Warren sat in one of the seats in the X-Jet, leaned forward greatly so that his wing would not touch the back of the seat. Scott was still in the back by Jean's side looking worried. The Professor said she would wake up but what if he was wrong? What if Jean didn't wake up? Warren pushed these thoughts out of his mind and tried to think of something else. But this didn't help much, because the other thing on his mind was his company. How were they fairing without him? He learned that he had been held by Stryker for a month and a half. People must be getting worried by now, or at least he hoped people were getting worried and that they weren't celebrating his disappearance. Then another thought crossed his mind, would he even go back? Warren had forgotten what it was like to be an X-Man and how much he really missed it.
He was pulled out of his thoughts by the sudden stop of the jet. He looked out the front window and saw that they were at the school.
"Wow, this thing's gotten faster since I was here." Warren said and stood up stretching his back.
"I know what you're thinking and that's exactly why you can't pilot it." Scott said walking by with jean in his arms.
"I can still pilot it." Warren said defensively. "It may have been a while but I can still fly it."
Scott rolled his eyes and everybody got off the jet. When they saw the state of the grounds it was a mess and when they walked inside it was even worse. There were no bodies on the floor but there were massive blood stains on the carpet everywhere. The adults told the children to got to heir rooms and get some sleep. Scott and the Professor took Jean down to the medical wing. On his way down the Professor contacted Colossus and some of the stray children that they were back and to get back to the mansion.
Logan, Ororo, Warren and Kurt were standing in the middle of the hall in silence. Finally Warren spoke. "We should probably go look for the kids, huh?"
"They must have gone through the passage ways, Warren how many do you remember?" Ororo asked.
"A few, mainly the ones on the west side of the school." He replied.
"Okay you and Logan go that way and me and Kurt will look at the rest." She said and she walked away with Kurt down one of the halls.
"Well bird-boy, lead the way." Logan said.
Warren shot him a look and he walked down the opposite hall with Logan behind him. "Here's one." He said and pushed in a wall. It moved in a few inches and slide to the side. "Come on dog-boy."
This time it was Logan's turn to glare at him and they made their way down the tunnel. When they got to the end they were out in the back woods.
"They've could've gotten anywhere by now…" Logan growled as he looked around.
"I don't see anything." Warren said straining his eyes to try and look beyond the trees.
"Hold on…" Logan said and sniffed the air a few times. "They're not that far away, come on this way."
Warren shrugged and fallowed him through the woods after a few minutes of walking they met up with a boy who looked at least eighteen with a strong body build. "Logan." He said and walked up to the two. "You're back."
"Uh… Yeah…" Logan said trying to remember the kid's name.
He smiled. "Peter."
"Ah, right the metal guy." Logan said. "Yeah, how are the kids?"
"A little shaken up, but they'll be fine. So who's this?" He asked motioning to Warren.
"Oh, I'm Warren Worthington." Warren said holding out his hand.
Peter took it. "You live at the mansion? Don't think I've ever seen you around, and I think I would have remembered those." He said looking at Warren's wings.
"Oh no, I graduated a few years back." Warren said.
"This is all well and good but can be head back now?" Logan asked.
The two nodded and they lead the children back to the mansion through the passage. It didn't take long to get back and when they did they all were told to get up to their rooms,Warren and Logan searched for the next group of children. After a little less then a half hour later the Professor informed them that all the children were safe back in the school.
"I better go call my assistant." Warren said as he sat in the kitchen with Kurt, Ororo, Logan and Scott he had just got back from being with Jean and the Professor said he needed to do some work with her and that Scott should go and get something to eat which he was not doing. Warren walked over to the phone and picked it up quickly dialing a number.
After a few rings Warren heard the phone be picked up. "Worthington Enterprises." Answered a man on the other end.
"Ron, hi." Warren said. "Um… I'm back."
"My god, Warren. What happened? Everybody was worried sick." Ron said. Warren had made most of the people who worked for him call him Warren rater then Mr. Worthington, he said it made him feel old.
"I uh… got a little… tied up." Warren said.
"I'm just glad you're alright with those renegade mutants out there you can never be to careful." Ron said.
Warren forced a laugh. "Yeah… those mutants…" He then cleared his throat and changed the subject. "So um, how's the company?"
"We're doing fine, we kept it low what happened no one knows except a few cops, and Lindsey is calling them now telling them to call it off and that you're back." Ron said. "But anyway we had to call off a few meetings and make some excuses but that's about it."
"Good, good…" Warren said. "Okay well I'll call you back in a bit when I get some more things straitened out."
"Okay where are you? You want me to send some of your things over to you?"
"No! I mean no, no I'm fine here got some stuff with me."
"Okay well bye, Sir." Ron said slightly confused.
"Bye." Warren said hung up the phone letting out a sigh of relief.
"They don't know you're a mutant?" Scott asked looking up to Warren who shook his head.
"No… And I don't want them to find out." Warren said sitting down in one of the chairs accidentally leaning back to far and hitting his wing and he winced slightly.
