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Prologue: Meeting.
"I suppose I had better get going to bed." Courtney said at eleven-o-clock at night. She always had to do this to try and convince herself. "Since I have to wake up so early, and I'm not a morning person."
She got up from her seat and put her book down. She had been trying to find something on Aristotle for her school project. She lived in a small house with her parents, and their room, as well as the kitchen and living room were upstairs, and she and her room were downstairs, with a small bathroom. Since she never had to worry about people walking downstairs while she was in the bathroom, so she didn't close the door when she went in to use the toilet.
After a moment, she heard the garage door opening, which was not far from where the bathroom was, and was in clear sight. She didn't understand since both her parents were already asleep, and she was the only child left at home.
'It must be the ghosts' She thought, and looked back down at the floor. After another minute, she heard something again, only this time it sounded like voices. Wasn't surprising, people were always breaking into their house since it was surrounded by trees and a lake. Both times someone had broken in she had been home alone or with a friend.
"Ahhh!" I screamed, looking at the unknown people, yet somehow familiar people coming through the door. I reached for the door and closed it so they couldn't see me anymore.
"Sorry!" I hear one of the men say. He sounded kind of old.
Since I still had on my pants from that day, I still had my new knife, so when I was about to go out, I got out my knife and got ready to use it if I had to.
Even though I wanted to be intimidating, my face was still red when I walked out. I somehow knew that they were mutants, even though I always thought that was just a movie and comic to amuse people.
"You probably don't know who we are." The old man in the wheelchair said, I could only guess he was the Professor.
"Yes. I do. Kind of. What I don't know is why you're here. I'm not a mutant…" At this, Logan laughs. Since he had interrupted me, I glared at him, and made like I was going to throw my knife into his face. "And I'm of no importance as a human. I'm only fifteen." I said, all kinds of thoughts running through my head.
Scott snorted. "If you think like that then yeah…you're right, but not as we see it."
The Professor motioned for him to stop so he could say a few words.
"As you probably know, Scott was killed during a personal battle, I suppose we could say. And yet here he is, right in front of you. To find out how he could be brought back, I started searching for new mutants with Cerebro. Do you know what I found? Once I started searching…note…for you…though I didn't know it at the time, all I knew was I was looking for new mutants who probably didn't even know about themself. I found you. I don't know how, but you brought Scott back, so, we came to see you." The Professor explained, following me into my room so I could sit down.
After he finished talking, I started thinking. 'How can this be? Why wasn't this found out earlier?' I thought. Then somehow in my mind I hear 'Because apparently we weren't supposed to know until now.' It was the Professor.
Apparently on my face was a scowl, because Logan, Kurt, Storm and Scott knew something was going on. 'I don't appreciate my mind being invaded!' I thought. 'But it wasn't. You were talking to me.' From his statement I started thinking even harder. 'So if I don't want others to hear what I'm saying, but I still need to talk to you, I can just do this?' 'Yes.' Was his reply.
This time, when I started to think, I knew that it was to myself. 'What if I also brought Jean back?'
They were all sitting in my room quietly, thinking that I needed silence to think. I was done thinking. I stood up abruptly and walked outside, trying to be quiet so my parents wouldn't hear.
"Courtney! What are you doing?" Storm asked, walking after me.
"I'm going to try something." I said, sitting down on the ground. Once I got comfortable, I closed my eyes, and started meditating. I had started learning how a few months earlier, and from what I gathered, that's how I brought back Scott.
Everyone but the Professor was oblivious to what I was doing. He had been hoping for this. I sat there for several hours, trying to bring Jean back, so I wasn't truly meditating. Kurt, Scott and Storm had all started falling asleep. The Professor couldn't understand it. He knew that I was the one that had brought Scott back, and he had assumed that since I rushed out here that I knew how to bring Jean back.
At about two, I was getting so tired that I started having to focus on my meditating. Because of my focusing, I finally went into true meditation. I was later told how the wind started blowing a lot harder, and animals kept bringing me things that no one could describe by themselves. Not to long after that, from a lot of the noises everyone outside woke up.
At about five-o-clock, people could tell that it was a person in front of me, though no one could tell who it was. About a half hour later, Scott recognized Jean. He wanted to go up to her and try to wake her, but the Professor held him back.
At about six-thirty there was just one more thing to do before it was done. I thought out to everyone there. 'I don't know if I can do this. I'm going to try, but I'm not sure that I'll still be here. But that's okay, right? Jean is more important than me to all of you. If something happens, explain as much as you can to my parents, and thank you for letting me know before the end. Goodbye.' I thought, doing my best to finish quickly.
