A/n: shocker I know to have chap 6 up this quick! Normally I'm crap at updating and now I'm racing forwards, tis quite cool really... anyway I thought I'd better update loads now cuz im going to france in a week (near the pyrenees if anyone cares) for three weeks =P Anyway here y'are, sixth part of Longing. Please r/r From me! Instar PS if anyone can tell me how to get asterisks to appear on the editing page, would be welcome!

Longing Chapter 6

I stared behind me, stopped still in the corridor, and could hear banging on the door. I wondered who'd closed the door, who would have tried to trap me with my parents? But then I realised that the doors would have taken enough time to close, before slamming home just as I ran through.

I heard Bobby yelling my name, and I told him silently that I was alright, and to get away from the door. I knew that something this heavy would require a lot of work, and I wasn't sure I could do it without harming anyone. I stood back and concentrated on the seam between the door and the wall, concentrated on the door sliding out of place and opening up the corridor once more.

It was hard, so hard my head started to hurt, but then the door slid back open, and revealed the others, waiting patiently, and impatiently at the same time.

"Blanche," Bobby sighed warmly, running forwards and wrapping his arms round me warmly. I relaxed into his arms and rested my head on his chest, calming myself and trying to call my strength back together. He ran his fingers through my hair and I held on tight, as Rogue and John stood back, both of them panicked by the betrayal of my parents. "Why didn't you tell us?"

"I thought you'd hate me." He shook his head, saying that they could never hate me, I wasn't them, I was me, Blanche. I'd always be Blanche, the girl with no last name to them. I'd always be the Blanche they knew, not Blanche Treamore, daughter of the scientists Peter and Helena Treamore.

"Uh, guys?" John asked, and we turned to him, drawing apart. "Let's go." We continued on the route that we were following before my parents had walked past, and followed the dark, bleak corridors that ran throughout the dam. We had just reached the stairs when there was an almighty crash, and the whole dam seemed to shake. I crouched down with the others, and Bobby voiced all of our thoughts.

"What the hell was that?" I shook my head, whispering that I didn't know, as we all grouped together, and I looked towards the walls, my mind running along them, and feeling Stryker's panic, feeling the panic of everyone in here who knew what that could mean. I filtered myself into Stryker's mind and saw his trains of thought. I saw the picture of the drip onto his glasses that he was seeing and suddenly realised exactly what was going on.

"Hurry," I murmured, and started running down the stairs with the others in close pursuit as Rogue asked what was going on. "There's a leak in the dam, soon enough the dam wont be able to cope and we wont be able to get out. We have to get out before we drown."

There was a resounding silence, as we turned onto the corridor the children were on, and were suddenly struck down by the searing pain that ran through our skulls and down our spines, through our bodies and splitting us apart. I screamed with Rogue and the yells of the boys couldn't even break through our minds, they were so cut off by the pain.

It was like nothing I had ever felt before, I was in so much pain, it was hard to believe how something could hurt this much. It was worse that getting stuck in someone's mind, and that was one of the most excutiating experiences I had ever been through. I opened my eyes and through the twisted image I had of the world around me I could see the others curled up in the same pain. I followed the source of the pain, and could feel the professor's mind in all of our minds. Cerebro... I couldn't think anymore, and was prepared to give up and let the pain take over.

When it stopped. I was shocked by the lack of pain, and looked up to see Bobby, John and Rogue looking as confused as I felt. None of us could figure out a reason behind the killing pain in our heads, and what had caused it's sudden appearance, and then disappearance. We all stood up shakily, and I turned to Bobby, as he asked what that was.

"Cerebro." I replied simply. Rogue asked what I meant, what about Cerebro, as the other two just asked what I was on about full stop. "The professor has a machine that helps him magnify his telepathy, so he can be connected to anyone, or everyone on the planet. Or certain groups. If he concentrates hard enough on one of these certain groups, then he can kill them."

"But Cerebro's back at the mansion..."

"The soldiers!" John replied, suddenly cottoning on as to the real reason why the soldiers had come to attack the mansion. I nodded and it seemed like everyone was on the same page for the first time in ages.

I reached out and could tell that the dam was going to collapse, and Storm and Kurt had the children. I looked at Rogue and asked whether she could maneuver the jet. She asked why.

"It's too far away, they'll never make it to the jet before the dam collapses. They still havent found the professor and Logan's gone missing. Shall we run back to get it?" Everyone nodded, apart from John, who I noticed was missing. By the time I reached inside his head I already knew where he'd gone. Bobby asked quietly where he was, and I whispered a couple of words in the smallest voice I could manage, not wanting to make it real. "With Magneto."

We started running back up the stairs, and along the corridors, through the maze that would lead us back onto the snow. Eventually we stepped onto the fleaming white snow, and looking up at the dam, knew we had very little time. We ran as fast as we could, trying not to sink in the snow, or get left behind, or get too cold to move. I looked back at the helipad, and noticed somebody sat there. My father was there, writhing in agony. I stopped.

"Why are you doing this to me?" he asked and I shook my head, saying I wasn't doing this, there was nothing I could do about it. "What's happening?"

"Exactly the same thing that was going to happen to us. But Jean'll stop it before it kills you."

We carried on running, and I wished I could look back, look back and help my father, see if I could change his mind. But no, in a way I wished I'd never met them. I wished I'd never had the opportunity to meet them and tell them what I was. Wondering had been better than knowing I was to be rejected.

I nearly collapsed, so exhausted from the running, as we arrived at the jet, but waited til we were inside, where Rogue's gloved hands grabbed ahold of the controls and turned to me and Bobby, asking what to do.

In spite of my aching mind, I went into Jean's mind and went searching for the controls. Eventually I crawled forwards, and pushed forwards one stick, and hit a few buttons, telling Rogue to steer. She did, panicked and as Bobby clung onto a chair, I was flung across the jet, my head hitting the hard walls as the jet went flying towards the ground and the last thing I heard before I passed out were Rogue's screams.

Bobby turned round and saw Blanche lying on the floor, her blonde hair strewn over her face as she lay there, still as the jet ceased to move. Rogue kept clinging to the controls, still shook up, as Bobby ran over to Blanche and lifted her head up, shaking her and asking whether she was okay.

"She'll be okay, she's just tired." Professor Xavier explained, as he appeared on a chair near the front as Storm prised Rogue from the controls. "She's had a hard few days; stuck in my head, moving doors, searching people's minds, nearly being killed, and then your sprint over, before she was knocked unconscious. Just leave her on the chair."

"The jet wont start!" Storm exclaimed, and Jean tried some more buttons, and they all tried manically to re-start the jet.

The next thing they knew, the gangway was slamming back into place, and Jean was walking onto the snow, with no one able to get to her.

a/n: slightly fast moving I know, but my imaginations kinda died since my muse went to spain =( and the weather's crap so theres not much interesting going on here! oh yeah, oooh have just discovered how to change text! lol! Anyway, please r/r! From instar