X-Factor Investigations

The updates are pretty overwhelming: We've got nothing.

Bishop turned up nothing on warrants for his arrest, actual arrests, hospitals or morgues. Jean-Paul found out absolutely nothing useful from the family other than that none of them like mutants or that Nick's parents were pro-mutant. And I've got nothing from Sun Prairie. No one's heard of or heard from him since he left there.

All we really know is that he may or may not be alive but we're pretty sure if he's dead his body hasn't been found, he hasn't been arrested in the tri-state area or hospitalized in it either. I'll check in with Kurt to see if he wants us to keep digging or not and get back to you guys.

Sun Prairie is kinda cute in that small town, middle of the country way. And that's pretty much the most useful thing I've got about the place. Almost no one talked to or hung out with Nick. He's got a couple old teachers who liked him, a few who barely remember him if at all and a couple old HS friends who haven't spoken to him really since he left town. I can tell you more about his parents' death than about him. No one's seen or heard anything since he left here. But one of his friend's dads asked me on a date. Oddly inappropriate, I think.

I just received an e-mail from Kurt Sefton over at Xavier's. He's hiring us to search for his missing adoptive son. Kurt's been hunting for him and I know Catseye went looking for him and hasn't returned. There have been no leads at all from what I know so the case is cold already. Which means we're probably not going to turn up much that's useful.

Kurt's coming over Tuesday to pay the first week retainer and drop off a file with everything he knows. I'm going to be looking into tracking down whether or not the kid has any living family between now and then so that we'll hopefully have something to look into already by time I'm reviewing his file.

I don't think he's going to want us to give up after a week but a lot of costs can be kept down by having Jean-Paul look into anything that would require a plane ticket otherwise. And it's Kurt. He works for Xavier, he's an X-Man, as far as I'm concerned he gets the family discount after week one. I'm not sure how much that hacks off the price for him yet, but I'll figure it out.