Holly stirred restlessly again, she was having a vision while she slept. And it wasn't a pleasant one. There was a room at the end of a hallway. She could tell it was in the mansion, hard wood floors gleamed under red carpets. There was a boy, a little older then Holly, standing guard in front of it. A snake slithered from under the door and wrapped itself around his neck, a few moments latter he fell lifelessly to the floor, unconscious or dead Holly couldn't tell. Then it opened the door and out walked Elianna.
Holly shot up gasping then. “She's going to escape.” She whispered, her voice rough and filled with fear.
“Who hun?” Rowan was sitting in the chair Sniper had vacated, monitoring Holly. “You must just be having a nightmare.”
“No no! Elianna is going to escape!” Holly said somewhat frantically. “I've seen it just now you have to sound an alarm!”
“Honey its just the venom.” Rowan told her, waving off the other girls story. How could anyone possible see the future, not even Jean or Professor X could do that as far as she knew and Holly certainly didn't seem to be all that powerful. “You'll be fine just get some more rest.”
Holly looked at Rowan incredulously. There was a psycopath up stairs who would very shortly be running around a school full of children and she wouldn't believe Holly's warning. Fine. Holly thought, with irritation. “I'll do it myself.” She twisted around on the bed and slid off, nearly plumeting to the floor as dizziness hit. Luckily Rowan was there to catch her. But she shook off the girls helping hand and made her way, stumbling as she went, to the door.
“You need to lay down!” Rowan's voice was no laced with worry.
“No, I need to warn someone who will listen to me!.”
XoXoX
Jean Grey sat across from Elianna, her mind probing the others. But she was still coming up blank. It would take force to break through her barriers and Xavier wasn't willing to do that yet. “You haven't gained anything by coming here. Why bother? You must have known you couldn't get away.” Elianna wasn't really paying attention to what the older mutant said.
She sat in her chair seemingly enveloped in studying her sharp fingernails. Though really she was thinking, taking in her surroundings through her peripheral vision of the room. It was plain, and there really was no way of escaping save the door. But she needed to get out of here and go to Magneto.
“I'm hungry, wanna get me some food, since it doesn't seem that I'll get to leave anytime soon.”
Jean looked at her incredulously. But she got up and left the room anyway. She wasn't getting her food. But she did need to talk to the professor about their prisoner.
Once Jean had left Elianna waited a few minutes, just to be sure no one was coming back anytime soon. And then she pulled the second snake she'd brought with her from her pant leg. “You are going to be very useful.” She cooed to it, setting it on the floor. There was just enough room for the snake to crawl under the door and into the hall.
There was a mutant standing in front of the door, and the snake slithered up his leg and coiled around his neck tightening itself until the mutant could no longer breath. Once the boy had passed out the snake moved from his body to the door coiling around the nob until it turned and the door slid open.
“Thanks.” She hissed to her precious pet. She knew the smaller snakes would come in handy.
XoXoX
Rogue and Storm smiled, “This is what we do. Offer shelter to mutants. Would you like to eat before I show you you're room? There's some leftovers from dinner.”