X23's Room

[Midnight]

X23 walked into a rather plain room that no one was occupying. She frowned at the door where her name was already put on a plaque: "Laura's Room". Laura. Her mother had told her that was her name, so long ago. Laura Kinney. Shaking her head, she started snooping through the drawers. She found a hairbrush and some elastic bands in one, along with a toothbrush and toothpaste. In another she found a list of her teammates:


Team Alpha
Members:

Hannah/Nightshadow
Caity/Syphon
Eliza/Health
Alex/Nagate
Evan/Radial
No-Name/Micro
X-23
Ashlee Lawrence/Shadow Stalker
Scott Summers/Cyclops

In the closet she found a couple of pairs of jeans and some colored t-shirts, as well as two jackets, one light, another heavy, and a hoodie. Besides all that, there was a uniform. It was mostly leather, fit tight, had no sleeves, but did have heavy boots, gloves, and even kneepads. The belt had an X on it. Pulling off her own heavy-duty clothes from the Weapon X facility, she put on the new uniform.



In the bathroom, she found a mirror, and looked at herself, actually looked, for the first time. She saw a young girl looking back at her with hard green eyes. Eyes that had seen too much. She left the bathroom and went in search of something to do.

*Exit X23*

[Midnight]

X23 stalked back into her room. While opening the door, she noticed the plaque that said, 'Laura's Room' on it. Shing! Revealing her claws, she scratched 'X23' over the name Laura. Why did she even deserve a name? She remembered when she learned it. Her keen ears picked up muffled noises from the Thanksgiving feast going on in the main body of the Institute. She didn't care about food, and she knew that she didn't have any relatives... that was certainly her own fault.

Stripping off the leather uniform, she hung it in the closet and pulled out a soft green t-shirt and a pair of jeans. Over that put on a gray hoodie and found some shoes to put those on too. Then taking her long brown hair, she pulled it back into a ponytail. Going into the bathroom to clean the residue blood off of her knuckles and arms, she caught a glimpse of herself in the mirror again. The clothes and hair were completely different, making her almost unrecognizable from the image she had seen earlier. Scowling, she found her face again, and stared at herself. She hadn't ever owned a mirror before this, and being able to see her own face was something new. What impression did she give people?

Walking over to the bedstand, she pulled out the team list again, and jotted some notes from Pravus's final lesson. Then she stood and walked out the door again, shaking her head back and forth to feel the ponytail swish behind her.