Emily's POV
After we get back from the cabin kids start arriving at school. Jubilee is one of the first one's back and when she sees me she runs and gives me a huge hug.
"I missed you". She says
"Haha, I bet you had a great summer though. Your taking combat this year right?"
"You and Wolvie are teaching it so of course".
"Why don't you go unpack, I'll see you at dinner."
She smiles and runs upstairs while I go to find Logan and as luck would have it he is up in the control booth of the danger room with Scott and Gambit checking simulations before classes start. I walk in and Logan turns around as soon as the door opens. He smiles at me and when I get over to him he puts an arm around me.
"How they looking so far?" I ask
"Pretty good, we may need to tone a few of them down but other wise I think we are ready." Logan says back.
I smile at him and he kisses my head.
"Mind if I run one?" I ask
"Sure go ahead," says Scott
I walk down and they start one up, after finishing it with ease I look back up at them. "Is that all you got". The next one is a bit of a challenge but I get through it, after getting my butt whipped by a Sentinel in a third one Logan calls it. "Alright that's it, you're done. Your still recovering, don't overdue it." I role my eyes at him and get up off the ground. After walking out I go back up to the control booth and look at Logan.
"Why did you do that?" I ask.
"You know exactly why." He replies
"I was fine."
Scott and Gambit are laughing at the two of us and I turn to glare at them, it shuts both of them up and that's when Logan begins to laugh.
"Alright come on, Jubilee was looking for you earlier and I promised we would be at dinner."
Logan smirks at me and grabs my hand before we make our way to the kitchen. Jean is already cooking and a few of the students are hanging out in the kitchen. Logan grabs two beers out of the fridge and hands one to me before we go look for Jubilee. When we walk out back we see her talking Banshee and decide to leave her alone for the time being. Once dinner is ready we sit down and Jubilee comes and sits right next to Logan.
"Hey Wolvie how's it going?"
I smirk as he roles his eyes at her nickname for him.
"I'm good kid, how are you."
"Amazing especially now that I'm back here. Congratulations on getting hitched by the way."
"Thanks Jubes." I say to her. I stare down at my ring finger and for some reason just start thinking about all we have been through already when Logan pulls me out of my trance.
"Hey you ok sweetheart?" he whispers.
"Uh yeah I'm fine, we can talk later." I don't want to talk about it in front of Jubilee or any of the students for that matter, they don't need to know about what happened on that mission. Logan squeezes my hand under the table and I peck his cheek letting him know I'm okay for right now.
Later that night I come into the bedroom after getting ready for bed and Logan pulls me down onto the bed.
"Talk to me, what's on your mind?"
"I don't know I just got thinking at dinner about everything that has happened the last few months and then about the mission a few weeks ago, I don't know I just cant seem to form words about how I feel still and It's been a few weeks.
"Sweetheart no one expects you to be okay this quickly heck even I'm not but we just take it a day at a time and when the time comes we can try again. I'm thankful that you are okay and still here, that's all I care about right now. Yes I'm upset about it heck I was just plain angry the first few days but just think, how where we supposed to know Em.
I'm crying at this point and Logan pulls me closer to him and rubs my back until I calm down.
"I should have known, I don't know how I didn't know something was wrong I mean even you knew, I was having such a hard time keeping up that night and that's not like me."
"You can't blame yourself for this, that's what's keeping you from moving on. I'm not saying we forget this ever happened but you have to stop blaming yourself. Jean did this too and it tore her apart and I stood their and watched as my best friend was being torn apart by guilt, I cant have that happen to you."
He kisses the top of my head and I curl into his side as he runs his fingers through my hair. I look up and kiss him and then bury my head into his neck.
"I love you so much." I say after a few minutes.
"Darlin you mean more to me than I can put into words, love doesn't even begin to express how I feel".
"I don't deserve you."
" I don't deserve you but you deserve everything in this world that you want, I want to be the one to give you anything and everything you want."
I smile into his chest "Your all I want right now". I wrap my arms around him and snuggle deep into his chest closing my eyes and letting sleep take over.
