He closed the door behind him leaving Deathstar and Raphael outside. Wow this place is incredible and those two sound like they could become good friends. He thought as he looked all around his new room, it had a double bed with two beside tables pn ether side one hadan alarm clock that Darius knew would come in handy, on the other side was a telephone. Darius threw his coat onto the couch that was backed against a window over looking the mansion grounds.

The storm was still howling outside. Darius was hoping it would let up tomorrow so he could get some flying in. Over in the corner of the room was a cabinate with a small T.V ontop, Darius flicked it onto a music station and turn the volume down low as he got changed into some of the schools pajamas. He pulled back his sheets of his new bed wonder who may have stayed he before him but his eyes slowly closed involentary immediatly falling asleep and began dreaming of what would come in the days to pass.

The noise of birds and light beaming through the window woke Darius up. I always love that morning sun, wonder if my stuffs here yet Darius thought to himself he picked himself up out of bed and got changed back into his clothes from the night before which were still wet. God I really hope my stuffs here cause these clothes are starting to smell Darius thought as he opened his door. To his relief there was a number of boxes ranging from small to large stacked outside he picked one of them up and brought it in and began to tear it open. Inside was a whole lot of his clothes which he immediatly threw on and stuffed his wet stuff under his bed. Hmm I promised Deathstar I'd let her help set up I better go find her, shes probly still in her room like she said. Darius pulled the rest of his boxes inside and close the door and set off to Stars room.

Deathstar still was a liitle sore but felt much better after that brutal workout she had in the danger Room, she walks up to Darius Room and pauses for a moment, relunctant to knock she stood there a sighed for a moment, she then looked up like she had a boost of confidence...*Knock Knock*.......she waited patiently by the door..........

Darius was lying on his bed looking out of the window at the snow fall which softly brush itself against the window. He longed to touch the skies but the current weather had kept him grounded for sometime. He heard a knock at the door and slowly sat up and moved his legs of the bed, he then reached into a bedside table and pulled out a hair tie which he wrapped his hair behind him in. His feet touched the floor which was freezing even while wearing socks, it was almost as though Iris had froze the floor he thought to himself. He slowly walked over to the door and turned the knob which stuck to his skin slightly. He smiled as he opened the door to find Layla on the other side. "Hey" he said quitly as he opened his arms to give her a hug.

Deathstar smiled to herself quietly, hoping he forgot that ordeal in the danger room, she accepts his hug , as he moves in and puts his arms around she felt a warmth, but secured feeling, she never felt this way before, she closed her eyes and wished this moment will last,she thought to herself Maybe he is the one getting back to reality, she looked up, she backs up and release his hug and inhaled a deep breathe.. well, I thought I'd stop by and see if you were okay...about what you saw...Today she looks away out the window as she talks to Darius..

She walks in the room and sits on his bed, hoping his reply won't be as harsh as she would thought, she looks around the room, admiring the way he got it set up, she begins to look down towards her feet, as they sway from side to side waiting for Darius reply....

The ordeal, I hoped nobody would noticed the way I reacted, I guess it was inevertable though he thought as he sat down next to Deathstar. "I....I just happened to notice the way that you and Raph fought but you more notably, and don't worry I know it was only training and not real but...to take a life..Star I thought I knew you better,Me you and Raph had this talk in the dining room, I know you haven't killed but I'll let you in on a little secret, I have Star!" he said sounding flusted "It...it never helps anyone, I see there faces at night Layla...sure they were evil men but taking there life playing god....I had my abilites over them, with great power comes great responsiblity, our lifes our choices our action influence the course of the entire world.......

I was fighting for mutant freedom but all I got for mutant kind in my country was pain...more suffering" he said louder than before clenching his fist "I thought I was doing the right thing but please trust me killing gets you nowhere...I was so lost back then, I had just lost my Father and my Mother went into hiding..our kind was hunted down like vermin...exterminated" Darius paused he was oviously upset "I thought I could end it...I..me Darius Spears assasinated the Primeminister with the help of a rouge mutant terriost group called Avalanche...I thought it would finally end there but no...a tyrant more evil and vindictive than the first took his place...all immigration into my country came to a sudden halt all exporting and import stopped aswell, we where isolated from the rest of the world this was when propostion numer 38 was taken into affect, it was voted for by the people aswell, my action to take the orginal Primeministers life was used as a catalyist to fuel the nation into anger and fear..."

