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"Xaviers' School for Gifted Youngsters...." She lifted her face from the plaque that sat on the wall next to the iron gate. "Well, this must be the place..." She peered at the building but despite her glasses all she could make out was a faint blur of a large building. "Must be a really busy place....sure looks big...I hope Uncle Jess called ahead...." She looked around for a buzzer and after locating it she rang it.

He looked at the man. He sure new his stuff, he was indeed lost. Though he had been lost from the moment he left home, and he happened to like it. "Nice..." He said as he explained the teleporter. "You don't see stuff like this on the Discovery Channel..." He looked at the animals with interest and sort of bulked at the one cage marked Homo Sapien. The implication of this was not lost on him. His belief on humanity was similar, though not quiet as harsh as this persons. He was very impressed by the facility, this was a well made place. He might actually enjoy this trip.

Porter rubbed his eyes. He was ready to get some sleep after calming Sonya down. He stopped by his office and saw a new file on his desk for a student named Rachael Reimer. His team was getting big and getting big fast. Putting the file on top of other paperwork he needed to sort through since vacation, he turned off the light and headed out of his office. He had a lot weighing on his mind and hoped he could rest his head for a bit. He was worried that his team would have to be called into the fight. Not all of them were ready for it after the Hounds. He was worried that Penny would do something stupid once she found out where Jacen was... He had to be prepared.

When he came upon the hallway he overheard Jamie and an unknown female voice. She had said she was expected and needed to speak to whoever is in charge. It was definately Rachael from the pciture on file.

"Rachael," He walked up to her and Jamie, "Jamie, you can go get some rest if you want. I can take this from here. Thank you."

Turning back to Rachael, "I'm Jonothan Porter, one of the teachers here. Professor Xavier is unavailable this evening but I'll be able to help you get set up. I'm actually your counselor so you'll be in good hands."

He chuckled, "Don't worry, Rachael. You have at least a month before classes start. The only thing we do during the summer is train using our powers. So you can relax," He started to lead her up the stairs towards the girl's dorms. There was already a room picked out for her.

"I would give you the grand tour but it is quite late. You will be roomates with Sonya, one of our other new students."

He knocked on Sonya's dorm room door, "Sonya, are you awake still? I'd like to introduce you to your new roomate."

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IC: Magneto slowly circled around the young Courtney, eying her face and form for a moment after hearing her words. "Courtney Ann Tucker, correct? Born into a level of wealthy elite that most of the world will ever know, and exactly the manner of family that is happy to label our kind 'freaks'." There was more than a hint of contempt in his voice.

"Yes, you'll all find that I've done quite a bit of research upon you. Regardless, you miss your old life don't you? If not for this little 'incident', as you might call it, you'd still be with your old friends, looking down on anyone lower than your tax bracket, and god help you if you have an X-Factor cursing through your genes.

"Well here's the sobering truth, young Courtney. Those days are over, and they're not coming back. What you have is not a disease, it's not a condition and it sure as the devil is not temporary. Your mutation is you, it is natural, and in time... you will see it as beautiful as it truly is.

"Based on what I've seen and heard about you, you're more content to burn yourself out in a blaze of drunken glory, is that correct? I mean, your 'friends' abandoned you, your 'family' sees you as an embarassment, and the world hates you. You might as well give up, right?

"Well then dear, if after a mere 15 years you're willing to destroy yourself, and turn your back on the gift you've been given, then fine. We'll send you back , and you can end up in some gutter somewhere. Or, you can embrace who you are, and realize that you need not envy the life you had as a human. You are not beneath them... you are far beyond any simple human, and its time you understand that."

"By the way Sasha, speak up. You were quiet when we met in the third world, you've no further reason to do so. And Markus... we know the very least about you... but we are interested in giving you a home as well."

He paused, turning away from them for a moment, indicating that they follow him deeper into the facility. "And if any of you question my intentions... well, when you're trying to ensure the survival and proliferation of your people, it helps to have those people on your side."

"I've considered killing myself..." He spoke to Courtney. "Then I got a grip on my sanity...this guy is right on more than one thing. The world is a cold and cruel place for people like us, people for the most part are sheep ruled by fear..." He said bluntly. "While I do know that they're not all like this, the sad fact remains that the bulk majority of them are indeed like that. They fear what they cannot explain and do not understand." He wished it was otherwise but he didn't make the rules. "And based on what I've seen in the news and my own personal experiences from the places I've been since leaving home, they have no desire to understand us...the world ill needs people like that..." His distaste for those kinds of people now evident in his voice. He watched as the man started to walk off and decided that he'd give this place a shot. He wanted to feel out the situation before he made a final decision on his alliegence, such decisions should not be made in haste. He moved to follow him inside having said his piece.

"Hey, I'm Jamie." Jamie said to Rachael, before Porter showed up. "I guess Porters got you from here. Maybe I can get to know you when I'm more. . . awake, ok?" He gave her a quick smile, and wandered off up to his room, for more sleep.

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