While Scott went straight to his room wanting to sleep off the concussion, Rachel showed Remy the house and a room he could stay in. While Logan helped Rouge to her room.

"So dis is a school, and I live here in da future?" Remy looked around

"Yeah, you still haven't' quite found your place, but you live here and help the team fight" she explained leaving out the part about Rouge

"So you and da metal man are a ting ya?" he asked as she opened the door to his room

Rachel laughed, "No" Remy delighted in the answer

"So why not get dat drink no?" he suggested "Maybe a little black jack and see where da night takes us"

Rachel smiled as he stepped towards her. She rested her hand on his chest, "I'm sorry for leading you on tonight Remy, but I had to get you to trust me"

He shook his head disappointed, "Dats what I get for playing cards wid beautiful women"

She smiled, "Get some sleep"

Remy shut the door with a nod, "Good night cherie"

She needed sleep herself as she rubbed her neck walking back to her room. She found Logan at her door leaning against the threshold. His concerned look still present.

She sighed, "Logan, not now"

He held up a bandaid, "Trust me, no one likes sleeping in bloody sheets"

Is this all meant to happen anyways. These sentinels….maybe it's just destiny

Rachel thought about the word destiny and let out a chuckle as she took the bandaid out of his hand

Logan watched her, "What?"

She shrugged looking at the gift, "You once said you didn't believe in it anymore" she looked down, "after you came back" She never had to read him in her time, to Rachel Logan was pretty open, she understood him in a way no one did. But the one day she did, the day she really looked in his eyes and saw what he had seen, felt and remembered was the day she truly knew Logan wholly. "And saw Jean alive"

Logan leaned back, "I told you that" he was surprised he'd let anyone in like that. Let a lone Jean's own daughter. Rachel nodded though,

"More or less." She answered. It was after their first night, she had figured Logan had left as she rolled over. But she turned to face him, awake looking at her in a way he'd never looked at anyone before. She told him that he was the one person she'd never read, she couldn't. But he just looked back at her with a smile and said "Go for it" knowing he didn't want to hide anything from her.

It was their last night of peace together. Logan watched her carefully trying to understand "It's true though, she made it in the end, she can control her power"

Rachel looked down, "It's not that simple" she said shaking her head, "Least that's what it's turning out to be"

"In your future, what else happens?" he asked

"Storm went on to head the school with your help" she added ignoring his comment

Logan was caught off guard, "Me?" he said, "And storm?"

Rachel nodded. She couldn't tell him, not with her mother here, alive. She knew coming back and seeing her mother and Logan in this time would be hard, it wasn't until recently that her feeling developed for Logan and their relationship changed. But she couldn't jeopardize what they had by changing it,

"You changed, and this became home. About a year after you woke up into this new reality" she said, "You said once you saw how things were, you were able finally stop running"

Logan looked at his fists as the metal shot out. "Do I have these in your future?"

Rachel nodded. "Do you know how I got em" he asked. Rachel nodded again

"Then I didn't change. I ran to Magneto and let him do this to me, because I still am an animal, I can't change who I am"

"Just because you have an animal inside, doesn't mean you can let it control you" she said closing her eyes. She let the energy flow through her as her hands started to glow. The energy rose and the ball of light started to spin while opening her eyes.

Logan watched as he'd seen it before, but nowhere near as controlled. Jean would be out for days if she'd reached that level of power. He looked at her, "How are you doing that" he asked

Rach closed her palm, "The Phoenix doesn't control me" she said, "This gift was given to me because the animal saw that I was worthy of it's possession, and a gift as powerful as ours does have the ability to control us, but only if we let it"

Logan never thought of it as a gift, he had still been stuck in the past, the old past, considering all that he had lost, "You know though, what I lost. This will never be a gift for me"

Rachel tried to smile, "You know what I lost as well in order to inherit this. Mine wasn't a gift either"

Logan raised an eyebrow, "Oh yea, and what was that"

Rachel stepped inside her room "I can't tell you that Logan, I'm sorry" And with that she shut the door, looking into his eyes, trying to pry herself away even though she wanted nothing more than to tell him everything, to have him hold her in his arms and protect her through this.

"So Eric wasn't cooperative" Charles looked out the window of his study, "I shouldn't be surprised he isn't here after just that" he said disappointed

"That helmet does it's job, I couldn't get in his mind" Rachel said defeated

"And you shouldn't, Eric's mind is full of rage, hatred, he only sees one thing, that mutants are the superior and that humans are the ones who should be succumbing. He will never see any unity in between our races" Charles explained

"But he did" Rachel argued, "He let go of the helmet, he came around again"

Charles sighed wondering if he'd see it without having to lose Jean, "Who's next then?" he shook his head, "We should concentrate on getting everyone together"

Rachel nodded following the Professors plan, "Next one should be someone you knew once…" Rachel started raising an eyebrow

Why did you never tell Scott his very own brother was part of your school

Charles rubbed his bald head at a loss, "By the time the school was back up and running again Alex wanted nothing to do with mutants, he wanted to live a life of anonymity after the war" he shrugged, "He came close to becoming another one of Trask's guinea pigs, he wanted to hide"

Rachel nodded, "It didn't help, when Alex showed up. He came back in, older, harder from the war, from being on his own. It wasn't a happy reunion between them, Scott even left at one point"

"I have made my own share of mistakes in my life, and other potential lifetimes I gather, if there is a way that I can make it right again tell me Rachel, how can I do it" he asked

"You need to tell Scott about Alex before he comes" she shrugged, 'That's if he even agrees to"

"How did he the first time?" Charles asked

"You died…" she answered flatly. Charles away still trying to come to terms with his apparent fate

"It was how Eric ended up coming back as well actually" She remembered "He was broken when you died, wanted to put an end to it all, the way you would have wanted, so he helped run the school, with Alex, and the others that survived the Phoenix"

"What makes you think he'll come now?" Charles asked

She thought for a moment, "Maybe Jean and I should go on this one"

"Two telepaths?" Charles asked, "But will you be able to keep Jean out while making Alex see the future?"

Rachel nodded certain, "You were a good teacher Professor"

He tried to smile, "Not good enough though to some I'm afraid" he said looking out his window hoping this will change their future, that they would still have a chance at survival. "If you think you'll be able to handle it, I trust you" he admitted. He didn't know her, but she knew him. She seemed to be the Jean he had hoped Jean would grow into herself.

But Rachel was different. The things she had to do made Charles wonder just how strong she was. No one should have to go through what she went through.

As Rachel listened to Charles she watched out the window at the kids playing outside, while Logan watched from the garden giving a lesson. Charles shook his head, "You are best to keep up that guard of yours" he said

"I'm trying" she said, "I can't do it again, I can't loose him all over again" or her family for that matter.

"Logan isn't the man you know in your time. He's not there yet, he's still a man stuck in his own past and future, trying to come to grips where he is" Charles explained

She understood, "I don't; know about him, but I don't know if I can come to grips, I don't heal as fast as him"

"Maybe one day" He tried to smile.