"No!" I heard Logan say, somewhat loudly.
As I put the last of my energy into the shell of Jean, darkness enclosed me.
When I woke up, I was still extremely tired.
'I don't remember going to sleep. What happened?' I thought, trying to remember everything.
'You used so much energy from your ability, that you just couldn't do anything. You were completely out, and Logan had to carry you back inside. You acted like you were dead. You had Logan pretty worried, but your brother and sister are here. Perhaps you would like to see them?' The Professor asked, obviously from upstairs.
Once I actually opened my eyes, Logan immediately came over to the very edge of the bed. It seemed like he had been waiting.
"Are you okay now? You've been out for ten days." He exclaimed, helping me sit up.
"Thank you, yes, I'm alright, just a little tired." I said, holding my head, still trying to figure everything out. Suddenly I gasped. "Did it work?" I asked, talking about Jean.
"Yes." Logan replied, suddenly looking puzzled, surprised I'm asking about that when I've been in a coma.
"So I suppose…you'll start vying for her heart again, trying to win her from Scott?" I asked, slowly, kind of upset I hadn't thought about it earlier.
"No, I don't think so. She's happy with the dork, and he's happy. I'm going to leave them alone." Logan said, surprising me completely, and he could tell.
"I'm afraid I don't hide my surprise very well, do I." I said, rather wryly.
"No. You really stink at it." Logan said, starting to laugh.
"HEY!" I somewhat yelled. Then I remembered my family. "Can you help me get upstairs? I'm sure my family is absolutely worried."
As Logan help me up the stairs, I started calling my nephew.
"Chris? Chris, where are you?" I said loudly, not quite yelling.
"Courtney!" My little two-year-old nephew yelled, coming to the top of the stairs.
When I got to the top of the steps, my legs were attacked, since he was still to little to hug me on the upper part.
"Hey Courtney! Glad to see you finally awake." My sister in-law Stephanie said, looking back over the couch.
"Yeah, so am I." I said, walking over to sit on my beanbag.
All the seats were taken, from my two parents, my brother and her wife, Jean, Scott, Storm, and the Professor in his wheelchair, somehow brought upstairs. It seemed that Kurt had left. He did kind of stand out.
"We've just been talking to your parents about you going to school. I think we just about got them convinced." The Professor told me, mind-speaking the last part.
'If you do, congratulations, that's more than I was ever able to do.' I told him.
"Courtney, do you want to go to this school?" My mom asked, looking worried that I would be going so far away.
"Yes. I've heard so much about it, and I think it will help me in so many aspects, and it sounds like a lot of fun, what with everyone that I would be able to meet and get to know. You're always telling me I need to spend time with people other than Elizabeth and Christine. Well, this is a chance for me to meet a lot of new people, learn a lot, and see if I can do anything without you and dad right there, over my shoulder telling me what to do." I said, trying to make sure that we put the last piece into play so I could go. I really needed to learn what was going on with me.
"Well, I'm not really sure about it, but I think you should be able to go." My dad said, taking my moms hand in his.
"Well, we'll get out of your way, now that we know, I'll contact you for the rest of the information, so you can get on with your plans." The Professor said, wheeling towards the stairs.
To get him down the stairs, Logan and Scott took hold of the front and back of the Professors wheelchair. I followed them downstairs.
My mom yelled after me. "Courtney, were you still wanting to go with Stephanie and John? If so, you need to go and pack a bag."
"I will in a minute." I yelled back up the stairs.
"If you need anything, here is a ear bud that will connect you strait to the jet, and here is a phone, just in case we need to contact you or you need to contact us." Jean said, handing me the two things. "Mine, Logan's, Storms, Scott's and the Professors numbers are already in there, along with the number for the school."
"Thank you so much for everything. I finally get to find out what's going on with me. And I will probably use these a lot." I said, motioning to the new accessories.
"We'll pay for the emergency calls, or the calls to us, but if you talk to friends, then you have to pay for them." Scott said, just about to get in the car they had brought.
"I'll take it." I said, acting like it was the best offer ever, which was the best I was going to get, and I stuck my hand out to shake Scott's.
After everyone but Logan had gotten in the car, I turned to him. "Something you're wanting to say?" I asked, raising my eyebrows.
"Be careful, and call me if you need anything." He turned, and was about to get in the car when he turned and gave a couple of parting words, "You're more important than you think."
These words left me thinking for the next few minutes before I was brought back to reality.
"Time to pack so we can leave." I said, turning to go into my room, pack, and go upstairs and shower before we left.