Here is my last chapter, making this the first long story that I finish!
I'm so happy!
For my latest reviewers:
Tigereyes: YOU ARE THE REAL NAPS- euh, TIGEREYES! . . . ad yes, I changed my name a couple of times cuz I was bored.
Remnants-2011: thank you! Thank you! Thank you!
Prostar99: well I sent you an email . . . and I don't dislike the actress that got kissed too much . . . I hate Kate Bosworth, the girl who's dating Orlando . . . I will blackmail her . . . in the meantime, enjoy this chap!
Little angel: thank you for reading and I haven't forgotten about emailing you back, I'm just checking about the vet thing and all . . .
Lily: I want you to continue your fic!!! Please!
Shade: hi! ^_^ tootsie rools? Running in the rain? Swimming? o_0 okay.
justandalwaysMo: thank you so much! ^_^
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Chapter 40: A New Beginning
Nathan woke up in the common room around ten, surrounded by all his friends who hadn't woken up yet. All were installed in sofas and large mushy armchairs, seeming to still be in dreamland. Nathan yawned and looked around him, finding Kitty sleeping by his side, cutting the circulation in his arm. Bobby and Rogue were in a nearby couch, John was slipping out of his armchair and was going to hit the floor any time now, Max was floating a few feet above a lounger and last but not least, Jubilee was in another sofa, her head up side down nearly touching the ground.
Nathan watched them for a while, remembering that they had been too tiered to climb up the stairs, and that Jubilee would have woken half the mansion with her singing ( . . . she was drunk). They had all camped out in the common room, and seemed to not have been disturbed at all. In fact, the only reasonable explanation that Nathan found was that they were Sunday, and that no student was up yet.
He heard and saw Rogue stir, stretching so widely that she made Bobby fall to the ground, waking him up instantly. John fell to the floor too, but didn't seem to wake up and Jubilee just kept on snoring quietly.
"Ow!" exclaimed Bobby, rubbing his side. "Ah . . . I can't feel my head."
"Lucky you, I feel it too much," groaned Rogue, rubbing her temple. " . . . But hey, it was fun! We should do that more often."
Floating lightly sideways, Max yawned loudly and turned over, seeming to be sleeping on an invisible bed. They heard a grunt coming from the entrance and they all looked to see Logan standing there, a wolf-like grin plastered on his stubbly face.
"Ha . . . you kids partied pretty ruff, eh? Didn't the guy serving you drinks stopped after a while?" he asked.
"As long as he gets a good tip, he doesn't care how much we order!" Rogue mumbled, shaking her head.
A plaintive moan was heard from Jubilee's couch, and they all turned to see her holding her head, her knees brought up to her chin.
"Your first hangover, I suppose?" grunted Logan, raising his eyebrows.
"I think I'm gonna be sick," they all heard Jubilation mumble weakly.
"Do you have anything for her?" Kitty, who had just woken up, asked, looking at Logan.
"I might," he said. "Just a sec."
Logan walked out, heading for the kitchen and in the meantime, John seemed to come around. He blinked a couple of times and grinned, falling over to the side, on the floor, where he stayed still. Logan came back a few moments later with aspirins and a glass of water that he handed to Jubilee.
Nathan yawned and rose from his place, his shoulders cracking again, without inflicting him any pain this time.
"I need to go now," he mumbled making a few steps towards the door.
"Are your bags already set?" Bobby asked.
"Yep," Nathan said. "I just need to bring them down."
"You sure you want to go?" Rogue asked tentatively.
Nathan turned to her, a small, weak smile on his lips.
"I need to."
It didn't take much time for Nathan to leave. He quickly changed into other clothes and brought down a bag and two suitcases from his room, that he placed in his car's trunk. It was cold outside, winter was at their doorstep and it was very windy, the freezing breeze blowing dead leaves away.
Nathan said good-bye to everyone, telling them that he was going to try to come back. After hugging him, Jean immediately went down to the med lab. The professor told him again that he was always welcomed and Scott and Ororo both made it clear that they didn't want him to go. Logan simply ruffled his hair and told him that he was sure they'd meet again.
