Author's Note: Thank you, Dancing Eyes, for my first review. I hope it's the first of many. I write fan fiction to amuse myself, but I post it for other people to also enjoy. That being said, let's get on with the story. I still don't own any of the Marvel characters; however, Dr. Susanne Rosen belongs to me.

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The next day, Bruce called Susanne to tell her that he got an all expense paid trip to Washington thanks to General Ross and there was a young man at the school that use some crisis intervention. Bruce went to see Xavier. "My therapist is coming to see Bobby today. You will not mess with her head."

"I shall just make her forget the location after she leaves, so she can't lead anyone back here," said Xavier.

"Fair enough," said Bruce. "Tony had a hard time finding a therapist willing to treat the Hulk. I would like to keep her."

"You need your therapy," said Xavier. "I wouldn't take her away from you. Maybe, you can find a therapist for Logan because I can't do anything more for him."

"You're giving up on Logan," said Bruce.

"I would never give up on him," said Xavier. "His mind is too damaged for me to tamper with. He needs to find some other way to get the answers he needs."

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Bruce opened the door for Susanne and hugged her. "How's it going?"

"Mike and I talked and he decided, if I was going to continue to treat you, I could find another boyfriend." Susanne wiped a tear off her face. "He said he wouldn't be there when I returned home." Then she noticed the IV pole. "That's glucose."

Bruce showed her the IV in his arm. "I'm still diluting the shit General Ross gave me. I'm a bit less woozy than I was yesterday."

"I don't know how much help I'm going to be today," said Susanne. "I'm going through my own crisis at the moment."

"I shouldn't have egged him on by talking about the mutant registration act." Dragging his IV pole, Bruce followed Susan. "A lot of people are uncomfortable about mutants, especially when it comes to mutants teaching their children."

After walking into the mansion that was converted into a private school, Susanne sat on the living room sofa. "How did you end up in General Ross's care?"

"Either Sif's doctor or someone who works there squealed," said Bruce. "My students rescued me. I can't imagine the look on the General's face when he was told he was outdone by a pregnant woman and a group of high school students."

"I can speak to all the students that rescued you," said Susanne. "Then I can speak to Bobby alone if he wants."

Sif and Bruce had the students that rescued him come to his classroom. Logan also came. Three boys and two girls. The Asian girl looked tougher than the two of the boys, but the youngest of the group was a small girl that looked as harmless as Bruce, which meant she probably was the most dangerous. Susanne had learned not to judge a book by its cover, especially when it came to gifted persons.

Susanne said, "Can you tell me your names?"

The tough-looking girl, Jubilee, spoke first. Then they went left to right: Douglass, Bobby, Piotr and Kitty.

"I heard you rescued Dr. Banner," said Susanne. "You must like your teacher a lot."

"He's a cool teacher," said Douglass. "After Rogue zapped him, he could have packed his bags and left, but he stood his ground."

"That took chutzpah," said Kitty.

"Are you all in his advanced class?" asked Susanne.

"All but Kitty," said Bobby.

"Next year," said Bruce.

"What made you go to Washington DC after your teacher?" asked Susanne.

"He was in trouble," said Jubilee. "Douglass and Logan tried to sneak off without us. Mrs. Banner stopped them. She needs to teach us some of those moves she did on the guards in our next self-defense class. They couldn't have gotten in without Kitty. Well, they could have by making a lot more noise and wouldn't have got out as quickly."

"We needed you to turn off the power," said Piotr.

"I short-circuited a few electrical panels," said Jubilee. "It was nothing."

"Why didn't you just let Douglass, Logan and Mrs. Banner go?" asked Susanne.

"We're X-Men," said Kitty.

"And?" said Susanne.

"Dr. Banner has a medical condition - too much stress causes his body to metamorphosize - it isn't any different that having diabetes," said Kitty, "since adrenaline is a hormone like insulin. We couldn't let him be experimented on by military doctors wanting to create better soldiers."

"You aren't frightened of him?" asked Susanne.

