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- "Jean, what are you doing ? Where are you going ?" Storm stopped her.

As the previous times, the mutant darted her a bad glance again.

- "I do what I want and don't have to justify myself !!"

She went along the stalls until she found one with a horse still saddled. Outside, the snow was partially melted but the horses had been shoed accordingly. Jean was a good rider but this wasn't enough to convince Ororo.

- "I can't let you do this Jean" she declared by putting herself at the stall's exit while her friend was re-girthing the saddle.

- "I don't need your advice!" Jean yelled by detaching the animal before making it go back, it's when she saw the Weather Witch's position "Let me through !!"

The horse held up its neck abruptly at Jean's intonation of voice, the others seemed just as nervous, which wasn't for reassuring Ororo. Seeing she wasn't moving, Jean hustled her and went out of the stable, the bridle in her hand.

- "Jean, that's not wise in your state, you…"

- "Don't tell me what I can and cannot do !!" answered the telepath before getting on the horse again and shouting : "But for crying out loud stop bugging me !!"

- "Jean !!…Oh it's not true !!" raged Storm as her friend has just started her horse off at full gallop.

- "Do you want us to follow her ?" asked Samuel and Roberto who had prudently kept themselves apart.

Storm gave it some though but answered :

- "No, she would resist even more and this could provoke an accident; Moreover, we'd rather you not approach her when she's in this mood"

The two students complied and unsaddled theirs horses while Ororo was going up to the Institute.

- "I've heard shouting, what happened ?" asked Hank.

- "Jean has run away again, she took a horse, I couldn't stop her from doing it""

- "Nobody could've Ororo, she listens to nobody ; the Professor'll locate her and make sure she's not in danger" he purposed "Then, we'll leave her alone until she settles down and we'll fetch her"

- "Fetch who ?" asked Logan by entering in the room, a toothpick in his mouth.

- "Jean, she threw a fit"

- "She's a real time-bomb since her miscarriage…what has she done ?" he grumbled.

- "She's ran off" answered Hank.

- "Where ?"

Storm shrugged.

- "Hey, do you know Doctor Grey has…" began Bobby by entering in the room at his turn.

- "Yes, we know" answered Hank "Well, I'll inform the Professor."

Once he knew, Charles Xavier concentrated to try to locate Jean by telepathy, but wasn't long before he re-opened his eyes and shook his head.

- " No, I can't find her, she's preventing me from doing it ; all her mental-shields are up, I will need Cerebro's help"

The three mutants followed him in the sub-basement and waited until the powerful telepath came out of the circular-room containing the machine.

- "So ?" asked Storm.

- "It hasn't been easy, she has completely cut herself from the world, I have never seen it" he made "her powers have evolved these last months, she has learned how to use them"

- "And…?" Logan got impatient.

- "At almost 2.5 miles from the Institute, she's still moving and seems to be skirting the lake."

- "Well, we'll give her five minutes and we'll go to fetch her" decided Logan.

As they had expected, it hadn't been easy to make the young woman come back and their troubles have not ended…

The next day, Jean disappeared again without having informed anybody and Logan and Hank were looking for her. They went to one of the common-rooms where some students were studying.

- "Bobby, have ya seen Jean ?"

- "Who ? Sharptooth ? No sorry"

- "Rogue ? Jubilee ? Rahne ? " resumed Logan.

- "No, not for hours " answered the young girls.

- "'Sharptooth' ?" asked Hank, being stayed on this appellation.

- "Yes, like the T-Rex in the cartoon 'The Land Before Time', it's the youngest who have nicknamed her" explained Iceman "You know, she begins to scare them ; after having seen what she was able to do unwillingly on the day of professor Summers' death, they don't even dare to imagine what she could do in her actual state"

Logan wasn't surprised at this revelation nor Hank, who asked:

- "Don't think she's aggressive gratuitously, she's suffering, she's gone through so much suffering that she needs to release this pain somehow or other. The tears aren't enough anymore; it remains to her only the anger and as we're in her immediate circle, she naturally lays all the blame on us, but she'll only do it verbally."

- "Yes, we know that" retorted Iceman "It's to the youngest and the new-recruits that you should say that"

- "We'll do it" made Logan "For the moment, we've to find her"

- "Jean has run away again ?" asked Storm who had just arrived in the room, her session being over.

- "Yes, it seems" grumbled Logan " It's to believe she's doin' that to make us mad; she's harder to control than all the Institute' students combined"

- "Anyway, all the cars are in the garage and I've seen Kitty, she's stayed in the stables all the morning and she hasn't seen her too" declared Hank.

- "We've to inform the Professor, only he'll be able to locate her"

It's already done Storm, she's not really far, actually she's in the danger-room, I'm on my way Charles informed them by telepathy.

- "Alone ? But she's crazy !" Logan became indignant as the three of them were leading for the sub-basements.

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