The Angel's Departure pt 6



"Has anyone seen Jean?" Scott asked at breakfast.

"No, she wasn't in her room when I got up," Kitty told him.

"Yeah I haven't seen her either man," Evan told Scott.

"Well, she has to be here somewhere. It's a big mansion and big grounds all around it, she has to be somewhere," Logan told them.

"I can't sense Jean...are you sure she's not in her room?" the professor asked. Everyone looked worried except Rogue.

"Wha..What? Then where is she?" Scott asked.

"Rogue do you know anything about this?" the professor asked her.

"No of course not. What would I know about anything?"

"Rogue, this is not a game. If you know where Jean is or have seen her then you must tell us."

"Well I got up this morning, early, and Jean was looking at some pictures in a book with her and a bunch of other cheerleaders and football players. So I asked her where all the pictures of the X-Men were, and she said she didn't have them in an album. No not in a nice book, but in a box. So, I told her that I knew that she thought she was superior to everyone else and then she just started to cry. She ran out of the house and that's the last I saw of her," Rogue explained and she could tell that no one was happy with what she had done.

"Jean hadn't found the right book to put those other pictures in, so she was leaving them in that box until she found the right one. And that book with all the cheerleaders and football players was an assignment that an art teacher had her do while they were away in Florida or Hawaii or something for five days," Kitty told Rogue. "Jean loves us, all of us."

"Kitty's right. Everyone's seen that book, though I didn't know she was thinking of making another scrap book. You shouldn't have upset her Rogue. Jean is going through a very hard time right now," the professor told her.

The door slammed behind Rogue, and she turned around to find that Scott, Evan, Kitty, Kurt, and Logan had left. "They don't want me no more," Rogue told the professor, "I can't blame them."

"They just are all a little mad right now that's all. When they find Jean and she's alright, then they'll stop being angry."

"Then I hope that they find her soon."
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There were so many people around her, but she couldn't hear their thoughts, maybe it was because she was so upset or maybe because she hadn't slept. Jean felt an emptiness in her mind where there were usually other people's thoughts. Jean stepped into her car of the train that her ticket read. The train was about to leave the station when she felt a familar presence in her mind. She looked out the window to see Scott looking frantically for her, Jean didn't know whether to call to him or just stay put. He looked so worried, she didn't want him to worry about her. She stood up and started to walk towards the exit when the train started to move.

"I have to get off!" Jean told the conductor.

"I'm sorry Miss, but there's no way to stop the train now."

Jean went to the nearest window and opened it. "Scott! Scott!" Jean yelled out the window.

Jean watched as he turned and spoted her," Jean!" Scott yelled. "Don't go! Jean!" Scott yelled as he ran after the train. He wanted to catch up to it. In front of Scott, Logan was running to catch the train and managed to jump onboard. Scott stopped running to catch his breath. Kitty, Kurt, and Evan ran up to Scott, they waited for him to catch his breath before they asked their questions. "Logan's on the train," Scott explained.

Scott, Kurt, Kitty, and Evan took a seat to wait for some word of what they should do next. Minutes later, Logan walked up with Jean, the group was extremely surprised to see them both. "I found her," Logan told them. "Let's go home."

"Jean..." Scott said pulling her into his arms, "don't you ever ever leave without talking to one of us or the professor."

"I'm sorry," Jean said looking down at her feet.

"I'm just glad that you're back and you're okay."

"Yeah, Rogue totally over reacted," Kitty told her.

"Now if I after chase after a moving train ever again! Just none of you runaway okay?" Logan asked them and they all nodded.

"Let's go home," Jean told Scott, he nodded and smiled at her. The group left the train station and headed for home.