Chapter 6

Title: Shadow's are darker when you can't see them

Author: Revelation
E-Mail: NC-15 for now, to be on the safe side, will involve violence and sex later on

Song inspiration: Papa Roach- Scars

Telepathic communications.
Thought's

The light crept in through the drapes, Jade cringed becoming fully awake faster than she would of liked to, her head was thumping, Jade stomach lurched into her throat, she scrambled from the bed getting her legs caught in the covers and ended up with a mouthful of carpet, she pulled herself up and just made it to the bathroom before being ill, she couldn't remember the last time she felt so bad, rubbing her eyes she curled up on the floor, enjoying the fact it was cold against her forehead.

"Kill me now.." She muttered just before she needed to put her face near the bowl. She must of drunk herself blind last night to have this reaction, that and a large amount of pills, shakily Jade walked out of the bathroom and over to the draw opening the pill box and counted them, putting it into context. She was missing eight, that would explain the headache, Jade staggered back to the bathroom and into the shower, it washed away from of the pain, it didn't wash away the dirty feeling she had, Jade grabbed her loafer and scrubbed every inch of herself until it hurt and in some places bled, it didn't help she still felt dirty. She watched the skin heal, angry tears mixed with the water as she cleaned herself again and again and again until the blood was staining the tiles of the shower, Jade collapsed down in the shower.

"Why did he touch me, I was a good girl, why did he have to touch me?" she sat there weeping eventually the water ran clear again and she climbed out, getting dressed she pulled on her large baggy army jumper, the one her mum had given her when they needed to go out before Jade had learnt to control her powers enough to hide her wings, the light still hurt so sunglasses came out as well, she didn't want to go to breakfast, the fact her stomach hadn't settled also made it a vile suggestion, Jade walked around the bed, she noticed her bag, picking it up Jade took it over to the cupboard and continued to put her clothes in it, she had to leave, they'd come, they'd promised they would, it wasn't safe here.

"Not fair on them.." she muttered, making sure she didn't start crying, she was doing everyone a favour. Sneak out, they'd never know.

He wanted to knock when they'd walked past, but Sean had made sure he was between him and Luke as they walked past, there was no way to just duck and check, she if she'd come home. Walking down the stairs he wasn't listening to Luke and Sean argue about the answer of the finance classes homework, it wasn't until Carter and his buddy Henry dashed down the stairs gossiping that Jarred paid attention to the world around him.

"Yeah I'm not kidding! Even he was in the special glasses he sleeps in!"

"How do you know That Mr Summer's got ones he sleeps in.."

"Cos he was up last night! One of the seniors was having a fight with Logan, woke half the mansion, Mr Summers was in the hall I SAW HIM even ask Tim, he was there too and so was Lisa!" Jarred put his arms out in front of Sean and Luke stopping them suddenly on the stairs.

"Did any of you hear a fight in the hall last night."

"Nah.." Sean shook his head, Luke did too, Jarred clicked over, Carter was telepathic, so was Tim, and Lisa had empathic gifts, he turned and bolted up the stairs. "Where you going?"

"She's home.." He yelled not looking back, "Save us seats.." the pair kept moving.

"I thought he was meant to be the sensible one…" Luke said and they kept walking.

Jarred didn't knocked he just barged through the door, looking at the bed, she'd slept in it.

"Do you always make a point of having an entrance." Jade shut the doors of her cupboard, her checks were flushed but that was the only colour on her face,

"I didn't frighten you did I?" he had, she'd had to throw her bag into the cupboard before he'd see it but that had been an after thought, she'd thought it was..them.

"No, you gave me a shock normally people don't just run in here.." She pushed the fallen sunglasses back up the bridge of her nose.

"Unwelcome intrusion?" Jarred joked, he wanted to keep it light, not to bring up the question that pushed its way into his skull, why.

"I have a headache.."

"Then you'd better eat, breakfast is on." Jarred walked over to the door and held it open.

"The others are waiting." Jade didn't want to move, the chances were the smell of food would make her ill again, let alone the overwhelming need to leave as soon as possible, Jarred wouldn't understand, he believed in all for one, one for all, this was a numbers game, the less people she was around when they found her, less would get hurt.

"They have coffee." She moved.

When he came out of Xavier office Logan hadn't been pleased, the fact he had to tell Xavier a straight out lie about how and where he'd found Jade, simply saying on his way back he'd seen her walking down the highway, Logan was thankful that Xavier respected peoples mental privacy enough not to even consider reading his thoughts to find out what really happened. Xavier had also ask if he knew anything about Jade's mental distress, Logan had had to confess ignorance, he was waiting for the next question, why had he been anywhere near Jade's room to sense the distress, shutting the door Logan wasn't sure if Xavier was as unaware of the situation as he seemed, turning around Logan spotted Jean, she gave him a small wave as she went into her class room, Logan smiled but didn't wave back.

