Hello again sorry I haven't updated in a while but I've had exam results and stuff to get this week, and next week isn't looking too promising either so I'll put up as much as I can today.

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It took them a matter of minutes to pack, (Wolverine grumbled all this time though) and they were soon ready to leave.

"We will see you again right?" Ev asked

"I won't lie to you and tell you that all of us will get back to earth safely. The chances are that we'll never all see each other; I'm not going to lie to you about that. But I will say that if it is within my power we will all see each other again but I really wouldn't bank on it!"

Jubes shook her head as tears dripped slowly down her face.

"We can't go knowing that" Ev said quietly

"Please don't worry, you know me I'm pessimistic!" If only I could believe that, I pleaded with my eyes to Wolverine to get them out of here.

He seemed to take heed and began to shuffle them forward. Bobby and Kat, differences forgotten, clung to each other sobbing. Slowly they let go of each other and stood with the others at the portal entrance. I hated goodbyes and now it was huggy time I just knew it.

Mel ran over to Wolverine and clung to him crying softly he held her tight. I got attacked by Evelyn and Kat by Jubes, Bobby stood on the outsides trying his hardest not to cry.

I myself was almost fighting off tears and you know how unemotional I am! Then we all switched hugging partners, this process kept up until we had hugged everyone. The last person I hugged was Logan who gave me a little squeeze s he had the others even Kat.

"Be safe!" He whispered in my ear

I nodded pulling back

"See ya round kid!"

I shook his hand as I had the others, it was my way of saying goodbye, I know it was impersonal; business like brisk but that was the only way I knew how.

"We won't ever forget you, you know that right?" Jubes said tearily

We nodded grimly "Ditto"

"We love you guys!" Evelyn said before letting out a sob that trembled through her body visibly "No matter what happens we will always be friends forever, you will always be part of the team!"

I felt my eyes beginning to swim in tears which I forced back down.

"I love you Kat, I always have and always will and I want you to know that I will wait for you forever if that is what it will take" Bobby said salty rivers cascading down his cheeks.

"You better do Drake" Kat feebly joked in between sobs, sobs that sounded as if they come straight from the heart.

"You'll tell Kurt that I love him always won't you, tell him that if I never return that I died thinking of him." Wolverine put an arm around her shoulder as she let go of all control and wept into his shoulder.

"Come on girls, we'll all be back in danger room sessions together before we know it!" I said aware that I was contradicting my earlier comments. I was determined not to cry

"What are you so afraid of?" Wolverine whispered to me almost inaudibly

"What you on about Captain Canada?" I teased trying to steer myself away from the tears stinging the back of my throat.

"Why don't you just let go and cry?" He whispered still so the others wouldn't hear

"Why don't you?" I asked him back

He smiled and cocked his eyebrow in submission. "I'll miss ya, all of ya, even you brat"

He ruffled Kats hair, making her smile through her tears.

"Its time we were off and left these three to their job and to look after themselves" He said steering Jubilee who was now clinging to him towards the portal. The man known as the Wolverine then winked before we saw his back disappear through the portal.

Was that a tear I saw fall shivering down his hairy little face or was I seeing things?

Mel, Kat and I stood in a line and waved them through the portal, Mel and Kat shaking with their sobs. They continued to stare after the others long after they had walked through the portal; I made myself busy bustling around the camp, collecting all the stuff ready for our departure, not because it needed doing but as a way to block out what we had just done. But the way I saw it was that it was our mess to sort out not our friends, and if one of us wasn't going to return I was going to make damn sure that it wasn't one of them instead of me. That's right did you not pay attention to the prophesy? It said that courage never returned from the mission and I knew damn well that I wouldn't either, so to avoid any accidents I knew that my friends had to leave it was the only way you see. Was I scared by this knowledge? Was I sad? To be honest I felt calm about the whole thing, numb maybe, but I could not and dared not fight the inevitable. What if I avoided my own death and by doing so signed the death warrant for Kat or Mel? I would never get over it, so you see it's something that I had to do, and the sooner t was over and done with the better, the more it was delayed the more I wanted to walk through that portal to safety and that was not an option here.

We left on the final leg of the journey as soon as the other two had plugged the water works (which was no small task let me assure you), my final journey, ever. Of course I didn't tell the girls that.

"So what do you think we'll be fighting?" Mel asked apprehensively

"The usual ghouls and monsters that we have met up until now" I said stomping up a steep slope.

The girls remained silent for a while before Kat asked "Do you think that we will make it back home alive?"

"Honestly Kat I really don't know, but I sure hope we all do"

"I miss them already you know." Mel said quietly "I miss Jubes and her sparky comments, Ev and her unflappability, Bobby and his sweet caring ways, and most of all I miss Wolverine and the way he made me feel safe." She paused "But I miss no one more then I miss Kurt but I am determined I will see him again, and when I do I'll just sit and look at him and feel happy that I am with him"

"Gross!" I muttered "Who are you kidding anyway; you'll be eating his face off before you can say 'hello', then you'll run off to his room and we won't see you for ages!"

"I will not!" She cried outraged

"Alas, the truth speaks but is not as full as the romantic notions you hold so dear!" I said trying to sound like Xavier, more for something to do then anything else. "You, bless you, seem to see life as one big romance song, novel or whatever, but you more then most know that romance ain't everything. Surely the fact that he is safe, alive and walking around is enough for you?" I asked intrigued by her answer

"Yes to a certain extent, but in the same breath I feel that it has got to the stage where I can not contemplate a life with out him"

"Funny, I feel that there would never be a life for me or him if we were together" I muttered more to myself then Mel. I soon realised my mistake

"Oh, who is he? Is it anyone I know?" Kat pumped me for answers

"Oh no one" I muttered turning my attention back to Mel "But surely you would be happy knowing that he was happy whether you was part of that happiness or not? Love surely is when you love them enough to let them be happy and you let them go?"  I wasn't getting myself across clearly

"That's what I thought but when you find the one you love and you love him back, then you will hold onto him with everything you have and you will find a way to work through all difficulties it least that's what I believe" She turned to face me and broke into a small sad grin "So who's this person you were muttering about?"

"No one important, just someone I like the look of but it isn't love or anything; it would never work with me."

"Why not?" Kat asked

"These things just don't" I said abruptly signalling the conversation was closed.

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