After first movie, Prof. X reflects on Logan & Marie's relationship...NOT romance. Please R&R!

...White on Black...

Through a sheen of glass I see her

run,

laughing with the other students...children...

older than them, though, now

Trials and tribulations through

white on black

a whisper of memory and pain.

He saved her, of course, so sure it seems, now...but it was so

very close.

So very close.

He proved himself--not to me, I knew--claim to have known...

but to himself? He can sleep in

peace.

No,

Never in peace

but better now...knowing whatever--

whomever he once was, he

Is

a good man.

I knew...claim to have known...he would save her. She

Trusted him, above all others. She

Believed in him when others faltered. They

trust him now...Jean. Even Scott.

Storm always sensed, but she sees him clearer than others

understands him better than others...yet even she lacks

Marie's blind faith. Trust. Implicit trust that he above all others...

Her hair blows in the wind, white on black, and I feel the breath catch in my

throat.

So very close. If I hadn't known...claim to have known...I feared I was wrong

Fear I am wrong. I cannot

always be right. She

Trusted him, and I trusted...claimed to have trusted...him as well. But if he hadn't

known...if she hadn't believed...so very close. He's leaving,

and I have no right...no claim of right...to stop him. He sees the white on black,

he knows how close they came, and he knows she

Believes in him. Above

All else.

Slowly he is coming to believe as well, but he needs proof, evidence, something other than

blind faith. She'll wait, trust,

Believe. He is her savior, father, brother, friend. She'll wait forever. And he'll come back,

Always

because she is the white in his world of

Black.