DISCLAIMER: I do not own anyone except for Tori. I do not own the places either. I just own Tori.


Kurt teleported Tori out of the room and into the snow outside first; she was the lightest and he wanted to be absolutely sure she was safe first. The professor may have sent him to retrieve Jason, for what reason he did not understand, but Jason was just not his top concern.

He teleported in and out again a few times each time bringing a different, rather large, piece of metal. Luckily they disconnected quite easily and weren't as heavy as they looked. However, after the fifth piece he began to feel his strength and energy wavier. After dropping off a sixth large and smooth metal square, he teleported back in, and contemplated how he was going to get Jason out.

Jason wasn't able to be removed from the chair due to all the tubes running out of the back of his neck into various machines attached to the back of the chair, and not to mention his air supply as well. Kurt felt sorry for the man. What kind of an existence is sitting in a chair not even being able to breathe normally?

Kurt sighed; this was proving to be very difficult.

The room changed and Kurt found himself facing an upright Jason.

"How are you planning on getting me out of here?" He asked.

"I don't know. You have to stay in the chair right?" Kurt asked back.

Jason sighed. "Not unless you want to kill me."

"I don't want to." Kurt answered.

"Then why did you leave me here last time?" Jason asked bitterly.

"There wasn't time. I had to help the others." Kurt answered.

Jason was silent for a moment but he didn't let the illusion falter. He wasn't through yet, but he didn't know why.

Kurt let the man think seeing as how that's all he could do anyway. He knew this was another illusion and that the only way to get out of it right now was if Jason stopped it.

"It wasn't my fault." Jason said after a few moments.

Kurt jumped a little at the sound of Jason's voice piercing the silence.

"My father made me do it. I couldn't help it. He made it that way. He made it so that I could only do what he said. I would have never done it. I would have killed him first. He's wrong. Wrong about everything. Mutants are not the problem. I am not the problem!" the anger was clear in his voice and it scared Kurt. "It's his fault I am this way. It is his fault I'm so messed up. His fault I can't control it all the time. I didn't want this…."

Kurt didn't know what to say so he just stood there awkwardly and listened.

"I'm sorry." Jason said.

"It's alright. The professor told me about your father. So did Logan…Logan had some personal thing with him. Said it was your father's fault he couldn't remember who he was and it is also your father's fault that he has all that metal in him." Kurt wasn't sure why he was explaining everything to him, but it just felt like the thing to do.

"Logan…." Jason said softly. "You mean the wolverine?" Uncertainty was thick in his voice.

"Yes." Kurt answered.

"I know him. I was really little, but I remember him." Jason said.

"How? Did your father work with him?" Kurt asked. He wanted to find out as much as he could about Logan as to help him remember who he was.

"More like on him. Experiments and whatnot. I don't know everything. I only know that my father convinced the wolverine into coming in and undergoing this surgery. I didn't know what kind though. Only that it involved re-enforcing his skeleton. My father had planned on erasing his memory directly afterwards but he had escaped. I guess they caught up to him since you said he can't remember anyway." Jason informed him.

"If you don't mind me asking, how do you know all of this?" Kurt asked.

"My father had me frozen. I could still hear and see though. I was able to find out what was going on around me. Maybe just in bits and pieces, but I got the basic ideas." He explained.

"Your father really was horrible to you." Kurt said more to himself than to Jason.

"You have no idea. That seems so insignificant compared to everything else he has done. This whole lobotomy was just the end result. His grandest gesture of love." An ugly sneer crossed Jason's face again. "How are you getting me out?" He asked changing the subject.

"Could you possibly hold your breath for about 30 seconds and I could bring the chair right after?" Kurt asked.

"Not unless you want to keep my spinal cord with the chair as well." Jason said.

"What?" Kurt asked.

"My spinal fluid was being drained by a machine so my father could use it to control mutants to do his bidding. I'm still connected to that machine." Jason said. He was getting tired of giving Kurt his life story, and even more tired of having to think about everything his father had done to him.

Kurt absentmindedly rubbed the back of his neck where a circular mark was still branding his skin.

"Alright." Kurt sighed. "I'll hold on to you from the side and see if that works. I just don't know if I will have enough energy for both at the same time."

Jason nodded. The illusion stopped and Kurt now faced the incapacitated man. He walked over to Jason and stood by his side. Kurt knelt down and wrapped his arms around Jason and the back of the chair and gripped as tight as he could. He wrapped his tail around Jason as well for some extra support. He closed his eyes and teleported out to where he had left Tori and the pieces of Cerebro.

They appeared there with a loud 'bamf' and Tori, who had been taking pictures of various things around her, jumped. She turned around and saw Kurt let go of Jason and the wheelchair. Tori smiled.

"What took you so long?" She asked.

"I had a problem trying to figure out how to get him and the chair out. I was afraid I would leave part of him behind if I didn't have a strong enough hold on him." Kurt explained.

"Oh, alright." Tori said. "When do we get out of here?"

Kurt glanced at his watch. "About 5 or so more minutes. The jet will land right over there." Kurt pointed somewhere off in front of them.

"Jet?" Tori asked. "Can't I just drive myself there? I mean, why does he need me anyway? I don't know him."

Jason's eyes snapped from their apathetic stare at the ground to a fixed stare on Tori. Kurt vanished and Tori faced Jason who was standing in front of her.

"You seemed alright with going when you were stuck in there with me. Why the sudden change?" He asked slightly annoyed. There was no way he was going back to face the professor without Tori going. As far as Jason was concerned they were in this together now.

"I'm just not good with planes, besides, he doesn't need me." Tori said.

"So what. The blue guy was told to bring back everyone he found." Jason said. To Tori it sounded like he was trying to convince her into going. Almost like when a younger sibling tries to get their older sibling to take them somewhere.

"But what good would I being there do?" Tori asked. "He only wants you."

"I'm not going back there without you." Jason said and stopped the illusion. He remained staring at her with a hint of anger in his eyes.

"Hello?" Kurt asked Tori.

Tori looked at him. "What?"

"I was talking to you and you weren't answering. Was he….?" He looked at Jason.

"Yeah, but it's all good." Tori sighed. "Fine. I'll go." The last comment was directed more so at Jason than Kurt.