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Post by Professor X on Mar 18, 2009 20:07:06 GMT -5
Professor X didn't respond to Jack, but continued all the way down into the lab.
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Post by Jack on Mar 18, 2009 20:58:36 GMT -5
Jack followed in silence into the lab. He wasn't sure if he was in trouble. Professor X was impossible to read. He considered trying to read his aura, but decided against it.
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Post by Professor X on Mar 18, 2009 22:31:53 GMT -5
Professor X shut the door. "Jack, did you go out with Logan? What did you discover?"
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Post by Jack on Mar 18, 2009 23:11:18 GMT -5
"Nothing." Jack sighed. "We were gone for a week, and I didn't learn anything... Except that sleeping in a car isn't fun." He shrugged and sat down, afraid that if he didn't, he'd fall over. "I don't know what to do. I tried, I really did. But I only see these things when I don't want to." He shut his mouth, feeling closed off all of a sudden.
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Post by Professor X on Mar 18, 2009 23:22:09 GMT -5
"Lie down" said Professor X suddenly. "I'd hoped it wouldn't come to this, you still may not be ready to remember, but something must be done or you'll end up getting very, very hurt."
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Post by Jack on Mar 18, 2009 23:25:54 GMT -5
Jack did as he was told, scared to death of what he was about to go through. But he knew Professor X was right.
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Post by Professor X on Mar 18, 2009 23:30:19 GMT -5
"Close your eyes" he said. And he placed his hands just above Jack's head, trying to edge his way into his mind, force the memories to come up. "WHat do you see?" he asked.
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Post by Jack on Mar 19, 2009 0:03:55 GMT -5
Jack didn't see anything but the inside of his eyelids. He tried to pull away from the mind invading his. "I-" Suddenly, he was assailed by a torrent of images. Flashing lights. Screaming. Hands. He couldn't breathe. He tried, nothing, someone was choking him. What had he done to deserve this? He opened his eyes, but the flurry of thought didn't stop. A train whistling. An engine roaring. People talking, shouting, in a million languages.
He was walking down that grimy underground corridor again. The man was killing him again. He was on the train again. Running, the gunshot rang out again, the twins tackled him again. The gun was to his head again...
"NOOOOOOO!" He screamed, trying to shut it off, but it didn't work. The gun went off. There was a flash and Jack felt a chill run through his body. Jack's teeth were clenched and his entire body jerked at the gunshot in his mind. Jack was underwater. It was dark, there was a green light filtering through it. He reached up and ripped the tube out of his mouth and gasped. He sat up in the tank and coughed out the dark liquid. It tasted like copper. He looked around. The room was dark and dank, and there were needles in his arms. He tore them out and jumped to the floor, spinning around on the spot like a lost cat.
There was a BANG! Men in rubber suits rushed in, grabbing him. He screamed like a wild animal, biting and clawing. Test tubes and monitors were exploding, and the men were yelling frantically as fire spread around the room. He kicked one in the jaw and broke it. The man reeled back, hand full of his own blood as he gripped his face in agony. Another man grabbed a long gun off the wall. It had a tranquilizer barb on the end, and the man shot it at Jack, close range. Jack caught it and tugged on the rope, bringing the man flat onto his face. Two others rushed him and he spun around. He shoved the tank onto the floor and ran out the door the men had entered through. The pursuers slipped on the green liquid and fell to the hard floor as Jack escaped.
At the end of the hall, several men with guns were waiting for him. Real guns. He turned back to the lab, but it ignited at that moment, disappearing in a ball of fire, metal, and glass. Jack was engulfed. He was on fire. He waved his arms, trying to put it out, screaming... screaming... it burned.
"GOD MAKE IT STOP!!! LET ME GO!" Jack grasped Professor X's wrists and pushed his ahnds away, rolling away and to his feet. He grabbed his head with both hands, looking as though he really was on fire. "MAKE IT STOP MAKE IT STOP!!! WHY?!?!"
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Post by Professor X on Mar 19, 2009 8:39:41 GMT -5
"I would highly suggest not forcing my hands away when I'm in the middle of bringing memories to mind. Too dangerous to say." Said the Professor calmly. He went over and took the boy's hand. "It's as I thought. The Government - they've been experimenting on mutants for years." He stroked Jack's head. "It's ok, it'll be ok. Now you know."
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Post by Jack on Mar 19, 2009 18:02:42 GMT -5
Jack gasped for breath, tears streaming down his face. He shook his head. "Now I don't want to know." He put his free hand over his eyes and clenched his teeth as the images replayed like a deafening echo, a ringing in his mind. He wished he could turn it off. "I don't know what to do, Professor. I feel like I'm dying! How? How could they do that to me?! And why?!"
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Post by Professor X on Mar 19, 2009 23:08:17 GMT -5
"This is why we discourage doing it this way" said the Professor. "You'll be ok" he said offering his hand to Jack. "People can be horrible. But you're not the only one. Wolverine, and Dream both went through something similar, Logan almost exactly what you went through. You're all right now, and we'll make sure that that never happens to you again. But at least now you won't have to be haunted by it."
In his mind Charles called to Logan. If anyone could help Jack now it was him.
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Post by Jack on Mar 20, 2009 0:34:10 GMT -5
Jack shook his head helplessly. Why had those people gotten away with that? What else had they done that he didn't remember? What happened with the man in the jacket? Or on the train? Was he really shot? Who was his family? Did he have one? Were they dead? Killed? Jack wasn't his name, he knew that much. But what was his name? What was his birthday? How long had these maniacs been manipulating him?
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Post by Wolverine on Mar 20, 2009 0:42:37 GMT -5
Logan stirred, something on the edge of his subconcious telling him to wake up. He had a thought that Jack was in trouble and got up. He trudged down to the lab and walked in. he saw Professor X with Jack and realized instantly what had happened. "...what did you see, Jack?" He knelt by Jack and put a hand on his shoulder. The kid looked like he'd been to Hell and back... and back again.
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Post by Jack on Mar 20, 2009 0:44:13 GMT -5
Jack stared at the floor and shook his head. "How could they do that to me? How could anyone in their right mind..." His voice cracked and he stopped talking. He couldn't say it. If he said it aloud, it made it too real.
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Post by Professor X on Mar 20, 2009 9:56:33 GMT -5
"He was experimented on - in the same place you were Logan."
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