Hi all,

Thank you for letting me know the couples that you want in the end. The majority want a Scott/Rogue and Jean/Logan pairing. To those of you who did not want that pairing, my sincere appologies. I wish that I had time to write and alternate ending for you all, but I just don't have the time. Here's the next chapter, enjoy!

Chapter 7:

"Are you alright Marie?" Scott said caringly as he caught up to her when she reached her room. "Ah'm fine" Rogue lied as she tried to smile through her tears, "Ah really don't even know why Ah'm reacting this way, it's so silly."

"It's not silly Marie" Scott said as he placed his hand on her shoulder, "You still love him." "Do Ah?" She said with a sigh, "Ah mean Ah know that Ah still care about him, but he hurt me so badly. Ah don't know if Ah can find it in me to love him, Ah just can't take being hurt anymore."

"I know it hurts Marie" Scott said lovingly as he pulled her into a hug, "But that's what love is, feeling like you'd rather die than live without that person." "Ah guess you're right, Ah'm just so tired of feeling like Ah'm the one who's not worthy of being loved. Feeling like it's all my fault that he left."

"First of all," Scott said as he looked her firmly in the eyes, "You are entirely worthy of being loved and you know it. Logan is just hurt right now and he can't see that. He loved you too, I think that he still does, but it hurt him a lot to think that you cheated on him right after he saved you. It hurt him even more to know that you were unwilling to confide in him about what happened, because he thought he could help. I'm not saying that you have to marry him or anything, in fact I definitely don't think that you should. All I'm saying is that you know for a fact that at one point he did love you which shows just how much you are worthy of being loved. And if Logan can't see that, that is his own problem." Looking her directly in the eyes with a warm smile, Scott said, "Anyone who can't see that is an idiot Marie."

"Thank you Scott." Rogue said as she realized, for the infinite time, how nice it was to have a real friend, "Ah don't know if Ah can ever handle the pain of allowing myself to love him again, but Ah'll try to allow myself to forgive him. Though it may take a while."

While Scott was comforting Rogue upstairs, Jean was preparing herself to tell Logan the whole story. After taking a deep breath she looked over at him and said, "Logan, do you remember the day that you left?" "Of course I remember" Logan snapped angrily, "What kind of a question is that?"

"I'm sorry Logan, but I have to figure out how to explain this to you as best as I can. So do you remember why you left?" "I left because Mar…I mean Rogue was pregnant and she refused to even tell me who the father was, or even if she had killed him by touching him. Although she swore that she hadn't."

"That's right. And at that same time I was one of the many people standing in the crowd at the top of the stairway. As she tried to think of a way to tell you who the father was, I heard her projected thoughts, and…" "So you know who the father is" Logan interjected in realization.

"Well yes," Jean said quickly, "But that's not the point. The point is that you weren't the only one who was having a bad time. She was alone, she felt like she couldn't talk to anyone, no one knew what had happened at the experimental lab, Scott had lost his memory, and now you were threatening to leave. She was in extreme pain Logan."

"She could have talked to me!" Logan said as the pain from the experience came back to his mind, "She could have talked to me instead of sleeping with some random one night stand! I would have been there for her." "I believe that Logan" Jean said gently, "And the truth is that she probably should have told you the truth, but then there are things that we all should have done differently."

After a brief silence in which Jean thought of the awful things she had done to Rogue, Jean took a breath and continued, "Anyway, after you left and I heard who the father was…" Logan once again interrupted Jean and said, "And who would that be?"

Jean ignored him and continued, "After hearing who the father was, I let my own emotions get the better of me and I attacked Rogue. I didn't think about any of the pain or helplessness I felt emitting from her, I just…" "Would you just tell me who the fath…You did what!" Logan asked stopping halfway through his demand as he absorbed what she had said.

"You attacked a student?" Sighing and looking down at her hands, Jean said, "Yes, and I almost killed her. I don't know what would have happened if Xavier hadn't said something to me telepathically. I might have actually…let's just say that was one of those things that I should have done differently."

"What on earth would provoke you so much as to attack a student Jean? You're always so level headed."

"I never should have done it, and given the consequences…" Jean trailed off as she thought about the suicidal voices she had heard only a few short weeks ago in Rogue's head. "What are you talking about?" Logan asked in a confused voice as he tried to figure out what Jean was saying, "What made you so made as to attack her?"

"When I heard her say that he was the father, I was so mad that I just didn't think straight enough to ask any questions or to try and figure out what her side of the story was." "When you heard her say that who was the father?" Logan said irritably.

"Scott, when I heard her say that Scott was the father." Jean sighed in a barely audible voice, unable to control herself from telling him who the father was. "Cyclops?" Logan as he stared blankly at Jean, and then began to get angry, "Cyclops is the father!" "Yes, but it really isn't what it seems like," Jean began as Logan stormed out of the room, "Logan wait!" She yelled as she hurried down the hall after him.

"One-eye!" Logan yelled angrily as he reached the door to Rogue's room. "Open this door right now!" As Scott opened the door to face Logan, Logan pushed him and sent him flying across the room. "What the…?" Scott asked as Logan continued to yell at him, "You slept with her! You're the reason that she wouldn't tell me who the father was!"

"Logan you don't know the whole story." Jean said desperately as she reached the room, "Don't make the same mistake that I did." "I'll kill him!" Logan said as he unsheathed his claws and walked towards Cyclops. "Logan stop!" Rogue screamed as she ran in front of him with tears streaming down her face, "Don't do this."

