Chapter 2 - Chapter 2
Submitted June 6, 2006 Updated June 6, 2006 Status Incomplete | is is probably does not follow the plot of the films or the comicsor anything so I probably have done a hell of a lot wrong. This is just arandom fan-fic that I wanted to write. So yeah, I’m sorry if you don’t like itand correct me if you want to but |
Chapter 2 - Chapter 2
Chapter 2 - Chapter 2
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Chapter 2
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“Devon.” A voice called to me and I looked out onto the real world rather than the digital one that I spent so much of my time in. “Farasha.”
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“Um, yes?” I asked in a sleepy voice.
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“Would you stop logging on while I'm teaching.” Storm said, standing by the white board that that had been wheeled into the room.
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“Oh, sorry.” I said and tried to concentrate.
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“Did anyone work out what <i>x</i> was?” The woman teaching maths asked.
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I was the only one that put up my hand.
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“Apart from Devon?”
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I put my hand down, Ororo had gotten used to me knowing everything that was going on with maths. Storm proceeded to work the answer out on the board and I looked out of the window while that rest of the class struggled to find what the answer to the question.
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We all walked out of the classroom when it was finished and travelled to our normal places. I sat once again with Reni on the sofa and sighed as I sank into the soft fabric.
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“Hey, you all still going to go and see Song tonight?” Reni asked.
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“I still want to.” The voice below us said. Maeve had sat down on the floor by our feet because of the lack of room on the sofa. Reni and I always got there first.
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“Oh yeah.” I said, looking down. I remembered that Song was going to be singing at her bar again tonight and we had all promised that we would go and see her perform. She liked it when some of us were there as well, it made everyone feel happy.
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But I didn't do very well in crowds. I had never gone with them when they went to see her, I had always stayed at the Institute and listened to them all talk about it when they came back. I never showed them that I was jealous, but I knew that I wouldn't be alright there, no matter how much I wanted to go.
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“Oh, common, Fara.” Reni pleaded with me. “Song would be soooo happy.” The girl sitting on the floor looked up at me.
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I looked away from them both. “You know me, guys…” I sighed.
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“Just come once.” Quinn said. “I don't really like crowds, but I still think it's fun.”
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I looked back at my two friends and smiled. “Fine, but I doubt that you'll ever be able to get me out of the Institute ever again.” I joked. But I was true that I never left the school unless I really needed to, I stayed out of most shopping expeditions unless I was out of cloths or needed something for my computer.
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Yes, I did have a computer as well as having myself, but that was only backup and kept memories that I wanted to keep on it. I was always scared that I might have all my memories deleted again so I put pictures and conversations and anything that I didn't want to forget there.
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“Wow, this is a first.” Maeve mumbled.
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“Don't be sarcastic, Quinn.” Reni said. “This is amazing, we are all gonna have such a good time.” She grinned.
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I sighed and sank into my mind, letting my eyes dissolve into white, dead from the real world as I flew around the place that I was at home.
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There was another email waiting for me. Sender unknown.
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I was about to delete it without looking at it, I was going to do what I had promised Jean. But then I saw what the subject of the email was.
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369720
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I stared at it for moments that seemed like lifetimes. That was the number on my hand, the number on the suit that they found me in. I had spent two years trying to find the significance of that number, but finding nothing.
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No one apart from a handful of people at the Institute knew about it. I didn't know how anyone else would knew. Unless…
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A voice outside me mind said something to me and I shook myself back into consciousness.
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“What was that, Reni?” I asked the girl next to me, squinting in the sunlight that was so bright from the window facing the sunset.
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“I said your mouth's open.” She said.
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“Oh sorry… it's just that…”
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“Just that what?” A voice from below me said. Maeve was sitting on the floor as there was no more room on the sofa.
