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It was good to hear that Luke's sonar didn't bother Ghost to much unless it were right up next to her and with all the practice he'd been getting, controlling the distance and direction was getting much easier than it had ever been. Giving the young woman a quick smile, he waited patiently while she went off to call the cab.

Fifteen or twenty minutes later, once they were on board, Ghost began to fill him on information about comissioner. The fact that he had personally experienced an attack from mutants was distrubing and deffinately hurt their chances of being able to have a successful meeting. "Kind of surprising Sam was even able to set up a meeting with him." Luke commented quietly, "I wonder what he said to work that out."

Finally they had arrived. Stepping out of the cab and onto the sidewalk, Luke could immediately identify large ammount of police men and women all sticking pretty close to their home base of operations. Sure there were small precinct building throughout the city but this was their main location and obviously the police were starting to realize that there really was strength in numbers.

"Think we can make it up to the office without getting shot?" Luke asked in a low, slightly teasing but slightly serious voice as he and Ghost began to make their way toward the main entrance, "That would deffinately ruin my day."

"No pineapples... check. Guess I better go find something else." Luke said with a grin as the three of them stood up. Once the goodbye's had been spoken, Luke grabbed the X-phone that was laying on the table and then followed the other two out into the hallway. Once they were out of the hallway they all split up with CS heading off for who knew where, Ghosty heading for the Library, and Luke heading upstairs to the bedrooms.

Though Luke rarely spent the night at the mansion, he did keep a room there for the rare occasion it was necessary. A few changes of clothes hung in the closet as well as some basic toiletry items tucked in the bedside table. Sorting through the clothing in the closet, Luke's eyebrow knit together in concentration as he ran his fingers over label after label, quickly deciphering what options there were.

The meeting was going to be with police comissioner and while Luke wanted to feel relaxed he also wanted to look well dressed enough to show respect to the other man's position. Finally he chose the one business casual outfit he had in the closet.

Brown loafers led up to khaki pants, brown belt, a dark green polo shirt, and a tan sport coat pulled over it. Once his wallet, keys, cell phone, and X-Communicator were all safely stowed in his pants and jacket pockets Luke headed back out into the hallway. His sunglasses were, as usual, sitting comfortably on the bridge of his nose and his gate was the confident walk that he was known for.

"Anything interesting in the file?" Luke asked as he walked into the library, "I didn't really want to embarass Sam by pointing out that I couldn't read a single thing that he wanted us to look at."

"Control... I've always prided myself in control." Luke mused out lod, nodding along with Kealey's comments, "I never paid much attention to the meditation, even though I did some martial arts, but I did focus a lot on control."

The young woman's explanation of how she was essentially blind to herself made sense and he began to feel like maybe there really was a kindred spirit somewhere out in the city. Raina was a wonderful woman and she loved him no matter what his dissability might be, but she still couldn't really understand. Kealey understood in ways noone else did and it was nice to be able to talk to someone like that.

"There's no need to apologize. Thank you for being so open." Luke replied with a smile before turning and leading Kealey out of the apartment and back into the hallway. "Let's ask some of the area shops and if none of them can give us any information then maybe you can bother your friend. I'm hoping that I don't have to go to the police for this but if necessary I will."

The walk back to the elevator was relatively quiet as he reflected on everything that was going on. If he was looking so hard for his real body, was it possible that Juka was looking just as hard for his body? Had he made a mistake by leaving Juka's apartment? Was that where he needed to go in order to meet up with his own self?

Pushing those questions to the back of his mind, Luke led the way outside and up to the first shop they came to. The clothing store attendant was friend but not very helpful. Her store hadn't opened until 10:00 that morning and no she hadn't seen anything. From the next two stores it was the same answer. They opened later in the morning and hadn't seen anything like what the two of them were describing. Finally at the fourth location they got lucky. The owner of this small corner convenience store had been open at 5:00 a.m. and had indeed seen a strange sight. A shirtless and barefoot man screaming on the sidewalk. He had been tempted to call the police until a young blond woman approached the screaming man, calmed him down, and then led him off down the sidewalk.

"You see a lot of strange sights in New York... you know?"

"I'll, uh, take your word for it." Luke replied with a tight smile before walking back out on the street. "It had to be someone that recognized my body but I'm blind for crying out loud! I have no clue which of my friends might be blond!"