After saluting his friends one last time at the entrance, Nathan was gone.
~~~
Three teenagers, obviously not living at the school, were perched on the mansion's wall, near the closed gate. From there, they could see what was going on at the entrance. Their eyes followed the people's coming and going, stopping here and there on a few youngsters, but they seemed to be mainly looking at Nathan.
The two first teens were boys, both hidden under large black trench coats. The first had his face covered by a hood, but not the second, and so his dyed blue hair could be seen. The last person of the trio was a girl with natural dark red hair, a bit like Jean's, that arrived her bellow the shoulders. She was wearing a simple vest, jeans and a shirt with some sort of design resembling a dragon, on the front.
"He's got the same shoulder problem, but he hasn't figured out what it is," the girl stated. "And the same appearance thing, you know. His hair and eyes change colour, he keeps having power problems," she continued, sitting on the wall, letting her legs dangle on the road's side. "It's obviously him, I mean, just look at his face."
"How did you know he was here?" the boy with blue hair asked to the other one, an English accent in his voice.
"I first noticed him when we were at the docks," the hooded boy said in a strangely calm way, something making his voice naturally fear-provoking. "Before we started the fire."
The girl sniggered.
"Yeah, and Xavier had no clue," she said. "The plan was flawless."
"Yeah, but how did you know he was *here*?" the blue haired boy continued. "We totally lost him afterwards . . ."
"Destiny helped me find him," the other boy continued, still looking at Nathan.
"Destiny's dead," the girl objected.
"No she's not," the blue haired boy said, rolling his eyes. "She's simply not alive."
"There's a difference?" the girl continued, apparently not getting along with her interlocutor.
"Y-"
"Would you two just shut up?" the other boy interrupted, clearly aggravated. "You're both wrong, and don't expect me to tell you anything. I'm not allowed to."
The duo looked at him a second, but obeyed, and stopped talking, looking back at the grounds.
"Okay, let's leave before Xavier spots us," the hooded boy finally said, turning to the road's side. "He'll now we're up to something and I don't want him after us before we finish the job."
"Okay," the English boy said. "So . . . we keep an eye on . . . what's his name . . . Nathan, for a while? I'll have someone follow him."
The trio jumped off the wall and landed on the other side. They walked away to a car parked on the other side, got in, and drove off. Xavier hadn't noticed anything.
~~~
Jean let Nathan say good-bye to the others, knowing that good byes made her feel a little uneasy. She went down to the lower levels to get her mind off things.
Down in the med lab, Jean sat in her chair in front of her desk and turned the computer screen on, as her fingers started tapping madly on the keyboard. She entered her files, and read the names of her students, all ordered in an alphabetical row. She soon found a logo labelled 'Cage, Nathaniel' she clicked on it and a partially blank page appeared on the screen. There was a picture of him in a corner, his name, birth date, hometown and other things written about him. She clicked on a blank square in a corner, and started tapping her report.
'Since before his arrival at the school, Nathan's mutation has been evolving quite oddly. The first signs of mutation appeared less than twenty- four hours after the accident that triggered the X-Gene in his system. Fangs were the first things to appear, and he soon developed heightened senses. These gifts appeared and disappeared on irregular basis. It was two months after his transformation that he had a second accident, which sent him in a coma for six weeks. We can only guess that his mutation reacted badly to this situation, even though it was then he realized that he had a minor healing power that helped him cure his wounds.
Affected by the fact that he was a mutant, Nathan unconsciously developed a hate towards himself. His mind altered this hate into his conscience, and so his conscience reflected his hate towards everything. His mutation consisted of transforming what the mind thought was real, into reality, and so this is how his conscience developed a body of it's own. After fighting his conscience, Nathan arrived to master this strange power, along with daggers he formed the same manner he did for his conscience.
After this, his physical appearance somewhat changed, as his conscience 'reintegrated' his self. He took some of the features the body his conscience had, such as amethyst eyes and darker hair. It is only now that I realize that these changes could maybe have not been made by his conscience. I cannot clearly explain from what these changed might have come, but I do not think it comes by the X-Gene or his mutation.
