How art all this fine morrow? Once again, this is The Bud bidding you a fond hello. By now, I should be on part three, do enjoy. Oh yes, the disclaimer: I don't own Marvel nor any part of this story.
What The Night Whispers In Shame.
"What did that son of a bitch do to my wife!" Logan shouts as he sees his beloved Jean bound in bandages, bruised and tattered, her lovely face burned raw and her eyes a milky white, no longer a green to put the deepest oceans to shame.
"I think you know." Sighs Beast. "She's blind for certain, For how long, I can't say. The burns will heal nicely, should just look like freckles with her skin and I had to wire her jaw shut, but Jean will be fine, Logan." Beast contenues "We all knew that this might happen, Logan, as to why we couldn't prevent it, well, that's stupidity on our part. Why didn't I just come up with something? Anything? I'm supposed to be a genius and I can't find one man. This is my fault! I let him go after what happened to Meg!"

"Shut it." Logan states bluntly. "We all did this and we have him now and as soon as I get hold of him, I'm taking HIS eyes."

"You know I cannot allow that, Logan, even though every fiber of my being wants to see that happen and to be of help. Right now, Jean needs you. These next few weeks are critical, we can't even bring her out of her shell." Beast exclaims as he wipes his glasses. "She's in a state much like when her friend Annie died and Jean's powers manifested."

"So? Don't we know like a million telepaths? Get one of them to crack her out"
"Logan, that's not as easy as it sounds. With Emma here, not even Rachel wants to set astral foot here, and the Professor isn't capable of this kind of feat any longer, We are at a loss on this"
"So, get Emma to do it."

"I asked, She hates Jean so much, she doesn't even want her here in my lab, let alone anywhere else. She refused help."

"When is that woman gonna learn Jeannie ain't responsible for what happened to her? Scott is. She is but Jeannie wasn't even on this planet when Scott went nuts"
"Emma chose to stay with Scott and in time saw things almost as he did. In both their minds, Jean is the one that made Scott beat Emma, and the other things that he did to her, even if she was a thousand planets away."

"When Emma miscarried, I understand that was devastating to her, but Scott is the one that pushed her down the pier stairs, Why blame Jeannie?"

"Because she thinks that Jean overshadowed Scott. We know she did no such thing. Jean couldn't have. Could she?"

"Never, not her style. Jeannie woulda confronted Emma face on." Logan said as he lit one of his trade mark cigars. "not that there would be a reason to, Emma only turned about every human on earth against Jeannie. "C'mon. Let me just TALK to Scott, find out what made him do this" The animal growled.

"Don't get caught and put that filth out in here." Beast consented. "Not one hair harmed on his greasy, skinny body, Logan, and report back only to me and Charles what you find."

"I'll put this out when you quit clogging the pool drain."

LATER DOWN THE RABBIT HOLE

"So. YOU came. Shame I'd hoped for Emma." Scott said in a puny little voice. "Come to take something else away from me?"

"I didn't take her, you threw her away. That's your fault, Bub. My gain, my win." Logan replies between puffs of smoke.

"Are you always in the habit of craving second hand trash...Bub"? Scott quipped back.

"If I hadn't of promised Beast not to hurt you, you'd be choking on your own teeth right now." Logan spat as he finished his cigar. "All I want from you is why you had to go and do that to MY wife. I love her and you never did."

"You can't intimidate me. That field keeps you out as well as me in. You're nothing and she's nothing. She deserved every stitch she got and I will always be the last thing she ever saw. Not you. Sounds like I won."

"Ohhh... but yer wrong there pal, she will see again, but You still won't have her, She and I will live happy ever after long after you rot, and what have you got? Nothing. Absolutely nothing but failure Scott."

"SHE IS MINE!" Scott screamed " I know that when you're in bed and she's clawing your back. It's mine she's thinking of. My skin, my scent, my hair and my body, you are just a weak substitute and when she bears my children and she will one way or another, she'll come running back to me and where will you be? Where will you be Logan?"

Logan walks away trying to block out the ranting of a mad, mad man to return to his love and wondering how to prevent what surly is to happen.

BACK WHERE RABBITS FEET LOOSE ALL CHARM.

"Logan, I can't even do a test like that for at least another two weeks and Jeannie is a good catholic girl, anything else is out of question." Beast sighs as he rubs his tired orbs. "From what you're telling me, Scott seems to think Jean was still in love with him, could there be validity to this?"

"Not from what I saw, she actually seemed annoyed with him, especially before we got married and she got theirs annulled, Scott was always showing up on photo shoots, trying to fix things, pay for things, she had to have him banned." Logan relayed "What does Charles have to say?"

"Not much, you know he'd been banned too. He suggested moving Jeannie back home and caring for her there. Not a bad idea." Beast pointed out. "I feel she'd benefit."

And so the battered woman was moved back to her home, away from Emma, away from Scott and into the care of her husband. The man who's held her heart longer than any other and had held his breath for her, watches her breathe and wonders of what is to be, As does Sinister who watches.

Next: Enter Sinister Means.