CHAPTER 4
Assemble the Search Parties
"Okay Jean, try and remember. What you saw." Xavier said calmly.
"I cant. I'm sorry professor. It just hurts so much to concentrate on them." She said, putting her hands to her head and massaging her temples.
"Its okay Jean." Scott said, putting a comforting hand on her shoulder.
She was sitting up in a hospital bed in the med lab surrounded by Xavier, Amara, Kurt, Logan and of course Scott.
"No its not Scott!" She said, moving her shoulder away from his hand. "We're the older ones on the team. We're supposed to be the influential ones in the group. The ones who fix things when they're not right. I don't see us fixing things do you Scott? Do you?" She asked frantically, bursting into sobs and burying her head in his chest.
"Shh. Jean calm down. Its okay. Everything is going to be okay." He said soothingly, stroking her hair.
No one else had dared to say anything. Not even Logan.
Jean and Scott had gladly taken on the roles of leaders and older siblings to the other, younger mutants at the institute, so naturally when Kitty and Rogue went missing it wasn't as if they were loosing mere teammates. They were loosing their younger sisters, and no matter how hard they'd tried, they had yet to get either of them back.
The older teens always knew what to say or do when others panicked, but now they didn't know what to do and they couldn't be there to save the day and this scared Jean to tears. Her team was falling apart ever so slowly, and with it, her life.
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"Okay as much as Ah enjoy sittin here." She said sarcastically. "Somebody should really be there when Kitty wakes up so she wont flip out." Rogue said logically, trying to stand up.
She shouldn't have fallen asleep before because the minute she did so, Remy had picked her up again and she was now stuck on his lap once more.
"Oui Remy agree. De fille should have somebody dere fo' her when she wakes." He agreed.
"Ya do?" Rogue asked, a little surprised that she was getting off this easily. 'There has to be some sort of catch' She thought.
"Oui, Pietro watch o'er de fille." Remy said simply.
'And there it is.' She thought bitterly.
"Hey! why me?" Pietro asked, standing from the couch.
"Well Piotr an' John would probably be happy t' do it but we sent Piotr out fo' beer an' John out fo' mo' pizza memba homme?" Remy reminded him.
He grumpily stood and sulked into Remy's room.
"Ah don't think that was a good idea." Rogue said, watching the closed door.
"An' why is dat?" Remy asked innocently.
"Oh just cause of that little detail of them HATIN EACH OTHA!" She yelled bluntly, clearly annoyed with the Cajun.
"Aw chere don' worry." He assured her.
"Don't worry? If Pietro don't drive her mad with his cocky-ass personality she's sure ta drive him nuts with her perky valley girl persona." Rogue commented, still watching the door."
"Afta de beatin she was given, Remy doubts she gonna be feelin perky any time soon." He said solemnly, resting his chin on her head.
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Kitty let out a soft yet audible moan, which was easily heard by the people in the other room because they had both gotten quiet.
She pulled her hand up to her head and rested it there because she was too weak to move it anywhere else for the time being.
She slowly opened her eyes, expecting to find herself being stared at by Kurt or Beast in the med lab.
She felt like she had just dozed off during double sessions with Logan and was now paying for the mistake.
She was a little surprised to find that her guesses were wrong but was too out of it to really notice or react. Though the real surprise was when she saw that Pietro Maximoff was the one staring back at her.
Her eyelids felt so heavy, like two tons of sleeping dust had been carelessly dropped on them.
She tried to focus and keep a clear head but with her vision swimming and her brain not wanting to function correctly for the time being she gave in to the need for sleep and drifted away once more.
Pietro watched her, curiosity arousing. 'She's not that bad.at least when she not talking.' He thought, smirking.
She yawned but remained fast asleep. His heart jumped a little at her movement and he draped the blanket he was sitting on over her.
What could he do? He actually felt a little sorry for her at the moment. Only a little. It was just that she looked so innocent and vulnerable when she was lying there so alone and helpless.
'Hey! Sense when did I grow a conscience for the X-geeks?' He asked himself in his head so as not to wake Kitty. He pushed away the sympathetic felling he was feeling for the sleeping girl at his side.
Pietro breathed out a deep sigh. 'What have I gotten myself into?' He thought, shaking his head.
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"Wait! I remember something." Jean exclaimed causing Scott and the others to look up from what they were doing.
"What is it Jean?" Amara asked hopefully. "What do you remember?"
"Eez it mine swezchter? Did you find her?" Kurt asked anxiously.
