Chapter 10
An Unexpected Return
"This is an impressive collection." Scott said as he looked around the room that had shelves on every wall. The shelves were filled with books of different shapes and sizes. The curtains were pulled back, allowing the sunlight to illuminate the room. He walked over to the small couch in the middle of the room and sat down.
Jean turned to look at him and smiled; "It's my grandfathers" she went to join him on the couch.
"I never asked you if you ever planed to back to med school." he said turning his body towards hers.
She looked down at her hands nervously, "I do, but I know I never will."
"Why do you say that?"
"I don't really want to talk about it."
"Why?"
"It's too complicated." is all she said.
"Jean," he reached out and touched her chin. He slowly turned her head toward his. "Don't let anyone hold you back. If you want to go, then you should go."
Tears slowly started to form in her eyes. "I wish I could go but…but,"
"But what?"
Jean stood up, "Scott I told you it's to complicated." she walked over to the window hugging herself tightly with her arms.
"Is it because of your grandfather?" he stood up and walked over to her.
She turned to look in his eyes, "No, whatever I do it's completely my decision so I'd appreciate it if you would not blame it on anybody else."
Scott sighed, "Look, I'm sorry." he ran his hand through his hair, "It's just that I saw what you did for Marie and the guys, you're so talented at what you do."
"Like I said, it's completely my decision." she was about to walk away when she felt Scott reach for her arm and pull her close
"Wait, I'm sorry. I shouldn't have said anything."
Jean was the first to notice how close they were. She offered him a small smile as she felt herself get closer to him.
"Don't worry about it." they both looked into each others eyes.
"You know," he said breaking the silence, "your eyes look beautiful in this light."
"Really?"
"Yea."
They both leaned in to kiss. Their lips were mere centimeters from each other when Jean suddenly pulled back and listened intently to her surroundings.
"Is something wrong?" Scott asked.
"I don't know yet." said Jean before she almost ran out of the library.
Logan and Remy took off their helmets and turned to look at the mansion they had left behind. They heard footsteps come from around back.
Remy adverted his eyes towards the footsteps and smirked as he saw the look on they faces of John and Peter.
"Oh my god!" said Peter as he walked over to his old friend.
Logan looked towards the front door and saw Kurt, Raven, Wanda, and a woman with white blonde hair whom he had never seen before walk towards them. Something wasn't right, he thought as he saw three teens he had never seen before walk closely behind John and Peter.
"Look what the cat dragged in!" said Raven as she gave Logan a hug.
"Yea, we thought we would never see you again." said Wanda.
"Good to have you back." said Kurt as he patted Logan on the back.
Logan smirked and looked at the woman up and down. "Who's this?"
"I'm Ororo Munroe." she said extending her hand.
Logan shook her hand as she continued, "I was on a camping trip with my students when we got stranded. Luckily their grandfather was kind enough to let us stay."
"Grandfather? They don't have a grand-"
"Logan?" he heard a familiar voice come from behind Ororo. He looked up and saw the red headed beauty stepping towards him.
"Jean." he said.
She walked up to him and hugged him. "It's good to have you back."
He released her and looked into her eyes, "It's good to be back." He saw a guy about his age, maybe younger, walk towards them. "Who are you?" he asked.
"Scott Summers." said Scott as he extended his hand. "I'm here with Ororo and my students."
Logan raised an eyebrow as he shook the stranger's hand.
This is odd, he thought to himself as the so called students introduced themselves to him.
In the meanwhile, John introduced the three other teens as Warren, Kitty, and Jubilee.
"Man, you don't know the crazy stuff that's been happening around here lately." John said to Remy.
Remy nodded as he looked around and scanned the faces in the crowd for a petite southern girl with white strands of hair falling around her shoulders.
He turned his gaze in the direction of the lake. His widened as he saw Marie standing there with awe in her eyes. He almost ran towards her but stopped when he saw a guy stand behind her. He slowly walked up to her. "Marie," he said.
Marie slowly backed away and turned to leave, leaving the other guy standing with confusion.
"Marie!" Remy called softly as he followed her. "Marie wait!"
Bobby had no idea what was going on. One minute he was kissing Marie, then the next minute two tough looking guys come back and Marie walks away from the younger one.
Once the younger one went after Marie, Bobby walked down towards his friends.
"Hey," he told them. He then turned towards the older guy and introduced himself. His name was Logan
"Well, well, well," said a voice coming from the doorway of the mansion. They all turned to look and saw Erik walk towards them. "Logan what a pleasant surprise to have you back."
"I can see how you're jumping with excitement." said Logan.
Erik ignored the comment and looked around. "Where's Remy?"
"He has some personal business to attend to at the moment."