Before his departure, he had a certain problem with his back, which made me think he probably had broken something. I had no idea that it went much farther than that. According to the X-Rays taken shortly after his accident, I have noticed that an excess of bones has been developing itself on his back, splitting his shoulder blades that have extended quite dangerously. They're function remains a mystery until I receive more time to continue my researches.
The amount of powers given by the X-Gene in his body is extremely odd, and no clear explanation can be given about it yet. He is the first mutant that I encounter, who's body did not accept the X-Gene in a normal way, and who's powers only last a short period of time before disappearing for an unclear period. Half of the 'powers' he has gained will certainly not stay in him for long. His ears, fangs, teeth and skin changes are all bound to stop one day or another. Even his gift of materializing the thoughts of the mind is surely going to disappear sooner than we all think, probably just to be replaced by another mutation, which will finally stay in him . . . (?) On the other hand, his minor healing power and heightened senses are probably going to stay. To finally come back on the fact that his shoulder blades are growing abnormally, nothing can be said yet.'
Jean paused for a long moment, re-reading what she had written, and finally getting up from her seat. Nathan would be far-gone by now, and who could know if he would ever come back? Sure, he had promised that he would, but how much time would he spend away? A couple of days . . . or weeks . . . or months . . . or even years.
A sigh of melancholy freed itself out of her mouth, but she didn't want to think about Nathan for now, because she didn't like the thought that he was out on his own, in a world that hated and feared mutants.
She walked to a counter and took a cloth as she started cleaning some stuff, still trying to get her mind off things. She spent fifteen minutes like that, until she decided to use her power to pick up everything that might have fallen behind the counter.
She found a couple of pencils, two vials of medication and a couple of papers. She made sure the medication vials weren't broken, and cleaned them before putting them back at the right place. The pencils went back on her desk, and she was about to throw away the crumpled papers when her eyes fell on a little detail above one of the sheets: the name Nathaniel Cage. Curious, she took the sheet and read the first few lines before looking down at the chart below.
It was the blood test she had given him so long ago. She looked down at the analysis, and her eyes started catching odd details that she knew had seen before. After a few moments of calculations, she rushed back to her computer and started tapping things on it. She entered another folder, and reached a big chart of statistics, a troubled look on her face. Looking back down at the paper she had in her hands, her mouth fell open in surprise.
"This simply can't be," she whispered, something seeming like fright in her voice.
She tapped something, and what she read next confirmed her insinuations.
"Oh dear Lord," she mumbled, her eyes as wide as tennis balls.
Shocked, she grabbed the paper she had let next to her computer and she ran out of the med lab, praying to God that Nate was still on the grounds. She entered the elevator, pressed on the first floor button and waited impatiently for the door to open. When it did, she ran out, dodging a couple of students walking by, until she finally reached the front door. She opened it and looked outside. She noticed Kitty sitting on the front steps, a faint unhappy smile on her lips.
"Is he gone?" Jean asked desperately.
"Yeah, he left ten minutes ago," Kitty said. "Why? He forgot something?"
Jean didn't answer, and just stared at the metal gate at the end of the path. The paper she was holding fell to the floor and Kitty caught it. She took one glance at the paper, before handing it back to Jean, knowing that it was just medical notes she would probably never understand.
Jean took the paper without looking away from the gate. She sighed, and walked back inside slowly, still keeping a totally perplexed look on her face.
Scott and Logan were inside, arguing about something. Logan had a bag on his shoulder, showing that he was about to leave.
"You're leaving, Logan?" she asked, interrupting their dispute.
"Yeah," he said, turning to her. "I'm going back in Alberta, just to see if I can find . . . stuff about the past."
Jean smiled.
"Well, have a nice trip," she said, leaving to let Logan continue arguing with Scott about something to do with someone taking a certain bike in the garage.
Jean slowly walked back to the med bay and after taking another good look at the sheet, placed it in Nathan's folder and put it away. She was tempted to ask the professor to call back Nathan with his power, but decided not to do so. Nathan would come back, and when he did . . . he would receive answers.
