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Jean had tensed up and Scott didn't miss it.

"What is it honey?"

-I… I think those are my parents near the front shop. Well, if I can name them that…- she answered him through their bond as they were watched by one of the two people standing only a few meters from them.

Scott look into the direction she had indicated to him although his glasses didn't show it.. He couldn't confirmed or invalidate it, for he had never seen them given that they had abandoned Jean at the age of ten years old into a psychiatric hospital from where the Professor had pulled her out of one year later, completely traumatized.

The man turned his glance away from that of the young woman. Jean wasn't sure if it was them. She had only a vague remembrance of them and fifteen years had passed. She had been eight years old when she had fallen into a coma and had barely come out of it two years later. And when her powers had manifested, they had abandoned her in an asylum, believing her to be schizophrenic. Having said that, she had sent them a wedding card anyways, so that they would henceforth know her married name. She then saw both of them turning their head when a group of some of the students arrived, accompanied by an elegant woman with long white hair and a strange man.

"Doctor Summer! Doctor Summers! look at what we've bought!" exclaimed one of the students as he showed them a DVD about the evolution of a baby from its conception to its birth. "Miss Munroe bought it for us"

"Easy Jamie, let Jeannie breath" asked Logan.

The young woman had returned her attention from her 'parents' and her 'sister' who had just rejoined them, in order to focus on her students.

"I've had enough to explain to them about why a baby needed 9 whole months for being born whereas we could feel it move as soon as the fourth month" smiled Storm.

/ Great! They'll finally leave me alone/ thought Storm loud enough for Jean to hear.

She briefly laughed and Ororo did the same.

"New baby stuff?" asked Logan by indicating the outfit for new-born still posed on Jean's belly.

She gathered the clothes and stood up, keeping her hand entwined with Scott's as she answered:

"Scott just bought it for me, but the baby's bootee is missing…ah here it is," she said as she showed it by levitating it via by telekinesis after it had fallen on the ground.

For this, she didn't need any concentration and the operation was done so quickly that none passer-by could see anything unless they were staring at the young woman.

"Show it" said Ororo as Jean brought it out for all to see "Oh, it's very cute, you have good tastes Scott" added the weather witch as she smiled at the young man, who had stood up too and had placed himself behind Jean, his arms surrounding her in a protector gesture.

Jean muffles a yawn.

"Tired Redd?" remarked Logan.

"Two hours of shopping with a weight of almost 11 pounds in you're belly, sheltering a baby resting on some awfully painful places, and you'd know for yourself," answered Jean as she smiled at him.

"I don't think I could bear it" he admitted.

The students were occupying themselves and one of them was looking at a little girl eating an ice-cream. This one put out her tongue and he did the same, but his one wasn't of a classical shape, it green and forked like a snake.

"Artie, not here !" ordered Ororo with authority before turning back toward her best friend and her husband "So? did you find everything you needed?"

"Yes, it'll be delivered to the institute this afternoon" said Scott.

A few meters from them, the chief of family didn't have any more doubts, they knew that Jean was working and living in an institute reserved for mutants.

"It's Jean" said the man at his wife and his daughter, as nobody noticed it in the group, but the telepath picked up thoughts without wanting to.

/…Pregnant of another monster, how revolting!…That's my little sister? I would never have recognized her, or her sexy husband…Will she forget us one day?.../ troubled by what she heard, Jean lost control of her telepathy and it wasn't long before hundreds of thoughts began assaulting her instantly /…This store is superb…100 and they call it bargain?...Oh no, the size S doesn't fit me anymore…And if they learned…Look at those two girls…So …And he believes that…No kidding…No…Without that…So…/

The radio diffusing music into the hall had begun to sizzle, the lights seemed to flicker and Jean had just plastered her hands on her temples.

"Jean?" said Scott growing worried, understanding immediately what was happening.

Although he had never seen such a manifestation, Ororo had reported what transpired some months before. He turned his wife toward him and placed his hands on her face:

"Jean, concentrate, focus on my voice…" -focus on my voice Jean, regain the control, you can do it-

The sizzling noises were becoming blurred, the lights stabilized, and the music came back. Nobody had made the rapprochement with Jean, except the Institute's group. The young woman raised up her mental shields and let out a long sigh before pulling her hands off her temples and re-opening her eyes.

"Are you alright Jean?" said Scott with great concern, who had henceforth taken her hands into his and was searching her glance.

"Her telepathy has evolved this past year and so has her telekinesis," said Logan by catching the clothes the young woman had let fall on the ground, "We experienced it before when you were supposedly dead."

"Jean?" insisted Scott, worried by the absence of answers from the young woman who needed to gather her mind.

The telepath came out of her trance and returned his glance:

"I'm fine…Thanks. I just have a headache" she answer answered before saying trough their bond -that's them, I heard their thoughts before everything went crazy-

Scott turned his head toward the three people who hadn't move, subjugated by what had just happened.

The young man tensed himself and took a step forward, wishing to settle old scores:

"No Scott, let them go. It's in the past, I don't considerate them as my family anymore and that since years, they only conceived me…They never loved me" she said to him by catching his glance.

Ororo and Logan were perplexed:

"What's happening?" they asked.

"Nothing, let's go home" said Jean

Scott cast a last glance at the ones who had abandoned his wife fifteen years before, but didn't do anything. He caught the bags and passed his arm around Jean's waist.

/Forgive you? I could never do that. You can't imagine what happens to a child given lethargic by drugs, thrown into an asylum where most of the nurses are male and… she sent to her 'parents' by telepathy, My real family…I have found it at the Xavier's Institute and I'm building one of my own with my husband. I can only hope that you will never ever inflict it to another child because the X-gene can jump a generation…./She also cast them one last glance before going away with the group, leaving them perplexed


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