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Author's Note: Hey everyone. Just a thanks to my family for supporting me in every way. Thank you. If you haven't read Pinkchick's stories please do. I highly recommend them, they're great. And just a reminder to all those readers. REVIEW!! Please don't forget to do so because I feed off of review! Well, read, review, and ENJOY!!!

Reminder: I know you are all probably confused about the end of chapter two. But don't worry, it's supposed to be that way. You'll understand it later in the story. Just keep reading. Hint: The man with Jean is not Scott.

Chapter Three

Entry seven- "I can't sleep" :

I was laying in the tent trying to shut my eyes for the night. But I just couldn't. Do you know why? Because I could hear John and Bobby having another little argument of theirs. What it is with those two anyways? Kitty once told me that they've always been competitive with each other. But it's been getting worse lately. "Why?" I had asked. Kitty just giggled. She smiled and said, "Because of you silly."

Entry eight- Day "waiting in the X-jet" :

Bobby, John, and I are all in the X-jet at the moment. Can't you hear John playing with that lighter of his? Well, this has been one great adventure so far. Even though we don't get to experience the action inside Stryker's base, we experienced an almost deadly situation when the jet went down. Just sitting here and waiting for everyone to return safely gives me the goose bumps. I'm so worried about them. But I'm going to try and get my mind off of that for right now. Anyways, I can't stop thinking about yesterday. At Bobby's house, I…… we……actually kissed! But as you know that didn't last too long. About five seconds into our second kiss, I started draining his life force. Welcome back to reality Rogue.

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The water arose like a treacherous funnel cloud. A light appeared through the funnel of water and glowed with intensity. The fire swirled around and around and around. It outlined it's center in which it swirled around.

The heat burned and kept burning. It pierced the inside as well as the outside. The water now lifted itself up with rage and swirled around the center.

The light blinded everything in it's path. The fire emanated heat towards the center and flew with wings. It emerged out of the covering and splattered the water back to it's rightful place.

The light gathered itself together and jolted itself into the fire. The fire returned to the center and disappeared from view.

The center was finally revealed. A woman with fiery red hair floated high over the water and let out a loud scream. A scream that echoed in the empty forests and mountains.

A scream of terror that nobody could hear… no one…

"AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!" Scott screamed at the top of his lungs as his eyes were shut tightly behind his sunglasses. He kept screaming with his fists clenched tightly at his sides. The screaming wouldn't stop.

"STOPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPP!!!" Scott shouted and trembled as his eyeballs moved behind his eyelids.

"You can run, but you can't hide," Scott said eerily with a laugh while Jean ran from him as her body trembled with fear. Jean tried to pull him back with her telekinesis but he was too powerful. And she was too weak. Her telepathy didn't help either, so she just kept running.

She looked at the floor that resembled something from Alice in Wonderland. It had black and white checkered tiles on one side, and a swirled red and green floor on the other. She looked at the walls that had pictures of her and a man holding hands. This man did not resemble the one chasing her. She looked so happy with him. But who was he?

Suddenly she felt hands grip her around her waist tightly. "LET GO!" she screamed with fear and panic.

"Funny to think you could get rid of me," Scott said as he laughed with a tone of bad motives in his unusual voice.

She turned around to look at his face helplessly. He had released one hand from his hold around her and was taking his visor off. She suddenly felt burning, red, forceful light around her. She tried to hold it back, but it was too powerful for her.

She suddenly jolted back from the powerful force of the red beams. She started letting out sounds of pain.

"Stop it!!!" Scott screamed loudly as his eyes shot open. "Just stop. Yeah you. I'm talking to you." Scott looked straight ahead and then around the empty room. "Why? Huh? Just why? Huh? Jj-jj-jj-jj-jj-j-j-j-j!!!!"

Scott clutched his heart tightly. He wouldn't let go. It was too painful. His breathes started to get deeper and faster.

"Jjjjjjjjjjj……"

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Rogue opened the refrigerator to look inside for something to eat to keep her occupied. She changed her mind and closed the refrigerator. She looked over to the kitchen counter to find hot and spicy barbeque chips. She took it in for a moment and then changed her mind. Instead, she took off her black glove and opened the freezer to grab a box of ice cream.

She opened the drawer to grab a spoon and then turned around to find Joe right in front of her. Rogue let out a small scream of surprise.

"I'm sorry, didn't mean to scare you," Joe said with a smile that showed off his glittering white teeth. Rogue returned the smile and shrugged it off.

"It's ok," she said as she sat on the stool next to the kitchen counter. "Um… where's Bobby? Ah thought he was with you."

"Oh, he told me to wait in the living room with the other kids while he went to talk to this guy named Wolverine and a woman named Storm about me. You two seem to do that a lot," Joe said.

"We're really sorry. Ah mean, things are just a little weird raght now," Rogue said as she offered ice cream to Joe. He ignored her offer and looked at her closely. Rogue looked over to him weirdly. Then she noticed the glass of water on the table overflowing and saw water all over the kitchen table. She let out a small gasp.

"You just saw my power in action," Joe said as Rogue raced for a rag to clean it up. She stood quiet as she raced to get the water before it reached the floor. Joe just waved his hand to put it back in the cup, leaving a table with little droplets of water on it. Rogue set the rag down and looked over to him.

"Pretty cool power you got there," Rogue said appreciatively.

"Oh it's not that great, really. Not compared to my other power," Joe said with a charming voice.

