Chapter 84 - The Situation (1/2)

(X Mansion)

Wolverine and Charles Xavier quietly looked ahead as they stood in Cerebro. Images flashed beside and around them, but they kept their gaze firmly on the red head sitting in the chair. ”You sure this is a good idea Chuck?” Wolverine was the first to speak up in the tense silence.

Charles, who was next to him, gave a small side glance before continuing to look at Jean. ”She will be fine my friend. And...” *Sigh* ”She might be our only chance. I don't know how Laura escaped the mansion or got out of those Adamantium cuffs, but you saw the room she was in...”

Charles stoped for a second as he remembered the sight which used to be the room Laura stayed in. ”Something happened that night and whatever it is, it has shielded her from me. I have tried my hardest but have only been getting erratic signals from her ever since, I can't pinpoint her.” *Clench* Logan gripped his hands hard enough that they made a small sound.

When he found out Laura, his de-facto daughter had gone missing he had been the first to want to find her, but it had been raining the night she escaped, he couldn't track her scent and even when Chuck used Cerebro he couldn't find her.

Charles saw and felt the frustration that Logan was projecting but didn't mention it. ”Jean might be our only hope in finding her now. I don't know why Jean's powers have been increasing ever since that day, but if there is a chance it will be all up to her.”

Charles was telling the truth and also lying when he said that, he truly didn't know it happened, but he did know why her powers were increasing. He knew something happened when she first fainted, but he didn't know what. All the barriers he had placed in her mind to help her control her powers were being taken down faster than he could do anything about it.

He had tried to put the barriers back up, but they had been destroyed in seconds. He didn't want to keep trying in case Jean caught wind of what he was doing. He wanted to protect her but knew she might not see what he had done that way.

He didn't actually want her to be flexing her new powers so soon, he wanted her to wait, but Jean had been insistent for some reason on doing the task, and he could find no reason to deny her. Both turned quiet as they continued to watch the back of Jean as she went searching for Laura.

If they could have seen her face at that moment they would have noticed her eyes open, open but blank to the world around her. Her beautiful green eyes held a ting of red to them, like an inferno waiting to start and with every second the inferno grew brighter and brighter. 'Where are you?'

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