YO! I wanna go out!!!

[Haven]

Haven had spent the night cooped up in the prison that was her isolation cell. It made her forcefield go away while she was being bombarded by some strange energy she guessed. She didn't like it at all and it was cramped feeling, like she was under a glass dome. The only positive thing to it was that she had some of the best sleep she'd ever had.

The absence of her forcefield meant she could feel the covers and the plushness of the bed she was laying on and not just hover inside the several inches of forcefield that would keep her constantly separated from the world she so had been taught to hate. She marveled at the texture of flannel sheets. They felt like what she thought fur would feel like, since she had no reference she could actually remember.

Her forcefield having been with her for so long and never shutting off unless she forced it to had seemed to numb her to the world. 'Well, there was that one time at Thanksgiving' she thought back considering her forcefield 'when Ms.Frost embarrassed me because Jumper had goaded me into lashing out.' She was thankful for her forcefield when she thought of how vulnerable, inside and out, she felt without it. She wanted out of this cell.

'I still hate that boy!' she thought and then seeing someone move past the Genetics-Lab in the corridor she began to holler "Hey!!! Yo!!! I wanna go out- you know! Outside!! Helll-OOooo?"

[Emma Frost]

She had heard Haven call out to her earlier when she'd walked past but couldn't be bothered with the traitor, she had been on a mission. Emma had been intent on finding Nightcrawler and Wolverine. There was no way that Sabertooth could have bested Wolverine, that much was a certainty. As for Nightcrawler, to believe that he could not be able to do a double teleport from an explosion was foolishness. That was virtually week one stuff from long ago that Charles Xavier would have trained him on. In fact she knew for a fact he could teleport as fast and as many times as he could think. Something was not at all right.

Walking back from the CEREBRA Chamber with no success in finding either of their distinct mutant signatures, Emma heard the calls emanating from the Genetics-Lab. "What is it Haven!" she said as she walked in to the vacant laboratory. It was not a question as such, but more a statement interlaced with frustration. She had met no success in finding Wolverine or Nightcrawler, but she could not allow herself to believe them to have both perished.

[Haven]

"I said I wanna go OutSIDE!!!!" Haven screamed at her from the far side of the room when she entered. Haven hated Ms.Frost and wanted to kill her, that much was certain and if she could have allowed the bombs to go off she would have. In the effort, however, she would have wounded the former White Queen of the Hellfire Club deeply, she knew. The only flaw in the plan had been the fact that Magneto didn't understand how specific Haven's hatred was.

She didn't hate everybody here at the school. Actually if he had cared to listen to her when she had spoken to him about her time here, he would have garnered a bit of insight into the deeper interpersonal relations that Niki had had with some of the other students. It was not Magneto's way to care for such things and that had been his undoing in the recent conflict.

"This is totally cruel and I don't think i should be locked up- and Cyclops said.." she started in but was cut off immediately

[Emma Frost]

"Cruel is it !?!" Emma countered spitting the words at her. "If I had an ounce of cruel to pour over you I would drizzle you with a pain you would be unable to endure!" she said with an intensity that belabored the point that Haven was living on borrowed time.

"If you so much as cause a single blade of grass to be injured in your remaining days girl, I will bring all of my power to bear on you and make you wish you had been skinned alive by that sadistic freak Sabretooth in your trainings with the Brotherhood...Oh, yes- I have laid bare your mind and seen inside of you." Emma made sure that Haven knew what she had been through. "I see all that you had to endure and am without remorse because you brought it all, every last bit of it, upon yourself."

Changing tones she spoke to her with a more or less motherly intonation, saying "There is a good in you, and so, for that one reason alone, you still breathe- but know this child... if you ever decide to align yourself against me or any of my students again, I will make you wish with every fiber of your being, that Sabertooth had sliced you into a zillion ribbons of flesh to wrap around his slobbering tongue, and bleached your bones in the sun for a sweet pretty music box that he was making for his long dead sense of compassion to dance to."

[Haven]

"Whatever you bitch!!! I hated you for being so much like all my foster mothers, thinking you could do for me when you really can't" Haven said with much contempt in her tone.

"It's so funny in a way. Because if you had only been different to me than maybe none of this would have had to happen." She thought she was speaking the truth , but really Haven had no idea that she was only a product of a system that had been in the business of disregarding the futures of children for a hundred years or more.

[Emma Frost]

"Oh you poor unloved child, if only it was just so easy to give you a hug and erase all the evils that had been visited on you while in the foster care system than I would hope you know that is what I would have done." Emma's compassionate tone fell away to be replaced by one of coldness and remorselessness.

"I will take you with me on my rounds to see the children in their practices, but if you so much as speak a word you will be crushed under a thousand lashes of mental anguish. Is that clear? do you agree to the conditions of our little 'walk'?" Emma Frost asked.

[Haven]

Haven swallowed hard, her tongue now held in check and she shook her head. It was far less about going outside than it was about proving to Ms.Frost that she could be trusted to be able to be loved, however Haven would never acknowledge that fact, no- not in a million years.

[Haven]

"I agree." she said wanting and hoping for a chance at redemption.

[Emma Frost]

"Very well then, lets make sure we are on our best behavior Haven. I don't need any further drama from you." Emma said and she reached over to shunt the power on her containment cell.

"Lets go, I'm sure you are hungry so we will go to the kitchen first." Ms.Frost was not in the mood for any babysitting, she had rounds to make and practices to look in on. It might do Haven some good to see the rest of the children engaged in practice and interacting with one another. She would hustle the girl through her meal, but she had to provide her some food, Emma was not the monster she used to be- compassion had warmed her once frozen heart.