"Really? What would that be?" Rogue asked with interest.

"I can persuade someone without words. I'm quite the charmer," Joe said as he reached to peck her ungloved hand. She quickly scooted it away. "I'm not going to bite. I promise."

"Well, that's mah gift. Draining someone with the touch of mah skin," Rogue said as she looked away slightly.

"You call that a gift? I call that a curse," Joe said with a small laugh. "Don't you ever wish you could touch someone with your bare hands? Don't you ever wonder what would happen if you didn't have your 'gift'? Don't you ever dream of something better?" Joe asked with curiosity.

"Well, ah guess……" Rogue said hesitantly, feeling pressured to say something more by his stare. Joe didn't say anything further as he reached out his hand for hers.

Rogue looked at it for what seemed like forever. She kept her brown eyes diverted towards his outstretched hand. She placed her black glove unto her hand. Don't you ever wonder? Don't you ever dream? The voice echoed in her head like deadly sirens.

She didn't think once of Bobby or any of the other X-men. For the craving feeling of the removal of her curse allowed her hand to move forward, right into his.

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Logan slashed through the metal slicers with his claws, one by one. He jumped up and kicked the holograms of well trained computerized fighters towards the back wall. Ever since he found out about the danger room he couldn't stop coming here to release his rage and anger. He figured it wasn't better than real combat, but similar. And that was good enough.

While Logan fought off the weapons and the holograms easily, he couldn't stop thinking about Scott's sudden craziness. Not even the professor could help him. He was surprised the professor had told them that he hasn't blasted anything with his power yet. The professor also believed that Scott's mentality right now does not know he possesses special powers.

The professor and Storm are attempting to run some tests on him tomorrow. But now, they are trying to find a way to sedate him somehow. That did not go to well the normal way around. They could just strap him down, but feared his power would come out with anger.

Logan crossed his arms over each other and sheathed his claws back into the space in-between his knuckles. He hadn't worn off much energy today in the danger room because it was fairly easy for him. He had told Kurt to activate it on level five today, when he usually goes up to level eight or nine.

The projections and weapons deactivated and disappeared as Logan looked up to the control room where he saw Kurt fiddling with the controls. He seemed a little nervous. It was only a few days ago that they taught him how to use the controls, and he seemed ok with the idea. But today he looked nervous.

Logan exited the room and went over to the control room to see what was going on. "Unless you're planning on giving another round in the danger room Elf, I suggest you can leave now," Logan said smugly.

"Oh, right," Kurt said nicely as he turned off the controls and shifted uneasily in his position.

"What the hell is wrong with you?" Logan asked as Kurt sighed and looked at him with his yellow eyes.

He bent down to pick up a bouquet of roses. He held them to his chest. Logan raised an eyebrow at him with confusion. "Zey are for Ororo," Kurt said with a smile at the mention of her name.

Logan's expression lightened up a bit as he sighed. "Look Elf, do what you have to," Logan said as he patted him on the back and left the room.

"Thanks for za varming advice Logan," Kurt said as he looked at the roses intently. He realized that he had to do it sooner or later. And it was sooner.

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"AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!" Jean screamed at the top of her lungs as she jolted upright in her sitting position on the comfortable couch.

Suddenly the man walked into the room in a rush. "Are you alright Sweetie?"

Jean rolled her eyes when he said 'Sweetie'. "Yeah. I'm fine. Just a bad dream," she said quickly as he smiled at her and came over with a bottle of champagne and two glass cups in his hands.

"You look beautiful, as usual," he said with a smile as he looked at her in the knee length, tight, strapless, red dress he bought for her. He poured champagne in the glass cups and handed one to her. He raised his cup in the air and said, "To us."

Jean slowly raised it and tapped it lightly with his. She took a sip and set it down on the table. She stared at it for a while with a blank expression.

"Jean," he said turning her face to him with his fingertips on her chin. "We used to love each other so much. We had a wonderful life. Until the flood."

"I don't understand," Jean started. "You were the only person in my life?"

"Just you and I Darling," he said as Jean rubbed her lips together. "You died trying to save me. Somehow, you were brought back to life. With no memory however. It's like being born again."

"This was our home?" she asked as he caressed her face.

"It's everything I can give you," he said looking around at the big house. "When I came back to Alkali Lake to sort my thoughts out, having a little hope of finding you still alive, I brought you back here after finding you unconscious in the lake. Lucky I got there in time."

"Yeah. Lucky," Jean said as she turned to face him. He scooted in closer for a kiss. She backed away a little at first then scooted closer. In seconds, there lips emerged together.

Scott, the back of her mind screamed. Jean knitted her eyebrows and backed away quickly. She shook the confusing thought away and got up from the couch. She sighed and walked away without looking back. "Good night."

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Professor Xavier turned up the volume of the television as Storm, Logan, Kurt, and Bobby entered the room. The speakers boomed with the voice of the seven o'clock news on channel seven.

Everyone watched intently as the president sat at his desk and started speaking.

"My fellow Americans," the president addressed the nation. "I am here today to reassure the nation of the changes in our society. Mutants are merely…"

Suddenly the president was cut off by the sound of a gunshot. Everyone looked at the screen in surprise and sudden shock as the screen went blue with words that read "stand by" on it.

The room echoed with silence except for Kurt's voice repeating, "Mein Gott. Mein Gott."

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