"Marie wait!" said Remy as he followed closely behind Marie, "Marie would you just stop and listen to me?" he grabbed her by the wrist and made her turn around.
"Remy let go of me!" Marie said as she tried to get away from his grasp.
He pulled her towards him, "Would you just talk to me?"
She struggled against his grasp, "I have nothing to say to you!"
"No, but I have something to say to you." he held on to her tight, but she pushed him away and started to walk away. She walked up the porch steps and was about to open the door when she heard Remy shout, "Marie I love you!"
Marie stopped and turned to look at Remy. She felt tears slowly starting to form in her eyes as she opened the door and walked inside the house.
"So you're saying that these people don't know about our current situation."
"That's exactly what we're saying." Raven said crossing her arms.
Logan grimaced as he leaned on the window frame in Erik's study.
"And who's great idea was this?" he asked turning his body towards Erik who was sitting behind his desk.
"Who do you think?"
Logan sighed as he realized who it was they were talking about. He ran his hand through his hair.
"Logan, we all knew that someday you would do something crazy and we all dealt with it. But it was always harder on her than everyone else." said Raven.
"You think it wasn't hard for me too?" he asked. He crossed over to the other side of the room. "You don't know how much I regretted what I did after I promised her I would never abandon her the way others had."
"Then there's always the question of why you did it." said Erik.
"I-I," Logan sighed, "I guess I just wanted to get some answers. I knew that I would be going crazy if I just stayed here wondering when it would be my turn, I had to go. I considered taking her with me, but I knew that it would be too dangerous."
There was a knock o the door. "Come in!" yelled Erik.
Marie slowly walked in the room with her head down. She looked up and sighed heavily.
"I think we'll leave you two alone." Erik said as he and Raven left the room.
For a while, Marie just stood there looking at everything else but Logan. There was a long uncomfortable silence that filled the air. Logan felt his heart pump faster as she looked down at her hands.
"Logan," she finally said.
"Marie."
She looked up at him. He could see tears starting to form in her eyes. He quickly walked over to her and wrapped his arms around her. She started to sob as she hugged him back.
"Shh," he cooed as he ran his fingers through her hair, "It's ok, I'm here now."
She cried on his shoulder "Logan, I'm so scared."
"I know you are."
"Then why did you go?"
He let go of her and grabbed her by the shoulders. "I had to; I couldn't just wait around watching everybody die."
She sniffed, "Why couldn't you just take me with you?"
"Believe me, I wanted to."
She pulled away from him, "But you didn't!" she yelled.
"I knew it would be too dangerous for you, I didn't want to risk it."
She looked away from him. He grabbed her chin and forced her to face him.
"Marie, I'm sorry. But I promise to you that I will never leave you again." Tears started to fall from her eyes. He wiped them away with her thumb and hugged her tightly.
"You better keep it this time." she whispered.
"So," he said once they pulled away from each other, "How's it going with Remy so far? Have you talked to him?"
"Ha," she chuckled as she walked towards the window, "I have absolutely nothing to say to him."
"Marie, you know it wasn't exactly his fault."
She crossed her arms over her chest, "I beg to differ."
"Look kid, if you think it was hard for you imagine how it was for him."
She turned and faced him, "What do you mean?"
"All he could think about was you. Hell, he was always scared about what you would do when he came back."
Marie smirked at this. It wasn't the fact that she liked making Remy feel miserable, but it was the fact that he was scared of losing her. Still, she could not, would not, talk to him. It was just too painful when someone you love just leaves, especially without saying goodbye.
"I guess I don't know what to do." she sighed.
"Listen," Logan said, "Erik told me about what's been going on around here lately." he crossed his arms over his chest.
"He did, didn't he?"
"Are you sure that that boy can help us?"
Marie nodded he head.
"So, you're just seducing him or something?"
Marie laughed, "No, it's not like that."
"Then?"
"Well," she started to pace slowly, "At first I wanted to, you know, to make it easier," she stopped suddenly and looked him in the eyes, "But something happened, something that made me think a lot about where my devotion stands with Remy, if and when he did come back."
"Marie, are you saying…"
"I don't know Logan. I-mean I like him a lot and I know that he likes me too. He's a really nice guy and he cares about me just like I care about him. He's always been there for me. When I collapsed, he carried me here and he didn't want to leave my side until he knew I was okay. He doesn't like seeing me get hurt. And you don't know how much it's killing me inside to know that he will probably never want to speak to me again once he finds out that almost everything I've told him about me is a lie."
Logan nodded and looked into her watery eyes. He knew that she was telling the truth. He knew that she really cared about him. He suddenly grinned at her.
"This boy, what's his name again?"
She smiled, "Bobby Drake."
"Bobby Drake," he slowly grabbed his chin as if he was deep in thought, "I think I want to meet this guy."
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