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“Um… nothing, <font color="Black">Quinn.” I mumbled to her.</font>
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<font color="Black">I went back and looked at the email again. It really did say 369720. There was no way that I could ever let this be deleted.</font>
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<font color="Black">I opened it with a shaking hand and waited for it to load.</font>
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<font color="Black"><i>Dear Butterfly 369720</i></font>
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<font color="Black"><i>I am glad that you are still alive.</i></font><font color="Black"><i></i></font>
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<font color="Black"><i>See you soon.</i></font><font color="Black"><i></i></font>
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<font color="Black"><i>From Dragonfly 369721</i></font>
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<font color="Black">I just stared at the words for so long that they lost all meaning. Only then did I notice the picture file that was waiting to be downloaded. </font><font color="Black">I opened it and waited.</font><font color="Black"></font>
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<font color="Black">The picture was of me and someone else. I was wearing the suit that I had been found it, and I looked down at the floor. I was holding the other person's hands and we were facing slightly towards each other and slightly forwards. The other person was a boy, the same height and had the same colour hair as me and wore a blue plastic suit just like mine but for a boy. But the number on his chest was 369721, his name </font><font color="Black">was </font>Anguis<font color="Black"> Alvar</font><font color="Black"> and the picture that he had on the right side of his chest was not a butterfly, but a dragonfly.</font>
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<font color="Black">I opened my eyes wide and jumped into the air from where I was sitting and flew over the edge of the sofa.</font>
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<font color="Black">“Hmm? Why is Farasha flying?” Quinn asked from where she was sitting and sat on the newly vacated place on the sofa.</font>
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<font color="Black">“I- I need to go find the professor.” I said, flying as fast as I could. I was in the corridors below the school, getting desperate and still running as fast as I could. I hadn't flown in so long that it took all my electrical energy from my body and I felt drained and tired, but I needed to show the professor this.</font>
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<font color="Black">Suddenly I hit something in the middle of the maze like corridors. It was soft and seemed startled that I had ran into it. I looked up and saw Warren looking down at me. The full weight of what I had just seen dawned me and I walked backwards a couple of steps, felt my skin burn with marking and for the first time ever in my life I felt my eyes prickle as tears streamed down from them.</font>
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<font color="Black">As I walked backwards I fell over and started to shake. I felt so bad, I was out of electricity, I couldn't stay like this, and what I just seen would not leave my mind, I didn't understand it, at all.</font>
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<font color="Black">“Devon, are you alright?” A</font><font color="Black"> soft</font><font color="Black"> voice above me asked.</font><font color="Black"></font>
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<font color="Black">I opened heavy tired crying eyes to the person that was crouched in front of me.</font><font color="Black"> Warren smiled at me and reached his hand forwards and put it on my shoulder. For the first time ever the markings under his hand cleared away on my skin rather than appeared. </font><font color="Black">I stopped shaking and looked at him.</font><font color="Black"></font>
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<font color="Black">“Are you ok?” He asked.</font>
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<font color="Black">I looked down. “Yes, thank you.” I mumbled. “Please, where is the professor?” I asked him.</font>
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<font color="Black">“Come with me.” The man held his hand to me and I took it. This time when our skin touched the patterns reappeared on my arm like they always did.</font>
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<font color="Black">I stood up and Xavier wheeled around the corner just as we started walking.</font>
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<font color="Black">“Devon, are you alright?” He asked, having felt that I had been upset.</font>
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<font color="Black">“I need a printer.” I informed him. “Then I can show you.”</font>
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<font color="Black">We found a printer and I stood by a mains outlet so the I could have some power to connect to the printer with my mind. The three of us waited as the page went slowly through the machine and came out finally, the ink still wet and the page warm from being in the machine.</font><font color="Black"></font>
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<font color="Black">“This is…” Xavier said to himself as he looked at the image before turning to me. “Do you have any idea who he is?” He asked me.</font>
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<font color="Black">“No, I don't.” I said. “It looks like this was taken </font><font color="Black">just before you all found me.” I said. “I got this in another anonymous em</font><font color="Black">a</font><font color="Black">il. The message in it said Dear Butterfly 369720. I am glad that you are still alive.</font><font color="Black"> See you soon.</font><font color="Black"> From Dragonfly 369721.</font><font color="Black">”</font>
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<font color="Black">“Can you trace the email back?” Warren asked, looking over the professor's shoulder.</font>
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<font color="Black">“I'll work on it, but I already doubt it.” I said, looking down. I clenched my fist and felt marks emerging there. “I just want to know what this means.”</font>
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<font color="Black">“Hmm, well, if you believe that the person with you in the picture is the person who sent the email then I think that your brother is trying to find you again.”</font>
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<font color="Black">“Are we sure that he's my brother?” I asked.</font>
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<font color="Black">“It looks pretty obvious to me.” The professor said, handing my back the page.</font>
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<font color="Black">I took it and held it close to me, the paper crumpling in my hand.</font>
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<font color="Black">“Lets just hope that this person does not have anything against you.” Xavier said. “Warren, take Devon back to her friends.”</font>
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<font color="Black">“Yes, Professor.”</font>
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<font color="Black">I sighed and walked with Arch-Angel back to where my friends were sitting as if nothing had happened. I put the page into my pocket, not knowing if I should tell them or not.</font><font color="Black"></font>
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Chapter 2
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“Devon.” A voice called to me and I looked out onto the real world rather than the digital one that I spent so much of my time in. “Farasha.”
