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- "Slim?"
- "He passed out, it's nothing" said Hank "It's the tiredness, he hasn't closed an eye more than some hours and hasn't eaten a lot for four days, it ought to happen. I'll carry another bed and place it near of Jean's one" he said by going out of the room.
- "Don't worry Ororo, he's fine" said Logan, feeling that the weather witch was on the edge "Go to rest, I take the relay"
- "Are you sure?"
- "Yes, buzz off"
She stood up, went to lay down the flannel near Jean and briefly squeezed her hand before leaving the room. As soon as Hank came back, Logan carried Scott on the bed, and went to fill up the basin of water for keeping on refreshing the adolescent as Beast was putting Scott on a drip.
- "I gave him a sedative, he'll sleep some hours, it'll do him some good and the IV too"
Logan nodded but said nothing.
Scott was beginning to wake up, he was lying down on a bed, hearing machine beeping all around him. Suddenly, he took conscious of where he was.
- "Jean!" he said by trying to stand up.
Hank came at his side and obliged him to lean back.
- "Easy Scott, she's here, her fever is beginning to lower down"
The adolescent turned his head to the right and see that she was well at reach.
- "What happened?"
- "You've over evaluated your capacities, you passed out yesterday. I gave you a sedative for making you catch up some sleep and I would like you to keep the IV in for some hour in more"
Scott nodded, his head still turned toward Jean. The sweat had disappeared but a machine was still making her breathe and she was still as white as a sheet. He caught her hand and kept it in his. The moment of crisis had passed, but two days later they had to make a decision…
The professors and Scott were gathered around Jean.
- "What'll happen if she doesn't breathe by herself?" asked Ororo.
- "I'd put her back under mechanical ventilation for trying again at the end of the week, but we couldn't let her like it forever…" Hank made understand.
Nobody answered, understanding what he was meaning.
- "Well, I switch off the machine…" he said before doing it and disconnecting the tube which was relied to the intubation.
Her lungs emptied themselves naturally but that was all.
- "Come on Jean, breathe…" begged Scott, one of her hand in his.
The cardiac frequency was slowing more and more dangerously. Each one was encouraging her but it wasn't enough.
- "It was too soon, we can't wait longer" said Hank by preparing himself to replace the tube and switch on back the machine, but that's the moment the adolescent chose to take a breath.
- "Yeah!" exclaimed Logan "Well done Jeannie!"
- "That's great Jean, carry on" said Scott by softly stroking her hand.
Beast waited ten minutes for assuring himself that she was staying stable before extubing her and putting oxygen spectacles on her. He passed his hand through the adolescent's hair to congratulate her, Charles did the same.
- "Now you have to wake up Jean" he said.
- "She's out of danger?" asked Logan.
- "She's no more under mechanical ventilation so, yeah, we can say she's out of danger for the moment" answered Hank.
- "For the moment?" noticed Scott.
- "Relapses are possible, I'll keep her under strong watching for the next 12 hours"
But she didn't relapse. Scott kept on staying at her side as he had done until now, talking to her, falling asleep the head on the edge of her bed, or leaning on the one next to this one, keeping her hand in his. Students were relaying themselves for keeping him company, but in general he preferred to stay alone with her.
The next day, Scott was softly stroking Jean's hair, passing his thumb on a slight scar of her forehead, when the Professor came with Ororo.
- "I will try to bring her back as I have done it before she arrived here" said Charles at once.
Scott nodded and gave him the space as Hank was joining them. The Professor put his hands on Jean's temples and concentrated himself before taking them off some minutes later.
- "Have you found her?" asked the adolescent.
- "Yes I have, but she has not wanted to follow me" he answered "She has created his own universe, where she hasn't been kidnapped and where we are all present, she is well into it. She hasn't rejected me, but I haven't been able to bring her back here by the strong for all that. She knows what is waiting for her if she comes back: fear, feeling of dirtiness, nightmares…"
- "So, she won't come back…" muttered Scott in a breath.
- "The mind has not all the cards, her organism can push her to wake up" argued Hank by laying a hand on his shoulder.
- "I'll try again each day Scott, I promise"
Nine days later, Scott was woken up by a sound which reproduced itself some instants later.
- "Hank!" he called.
He didn't have to explain himself because the sound started again.
- "What's happening?"
- "Her tension is increasing, it's a good sign, it can mean she's on the way of waking up"
- "It can?"
- "Yeah, it happened several times during the week, but you were sleeping and I've preferred no to talk to you about it knowing it could be only the consequences of things she was living in her coma"
But, as Beast was returning to his papers…
- "Jean? Hank, she's waking up!"
Beast came back toward the bed, and saw by himself that Scott was right.
- "Easy, we shouldn't rush her"
- "Jean, that's it, open your eyes" said Scott with softness, her hand in his.
