was alive this whole time and didn't try to find her, to tell her.

She breathed in. The explanations could wait, right here, right now, Lorna wanted one thing. She ran to Alex, crossing the distance between them and hugged him tightly, burying her face into his chest, like she did so many years ago, when he had just suggested to help her cover her newly found green hair. She could feel him tensing for a second, but he hugged her back.

"I missed you so damn much, you dumbass" She said feeling tears rolling down her cheeks. It was pointless to try and stop them now.

There were a lot of questions that needed to be asked, but they had time. For the first time in forever Lorna felt like she had all the time in the world. This day she had lost a friend and got back another one. Things didn't seem that hopeless anymore