"Number 38... the eradication of all mutants inside the country" he paused again to wait for Layla to take it all in "I kept questioning how could the world let this happen, this atrosity but it wasn't the first time the holocost in world war two happened unnoticed for so long. And if there where no mutants left then the story couldn't be told....even birth was controlled, the second a child was born unaware to the parents it would undigo tests to determan wether or not the child had the mutant X gene in them, the parents would then be lead to believe that the child had not survived...died of "Natural causes" and they believed it all of them did, the government fed it to them and they took it all...#38 worked all mutants were eradicated through numerous plans, viriuses, camps etc all of them gone save one last group."

"Avalanche, we survived by taking no chances with humans, if one stood in the way then we would take care of them just like they had done to us with no remorse "blood must hath blood" as our leader used to say, so do you see just one death can leave to the deaths of millions, , Layla this is alot for you to handle I know but I trust you with this secret it was my fault all of it that one death to started lead to the death of almost an entire raceand I must live with that, everyday of my life!, You are the only one who knows outside the nation, and it must be kept that way for now, if it wasn't for a "Divine Intervention" I would still be there now..believe me blood can be washed of your hands but the stain remains...and that Layla is my secret...thats why I can't stand killing and I know you haven't in real life yet or so you told me..and I want to keep it that way for you as long as I can..I care for you Layla and I know your better than this." Darius finished as he rested his hand on hers as a tear trickled down his face.

Deathstar listened as he went on and told her about his past life, A killer!!... she thought to herself, she would never have guessed that he was involved in any kind of group called the avalanche, Is that the real reason why he left his country?? all these questions seemed to go through Deathstars head, she was confused, this was not the man she thought he was, leaned over to the bed, looking out the window trying not to think about bad things about him.....but couldn't help rethinking her relationship about darius...

It seemed like her smiled faded away with disappointment, As he touch her hand , the same warm feeling came over her, ....she pulled him in closer, taking his head upon her chest hoping it would make him feel better, but slowly a small tear began to come out her eyes, she closed her eyes in shame because she had not been completely honest with him, Well!!....Darius !!....Its something I have to tell you, before we can move forward with any relationship.........she pulled back and slowly looked into his eyes, while tears still rolling off her face, she spoke about something she never told anyone.....

She pauses for a moment.... I'm not so innocent myself, I was brought in a poverty town in New york, they called it "No mans land", It was my parents, my sister and my older brother, we all lived in a small house on a very dangerous street, but we still had each other, until my brother went missing, I was real close to him, he just vanished without a trace, my parents said he was dead, So I took it really hard, and with the result of that , I became the goth and dark Layla that I am today, but soon after my life was back happy again , Me and My parents became real close, butI had deeper connection with my little sister Aelly, but i guess she felt different, she became this overzealous, envious monster that ruined my life forever, she used her powers and manipulated me to kill my parents........ she stop talking abruptly she began cry aloud, she never really grieved over them, but the thought of it kills her every time.....she hugs herself rocking back and fourth, obviously having a panic attack...

"It seems we all hurt" Darius said as he stood up of his bed and knelt down before Layla "Don't you worry I'm not the same person I was back then "Thats why I left, to find hope, to find people that cared for our kind, thats why I was shocked to see in the danger room that things weren't so different, I'm sorry if you have lost your faith in me but look things will work out, they always do and you cannot blame your parents death on yourself the blood is on your sisters hand not yours" he said as he grabbed her hands again standing up. "Come cheer up where going to the city with Delly soon, I'm sure he wouldn't want us both mopping around with him" he said trying to get a smile on her face. "Layla know that you can always trust me I'll always be there to listen, and to tell you the truth im not ready for a relationship yet ether, so friends??" he asked with a smile on his face looking down at Layla.

Deathstar stood up and wiped her tears away, Yea!!...friends!!.. she said in low voice not really wanting to be friends, but wanted to be more, she just couldn't tell Darius how she really felt about him, the whole ordeal with his secrets kind of made her feel closer to him, it kind of made her feel as if he was on the same level as herself,... Oh!!...so thats what Raph had to talk to you about... she laughed while still wiping tears away.....

Darius detected a hint of disapointment in Layla's voice. He couldn't be with her, not yet there was still one last secret, and it couldn't be told, he had to protect her, if she knew anything could happen to her. They would come for her, its for the best he thought to himself. "Yeah it will be good for us to get out, I get a little cramped in here, even if it is a mansion" he said trying to kept the mood uplifted.