Scott and the other X-Men could only stare in wonder as Kitty phased them through the door of the Danger Room. There were at least sixty Jamies in there, all of them running and dodging.

  "What the HECK?!" Spyke yelled, his eyes wide with wonder.

  "Wheres Wolverine?!" Jean shouted to Scott, as he was exploding one of the lazer guns.

  "I don't know!"

 Scott shouted back, looking around. "Him and the Prof are the only ones who can disable this...AHHH!"

 One of the MANY multiples in the danger room pushed Scott out of the way as he was almost hit by a large metal ball in his distractions.

  "Ugh!" It grunted as it hit him, but the only thing that happened was five more multiples came out of him.

  "Woa...did you see that?" Scott asked Kitty, who was staring wide eyed as Jamie's multiples fought to protect not only him, but everybody.

  "Logan!" Kitty turned to see Logan running in.

 Logan wasted no time.

  "Security coad override, Gotcha 1, voice print, Wolverine." His gruff voice echoed through the Danger room as all of the machines shut down.

 uh oh...Jamie thought.I'm in TROUBLE.

 Just as he suspected, Scott's lumbering figure was soon in front of him, making Jamie quickly avert his eyes to the floor.

  "What....?" Scott started, then corrected himself. "Wait, nevermind, I dont even want to KNOW what you were thinking!"

 Jean's hand was on his arm from behind.

  "Scott, calm down."

Scott pushed her hand away.

  "Jamie, what you did was irresponsible and stupid! You could have been SERIOUSLY hurt in here! You can't handle the Danger Room unless there's SUPERVISION!"

 Jamie just nodded, but his multiples wouldn't give up without a fight. One walked forward with a determined look on his face and stepped in front of Jamie.

  "I'm sorry, Scott, it was MY fault. I'll take the blame..."

  "NO!" Another cut in, running forward and pushing the other out of the way. "It was MY fault, I'm the one who should take the blame!"

  "No me!" Two shouted at once, jumping forward.

  "Stop!" One standing to the left of Scott yelled to the other four, stepping forward in a calm manner. "I have a solution to all of this. I'LL take the blame."

  "NO!" They all chorused, tackling the "peaceful" one.

  "What the HECK?" Evan repeated. "Not only is there TONS of them, they all wanna get in TROUBLE! Thats just WEIRD!"

 Jamie was staring at his multiples, an apolegetic grin on his face, but when he turned back to Scott, his smile immediately vanished.

  "I'm...I'm sorry, Scott..." He swayed slightly, his eyes drooping. But his eyes were immediately thrown open by the sound of Logan's voice.

  "Some people's powers are stronger than others, kid, and yours ain't the strongest in the world. You gotta watch it, and actually THINK before you do something, is THAT so hard? I mean, some people just..."

 Jamie's eyes swam in and out of focus and he tried to keep eye contact with Wolverine, finding it difficult because he had to look strait up to look at him. His mind was growing foggy, and it was getting hard to hear what Logan was saying.

  "...and the kid isn't even LISTENING to me!"

 Swaying slightly once again, Jamie looked around at the now MANY, many multiples around him, two stepped forward, starting to flicker, and melted into him.

  "Woa..." He said quickly, and fell to the shiny danger room floor in a deep, mindless sleep.

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  "OH my gosh!" Jean gasped, running forward to Jamie (who was now surrounded by concerned Multiples). "Jamie!" She shook him. "Jamie!"

  "Hey!" One of the braver multiples stepped in front of her. "Stand back, lady, give him some AIR! I can tell you one thing, that CHEAP perfume you're wearing ain't gunna do NOTHING for him!"

  "Isn't going to do anything." Storm corrected, parting the crowd. The multiple who had just insulted Jean ran and hid behind her, letting out a yell.

  "He isn't going to wake up for awhile." Ororo concluded, picking up a long forgotten empty cup from the floor and watching as the many multiples turned into a few, and then a few into none, as they all went into Jamie. "I gave him a sleeping drought before I left him, and it seems that either himself, or one of his mischievous multiples, liked it so much they decided o have some more."

 Kitty snickered behind her hand, hiding her head behind Kurt when Ororo and Scott glared at her.

  "I geuss we'll just have to have a talk with him AFTER he wakes up."

 Everyone nodded and walked out of the danger room, Logan carrying a heavily sleeping Jamie back to the hospital ward.

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  "I beleive we need to discuss a matter." Professor Xavier inquired, his head tilted like he was thinking. "I beleive we need to find a way to control Jamie's powers."

 Jean, who was lounging on the arm of the chair Scott was sitting in, stood up.

  "But, his powers are so...uncontrollable. We don't even know how he figured them out!"

