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Chapter 3

Lena ran to the medical lab to see the cause of the Phoenix's escape, though she didn't need to she knew it had been Logan. Walking in she saw the Professor and Storm with Logan.

"It maybe to late" the Professor said opening his eyes

"You should have listened to me" Lena said as she walked into the lab glaring at Logan who was sitting on the floor with Storm squatted down next to him.

"I'm afraid you were right" the Professor said looking solemnly at Lena.

"I know where she would go. She would go to the last place Phoenix roamed free, where she feels comfortable"

"Yes you're right Lena." The Professor wheeled himself out. Storm stood up and looked at Lena frowning

"What happened to you?" Lena furrowed her brows

"What?" Storm gestured to a small cut on her face. Lena put a hand up and saw blood

"Oh a smaller rock must have hit me while I was fighting." Storm was shocked

"Fighting? Who?"

"Phoenix. I would have beaten her too if Bobby didn't come outside. She used him against me"

"Lena she could have killed you." Lena hugged Storm trying to calm her down

"Storm I'm fine just a small cut. Go see the Professor he wants to talk, Logan and I will meet you up there." Storm just nodded and walked out.

Logan stood up and tried to follow Strom but Lena threw him up against the wall. She stood five feet in front of him; her eyes burned with fury.

"What the hell were you thinking? What that she would wake up and be Jean? I got a little news for you, the wake up call you need." Logan struggled trying to free himself from the wall.

"She's dead Logan. Jean is gone she's been replaced with the most evil son f a bitch you can think of. Phoenix will destroy anything and anyone that blocks her path that includes you." Lena turned away form him trying to keep her temper down

"Kid what happened to you to make you into this cold, frigid bitch?" Lena turned to look at him

"What did you just say to me?" Logan stared her down

"Before you went down you were nice, happy kid now you're stone. You don't feel and don't care."

"You stupid, ignorant bastard. You have no idea what I've been through, what I've had to live with and what I'm going to have to do. You think I don't care? I'm the one that cares the most that I promised to give up my childhood innocence and my heart not to mention probably my life."

"So tell me kid. I'm obviously not going anywhere." Lena shook her head

"You want to know, fine." she hopped onto the metal table that Jean had once laid on, the same table she floated over for months.

"When I was a kid, not even 5 yet the Professor took me into the danger room and started training me to fight the most powerful being he had come in contact with. Then after a couple years he brings me into his office to tell me that the being that I'm going to have to kill someday is the woman that has taken me in as her daughter. The woman that I most loved was going to turn into this evil monster that was going to kill everything we know and love. How about that oh then he took me into one of his sessions with Jean and the Phoenix, you should have heard her, she said the most gruesome things and the scary part is she was dead calm as she said every word. So from that day on I kept training, kept developing my powers. Not to long after that fiasco the Professor brings me down to the medical lab and puts up a block in my head so that I can store most of my power, so that I don't intimidate any of the students and to save it for when the Phoenix broke free." Lena looked back up to Logan who looked stunned

"Any questions?" he shook his head. Tired Lena dropped Logan and led the way into the Professor's office.

When they entered Storm and the Professor looked at them. Without giving anyone else time to say anything the Professor spoke

"Logan you come with me and Storm. We are going to the childhood home of Jean Grey."

"I'm coming" Lena stood her ground

"No. You already fought her once and it drained you. Look at yourself you can hardly stand on your own." he argued. Lena looked over at Storm accusingly

"No it wasn't Storm; it was your friend Bobby. I heard his thoughts on the way back here. Go get some sleep"

Lena bowed her head defeated "Fine but if she gets mad get out of there" the Professor nodded, then sent her off to her room.

Opening the door Lena walked straight to her bed. It was big and fluffy; she had to work overly hard just to get the extra comfortable mattress. Lena sighed as she laid down and the pillow like surface moulded to her body. Instantly she fell into a deep sleep.

Images flew past her mind. There memories and predictions of the future. Her mind reeled with various people dieing and old images of love and laughter. Unknowingly she started to whimper in her sleep causing Rogue to watch her. As soon as Lena began to toss and scream Rogue went over to her a tried to wake her up.

In Lena's head she watched as the Professor turned into little dust particles just like the boulder had done. She was watching the fiasco through the eyes of Phoenix.

