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Understanding the situation, Logan took off the electric-blanket and was yet striving to execute a cardiac-massage while Hank was preparing the pallets. Bobby and Rogue had moved back to give the adults room. Time seemed to have suspended in the room.

- "Come on Red, don't do it to us, come back !!" implored Wolverine.

- "Beware, move back !" made Hank before executing a first shock.

The pulse rate staggered under the blow, but resumed its imperturbable straight line.

- "Come on Jean !!" cried out Beast by recharging the pallets before executing another shock.

This time, the pulse rate wasn't content to just react to the electric shock, but resumed the pattern of beeps on the screen. Everybody sighed in relief, but Beast didn't seem to share it and kept a sceptical eye on the electrocardiogram.

- "What ?" asked Storm in a quavering voice as Logan was putting the electric-blanket back on Jean.

- "It's too weak, she won't hold on " he made before turning and going search in some drawers "She needs drastic-therapy" he said, coming back with a syringe equipped with an impressive long needle.

- "But what's…?"

Hank didn't let himself be distracted. He came closer to Jean –lowered the blanket– and stuck the needle with strength in her chest and inject the product. The young-woman reacted as if it had received a new electrical-shock and, if she hadn't sank so deeply into unconsciousness, there wasn't any doubt that this would have woken her up. Rapidly, her heart-rhythm quickened and became stable. Rogue turned away as Hank extracted the needle at one go.

- "What…what was this?" Bobby achieved to articulate.

- "Intramyocardial injection of epinephrine; that is to say epinephrine injected directly into the heart ; it's violent but necessary" explained Hank by checking again Jean's pupils "Well. Logan ?, the blood"

- "Oh yes, comin' immediately"

Even the unwavering Wolverine was shaken by the events; having said that he recovered and forced himself to stay concentrated on what he had to do before really thinking that they had just almost lost Jean. Like Hank had thought, she hadn't touched Scott's blood pack and, as soon as Logan had brought back the two asked, Beast prepared them and began the transfusion.

Henceforth less in the urgency, Hank turned himself toward Bobby and Rogue:

- "Kids, I thank you for the help you've provided and for the composure you've showed ; having said that, I'd prefer you to go out now because I'll deal with her wounds and wouldn't want to have to undertake two other people…"

Understanding where he was driving at, the two young mutants agreed to leave the infirmary after having assured Storm that they wouldn't say anything to the others students. Before following Bobby, Rogue pulled out of her pocket the bloodstained picture she had gathered near Jean, at the memorial, and put it near the reach of the young woman.

Once they were out, Hank passed onto the second act of the operations:

- "Well, so here we go" made Beast after having put a tourniquet to limit the bleeding.

He began to undo the right makeshift compressive bandage, which Bobby had placed, and had the good surprise to see that there wasn't too much harm done. After having perfectly cleaned the wound and assured himself of the absence of lesions, he sutured the notch and put on a clean bandage. For the left wrist, that was quite another matter:

- "Oh my stars and garters, she knew what she was doing, she's not a doctor for nothing…" he muttered.

- "What's up ?" asked Logan.

- "She had slashed her wrists so that the blood-flow had been quickened; in any case, we only have to look at her state, if she hadn't arrived here five minutes ago, she would have been dead" he made by referring at the cardiac-arrest.

He proceeded to clean the wounds on the other side before sounding them more attentively. As he was about to suture them, Rogue passed her head in the med-bay doorway:

- "Professor Xavier is on the phone" she said.

- "What ?" made Logan and Ororo.

- "He said he'd felt that something had just happened" précised the mutant "I tell him for the Doctor Grey ?"

- "No, I'll do it" made Storm before casting a glance at Beast "Hank ?"

- "You can go, in any case there's nothing else to do except to wait"

- "But…but she's going to be all right, isn't she ?" she asked with difficulty.

- "We've to wait" repeated Hank "She has lost a lot of blood, her body was already weakened by her recent miscarriage, her tiredness caused by her sleepless nights and her starvation. And above all that, we have she has an hypothermia, not too serious fortunately, even if the cold has, in a way limited, the lose of blood"

Storm was shaken by the news, but left the infirmary to go to the phone. She sighed and took the receiver.

- "Professor?"

- "Ororo, what happened ?" asked Charles in an anxious voice.

- "It's Jean, she…she tried to kill herself" answered Ororo in a sob, the only fact to break the new to the Professor had made her realise its signification suppressed until now.

- "Oh my god…"

Storm recovered herself and gave him some more ample informations:

- "We've found her unconscious at Scott's memorial some fifteen minutes before…she had slashed her wrists…"

- "Oh no…not Jean…How is she ?"

- "Hank did his utmost, we've to wait now…" made Ororo before splitting again "But Professor, she…she's suffered a cardiac-arrest some minutes ago…Hank has had trouble to reanimate her…she was so pale, there was so much blood…" ended Storm, her voice betraying again the tears flowing out on her cheeks.

- "I will come back immediately, I will be here in less than one hour" declared Charles by counting on the incredible performance of the X-Jet.

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