A/N: hey I'm back & ready to finish this story...writers blocks over! Woo Hoo! k heres the next chapter...


Professor Xavier looked at the X-Men. "Head down to the meeting room and I'll soon explain everything." He said.

Jean looked at Professor Xavier. "Should I get Rogue and the others?" she asked.

Charles nodded. "I think that would be best." He replied tiredly.

Jean gave a short nod and then left the room to go retrieve the children.

Everyone then headed down to the meeting room. Once there they all took their seats. For the most part it was silent except for some mumbling coming from Logan and Remy.

Jean reached the med lab to find the junior X-Men arguing.

"Sam it wasn't your fault!" Amara yelled.

"Yeah it is Amara. We knew that Pietro would follow through with his threats!" he yelled angrily.

"No we didn't Sam, and she told the Professor. Besides if it weren't for you she wouldn't even have told him, but you made her." Rogue argued.

"Yeah, a lot of good that did." Sam muttered.

"Sam, Riley knows how to take care of herself. She's a survivor." Ray said.

"Yeah and besides you guys know we should be worrying about the brother hood right? Riley's going to make them beg for us to take her back." Bobby said, trying to make a joke to lighten the mood, even though it didn't help very much.

Jean decided to step in at this point. She knocked on the door. "Professor Xavier would like to see all of you in the meeting room." She said.

All of them nodded, feeling really uneasy. They could only imagine what would happen. They'd all failed, they were a team, and not a single person would be blamed, they'd take the punishment as a team, even if they were a member short.

They all began to leave. Jean looked at Hank. "Professor Xavier would like you there as well."

Hank nodded. "I feel bad for the children, they feel responsible for what happened to Riley-Anne." He said.

"I know, hopefully Remy wont be to hard on them." Jean said.

The pair exited the med lab and headed to the meeting room. Down the hall from where the meeting room was located stood the junior X-Men. They seemed to be discussing something.

"Are you going to go in?" Jean asked.

"We're trying to figure out how to explain this to Remy." Rogue said softly.

"How bout you just tell him what happened." Jean suggested.

Ray frowned. "Oh yeah you really tell Remy that Pietro threatened Riley when she threw him when he wouldn't stop hitting on her."

Jean sighed. "Yeah just like that." She said. "He may be angry but it's not at you."

" He's angry with himself and the brotherhood." Hank said.

Jean nodded. "Remy's angry because he has the notion in his head that he has to protect Riley from everything. Just like you Sam. You cant always protect everyone." She said softly.

Sam Nodded slowly. " Guess we better go in now." He said.

Then together they all headed down that last hallway to the meeting room.

Once inside the teens stayed together. They took the five chairs that were together and then sat down.