Sorry again for the delay, and sorry again for the mistakes, maybe next part will be corrected
During two days Jean lived in the illusion that her mother was going to come back. She wore the same clothes, arrived at school sooner than usual and left it later because at least she was warm there, even if she hadn't eaten anything yet.
The first day she had swapped her telephone-card for a bag of chips. But that wasn't enough, even if she was used to a perpetual diet. In fact, while she was thinking about it, Jean realized it was the first time that she had eaten chips.
Her headaches remained violent. When she felt that she was going to crack she asked to go to the toilets or to the infirmary and she even missed a class and forged a false absence note for the teacher.
The second evening she left her naive illusion and finally and fully realized what was happening to her. She cried even more in the alley next to "her" house where she slept, insulating herself with old newspapers from the cold, more chilling than the previous day. She had a sore throat and a headache, felt feverish, and overall, she was afraid. No, she was terrified. She thought that she was becoming insane or that her mother was right…Maybe she was possessed?
She rose to walk a little in order to warm up. Unbeknownst to her, three older men noticed her and began to follow her. She heard voices, bad voices, and had horrible flashes in her head. Those men didn't have good intentions; she felt it
She walked faster, but they kept up with her pace and shouted to her:
"Hey pretty one! Don't leave like that, we've something to propose to you..."
"Yeah come here..."
"I'm sure that we'll get along…"
She was invaded by images even more vicious and started to run right ahead. They followed her, slowly gaining ground. She turned one corner as soon as she could, hoping to lose them but she found herself in a blind alley and, when she turned around, the three men were there. She backed off as much as she was able as they were coming towards her.
"Hey, pretty, pretty, pretty, why were you running like that?" asked one of the men, leering at her in a little reassuring way.
"Leave me alone! Go away!" shouted Jean as she searched for some object for throwing it at them.
"Hey she's a wild one, it's even better" said another man.
She caught a stick, she was ready to defend herself even if she was weakened by a two days fast.
"We'll have to teach you who gives the orders here..."
They separated to surround her. Jean managed to strike them but they easily had the upper hand and slammed her on the ground, her hands pinned at the top of her head. One of them sat down on her and pulled out a knife.
"If you ask for help or if you scream, I will kill you"
Straight after he sliced her sweater. Jean had started to cry. No, she wouldn't bear it.
"Hmmm Sexy" he said.
"No, please, go away!"
He cut her bra.
"No! For pity's sake!"
She received a strong slap that split her lip. The man slapped her again for showing off his strength. Her headache intensified.
"Didn't you understand what I just said? Shut up and stop struggling if you want to live!"
/It's useful, they always believe that/
Jean opened widely her eyes. The man had the strange feeling that she had heard him, but it was impossible. He gathered back his thoughts and carried on. Then Jean knew one thing: whatever was the source of this voice, she had to listen to it and no matter what, she preferred to get murdered rather than enduring it. Her headache was terribly painful
"You're lying! LEAVE ME ALONE!!" She screamed before seeing, perplexed, the three men being launched upwards, smashed on the walls, and falling downwards, out cold.
Jean didn't reflect upon it. She rose up, kept her sweater closed with one hand and ran away to hide in her alley, shaking and in tears.
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Xavier Institute, later:
"Finally!" shouted Professor Xavier while pressing one button.
"Cerebro is finally repaired?" guessed Ororo, who was passing near the room,.
"Yes, I've been searching after the cause of the breakdown for nearly two weeks..."
He was interrupted by the computer's alarm.
"Well, it doesn't remain idle " Storm pointed out.
"It located a manifestation from a strong mutant an hour ago" he read before putting the helmet back on his head.
Ororo remained motionless as she had learned to do several years earlier. After one minute, Charles reopened his eyes.
"And?"
"Here, at Bayville" he answered as his hands removed the helmet "A girl named Jean Grey"
"Jean Grey? She is the skater who won the National Championship, just like Scott" exclaimed an astonished Ororo. "Logan and the others must just be leaving the cinema. We must contact him"
The Professor followed her to the Control Room where she made a connection with Logan's intercom.
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Center of Bayville at the same time:
The intercom buzzed as the group was leaving the cinema. Logan pulled it out of his pocket:
"Wolverine?"
"An emergency Storm?" He answered
Though, it was the Professor who spoke.
"Cerebro is repaired, it has picked up a mutant manifestation one hour ago, it's still active but it's weaker. It's a new mutant, she seems telepathic and telekinetic and completely lost. Her name is Jean Grey"
"Oh shit, ya mean the skater?"
"Yes"
"What's up?" Scott's voice sounded in the background.
"Wait bub" answered Logan.
The Professor carried on:
"She seems to oscillate between consciousness and unconsciousness, I can't locate her precisely, I can only tell you that she is near the houses 7 to 17 of the 'flowered' district. I fear that she's in danger"
"We aren't far from there. We're leavin' immediately Chuck" Logan replied before hanging up.
"What's up?" repeated Scott. By 'the skater' he had guessed they were talking about Jean
"It seems that yer skater is a mutant. And we're goin' to fetch her" announced Logan without giving them time to reply.
