After his long and degrading shower Logan went down to the kitchen to grab some food. He was met by rogue or Marie as she liked to be called. She was sitting at the island bench in the middle of the kitchen with an Asian microwave dish. Logan thought it was a nice gesture of the Professor to allow Marie to stay at the mansion. He knew she was beginning to feel the weight of her decision now, she felt a little left out. They others were all down in the danger room doing training simulations.
Logan startled the girl when he walked in , she was off in her own thoughts.
"Hi," was his only reaction when he saw her.
"Hey," was all she could stifle out.
Logan turned to the fridge, he'd learned to make sure there was always some soda in the fridge. He reached out opened the door, grabbed the lonesome soda and turned back to Marie.
"Alone again for Christmas? Huh?" Logan asked leaning on the kitchen bench.
Marie turned her perplexed face towards Logan.
"You seriously look down, darl'," Logan adds in response to her face.
"Yeah, well. They're all having fun by themselves," she replied gesturing down the hall.
"Ah, feeling left out are we now?" Logan asked.
"It's my own fault. But I can at least now have human interaction. I've missed being able to feel other peoples skin, and friendly gesture, a lover's touch," she explains in a slight whisper.
"I understand," Logan replied remembering his few special moments with Jean, there had been a couple of other special women in his life, but none like Jean. She seemed to understand every layer of him, he felt his love for her through every atom in his body.
She still wasn't coming back though.
"hey, why don't ya do something on your own? Go out and do something that normal teenagers do?" Logan suggested.
"I guess I could. But I wouldn't know how to act, what to say. To the other kids my age," Marie replied.
"You never learn, if you don't try," Logan stated.
"Jump in the deep end and you'll learn how to swim to shore quicker,"
Marie looked up from her dinner. Her face alight with hope.
"Your right. I don't need to wait around here for them to finish their fun I'm going to go and find my own fun," she stood up triumphantly and began to walk out the door.
"I suggest you put you dishes away first," Logan pointed out.
"Oh, yeah. Sorry," She put the dishes away then walked out the door.
"Well, that's my good deed for the day,"
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Jean noticed that this world was cold, she felt that it didn't forget and it wouldn't forgive. She noticed the waves in the mist outside the window, the mixture of purples, dark blues and black with the occasional flash of red.
She felt alone, she couldn't sense any other consciousnesses. She felt true alone with her thoughts.
Jean sat on the bed reading 'The Ticking Tenure Clock' from the small bookcase in the corner.
Jean's mind was barely on the book she was really just waiting and the book gave her eyes something to look at other than that depressing sky.
She threw the book at the wall, it hit the wall and bounce to the floor closed. She sat with her knees to her chest and her back against the wall.
"Becoming frustrated are we?" a voice said from the outside, she thought she'd heard this voice before. But that was in her head.
"I just wanted you to feel the way I felt for over 10 years. You don't know what it's like being caged with a persons mind."
Jean now had an idea of who this was, she believed this was the Phoenix talking to her.
"What do you want?" she screamed to the darkness.
"You're here to amuse me," the Phoenix replied.
The wall opposite Jean began to look un solid it looked like water that was stretched out too far. A being began to pass through the wall, this being was coated in red, it was the Phoenix. Jean saw her other personalty that looked exactly like her, beside the piercing look in it's eyes.
A/N: look people I still need your votes cause I haven't started that part of the story yet so please keep voting.
Yes, I'm going to keep on bugging you to vote.
1.Who should be in control
A. should Jean be in control of her power and body and the phoenix just emerge occasionally
B. should the Phoenix be in control and Jean will emerge occasionally
2. Where they should reappear
A. should Jean/Phoenix reappear in an unknown land and they have no idea who they are
B. should Jean/phoenix reappear near where they died or near an important place in their past but still have no idea who they are
should they just come back to the mansion
if you have any other ideas just put them in your reviews.
As well as it might take some time before the next Chapter comes up, cause I've got lots of school work to do at the moment.
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