Laura Kinney

To: logan@xaviers.edu
From: lkinney@xaviers.edu
Subject: (no subject)

Logan,
I heard you are back from your survival trip - which it turns out was in the simulation rooms. This explains why I could not have extra practices this week, perhaps even why I could not have gone on the trip. How easy it should have been for the students to detect the projected images. Then again, perhaps not quite so easy for some students.
I need to speak with you. I am have a hard time with some personal issues and you are the only person who I think could understand. Perhaps I am wrong, but you are the first person I could think of - normally I would talk to my surrogate mother, but that is no longer possible.
Please let me know when would be your earliest convenience.
Thank you,
Laura

I am dying, it is as simple as that. Dr. Richards assures everyone that our powers will be back on by early in the week, but I do not know if I will live that long. It is painful to write, painful to type and I can no longer walk without fainting from exhaustion. The poison of the adamantium has spread from my hands and feet, along my extremeties and is going to infect my heart. There is no way around it unless my ability to heal returns.

I am sitting, propped up, in a hospital bed beside an unconscious Professor Logan, the man I was cloned from. It is disturbing to see him so weak and unable to heal himself. Am I looking at what is to become of myself in the coming days? It does not appear to be a fate I would wish on anyone. When I was admitted to this medical facility, he was already unable to think or talk clearly so I do not know what he was feeling aside from the suffering I saw.

I do not want to die, but it does not seem like my life is in my control.

I do not know how else to communicate with this student body as a whole, so I will try here.

I do not feel very well. My limbs ache and I have felt dizzy since last night. Does anyone know if this might be related to the problems Dr. Richards has been experiencing? Who should I talk to?

Also, has anybody seen Professor Logan? I need to speak with him.

To: logan@xaviers.edu
From: lkinney@xaviers.edu
Subject: (no subject)

Professor Logan,
After having a long discussion with your co-team leader about how long the students are required to train during the day, I have decided that it is still not long enough. I would like permission to train longer, and perhaps if you were willing, to train with you on some evenings. I believe I have a lot to learn from you if you are willing to teach me.
Also, there is a lot I would like to talk to you about, again if you are willing.
Let me know as soon as possible.
Laura Kinney

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To: jkeller@xaviers.edu
From: lkinney@xaviers.edu
Subject: (no subject)

Julian,
You were one of the first people in the school to actually greet me without just staring at the girl that all the students were gossiping about. I would like to know more about this school and if you would be willing, I would like to learn more from you. If this is acceptable, let me know.
Laura Kinney

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This is the place that Dr. Kinney wanted me to come before she died. She said that Professor Xavier would protect me. Now that I am here, I am not sure how I feel about this place. The teenagers and adults that are here stare at me like I am a disease or like I am dangerous. I understand that some of these people are telepaths and can read my mind, and I have already been subjected to a particularly strong telepath by the name of Jean Grey. I know what I have done in my past and I should not be ashamed of what I was forced to do as a child. As I have gotten older, I have come to learn that what I was forced and trained to do is not socially acceptable, but that does not mean that I should be ashamed of it. Dr. Kinney said that my past is mine and there is nothing I can do to change it. I can only learn how to better myself and protect myself from the men that did this to me. I can only hope that the men and women that are teachers here can help with that. Dr. Kinney was a good woman who had many ambitions for me that did not include being a hired assassin or killing machine.
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I think it is going to be a long summer.

( Character Bio - X-23 )