A few days' later classes begin again and Logan and I are in class with the older kids. They have all improved from when I first started teaching, which is great because some of them may be considered for a team soon. Jubilee, Laura, and Banshee are the most advanced and take all the corrections we give them, now the younger kids are a different story. The amount of eye rolling amazes me. They don't work together they talk back to each other and their skills are lacking, safe to say we have our work cut out for us. Later that night Logan is giving me a back rub in the kitchen when Jean, Scott, and Ororo all walk in.
"They weren't that bad where they, I mean there is no way?" says Jean.
"I wish I had been dreaming Jean, you should have seen them it was terrible I almost wish they were in the morning so we could get them over with. I'm fresh out of ideas for them and its day one." I say.
"Sweetheart we have to give them a few days."
"Logan where you teaching the same class I surprised you kept your cool."
" Maybe you should run simulations tomorrow and I can come in and help Logan, I have a free period during that class." Says Scott.
"You didn't watch today did you."
" I might have seen some of it."
I let out a loud groan and they all laugh. "Well I'm glad you all find it funny, keep this up and I'm not coming to training in the morning."
"Darlin maybe we should head to bed you seem frustrated."
"Maybe the gym seems like a better option," says Jean. I perk up at this idea.
"Scott I want to take you first lets go." I jump up from the table and quickly walk down there.
"Great do you see what you have done Jean, your going to be stitching up your husband before the nights over if your not careful." Says Logan.
"Maybe you should control your wife then." She laughs.
" Oh I wasn't saying I wouldn't love to see my wife beat up your husband I was saying that since this is your idea you better be ready to fix it." He laughs.
"Alright when I say go you may begin." Says Ororo with a smile on her face. "Go".
I lunge at Scott and tackle him to the ground and he throws me across the floor. I get up and glare at him before searching his head for his next move.
"Emily get out of my head". He yells.
"Dammit Scott get over yourself, just because you can't use your power doesn't mean I can't use mine." I hear the other three laugh and I smile. Two minutes later I have Scott pinned to the ground.
"Alright let me up".
"Don't watch my classes without telling me, also your teaching with Logan tomorrow, if you can make it through and not complain about it tomorrow then I'll stop complaining." I get off of him and he sits up slowly rubbing his neck.
"Your tough, I'll give you that much" he says back.
"I'm feeling much better after that, thanks Scott."
I grab Logan's hand I pull him upstairs all the way to our room.
"You really kicked his ass."
"Logan just shut up and kiss me."
"I like the way you think darlin."
The next day in class Scott about looses it and I'm laughing uncontrollably in the control booth. Logan hears me and starts to chuckle, which Scott doesn't find funny. The kids walk out and I speak over the intercom.
"I told you Scooter, it's bad."
"I get it thanks Em." He says frustrated. He then looks at Logan "Your wife has it out for me."
"Scooter quit whining and go teach your class, I'm done for the day and would like to go work in the garage."
I walk out of the control booth and meet Logan by the door.
"I'm going to work on my bike for a little while, you all good?"
" I'm good, go do your thing. I'll see you later." I kiss him before heading up to our room to relax before dinner.
Logan comes up thirty minutes later.
"Charles wants us and Jean for a pick up mission, leaving in 10 minutes."
I get out of bed. "Did he give you any details about it?"
"A girl, 15 years old, telepath. Her powers decided to manifest in the middle of class yesterday. Charles has talked to the parents they say she won't come out of her room. All we have to do is get her to come out and then bring her here."
"Alright let's go."
We walk into the hallway where Jean is waiting for us. As we walk down the stairs some of the younger students begin to whisper, which makes me smile. Jean starts up the blackbird and we fly a few hours to Chicago and we land at the airport and then take a car over to their house.
When we arrive her parents open the door for us.
"You must be from the school, please come in."
Jean is the first to speak. "Thank you. I'm Jean Summers and this is Logan and Emily Howlett. Professor Xavier sends his regrets that he was not able to come but he felt that Emily and I were both suited to come, as we are both telepaths as well."
"No it's fine don't worry about it. Charles already answered all of our questions; our main concern is getting her to come out. She is scared because she keeps hearing other peoples thoughts and doesn't understand."
