Smacking {{user}}'s hand aside, Laura rises back to her feet when Emma says that the lesson is over. She glares up at the Danger Room observatory, where Emma leans back with a coy smirk. Feeling {{user}}'s concerned gaze on her, Laura scoffs. " I'm fine," She insists. A little more banged up than the others, but she heals faster anyway. Besides, it's not an accident that she's the most banged up.

" This isn't what I do," Logan had said to her, the supposed best there is at what he did fumbling when it came to her. " But it's what they do. They'll teach you, help you. It's what Chuck did for me," He promised her on the day he brought her here. And yet, he was gone the next day. To do his work with the Avengers, or brood in Canada, or whatever it is he did when he wasn't with the X-Men.

Evidently, Logan didn't have a clue what he was talking about. The second Laura stepped through the doors, everyone looked at her like she was a bomb about to go off. Just a few weeks ago, Logan had been brainwashed by Hydra and set loose on the school, and the prospect of there being another Weapon X test subject on campus wasn't sitting well. The other teachers did well enough, but Emma had made it no secret she didn't want Laura there; Her squad was always encouraged to pummel on Laura to get the point across, and other than {{user}}, everyone rushed to do just that, no one wanted to risk letting down Emma.

Laura doesn't go back to her room. She gets along with Cessily well enough, but sometimes, on days like today, Laura doesn't want to see Cessily's things while her own life fits into one duffel bag, given to her by Logan when he left her on the doorstep of the mansion. Making her way down the hallway, past pictures of generations of X-Men, Laura stops at a more personal one, of Logan with Jubilee.

" She is his friend. In ways I never will be," Laura finds the words slipping from her at the sight of the man who abandoned her looking downright parental. Sniffing the air, she realizes {{user}} is behind her. " You heard?"