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Inside, the chief was about to proceed when he was projected back way by a powerful optic blast which almost knocked him out. He didn't have the time to get up when a well-built man was throwing himself on him.
- "Son of a bitch!" he shouted.
The man knew that this mutant would have killed him if the one-eye military hadn't stopped him.
- "Dead he would not be judged Wolverine, we'll take care of him"
Logan retracted his claws, two of them surrounded the man's face the other pointed under his neck.
- "I've a great will to cut your manhood and making ya eat it, ya would make your own pipe asshole! Or maybe and pullin' it inside your fucking ass, in order ya could feel what it is! But where ya'll wallow, ya and your fanatics, ya'll endure what you have made Jean endured to Jean and to all the other, your roommates won't be altar boys, I'll assure myself of that personally"
He punched him one last time and let him in the hands of Fury. The other members of the S.H.I.E.L.D had arrested the others with the help of the X-Men.
Scott had rejoined Jean, still on the ground, bloodstained, nude, surrounded by parts of her clothes.
- "Jean, Jean, it's over" he said, but the adolescent didn't react, she was in a state of shock and wasn't long before she passed out.
Storm asked for a blanket and enveloped her in it before Scott softly took her in his arms.
Once again at the Institute, the adults were waiting anxiously for the verdict, Scott had stayed with Jean.
- "So?"
- "Blows and blows again, she has a broken rib and they had broken her left arm and one of her right finger" said Hank.
- "Did they rape her again?" asked Logan without circumvolution.
- "I don't think so…well, if they have, they used condoms because I haven't found any trace"
- "In my opinion they haven't had the time, and they wouldn't have taken precautions anyways" declared Ororo "Having said that, it was close"
- "But the shock is the same" said Moïra.
- "When will she regain consciousness?" asked the Professor.
- "She has regained consciousness"
- "So soon?" Logan was surprised.
- "Yes, but…well come and see by yourself…" he said.
- "But she'll be afraid" declared Ororo who had came out before the adolescent's waking up.
Hank didn't answer and Jean didn't react at their presence. Scott was near her, stroking her hair.
- "That's justly the contrary which is scaring me" he said by laying a hand on Jean's face.
Normally, she would have panicked, but she didn't move. He laid his hand on her belly, same thing.
- "Catatonique state?" asked Moïra.
- "No, she's conscious" answered Hank by asking Jean "Give me your right hand" and at everyone surprise, she did it.
They went out, leavin g Scott alone with Jean:
- "They reached it…" said the Professor.
- "She's become submissive, she has recorded that all resistance or disobedience were ending by physical suffering, and at the same time she had detached herself from her body" analysed Moira.
- "Will you be able to help her?" asked Hank.
- "I don't know, I've never seen such a case. She was extremely traumatized before today, here, it's possible that she stays in this state…I'll do my possible"
- "Starting everythin' again because of these assholes" said Logan.
Three week melted away, Jean had been placed in her own room again, in order to try to give her more independent again, she was letting them doing anything anyways. Her state hadn't evolved; she was still as much submissive and distant. The bruises had disappeared but she was still wearing splints for her new fractures.
One night, she came into Scott's room, who wasn't reaching to close his eyes, and went to curl herself in his arms, in tears.
- "Jean?"
- "They are watching me…they'll come back…." She said without preamble at the more astonishment of Scott.
- "They had been arrested Jean" he said by running his hand trough her hair.
- "No….not all of them…there are others who think likr them…they will come back…"
- "Jean…"
- "They said the first time that I wouldn't escape from them…and they were right….it had happened again….they will come back…." She said, the tears running through her cheeks.
- "Jean, you're safe here"
- "No, there isn't anywhere which is safe…they're here…they will come back…"
Scott didn't manage to settle her down, he was still under the shock of hearing her speaking easily as if she hadn't spent more than one year dumb. She ended by falling asleep from exhaustion and he did the same.
The day after, Scott laid a kiss on Jean's forehead and, seeing she wasn't reacting, got up and climbed down to the kitchen where the professors were:
- "Jean rejoined me this night, as some months ago" he announced.
- "By herself?" asked Hank, surprised.
- "Of course by herself" answered Scott before adding "She cried and…and she has talked"
- "It's extremely important that she speaks to you again through your bond" declared the Professor Xavier.
Scott shocked his head and answered:
- "It wasn't through our bond Professor, she has really talked to me"
The other looked at him astonished.
- "What has she said?" asked Ororo.
- "She kept on saying that they were watching her, that they would come back. Whatever I could say to her she stayed on it"
- "…That's what I feared, but I didn't think she would express it verbally" declared Moïra.
