Changes Chapter 16

On the next morning, everyone sat in the kitchen for breakfast. The younger mutants only looked at each other, waiting for a new testosterone fight, since Logan and Scott were shooting deadly looks at each other. Therefore, no one of them dared to say anything, afraid to put themselves in the firing line.

Suddenly, Logan looked towards the door. He could hear a noise the others couldn't. Within seconds, Ororo stormed into the kitchen. Breathlessly, she looked around until her eyes met his. He immediately knew that something was wrong and jumped towards the door.

Storm ran as fast as she could after him, unaware that Scott followed them. Logan stopped at her room door and walked inside, his heart beating heavily. Storm stopped behind him.

"I woke up and thought she was still sleeping, so I used the bathroom first and wanted to wake her afterwards. But she didn't react…", she said frightened and hysterically.

He had sat down on the edge of the bed and checked on Jean. Anxiously, he laid his finger on her throat. "She's still alive… But her skin is burning like hell…"

"I get Hank and the Professor!", Storm said and ran out of the room.

"What's wrong with her?", Scott asked anxiously.

"Dunno…"

"Is she sick?"

"I said I don't know!", Logan grunted and pulled Jean up into his arms to carry her down to the lab.

Storm leant against the cold wall of the basement and waited. The Professor had followed Hank into the lab and had asked them to wait outside. She looked over to Logan who leant on the opposite wall, his eyes fixed on the floor. She knew his calm façade wasn't real. He was boiling from the inside. Stressed, she looked to Scott who was walking up and down, or at least as good as he could, since his rips had taken quiet a lot of damage from Logan. Storm sighed. She didn't know how long they're already waiting…

Suddenly, Logan looked towards the door and she knew that he must have heard something. Before she was able to ask him, the large round door with the X in the middle opened and Hank came into sight.

"How is she?", all three of them nearly asked at the same time, whereupon Scott and Logan exchanged deadly glanced again.

Hank ran a hand through his thick blue hair and sighed. "I can't help her here. She need to go into a hospital…"

"We can't take her to a hospital!", Scott said. "There've been several attacks on mutants early this morning."

"I know. We've our hands full because of it. They did a terrible mistake with the cure…", Hank said bitterly. "Now we have to clean up their mess…"

"Hey, bub!", Logan said while putting his hands to his hip. "I don't care about the mess in the city right now. What's wrong with Jean?"

Hank looked him directly into the eyes and Storm was confident that she had seen a slight shimmer of anger in Hank's eyes. "She's still unconscious and the fever she has is what I'd call life threatening…"Logan bit his lip and looked down, his heart racing in fear.

"And even if she survives…", Hank continued. "I don't know if I can save the babies, too…"

Abruptly, Logan and Scott looked up, their expressions were completely blank. "What!", both men asked at the same time.

Hank frowned. "She's four months pregnant…didn't you know that?"

Scott looked at Logan completely expressionless, while Logan took a closer look on Storm. He had noticed that she hadn't reacted to the news. "You knew that?", he asked in disbelief and narrowed his eyes.

"I had premonitions…", Storm swallowed. "She did a test while I was getting her stuff…"

Logan snorted and turned away from them, while shaking his head. "Did she know it before?", he asked barely audible after a while.

"I'm not sure… I think she ignored it… Logan, she was afraid…", storm tried to explain calmly.

"Of what!", he asked loudly and turned around.

"Maybe of your reaction?", Scott asked ironically and earned a furious look of the man in front of him. "I mean it, Logan!", he continued and returned the look. "You're not someone who takes care of a family. You're a loner who wants to have fun and that's it!"

"Scott!", Storm warned him. "Don't!"

"Ah, come on, 'Ro!", the man said. "She was afraid that he'd leave her, wasn't she?"

Logan switched his eyes towards her, forgetting for a brief moment that the beast within him wanted to ram its claws into Cyclops. He, on the contrary, needed to know the truth.

Storm nodded slowly. "Yeah…"

Logan snorted. "So that's why you asked those questions at night, wasn't it?"

"Logan, I'm sorry… I'd to know…"

"Now you do!", he hissed and walked away.

"Forget him!", Scott said. "She's better off without him!"

Hank could have sworn that, if the walls hadn't been so thick, he'd heard a thunderstorm coming up. Ororo turned around, her eyes narrowed and almost white. "You listen to me now!", she shot back furiously. "You've no idea what has happened in the past year, so shut your mouth!"

"I don't know… I think the name's stupid…", Rogue said and kept on walking down the corridor.

"Stupid?", Bobby asked. "It's my uncle's name!"

She laughed. "Sorry, but now one ever said that it's gonna be a boy!" Surprised she looked up and began to frown. "Where are ya going?", she asked puzzled as Logan walked past them in his leather jacket and with his bag on his back.

"Away!", he grunted without looking at them.

"You're leaving!", she asked and looked at Bobby who also frowned and seemed to be as confused as she was.

"Hey!", someone said behind them. Both of them turned around and saw Ororo approaching.

"Have you guys seen Logan?", she asked with an urgent undertone.

"Uh, yeah…", Bobby answered. "He just left…"

"Left!", the woman asked in disbelief. "What do you mean left!"

"Well, he'd a bag with him…", Rogue explained still wondering what was going on.

Storm snorted. "I don't believe that…", she ran a hand over her forehead. "When did you see him?"

"He walked past us just a few seconds before you came", Bobby said.

"Thanks!", Storm said and continued to run down the corridor as fast as she could.

Just as she reached the front door, she heard a motorbike disappearing. "Damn it!", she cursed as she saw him driving it towards the gate. "You son of a bitch!", Storm shouted after him and immediately the sky darkened…

Yeah, I know this one is short, but the next one is much longer. ; ) Hope you like it. And I'm pretty sure you'll be mad at me after you read the next chapter. ; ) I wrote up to page 91 so far. So that means up to, let me think…Chapter 20 or something. PS: OMG I just checked my emails. : o Thanks for all those nice reviews! I was totally shocked that so many of you have written their opinions to it! Thank you so, so much for your support! hug