Chapter 11

"Trust me doll, this will work!" Jubilee held Marie's head over the sink while she rubbed in some highly potent smelling shampoo. It was apparently the kind they use in salons to strip your hair of every thing unnatural before they dyed it. It was Jubilee's idea in hopes of washing the semi-permanent stuff on her strip's. Marie had been at the school now for just short of two nights, all her time was spent telling her close friends what she had been doing while she had been gone. When it got to the bit of Marie explaining about her hair, Jubilee had jumped out of the room and returned shortly after with the shampoo in her hands. It didn't take much to get Marie to agree to the idea and soon after Jubilee and Kitty was in Marie's room finding towels and dragging her to the bathroom.

Moving out of the way once jubilee had finished, kitty soon took up her placed and with out no warning she splashed a jug full of warm water of Marie's head. "Oops sorry Rogue. Close your eyes babes we don't want any of this nasty stuff getting in your eyes."

"Argh!" Marie yelped as a freezing jug of water splashed over her head. Kitty giggled as she realized how cold the water was, putting more hot water in the jug this time Kitty washed the rest of eh shampoo suds out of Marie's hair. Grabbing a towel and rapping it around Marie's head, Kitty stood back regarding Marie. "I think I did a good job."

"Jubilee busted out laughing at the sour look on Marie's head. Putting a finger in her ear in hoped of getting some of the water out of it Marie looked sombrely at Kitty. "Never go into hairdressing."

Jubilee laughed harder at this and clutched at her stomach while pointing at both of them. Marie began laughing too, soon followed by Kitty. All three of them stumbled into Marie's bedroom and collapsed on the bed. Looking at both of her friends Marie was hit with the guilt of leaving them. Sitting up she turned to them with a small sad smile on her face. "I'm sorry I left you all."

"It doesn't matter Rogue, you needed time on your own. To 'soul search' or whatever it is. We don't blame you for leaving. I was upset that you didn't tell me you was going but im just happy your back with us now Rogue, this is where you belong." Kitty sat up and hugged Marie while speaking; Jubilee remained silent but nodded her head to agree with Kitty.

Returning their hug Marie sniffled a yawn, god she was tired. It had been a very emotion day for her but not too emotional for her powers to act up. "Im sorry guys but im really tired do you mind that I take a nap before dinner?"

"Of course not, we will see you at dinner then. I hope that stuff worked on your hair, it's been weird looking at you with just one hair colour." Jubilee jumped up off the bed and pulled Kitty up with her, going towards the door she turned back and smiled at Marie.

Once both of them had left Marie flopped down on the bed. Crawling to the middle of her bed Marie curled up into a ball. She was scared, Sam and Frankie was both tested for the X gene today and Xavier was going to tell them the results after dinner. Depending on what the results are Marie might be leaving tomorrow with the Kinsley's but Marie wasn't sure if she was ready to leave again so soon. A tear slipped down her cheek followed by a small sob. She didn't realize how much she missed not being here with her friends. Her hold up on Logan had been so much she forgot about the others she cared about. Guilt and angst swept over her body and a great sob emitted from her throat. Tears freely ran down her face, gravity pulling them down towards the pillow she rested on.

She didn't want to leave but she didn't want to stay either. Confusion was added to the emotions running through her body and she felt her grip on her power loosen. She didn't have control of them any more. Climbing under the blanket Marie let it all go in hopes of flushing her body of her emotions. A knock on the door starlet her, gasping out a 'yes' Marie watched the door open and the figure of Logan was behind it, he walked further into the room and Marie could see the look of concern on his.

"What's up Marie? What's wrong? I could hear you from next door. Come kid, hey, come tell what's up." Logan quickly walked to her side and sat on the edge of the bed, his hand found her side and he began to rub slow circles in hopes of bring some comfort to her. He felt something pull inside him watching her feeling so distressed. "Marie can you tell me please."

"I don't want to leave but I cant stay here." Marie chocked out fresh tears working their way out. Marie felt like shit, she couldn't put her finger down on what was making her feel like this. Her head started to hurt and her skin tingled from her power seeping through her body.

Logan felt his heart sour when she said she didn't want to leave it was quickly followed by confusion from the words that followed it. He wanted to hold her, to rock her back and forth while he repeat that it was going to be ok because he was here to protected her now. "Why can't you stay Marie? What's stopping you?"

"I just can't. I can't." Marie's sobbing slowed down abit as she was getting more control over her emotions. Her breathing hitched every couple of breath and her tears stop flowing. Sniffing hard Marie turned to look at Logan. "I don't want to go back to the person I was."

"Gods Marie, im Sorry. This is all my fault." Logan ran his hand through his hair. He turned to look Marie in her eyes. "It hurts so much to see you like this. I want it to be how it uses to be between us, before Jean. I want us to be best mates again. Please stay, we can work through it. You wont go back to the old Marie; I wont go back to the old Logan. Ive changed too."