"Yes.no.I don't know." Jean stuttered, a little overwhelmed by everyone around her.
"Cool it guys." Scott said, walking over to his girlfriend's side.
Jean gave him a grateful smile and continued.
"I remember Rogue. She was in an apartment. She was okay.well more or less. She didn't look to happy on that guy's lap." Jean said, not thinking about the best way to say it.
Logan's claws went out. "She's what?" He asked, annoyed.
"Vhy doesn't she just use her powers on him?" Kurt asked, confused.
"Um.from the looks of it I don't think she was able to. Her hands were kind of.um.unusable." Jean stated.
"He had her hands pinned down at her side." She explained further at the confusing looks her teammates were giving her.
She could hear a low growl coming from the group and knew that its source had to be Wolverine. Everyone knew he saw Rogue as a daughter figure a lot of the time. Except for Rogue and himself who were apparently oblivious to his feelings.
Though Rogue liked to dress in Goth clothes, hiding her true face with a mask of cosmetic lies and make people think she was tough, Logan knew better. He'd seen right passed the tough Goth girl and saw the fragile flower that was afraid of opening up or getting stepped on.
Two things that Rogue hated feeling was vulnerability and being hurt, emotionally. She'd felt these things many times before.
And this, he knew, was not something she wanted to fight alone. She needed him, and he was ready to do what ever it took to be there for her.
"Calm yourself Logan." Xavier told him.
"Jean was Kitty there?" Amara asked.
"Yes." Jean replied, but got very quiet after that when she remembered how the girl looked when she saw her. She was a total mess. Beaten and bruised badly and the telepath didn't want to share the bad news with the others.
"Jean?" Scott asked when he saw the saddened and horrified look in her eyes.
Jean snapped out of the trance when she heard her name.
"She's.she's hurt. She was sleeping.or knocked out. I-I don't know for sure." The people's eyes widened.
"But she's still alive!" She added hastily, seeing their worried looks as reactions.
"Where was it that you were able to sense them at Jean?" Xavier asked.
"Um.it was uh." She paused for a minute trying to recall any landmarks near where she saw them.
"Down town Bayville." She answered confidently, which was a relief to the others.
"Well that narrows it down but not completely. There's gotta be a hundred apartments on the south side of town alone." Logan said.
"It was near the Pizza Palace." Jean added.
"That'll help." Logan said, thankful that the red head was a very observant girl at times.
"Great. Now all we have to do is knock on all the doors in the apartment buildings and see if they have Rogue and Kitty." Amara said simply, with hope in her tone.
"Ya zat vill go very vell. 'Excuse me but could you please let us inside your home to see if you are holding mine schwezter ond mine friend captive?' Oh ya zat vill go over vell vit ze anti-Mutant neighbors." Kurt said to Amara skeptically.
Amara just rolled her eyes at his sarcasm.
"Okay, Amara take Bobby and Jubilee down to the Pizza Palace and ask around if they'd seen either of them." Scott ordered.
"Kurt you come with me. We'll go check out the apartment buildings." He told his elf friend.
"And I'll go sniff around town on my bike. See if I can get a whiff of either of the girls." Logan said, putting on his helmet and walking out of the room.
"Jean, you can stay here with Beast and I. We could use another telepath right now. The riots outside are getting stronger." Xavier explained.
"And Amara I'm trusting you with this assignment. Take along Bobby and Jubilee. The others aren't quite ready for this yet. Bobby has been on a mission with us before. And we need to have some people here at the institute just incase." Xavier added to the younger girl.
"Me? I mean are you sure? I don't know if I'm ready." Amara said nervously.
"The only way to find out is to go ahead and try." Scott said, hoping that he'd made the right decision.
He was fairly confident he had. It was Amara that wasn't sure of herself. She seemed to have a lot of self-confidence problems.
"Alright guys, let's go get our teammates back." Scott said confidently, grabbing onto Kurt's shoulder as they ported out with a BAMF!
"I sure hope he knows what he's getting into." Jean said to Xavier.
"I just hope we can get out of what ever it is he's getting into." Amara said, walking out of the room to go find Bobby and Jubilee.
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How'd ya'll like this chapter?
I don't need any ideas right now because I am not experiencing any form of writers block but I would like to know how you liked it and if I should continue.
Not a lot of Romyness I know. Actually there wasn't Romyness at all was there? Okay but see that's why I'm going to update again for the second time this week in like two days or something.
Gah! Did u guyz see the newest X-evo ep? Great Oogly Moogly! Why only once a week do they show it? Why? ~Sob~
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Assemble the Search Parties
"Okay Jean, try and remember. What you saw." Xavier said calmly.
