'How do we know we can trust him?'

'The professor does.'

'He trusts everyone! This guys been here all of two weeks and already Rogue is gone, we all know he has a history with her – maybe this was all planned.'

'Kurt will you leave it, Rogue trusted him and she absorbed him – if he had been planning anything she would have known.'

'Ja but –'

'Kurt stop it ok, getting Rogue back is what's important now. Remy is the one that raised the alarm that she was missing and he's the one that knows something about where she might be.'

'Ja, but he's the one that got her involved in the first place! Not to mention that he's a killer.'

'Kurt that was an accident! Rogue put someone in a coma when her powers emerged, she also killed Mystique, Scott took out half a school injuring lord knows how many people. Mystique killed people – you were willing to forgive her. Leave Remy alone, he probably blames himself enough for this.'

'Rightly so.'

'Scott! Look you two, blaming Remy isn't going to help Rogue. Leave it until she's safe. He knows more about this guy than any of us so you are going to have to trust him.'

'She's right Scott, I don't sense any maliciousness from Gambit.' Jean put an arm on her boyfriend's shoulder. 'He just wants her to be safe. He loves her.'

'Yeah I know. Look let's just get Rogue safe and then we can have a chat with Gambit.' Jean looked helplessly at Kitty who just shrugged. The boys were not so willing to work with Remy as they were, even if it was only for Rogue's sake.

Jean glanced at Gambit who was sat hunched over the lap tray of his chair scribbling furiously as he had been for the whole journey so far. She was tempted to take a peak at what he was doing, she assumed it was some form of plan. She narrowed her eyes slightly as she felt the walls that were strong in his mind. Suddenly she gasped and her hand flew to her head, at exactly the same time Gambit had yelled and fell to his knees in front of his chair, the paper he was working on went everywhere.

Jean looked up in fear as everyone turned to look at the two of them. Gambit was panting on the floor as though he had just run a marathon; his face was twisted in pain. Storm looked at Jean's worried face and back at Gambit, she put a hand on the redhead's shoulder, 'Jean what happened?'

'I don't know, I was just going to take a look at what he was drawing! I'm sorry I don't know why I did that, I don't normally. Oh god is he alright?' tears were streaming down her face, she honestly didn't know what she had done or why.

Logan grasped Remy by the arms and dumped him back on the chair, his eyes were open now and he seemed to getting his breath back. 'What happened Gumbo?'

Remy swung his eyes to Jean, he look terrified, Storm and Logan glanced at each other and then back at Jean, she was sobbing into her hands by now and Scott was trying to comfort her. He glared at Gambit, knowing that somehow Jean was upset because of the thief.

'Remy not know, was drawing a floor plan of the theatre den all of a sudden dere was a screech in m'head. Could see flames – Jeany was in dere but she didn't look like Jeany, she was a bird. Like a phoenix or something. All Remy know is dat it hurt, mon dieu did it hurt.' He looked down at his hands.

Jean had looked up as he spoke, her sobs calmed and she seemed fixated on what he was saying. 'A phoenix? All flames?' Gambit nodded, Jean went white. Before Scott knew what was happening she had slumped unconscious in his arms.

'Scott take her to the back of the jet.' Storm spoke and then looked at Remy, 'Did she say anything?'

'Non, just de screech and den she was gone when Remy yelled out. Seen her do it before, in de Prof's room. When you were all trying to talk to Remy, she tried to get in, but I don't tink she realised it, when I looked up she was surrounded by flames but none of you seemed to notice. Remy tought maybe he was seeing tings.' He looked round at them all, Logan looked thoughtful, Storm concerned, Kitty was upset and Kurt was glaring at him. Remy sighed, apparently even this was his fault, god knows what Scott would do to him the minute Logan wasn't looking.

'Storm, let's keep on to Seattle – you check on Jean and I'll lead the team. If she's not awake by the time we get there, you take her back to the mansion. We'll contact the professor and let him know what's going on as well. Gumbo – come up front, bring the plans, we need to figure out what we're going to do. Jean was our only psychic on this mission so we need to do this the old fashioned way with reconnaissance and cunning. Kurt, Kitty – make sure you're ready when we land.' Logan stomped back to the cockpit and the others followed their orders. They were only half an hour from Seattle now, Remy glanced out the window, he wondered what they would find when they got there.