Authors Note: Well lookie here another chapter! lol. When I have a day off I enjoy typing so lucky you (yeah right! lol) anyhoo we're back at the mansion now. The next chapter will be awesome I promise, it was great to write!

CHAPTER 19

At the mansion things were becoming a little tense, the Professor had made himself distant from everyone ever since the visit from his old friend.

Scott walked into his room, feeling bone weary he had just done a gruelling danger room session, ever since they had found out that the government were after mutant kind as well, he had been working himself harder knowing that he was the leader of this team and it was his job to look after his team, he just wished that Logan would be home soon, he'd feel better if he had Logan as his back-up.

Scott was a little surprised to see his girlfriend sitting on his bed.

"Hey red, what you doing?" Scott asked, he wasn't bothered by the fact that she was in his room and on his bed; it was the pained look on her beautiful face that bothered him.

"Concentrating." She said quietly and frowned.

"The blocks getting weaker?" Scott asked, it wasn't the first time that it happened, Jean was a gifted telepath the professor was amazed at how strong she was, but the drawback was that the voices in her head were always threatening to drown her out and drive her insane.

The professor was helping to teach her how to make her shields stronger, but since the visit from his old friend he had forgotten his lessons with Jean and she was too soft hearted to remind him.

"It's ok, I'm just trying to get them up again, it's hard but it's getting slightly easier each time I do it." Jean said with the grimace still marring her perfect features, Scott knew that she was competent but he would always worry about her, and he hated feeling helpless and being unable to help her.

He sat behind Jean on his bed and gently rubbed her shoulders and back helping to take the tension away and also show her that he was there for her.

Jean smiled and kept her concentration at building the shields, she had been there for two hours before Scott had entered the room, she had managed to do the big blocking work but she had to block the thoughts of the people that she lived with separately, she hated it though because when she blocked with the professor he deflected their thoughts away from her, but without him she got their thoughts before she could shield her mind from theirs.

She focused on Scott, and was pulled into his thoughts.

Scott was standing in a beautiful clearing, the x-men were all there and they were all surrounding Jean who was smiling radiantly, holding a baby in her arms.

"I love you Jean." Scott said softly.

Jean slammed up her shields and smiled, it was nice to know that her boyfriend was such a romantic sap and it touched her to know that he also thought of them married with their own family.

Jean took a deep breath and focused on her best friend Ororo next.

Ororo was standing before a photographer in a beautiful dress, she was a top model and was loving her life, she was then walking down a catwalk, photographers snapping madly.

Jean smiled; she never knew that her friend wanted to be a model, although she was certainly beautiful enough.

Jean next went to Bobby.

Bobby stood, muscles rippling, his shirt ripped dramatically, his hair long and tousled, he had a scantily clad woman on each arm, who on further inspection turned out to be Wonder Woman and Cat Woman.

Jean smiled, trying to contain a giggle, Bobby was a sweet kid, but his mind was deluded, Jean would have laughed but she still felt guilty about seeing his personal, secret thoughts.

Next was Remy, she hoped that his thoughts weren't too perverted and she focused on him.

Remy was dreaming of a woman, a faceless woman, but though you couldn't see her features you just knew that she was beautiful, and he was worshipping her, happy to have a woman that he could dote on, that he could love.

Jean was shocked who knew that the resident womaniser could be so deep? She smiled, liking Remy more than she previously had.

Jean went to Hank next.

Hank was standing in a room with a beautiful woman, the room was crowded with a rich influential looking crowd and the most obvious thing, was that Hank was being accepted, fur and all.

Jean frowned sadly and came back to herself, she didn't have to worry about the professor thankfully as he always had his own blocks up.

Jean collapsed back into Scott's embrace – exhausted and instantly fell asleep.

Scott hugged his girlfriend close to himself and lay down with her, wondering how he had got so lucky to have such a beautiful woman in his arms and he smiled and drifted off to sleep too.

Ororo was in her beautiful room watering her flowers in her rooftop garden with small rain clouds.

She was fantasising about being a model on the catwalks in Milan, but she knew that, that was just a fantasy she knew that her life had turned out to be much more exciting than that.

She looked around at her room and her garden and she smiled warmly, her flowers were watered so her eyes turned back to blue and she walked into her pretty room, she was so happy that she had finally found a place where people treated her as a person rather than a Goddess.

Jean was a good friend to her, she had never had friends before, just adoring public, all that had changed when James Logan had rescued her away from that life.

James Logan was a hero in her mind, a gruff, surly hero, and she wondered when he would be coming home, he had been gone for so long, she wanted him home so that her new family was whole again.

Ororo sent a little prayer to the Goddess' above and then succumbed to sleep.

Remy was asleep in his room dreaming of her. She had no name, no face but the she appeared in his dreams every night and Remy remembered her when he awoke, and he longed for her. He just hoped that she would be in his life for real some time soon.

Bobby was asleep too in his room, he was dreaming that he was a superhero, the ultimate superhero that everyone else looked up too, including his girlfriends Wonder Woman and Cat Woman. He smiled in his sleep and enjoyed his dream life.

Hank was also dreaming, dreaming of Trish Tilby the gorgeous news caster, she was pro-mutant and amazing, a real spitfire, she was a woman to be admired, and admire Hank did. He dreamt of her and him at a gala and she was proud to be with him and no-one judged him by his furrier exterior.

Whilst the rest of the mansion was in the land of slumber Charles Xavier was in his office, with his head in his hands, a look of pure worry on his face.

Ever since Erik had been to visit him, he had been torn apart, he was upset at the ordeal that his friend had been through but what worried him more was the threat of the government looming over him and his team.

What worried him most however was James Logan, Logan had gone to sort out his last job over a month and a half ago, he was due to return three weeks ago and he hadn't the Professor hadn't worried at the time because he had, had no reason too.

But if the government had camps out there, and experimentation labs, then Logan's lateness home could have a more sinister reason behind it and Charles knew that something must be done about this.

He was giving Logan one week to come home, or at least get in contact, if there was no word then they would be going to rescue him.

He just hoped that his team was up to it.

Authors note 2: Okay you guys here's the build up! Also Rogue will be appearing in this story, but not for a while yet I'm afraid.

Also I've been getting questions about Lorna and Alex - they were mainly used for filler but they will be used again - not sure when though.

Thank you so so so much for the reviews they make me want to continue so all of you who reviewed it's thanks to you that I didn't give up on this in the early stages. :D xx