The After Math

Chapter 4: A Sign

I ran down the hall as fast as I could. I hit the elevator button. "Come on! Come on!" I yell pressing it over and over again. "Finally," I say in desperation when it opens.

"What's got you in huff?" Rogue asks me.

"Rachel threw Emma in a wall and now she's unconscious and Rachel's a mess," I said and the elevator doors close.

"Way to go for her," Rogue said and went to Scott's room.

"Kurt," Rachel whispered. "Where's my dad?"

"He went to go get Beast to see if Emma's all right or not," Kurt explained to her gently.

"She doesn't deserve it," Rachel said.

"Oh really and why's that," Kurt said.

"She's a lying selfish witch who tore an innocent girls family apart just to spite her mother," Rachel said.

"Oh I don't think that," Kurt said.

"But you don't know her like I do. When her telepathy left her blocks diminished greatly and now I can feel her thoughts more than ever. That's when I told you guys about what she's up to," Rachel said.

I ran down the hallway sliding at every turn on the steel floor. I don't know why I'm in such a rush. After what she did to my family she deserves to be lying there in my room unconscious and alone. But she's not alone. Rachel's with her and she needs help too. And with that thought I ran faster in pursuit of the mansion's lab.

"Hank," I yelled when I go there.

"Cyclops, you're out of your room, not that I'm complaining, what's wrong," Beast said startled.

"It's Rachel. She threw Emma in a wall and now she's having some kind of a breakdown," I explained to him.

"Oh dear," he said. " Lead the way." We ran back upstairs as fast as we could. When we got there I couldn't believe my eyes. "Cyclops, I'm going to do a quick check on Emma first only because her injuries may me more severe than Marvel Girl's."

"Hank look," I said pointing out to the balcony in my room. I hadn't realized where I was spending the last few months until now. I had been in Jean's room the whole time. Not mine, not Emma's, not Rachel's, or Jean's and mine. It was Jean's old room. And there standing on the balcony of the room was a woman with long red hair and emerald green eyes. She was wearing a torn and battered green phoenix uniform. I turned away to tell Rachel to look. "Look Rachel. Mommy's back," I say but when I turn back no one's there.

I feel something in my closed hand. I open it up to see what it is. It's the locket that I gave Jean a year after we first met at the institute. She hadn't known it was me until 5 years later but that's another story. Anyway the copper shone in what little light that was in the room to show the engraving of a Phoenix on it. I picked a phoenix before she even became the phoenix because of her love of mythology.

"Was ist das?" Kurt asked.

"A sign," I said alone again.

Well I know that it's really short but it's better than nothing and I'm trying to decide where to go with this story. Hopefully the chapters will get longer soon.

I am so mad at the current installment of Grey's End. I mean Kurt shows up. Kitty shows up. Psyloke shows up and she's naked in a bathrobe for crying out loud! What was Scott doing that was more important than going to the aid of his daughter and her family! I mean come on! Oh and Nick Lowe and Sean Ryan weren't even in the back with a letters page! How annoying is that?

As always this poor young writer owns nothing.