A/N:Still don't have anything to say except hope you enjoy:)

Chapter 14

Later that morning Theressa woke up to find Wolverine gone from the resting spot. Despite her aches and pains she got up, went to Logan and woke him up.

"Dad, wake up." Theressa said but the man didn't move one bit. "Logan, get up. Scott's gone!" Theressa said again but still the man stayed put.

"Wolverine!" Theressa said trying his code name and sure enough he was wide awake after that.

"Theressa what is it? Are you all right?"

"I'm as fine as I'm going to be but where's Scott?"

"He said something about scouting ahead last night but I thought he'd be back by now. What time is it?"

Theressa looked up at the sky and looked at the sun and then said, "About nine."

"You can tell that by looking up at the sun?" Logan asked surprised that Theressa's new ability.

"My dad, that is my adoptive dad, and I got lost in the woods one time and weren't found for a week or so. He showed me how to keep time using the sun. He said he would later show me how to use the moon too but I got my powers after that and well you know the rest of the story."

Theressa's gaze left Logan's face and searched the ground momentarily but in that moment she found something and picked it up.

"What's that?"

"Scott's com-link! He must have taken it of last night cause it was bugging him. He's not know to take these things off."

"That boy's getting more like me every dad."

"Dad!" Theressa said scolding her father and then saying, "Get Knole up while I got look for Scott and keep your com-link on incase I find something, I want to be able to call you."

Theressa slowly walked away and followed the cliff around a few bends and then she saw thought she head someone calling for help.

"Help!" the voice said and when it reached Theressa's ears it sounded like Scott but Theressa hadn't ever known a time when the Leader of the X-men to call for help unless….

Theressa's thoughts trailed off as she looked down the cliff and saw Scott holding on to the side of the mountain for dead life.

"Scott is that you?"

"No, Theressa, it's a monkey's uncle. Yes it's me! Can you lend me a hand?"

"Okay. Don't go anywhere!" Theressa said as she turned around to look for something to pull Scott up with.

"Just use your powers!" Scott said while Theressa was still looking for a rope or a vine or something. Theressa finally found an old climbers rope that was left behind.

"No, Scott! You of all people know that I can't. I've got a rope and I'll come down and get you." Theressa tied one end of the rope around her waist and the other around a boulder and began to repel.

"Where was the rope?" Scott asked when Theressa was right by his side.

"Behind a boulder. Some climber must have left it here for some reason." Theressa said as she grabbed Scott's arm and he grabbed on to the rope.

"Or maybe the climber fell." Scott said suddenly looking down and not moving.

"Scott, keep moving and don't look down!"

"Believe me Theressa that is easier said than done." Scott said as he continued, slowly, to move up the rope.

Unknown to Theressa and Scott the boulder began to roll slightly, which lowered them a little and when this happened Scott nearly fell to his death but Theressa caught him. She found foot holds in the mountain side and placed her feet on them and Scott began to climb up the rope one more time. Each time he climbed a little bit the bolder moved a little bit more. Until finally Scott managed to pull himself up and the plan was to untie the rope from the bolder and pull Theressa up and the untying worked out just fine up when Theressa was almost all the way up, the rope began to break.

"Scott, tell me what to do! The ropes about to snape!" Theressa cried as her scar turned whit with fear.

"Put your feet on to the mountain side and push out."

"Are you crazy?"

"Theressa, you've got to trust me! Put your feet on to the mountain side and push out when the rope breaks. I won't let you fall, do you trust me?"

"I trust you, Scott." Theressa said as she place her feet on to the mountain side as if she were sitting in a chair and then a second later the rope snapped, Theresa pushed off and when she thought she was going to die, Scott grabbed Theressa's arm and pulled her to safety.

"Told you I wouldn't let you die." Scott said as he helped Theressa to her feet and then she said, "Scott, how is it that you fly the jet over only God knows how many feet in the air and yet your still afraid of heights?"

"In the get I have something solid underneath my feet."

Scott's answer made Theressa laugh but she wished it hadn't because her stomach began to ach again as did her chest. She nearly fell of the mountain side and would have if Scott hadn't caught her.

"You all right?" Scott asked, leading Theressa away from the cliff but before she could answer Wolverine and Knole came running up the road.

"T was that you that screamed?" Wolverine asked.

"Yeah Scott had somehow fallen off the side of the mountain and I went down to rescue him but when he got up her, he had to turn around and save me."

"Where to now?" Knole asked looking at the scene. They were at a dead end.

"The road ends here and it doesn't look like we can climb up since this side of the mountain is flat faced." Wolverine said pointing to left/ He didn't want to say this mission had just lost all hope but what else was left to say?

Before any more words were spoken, the flat faced rock became jagged and able to climb to the top of the mountain.

"Theressa, you didn't……." Scott asked not finishing his sentence

"No, I didn't Scott. I can't do anything like that."

"Do you still have the shield up?" Wolverine asked off topic a little.

"Yeah but I don't know for how much longer. I can feel my grip on my powers slipping slowly."

"Theressa, what did Madam Tulia say about the tests. I mean what did she say we'd be tested on?" Scott asked trying to remember but couldn't.

"She said wisdom, courage and strength."

"Well wisdom was the first test right?" Knole asked, "We were tested on the knowledge of the bible and had to know what verse to use in order to get past."

"We haven't had the second test yet." Wolverine replied and then Scott said, "I think we have Wolverine, only you two weren't here. Early this morning I went to look around and then I fell. Then Theressa came and courageously tried to rescue me and but I had to rescue her as well. Theressa what did you have to do in order for me to save you?"

"Listen to you, not argue, and trust that you'd save me."

"That's it! This was not only the test of courage but trust as well. There's one test left and what if that test is to climb to the very top of the mountain?" Scott concluded and waited for everyone else to say something.

"It's a long way up though." Knole said complaining a little.

"It's the only way we've got." Wolverine said and then moved to pick Theressa up when she stopped him.

"Dad, you can't carry me and climb at the same time. You're not Superman."

"No and I'm glade I'm not, that lunatic wears his drawers on the outside of his pants and so dose that Bat guy in Gotham City."

"Logan you used to do the same thing with that yellow and blue spandex suit of yours, remember?" Scott said bring up forgotten memories, which Wolverine chose to ignore for the moment as he and Knole began to climb and then Theressa and Scott soon followed. Theressa only hoped that they weren't too late when the got the cure.

A/N: Hope it wasn't too long but that was the best i could do. Anyway hope you enjoyed it and I'll have more shortly. I think I've got two or three chapters left in me. :)