Logan held Jean's arm, and slowly helped her get off the ground. She looked around. The school still stood, except for Jubilee's room and a couple others. Everyone was there, but Hank, Raven, and professor. That's when she remembered Pietro bringing Hank over to them. "Hank...how is he?" she asked, worried.
"Moira and I took him back to school," Pietro said. "She's patching him up." Ironically, at his own office.
"And Raven?" Jean saw her get hit as well.
"She stayed with him. She's shaken, but she'll be alright," Pietro smiled.
"How about the rest of you? Everybody okay?" Jean asked.
They all nodded. Scott looked over to Logan. His bitter rival actually saved his life. And even if he never grew to like him, he would always be grateful for that. It was hard for him to see Jean with someone else, but at least that someone could be trusted, and counted on.
"That thing you did with the magnetic field...that was badass!" Pietro told Eric.
"Yeah, how did you do it?" Kurt asked, meaning the repulsion of the energy beams.
"Where there's magnetism, there's electricity," Eric started. "I figured with a strong enough magnetic field, I could alter the movement of electrons around me. Thankfully, I was right," he said.
"Magneto savin' someone for once. Who would have thought?" Logan smirked.
"You're never gonna let this go, are you?" Eric sighed. He knew Logan meant their little almost-drowning incident.
"Ya can bet on that," Logan said. Though he wasn't serious anymore, just poking fun at him.
Eric shook his head, and smiled. He looked over to his son, and felt as if now he could truly start over. Whatever came next, they would face it together.
"And you, how you made those sentinels destroy each other!" Eric told Pietro.
Pietro smiled, hearing his father talk proudly about him. "Oh, that's nothing. How about Jean putting on a spectacular light-show for us?" he joked.
"And I thought I had the best fireworks in the group!" Jubilee said.
"Yeah, Logan, you better keep her happy," Eric chuckled.
"Plannin' on it," Logan said as he wrapped his arm around Jean.
"How about you, taking on so many of them!" Jean said, looking at Logan. "You're a machine!" she said excited.
"Ya haven't seen nothin' yet..." Logan winked.
They talked about the most vivid moments of the battle for a while. They still couldn't quite believe what just happened, what they were able to do, and how much it meant on the grand scale of peace between humans and mutants.
"Let's go inside!" Eric pointed at the school. "Let's see how Mystique and Beast are doing." He wanted to find out how Hank was, but he really wanted to see Raven. He could still see her lying there motionless, and he needed to see that she was okay, that she was happy. Even if it meant seeing her happy with Hank.
"Oh, my room..." Jubilee sighed sadly, as they walked by the damaged portion of the school.
"Nothing we can't fix," Jean put a hand on Jubilee's shoulder, and looked over to Eric.
They walked in, and looked around as if it were their first time there. It wasn't just their school, it was their home, their safe haven.
"I never want to leave this place!" Kurt said.
"Me neither," Pietro said. He looked at Eric and remembered how he left last time, and didn't come back for years. He really hoped he would stay this time.
Hank lay in the same spot, he stitched up Jean just a few days ago. He seemed exhausted, but thankfully, he wasn't in a critical condition. Raven was right by his side, holding his hand.
"Welcome back!" Charles said cheerfully. "Congratulations! All of you were truly amazing," he said with a big smile. There were no words to describe how proud he was.
"How is he?" Ororo asked.
"Tired. Fortunately, the knives didn't puncture any lethal spots. I just had to clean the wounds, and stitch him up. Now all he needs is rest," Moira said.
"And you? How are you?" Eric asked Raven, his tone soft.
"Bruised," Raven frowned, but smiled afterwards. "But I'm fine. Thank you for shielding us out there. If it weren't for you..."
"There's nothing to thank for, I owed it to you ever since..." Ever since he nearly killed her all those years ago. But he knew he would have shielded her anyway. She knew it, too.
"It's okay, Eric. It doesn't matter anymore. It stopped mattering a long time ago," she said, sensing his guilt.
Eric closed his eyes and thought back on everything he ever did. How could it not matter anymore? How could they ever forgive him? How could he ever forgive himself?
"Raven's right. Don't worry about the past," Logan said, and patted him on the back. Logan's gesture let Eric know that he was finally letting their incident go.
"Using electromagnetism to manipulate the motion of subatomic particles...excellent idea," Hank mumbled, still half asleep.
"Shhh, you need to rest," Raven whispered, and kissed him.
"Thank you, Hank, I appreciate it," Eric said.
"Come on, let's give them some space!" Jean said.
They all left, leaving Hank and Raven alone in the room.
Jean and Eric stood in front of the mansion, and telekinetically started repairing Jubilee's room, and everything else that was damaged.
"I'm having a serious deja-vu," Jean said as she remembered how the two of them repaired the school last time after it exploded.
"Me too," Eric laughed. "Last time, I thought it was only a matter of time until you bring it down. I never saw your powers, but I knew they were incredible. Capable of destroying more than just one building."
"And what do you think now?" Jean asked, intrigued.
"I don't just think that your powers are capable of incredible things, I think you're capable of controlling them, using them for incredible things," he said.
"I had a lot of help to get me to this point," Jean said.
"Logan?" he asked even though he knew the answer.
"Yes," Jean couldn't help but smile when she heard his name.
"You don't worry you might lose him someday?" Eric asked.
"Why do I have a feeling this is more about Pietro than Logan?" Jean raised her eyebrows.
"I admit, I'm just trying to understand how it's possible for you two to be so happy after all you've seen. You were right in the tunnels. I am afraid of experiencing another loss," he not only finally admitted it to Jean, but to himself as well.
"I know what you've been through. I've felt your pain," Jean said with compassion. "If I ever lost him, I would be devastated. My whole world would be torn down. But all the pain would be worth just one of the beautiful moments we shared. And I won't let fear spoil any future beautiful moments we'll share. And you shouldn't, either," Jean told him everything he needed to hear.
Eric nodded. She was right yet again.
"And one more thing. Forgive yourself already!" she insisted.
"Are you in my head?" he scolded.
"No, I can tell from the way you look at Raven, and Logan."
"That might take a while," Eric sighed. "I'll work on it though," he smiled, and placed the last piece of metal in place. The school was fixed.
"Wow, you already fixed it! Thank you guys!" Jubilee said, walking over to them.
"You're welcome!" Jean and Eric said in unison.
Pietro came up to Eric. "How are you?" Pietro asked concerned. Seeing Raven and Hank must have been painful to him.
"You know what? I actually feel better than I have in a long time," he smiled.
"Good to know. So what do you plan on doing now that the sentinels are gone?" Pietro worried that Eric might leave once again.
"I don't know...maybe we should think of something to do together," Eric said, and Pietro sighed with relief.
"Ya missed a spot!" Logan joked when Jean checked out Eric's and hers telekinetic reconstruction.
Jean laughed, and lightly hit him in the arm. She thought of her answer to Eric's question.
"Don't ever scared me like that again," she said as the horrible image of him on the ground returned to her.
Logan smiled, and studied her for a good while. "Did I tell ya how gorgeous ya look in this uniform?" he said.
He did, but she'd never get tired of hearing it.
"I love you, Logan," she said, pulling him close.
"I love you, too, Jeannie."