Chapter Four

Theressa retreated to the comfort of her office where she did the grades for the students who had returned to the school. This included Cannonball, Wolfspane, Magma and Tritany who had gladly returned when Theressa sent them news that the school was being reopened. However Andi and Mian were not going to college at the school, they had both decided to take classes at the local community college in Texas but they wouldn't have to leave until July and it was only March, so Theressa still had time with her girls. Once her girls had to leave, Beast, Storm and Xavier would be going with them to the mansion that Theressa inherited from Chris when he passed away.

Theressa had stopped putting the students English grades in and sat back in her chair and thought about what Warren had asked her to do. How could he have asked that of her? Did he not love her enough to try and deal with the pain and not having the ability to fly? Theressa's thoughts were interrupted by Wolverine walking into the office and saying, "I thought I might find you here."

Wolverine walked around the side Theressa was on and sat on the desk, looking at her. Theressa only smiled as she avoided her father's loving gaze. She knew she could never truly hide from him because he knew every place to look for her and even if she descised herself telepathically he'd still be able to find her because of his scenes. Theressa loved Logan with all her heart but all she wanted right now was to be left alone and that's why she had come into her office in the first place. Xavier had appeared once and she had told him that she wanted to be alone, so he left and found someone else to talk to but she couldn't tell her father off like she did Xavier.

Theressa had decided to put in grades when she saw Scott walk by so that she'd have an excuse to be left alone but that would never fly with Wolverine so she was forced to confront someone about her feelings.

"So what have you been up to, Kid?" Logan asked looking at the computer seeing the English grades, which some of them weren't very good.

"Nothing much, just putting in the English grades before the big test next Friday."

"Isn't that Jean's job? After all she is the one teaching English right?" Logan asked knowing Theressa didn't teach any classes except marshal arts and power control 101.

"Yeah but I've told everyone to give me the grades and I'd put them in for them and print out report cards and send them off the parents."

"You're just finding something to keep your mind from worrying about Warren."

"The report cards will be in the mail before Cannonball can try to change his grades again." Theressa said ignoring Wolverine's statement because it was true and by ignoring it she only proved him right but she didn't care.

"Theressa, you're avoiding talking to me again. How's Warren, you did see him right?"

Theresa took a deep breath and finally replied, "Of Course I went to see Warren. He's my husband, Logan! Why wouldn't I go see what was wrong? As of right now he's suicidal."

"Featherhead, willing to take his own life, that doesn't make scenes. Are you sure you heard him right?"

"Dad, he was yelling at me to kill him! How much clearer could you get then that? What, do you think I'd make this up? This is why I stayed out of relationships in the first place."

"What is?"

"This... This whole thing with Angel wanting to die. I killed one husband and I'm never going to do it again!" Theressa cried as she placed her face now wet with tears and showing frustration, in her hands and cried loudly.

Logan jumped off of the desk walked to the door and shut and locked it so that no one else could come in and then he walked over to his daughter and knelt by her side. Pulling her hands away from her face, forcing Theressa to met his gaze he said,

"Listen, kid and listen good cause I'm only going to say this one more time. What happened to Chris ain't your fault and you've got to stop blaming yourself for it and move on! You've got two great kids here, a mansion with students who look up to you and the X-men who are proud of you. What more could you ask for? Yes, Chris is gone but I know you never wanted to kill him and that's what counts the most because you couldn't control yourself or your actions at the time. Now what's happening with Warren now is different than Chris. Warren's in pain, T and he ain't thinkin' strait and if you don't help him he probably won't ever again. He needs help kid and I'm thinkin' you're the only one for the job."

Theressa smiled threw her tear socked face although her scared betrayed her and showed Logan that she was still worried, upset and frustrated.

"Thanks Dad. So you guys got over powered by Renee and Pyro, who then attacked Warren and ripped off his wings?"

"Pretty much except Storm and I were occupied with Avalanche, who may also be under Renee's control, while Michael and Angel fought Renee because I was helping Storm I didn't see everything but I could hear Michael yelling at Renee and Angel. He said that he didn't want to hurt Renee because he still loved her but then Renee telekinetically threw a knife at him. Warren pushed him out of the way but not enough and Michael got hit in the arm. Pyro then came on to the scene, lit his lighter and aimed the fire at Angel's wings, which, of course, caught on fire. Renee, now unguarded and free to move about, tore Warren's wings off and then vanished along with Pyro and Avalanche."

"What do you mean, vanished?" Theressa asked not understanding. The last time she checked Renee didn't have the power of teleportation but she did have the power to control people. Maybe she was controlling another mutant near by.

"I mean vanished into thin air. One minute she and the others were there and the next they were gone!"

"You think she's got a new power?"

"Possibly. Could be her's and it just came out later than her telekinetic powers and hypnotic powers, or…."

"Or she could have killed another mutant for it. I know." Theressa said closing her eyes and held her father's hand.

"Kid, what are you doing?" Logan asked worried that Theressa might get hurt.

"I'm reading Angel's mind." Theressa said exhaling calming herself as she entered the mind of her suicidal husband.

"That ain't a good idea T. He's willing to take his own life!"

"Dad, you said that he needed help. If I'm going to help then I have to do this."

Five minutes past before Theressa let out a scream of fright and pain as she fell out of her chair and on to the blue carpeted floor. Logan quickly put Theressa in his arms and his hands around her face. Her scar was green with worry and grey with pain. As he held her, while she broke the connection, he wondered what she could have seen that had scared her enough to make her fall out of her chair. Finally Theressa's eyes moved and Wolverine breathed a sigh of relief as he helped to her feet, asking, "What'd you see?"

"Apocalypse!"

"What about 'bout him?"

"Avalanche and Pyro work for Apocalypse." Theressa said sitting back in her chair still recovering from the pain she had felt inside Warren's mind. She had tried to stay as long as she could but the pain became too much for her to bear. Now she knew what Warren felt and was determined more than ever to help him get threw it.

"How'd Warren know that?" Wolverine asked puzzled.

"I don't know, dad. I felt the pain he went threw with his wings being torn off before I could find that out." Theressa unlocked the door and opened it with her mind because she didn't like being in rooms with the doors locked. She'd been in one too many cells to even sleep with the door shut and locked.

A moment later as Logan and Theressa were pondering her new found information, Beast came in out of breath and asked, "He's…not…here?"

Logan now stood to his feet and walked over to Beast, whose hands rested on the door frame as he caught his breath finally. While Logan asked,

"Who Hank? Whose not here?"

Theressa stood to her feet hands on her desk as she did a telepathic mind scan of the mansion and found what she had feared, "Warren. He's gone."