As Jean was clearing up her desk after teaching her lecture, she could sense Storm walking up to the room. She opened the door for her as Storm arrived and gestured her inside with a smile.
"Hey Storm, thought it was your day off?" she asked, continuing packing her box up with books.
"It is, hence why I'm here, for you" Storm answered, her voice ringing with excitement. "Someone's arrived that would like to say hi to you"

Jean scrunched her eyebrows together in confusion, but also reciprocated Storm's grin as she willingly followed behind her outside the door and through the hallway.
Once they arrived in the main entrance, she could not hold back the grin that ached her face as she saw a small blue figure standing with Hank and Scott, a long pointed tail edging out from underneath their long black leather coat.

"Kurt?" Jean exclaimed, as she paced upto him and wrapped her arms around him joyfully.
"Miss Jean, hello again" Kurt chuckled, his thick German accent echoing against the walls.
"How have you been? It's been years since we heard from you!"
"I've been travelling across South America, Asia, Europe…" Kurt answered, looking up at her through his thick black eyelashes.
"That sounds incredible!" she grinned. "What brings you back to little New York?"
"It turns out, that Mr Wagner here knows Miss Howlett!" Hank answered for him, placing his hand on Kurt's shoulder comfortingly.
"I heard that she had been taken out of the country, I wanted to make sure she was safe and happy. It drew me here, to you all" he smiled.
"She's been here for a couple o'months now" Scott confirmed.
"How long have you known Mallory?" questioned Storm.
"About five years, I was teleporting across England, when suddenly I must have diverted and I ended up in her cell at the Asylum" Kurt answered, his face falling into a sorrowful frown. "Her powers won't allow her to teleport with me, so I kept visiting her…she was my friend"
Jean formed her lips into a partial smile as she thought of Mallory being locked up away in a dark cell, waiting every second for a glimmer of hope in the form of Kurt.
"That's really sweet of you to help her like that…" she gestured.
"No you're wrong, she helped me-" he interrupted. "But then they just let her leave, and even when she tried to escape her mother…there was nobody there to help her, and when I arrived it was too late."
"Wait, what?" snapped Hank. "Escape her mother?"
"Hang on, we should probably take this somewhere more private..." Scott remarked, noticing the frequency of students beginning to heighten.

Within moments, they were in the staffroom alongside Charles and the rest of the group, huddled around eagerly awaiting the new information that had been brought to light.
"I'm sorry to have to bombard you with questions like this Kurt, but we are trying to find out as much information as we can to find out how to keep Mallory safe." Charles explained comfortingly, as Kurt stood with his back to the window, feeling overwhelmed by the amount of eyes on him.
"You mentioned escaping her mother?" wondered Jean, sitting closest to him.
"It wasn't her mother…she looked like her, but it wasn't her on the inside. She was, a demon. She was able to take away Mallory's powers and cause her…so much pain…" Kurt explained, his face scrunching up as he relayed the memories in his mind. "I could hear her, screaming out in my mind…when I found her, it was too late…I think…Mallory killed that demon"
The room fell silent as they all exchanged shocked looks at each other. Charles closed his eyes slowly as he felt his heart become heavy.

Suddenly, there was a heavy knock on the door which caused everyone to jump up. The door opened and Logan walked in, his eyes widening when he noticed a full house.
"Was I not invited to the party?" he mumbled sarcastically as he looked up and noticed Kurt standing towards the end of the room.
"Hey buddy how are ya?" Logan asked, his voice lightening – when Kurt looked up at him with a furious snarl.
"Um, I'm guessing he knows the situation?" Logan asked, turning to look at Hank and Charles.
"Kurt knows Mallory, Logan" Scott snapped, crossing his arms in judgement. "He knew her whilst she was in the Asylum"
Logan inhaled at the word 'Asylum', and nodded quietly. Unable to say anything else about his personal situation with Mallory, he looked up at Kurt's face and muttered 'thanks' under his breath.
"I came here for a reason, I would like to go and see her now?" Kurt asked, looking towards Charles.
Charles nodded with a smile and allowed him to teleport away.
"What do we do now?" asked Bobby. "What did he mean by Emma being a demon?"
"Woah, what did I miss?" questioned Logan, confused, a little taken aback by his quick response.
"Oh, now you're interested in what happens to her?" snapped Scott.
"Shut up bub, you have no idea on this" Logan growled.
"Scott please…" Jean pleaded to Scott quietly, placing her hand on his arm which calmed him instantly.
"I think it's becoming evident that Miss Howlett killed Emma James" exhaled Hank.
"I think it's time…" snapped Charles, turning his chair and wheeling out towards the door. "Logan, with me please"

Kurt reappeared in one of the many corridors of the mansion, confused he spun around on the spot, staring at everyone that walked past in the hope of catching her, when suddenly he turned his head and zoned in on a figure exiting a room, wearing black ripped jeans, a denim jacket with an inner jacket that had a hood which was pulled up over their head. As they locked the door and turned to face him, Kurt saw the familiar thick brown hair which cascaded down their front and the illuminating blue eyes which stared wide eyed directly into his soul.
"Kurt?" her voiced echoed, high pitched and in complete disbelief as a crease formed in her eyebrows. He did his signature shy smile at her as she ran upto him and threw her arms around him. She held him as hard as she could, terrified that he would just dissipate in to the air. She finally felt her equilibrium partially settle as she had a single sense of normality again. She buried her face into his shoulder as she allowed a smile to embrace her for the first time in what felt like years.
"I told you I'd find you" he said softly.

As they continued to hold each other in a tight hug, Logan was able to see them from the end of the corridor. Although he was able to feel warmth in seeing Mallory with a smile on her face, he struggled to try and rid himself of the burning sensation in his chest through jealousy and angst. As though he should have been the one to see her smile again.
'Not some chump that just magically appeared in her cell.'
The thought shocked him, as he felt guilty for his feelings towards the situation.
'Fuckin' hell man, what the hell is happenin' to me?!'

I added this chapter in as I wanted Mallory to have another link to the X Men, as well as explaining what happened to Emma properly. The group now know that although it was a clone, Mallory was capable of killing another person. Logan also begins to see her genuinely happy with someone else, whilst his presence caused her heart to break in betrayal - and he reluctantly gets jealous, which adds to his flurry of emotions.

Please review!

MH x