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"Either way, get back to me on that," Jacen said as he left the company of the two ladies and meandered through the mansion a bit. As he walked, he couldn't help but to notice the strewn pieces of robotics laying about, along with the damage incurred by the invasion. It didn't exactly look good on the inside, and he could only imagine how bad it was on the outside of the mansion.

With a longing sigh, a sigh signalling some despondency, Jacen turned on his heel and walked a bit further through the mansion. He saw many of the others sitting around, chatting the night away almost as if nothing had happened. A few of the younger students caught a glimpse of Jacen as he walked and he could sense they were wary of him. It seemed as if his complacency over someone dying was a tad unnervving. "If they only knew," Jacen said to himself as he found himself walking in a virtual circle inside the mansion.

When he had made his second pass through the corridors, he heard someone's voice seemingly from nowhere. And he couldn't mistake it for anyone else's. It was Kitty.

"Hi, Jacen," Kitty said as she danced through the air to quickly meet up with him as he walked.

"Hello," said Jacen with a slight nod, "To what do I owe the honor of your presence?"

"Oh....," Kitty trailed her sentence off a slight bit before continuing, "I saw you were pretty banged up during that fight. I was just seeing if you were alright."

Jacen smiled slightly out of courtesy, but he was perplexed. He didn't understand why Kitty would be so concerned over him, but he wasn't going to say anything. "Of course I am," he said with a small laugh, "This is the least worst thing that could have happened..." His train of thought was derailed due to the knocking at the front door that they had just passed. "If you'll excuse me."

Carefully, Jacen opened the door and saw a younger girl, probably a year or two younger than himself standing there patiently with her bags in hand. And for some reason, it looked as if she was engaged in a conversation with herself.

"Hello," Jacen said to the girl with an extended hand, "You must be here to enroll in the school? The bags are a dead give-away. If you'll follow Kitty, I'm sure she'll show you to the Headmaster's chambers. Won't you Kitty?" When Jacen said that, he turned to Kitty and flashed a big smile.

"Fine, fine. I will, but you owe me one of those steaks you cooked up awhile ago," Kitty said while helping the as-of-yet-unknown new student with her bags.

"Done and done, kid. Just let me know whenever," Jacen said as he moved past the ladies and headed outside.

Sitting down on the porch, Jacen took a cig out of his pack and lit up. Even with an injury, he was going to try and relax as much as he could before the next big thing came steamrolling in, trying to kill everyone. As he sat there, his mind raced with the events of the past week for him. And he didn't know if he could tell his friends. He didn't know how they'd take it, knowing their living under the same roof as someone who was born and bred to raze the land of it's population. That thought produced the images of what he saw when he jumped forward to the time of Apocalypse. The images of burning buildings, the scents of decay, and the sounds of violent clashes started to stir something in Jacen when a loud bang and bright flash again shattered his concentration. There was someone hear, and he couldn't see who it was. Out of instinct or over-tension, Jacen powered himself up, awaiting for whoever it was to show themselves and let there intentions be known.

Jodie wandered aimlessly around the numerous hallways, never stopping to talk or look at anyone. She occasionally stopped to pick up some of the robot parts off the ground. She forgotten about the cut on the back of her neck, as it had stopped bleeding some time ago. As she rounded another corner on the main floor she stumbled upon the still crying Wolverine. She cautiously approached him and sat down on the floor across from him. "Ummmm.....I guess you're not ok huh?"

Lynn looked up at Jacen, she shook his hand when he presented it. She looked a little startled up at Kitty. She picked her bags back up and tried to smile.

"Um.. ok.. Kitty? Um.. I'm Lynn."

Lynn waited for Kitty to show her what to do. Lynn had no idea what was expected of her. She hoped that Orb would be good and not show himself until she felt it was safe for him.

"Yea. I can see it's just you, Phenix," Jacen said while absently tossing away the remnants of his cig, "But with weird flashing lights and people appearing suddenly, that s**t kinda puts me on edge."

When she walked past him, he noticed that she had been crying and looked to still be in the midst of it all. Something was tearing her up inside. He could sense that when she was sitting on the lawn, but now it was nearly too overpowering, even for him. The despair he was leeching from her did indeed energize him, but it slightly worried him. It was almost as if all the sorrow that was in the air from Phenix alone would be enough to overcharge himself and make him....he didn't know what would happen if he'd sit too long on a massive influx of negativity. Feeling a bit wary of spontaneous combustion, Jacen consciously kept himself strengthened. Maybe that would help to expend the build-up of energy.

Either way, he was concerned about his friend. Phenix looked rather shaken up by something, which was infinitly puzzling to him. He'd never seen her go into a full breakdown mode like this. Then, either out of curiousity or concern, Jacen decided to catch up with her.

"Hey, Phenix," Jacen said absently as he made his way towards her. "Sorry," he apologized when he actually was near her, "I don't mean to be a nuisance, but.....what's wrong?"

"I'm probably driving you insane right about now," Phenix rubbed her eyes knowing enough about Jacen to understand his abilities.

He shrugged, "Not important."

Phenix took a deep breath and sat against a window ledge, "I don't even know where to start."

"How about the beginning? You've been gone awhile."

She nodded, "Okay."

Phenix gave the summarized version of her time in Limbo... Illyana asking for their help. She being in charge of that place. Illyana getting people from all kinds of realities to help their causes. The fighting, the gore. Killing at least ten war lords to gain their armies to fight for Illyana... and then the end... Getting ready to go home, flash, bang...

"And I was alone. I don't know how to get back there without Illyana. I don't know if they're dead. I don't know what the hell to do. I, for once in my life, completely lost."

'Trip,' That made Phenix slightly laugh, "Not as restful as I'd like it to be."

She didn't want to go into the story again. It took too much energy from her. Not that she was lacking energy in a real sense. Her emotion was bouncing off of Jacen making him choke on her negativity, and in turn, that dark field of fear he created was bouncing off her mutant senses causing an overload. Was fun how things things worked.

"I think I'm going to... I don't know what I'm going to do... but I think I need to leave for a bit before I break something large..." Phenix looked around at the Institute, "And would you mind, later, telling me what the hell happened here."

She walked into the main foyer and stood there for a moment. Phenix looked up the stairs and wanted to go to her room. But something held her back. Her eyes went towards the back corridor and her feet took her to the gym. She walked back into the pool where nobody was and unleashed a huge ball of energy into it. The water swallowed it and then splashed up to the ceiling and across the deck in a spray.

Feeling like a brick was taken off her shoulder, she went and picked up some weights. Her mind was lost in it.

OOC: Jamie, you can follow me, if you want to write something else. I just felt I needed to move the character. She wouldn't be in a huge discussion mood since she didn't know Jamie that well from before.

Also, what is Xavier's status?

OOC: Originally, I planned to have Cassandra secretly hiding within Xavier's skull, but at the moment I'm too busy to sustain such a plot sad Could be a plot bunny for later though ^_^

Wolverine eventually got up from the spot at which he had been crying. When the sobs stopped, Jodie looked up at him and blinked. She thought that she might've fallen asleep for a while, but she couldn't remember too clearly. Wolverine looked over at her, smiled weakly, then walked over and threw her over her shoulder. She blanked out...


...She awoke in the infirmary, lying face-down on some kind of table-bed thing, with a big blue guy poking and proding the back of her neck.