The X-Project

to: [Munroe, Ororo]
from: [LeBeau, Remy]
subject: Jennie and Marius

We've got them. Monaco. Looks like they got there a few days ago and shacked up in the Ambassador Hotel. They've been working the tables of the casino for cash, keeping themselves off their credit cards and under the radar. However, there's a snag.

Remember how I mentioned the whole situation doesn't make any sense? Why would two kids, both with access to lots of funds and no binding ties to the school hare off to Europe and try their best to remain hidden? There was an x-factor in that whole equation, and I think we might have found it:

Manuel de la Rocha.

They're booked in under his name. Considering the ties to the slave ring at the club they visited, the other child the nurse said was kept restrained to a wheelchair, and the desperate wish to make sure no one from Xavier's knew what they were doing, it's obvious they've gotten tied up into something with de la Rocha, and with him, I don't trust it to be anything good. Go in expecting trouble, Stormy. This whole situation stinks to high heaven.

The rest of the information is in the attachment.

--Remy

attached file: monaco.zip

to: [Munroe, Ororo]
from: [LeBeau, Remy]
subject: Lost students

I've got good news and bad news, Stormy.

The good news is that we're on the trail of your lost kids. I'd e-mail Summer about it but, well, I don't want to. I'm sure you can pass the info along to him and the Professor. Looks like they lit out of Paris about a week or so ago, and headed south. We'll get their tracks in Lyons, but most likely they headed for either Italy or Southeast France. We've got good contacts in both, so eventually we'll catch up with them.

The bad news is that whatever is going on looks complicated. Jennie spent a handful of a nights at a Paris nightclub that's turned out to have connections to a European mutant slave ring, and I've got both of them positively identified as hiring a nurse to care for an unidentified mutant kept confined to a wheelchair by S&M restraints. I know, it doesn't make any more sense to me, unless both of them have really gotten themselves involved in something nasty. We're going to keep digging, but you might want to have a team ready to move the second we can track down their location. Who knows who else might be involved or what their reaction might be.

The attached file has all of the particulars outlined. The second file is the same, with all of our references scrubbed out in case you need to pass information on to local authorities. Wanda and I will be in Lyons by tomorrow, and you can get in touch with anyone else at the Center directly. Guess we'll have to reschedule lunch for next week.

--Remy

attached files: runaways1.pdf, runaways2.pdf