 Scott stood up also, his arms crossed across his chest.

  "Maybe he needs to just...mature a bit before joining us."

 Professor Xavier nodded, but had a dissaproving look on his face.

  "I agree, Scott, but if you are suggesting that he be returned to his home, I'm afraid that cannot be done."

 Scott sat back down in a huff.

  "Why? I don't understand."

 His fingers tapped themselves against those of the other hand as Professor Xavier listed off the reasons.

  "Well, Scott, we currently do not know where his mother is to send him to her, and although we have the location of his father's residence, It is reported that he has not been there for a few months. Also, even the slightest touch from anything solid could leave him with another of himself. Think about how that would look in public. We cannot risk it."

 Scott nodded.

  "So, what are we gonna do?"

 Ororo cut in.

  "I think we should take it a step at a time, Scott, and let it take control of itself."

 Eyes narrowed, Logan released the question that had been swimming in everybody's minds since the subject had been brought up.

  "But what if it doesnt?"

 Ororo's eyes looked to the ground.

  "We just have to hope."

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 Jamie opened his eyes slowly, squinting in the light.

  "I'm HERE again?" He sighed. He was in the Hospital Ward. Again. "Thats it. I'm going to my room."

 Sitting up groggilly, Jamie noticed the Hospital Wing was empty. Surprise surprise. He slowly walked out the door of the infirmary, looking from side to side as not to get caught. He was used to sneaking around places, and he usually NEVER got caught. Unless he was towing around three multiples, that is.

 On the way to his room, Jamie saw, down the hall, a room with a light streaming from a crack. The talking coming from it was evident, it was the older X-men. Dare he try to listen? Finally, his curiosity got the better of him and he was flat against the wall outide the door, near the light of the door. He could hear the voices more clearly now.

  "...Professor?" He heard Scott finish a statement. So Scott was there. Hmph.

 "Scott, why not just wait a little while?"

 Jamie heard Scott sigh at Jean's request.

  "I just think, that it would be better if he was home...with his family."

 Home? Jamie thought, alarmed. But...this is my home now. They weren't thinking of sending him...back to his dads...were they?

 I will never go back there ever again! Jamie thought, before running up to his room in a fit of frenzy.

  "Not going home...not going home!" He mumbled to himself as he quickly changed clothes. Grabbing his school bag, Jamie knew he could only bring what he needed. His school supplies, of course, but what else? There was only one thing Jamie could thinkof that he really, truely needed.

  "Teddy..." He said affectionately, pulling his old, worn out Teddy bear into a tight hug.

 It smelt of dust and memories.

  "You know I could NEVER leave YOU behind."

 He gently placed the bear into his back pack, and then turned off his light and turned to leave.

  "I still think you should apologise for what you said."

  "Apologise? Why me?"

 Someone was coming down the hall! He couldn't close his door, that'd be too obvious, but if he made too much noise, he'd be caught!

  "Uh...uhh..." he moved over to the door and pushed it slowly forward a little, as to make room for him to slide in. It creaked, but made room.

  "Hey, what was that?"

 Jamie could hear Scott thinking as they passed by his door.

  "It was probably the wind."

  "Ya." And they walked off.

 Quickly, before they came back, Jamie sprinted from his room, down the hall and out the mansion door with surprisingly no difficulty.

 He had made it into the world.

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 Jamie walked up the steps to his school tiredly. He had been walking all night...no, morning, to find his school. Usually Ororo drove him in the X-Van, but today was differant.

 Much differant.

 It was one of those days where, even though he had stayed up all night and morning, he wasn't tired enough during school to actually fall asleep. Sure, his eyes drooped, but that was about it. It wasn't until school had finished, and Jamie walked out the front steps instead of the back steps, a bundle of questions and thoughts barrelled down upon him like bricks to his head.

 Where are you going to go?

 Do you have any idea what you're doing?

 Are you INSANE?

 I want to go home and sleep.

 What will Ororo say when you're not out there?

 You should go and wait for her.

  "Shut up!" Jamie whispered to himself angerly, attracting the attention of a person on the street. He was walking on a street in which he'd never heard of before, or seen, but it was grubby, and sort of...depressing.

  "Maybe I do want to go back to the institute...I'm tired too. But even if I DID know the way back, right when I got there they'd probably send me home."

 And NOW you're talking to yourself.

  "Am not."

 Are too.  He sat down on a bench and crossed his arms.

 NOW what are you going to do?

 Sit here all day?

 You should go back to the mansion.

 Home isnt that bad.

 Dad isn't that mean.

 Are you tired?

  "Leave me ALONE." Jamie whispered as he slouched on the bench.