"Logan.." the smile dropped to a scowl.

"What do you want Summers?" Logan pulled a cigar out and lit up before turning around to be faced with Cyclops, lucky they were at a sensible distance.

"Jade sh.."

"Back off Slim." Logan blew a cloud of smoke towards Summers. "I already handled the situation." And with that Logan stepped past Scott leaving him to wonder. But Scott reached out and grabbed Logan's arm.

"Logan would you mind telling me what the situation was that you so nicely handled that caused the fight in her room, at three in the morning." Scott was beyond pissed about the entering fiasco, he doubted Logan's ability to handle a situation with Jade on the over scale the Wolverine was indicating, calming her down after last night was one thing, but the whole reason, no that wasn't one of Logan's talents, no one just handled anything with her, you hoped it went away.

"I don't owe you any explanations, Slim." He pulled his arm away from Scott "The girl's still alive, so as far as you're concerned, she's fine."

He headed for the garage, he had no class, he'd work on his bike, and clean it up, he hadn't had a chance to the night before.

Jarred and Kat didn't really talk during breakfast, in fact the best anyone could get out of them was a mindless agreeing noise. They watched as The young green haired Australian leant on the table resting her chin on her arms mindlessly sipping coffee, still looking like death warmed up, every now and then her eyes welled up but she just blinked them away, they both wanted to ask, both even suggested a trip to the med lab, Kat had asked quietly if she wanted Hank to look at her, the result had been a brush off, but they both knew her moods, there was hurting, in a way that neither knew how to deal with, finally Kat coaxed toast into Jade, getting her to eat half a piece of dry toast, over a period of ten minutes, it had been painstaking to watch, lucky Luke and Sean was busy talking about the field trip still to notice, or either did they didn't draw attention, they knew their place and it wasn't in this mess lying on the table. Jade kept casting glances around the room, muttering something, then at the group, but every time someone met her eyes she either looked away or she looked right through them, unattached. The bell went and they all got up.

"Tech first isn't it?" Kat asked, Luke nodded excitedly and hurried off, Hank's classes were always good, and it was one of them few they didn't drag their feet too, Sean and Luke were off very quickly, Sean stopped to make small swooning talk with a Junior, but moved quickly on, Kat shook her head.

"Always the ladies man." Jarred and Kat stayed with Jade, one on each side as if to protect her from everyone else, finally they got to the stairs, Jade reached her room and slipped in silently, making brief mention to go on with out her, under the excuse 'she needed to talk to the professor'. Jarred put his hand on Kat's shoulder before they slip to go to their rooms.

"When she's ready?" Kat asked

"When she's ready she'll talk." Jarred reassured grabbing his books and going to class, he knocked on Jade's door. "Don't be to long."

"Don't worry about me, I'll be fine." Was all the response she could call from behind the wooden door, Jade sat on the bed, backpack out, packing, she'd made a life here in three years, like the painting she'd brought out from storage, it had been her mums before hers, she looked at everything longingly, the books, the glass, she put the photo's in her bag, her favourite toy.. well the only toy she'd ever owned, the jewellery, things she could carry, but also things she could sell if cash was slow, finally she opened the draw and pulled out all the containers with pills still in them, she opened one but closed it, she'd need a clear head for the next few days, finally Jade picked up the blanket and put it over the bag, Jade looked around and headed for the door before stopping and going back to the desk and scribbled a small note, pulling on her jacket and riding gloves.

Jade exhaled slowly, graciously thankful that part of her mutation was the ability to turn invisible, a prefect talent when living on the street, and for sneaking out. Taking a few deep breath Jade focused on her power and disappeared, she extended so that it would hide the rucksack and opened her door slightly, sniffing, no one in the halls, she made the dash for the garage, sure no one would be there, she could leave and they'd all be safe, no one would be hurt, she could run, easier to hide when its just you to hide. She'd made the choice at breakfast, so many people, they'd wouldn't just grab her and go, they'd take as many people as they could. She cleared her mind as she went past the classroom and Xavier office, she wouldn't have them alerted by her foolish emotions. Once in the workshop to the garage she dropped back into sight and pulled the trampoline off her bike, thankful she'd put the case back on it the day before, finishing the first stage of the upgrade, it would be shame she'd never get a chance to properly finish it. Attaching her bag to the bike Jade mounted it and wheeled out into plain sight, always checking behind her for someone to accidentally walk in, the only problem with that was she wasn't watching the front.

"Headed somewhere?" Logan looked at Jade; she put her head on the handlebars.

