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Once at the Institute, most of the students went away to their bedrooms.
"Did something happen?" asked the Professor by coming toward them "Cerebro detected a strong reading of activity at the mall"
"I lost control of my telepathy again, but it's over. Everything is fine now," answered Jean by muffling her umpteenth yawn, "I'll lay down on the sofa. My back and my legs are in shreds and that's not taking into account my headache" she added.
"Do you want something to eat or maybe some medicine?" asked Scott as he put down the bags.
"Eventually some biscuit and an Efferalgan, thanks" she answered by slowly laying on one of the sofas.
When he came to bring her favourite biscuits, she had fallen asleep. Scott softly kissed her on the temple and covered her with a blanket which was on a chair.
"She saw her parents" he said once back to the kitchen.
"Her parents? Was there a confrontation?"
"Not really, but they projected some rather unpleasant thoughts and she has lost control, that's all" answered the young man.
"Do you think it'll effect her?" asked Storm.
"No, I don't think so. She was just surprised to see them after all this time, but for her, everything is clear now…They gave birth to her, but they aren't her parents" answered Scott.
.The Professor stayed pensive.
"Her powers are evolving in a strange way. She doesn't need to concentrate anymore, she can hold her telekinesis a long time without fatigue, she has begun to rival my telepathy, and there are other things…"
"Like what?" asked Ororo.
"These interferences with the waves that you reported to me, the recurrent dreams which Jean spoke about to me…She is a mutant with a really strong potential. It is possible that it is all coming from her pregnancy, technically she actually harbours a double X-gene."
"But there were other things that happened even when she wasn't pregnant, something in her eyes"
"What are you talking about?" asked Scott.
"When you were presumed dead and after she had just made her miscarriage, she developed a really violent temper. She had destroyed the training room and her glance had briefly changed, it was like…"
"….like flames" said Storm.
"Yeah, I was thinkin' it was only my imagination, but apparently not" answered Logan.
The Professor resumed:
"I will apply mental shields on her mind and keep training her as needed. She is tired and the last thing she needs it is to fear losing control. For the time being, we'll just have to wait and see"
"Yes, the most important matter now is her pregnancy. She has to stay serene and carry it to term," approved Hank, "If you apply mental shields in her mind and as long as the meeting with her parents don't perturb her, it should be fine"
"I hope so…" said Scott hopefully.
Concerning Jean's parents, Scott was right. She didn't speak of her parents again, in fact she didn't even think about it. When she woke up, her headache had gone away, she ate a little and helped with the arrival of the furniture in kit form. Scott paid the price plus a tip and he, Hank, and Logan brought it all up to their apartment
The young couple insisted on assembling all the furniture by themselves. Jean didn't need to stand up for helping her husband. She was now sitting in a rocking-chair that they had bought some time before. For the most part, she was giving the tools to Scott or lifting a side of the furniture by telekinesis.
"So it's true that your powers have grown in the last year and a half, it's strange"
"Hum" mumbled Jean by swallowing a bit of snack "They are evolving by moments, but I control them most of the time and the Professor helps me with that"
"Did he talk to you about placing mental shields into your mind, even if it was just until the end of your pregnancy?"
"Yes he said he'll do it tomorrow"
"Screwdriver" asked Scott
Jean lifted it toward him by sustaining the other side of the baby bed with her telekinesis.
"This has its advantages" he admitted "But I don't want you to tire yourself. We still have a month and a half to assemble the furniture"
"It's not tiring me, don't worry babe"
"Hurry up, we have only one hour left to prepare for everything!" said Ororo toward the students.
Scott and Jean had gone outside for the half an hour walk that the young woman took every day. As the couple stopped at their place during the same lapse of time before coming back, everyone knew how much time was remaining and struggled to work fast.
Today was Jean's birthday (I know, I haven't done it into the other fic, but we cannot think to everything lol). She was turning 26 years old. She was at her 38th week of pregnancy, that is to say at two weeks from the term. Her displacements were hanging heavy on her and she was suffering from insomnia for quite a while now, as it had happened to her by periods like when the foetus wasn't rocked by her mother's move, when she started to pedal when Jean was sleeping, and even if she was only slumbering it was inexorably waking her up.
This morning, Scott had woken her with a long kiss and had offered her flowers and a superb bracelet. At breakfast, happy birthday had been wished and the day calmly melted away for the most part. She was still kept in the dark about the surprise by her husband that her friends and her students had prepared for her.
"HAPPY BIRTHDAY JEAN!" echoed a chorus of voices when they entered into the hall, decorated with balloons and a banderol.
"Oh my god" said Jean as her best friend came up to hug her "I'm telepathic and I hadn't noticed anything!"
"that was the goal Jeannie" answered Hank
"You were lucky. If the baby wasn't preventing me from sleeping better, I'd have been more aware" she smiled
The Professor rolled toward them. Fortunately, his conference was planned for the day after this one, otherwise he and Logan wouldn't have been here. They were scheduled to leave around 9 p.m. so that they would arrive at the hotel by evening so that they were where they needed to be by 7 a.m.
"We told ourselves that this birthday would be especially significant, this being the year of your wedding and of the future birth of your child" he said.
"So, for the presents, ya'll excuse us for havin' to take it easy" grumbled as he took his turn to hug the young woman that he considered as his daughter.
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