 What WAS he going to do? He had no where to go besides the Xavier institute, but Jamie didn't want to go home, and even if he did, how was he going to find where the Xavier institute was ANYWAY? It's not like they gave him a map.

 Sighing, Jamie closed his eyes slowly. Just to rest them before he got up again and went to...wherever he was going.

 Fourty winks.  One, two, three, four, five, six.......

 What comes after six?

 I can't remember.

 I do, it's one.

 Six, One, Two, Three, Four, Five, Six, One......

 And with that, his head resting comfortably on his arm, Jamie fell into a peaceful sleep.

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 Lance Alvers walked down the cracked sidewalk with an aire of annoyance in his step. So many things had gone wrong today, he just wanted to go back to the brotherhood house and relax.

 Walking past a bench, Lance peered over to see a small twelve year old, fast asleep in it's clutcheses.

 Aww...how cute. Lance thought, but then doubled back when something in his mind clicked torwards the kid.

 Hey, that's an X-Man!

  "Hey..." Lance leaned over the kid. "Hey kid! Wake up..."

 The kid didn't budge.

  "Um..." Lance thought, he couldn't leave the kid here, after all...who knew what might happen to him.

  "Alvers, sometimes I think you're heart is bigger than your brain. " He said to himself as he picked the kid up and draped him over his back, like he was receiving a piggy back ride, and walked back to his car.

 He drove in silence all the way back to the Brotherhood house, with no radio on to serenade him. He was shooting glances back at the sleeping kid in the backseat, afraid he would wake up and jump out of the car in absolute fright that a "stranger" had picked him up.

 Not really a stranger though, I kind of knew him. Lance thought as he pulled into the long, horseshoe shaped driveway of the Brotherhood house.

 He carried Jamie inside.

  "HEY LANCE, I..." Tabby started excitedly, but Lance shushed her and pointed to his back.

  "Aww..." She cooed, patting Jamie on the head. "Hey, isn't this an X-Man?"

 Lance chose not to answer that as he climbed the stairs to the second floor.

  "It IS an X-Man. If they find out he's here you know what they're gonna DO to us?"

 Lance chose not to answer that also.

  "Poor thing...did you kidnap him, Lance?" Tabby laughed behind him. "Or did he run away?"

 Placing Jamie onto his own bed and covering him with a blanket, Jamie turned and left his room.

  "I don't know if he ran away. I found him on a bench."

 Tabby found this extremely funny.

  "You mean...geesh, Baldie's sure having bad luck among the newbies. I mean, first me leaving, then him...soon they'll be no one left but Goggle Boy and Jelly Bean."

  "Ya well, we'll see when he wakes up."

 Tabby nodded.

  "Well, Rocky, as I was sayin', I made a CAKE. Wanna see? Its pretty and pink and...pretty."

 Lance smiled and followed Tabby to see her cake.

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  "Jaaaaamie...Jaaaamie...it's time to wake uuuuup..." A voice echoed in Jamie's head.

  "Ugh...Just five more MINUTES.." He groaned.

  "Ooookay." The voice echoed again, and Jamie rolled over in shock.

 He never got to sleep five minutes longer.

 Where was he?

  "Hey Jamesie!" He heard a voice popping with excitement called. "Top of the mornin' to ya!"

  "T-Tabby?" Jamie asked, staring up at the face of Boom-Boom. "I thought you left the X-Men!"

 Her face swam in and out of focus.

  "I did."

 Jamie stared at her.

  "Then...then...where am I?"

 Tabby pulled him out of the bed and moved his arms as she danced.

  "Well, you're with the brotherhood now, short stuff!"

 Jamie released his hand and reached up to fix his hair.

  "The brotherhood?"

  "The brotherhood!"

 He stared at her with a blank look.

  "Who's in the brotherhood?"

 She grabbed his hands again and pulled him out the door.

  "I'll introduce you!"

 The two went down a rickety flight of stairs, past a junky living room, and into a practically falling apart kitchen.

  "Lance! Short stuff's awake!"

 There was a woosh of wind as Pietro entered the scene, his eyes narrowed in suspicion.

  "So...you're-the-Xman-are-ya? Well...he doesnt-seem-that-bad."

  "AWWW!" A booming voice entered the kitchen. "He's so..." Fred stood next to Jamie. "Small!"

 Todd hopped in and stood next to Jamie, putting his arm around his shoulders.

 "No way, man, he's just the right size!"

 Jamie smiled at them all.

  "So...does this mean I'm in the brotherhood now?"

 Lance came down into the room at that time.

  "Not quite yet." He smirked at them all. "Only a junior brotherhood member."

 Tabby caught on right away.

  "Ya, you hafta pass a TEST!"

 Jamie pumped his fist into the air energetically.

  "What do I gotta do?!"