Looking down at her and seeing the pain and fear in her eyes, Logan reluctantly sheathed his claws, but continued to glare daggers at Scott as Rogue walked down the hall to get some bandages for Scott's arm that was bleeding from where he had fallen against the bedpost. "You've got some explaining to do bub," Logan said as calmly as he could manage.

Looking over at Jean who was still standing in the doorway, Scott said, "I don't think that I'm up for explaining this again, and I know that Rogue is no where near ready, so maybe it would be best if we wait a little while."

"You can at least explain to me why you call her Marie" Logan said with a deadly venom in his voice, "Because as far as I knew no one called her by that name but me." "Yeah, well as far as I know that was before you deserted her when se needed you." Scott snapped incapable of controlling his anger, "Maybe if you'd stuck around a little longer she might not have been so alone as to do some of the things that she did."

"What is that supposed to mean?" Logan growled menacingly, "That part of the story," Scott said as he took a deep breath, "is not mine to tell."

After Rogue had bandaged up Scott's arm, and Logan had gone for a walk to cool his anger down, the professor called Logan and Scott into his office. "Good evening gentlemen." Xavier said as he motioned for them to sit. "From what I understand it appears that you both have had quite an eventful afternoon."

When neither of them said anything, the professor continued, "The reason that I called you here Logan, is to inform you of all that has happened to Rogue. It seemed to me that after all you have done for her, even if you have hurt her, you deserve to know. This being the case, I think it is necessary to fill in the rather large gaps in the knowledge that you received this afternoon."

"That is why I called you here Scott," the professor said as he turned to face the young man, "I understand that you are not feeling able to regale such a painful story again at this point in time, but I wondered if you might be so kind as to allow me to transfer the mental images into Logan's brain so that he might understand what actually occurred between you and Rogue."

"I don't know," Scott said after hesitating for a moment, "I'm not sure that Rogue would want him to know all of this." Are you sure that's the reason you don't want him to know the truth? Scott's mind asked, Maybe you just don't want him to have any chance of getting Marie back. Maybe you want her for yourself. As Scott tried to ignore his own thoughts, he was pulled back to reality when he heard Xavier talking.

"I understand your concern," Xavier said kindly "But imagine for one moment, Scott, just how much it might hurt her for Logan not to know the truth now that he knows as much as he does." Seeing the logic in what he was saying, as well as trying to prove his thoughts wrong, Scott finally nodded and said, "Alright, you can show him, but only if he'll promise to stop yelling at Rogue." Even if he didn't want Logan and Rogue together, Scott knew that he didn't want to see Logan hurt Marie even more.

When Logan nodded gruffly in acceptance to the terms of Scott's agreement, the professor said, "Alright, now this may hurt a little Logan." As the professor pulled the memories from Scott's head and showed them like a slide show in Logan's, Scott merely felt a cold trickle at the back of his head. Logan's knuckles were gripping the chair in which he sat, and his teeth were gritted in pain, but Scott couldn't tell whether this was the pain from the actual transfer, or the pain from what he was seeing.

When the transfer had finished, and Scott no longer felt the tug at the back of his head, Logan's knuckles remained frozen to the chair and his face stared blankly out of Xavier's window.

"Logan," Xavier said gently, "Are you alright?" "Logan," Scott began just as Logan got up out of his chair and pushed past Scott on his way out of the office.

As he walked numbly through the corridors and outside along the grounds, Logan's head was on fire. How could he have accused Rogue of so many things after what she had been through? How could he have been the one to hurt her so badly? Why didn't he just accept that she was pregnant and stay to comfort her?

These were all questions that Logan knew he would never truly be able to answer. What he also knew, was that he had to apologize to Rogue as soon as possible.

Rogue was wondering outside on the grounds when Logan found her. "Hi," he began tentatively, "How are you doing?" "Ah'm fine" Rogue said shortly. "Look, I just want to apologize for, well everything" Logan said as he stopped walking and turned to face her.

"Apology accepted" Rogue said curtly as she continued to walk. "Really?" Logan said in surprise at how quickly she had allowed his apology, "So you forgive me?"

"I never said that," Rogue said and then continued in a more sincere tone when she saw the taken back look on Logan's face, "Look Logan, what you did really hurt me, and it is going to take me a while to forgive you. And I just need you to accept that."

"Alright" Logan sighed as he realized that a simple apology would not be enough to win back her trust and it certainly would not be enough to win back her love.

After Logan had left, Rogue sat down on a bench under a shady tree. As she went over the conversation she had just had, the voices in her mind that were still unblocked began to make themselves heard.

I think it is rather obvious that he now knows what happened. Magneto said matter-of-factly Why else would he have apologized to you?

Well I think that you should just accept his apology said the gruff Logan voice within her head, I think that he put out a lot of effort not to rip one-eye to shreds. You have to give him credit for that.

He does have a point Bobby added kindly, after all, you have loved Logan for a long time and now that he understands the truth, there is nothing stopping you from being together.

Unless she loves someone else Magneto said as he picked up on Rogue's own thoughts.

Who else would she… Logan began, Oh no, how could you like one-eye!

No one said that I loved Scott! Rogue added a sharp voice.

Well do you? Logan's voice asked impatiently, I mean you certainly haven't tried to deny it…

I most definitely do not love Scott, at least not in that way.

Not believing Rogue's statement, Magneto put in, If you're not in love with him, why can't you seem to stop thinking about him?

He's a very good friend. Rogue said as she focused all of her mind to end the conversation and cut out the other voices. When that was done, she got up to go and see Jean. She needed to get the rest of the voices blocked out of her head fast. Even if they do have a point she thought as she headed to find Jean.

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