Please, remember that I'm French so I had to translate the whole fic before making correct it (thanks to ET and Double27) and mistakes always goes through.

Thanks for the ones who have reviewed : Aimtbj, Lexan, Slicky and Jeannie Darko!


- "I could not do anything"

Storm clasped her hand to her mouth by letting herself sank on a chair.

- "Oh no…not this…"

- "For cryin'out loud !!" swore Logan.

- "How is she ? Have you informed her yet ?" asked the Professor, dismayed.

- "No, she's still under the effect of the anaesthesia" began Hank before going of by answering at Charles' first question. "Physically, I've done what was needed in order so the miscarriage doesn't provoke an infection, she'll be able to conceive again. Emotionally, we've to wait her to wake up to know it, but it'll be terrible without any doubt"

- "But what happened ?" asked Logan in a voice marked by the sorrow but also by a certain anger against the fate pursuing Jean relentlessly "I believed there were almost no risk after the third month of pregnancy"

- "Yes 'almost'" insisted Hank "Honestly, I don't know what has provoked this miscarriage, I'll carry out some new analysis, but…the foetus was well"

- "Oh my god, he was alive…" realised Ororo by reading Beast's expression.

- "Yes, he has survived some minutes. I've well tried to keep him alive, but at this stage he wasn't viable, even if it was already a baby in miniature" sighed Doctor Mc Coy.

- "You have done all you could Hank, and you know it" made the Professor by sensing his feelings.

Beast nodded and let some instants of silence pass before resuming:

- "Jean's last analysis was good, but we should not underestimate the influence of the emotional in all this…" he explained "These last two weeks, Jean has had some difficult moments and particularly these last days ; but, given this pregnancy had gone normally despite the tragedy of Scott's death, there were every indications that it'd go at its term…Everything went really quickly, I think Jean hasn't even had signs letting foreseeing it because, as a doctor, she could've decode them ; and this even, I guess, if it was a single pregnancy, the first one fathered by two mutants"

A heavy silence settled again, each one of them laying an upset glance on Jean who they could see by the chink of the door, laid on one of the beds, on a drip.

- "She was so much fastened to this baby, he was her support, she was beginning to slowly learn how to live again…" made Storm, tears in her eyes.

- "We know it Ororo, I think we have all felt the deep links she had created with him ; unfortunately, she will have to pass thought a terrible trial again…" declared Charles, as much shaken.

- "It remains to be seen if she's gonna accept it" grumbled Logan.

Behind them, Jean began to become agitated.

- "She's waking up" made Storm.

- "I'll speak to her" purposed Hank.

He left the three mutants where they were and rejoined the bed the young woman was stretched across. In order to give to himself some courage, he deeply sighed before encouraging her to wake up :

- "Jean ? Jean ? Do you hear me ?"

The young woman opened her eyes with difficulty. She saw blurred during some instants before seeing clearly again and needed a while to situate herself, ending by asking in a weakened voice:

- "What's happened…? Why am I here…?"

- "You don't remember ? Of what can you recall?" asked Hank by telling himself that it'd maybe be better if she'd understand it by herself.

Jean frowned slightly, raking obviously up in her recalls.

- "I…I was outside with Rogue and.." Jean cut herself, she had just remembered the pain which had torn her belly…her belly… "The baby !!??" she asked, fear in her eyes, by raising herself suddenly while putting her hands on her abdomen which revealed itself to be more flat than usual.

Hank hadn't had a choice anymore, he had to tell her. He swallowed his saliva and announced as tactful as possible:

- "I'm sorry Jean but…but you've had a miscarriage"

This glance, Beast will never forget it; the feeble light which had achieved to survive until now had just extinguished. It was as if the young woman had just been struck by a car such the news' impact was visible. She had just frozen, stopping almost to breath, under the shock.

- "…No…No…" she murmured, a haggard glance, her hands still pinned on her abdomen.

The scaffolding of life she had laboriously rebuilt had just broken down…no, it wasn't possible, it wasn't possible, she couldn't believe it, she didn't want to believe it, it wasn't possible, it wasn't possible…

Logan, Ororo and Professor Xavier came closer to her, this last one undertook to speak to her :

- "Jean, we want you to know that…"

- "Leave me alone…" she breathed, with determination in the voice, without even going out of the semblance of torpor where she had just fallen.

- "You…" tried Logan.

- "I'VE SAID LEAVE ME ALONE !!" cried out Jean with a sudden violence before making them move back by the strength of her telekinesis and bang the door in the same way, not letting them the time of reacting.

Finding themselves, the four of them, in front of a closed door, the Professor put his hands on his temple in order to try to enter with his protégée, but shook quickly his head.

- "All her mental-shields have been raised up ; she had barricaded herself as much physically than psychically, I absolutely can't access her mind"

R&R please, the more I get, the sooner I'll update.

Sorry Lexan, too soon for an early baby to survive