Marie could hear the pleading in his voice, the sincerity of it made her want it too. "I don't know Logan. I don't know what to do."

"Talk to Charles, he will help you. Talk to him after the results of Sam and Frankie." Logan stood up and walked to the door, looking back he changed his mind and returned to Marie and gave her the best hug he could with a blanket between them. "I will leave you alone now. Get some sleep it will help clear your head. I will wake you for dinner. Sleep tight Marie."

Logan walked out of the room. He turned so he could watch Marie as he closed the door; just before he closed it all the way he heard a whisper from Marie.

"Thank you Logan."

Logan smiled as he closed the door completely.

"I trust you've all had a pleasant meal?" Xavier was in front of his desk again speaking to the Kinsley's also to Marie and Logan. The results were in an A4 brown paper folder he had in his hands. He raised it in the air. "These are the results from Mr McCoy."

"The names Hank, I don't like all that Mr McCoy stuff." Hank walked into the room and smiled warmly at those present in it. Hank was a tall blue haired; this hair covered his whole body in a thick mass. His ears were pointed as were his teeth and his nose was hawked. He resembled what many thought a beast would look like.

"Ah Hank I was just about to read out the results but maybe you would be the better man for the job." Charles outspreaded his hands with the folder in for hank to take it form him.

"Of course Professor but its all straight forward. Sam has got the X gene as had Frankie But Frankie's is still dormant and Sam's is slight dormant. Sam is having busts of where his gene pushes to be active. Which is allowing the gene to be active for a few short seconds. It seems the gene is wanting to be active before his body is ready, that is what intrigues me most." Hank sat on the edge of the desk, as there weren't any other chairs vacant for him. "I did more test and I found that Sam has a very special power of seeing into the short future. Nothing to far ahead and nothing highly detailed, just a few pictures lasting less than a second. From what he has told me about other visions his had, I have managed to pin point that he can only see less than two weeks into the future. But being as he is so young and our powers grow with time, I expect this time line to increase so he will be able to see months, years, decays, if not centuries in to the future. Very useful for those who seek knowledge about our future on earth."

"What about Frankie?" Berty was still abit worried about Hank being the mutant he was. He seemed quite intimidating to Berty. At least Hank knew what he was doing and for that Bert trusted him and plus Marie seemed to trust him too. "What did the test say about her?"

"I couldn't tell what her gift is. Her gene is still quite happy sitting in the background. It is not as advanced as Sam's is but it is still more so than any gene was in a body as young. That also intrigues me." Hank smiled at the young girl who was playing with her brother in the corner. "I do not think that her gene will become active at any time soon nor will Sam's."

"Thank you Hank, is there anything else?" Charles was frowning over what he had been told.

"No that is all Professor." Hank replied.

"Well in that case, Mr Kinsley, Mrs Kinsley you may leave now. Im sure Sam and Frankie will be interested in the ice cream we keep in the kitchen." Xavier spoke louder at the end of his sentence to get the children's attention.

"Ice cream!" They both yelled in union, quickly getting up towards the door. "Come quick mum! I want ice cream"

"Thank you Professor for all your help." Berty said as he and his wife left Xavier's offices after their children.

Smiling Xavier waved goodbye to the family and turned to Hank once the door was closed. "This is very interesting indeed."

"I thought that myself. I began to wonder why Sam's gene had started to activated and I concluded that it might be something to do with his power." Hank moved to the chair and sat down.

"Such as that his mutation had seen something rather important and is acting in…self defence? By activating itself. It's trying to show Sam something." Xavier linked his fingers together as he threw out theories. "Ive never herd of a gene activating itself. It is quite worrying."

"Erm…would you like me to leave Professor?" Rogue spoke up from her seat.

"No Rogue you are perfectly fine listening to this, maybe you have an opinion on the matter also and I see your hair has returned to how it once was as well." Charles smiled at Marie.

"Jubilee helped me with my hair and I don't know sir about Sam, but if his gene is trying to help is there anything you can do to activate it? I mean it would might show Sam why." Marie looked down at the glove-clad hands; she still hadn't regained control yet.

"It is an idea but I would not wish to take away his innocence fro something we are not sure about." Charles looked towards Logan. Logan was watching Marie's hands and shaking his head slightly at the sight of the gloves covering them.

"He would be in more danger if you did that. What if someone was to find out about his power and wish to use the information Sam holds for bad use?" Logan looked up to Xavier catching his eyes. Charles knew who these 'someone' Logan was talk about was. Hydra.

Hydra was the association that created Weapon X, otherwise known as 'wolverine'.

"I realize this, if Sam was to get into the wrong hands, who knows what the consequences would be." Xavier rubbed his temples. "Lets not worry about this tonight. Marie may I have a word with you alone?"

Looking towards Logan Marie saw him nod and answered with a quick "Yes professor."

A/N longest chapter ever! Woo! I told you I had everything sorted now. Ive already started the next chapter. Ive got a ruff estimate of this story being 18/19 chapters long. Please R&R!

Sammis