"I cant. I'm sorry professor. It just hurts so much to concentrate on them." She said, putting her hands to her head and massaging her temples.
"Its okay Jean." Scott said, putting a comforting hand on her shoulder.
She was sitting up in a hospital bed in the med lab surrounded by Xavier, Amara, Kurt, Logan and of course Scott.
"No its not Scott!" She said, moving her shoulder away from his hand. "We're the older ones on the team. We're supposed to be the influential ones in the group. The ones who fix things when they're not right. I don't see us fixing things do you Scott? Do you?" She asked frantically, bursting into sobs and burying her head in his chest.
"Shh. Jean calm down. Its okay. Everything is going to be okay." He said soothingly, stroking her hair.
No one else had dared to say anything. Not even Logan.
Jean and Scott had gladly taken on the roles of leaders and older siblings to the other, younger mutants at the institute, so naturally when Kitty and Rogue went missing it wasn't as if they were loosing mere teammates. They were loosing their younger sisters, and no matter how hard they'd tried, they had yet to get either of them back.
The older teens always knew what to say or do when others panicked, but now they didn't know what to do and they couldn't be there to save the day and this scared Jean to tears. Her team was falling apart ever so slowly, and with it, her life.
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"Okay as much as Ah enjoy sittin here." She said sarcastically. "Somebody should really be there when Kitty wakes up so she wont flip out." Rogue said logically, trying to stand up.
She shouldn't have fallen asleep before because the minute she did so, Remy had picked her up again and she was now stuck on his lap once more.
"Oui Remy agree. De fille should have somebody dere fo' her when she wakes." He agreed.
"Ya do?" Rogue asked, a little surprised that she was getting off this easily. 'There has to be some sort of catch' She thought.
"Oui, Pietro watch o'er de fille." Remy said simply.
'And there it is.' She thought bitterly.
"Hey! why me?" Pietro asked, standing from the couch.
"Well Piotr an' John would probably be happy t' do it but we sent Piotr out fo' beer an' John out fo' mo' pizza memba homme?" Remy reminded him.
He grumpily stood and sulked into Remy's room.
"Ah don't think that was a good idea." Rogue said, watching the closed door.
"An' why is dat?" Remy asked innocently.
"Oh just cause of that little detail of them HATIN EACH OTHA!" She yelled bluntly, clearly annoyed with the Cajun.
"Aw chere don' worry." He assured her.
"Don't worry? If Pietro don't drive her mad with his cocky-ass personality she's sure ta drive him nuts with her perky valley girl persona." Rogue commented, still watching the door."
"Afta de beatin she was given, Remy doubts she gonna be feelin perky any time soon." He said solemnly, resting his chin on her head.
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Kitty let out a soft yet audible moan, which was easily heard by the people in the other room because they had both gotten quiet.
She pulled her hand up to her head and rested it there because she was too weak to move it anywhere else for the time being.
She slowly opened her eyes, expecting to find herself being stared at by Kurt or Beast in the med lab.
She felt like she had just dozed off during double sessions with Logan and was now paying for the mistake.
She was a little surprised to find that her guesses were wrong but was too out of it to really notice or react. Though the real surprise was when she saw that Pietro Maximoff was the one staring back at her.
Her eyelids felt so heavy, like two tons of sleeping dust had been carelessly dropped on them.
She tried to focus and keep a clear head but with her vision swimming and her brain not wanting to function correctly for the time being she gave in to the need for sleep and drifted away once more.
Pietro watched her, curiosity arousing. 'She's not that bad.at least when she not talking.' He thought, smirking.
She yawned but remained fast asleep. His heart jumped a little at her movement and he draped the blanket he was sitting on over her.
What could he do? He actually felt a little sorry for her at the moment. Only a little. It was just that she looked so innocent and vulnerable when she was lying there so alone and helpless.
'Hey! Sense when did I grow a conscience for the X-geeks?' He asked himself in his head so as not to wake Kitty. He pushed away the sympathetic felling he was feeling for the sleeping girl at his side.
Pietro breathed out a deep sigh. 'What have I gotten myself into?' He thought, shaking his head.
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"Wait! I remember something." Jean exclaimed causing Scott and the others to look up from what they were doing.
"What is it Jean?" Amara asked hopefully. "What do you remember?"
"Eez it mine swezchter? Did you find her?" Kurt asked anxiously.
"Yes.no.I don't know." Jean stuttered, a little overwhelmed by everyone around her.