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“Um, yes?” I asked in a sleepy voice.
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“Would you stop logging on while I'm teaching.” Storm said, standing by the white board that that had been wheeled into the room.
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“Oh, sorry.” I said and tried to concentrate.
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“Did anyone work out what <i>x</i> was?” The woman teaching maths asked.
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I was the only one that put up my hand.
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“Apart from Devon?”
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I put my hand down, Ororo had gotten used to me knowing everything that was going on with maths. Storm proceeded to work the answer out on the board and I looked out of the window while that rest of the class struggled to find what the answer to the question.
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We all walked out of the classroom when it was finished and travelled to our normal places. I sat once again with Reni on the sofa and sighed as I sank into the soft fabric.
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“Hey, you all still going to go and see Song tonight?” Reni asked.
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“I still want to.” The voice below us said. Maeve had sat down on the floor by our feet because of the lack of room on the sofa. Reni and I always got there first.
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“Oh yeah.” I said, looking down. I remembered that Song was going to be singing at her bar again tonight and we had all promised that we would go and see her perform. She liked it when some of us were there as well, it made everyone feel happy.
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But I didn't do very well in crowds. I had never gone with them when they went to see her, I had always stayed at the Institute and listened to them all talk about it when they came back. I never showed them that I was jealous, but I knew that I wouldn't be alright there, no matter how much I wanted to go.
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“Oh, common, Fara.” Reni pleaded with me. “Song would be soooo happy.” The girl sitting on the floor looked up at me.
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I looked away from them both. “You know me, guys…” I sighed.
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“Just come once.” Quinn said. “I don't really like crowds, but I still think it's fun.”
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I looked back at my two friends and smiled. “Fine, but I doubt that you'll ever be able to get me out of the Institute ever again.” I joked. But I was true that I never left the school unless I really needed to, I stayed out of most shopping expeditions unless I was out of cloths or needed something for my computer.
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Yes, I did have a computer as well as having myself, but that was only backup and kept memories that I wanted to keep on it. I was always scared that I might have all my memories deleted again so I put pictures and conversations and anything that I didn't want to forget there.
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“Wow, this is a first.” Maeve mumbled.
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“Don't be sarcastic, Quinn.” Reni said. “This is amazing, we are all gonna have such a good time.” She grinned.
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I sighed and sank into my mind, letting my eyes dissolve into white, dead from the real world as I flew around the place that I was at home.
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There was another email waiting for me. Sender unknown.
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I was about to delete it without looking at it, I was going to do what I had promised Jean. But then I saw what the subject of the email was.
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369720
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I stared at it for moments that seemed like lifetimes. That was the number on my hand, the number on the suit that they found me in. I had spent two years trying to find the significance of that number, but finding nothing.
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No one apart from a handful of people at the Institute knew about it. I didn't know how anyone else would knew. Unless…
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A voice outside me mind said something to me and I shook myself back into consciousness.
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“What was that, Reni?” I asked the girl next to me, squinting in the sunlight that was so bright from the window facing the sunset.
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“I said your mouth's open.” She said.
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“Oh sorry… it's just that…”
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“Just that what?” A voice from below me said. Maeve was sitting on the floor as there was no more room on the sofa.
