The Angel's Departure pt 8



Jean's drive with her parents home was uneventful, silent, and yet angry. Her father always seemed angry with her, she didn't like that feeling of anger projected at her. Her mother was calm and quiet, she never argued with her husband, she was the dutiful wife as expected. Sara had not come to court with her parents, her mother had told her that she was at home. As they drove into the driveway, Jean looked at the house she used to call home. The house that would be her prison for a week with her father as the warden. Jean felt like an outsider as she got out of the car and went into the house with her parents. One week, she thought to herself, it seems so long now that I'm back here.

"Jean!" Sara called to her sister and then hugged her. "I missed you!"

"I missed you too."

"Okay, why don't we let Jean rest in her room for a little bit. The court room experience must have drained you."

"Yes, daddy," Jean said looking at her feet and then going up stairs. Her father scared her, she wondered what would have happened if Scott, Logan, and her father had gotten into it. It would have been impossible to seperate them until they killed each other.

Jean looked around at her room, it was just the way it had been left. Nothing was disturbed not even her papers on her desk from her old school. Her mother probably had held onto her room as hope that Jean would return home someday. Jean looked at her phone and decided to see if it still had a dial tone, she held her phone up to her ear, and there was a tone. Jean quickly dialed the institute.

"Hello? Ororo?...It's Jean, yes. Is Scott there?" Jean asked wanting to talk to him. "No? Okay thank you. Bye." She hung up her phone and laid on her bed thinking about Scott.
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Later that day, Kurt, Kitty, Scott, Rogue, and Evan returned back to the institute from school. "Scott wait!" Ororo called as they started up the stairs.

"Yes?"

"Jean called earlier wanting to talk to you.

What's wrong?" Ororo asked.

"Oh? Did she leave a number?" Scott asked hopefully, but Ororo shook her head. "Oh, they removed Jean from all of her old classes."

"Did you see her at school?"

"No, but they said Jean's not in any of her old classes."

"She was probably too tired to finish the last classes after court."

"Yeah you're probably right."

"I hope Jean comes back soon," Kitty told them. "It's so hard to get through only a few classes without Jean and she's not even in those classes."

"Yeah, it's definately not the same without Jean," Evan added.

"Vay they're right."

"Yeah, I guess it does seem a little different without her," Rogue said not really sounding sincere.

"Don't worry there's only six more days until we see her and she comes back home," Ororo told them and they all nodded and headed upstairs to do their homework.
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"Jean! Hurry up or you'll be late for school!" Jean's mother called.

"Coming!" Jean ran down the stairs and was almost out the door.

"Jean where are your books?" Jean's father asked.

"Scott's bringing them, he promised before we went into court. He'll put them in my locker for me. Don't worry everything will be fine. Bye Mom, Dad, Sara."

Jean walked to school that morning. She arrived at school five minutes early and found her books and a few other things in her locker waiting for her. Jean quickly wrote a note and folded it up. Jean started to walk to her next new class, as she passed Scott's locker she slipped the note inside.

The day was uneventful except for the pile of homework that her teachers had given her. Her father told her she was to have as little contact with her friends from the institute as possible. He had agreed to let her have lunch with them as long as she followed all of his other rules until the next court date.

"Hi Jean," Scott said as he sat down next to her. "I got your note and your welcome."

"I was wondering if you could give this note to the professor and this one to Ororo." Jean handed Scott two notes after he nodded. "Thank you."

"Jean!" Kitty said as she sat down with Scott and Jean. "I've missed you so much I have no idea of how I'm suppose to get through this week without you," Kitty said extremely fast.

"Don't worry Kitty. We have five days until I'm home."