"He's dead, your alone now. No one left to save you, I killed him" the voice of Phoenix sliced through the images and caused Lena to wake up. Her body shot up as she panted trying to catch her breath. Sweat glistened on her body causing it to feel cold and depressing.

"Where is he?" she asked Rogue

"Who?" she asked not knowing what or who she was talking about

"Professor X"

"I don't know he left with Logan and Storm." Lena shot out of bed and went running towards the Professor's office for the second time that day. She busted in the door waiting for the Professor to scold her like he had done for years. Instead of finding the Professor she found Strom, Logan and Hank crying silently.

"It actually happened didn't it? That bitch made me watch her kill him" Storm looked at her sadly and pulled her into a hug. Lena felt the tears pour down, and she felt as each person passed her around to comfort themselves but what Lena didn't feel was when Logan carried her to her bedroom where her friend sat waiting for her.

She mindlessly sat on her bed as Bobby held her to his chest while stroking her hair. The tears would not stop flowing form her eyes, she wondered after a while how one person could leak so much water and not get dehydrated. Soon she feel asleep not remembering the time or who's turn it was holding her.

The next day mutants from all over came to the school for Charles Xavier's funeral. The eldest students sat with them sharing their grief with those around them. Kitty, Bobby, Rogue and Lena sat in the front row watching and listening to Storm who stood proudly up at the podium giving a heartfelt speech about the great things Professor X had done for the school and mutants of the world. As Storm finished her speech barely holding back the hundreds of tear fighting to get out Lena stood up and walked over to her. Giving Storm a tight squeeze Lena took over the audience's attention.

"Charles Xavier knew me my whole life. Nobody knew how I ended up on his door step but he didn't care where I came from just where I was going. He took me in as one of his own, he taught me everything I know now and he gave me a home and a family to love. He was one of the most caring people I will ever know and care for. He has touched so many of us here at the school, many students right now are curled up somewhere in the school mourning over the one man that had come into their lives to help them not hide them. I speak for the entire student body and many of the other mutants out there when I say that we will all miss him and hope for him to finally be at peace. Thank you"

Lena joined Storm and the others in the first row. Everyone stood up for a moment of silence while Rogue placed a single white rose onto the headstone of his grave.

Much later that night Lena walked into her room to see Rogue packing a duffel bag.

"Where are you going?" Lena asked jumping to sit onto Rogue's bed.

"I'm going to get the cure. I…I…I need to be able to have human contact, to be able to touch my boyfriend without the worry of killing him." Lena frowned and placed her legs over top of Rogue's bag to keep her from packing.

"Rogue if this is about Bobby and Kitty skating outside, it doesn't mean anything. Bobby feels nothing for her, Kitty yes she likes him but he, he loves you." Rogues furrowed her eyebrows and opened her mouth

"You're seriously going to ask me how I know?" Lean asked raising her eyebrow. Rogue smiled and chuckled a bit

"I thought you weren't allowed to read people's thoughts" Lena flung her hand out

"Psssh rules went out the window when I got all of my powers back. You know I heard everything you said."

"What?" Rogue pushed Lena's legs off of her bag and continued to pack

"When I was in my coma, I heard everything. I heard who was saying what and every word they said. I was yelling at all of you 'She was here like ten minutes ago, go tell her all of this.' And you oh my god. Rogue Hun I was screaming at you, Bobby and Kitty? Really? He is head over heels for you. It's kind of scary how much he loves you but then again I'm a commitment phob." Rogue broke out in a big smile

"What?" Lena tilted her head

"It's nice to see that you're getting back to your old self. When you came back to us you were different, colder, more scarred."

"Have you been talking to Logan cause he said the same thing. You're still going?" Lena jumped forward and grabbed onto the bag

"At least sleep on it. Please Rogue don't go rush into this, think about it" Rogues looked down at her

"Alright now you go to sleep you've had a bad couple of days" Lena nodded and went over to her own dresser to change then climbed into bed. She watched Rogues as she laid down in her bed

"Good night Lena" Rogue said turning off the light

"Nighty night Rogue and remember you even think about leaving I'll know"

That night as Lena was sleeping Rogue got up and wrote her a note. Silently Rogue placed the letter on top of Lena's dresser and kissed Lena's forehead. Looking back at her friend Rogue felt like she was betraying her bestfriends, like she was leaving Lena without another loved one. Quickly she snatched up her bag and walked out of the room.