jadestar123: Thanks for the support.

yae yang: I REALLY appreciate what you said, thanks. And as for Jamie...lol, you really like that character huh:) Well she will make an appearance in Family Affairs which I will do right after Reality Trip is done. I would say who, but that would ruin everything.

Bandit: Alright no G-averse, I wasn't really considering it anyways, didn't sound too good.

NctrnlBst: Really? I was leaning to AGU or AG universe personally.

CHAPTER 12: LOOKING BACK ON IT ALL

Blink was in her room writing. She was writing in a red book, which of course was her new diary. She had kept one since she was eight but that was lost, along with everything else she had she her parents got ride of her.

It saddened her to no end the events of that day. She guessed she could never get completely over that, who could. So she decided to try and keep as many things she did in her old life she enjoyed that she could.

This was one of them. It felt good to write down her thoughts and feelings again. And she had a lot to say. She had already filled up ten pages alone. Some of what she wrote down was mostly just her feelings on things.

Stuff she wasn't comfortable telling anyone just yet, but still needed to get the words out of her in someway. She had only been here a week and things were feeling great. Her roommate Amanda and her were becoming fast friends. Blink had few friends back in her old life, but they weren't as close as she was with Amanda.

Most likely because of what they had gone through together. She was gone for the weekend, currently living with her parents in their new home. They had agreed that on some weekends Amanda would visit her parents for the weekend. It was easy since they still lived in Bayville.

Also Kurt was mopping around a little. Blink suspected he would be like that every time Amanda was going to be at her parents for a few days. Blink knew kind of what he was going through. She felt so alone at night without her here.

Blink looked over at the empty bed. She missed her friend, but at least it was only for a few days. She was making more friends all the time here. Amy and her were getting along, and it was nice to have a human friend. It made her feel less...different. Like she could be accepted one day in the outside world for who she was.

She also enjoyed hanging out with Amara and Tabitha. The two were a big contrast but they were the best of friends.

Blink thought about her and Ororo at that moment. She was so happy to have someone who wanted her. It helped fill the void in her life from her parents. She loved the time spent with her in the green house and the garden. It was very relaxing and she could always forget her troubles.

She wasn't feeling so self-confident around all the boys now either. In fact she really liked how they saw her as a girl and not a freak. It gave her hope that one day she could find someone who would see past all of her physical differences and just see her.

It was a nice though and she would keep the hope alive. It also helped that the other day when she had put on her swimsuit and gone swimming she had seen several of the guys steal a look at her.

She wasn't used to being looked at like that, normally she was just ignored but...it felt good strangely to feel attractive. Despite her past and her current looks, it made her feel better about how she looked...maybe she wasn't as bad looking as she thought.

She stopped writing and looked into the mirror on the wall. She tilted her head slightly looking at her face. Maybe it wasn't as bad as she thought. She shrugged and went back to her writing.

The Danger Room sessions were a pain. But she bore it like the others, but she also knew how important they were. After her ordeal with Trask she didn't want to be weak anymore. She wanted to get stronger.

She was also taking up Martial Arts now. Logan and Vincent who were the institutes best fighters were trying to work out a system for their own classes. Jamie still got his private sessions with him, and Rogue also was getting into it.

Although she suspected that learning new moves wasn't the only motivation she had for learning from Vincent. She stopped writing to consider those two. They seemed to come from different worlds, even countries and yet they seemed to share a connection.

She noticed that Rogue seemed to lighten up a little when he was just in the same room, and she noticed Vincent a little more at ease when she was with him also. There were a few couples that seemed like that to her in someway.

She laughed at the image of Jubilee who was constantly looking over Bobby who got injured. At first he enjoyed it, but she kept bugging him all the time, and the worse thing is she was just looking out for him so he knew he couldn't get mad at her.

He also didn't like the jokes going around about him about his predicament.

Jean and Scott shared not only a special bond but she had heard she also shared a psychic one with him as well. Amanda and Kurt shared something deep as well. Blink laid back onto her bead and sighed. She was always the hopeless romantic. She always dreamed of some chivalrous 'White Knight' to come into her life.

Well she could wait and see, besides with the tings that go on here, it might actually happen. She smiled at the thought. She got up and continued to write. Her life was certainly different now.

She lost everything in her old life, including who she was. But in a way she had been reborn. She had many friends, people who she could tell truly cared about her, a new home. She even had a new name. The name Blink was really starting to grow on her.

She was no longer Clarice Ferguson, the shy timid girl no one really knew, or paid attention to.

She was Clarice "Blink" Ferguson, mutant and although was still a little shy, she had many people who knew her and cared for her.

She had grown up a lot in the short weeks. She learned true meaning to the words hell, pain, suffering, sadness and loss. But she also found new strength in herself. She now knew the true meaning to friendship and home.

This was her new home. This was her new life.

She got up and put her diary under her bead mattress for safekeeping. She walked over to the stereo and put in her Our Lady Peace CD, Gravity. She skipped along until she found one of her favourite songs.

THE END