"I don't really feel my powers, but at the same time I do feel the sonar." Luke replied slowly as he tried to think of how to explain it. "It lets me see but at the same time it's like, it's like a pressure in my mind. Not uncomfortable or painful but deffinately there. I had been able to control distance, bringing it in as close as only two or three feet for several years but then I discovered that my sonar could actually be painful to some other mutants. Once I learned that I took a couple of weeks right here in this room practicing on bringing it tighter and tighter until it was actually off. It wasn't a fun time. I went through several bottles of tylenol."

Looking over at Kealey, Luke raised on of his eyebrows in a questioning manner. It was such a normal mannerism for him that was probably out of place on this body but was still a part of who he really was. What in the world could this girl mean by their having more in common that he'd really believe? What did she mean by being blind and being able to see the whole time she was blind. "But I can see, even though I'm blind... I just don't see the same as everyone else." He said slowly, obviously completely lost by her comment.

Turning his gaze back to the rest of the apartment, Luke slowly scanned the area he tried to picture how the man must have been moving when he got out of this aprtment. He would have been running scared and probably bumping into all kinds of things. Luke had gone to sleep the night of the incident with no shirt... would his doppleganger have thought to get dressed? Would he have thought to even grab some shoes or would he have just run outside in a panic.

"He's probably wearing only a pair of sweatpants. If he was as paniced as you and I are imagining, he wouldn't have thought to grab shoes, shirt, wallet, or even keys." Luke said slowly as he turned to walk toward the door, "I wonder... do you think the police would have picked him up if he made it down to the street in that condition?"

"Uh... yeah. I had to wear special glasses and all kinds of stuff. Kind of hard to explain." Luke replied after a moments hesitation. He had lied before, more often to his friend Sara than probably anyone, but it still wasn't something that he was particularly comfortabl doing. Quickly he continued on the subject of movies, hoping that this metal woman would let his other comment just drop.

"I've heard of Hugh Jackman before and Sandra Bullock sounds familiar but I'm not sure. Is Tom Cruise still big? I seem to remember several of his movies being huge in the theaters a few years back."

Luke was almost completely clueless about movies other than the few comments he heard around the company water cooler. Who was that female actor that so many of his male co-workers were always describing as a hottie. "Or what about... uh... Angelina Jolie? Is any of her stuff good?"

"I met Tarin and Lee downtown when they called me out to see about installing a security system in their shop." Luke replied without any hesitation, "I'm not completely sure about Lee's power but Tarin can see and apparently give bodily form to disgruntled spirits. He, uh, kind of saw our friend from Paris. Apparently since I accidently killed him, his spirit has been trailing me."

That was yet another subject that Luke had never thought to bring up to Raina. It wasn't that he was trying to keep that story hidden from her buut neither of them really wanted to think about most of what they had dealt with while in Paris. Some of the time, the dinners and the hotel room, were pleasant memories but most things were still traumatizing.

"But... uh... they're good people. I ran into Lee out on the street a different evening. When I talked they both said they'd heard of you before so at the time I was thinking maybe we could all try dinner together sometime. Unfortunately it was right around that time that things got crazy and it's just never happened."

"Maybe you should change that." Luke said teasingly as Raina rested her head on his chest, "Boob could be a great addition to your normal vocabulary. It can be used in so many different ways afte rall."

For a few momenst they enjoyed the comfortable silence and just being with each other when suddenly Raina spoke something that Luke really wished was possible. "Right now I'd settle for seeing you with my sonar again." Luke replied, dipping his head to press a kiss against Raina's temple, "But I have to admit... really seeing would be something."

And once again the conversation changed, moving back to Rupert once more. It was strange but Luke had to mentally thank Rupert for his interference. Because of Rupert he and Raina had been forced to talk more and have a more open relationship. They had been forced to make a choice about how they wanted their relationship to progress.

"I should have told you about losing my sonar so let's just call it even and hope that we don't ever do anything like this again." Luke's answer as honest and sincere as he gave Raina's waist a quick squeeze. "Sometime I need to go see Tarin and thank him for the help at the battle. I'd be willing to be he was probably the one that got me to the Doc Prof or whoever healed me."