"It's only because she has no control over her powers yet, I was the same way but I was much younger. We can help her with all of this, maybe Jean or I can try to talk to her." I say.
"Emily why don't you and Logan go try to talk to her, I'll stay here but let me know if you need help."
"Allison's room is upstairs and to the left. Thank you all so much for coming on such shot notice."
"It's no problem, it's our job." Says Jean.
Logan and I walk up the stairs and I knock on the door to her room but there is no answer.
"Allison my name is Emily I am a teacher at a school for mutants, we are here to help you if you'll let us."
"Why can I hear what everyone is thinking"?
"Your mutation allows you to hear people's thoughts and at some point you can control things with your mind but that's why your parents asked us to come get you, so we can help you."
The door slowly opens and Allison walk out of her room and looks at me.
"How do I know I can trust you, I know there are people that want to get rid of mutants how do I know your not here to kill me."
I look and see a picture frame on the wall and I take it off and move it right next to me what I don't expect is for Logan to pop a claw.
"Sweetheart doesn't scare her we want her to trust us not run away from us." I laugh.
"Sorry darlin just trying to prove a point."
"Ok, I'll go." Says Allison.
"Good. Why don't you start packing and we are going to go talk to your parents."
She nods her head and we walk downstairs.
"Really you had to pop a claw." I laugh.
"What it's not like I could do anything else." He says.
"I know I'm just messing with you."
We walk into the living room where Jean is talking to the parents.
"She is packing right now if that's ok with you. Everything in place?" I say.
"That is perfectly fine. Thank you again for coming, I don't know what we would have done without you."
"We will wait outside just send her out when she is ready." Says Jean.
We all walk out to the car. Logan gets in the drivers seat and get in next to him with Jean getting in the back.
"Well that was easy." I say
Logan and Jean nod in agreement and about 20 minutes later Allison walks out and gets in the car next to Jean.
When we get back Jean takes Allison to talk to Charles and Logan and I got to get some dinner. As I'm cooking it hits me how tired I am.
"Logan can you make me some coffee."
"Yeah, your tired darlin?"
"Tired doesn't begin to cover it and we have training in the morning."
"It's almost Saturday, one more day." He hands me a cup of coffee and kisses me and that's when Jean comes in.
"You hungry, I'm making food."
"Yes that would be great. I got Allison all settled in her room and told her where my room was in case she needed anything. We are lucky that was such an easy pick up I'm not sure I would have been able to handle anything else just with school starting back up this week."
"Amen to that, I'm exhausted."
We sit there and eat before heading off to our rooms for the night.
Logan's POV
Later that night I wake up to see Emily getting out of bed.
"Sweetheart what are you doing."
"I can't sleep, I'm going to go get a drink real quick. Don't worry I'll be right back, go back to sleep."
I lie back down and close my eyes but when she leaves I sit up and wait for her to come back. Ten minutes go by and she still isn't back but I figure she got stuck talking to Hank getting one of his midnight snacks, but when 30 minutes go by and there is still no sign of her I head down to the kitchen. When I walk in I see a full glass of water but no Emily. When I look closer to detail around the kitchen I see that the window is broken but the alarm didn't go off. I quickly check the security system and see that it's been disarmed, dammit. I quickly run up to get Scott and Gambit to help me check the security cameras. Someone has been in the house and they took Emily.
Jean, Scott, Gambit, and I have watched the tapes at least 10 times and we can't figure out who it is. She put up a good fight but they overwhelmed he. How none of us heard any of this I have no idea. We begin to watch it again when I notice the logo on the uniforms of one of the men; it's the same logo as the lab she came from.
"Hey isn't that the logo of the lab we rescued her from." Says Jean right as I'm about to.
"Yeah, I just noticed it too." Says Scott.
"When are they going to stop hunting her down dammit." I say through gritted teeth.
"Logan isn't that your brother?" says Gambit.
Sure enough upon closer inspection of the background there is my brother with Mystique, that's how they got in, the question is how did they know she was going to be alone.
