A/N: Thanks for R&R!!! Uhm, and sorry for the broken neck, I think I really mean another thing, but, you know, I'm so ignorant, well the truth , I really mean it "injured" (you know, you injury yours and you get a really weird thing and that's all). sorry again!!!

***************************** "What?" said Kitty, coming out from a wall. "In a coma? You have to be joking!!!!"

"Unfortunately I'm not kidding" said the professor, very sad.

"Vat is not a joke?" said Kurt, teleporting in front of Kitty. "Vhy are you so speechless, Jean? Vats vrong professeer?

Tears began to fall down on Jean's cheek. She covered her face and ran to the infirmary, but Logan stopped her, holding her arm.

"He is too injured, Jean, he could die with a simple touch, he is hardly breathing with a machine helping him" said Ororo.

"Sorry, Redd, none of us wanted the one-eyed kid in that condition" said Logan.

"Logan, this is not time to be kidding" said the professor.

"Vat? Scott got in a coma?" said Kurt.

"Yes. He will die soon" said Logan.

"That is right. Only something really miraculous would save him" said Ororo.

"Scott..." said Jean crying.

"Jean, please calm down. You can enter there and be with him if you promise not to touch him, well, not too hard, only his face and his hands, please" said the professor "and be careful, we detected a hole on his stomach"

Jean nodded and enter in the room.

"Vat a bout us? Ve are his friends too!!!" said Kurt, getting upset.

"Yeah!!!" said Kitty.

"What are ya' talkin' 'bout? Said Rogue, coming from her and Kitty's room "How is Scott?"

"He is in a coma, and the professer won't let us pass and see him" said Kurt.

"A coma?" said Evan, not too sad about the question.

"Nah, he will wake up, ah now him" said Rogue.

"There are 99% of possibilities versus him" said Logan.

"What? 99? That lets Scott without a lot of opportunities!!!" said Evan.

All the team stayed in silence for a while. Back in the infirmary, Jean was holding Scott's hand and crying on it. Tears rolled on his arm, and landed on his bed.

"You... you can't leave us, Scott, you can't" said Jean "wake up, come on"

Scott was hardly breathing, like Ororo said, and he was very injured.

"Please" added Jean.

An hour later, Jean fall asleep on Scott's big pillow, next to him. The professor noticed that Scott's pulse got better after Jean entered the room. He smiled and went to rest to his own room. It had been a long and bad day. But he someway (maybe because he was a telepath) knew that all the team would pass though this.

The next day, Jean woke up exactly where she felt asleep the past day. She looked at Scott. He looked a lot better.

"You are better, aren't you?" Jean whispered to Scott's ear "I'm coming later, I'm taking a bath"

Jean kissed Scott's pale cheek and went out the room. When she was on her way to the bathroom, she saw a shadow an the window. When she looked there again, the shadow was gone.

"I must be imagining things" Jean told herself, when Logan appeared.

"Redd, go with Scott immediately, you have to protect him, Mystic has escaped from her cage" said Logan "and the professor sensed another 2 mutants' presences"

"What? Who's presences?" said Jean.

"Sabertooth's and... Magneto's" said Logan.

"Isn't Magneto supposed to be death?" said Jean, her anger growing.

"Yeah, but, he is too smart" said Logan "now go with Scott, any weird thing, contact me, I'm going to look for them with my nose"

Jean ran to the infirmary. Luckily, Scott was there, lying on the bed, not in a different position.

"You are so lucky" said Jean.

Suddenly, she saw the same shadow that she saw when she was on the way to the bathroom.

"He was..." said a known voice behind her.

"Leave him alone" said Jean, forming a telekinetic shield to protect Scott and herself.

Suddenly, the wall broke and Magneto and Sabertooth entered the room.

"If the fool doesn't want to be on my side, he isn't going to be in yours" said Magneto.

Jean called Logan telepathically.

"You won't be able to hold that shield for a long time" said Mystic.

