AN: (Pokes head out from a sea of reviews.) You guys make me so happy! Did I mention that I love reviews? Well I do! Thanks so much you guys! Here comes chapter 6, er ummm 5?

Chapter 5

"Bitch!"

"You think you can just lock me up!?"

"Do you know how it feels!?"

"...let..."

"...me..."

"...OUT!"

Marie screamed as her eyes opened. She struggled against the restraints keeping her on the bed. She needed to get loose, to run from them, they were going to hurt her. She had to break free.

"Hold her still you two! I need to sedate her before she hurts herself!" Jean commanded Logan and Ororo. Scott was flying the jet at maximum speed to get to the mansion. They dropped Magneto off at the mutant prison and sped back to the mansion. Only Professor Xavier could help Marie.

Marie was going into horrible fits everytime she woke up. Jean had to keep sedating her to keep her from hurting herself. Logan and Ororo had to hold her still so that Jean could put her out. There was just one problem, everytime Jean sedated Marie, Logan's healing factor would kick in and she would wake up soon after being put under. Jean was dangerously low on sedatives.

Logan and Ororo finally managed to force Marie still. As Jean gently turned her head to gain access to her neck, Marie's tear-filled eyes opened wide. She snapped her head free and looked at Jean with fearful eyes.

"Jean please don't!" Jean's hand froze as she looked into her young teammate's eyes.

"Please, Jean, please don't sedate me! They'll get me if you do!" Jean kept staring deeply into her eyes. After a while, she firmly placed her hand back onto Marie's face and forced her head to turn. Logan, whose grip had begun to lessen on Marie, couldn't help but be angry at Jean.

"What're you doing Jean?! If you put her under those people are gonna kill her! I thought you cared about her! You're honestly gonna-"

"Logan do me a favor and shut the fuck up okay?" Jean shouted as she injected Marie with the sedative. Logan was taken aback by Jean's outlash. As Marie calmed down and fell asleep, Jean took a few calming breaths.

"Logan I know that you care about Marie, but you need to understand that the psyches inside of her are in control. They're using our personal feelings to keep us from sedating her. Marie is lost deep within her mind and if we don't keep her sedated, she might stay that way. Please try to understand, I'm doing this for her own good. We need to keep her sedated until we can get her to Professor Xavier, then he'll figure out what we should do next." Logan glared at her at first, but when the reasoning in her statement registered, he calmed down and sat down.

Jean gently placed a gloved hand on Marie's cheek as she felt her heart break. She watched Marie through the rest of the plane ride, praying that the professor would be able to find a way to help her.

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"Well Professor? Will she be okay?" Professor Xavier looked up from his careful scan of Marie's mind. The other X-Men looked at him with genuine concern for their young recruit. He sighed deeply.

"There is too much going on in her mind for me to say. She is full of torment right now Jean. I don't know if even I can help her now." He folded his hands into a steeple and furrowed his brow in deep thought. "If I could just locate her, then I could put up stronger mental barriers around the psyches in her mind. There's just so much going on that it's like playing "Where's Waldo" with fast-moving pictures."

Scott spoke up. "So...if you could signal Rogue out, you could help her?" The professor nodded his head. "Is there any way to find her outside of mental scans?"

"If someone were to go inside of Rogue's mind, she may be easier to pinpoint. But it's dangerous, even in theory. Jean, I believe that you may be the only one that could safely travel through her mind." Jean looked at her mentor in shock, as did the rest of the team.

"But..why me? What in the world makes me different from the others?" Professor Xavier looked his student in the eye as she tried to process his bizarre request.

"Jean, Rogue hasn't absorbed you enough to make your presence in her mind strong enough to take on a form. On top of that, she trusts you. If she sees you offering help in her mind, she'll be more likely to believe that it really is you and not just one of her psyches playing a trick on her. I can't do it because I need to be on the outside, monitoring your progress."

Jean thought hard about the situation. The professor said himself that it was a dangerous idea, but Marie needed her. She took a calming breath and decided that she needed to help. "Okay professor, what do I need to do?"

The professor wheeled himself to Marie's head. "Stand behind me and put your hand on my shoulder." Jean followed his instructions as he placed a hand next to both sides of Marie's head. "Now, close your eyes. Use your telepathy to read my mind and I'll transfer you into Rogue's mind." Once again, Jean did as her mentor told her.

Soon, Jean felt a strange sensation. Her mind felt as if it were leaving her body. The blackness overcame her.

When she opened her eyes again, she saw a desert all around her. Off in the distance, she could make out some sort of building.

"I guess I'd better try there first." She reasoned as she began the long trek toward the horizon.

AN: This could've been better I'll admit. But never fear, the next chapter will be up soon!