She looked up at him, and appeared to be sorry that she'd been caught, Jade remained silent, and lowered her eyes from his gaze. "Look, I told you not to worry. I'll protect you, understand?" We'll he had said that 'they'd' protect her, but right now if Creed was involved he'd take care of it, personally, but the look Jade was giving him Logan knew that this wasn't going well. "Besides, you wouldn't make it too far with that bike anyway?" He noticed her head sprang up as he mentioned something about her bike.

"I was lookin' it over, and at this stage of the mod, its not fit the ride. You'd be lucky to make it through the front gate. Here, let me show you how to fix it."

"I don't need you to tell me how to fix my baby Logan." Jade knew she was fine, he was trying to keep her here, talk here out of it,

"You can't change my mind, I have to leave." Logan glanced at the girl, he knew that she tried to run, not because she didn't trust him, but there was something more. Logan wiped the oil from his hands with a cloth. He tossed it aside and looked closer at Jade.

"Why are you running, Jade? Is there something you forgot to tell me?" he asked standing in front of her enough that she'd have to go through him in order to leave.

"And you know all you need to." Jade got off her bike and made a dash for the open garage, Logan reached out to grab her, but she was more nimble, running over the hood of one of the cars and for the front gate, Logan moved after her as fast as he could, lucky for him Jade was riled to the point she hadn't considered flying off. Jade didn't care about the pain in her legs from the hard sprinting, or the tears that stung her eyes, why couldn't he understand they're was no other way, she had to leave, for them, for their sakes,

"Jade!" called Logan as the girl began to run harder. Logan knew he couldn't out run her, was the chase worth it? After all, she did try to leave once before, maybe he should let her go, but Creed fitted in there somewhere, wouldn't really be wise to just let her go like that.

"Jade!" The young girl didn't stop, nor did she yell back, Jade didn't hear him, all she heard was the echo's in her head again, the laughter, every reason to leave, she wasn't watching the ground, she slipped hitting the ground with a loud thump, there was a crack, her wrist, Jade went sliding around the ground for a while sitting up she pulled the wrist to her chest, Logan saw her go down and picked up the pass again.

"Jade! Jade, you okay?" He kneeled down to find her cradling her wrist. He placed his hand on her wrist. Jade shouted and muttered quite a few obscenities at his touch.

"It's broke. Come on, let's go fix it up," said Logan. And he helped Jade to her feet, she pulled away violently, determined to get to the gate.

"I know it's broken! And there's nothing you can do it will be fine in a minute anyway!" Jade's mutations were coming in useful today, Logan put his hand on Jade shoulder. "Get off me Logan!" she pulled away, wincing due to the broken bones,

"No!" said Logan. "I'm not lettin' ya go until you tell me what is goin' on! Why are you so determined to leave? What's so terrible that you need to leave from the only protection you have?" Logan held his grip firmly on the girl's shoulder. Eventually annoyed by the silence, he turned her around, so that she was facing him... tears still staining her face.

"Talk to me, Jade. What's going on? And this time... tell me everything." She wouldn't she couldn't, he didn't get it, Jade pulled away from Logan's grip.

"Look Logan you wouldn't understand!" Jade bolted for the gate. Logan ran after her calling for her to stop. "GO back to the mansion Logan forget you ever knew me." This time she had a clear head, Jade spread her wings, Logan swore and tackled her Jade hit the ground, the pair rolled, Logan came out on top of her.

"Get OFF!" she screamed but Logan held her down it was obvious that he wasn't letting go till he got answers.

"Jade, stop, it." He struggled to keep her arms down, his weight held her to the ground back she still was fighting. "You need to tell me, if you're in trouble, let us help."

"You can't, they'll come here!" she fought, snarling at him, Logan finally worked out who 'they' were, it was just Victor anymore…

"They'll come anyway, better for us to know who we're facing." She stopped but she wasn't looking at him, but back at the mansion. Their fight had attacked attention, standing at the windows and on the front entrance was Ororo and Hanks classes, at the front was Jarred, Sean, Kat and Luke, all staring, they must have been louder then they'd thought. Logan swore, getting to his feet he pulled Jade to hers, maintaining a firm grip on her upper arm.

"Move it!" he told Jade as they marched back towards the house. Jade tried to wriggle free but Logan's grip held.

"GET YOUR HANDS OFF ME! YOU DONT KNOW WHAT YOUR DOING! YOUR GOING TO KILL US ALL!" Logan put Jade over his shoulder Logan carried Jade back into the mansion Jade screaming the whole way, the Australian tried to get Logan to let go by hitting and biting him on the shoulder but Logan kept a steady pace.

"Move." He commanded, the student body parted "Hank down stairs."

Logan and Jade disappeared into the mansion.