"Cool it guys." Scott said, walking over to his girlfriend's side.
Jean gave him a grateful smile and continued.
"I remember Rogue. She was in an apartment. She was okay.well more or less. She didn't look to happy on that guy's lap." Jean said, not thinking about the best way to say it.
Logan's claws went out. "She's what?" He asked, annoyed.
"Vhy doesn't she just use her powers on him?" Kurt asked, confused.
"Um.from the looks of it I don't think she was able to. Her hands were kind of.um.unusable." Jean stated.
"He had her hands pinned down at her side." She explained further at the confusing looks her teammates were giving her.
She could hear a low growl coming from the group and knew that its source had to be Wolverine. Everyone knew he saw Rogue as a daughter figure a lot of the time. Except for Rogue and himself who were apparently oblivious to his feelings.
Though Rogue liked to dress in Goth clothes, hiding her true face with a mask of cosmetic lies and make people think she was tough, Logan knew better. He'd seen right passed the tough Goth girl and saw the fragile flower that was afraid of opening up or getting stepped on.
Two things that Rogue hated feeling was vulnerability and being hurt, emotionally. She'd felt these things many times before.
And this, he knew, was not something she wanted to fight alone. She needed him, and he was ready to do what ever it took to be there for her.
"Calm yourself Logan." Xavier told him.
"Jean was Kitty there?" Amara asked.
"Yes." Jean replied, but got very quiet after that when she remembered how the girl looked when she saw her. She was a total mess. Beaten and bruised badly and the telepath didn't want to share the bad news with the others.
"Jean?" Scott asked when he saw the saddened and horrified look in her eyes.
Jean snapped out of the trance when she heard her name.
"She's.she's hurt. She was sleeping.or knocked out. I-I don't know for sure." The people's eyes widened.
"But she's still alive!" She added hastily, seeing their worried looks as reactions.
"Where was it that you were able to sense them at Jean?" Xavier asked.
"Um.it was uh." She paused for a minute trying to recall any landmarks near where she saw them.
"Down town Bayville." She answered confidently, which was a relief to the others.
"Well that narrows it down but not completely. There's gotta be a hundred apartments on the south side of town alone." Logan said.
"It was near the Pizza Palace." Jean added.
"That'll help." Logan said, thankful that the red head was a very observant girl at times.
"Great. Now all we have to do is knock on all the doors in the apartment buildings and see if they have Rogue and Kitty." Amara said simply, with hope in her tone.
"Ya zat vill go very vell. 'Excuse me but could you please let us inside your home to see if you are holding mine schwezter ond mine friend captive?' Oh ya zat vill go over vell vit ze anti-Mutant neighbors." Kurt said to Amara skeptically.
Amara just rolled her eyes at his sarcasm.
"Okay, Amara take Bobby and Jubilee down to the Pizza Palace and ask around if they'd seen either of them." Scott ordered.
"Kurt you come with me. We'll go check out the apartment buildings." He told his elf friend.
"And I'll go sniff around town on my bike. See if I can get a whiff of either of the girls." Logan said, putting on his helmet and walking out of the room.
"Jean, you can stay here with Beast and I. We could use another telepath right now. The riots outside are getting stronger." Xavier explained.
"And Amara I'm trusting you with this assignment. Take along Bobby and Jubilee. The others aren't quite ready for this yet. Bobby has been on a mission with us before. And we need to have some people here at the institute just incase." Xavier added to the younger girl.
"Me? I mean are you sure? I don't know if I'm ready." Amara said nervously.
"The only way to find out is to go ahead and try." Scott said, hoping that he'd made the right decision.
He was fairly confident he had. It was Amara that wasn't sure of herself. She seemed to have a lot of self-confidence problems.
"Alright guys, let's go get our teammates back." Scott said confidently, grabbing onto Kurt's shoulder as they ported out with a BAMF!
"I sure hope he knows what he's getting into." Jean said to Xavier.
"I just hope we can get out of what ever it is he's getting into." Amara said, walking out of the room to go find Bobby and Jubilee.
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How'd ya'll like this chapter?
I don't need any ideas right now because I am not experiencing any form of writers block but I would like to know how you liked it and if I should continue.
Not a lot of Romyness I know. Actually there wasn't Romyness at all was there? Okay but see that's why I'm going to update again for the second time this week in like two days or something.
Gah! Did u guyz see the newest X-evo ep? Great Oogly Moogly! Why only once a week do they show it? Why? ~Sob~
Review now please!