"Remy do you think you can trace where they are taking her." Says Scott.
"No promises but I can try my best. The other option would be to hack into their system."
"I don't care what you have to do but you find where they are taking her, we need to figure this out as soon as possible." He says back
"I'm callings Stark when we get back to update security, this is ridiculous." I say
By the time the students start to wake up Gambit is still working on getting in. Charles has cancelled classes and Ororo is trying to find a way to keep the kids entertained while the rest of the team works on finding Emily.
"I'm in, just give me a few minutes to see if I can find her file."
"Hurry this up bub, who knows what they could be doing to her." I say angrily.
"Got it! It looks like they are taking her to… Japan."
"Everyone suit up we leave in five minutes, we can come up with a plan on the way there." Orders Scott.
"I swear if my brother has so much as laid a finger on her I'm going to chop him into small pieces and bury him in different spots over the world and Mystique is such a pain in my ass…"
"Logan don't worry we are going to get her but we need to leave now. They already have a head start and they aren't going to waist time with experimenting especially if they know we are on our way." Says Jean.
"Dammit why do you always have to be right."
We load up quickly and Ororo and Scott get us in the air before Scott comes up with a plan. We are going to get in and out our main priority is Emily. The chances of them having more mutants there are slim since they didn't bring any with them. It feels like we have been flying for days when we finally arrive in Japan but I could not be any happier. Scott lands the blackbird about 100 yards from the gates and we go to the back in order to get in. Once we are in we split in half to find her. I go with Jean, Bobby, Rogue, and Gambit down to the lower levels while the others go to the lab to see if she is there. Once we begin to head down I pick up the oh so familiar scent of my brother.
"You guys go on, I have a bone to pick." I say as I pop my claws.
I run back down the hallway where I come across my brother. I run at him and pin him to the wall where one set of claws by some lucky chance ends up through his heart.
"Did you touch her?" I yell at him.
"Wouldn't you like to know."
I dig my claws in deeper. "Answer me you son of a bitch." I then hear Jeans voice in my head.
"Logan we found her but we need you to come open the cell, we are down the hallway."
I retract my claws and run to where Jean told me to go and then I see them. When I look in the cell I see Emily in the corner with bruises all over her body. I quickly cut through the bars on the cell and run over to her. I bend down but she doesn't look at me.
"Em come one we need to get you our of here."
I carefully pick her up and we make our way to the Blackbird careful to avoid anyone working for the lab. Victor is gone, he probably ran off with Mystique before he could get in trouble. Once we make it back Jean gives me a blanket to wrap around her and I sit down. When I try to put her in the seat next to me she clings tighter to me.
"Please don't let go," she whispers.
"I've got you, I'm not letting go."
She eventually falls asleep as does the rest of the team except for Scott and Ororo who are flying however 45 minutes after she does she wakes up from a nightmare.
"Darlin what did they do to you."
"I'll show you."
She reaches up and touches my head and what I see makes me sick. As soon as they got her there they took her straight to the lab and hooked her up to machines. The used some sort of shock therapy on her for some strange reason among others things and when they were done using her for experiments they let my brother come in and beat her. After that they ran more test causing her to pass out. They had someone take her to a cell and then we got to her.
She releases her hand from my face and I carefully pull her closer to me.
"I don't understand how they did all that in that much time, you came 30 minutes after they finished."
"I'm so sorry sweetheart, I should have been there to protect you."
"No one expected it to happen, it's okay."
"It's not okay, they shouldn't have been able to get to you."
"Logan calm down, I'm okay now."
She lays her head on my chest and stays that way until we get back. I carry her back down to the lab where after several tries and some tears Jean finally gets an I.V. started on her to get her rehydrated. All I can do is hold her and try to make her feel better. I can't take away her pain but it's the only thing I want to do. After Jean gives her the all clear to leave I take her upstairs so she can sleep but she wakes up from another nightmare. This goes on for another month before she finally gives in and meets with Charles and Jean. She shows them what happened and they figure out a way to block the memories until she feels ready to have them all back. She knows it happened but she doesn't remember anything about it. Lets just hope something good can happen in the coming months.