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Logan left on Scott's bike a few minutes later, after giving Rogue a big hug, Scott a glare and a heart-melting smile to Jean and Ororo. The professor said good-bye, wishing him a pleasant trip and reminding him that he was very welcomed to come back.
"Sure Chuck," Logan had said, puffing his chest sarcastically. "I mean, what would you all do without me?"
So that is how everything went back to 'normal'. In the next weeks, no news were heard of Nate, but the professor somehow knew -without even using Cerebro-, that he was somewhat fine. No one knows if he finally found his parents and real family. Kitty went back to her life, staying single with the hope that Nate was going to come back. Rogue started dating Bobby, and Max had decided to leave the school, shortly after Nate's departure. He had said that he was going to go back to his family, knowing that they would accept him as a mutant.
In the meantime, they were all waiting, knowing that finally, in the end, they all had A life Worth Living.
To be continued . . . Unfinished Business.
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CLIFFHANGERS!!! Who were the trio spying on Nathan? Who's Destiny? Why did they burn the docks? Why are they avoiding the professor? What's going on with Nate's back? What was on his file thingy? What did Jean find out? What's going on with his shoulders? What's going to happen to him? . . . *sniff* . . . I'm so proud of myself. ¬_¬
Thank you to all my reviewers, you've been extremely helpful and supportive, I hope you all liked it.
Tigereyes, Shade, Chaos Insues, X-Divas (Lily, Audy and Kristy), justandalwaysMo, Blaze, Little Angel, JB, TORO, Escaflowne, remnants-2011, Catz, Simply Myself, skibummat, gr33n pixie, Brushfire, Chloe, fireball, Ice Phoenix, StarzOfPromise, amethyst, Someone, Cristi, Imaginator, Visio, Chelsea, Blue Fairy, Rosie, Nora, just to say hi, Victoria Wolf, Glory, ezrajade, don'tgottanameyet, wOLF, almudena, Wolvie's girl, gigigigirl, Emily-may from paradise, Formaly Known As LordBob, gabi, WildWolvie, Queen of hearts, The Comic Collector, Blayze Iskillion Firestorm, Sarah, The Reader, TheGriffin, Scary Vampiress, (and anybody else that I might have forgotten)
THANK YOU ALL SOOOO MUCH!
Hoping to see your reviews in Unfinished Business,
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P.S.: I will now reread all my chapters with my beta reader and correct all my stupid mistakes ^_^
P.P.S.: You will be added on the list if you review now! ^_^
For my latest reviewers:
Tigereyes: YOU ARE THE REAL NAPS- euh, TIGEREYES! . . . ad yes, I changed my name a couple of times cuz I was bored.
Remnants-2011: thank you! Thank you! Thank you!
Prostar99: well I sent you an email . . . and I don't dislike the actress that got kissed too much . . . I hate Kate Bosworth, the girl who's dating Orlando . . . I will blackmail her . . . in the meantime, enjoy this chap!
Little angel: thank you for reading and I haven't forgotten about emailing you back, I'm just checking about the vet thing and all . . .
Lily: I want you to continue your fic!!! Please!
Shade: hi! ^_^ tootsie rools? Running in the rain? Swimming? o_0 okay.
justandalwaysMo: thank you so much! ^_^
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Chapter 40: A New Beginning
Nathan woke up in the common room around ten, surrounded by all his friends who hadn't woken up yet. All were installed in sofas and large mushy armchairs, seeming to still be in dreamland. Nathan yawned and looked around him, finding Kitty sleeping by his side, cutting the circulation in his arm. Bobby and Rogue were in a nearby couch, John was slipping out of his armchair and was going to hit the floor any time now, Max was floating a few feet above a lounger and last but not least, Jubilee was in another sofa, her head up side down nearly touching the ground.
Nathan watched them for a while, remembering that they had been too tiered to climb up the stairs, and that Jubilee would have woken half the mansion with her singing ( . . . she was drunk). They had all camped out in the common room, and seemed to not have been disturbed at all. In fact, the only reasonable explanation that Nathan found was that they were Sunday, and that no student was up yet.
