Overwhelmed  part 5

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- "I…groggy," she answered in a weak voice.

She was overwhelmed and confused. She didn't know what had happened, but it must have been bad because this was the first time she has ever seen Scott cry. She slowly raised her left hand and cupped his face.

- "Hey," she said, delicately brushing away the tears in a soft caress. "It's ok, Scott, don't worry. What happened? Why aren't I in the infirmary?"

Scott's lips stretched in an half embarrassed smile:

- "Er…that's because there isn't an infirmary any more."

- "What ?"

- "Well, you collapsed at tack and field tryouts at school three days ago."

- "Three days?" Jean was surprised and she frowned slightly as she tried to remember. "Yes…I remember, I couldn't control my powers… Thoughts…thousands of thoughts that I couldn't shut up were in my head…I couldn't control my telekinesis, either. Oh my god, please tell me I didn't hurt anyone!"

- "No everyone's fine, don't worry."

- "Are you sure?"

Scott nodded, reassured to see that Jean's memory seemed to be intact.

- "Kitty and I brought you back to the Institute. I took you to the infirmary and Logan made me leave while the professor was trying to reach you. Everything in the lab began to fly around the room," explained the young man without releasing Jean's hand. "Then there was a sort of explosion and another one. The walls of the infirmary had been knocked down, the roof had been destroyed; you had been lifted up by your powers, everything flying around you."  

- "I did that?" asked a perplexed Jean.

Scott nodded before going on:

- "The professor told us that your mind was in chaos, that you needed something to focus on. We didn't have a lot of time and Rogue tried to reach you in order to drain off some of your powers so that I could try to talk to you… but it was too late."

He paused before continuing.

- "There was another telekinetic blast, and Rogue was thrown through the air ─ she's fine," added Scott because of Jean's gaze, "and then everything stopped. Everything dropped, including you, and you fell into a coma."

Jean couldn't answer anything and, as a matter of fact, she didn't had  the time. The professor, having felt Jean's presence in his mind, came into the bedroom followed by Ororo and Logan, a smile on theirs lips.

- "Jean, welcome back! How are you?"

Ororo came closer to her and delicately removed the suckers of the EEG before switching off the machines, leaving the IV in place.

- "Tired, and I have a horrible migraine," she summarized, giving them a slight smile which quickly faded.

She screwed up her eyes in a manner that Charles instantly recognized.

- "Your telepathy?" he asked.

She nodded, placing her hands on her throbbing temples.

//How? I thought it was over…this must be the aftermath…// she heard

         Some objects around the room began to drop to the ground or be lifted up without her will.

- "Not only her telepathy," Logan observed, catching a book as it flew past him.

- "I don't understand, with just Scott I was fine," said Jean.

//No wonder, they…the kind of thing that doesn't surprise me…My god, Jean, you scared me so much!… I am sure it's Kurt who did that…it seems that Jean has regained consciousness…go through a coma…What are we having for breakfast?…heard that…//

Storm's, Wolverine's and Scott's thoughts were resonating in her mind; in background, some weaker murmurs from the other students in the mansion.

- "Relax your mind, you know how to do" Charles told her.

Jean concentrated and a few moments later the levitating objects fell to the ground.

- "Is it better now?"

- "A little."

- "Your powers have increased considerably, Jean. I even need to reinforce my own shield," said the professor. "With only one person, you can handle blocking out thoughts, but there are too many of us now, that's all."

- "We will wait outside," proposed Ororo. "I'm really delighted to see you back with us again, Jean." //…thank goodness, she's alive…//

- "Don't ever do anything like that again, Red," grumbled Logan, before sending her a rare smile.  /…I really thought we'd lost her, but she seems better…//

         Scott stood up again and placed a soft kiss on her forehead. This gesture surprised her, but she said nothing; Logan waited for Scott not wanting he to collapse from exhaustion and lack of food, and the door closed.

         Wolverine and Storm took advantage of the opportunity to bring Scott to the kitchen and to make him eat, which, to their great relief, he didn't refused.

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         Twenty minutes later, Scott was allowed to return to see Jean, at her request. The young woman welcomed him with a smile, although her exhaustion was clearly evident in her eyes.

- "The professor has held back some of my powers and has reinforced the psychic shield around my bedroom," she said. "No more unidentified flying objects, and you can't know how nice it is to be alone with my own thoughts again."

- "Yes, I can only imagine," answered Scott.

He sighed and slightly smiled.

- "Jean, I'm so relieved that you're out of your coma."

She let a silence hung over them before saying:

- "Scott, the professor told me that you didn't leave me for three days. He said they even needed to use persuasive force you to make you rest, and that they didn't have had a lot of success."

Although she couldn't see his eyes, from his facial expression she could see that he was slightly embarrassed.

- "I couldn't leave you alone like that. I needed to stay and talk to you; I didn't want you think you'd been abandoned."

Jean smiled.

- "Thanks, I can't really say that I heard you," she lied. "But I remember feeling comforted, which was a great help for me. I don't know if I would have pulled through this without you."

Storm opened the door:

- "Scott, I just wanted to tell to you that the professor wishes Jean to get some rest," she gently said before closing the door again, after having received a nodded acknowledgment.

- "Well, you heard the boss," Scott said softly to Jean.

- "That goes for you, too," she answered. "And do me a favour and eat something."

- "I ate a sandwich," he smiled. "So, sleep well and don't forgot to wake up, ok?"

- "I promise," she said.

She watched him moving away, seeming undecided in her thoughts, and as he opened the door and was about to go out, she called to him.

- "Scott!"

- "Hum?"

- "I just wanted you to know…if it had been you, I would have done and said the same as you. Exactly the same as you."

He didn't know if he was really understanding what she meant. If she hadn't had heard him talking to her while she was in the coma, how could she mean what he thought she meant? There was a soft voice in his mind which brushed away his doubts.

* I love you too,* she admitted apprehensively. After all, maybe she'd been dreaming…maybe he hadn't told her that he loved her.

Scott's face was lit by a beautiful smile. Wolverine, fixing a door further down in the corridor and seeing that Scott was staying at Jean's, recalled him in a grumbling voice that he had to let her get some rest :

- "Scott… "

- "Yes…2 minutes" answered Cyclops before re-entering into the room

Scott wasn't really aware of what he was doing, as a matter of fact, he wasn't even sure to be in be in command of his movements, he was simply letting himself be controlled by his heart. It was his emotions which drove him toward Jean, which pushed him to take the young woman's delicate face in his hand and to press his lips against hers.

Hesitant at first, the kiss became rapidly more passionate. Jean had partly sat up to pass her arms around his neck, her eyes shut. She was savouring the experience as if kissing Scott was the most fabulous sensations she ever experienced and wished that the moment never end.

- " Hey, I can be understanding bub, but 2 minutes doesn't mean 10…" Wolverine interrupted himself by entering in the room.

Scott and Jean slightly started and reluctantly ended their kiss

- "Ten ?" they asked in surprise without really breaking their hug.

- "I guess times flies, huh?" Logan joked, hiding his joy. "One minute, One-Eye, not one more, hum ?"

He turned back again toward the door, a barely restrained smile on his lips. Before the door completely closed it behind him, Scott and Jean heard him murmuring:

- "Well…It's about time…"

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