A/N: I'm sorry, I kinda gave up on it for a while. But I had a lot of ideas lately and I feel like writing again. Please review, you can even yell at me if you want. I don't care, I just want feedback.

Chapter 11

Hank had looked Jean over and she seemed to be fine for the moment. Scott had found the professor and had brought him downstairs.

After Jean had calmed down she followed the professor up to his office. She sat on the leather couch that was perpendicular to the professor's desk.

"Are you feeling alright now?" the Professor questioned, reaching out to her knee.

Jean nodded slowly.

"Jean, I must ask wether you've had any blackouts or sudden urges lately?" the Professor asked as he wheeled himself behind his desk.

"Actually, I have had a couple of random emotions lately, but no blackouts," Jean replied.

"That's a good sign," the Professor muttered quietly.

"I'm going to have a look in your mind, if you don't object?" the Professor asked.

Jean nodded again this time a little more enthusiastically.

"Ok, just try to relax,"

"I have done this before, Professor," Jean stated.

The Professor closed his eyes and reached out with his mind. Jean put down her barriers to allow the Professor in.

It took a couple of minutes before either of them moved again.

"Well, I have some good news," the Professor stated.

Jean looked up perplexed.

"The Phoenix no longer resides in your brain,"

All the X-Men and Marie were gathered in the Professor's office.

"The Phoenix has created a body of its own, but it's still in the image of Jean. A concerning matter id the fact that Jean and the Phoenix share a very intimate connection," the Professor explained.

"Isn't surprising really, considering your both telepaths, and you used to share a brain," commented Bobby.

"That's true, but we can use this to advantage. I'm only asking, Jean, but I would like you to find out what has happened to the Phoenix, by using this abnormal link,"

Jean was stunned, she thought for a while and then began to nod slightly.

"I'm glad you have agreed,"

The night had covered the mansion quietly, the silence encroached every corner. In one a conscious was aware, the vessel of the Psyche rose, and work itself downstairs towards the kitchen.

Jean's mind was wandering through her doubts in this plan.

She meandered her way to the kitchen and was amazed to find another being there.

"You seriously never sleep, do you?" Jean questioned as she grabbed a soda and sat at the island bench.

"Well, I never really slept much to begin with, and now that I live at a school….," Logan replied.

"But what brings you down here, unaccompanied?" he questioned; his intentions clear to Jean.

"Scott and I are having a break, Logan, I'm in my old room at the moment," she replied firmly.

Logan huffed, Jean just stared at him as if she was berating him.

"Besides, why are you up at this hour?" he asked trying to change the topic.

"I can't sleep, I'm afraid of what I might see of the Phoenix," Jean replied, fiddling with the top of her soda bottle.

"Don't worry red, the Phoenix can't get you here," Logan stated.

"I'm not afraid of my safety, its more the fact that she is a part of me, and that she doesn't care about hurting other people," Jean mentioned becoming more emotional.

"She's not you, she will never be you, unless you allow her to," Logan reminded her.

Jean smiled and lifted her head "Wow, look who's become philosophical,"

Logan chuckled and Jean's smile became wider and the smart remark.

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The people hurried to and fro, through their camps and into others as the tall women dressed in red walked her way through the tents. She was accompanied by Mystique, who seemed determined to ignore the scurrying mutants. The head of this immense group, was standing upon the rocky ledge that looked over the site.

"I hardly believed you would come back here, Magneto, when you have almost been found out here before," Phoenix commented, as she worked her way up to Magneto's little gang.

"I've got more security now," Magneto stated.

"Well then, I want a deal," Phoenix firmly stated.

"Then what do you have to offer?" Magneto questioned.

"Besides my powers, information Charles and his little friends," Phoenix offered.

"I've already learned you can be irrational Phoenix, are you sure you wont make that mistake again?"

"I have learned from my mistakes, like any human would," Phoenix declared.

"Very well then, your on,"

A/N: I'm not sure where I'm going yet but I'll come up with it.