Sorry I haven't updated in awhile! I went on vacation and have to say that I was dying to come back and write some more! I'm finally here now and hopefully will makeup for the time lost! Enjoy!
Clara sighed as she tossed another journal into the bin, "I don't even do this kind of crap for myself"
She deeply inhaled before she picked up another journal and flipped to the first page. Clara picked up her coke and drank it, half wishing it was alcohol. She glanced over to the bin on her left as she noticed the ones to be graded was much more filled than the ones she did grade, Clara let out a groan and hung her head. Her front door opened and then suddenly closed, making Clara glance up to see who had come in. Jean Grey stood there with her back nearly to the door as she stared at Clara, almost as if she didn't recognize her.
"Hey, Jean" Clara greeted.
"I need your help" Jean hesitated, "I know you know what I'm about to ask. I know that the Professor has told you about my vision. And I know that I wasn't the only one who had a vision the night I had a nightmare"
"Come away from the door before someone hears you" Clara shushed her as she ushered the woman closer, "These kids don't know that kind of stuff"
Jean rushed over and sat on the chair in front of Clara, "But you do! You saw a vision that meant the end of the world. So did I! The Professor didn't believe me when I told him. I don't even have to read his mind to know that much"
"Okay, when I said to move away from the door, I didn't mean raise your voice" Clara said calmly, "Jean, sometimes visions can come as dreams where people see symbols and it's meant to be something but in the end it's not"
Jean scoffed and shook her head, "But you don't believe that! Even now, I can sense that you're scared of the vision you saw and it's not because of your boyfriend from the past. You sensed the power of that… mutant and knew that he was pure chaotically evil. I tried explaining to the Professor but he won't listen to me"
Clara asked, "And you want me to convince him?"
"Someone has to!" Jean let out in a panicked voice.
Clara sighed as she was about to tell Jean nearly exactly what Charles had told her a couple of days ago but then it stopped in her throat. What he said didn't settle with Clara at all and she knew this wouldn't help calm Jean also. She looked at the woman's grey, hopeful eyes as Clara noticed that Jean came to her as her last hope. She didn't hae the heart to turn the teenager away when that's what Charles did to her.
Clara leaned back in her seat, "What did you see?"
Jean blinked as she said, "Buildings were torn down, screaming people, and death with fire all around"
"What?" Clara glanced up, "Fire as in someone was creating the fire?"
"I couldn't tell, but it was dark and had the sole purpose to destroy"
Clara tensed up, "Like an inferno"
Clara felt her heart sink as she knew only one person who could cause destruction by fire… herself. She twirled her ring around and around on her finger as her mind went into a far off-daze. She has fallen to Erik's seducing commands before when he wanted her to do something similar to that.
"It wasn't you" Jean let out, sensing her thoughts, "I think it was me. I've been feeling this new power grow inside of me. Almost every time I lose control of my powers, something inside of me is controlling it. Wanting me to lose myself to my powers. I hate to say this but each time I lose control, it seems happy. Enjoying that I can't do anything about it"
"Are you saying that there's another mind within you?" Clara asked carefully.
Jean snapped her eyes over to her, "I'm not schizophrenic"
"I didn't say that" Clara waved out her hands.
Jean only gave her a look before she raised her eyebrow. Clara sighed and rolled her eyes and nodded.
"Okay, I might've thought it" Clara told her.
"Can you help me?" Jean finally asked.
Clara answered, "I'm not even too sure I can"
Jean sighed, "So you're just not going to do anything then"
Clara looked to her, "I meant that I can't help you because I've already tried. The first time I had a vision Charles blew it off and didn't want to help, just like you, I know that Charles isn't going to go to Cerebro anytime soon because he thinks that's what's best for me"
Jean shook her head, "But he's wasting time"
Clara scoffed, "You're preaching to the choir"
Jean glanced over to her, "Try again. Try to get another vision and this time have him be near to see how urgent the matter is"
Clara picked herself up and leaned herself onto the desk and stared at the girl in front of her.
Clara raised her eyebrow, "And what about you? I can't just do that and risk you tapping into my mind again"
"Do it when I'm awake"
"Jean…" Clara shook her head, "Those visions were intense. Probably the most intense that I've felt since having visions"
Jean's eyes softened as she sensed her fear, "You're scared for Erik. You've never seen him like this before and it terrifies you. You're scared of what he's become-"
Clara cut her off, "Please don't read my mind"
Jean blinked, "Sorry"
Clara shook her head, "It's alright"
"Aren't you scared to know what will happen if you don't intervene?" Jean prodded, "Maybe your visions are telling you what will happen if you do nothing. Whether you conjured them or not, our connected visions are trying to tell us both the same thing. They're trying to tell us that the end of the world is coming"
Clara sighed, "That's what I was afraid of"
"We have to tell the Professor. He doesn't have visions like we do" Jean told her, "Either way, we're running out of time. If we wait any longer than it might be too late"
"And not just for Erik"
"For the entire world. This being wasn't like anything I've ever felt and his mind is ancient. It's not evolved to the changes that have happened now. Who knows what he's got planned for us"
"Alright, I'll talk to Charles" Clara nodded, "He'll be back in the afternoon"
Jean looked uneasy, "You actually will do this for me? You don't think I'm crazy? You're not going to brush this off and hope that I will stop ranting about this? You will actually help me"
"If I can't get Charles to see what's about to happen in the near future than I will do everything in my power to stop it from happening myself" Clara promised.