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All of them got into the X-Van. Logan explained to them the situation in greater detail as he was driving towards the flowered district. As soon as they arrived, he parked the car.
Considering the situation, they dispersed and yelled Jean's name, but they didn't obtain any answer. Finally Kitty found her by looking into an alley near the house number eleven. It was a dark and cold little street with the ground covered with papers of all kind.
"She's here!" she warned her friends before moving closer her "Jean?"
She was curled up on herself, blood dripping from her lower lip. The remainder X-Men arrived and Logan approached Jean:
"Hey kid, do ya hear me?" he asked. He frowned in worry and touched her forehead. "She's got fever and she's freezin'. Scott, warn Hank that he'll have a patient…Wait, she seems to have been beaten…" he trailed off as he realized that her sweater and bra had been cut.
He growled and smelled the air.
"What's the trouble?" asked Scott.
"Bring me a blanket" he ordered before talking to the unconscious Jean "I smell that they're not far. They won't get away with it so easily, kid"
Scott brought the blanket and Logan wrapped Jean up in it before hoisting her up with his arms. He couldn't help but realize how light she was.
"Scott, put her at the back of the X-Van, I've got to settle a matter. I'll be right back."
He handed Jean over to Cyclops who was likewise surprised for her weightlessness. Absent-mindedly Kurt caught Jean's bag before joining his partners in the vehicle. Scott accommodated Jean on the back seats and he did his best to fasten her seatbelt. Kitty, Kurt and Rogue settled down on the remainder seats.
Some minutes later, Logan came back and started the X-Van without saying a word.
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A few minutes later...
Jean regained consciousness slightly thanks to the heat emanated from the blanket. Slowly she realized she was in a vehicle.
"…Mum….is that you…?" she mumbled as the nightmare started again and that the voices were coming back
/ poor one, she's frozen... why was she outside?... she's only a kid, she... /
The pain spearing her brain was terrible. All of a sudden, something happened; she heard a squealing of tires, moans and somebody yelling with difficulty for a certain Rogue to do something. She felt a touch, a shock resembling an electric jolt, and fell back into unconsciousness.
"Wow" said Logan after stopping the vehicle.
"I have the sensation of having been stricken in my head by a soccer ball" moaned Kurt.
"No it's, like, my head that you knocked when Logan braked" Kitty retorted as she rubbed her crown
"It was a good idea askin' Rogue to touch her, Slim" said Logan.
"She didn't control her power and I didn't want to slap her" answered Scott as Logan started the car again "At least, now we're sure, she's a telepath".
"Oh my god" said Rogue
"What?"
"She was abandoned, her own mother abandoned her, she threw her out in front of the school, moved the same day and changed her phone numbers" answered Rogue. When she drained partially Jean's powers had also collected some recent memories.
"But that's, like, awful" said Kitty "When did this, like, happen?"
"Two days ago, when her powers blossomed"
"Two days????" Scott repeated "But why didn't she said anything? We don't have the same classes and we've only spoken to each other twice, but I think that I am the only one she knows at school"
"She couldn't believe it. She was hopeless" answered Rogue
"As we have been when we, like, discovered our powers" Kitty sadly pointed out
"But it's not all, three men attacked her"
"That's settled kid; anyway, she was able to defend herself" Logan frowned.
"I know that. Is that why you left?"
"Yeah, I knew they weren't far. I don't know what she did to them, but the three of them were out cold. A policeman was talking with the neighbors has arrested them" he said, without revealing that he had forced one of the men to admit the rape of the young daughter of other resident, which, with Jean's attempted rape, would assure their imprisonment. "The skater will get out of this with quite a fright and one or two bruises," he concluded.
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Xavier Institute, 11 p.m.
The Professor had sent everyone to bed for now. He went to the infirmary to ask Hank how the girl was doing it:
"She's suffering of inanition" began Hank "Anton had already told us about the pressures which the females skaters undergo, but according to Rogue she has hardly eaten anything for two days. She has a cold and a bad angina, but overall she's exhausted as much physically as mentally. I've placed her under perfusion and given her antibiotics as well as vitamins to help her struggle against her angina. Nevertheless she should sleep for some hours"
"And her attack?" asked the Professor.
"As for the cut on her lips… it won't leave any trace, but she'll have a bruise on her face during some days. They haven't done anything else to her"
"Thank you Hank. I will erect some mental shields to give her tortured mind some respite" told the powerful telepath "Then, I want you to move her to a recovering room"
"Of course" answered Beast.
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Two days later
The next day, Jean didn't wake up. She was really exhausted and needed to catch up on many hours of missing sleep that even the habit wasn't able to break. The bruises had swollen: one on her right cheek, near her mouth, the other near her left eye.
Around 5p.m., two days after her arrival, Hank came down to see how was his patient when she started to stir.
Jean felt warmed and heard a grave but soft voice encouraging her to open her eyes. Finally she did it and…..
"AAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
... screamed of terror.
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