"Why?" Ororo said. "During school you never really hid your mutation."
"Well, I'm not in school anymore. Think about how much stock and funds I would lose because of the fact that I'm a mutant, as much as I hate to think about it the company would go down."
"How do you hide it?" Kurt asked.
"I have a harness straps them down enough so they're not that visible under clothes." Warren said.
"Ah…" Kurt said and leaned back, he then smirked. "If only it vere zat simple for me, eh?" He then laughed a bit.
Everybody smiled and laughed slightly except Logan, he just kept his usual grim expression on and his arms folded. After a few minutes Ororo looked over at the bullet holes in the cabinets. "We should probably start fixing up the place." She said.
"You're probably right." Scott said and stood up from his seat. "But I'm going to change first, because quite frankly this uniform is starting to chafe."
Warren laughed. "I would change to but I'm short just about everything."
"No you're not, ya didn't bring everything with you when you left it's still here in storage somewhere, and your room is the same as well, probably a little dusty though."
"Why?" Warren asked.
"Well… you have one of the highest rooms and we don't have that many kids here." Scott said. "No one got that far up yet, and we're all to lazy to clean it out."
"Oh… well then I guess I'll be up there." Warren smiled and left the kitchen with Scott.
"It's good to have him back." Ororo said. "I hope he stays." She then got up. "Come on Kurt, I'll show you to your room."
Kurt looked at her shocked.
"That is if you plan on staying with us for a while." She said.
"Vhy not?" Kurt asked and walked over to her. "I have no vhere else to go."
She smiled and they left Logan alone in the kitchen, he let out a short laugh and looked down to the table. "I guess I'll be heading up too."
A few hours later the adults and some of the older students were cleaning up the mansion. Most of the children were asleep and if they weren't they were sitting in their rooms watching TV or eating in their rooms. The adults didn't want the younger children to come down until most of the mess was cleaned up.
Scott came up to Warren who was putting plastic over one of the broken windows. "Hey, man." He said walking over.
"Hey, how's Jean doing?"
"Still asleep." Scott said.
Warren was able to read Scotts expression and he sighed. "Don't worry, she'll be fine. Jean's strong always has been, she wouldn't give up without a fight."
Scott nodded not quite believing what his friend was saying so he decided to change the subject. "When you going home?"
"That eager to get me outta here, huh?" Warren said smiling and looking over his shoulder at Scott.
"No…" Scott said helping Warren out up some plastic. "Just wondering."
"Okay fair enough, I have no idea. I'm not even sure I wanna go back."
"Why?" Scott asked. "You're like a zillionaire you have everything."
"That's exaggerating it a bit isn't it?" Warren asked laughing. "But you're wrong I don't have everything and I certainly don't have a zillion dollars, I wish I did but I don't, if I had a zillion dollars I would never have to go to a meeting again."
"Okay maybe I exaggerated a little but still, you run a successful company, you got money – "
"Looks…" Warren added.
"Maybe to some." Scott said and stepped down from the step ladder he was standing on.
Warren glared at him for a second. "I'll tell you something I can't do."
"What?"
"Fly, why do think I took that vacation? I haven't flown a decent flight in over a month, like I said I wanted to get away." Warren said.
"I guess…" Scott said as they wandered over to the next broken window. The two caught up the best they could. An hour later they were done with all the windows and were working on fixing the wall with Peter that he broke.
"Did you have to break the wall?" Scott asked.
"Well what would rather have me done? Take them out for dinner?" Peter asked.
Scott scoffed and they saw Ororo walk up to them. "Warren, come down with me to the infirmary."
"Why?" He asked.
"Your wing." She said plainly. "I need to get a few x-rays."
Something was going on, Ororo seemed to happy about something but Warren decided to push it off and just go with the flow.
"Oh and Scott." She added. "You should come to."
He looked a bit confused but did not question and walked over with them.
"What? I'm stuck here fixing this by myself?" Peter yelled after them.
"I sent Kurt up to help you!" Ororo yelled back.
Peter then smelled brimstone and looked over to see Kurt standing next to him. "Jeez, when did you get here?"
"About one second ago." Kurt said seeing Peter's confused look he explained. "I'm a teleporter."
"Ah." Peter said. "Well grab a hammer."
Ororo led the way down the hall and down the elevator she rrefused to answer any questions but continued to grin. When they finally got to the infirmary the doors opened and the two men gasped. Inside the room was a man in a white lab coat but the strange thing was, was the fact that he was blue.
"Hank!" Warren and Scott said in unison.
Hank turned around and smiled. "Why Scott, Warren I dare say it is about time you got here."
AN: Yay I put Hank in there! I'm sorry but I just love the fact of all the original X-Men being together. I would have had Bobby one of them but you know, I wanted to fallow the movie and the comics best I could, and I had to keep Storm in because she was one of Xavier's first students and ya know the whole thing. Another thing I know that 'Peter' is not how you spell his name but he doesn't seem to be Russian in the movie so I made him an American. And thanks to Wen1 and Viresse for the reviews!