- "What do you mean?" asked Hank.
- "Paranoia" she contented to answer.
- "She's not paranoiac!" the adolescent defended her.
- "Scott, she expresses fears which are irrational given that her aggressors are dead or in jail, she stays on it whatever you say, she feels watched, that's paranoia"
The Professor, announced:
- "She has wakened up, Scott, go and fetch her, Moïra will sound her"
- "Ok, but maybe she won't say anything else"
- We'll see"
Scott went out of the kitchen and came back ten minutes later with a Jean who seemed worried. He made her sit down on a chair, she curled her knees against her and Moïra came near her as the adolescent was starting to speak again:
- "They are not over with me, they want to hurt me, they'll come back…."
- "Jean" said Moïra.
The adolescent stared at her.
- "It's you! It's because of you! You told them where I was, they…"
- "Jean they knew who you were and where you lived since the first time"
She looked down.
- "They'll come back…"
- "They've been arrested Jean, all of them"
- "No, there are some remaining, they are prowling, they are waiting for the good moment…"
- "You're safe here in the Institute" said Moïra.
- "No, there is nowhere we are in security, they kidnapped you outside of the Institute then inside the park, they'll come here…"
- "No Jean, it's over"
- "How can you say it's over? It was yet 'over' before! but they've come back!" cried Jean before restarting to speak calmly "They are watching me, waiting for the good moment…"
Hank arrived with a sedative.
- "I'll give you a sedative, give me your hand" asked Moïra, hoping she wouldn't, but she did without hesitating "Jean, you don't have to submit yourself with us, we won't hurt you"
- "Don't struggle, they told me, if I struggle they hurt me, I won't struggle anymore otherwise they'll hurt me…we must no…"she didn't finish her sentence, the sedative put her into sleep.
Moira stood up and sighed.
- "I confirm my prognostic, it's paranoia" she declared "But it could be toward all of us, she could accuse all the men to be here for her, but she only accused me because she doesn't know me wellenough"
- "Will you help her?" asked Scott.
- "Of course! There's medication for soothing her, I've worked on them in order they could be efficient on mutants. This will settle her down, but her words will scare the other students…"
- "It's Jean the most important! It's her well-being! the others know what she has endured!" Scott lost is temper.
- "Scott, I understand what you feel, but you have to admit that this can destabilize them"
- "How long this will last?" asked Logan
- "It can be only temporarily, or a lot longer, it's a defense"
- "I don't like seeing her so submissive" said Scott in a calmer voice "It's as if she was considering me as these bastards. If I say or do something which hurt her, she doesn't express it…"
- "This'll end eventually Scott, she's still under the shock"
A month melted away. At the beginning, the other students had been astonished to hear her speaking again, but they had kept their calm even when she kept on repeating the same things again and again in the same room as them. The medics were soothing her, but not completely.
Scott was regularly working with her in the med-bay as the professors were observing them from another room and Moïra was transmitting her instructions with the help of Charles's telepathy for not troubling Jean. But this session was particular…
- "Jean, what I would want, is to know when I'm doing something which is hurting you here" he said by laying his hand where was her heart "You do not have to be submissive to me, I won't hurt you, you don't have to do something if you don't want to" he added, his hands holding hers again.
- "But they… they will know it and they'll punish me, they…." Jean broke down suddenly "They…. they hurt me…they hurt me so bad…"
Scott hugged her.
Ask her what they have done to her transmitted the Professor.
- "What have they done to you after having kidnapped you in the park Jean?"
- "…They… they… they… knocked me out…when I've regained consciousness they were here… they beat me…" she had started to shake "…They… they wanted to start again to hurt me…to soil me…but I was defending myself so…so they've hurt me…they… they told me that as long as I would struggle, they would hurt me" she repeated in tears.
- "What have they done to you?"
- "…One of the guards broke my arm…the pain was awful….I was still defending myself, so they…. they broke some of my fingers…I don't want to suffer like it anymore…I don't want anymore…""
Encourage her to carry on speaking Scott, ask her what they have done to her the first time
- "Jean, the first time they have kidnapped you, what have they done to you?"
- "No…I want to forget…I don't want to remember anymore…but I remember everything…they… they hurt me, they hurt me so bad…"
- "How?"
- "No…no…"
Insist
But answered the adolescent.
You have to Scott
- "Jean, it's important, what have they done to you?"
- "They….they….no…no!…I don't want….I can't!"
Scott coudn't bear it anymore, no matter what the telepath asked.
- "It's ok, it'll be okay sweetie" he comforted her as she was crying against him.
The others came to join him.
- "You shouldn't have stopped Scott" said Moïra.
To be continued
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