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In a split moment of carelessness Xavier let his guard down accidentally releasing his hold on Rogue's mind. Rogue blinked snapping out of the trans she was in, Xavier turned his back on the group, and Rogue tackled Jean to the ground releasing James from the wall. James didn't hesitate a second, the next thing anyone knew Xavier was slumped forward in his chair and James was standing over him with blood dripping off his claws.
Scott surveyed the situation his eyes growing wide under his visor, "W-why?" He stuttered looking pointedly at James.
"He had you all brainwashed." Rogue said climbing to her feet then offered a hand to Jean who pushed it away and climbed up on her own.
"You lie." She whispered running to the Professor's side and checked his pulse. She choked back a sob as tears rolled down her cheeks. Soon everyone in the mansion had entered the room all staring at the Professor in shock. A forlorn looking Kurt whispering prayers in German ushered the younger students out.
James bowed his head retracting his claws, "I'm sorry." He said softly.
"No!" Scott shouted his hand rising to his glasses, "You did this on purpose!"
Rogue went to go to James' side but was held onto by Jean, "Let me go!" She hissed at the woman.
"I did," James nodded looking to Scott sadly as he picked up the journal that had fallen to the floor, "But he murdered someone and their child first. He kidnapped Rogue-"
"Lies!" Scott shouted pulling his glasses off shooting James through the wall with an optic-blast.
Rogue screamed struggling against Jean and now Bobby, "They're not lies!" She cried as the others ran outside after a retreating James.
"Shh Rogue," Bobby whispered, "He's got you brainwashed, it's okay, you're safe now."
Rogue looked at Bobby with wide terrified eyes, "No…" She breathed shaking her head.
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James' bare feet pounded the ground, slipping on mud, splitting open on jagged rocks, and shooting up pain with every step. He had lost part of his shirt and socks in the blast. His claws, having come unsheathed in the blast, drip with blood. Angry shouts and explosions behind him urge him to run faster. The green journal clutched in his right hand pressed up against his side. It was highly damaged from the heat of Scott's blast and the fall, a page slipped through his hands and flittered to the ground.
A jutting root snagged his foot sending him tumbling into a thicket of thorns. He struggled against them tearing flesh and clothing as he pulled himself free.
'I'm sorry,' He heard Logan say in his mind, 'but I have to go.'
Ducking behind the thicket as Scott ran by, James looked around wildly, 'What do you mean!?' He thought panicked scrambling to the nearby tree, 'Aren't you me?'
'No kid,' The gravely voice of Logan spoke softly, 'I'm not.'
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My eyes water in both pain and fear as I watch the once healing cuts on my skin reopen and bleed. He wasn't me? What the Hell did that mean?
'Your mutation kid,' Logan's voice spoke to me again as if he was sitting next to me. Probably sitting on his haunches, his left hand pressed against the tree keeping him balanced, 'Yer mutation is what led me to ya.'
He had to tell me this now as I was being hunted down, 'What about my mutation? I thought it was-'
I can almost see his head shake, 'It's not. Yer mutation is being able to take on the thoughts and powers of dead mutants.' Tears roll down my cheeks as I shake now completely helpless against the angry mutants after me, ''m sorry kid. But I had ta find out what happened to my family. Please take care o' Marie…'
"Wait!" I find myself shouting out loud not caring if I'm found anymore, "What about Marie? How did Rose possess Marie!?"
"Don't move."
I froze, my whole body tensing as I slowly turn to face Bobby standing over me with one hand pointed towards my head. He scowls angrily, "What did you do to Rogue?" It's no big secret that he's had a crush on her since he arrived, which was before me. I shake my head, "Nothing."
His eyebrows draw together then he turns and whistles to the others, "I found him!"
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