The X-Men gasp at Scott's statement. How could he say that? Scott was the first X-Man. He had always believed in the X-Men, had always put the team first. Before anyone could say anything to this statement Scott looked down at the Professor and continued.
"Right now I am a father protecting my son and I will do whatever it takes to make sure that he remains safe!" Scott raises his eyes to meet Jeans. "I think we have a lot to talk about." Reaching out his hand he waits for Jean to take it, once her hand is securely clasped within his he turns and walks away.
The others watched as Jean and Scott disappeared into the house. Once they were out of sight the Professor turned to Storm.
"Storm, can you please see to the children? Turning to Logan he asks, "Can you make sure the grounds are secure?" As Logan turns away Cable, Bishop and Gambit fall into step behind him.
"Going somewhere?" Logan asks.
Cable answers his question.
"Yeah, with you to make sure everything is secure."
"Look bub I don't need your help."
"No? Could have fooled me. Certainly looked like you all needed our help back there." Before Logan could respond to this taunt Bishop interrupts.
"Look why don't we just secure the grounds and then you two can play whose is bigger later?" Cable and Logan turn to glare at him as Gambit chuckles in the background.
"Now hommes lets just get this done so we can get back inside to the pretty little fille's." Logan turns his glare on Gambit before stomping off to secure the grounds with the others following behind.
Scott leads Jean towards their old room, but stops as Jean tugs on his hand.
"Scott you're heading the wrong way. The Professor gave me a two room suite after I had Nate." Jean raised her free hand to gently cup Scott's face and smiled. "Who I need to go get so that he can meet his daddy." Stroking his check she leaned forward and lightly touched her lips to his. "Come on let me show you to our room and then I'll go get Nate." Jean lead Scott down the corridor to another hallway, turning left she then walked down to the last door on the right. "Here we are. Why don't you wait inside and I'll be right back." Before she could walk away Scott stopped her by grabbing her hand.
"No, wait. I think we need to talk first. There's a lot that you need to know."
"But what about Nate? I'm not comfortable leaving him with…Forge?" Scott smiled at her.
"Trust me. Forge will look after him like he's his own. Scott paused and looked around the room taking in the pictures of Nate that were placed around the room. Walking over to one of the side tables he picks up a picture of Nate that Jean had taken of him laying in his crib smiling and waving his arms and feet. Scott turned and smiled at Jean. "He's a beautiful boy." Jean walked over to Scott and looked at the picture he was holding over his shoulder.
"Yes. Yes, he is." Scott placed the picture back on the table and turned to face Jean.
"We have to protect him. How much do you trust me?" Jean looked at Scott in confusion at his question. "I need to know how much you trust me. Because I am about to ask you to do the hardest thing you will ever have to do in your life."
A/N: Sorry it's so short. I've been so busy working on my other two stories Reckoning here on this site and a Logan/Scott slash story over on my LiveJournal page that I kind of let this one go. I'll update again soon and promise to make the next chapter longer. The next chapter will focus on Scott telling Jean where he's been and what's happened to him.