"It isn't going to be necessary, the X-men will protect Scott with their lives if it is necessary" said Jean.

"They are going to be busy" said Magneto. Then all the Acolytes and the brotherhood walked into the room.

"We are in problems, Scott" said Jean.

The Acolytes and the brotherhood started attacking Jean and Scott, but it was useless. Then the X-men arrived, and started fighting them. Gambit stopped attacking and went with Rogue.

"Hi cherry" Gambit told Rogue.

"Ah'm sorry, but ah need to help mah friends" said Rogue, and left Gambit alone.

"Gambit is very unlucky" said Gambit to himself, staying out of the battle, thinking about Rogue.

Meanwhile in the battle, Kurt and Bobby were fighting Lance, Kitty and Jubilee were fighting the Blob, Berzerker was fighting Toad, Evan and Multiple were fighting Pietro, Rogue and Wolf started fighting Magneto. Storm was fighting Mystic, and Logan was fighting Pyro and Sabertooth. Colossus was there, trying to force the shield to open, but Amara and Cannonball faced him. Xavier was helping Jean telepathically.

Approximately half an hour later, the battle continued, this time with less people on it. Kurt, Bobby, Lance, Jubilee, the Blob, Toad, Berzerker, Evan, Multiple, Wolfbane, Mystic, Pyro, Pietro, Amara, Kitty and Cannonball had fainted during the battle. Only Colossus, Magneto, Sabertooth, Logan, Storm, Xavier, Rogue and Jean have stay on their feet. Logan started fighting Colossus and Storm fought Sabertooth, and Rogue was fighting Magneto.

"Professor, I don't think I will be able to hold it much more" said Jean.

"Come en, Jean, you can do this, you won't let the person that knows you better than anyone ever has or ever will die, will you?" said the professor in response.

"I. I. " started Jean, but suddenly Scott started moving a lot.

"He is waking up" said the professor surprised and happy. Then in a blink, Storm, Sabertooth and Rogue fainted. The shield disappeared. Scott was vulnerable. But, Magneto, instead of going for Scott, went for Charles and hit him on his head, and he fainted. Now he went for Jean, who was almost fainting. He tied Jean with a piece of metal and was going to hit her with another metal. Jean closed her eyes waiting for the metal to hit her, but nothing. When she opened her eyes, he saw Magneto torturing Logan, who had stopped the metal that was going to hit her. She saw colossus lying there. At least Scott was fine. Then Logan fainted from the pain.

"Now, my dear, returning to our talk," Magneto said, and took the metal again. She closed her eyes again and murmured a phrase.

"Sorry, Scott, I. I loved you" whispered Jean. Suddenly a known noise sounded. Scott's optic blasts. She opened her eyes, and saw Magneto fainting and Scott collapsing to the floor. She wasn't able to catch him before he hit the floor.

"Scott" said Jean, cheerful about having him okay (well, not okay) but alive in front of her eyes. With his last effort, he hardly stood up and blasted the metal that was wrapped on Jean's body, and collapsed again. Jean hugged him once and again, cuddling his body with hers.

"What...what you said, was true?" said Scott, very tired.

"Yeah, it IS true, I love you so much" said Jean, kissing him on the cheek "how do you feel about me?" she added, afraid that the answer would be 'just friends'.

"I feel the same way" said Scott, touching her red hair "or even stronger"

"I doubt you love me more than I love you" said Jean, resting her cheek on his head.

"Well, I have to leave you" said Jean a while later, putting Scott on his bed with her TK.

"See you, and thanks" said Scott.

Jean went to the destroyed infirmary and putted all the Acolytes and the Brotherhood on the outsides of the Institute. This was very hard for Jean, because she was tired. Then, with the last bit of strength that she had, she putted each X-men on each one's rooms. She went to her room, but then suddenly she stopped to think. She turned and headed instead to Scott's room. He was asleep. She lied next to him, and hugged him before she felt asleep.

***************************** To be continued...