"No way," said Kitty. "He's a good teacher."

Jubilee said, "We were a bit scared of Rogue when she changed into the she-hulk. I'm embarrassed to say that I ran out of the room. Kitty and Douglass also ran."

"I teach at a small community college one night class a week and I don't think any of my students would rescue me if I was kidnapped," said Susanne. "I find you all to be amazing."

"The police and FBI would find you if you were kidnapped," stated Douglass. "The government kidnapped Dr. Banner. It isn't the same thing."

"Mr. Stark and his other Avengers friends could have rescued him," said Susanne. "Why didn't you let the adults handle it?"

"Because I knew where he was," said Douglass.

Susanne said, "Bobby, I heard you killed a man."

"It was self-defense," said Bobby. "Bullets don't bounce off me and I don't heal like Mrs. Banner and Mr. Logan. I was only trying to keep him from hurting me and the others. I didn't mean for him to freeze like that."

"Bobby, why did you come?" asked Susanne.

"In case, the lab got set on fire," said Bobby. "One chemical hits another and boom. We didn't want to be fleeing a fire. I also put up ice walls to keep more soldiers from coming. Dr. Banner got out before they were able to shatter the ice. I could hear them breaking the barriers. The floor gets all wet and all these soldiers are falling down or trying to ice skate."

"That makes sense," said Susanne.

"Those slippery floors kept them from shooting at us while we were escaping," said Bobby.

Kitty said, "I grabbed Piotr and the three of us escaped through the walls, but everyone else needed a doorway."

"My parents had acted like I'm a monster," said Bobby. "My touch killed someone."

Susanne said, "After I talk to the others, we can talk alone."

"Talking isn't going to change anything," said Bobby.

"No, but it can help you cope," said Susanne. "I talk to Dr. Banner a lot about accepting himself as he is."

The doorbell rang while they were talking.

Sif said, "Let Cyclops or Storm get it."

"I'll get it," said Logan. A few minutes later, Logan came back. "It was General Ross. I hope the Professor changes him into a six year old girl. He threatened to do that to me when I smoked in Celebro."

"Logan, go take a cigar break," said Sif. "I'll join you outside."

Logan huffed but left the room. After Sif gave Bruce a kiss, she followed.

Seeing that Bruce was barely keeping his eyes open, Susanne said, "Bruce, do you need me to walk you back to your room?"

"That would be nice," Bruce said pushing his IV stand with him as he walked.

As Bruce led her to his room, Susanne let him lean on her. After they were in his bedroom, Susanne helped him into bed. "I would help you undress, but I can't get your shirt off without taking out your IV."

"Just take my shoes off," said Bruce. "I'm tired enough to sleep fully clothed."

Susanne took off his shoes and put them under his bed. Then she watched him curl up on the bed and fall asleep. Although she hated General Ross for drugging Bruce, she hoped that Professor Xavier didn't change him into a six year old girl. However, that would be funny. She smiled to herself as she left the bedroom to let Bruce sleep.

Running most of the way, Susanne returned to the classroom. "Did you miss me?" she said to the three students sitting on chairs and the other two sitting on the table. Each of the tables had 3 chairs. With 6 tables, the classroom could hold 18 students. She didn't imagine they ever had more than 15 students in here at one time.

"Is Dr. Banner alright?" asked Kitty, one of the students sitting on the table.

"He just needs to sleep it off," said Susanne. "The drugs should be nearly out of his system. He'll probably need to be on a feeding tube, again, until he gets his strength back."

"The poor man," said Kitty.

"He is very lucky to have students like you." Susanne sat on the teacher's desk and waved her feet in the air. "Do you want to talk about what happened?"

After she talked to the whole group without the other adults present for a few minutes, she talked to Bobby alone and gave him her number, if he needed to talk later. When she got home, she couldn't remember how she drove to the school or the name of the school. Also she, somehow, lost the directions, even on the computer. No big deal, if she needed to go there, again, she would call Bruce.