He heard and saw Rogue stir, stretching so widely that she made Bobby fall to the ground, waking him up instantly. John fell to the floor too, but didn't seem to wake up and Jubilee just kept on snoring quietly.
"Ow!" exclaimed Bobby, rubbing his side. "Ah . . . I can't feel my head."
"Lucky you, I feel it too much," groaned Rogue, rubbing her temple. " . . . But hey, it was fun! We should do that more often."
Floating lightly sideways, Max yawned loudly and turned over, seeming to be sleeping on an invisible bed. They heard a grunt coming from the entrance and they all looked to see Logan standing there, a wolf-like grin plastered on his stubbly face.
"Ha . . . you kids partied pretty ruff, eh? Didn't the guy serving you drinks stopped after a while?" he asked.
"As long as he gets a good tip, he doesn't care how much we order!" Rogue mumbled, shaking her head.
A plaintive moan was heard from Jubilee's couch, and they all turned to see her holding her head, her knees brought up to her chin.
"Your first hangover, I suppose?" grunted Logan, raising his eyebrows.
"I think I'm gonna be sick," they all heard Jubilation mumble weakly.
"Do you have anything for her?" Kitty, who had just woken up, asked, looking at Logan.
"I might," he said. "Just a sec."
Logan walked out, heading for the kitchen and in the meantime, John seemed to come around. He blinked a couple of times and grinned, falling over to the side, on the floor, where he stayed still. Logan came back a few moments later with aspirins and a glass of water that he handed to Jubilee.
Nathan yawned and rose from his place, his shoulders cracking again, without inflicting him any pain this time.
"I need to go now," he mumbled making a few steps towards the door.
"Are your bags already set?" Bobby asked.
"Yep," Nathan said. "I just need to bring them down."
"You sure you want to go?" Rogue asked tentatively.
Nathan turned to her, a small, weak smile on his lips.
"I need to."
It didn't take much time for Nathan to leave. He quickly changed into other clothes and brought down a bag and two suitcases from his room, that he placed in his car's trunk. It was cold outside, winter was at their doorstep and it was very windy, the freezing breeze blowing dead leaves away.
Nathan said good-bye to everyone, telling them that he was going to try to come back. After hugging him, Jean immediately went down to the med lab. The professor told him again that he was always welcomed and Scott and Ororo both made it clear that they didn't want him to go. Logan simply ruffled his hair and told him that he was sure they'd meet again.
After saluting his friends one last time at the entrance, Nathan was gone.
~~~
Three teenagers, obviously not living at the school, were perched on the mansion's wall, near the closed gate. From there, they could see what was going on at the entrance. Their eyes followed the people's coming and going, stopping here and there on a few youngsters, but they seemed to be mainly looking at Nathan.
The two first teens were boys, both hidden under large black trench coats. The first had his face covered by a hood, but not the second, and so his dyed blue hair could be seen. The last person of the trio was a girl with natural dark red hair, a bit like Jean's, that arrived her bellow the shoulders. She was wearing a simple vest, jeans and a shirt with some sort of design resembling a dragon, on the front.
"He's got the same shoulder problem, but he hasn't figured out what it is," the girl stated. "And the same appearance thing, you know. His hair and eyes change colour, he keeps having power problems," she continued, sitting on the wall, letting her legs dangle on the road's side. "It's obviously him, I mean, just look at his face."
"How did you know he was here?" the boy with blue hair asked to the other one, an English accent in his voice.
"I first noticed him when we were at the docks," the hooded boy said in a strangely calm way, something making his voice naturally fear-provoking. "Before we started the fire."
The girl sniggered.
"Yeah, and Xavier had no clue," she said. "The plan was flawless."
"Yeah, but how did you know he was *here*?" the blue haired boy continued. "We totally lost him afterwards . . ."
"Destiny helped me find him," the other boy continued, still looking at Nathan.
"Destiny's dead," the girl objected.
"No she's not," the blue haired boy said, rolling his eyes. "She's simply not alive."
"There's a difference?" the girl continued, apparently not getting along with her interlocutor.