The adolescent seemed to struggle some instants, then she half-opened her eyes. They gave her some time for acclimating herself, into silence. Scott sat on the edge of the bed and, once fully awoken, she kept her eyes into his.
- "Jean, do you know who you are, who we are and what brought you here?" asked Beast.
She seemed to search into her mind then nodded.
- "Good" said Hank before catching his lamp and coming closer to her.
But she backed away and went to curl near Scott.
- "Jean, you've spent two weeks into a coma, with one between life and death, I have to sound you"
But seeing she wouldn't change her mind, he gave the lamp to Scott knowing he was able to do it.
- "Jean, I won't approach you nor touch you, but you have to do what Scott will ask you to, it's the only condition"
The adolescent passed the lamp in front of Jean's eyes, then, as Hank asked him to, made her follow one of his finger.
- "It seems to be good. Is somewhere hurting you?" asked Beast.
Jean showed her head.
- "This is normal, if it doesn't go away I would give you something"
Scott was unconsciously stroking her hair and it was calming her.
….I'm cold… she said through their bond.
- "You're cold? Do you want me to take you into my arms?" Scott asked with softness, dying for doing it.
She nodded and he glided himself into the bed, near her.
- "I'll inform the others" said Hank by leaving the room.
Scott didn't even hear him leave, he was hugging Jean against him and she was hugging him back, tears into her eyes.
- "You scared me so much Jean…When I saw you into the lake, I believed my heart had stopped beating and, when I saw that yours wasn't beating and that you wasn't breathing anymore I thought I would die…" said Scott before laying a long kiss on her forehead "I won't ask you why you've done this, I know it, but I know also that you didn't want to go out of your coma, that you had created an alternative reality where nothing had happened to you…So what have made you come back?"
…You… she answered You had just been kidnapped as I had been…I knew what would happen to you and I couldn't bear it…I knew that in the reality you were fine…so I've made my choice…
- "As I would preferred than all of this happened to me instead of you" he said by kissing her again on the top of her head "I love you and I'm afraid to lose you"
Jean slowly shook her head and comfort him trough their bond.
A little later, Scott had to absent himself and it was obvious that this was panicking Jean. She settled down only at the return of the adolescent. It was logical that her behaviour wouldn't have changed at her wake up, but it seems to be more pronounced.
When she had been knocked out by sedative, the Professor gathered them in the recording room.
- "Hank?"
- "Medically speaking, she's fine, she knows who she is, she hasn't forgotten anything, she doesn't seem do have any sequel, this is a true miracle"
- "But morally?"
- "The problem of the deep traumatism is still there, overall that it came back brutally real at her awaking"
- "Scott, has she told ya why she had done that after such a time?" asked Logan.
- "For the same reasons than as the other times, to escape the suffering. Here, she came out of her coma because in her alternative reality, it's me who was kidnapped"
- "A love gesture…" muttered Ororo.
- "We'll need to find a way to protect her from herself"
- "We cannot prevent her to make her choice, even if it hurts us" said Logan.
- "She won't do it again" declared Scott, cutting the debate.
- "What?"
- "She told me it, and I believe her. She said she had realised that if she killed herself I wouldn't be here and that she would be alone, that she wouldn't bear it. Of course I haven't told her that I couldn't bear it either and that I would rejoin her"
- "There is another thing she seems not to bear anymore: that you go out of her vision" said Hank "Maybe by fear you could be kidnapped…?"
- "Yes, I have noticed it too" approved the Professor "We will have to check it out: when she will wake up, Scott, you will stay here"
- "But…"
- "Only for a few minutes, Hank And Ororo will go to the med-bay and act as before"
Sedatives were not working as it used to anymore. Jean woke up in less than half an hour after they had been administered to her. She opened her eyes only to find Scott wasn't there and began to tense up whenever she heard noises. Even if they were Hank and Ororo, Jean prevented them to advance by telekinesis a lot more than the distance she was authorizing them before.
The Professor, Logan and Scott saw it by the video surveillance.
Scott…
- "There is not only the fear that Scott may be kidnapped" said Logan.
- "Jean, you know we won't hurt you" said Ororo in the infirmary.
Jean's eyes were melting with tears.
Scott….Scott….Scott !...
Into the recording room, the adolescent had shivered.
- "She's calling me"
- "Wait"
Scott ! I beg you Scott…! she called desperately.
- "I can't!" he said by leaving the room for rejoining the Infirmary as fast as he could.
As soon as she saw him coming into the infirmary, Jean calmed a little and the minute he was at her side, she threw herself into his arms
- "I'm sorry, the professors wanted to see at which point you need me, I'm sorry"
…Don't leave me again…
You still have our bond Jean, you knew I wasn't far away
…That's not the same…
To be continued
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