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Chapter 26

Raven was beckoned out of sleep in an extremely peaceful manner. Slowly her eyes flickered open to notice that she was staring up at the bedroom ceiling that was currently washed in the filtered rays of early morning sunshine that struggled weakly through the partly drawn curtains. Raven lay in the comfortably warm position, not finding any need to move herself so soon out of sleep. Her head gently turned to the side to watch the window, and then it hit her. This wasn't her bedroom. And memories of last night tumbled upon her like crumbling foundations. Raven whipped her head to stare in the opposite direction to see Scott lay peacefully in slumber. His glasses were still worn, but from the slow rise and fall of his bare chest it was clear he was indeed asleep.

It was also just then that Raven felt a cool breeze blow across her from the opened window behind the pale curtains and she felt the passing air skim across her bare lower legs with a gentle touch. The soft white cotton sheets that made up Scott's double bed were bracingly intertwined around her and Scott's bodies, clumping a thick trail around Raven's thighs and lay so low on Scott that they only just managed to keep his modesty. Raven quickly lifted a hand to her face in inspection and was relieved to find that she was still in the form of Jean. Now would probably be a bad time for Scott to discover he was sleeping besides Raven.

Raven slowly lifted her head off the pillow, intending to find the nightdress and slip away undetected. But as she began to sit up she felt a hand grab her wrist causing her to look round with a gasp. Scott, now awake, was smiling up at her in a sleepy sort of way, "Hope you weren't thinking of leaving."

Instinctively Raven grabbed the twisted bedcovers and pulled them across her front as she stared down at him through messy strands of blazing scarlet. "No," she said quietly as she watched him. She could feel a blush creeping across her face and she bowed her head away from his as the prickly heat flamed her cheeks.

But Scott was still smiling as he lay looking up at her from his pillow. Slowly his hand dropped down from her wrist as he gently took her hand and clasped her fingers within his, "You alright?"

Raven slowly looked down to their embracing hands and gently peered at Scott, "I'm fine," she replied quietly, smiling tenderly, "Although I think I ought to get to my own room before the school gets too active.. I think it might be best if no one sees me leaving your room."

"Why not?"

"Because they might get ideas.."

A gentle chuckle came from Scott; "They'd be getting the right ones then."

Raven could feel herself blushing again and she quickly turned from Scott, keeping the covers purposefully held over her front as she sat on the edge of the bed. She found the nightdress on the floor and leant over to pick it up. The covers were pulled across and Scott laughed as he held on, "I don't think so!" he teased as he grabbed the flailing covers as they began to slip from his hips.

Raven whipped her head round as she stared at him before she laughed and pulled a little harder. Scott determinedly clung on before he shuffled over towards her beneath the covers and snaked an arm around her hips in a hug, "Meet me at breakfast? In the kitchen?" he slowly sat up and gently kissed her shoulder before he rested his chin softly on her bare pale shoulder.

"Alright," said Raven quietly, forgetting entirely that she couldn't do that. She was forgetting that the kisses and cuddles from Scott were for Jean, not Raven. All of last night had been for Jean, and once Raven was back to looking as she usually did she would no long receive the touches from him, nor witness his lustful smile as he watched her with affection eyes. She couldn't help it. She felt so safe as he held her, in arms she wished would hold her since she first met him. She pulled gently from his touch as she leant forth to pick up the nightdress, pulling its silky material over her head and letting it fall to cover her body.

Scott submissively let his arms pull back from her bare flesh as the nightdress tumbled down upon his limbs. She gently stood to her feet, turning to watch him lay in the untidy covers with equally messy hair and a lopsided smile gazing up at her. "See you later, ok?" he leant towards her, beckoning her forth.

Raven smiled as she stooped, caught in his warm arms once more as he kissed her with a amorous passion. As Raven pulled back to make her way to the door, she heard Scott rise to follow her. She quickly looked round and noticed that he had the covers purposefully wrapped around his waist, although a little loosely. Scott shuffled across to her with a grin, meeting her once more in a kiss as she stood by the door. It was clear he didn't want to be apart from her. Raven too yearned to remain with him, but she was beginning to remember who she was and who Scott thought she was and she knew it would be dangerous to stay any longer and risk anyone seeing her. Particularly Jean.

Raven slowly turned to the door, pulling it open a crack as she peered out onto the deserted sunlit corridors. She listened carefully. She couldn't hear anyone. She turned, giving one last smile to Scott who stepped back to let the door open. And suddenly, she had gone, disappearing down the corridor and out of sight.

As the hours wore by and the mansion was stirring, Raven had departed from her bedroom in her usual blue form, dressed and ready for the day ahead. As she descended the great staircases into the main hall, she froze when she heard a familiar voice call.

"Jean!"

From below the threshold under the staircase, arrived Scott, walking towards where Jean was passing in front of the dual staircases' ends. She looked round curiously as Scott joined her, smiling at his arrival. Raven sat down slowly on the steps, watching between the railings of the banister as Scott reached Jean. In greeting, he had slipped his arms around her and pulled her close to him as he kissed her with the same ardour he gave Raven that morning. Jean pulled back quite quickly, looking a little alarmed.

"I thought I'd finish what I started," he said with a teasing smile, "Seeing as you wanted to go and all."

"You didn't start that," said Jean, sounding slightly anxious. Being greeted like that first thing in the morning was enough to make anyone a little breathless.

Scott merely smiled as though her words of concern were a returned genial taunt, "How come you didn't meet me for breakfast?"

"I didn't know you wanted to or else I would have. I've already eaten. I'm sorry, Scott."

"I asked you this morning," said Scott looking a little crestfallen.

But Jean shook her head, "You didn't, this is the first time I've seen you. Maybe you're getting mixed up."

Scott stared at her like she was slightly unstable, "Getting mixed up with what? You were sat there, on the edge of the bed and I asked you and you said you would!"

Jean gave him an equally concerned look before her pager started to beep, "Look, Scott, I have no idea what you're talking about." She said as she read the screen of her pager, "I have to go, apparently one of the students has been taken ill. I'll find you later, alright?" She whisked away from him and disappeared from view with a resounding echo of her heels.

Scott was left stood on the rug of the main entrance looking confused and rather hurt, "Yeah, sure you will, like you met me this morning," he muttered. He turned slowly, then noticing Raven descending the stairs slowly. He glared at her for a moment before he sighed and looked at the way Jean had disappeared.

"Is everything alright?" asked Raven quickly as she reached the main entrance.

"Fine, nothing for you to worry about," sighed Scott quietly before he turned and walked past her, heading in the opposite direction. Raven slowly watched him leave, unable to keep the smile from her lips. But suddenly, a voice echoed across her temples.

"Raven, I would like to see you in my office." It was Professor Xavier.

"But, sir, I have Mathematics class – "

His voice cut across her, "Now."

"Yes sir.."

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