"Y-"
"Would you two just shut up?" the other boy interrupted, clearly aggravated. "You're both wrong, and don't expect me to tell you anything. I'm not allowed to."
The duo looked at him a second, but obeyed, and stopped talking, looking back at the grounds.
"Okay, let's leave before Xavier spots us," the hooded boy finally said, turning to the road's side. "He'll now we're up to something and I don't want him after us before we finish the job."
"Okay," the English boy said. "So . . . we keep an eye on . . . what's his name . . . Nathan, for a while? I'll have someone follow him."
The trio jumped off the wall and landed on the other side. They walked away to a car parked on the other side, got in, and drove off. Xavier hadn't noticed anything.
~~~
Jean let Nathan say good-bye to the others, knowing that good byes made her feel a little uneasy. She went down to the lower levels to get her mind off things.
Down in the med lab, Jean sat in her chair in front of her desk and turned the computer screen on, as her fingers started tapping madly on the keyboard. She entered her files, and read the names of her students, all ordered in an alphabetical row. She soon found a logo labelled 'Cage, Nathaniel' she clicked on it and a partially blank page appeared on the screen. There was a picture of him in a corner, his name, birth date, hometown and other things written about him. She clicked on a blank square in a corner, and started tapping her report.
'Since before his arrival at the school, Nathan's mutation has been evolving quite oddly. The first signs of mutation appeared less than twenty- four hours after the accident that triggered the X-Gene in his system. Fangs were the first things to appear, and he soon developed heightened senses. These gifts appeared and disappeared on irregular basis. It was two months after his transformation that he had a second accident, which sent him in a coma for six weeks. We can only guess that his mutation reacted badly to this situation, even though it was then he realized that he had a minor healing power that helped him cure his wounds.
Affected by the fact that he was a mutant, Nathan unconsciously developed a hate towards himself. His mind altered this hate into his conscience, and so his conscience reflected his hate towards everything. His mutation consisted of transforming what the mind thought was real, into reality, and so this is how his conscience developed a body of it's own. After fighting his conscience, Nathan arrived to master this strange power, along with daggers he formed the same manner he did for his conscience.
After this, his physical appearance somewhat changed, as his conscience 'reintegrated' his self. He took some of the features the body his conscience had, such as amethyst eyes and darker hair. It is only now that I realize that these changes could maybe have not been made by his conscience. I cannot clearly explain from what these changed might have come, but I do not think it comes by the X-Gene or his mutation.
Before his departure, he had a certain problem with his back, which made me think he probably had broken something. I had no idea that it went much farther than that. According to the X-Rays taken shortly after his accident, I have noticed that an excess of bones has been developing itself on his back, splitting his shoulder blades that have extended quite dangerously. They're function remains a mystery until I receive more time to continue my researches.
The amount of powers given by the X-Gene in his body is extremely odd, and no clear explanation can be given about it yet. He is the first mutant that I encounter, who's body did not accept the X-Gene in a normal way, and who's powers only last a short period of time before disappearing for an unclear period. Half of the 'powers' he has gained will certainly not stay in him for long. His ears, fangs, teeth and skin changes are all bound to stop one day or another. Even his gift of materializing the thoughts of the mind is surely going to disappear sooner than we all think, probably just to be replaced by another mutation, which will finally stay in him . . . (?) On the other hand, his minor healing power and heightened senses are probably going to stay. To finally come back on the fact that his shoulder blades are growing abnormally, nothing can be said yet.'
Jean paused for a long moment, re-reading what she had written, and finally getting up from her seat. Nathan would be far-gone by now, and who could know if he would ever come back? Sure, he had promised that he would, but how much time would he spend away? A couple of days . . . or weeks . . . or months . . . or even years.
A sigh of melancholy freed itself out of her mouth, but she didn't want to think about Nathan for now, because she didn't like the thought that he was out on his own, in a world that hated and feared mutants.
She walked to a counter and took a cloth as she started cleaning some stuff, still trying to get her mind off things. She spent fifteen minutes like that, until she decided to use her power to pick up everything that might have fallen behind the counter.