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“Um… nothing, <font color="Black">Quinn.” I mumbled to her.</font>
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<font color="Black">I went back and looked at the email again. It really did say 369720. There was no way that I could ever let this be deleted.</font>
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<font color="Black">I opened it with a shaking hand and waited for it to load.</font>
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<font color="Black"><i>Dear Butterfly 369720</i></font>
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<font color="Black"><i>I am glad that you are still alive.</i></font><font color="Black"><i></i></font>
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<font color="Black"><i>See you soon.</i></font><font color="Black"><i></i></font>
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<font color="Black"><i>From Dragonfly 369721</i></font>
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<font color="Black">I just stared at the words for so long that they lost all meaning. Only then did I notice the picture file that was waiting to be downloaded. </font><font color="Black">I opened it and waited.</font><font color="Black"></font>
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<font color="Black">The picture was of me and someone else. I was wearing the suit that I had been found it, and I looked down at the floor. I was holding the other person's hands and we were facing slightly towards each other and slightly forwards. The other person was a boy, the same height and had the same colour hair as me and wore a blue plastic suit just like mine but for a boy. But the number on his chest was 369721, his name </font><font color="Black">was </font>Anguis<font color="Black"> Alvar</font><font color="Black"> and the picture that he had on the right side of his chest was not a butterfly, but a dragonfly.</font>
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<font color="Black">I opened my eyes wide and jumped into the air from where I was sitting and flew over the edge of the sofa.</font>
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<font color="Black">“Hmm? Why is Farasha flying?” Quinn asked from where she was sitting and sat on the newly vacated place on the sofa.</font>
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<font color="Black">“I- I need to go find the professor.” I said, flying as fast as I could. I was in the corridors below the school, getting desperate and still running as fast as I could. I hadn't flown in so long that it took all my electrical energy from my body and I felt drained and tired, but I needed to show the professor this.</font>
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<font color="Black">Suddenly I hit something in the middle of the maze like corridors. It was soft and seemed startled that I had ran into it. I looked up and saw Warren looking down at me. The full weight of what I had just seen dawned me and I walked backwards a couple of steps, felt my skin burn with marking and for the first time ever in my life I felt my eyes prickle as tears streamed down from them.</font>
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<font color="Black">As I walked backwards I fell over and started to shake. I felt so bad, I was out of electricity, I couldn't stay like this, and what I just seen would not leave my mind, I didn't understand it, at all.</font>
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<font color="Black">“Devon, are you alright?” A</font><font color="Black"> soft</font><font color="Black"> voice above me asked.</font><font color="Black"></font>
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<font color="Black">I opened heavy tired crying eyes to the person that was crouched in front of me.</font><font color="Black"> Warren smiled at me and reached his hand forwards and put it on my shoulder. For the first time ever the markings under his hand cleared away on my skin rather than appeared. </font><font color="Black">I stopped shaking and looked at him.</font><font color="Black"></font>
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<font color="Black">“Are you ok?” He asked.</font>
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<font color="Black">I looked down. “Yes, thank you.” I mumbled. “Please, where is the professor?” I asked him.</font>
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<font color="Black">“Come with me.” The man held his hand to me and I took it. This time when our skin touched the patterns reappeared on my arm like they always did.</font>
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<font color="Black">I stood up and Xavier wheeled around the corner just as we started walking.</font>
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<font color="Black">“Devon, are you alright?” He asked, having felt that I had been upset.</font>
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<font color="Black">“I need a printer.” I informed him. “Then I can show you.”</font>
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<font color="Black">We found a printer and I stood by a mains outlet so the I could have some power to connect to the printer with my mind. The three of us waited as the page went slowly through the machine and came out finally, the ink still wet and the page warm from being in the machine.</font><font color="Black"></font>
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<font color="Black">“This is…” Xavier said to himself as he looked at the image before turning to me. “Do you have any idea who he is?” He asked me.</font>
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<font color="Black">“No, I don't.” I said. “It looks like this was taken </font><font color="Black">just before you all found me.” I said. “I got this in another anonymous em</font><font color="Black">a</font><font color="Black">il. The message in it said Dear Butterfly 369720. I am glad that you are still alive.</font><font color="Black"> See you soon.</font><font color="Black"> From Dragonfly 369721.</font><font color="Black">”</font>
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<font color="Black">“Can you trace the email back?” Warren asked, looking over the professor's shoulder.</font>
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<font color="Black">“I'll work on it, but I already doubt it.” I said, looking down. I clenched my fist and felt marks emerging there. “I just want to know what this means.”</font>
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<font color="Black">“Hmm, well, if you believe that the person with you in the picture is the person who sent the email then I think that your brother is trying to find you again.”</font>
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<font color="Black">“Are we sure that he's my brother?” I asked.</font>
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<font color="Black">“It looks pretty obvious to me.” The professor said, handing my back the page.</font>
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<font color="Black">I took it and held it close to me, the paper crumpling in my hand.</font>
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<font color="Black">“Lets just hope that this person does not have anything against you.” Xavier said. “Warren, take Devon back to her friends.”</font>
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<font color="Black">“Yes, Professor.”</font>
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<font color="Black">I sighed and walked with Arch-Angel back to where my friends were sitting as if nothing had happened. I put the page into my pocket, not knowing if I should tell them or not.</font><font color="Black"></font>
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angel_of_beauty_and_light on June 7, 2006, 6:25:20 PM
Eoara on June 7, 2006, 7:36:47 AM
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quick comment. got to go sleep. very good. night nightxxx
Warren: I already told you! Quit following me!
Awww, but Warren, you're so pretty! ^^
Warrn: Go away!
Awww ;__;
Henyway, great chapter!!! Can't wait for you to put up more. LOL, iPod still not properly ready ;__;