finesse became friends with x-23 due to their lack of emotion. finesse also stood by x-23 when she opposed the x-men locking their students on the academy grounds during the "avengers vs. x-men" storyline. however, their friendship took a turn for the worse when jeremy briggs tried to release a superhuman cure. after briggs took out x-23 and tried to acid burn her, finesse grabs x-23's arms and fatally stabs briggs in the radial and femoral arteries, causing him to bleed profusely. she begins to wrap him a tourniquet, but then changes her mind and lets him bleed out. x-23 first thought she killed him, but when she finds out it was finesse, she was furious. x-23 agrees to keep finesse's secret, but declares they are no longer friends, upsetting finesse. the faculty promotes the students, and finesse immediately hits the databanks to test out her new security clearance, loading beta files.