Chapter 2-The Meeting


Kitty's alarm went off and as usual she turned off the alarm clock by phasing her hand through it. "Rogue we have to get up for school now!" she whined still half asleep.

"You get up first!" Rogue argued.

"Fine!" Kitty said as she sat up in bed only to collapse back into her bed. "Here wait maybe Jean's home! Rogue hurry get up!" Kitty said as she walked out of the room. Kitty walked down the hallway and entered Jean's room only to find it empty. "Jean?" Kitty looked around, but it didn't look like she had been home yet.

"Hey half pint, Jean's missing," Logan told her. "Come on the professor wants to talk to everyone downstairs.

"Missing?" Kitty asked.

"Don't worry we'll find her."

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"As you all know Jean is missing. Logan looked for three hours this morning, but could not locate her or Mr. Matthews. For your own safety you will all remain at the institute until Jean is found. Ororo and Logan will just have to do some home schooling with you."

"Can't you use Cerebro?" Kitty asked.

"I tried, but I couldn't locate her."

"Which means?" Scott asked.

"It means alot of things. The systems could be messed up, I'm going to check it in a few minutes. But we have to face reality, and the reality of it is that the only reasons I might not be able to sense her is because she is either that she is unconscious, seriously injured and unable to respond...or dead."

"What?!" Kitty exclaimed.

"Why do we all have to stay home?!" one of the new student protested.

"For vour vown safety," Kurt told him.

"No one will be able to leave for any circumstance. Only Ororo, the professor, and I can leave unless otherwise instructed. Understood?" Logan asked as all the students nodded in agreement.

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So cold, so dark. Where am I? I can't move! Why? "Hello?" her voice called quietly. No answer. Only darkness and cold. She saw someone move. Who or what was it? Was someone there? Why didn't they answer? Jean Grey was sitting up against a cold stone wall, or at least she thought she was sitting. Scott! she thought, please find me! Professor! Jean tried to contact him, but had no luck. "Where am I?" she asked the darkness hopelessly. What happened? Who was I with? Jean asked herself mentally. "Duncan! I was with Duncan! Duncan are you here? Please Duncan help me?" Jean called, but was no answered and she saw no movement before slowly falling back asleep. Darkness and cold