Rising to the Sunset, Part II
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Chapter 4
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"This data is so cool!" Kitty exclaimed. "Look!"
"Ah don't wanna look." Rogue was sitting beside Kitty on the couch, staring off into space.
"Everything's spiking like crazy!"
"Ah don't care."
"And it was doing it earlier."
"So what?"
Logan entered the room unhappily, with a beer. He had just passed Scott carrying Jean back to their room. They were too flushed for his liking. He plopped down on the couch beside Rogue. She continued to stare off into space.
"What's eatin' you kid?"
She looked at him, but didn't say anything. Instead she turned and lay her head on his lap. Kitty giggled, and scooted off of the couch so Rogue wasn't so squished. Logan rubbed her back to comfort her.
"So what is it, kid?"
"Ah am so mad at Bobby. He made plans to study with Jubilee this afternoon, and they're alone in his room!"
"So you think he's cheatin' on you?"
"Ah guess."
"Why don't you go to talk to him?"
"Ah was gonna, but Ah chickened out."
"You want me to go slice him up for you?" Logan joked.
"No…"
"Why don't you go give it a try now?"
"Ah don't wanna."
"Why not?"
"Ah'm comfortable." She curled closer to him. Logan didn't know what to do, or think for that matter. She was only a kid.
"Do you want me to go listen for you? Keen sense of hearing ya know."
"Not right now."
Logan sighed. She wasn't making this easy.
"These readings are incredible!" Kitty exclaimed. "I've never seen anything like it."
"Who're ya monitoring?" Logan asked.
"Scott and Jean. She put the sensors on earlier so I could monitor their physiological reactions while they were in the Danger Room."
Logan chuckled and contemplated telling Kitty
what was likely causing those physiological changes she was observing. "Uh, what's so interesting?"
"Their brainwaves are totally synched, like usual."
"Their brainwaves are always in synch?"
"Ninety-five percent of the time. They have that permanent mind link."
"Really?"
He hadn't realized it was that extensive. He knew they communicated telepathically sometimes, but not that it was all the time.
"So he's always in her mind, and she's in his?"
"Pretty much. There are only a few things that can block it. Like Stryker's drug that he gave Scott. That's how we found her again. The mind link. It was still kinda there, so we reasoned that she was still alive."
Logan sighed, relieved. Scott had been under the influence of Stryker's drug when he had kissed Jean. "So he only knows what she's thinking in the present?"
"Well, I'm not sure. I think she can transmit memories to him and vice versa. They have shields or something. I don't quite understand it yet."
"Ah. So, like she could show him something instead of say telling him?"
"Yeah. A bit more detailed, I'd assume though. I think you'd get all the feelings and such too."
Logan nodded. Damn this kid was smart. "How are your readings doing?"
"Ooh. They've dropped off. But everything is still synched up like it was. I wasn't watching to see what was happening because I was talking to you. Let me see…" she clicked around and looked at the past data stream. "It rose, and rose and peaked really high, then dropped and…oh!" Kitty hushed up.
She got it, Logan thought. Kitty looked back at the screen guiltily.
"Hey kid, don't feel guilty that they forgot to take the sensors off."
"How did you know?"
"I saw him carrying her up to their room."
"Right before you came in?"
"Yep."
"Then what would explain why the data did the same thing before too?"
"When before?"
"It had just finished a little before you came in. I didn't get it then."
"Oh jeez."
"You think they did it in the Danger Room?"
Logan shook his head. "It would seem that way."
Kitty giggled and got up, gathering her many books and her laptop. "Goodnight Logan."
She left Logan holding Rogue on the couch. She was sound asleep. Logan sighed and turned the TV.
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Scott looked at his sleeping fiancé. He read hair was tousled and her makeup smudged, but he loved her this way. She had fallen asleep right after they made love for the second time, no doubt exhausted from the busiest day she had had since her return. Her show of power in the Danger Room had been nothing short of incredible. Scott snuggled himself closer to her, and Jean stirred.
**I love you**
**Scott, honey, I love you too. But I need to sleep right now…**
**I know. I just want to be close to you**
**Mmmm**
**Jean?**
**Mmm?**
**I have a
question. I don't know why I'm thinking
about it, probably because he passed us in the hall…**
**Logan?**
**Yeah, Logan. When I was captive, did he…did he make a move on you?**
Jean looked at him hesitantly.
He continued. **Cause he told me outside the Professor's office, after it all, you know, that you chose me…**
**He kissed me**
**Oh** Scott tensed.
**Let me show you** Jean pressed her forehead to his and showed him the whole scene. How Logan had kissed her outside the Blackbird. How she had kissed him back at first, but pulled away because she loved Scott too much. "Girls flirt with the dangerous guy, Logan. They marry the good guy." Finally she pulled her head away. Scott didn't say anything, but his min was racing, with confusion, with jealous, with anger…with understanding.
**I'm sorry, Scott** Jean rolled over onto her back.
Scott turned toward her. The anger and jealousy were subsiding. **I love you. No matter what attraction there was with Logan…I love you too much… in ways I can't even describe...**
Jean's eyes were watery, and a tear escaped from her left eye. She began to cry softly.
Scott pulled her close to him. **I didn't even realize how…how strongly I loved you till you were gone**
**I…it was…**
**Shh. Its okay. I'm not mad. I'm glad you showed me**
**You're glad?**
**Jean, honey, you could have just told me, or hell, not even told me at all, but you love and trust me enough to show me. I love you so much. I'll always be here for you**
Scott clutched her tightly and rubbed her back until she fell asleep.
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