She found a couple of pencils, two vials of medication and a couple of papers. She made sure the medication vials weren't broken, and cleaned them before putting them back at the right place. The pencils went back on her desk, and she was about to throw away the crumpled papers when her eyes fell on a little detail above one of the sheets: the name Nathaniel Cage. Curious, she took the sheet and read the first few lines before looking down at the chart below.
It was the blood test she had given him so long ago. She looked down at the analysis, and her eyes started catching odd details that she knew had seen before. After a few moments of calculations, she rushed back to her computer and started tapping things on it. She entered another folder, and reached a big chart of statistics, a troubled look on her face. Looking back down at the paper she had in her hands, her mouth fell open in surprise.
"This simply can't be," she whispered, something seeming like fright in her voice.
She tapped something, and what she read next confirmed her insinuations.
"Oh dear Lord," she mumbled, her eyes as wide as tennis balls.
Shocked, she grabbed the paper she had let next to her computer and she ran out of the med lab, praying to God that Nate was still on the grounds. She entered the elevator, pressed on the first floor button and waited impatiently for the door to open. When it did, she ran out, dodging a couple of students walking by, until she finally reached the front door. She opened it and looked outside. She noticed Kitty sitting on the front steps, a faint unhappy smile on her lips.
"Is he gone?" Jean asked desperately.
"Yeah, he left ten minutes ago," Kitty said. "Why? He forgot something?"
Jean didn't answer, and just stared at the metal gate at the end of the path. The paper she was holding fell to the floor and Kitty caught it. She took one glance at the paper, before handing it back to Jean, knowing that it was just medical notes she would probably never understand.
Jean took the paper without looking away from the gate. She sighed, and walked back inside slowly, still keeping a totally perplexed look on her face.
Scott and Logan were inside, arguing about something. Logan had a bag on his shoulder, showing that he was about to leave.
"You're leaving, Logan?" she asked, interrupting their dispute.
"Yeah," he said, turning to her. "I'm going back in Alberta, just to see if I can find . . . stuff about the past."
Jean smiled.
"Well, have a nice trip," she said, leaving to let Logan continue arguing with Scott about something to do with someone taking a certain bike in the garage.
Jean slowly walked back to the med bay and after taking another good look at the sheet, placed it in Nathan's folder and put it away. She was tempted to ask the professor to call back Nathan with his power, but decided not to do so. Nathan would come back, and when he did . . . he would receive answers.
~~~~~
Logan left on Scott's bike a few minutes later, after giving Rogue a big hug, Scott a glare and a heart-melting smile to Jean and Ororo. The professor said good-bye, wishing him a pleasant trip and reminding him that he was very welcomed to come back.
"Sure Chuck," Logan had said, puffing his chest sarcastically. "I mean, what would you all do without me?"
So that is how everything went back to 'normal'. In the next weeks, no news were heard of Nate, but the professor somehow knew -without even using Cerebro-, that he was somewhat fine. No one knows if he finally found his parents and real family. Kitty went back to her life, staying single with the hope that Nate was going to come back. Rogue started dating Bobby, and Max had decided to leave the school, shortly after Nate's departure. He had said that he was going to go back to his family, knowing that they would accept him as a mutant.
In the meantime, they were all waiting, knowing that finally, in the end, they all had A life Worth Living.
To be continued . . . Unfinished Business.
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CLIFFHANGERS!!! Who were the trio spying on Nathan? Who's Destiny? Why did they burn the docks? Why are they avoiding the professor? What's going on with Nate's back? What was on his file thingy? What did Jean find out? What's going on with his shoulders? What's going to happen to him? . . . *sniff* . . . I'm so proud of myself. ¬_¬
Thank you to all my reviewers, you've been extremely helpful and supportive, I hope you all liked it.
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THANK YOU ALL SOOOO MUCH!
Hoping to see your reviews in Unfinished Business,
Wild Craze
P.S.: I will now reread all my chapters with my beta reader and correct all my stupid mistakes ^_^
P.P.S.: You will be added on the list if you review now! ^_^