The Prayer of the Children part 4
"Okay Jeannie let's say we wanted to play a little game, do you want to play?" Matt asked Jean showing her his gun.
"No, I don't want to play one of your games," Jean told him and then refussed to look at him.
"What if, if you didn't then someone dies?" Matt told her.
"Why are you doing this?" Jean asked him.
"Because I hate this school and eveyone hates me! That's why, that and the fact that I can," he told Jean.
"I don't hate you and I know other people who don't hate you," Jean told him.
"You're just saying that," Matt said pushing the gun closer to Jean's head. "So, Jeannie up for getting some more of our beloved classmates set free?"
"What do I have to do this time?" Jean asked him.
"I'm going to take all but one bullet out of my gun and then spin the barrell and then you point the gun at your lover boy and pull the trigger. If he survives then he can go." Matt told her as she closed her eyes and rested her head on her hands.
"You do it or I make sure he dies," Matt told her. "Come on Jeannie," Matt pulled Jean by her arm and pulled her to the front of Scott Summers' desk. He pulled of her hands to the gun's trigger.
"I'm sorry Scott," Jean said starting to cry. The gun simply clicked, Scott and Jean were both relieved.
"Okay you go," Matt told Scott.
"Can Kitty go in my place?" Scott asked. "Please?"
"Fine. Kitty Pryde may be dismissed," Matt told her as she left the classroom. "Hey nine to two ratio, it's getting better. Now Jean since Kitty's gone we're going to have to do Scotty here again in a minute, so you can say you're sorry again after you say you're sorry to Trevor and Chelsea." Matt pulled her to the next desk.
"I'm sorry..." Jean was forced to pull the trigger again, but it only clicked again and they let Trevor leave class. Matt pulled Jean to Chelsea's desk, the gun once again only clicked and Chelsea was let go. After Chelsea exited the room, Jean pulled the trigger aimed at the floor, it shot out the bullet and Matt slapped her in anger.
"Now I'm just going to reload it, you're just making this harder!" Matt said angerly as he replaced the bullet with a new one and spun the barrell. He pulled Jean to the next student's desk, and then the next, and the next, and all three were allowed to leave.
"Let's see we've got a four to two ratio left. Okay we've got three more contestants left." Jean again approached two more desks and pulled the trigger, but the gun only clicked. The two students were released and then Scott and Jean only remained. "One barrell left and one bullet left, hey that's pretty good odds Scotty boy. Oh and hey you're girlfriend gets to kill you! That's gotta be a bonus or something!" Matt laughed as he pulled Jean directly in front of Scott Summers and the gun to level with his head only a few inches away. Matt pulled Jean's fingers and pulled the trigger, the bullet left the barrell of the gun and was heading to Scott's head when Jean stopped it. Jean Grey began to cry as she fell to the floor, keeping that bullet still was straining her.
Matt and Devin stopped what they were doing in amazement at what was going on. Scott slipped out of his desk seconds before Jean let the bullet go.
Scott then hit Matt unconscious and they stood up to see that Devin had no idea what to do without Matt telling him what to do. "I'm putting the gun down....see...see," Devin said nervously as he put the gun on the floor and put his hands in the air. Scott took off Matt's belt and wrapped his hands behind his back and then did the same with Devin. Scott picked up Matt and Devin marched next to Jean as they all finally left the classroom that had been their prison.
They walked out the front doors of the school and the police surrounded all of them not knowing who they were.
"It's okay," Ms. Mayfield limped up behind the officers, "these two are the bad guys and they are my students that took care of me." Ms. Mayfield pointed them all out in turn when it came time. "My students are all now accounted for safe and sound."
"Oh and by the way officers, there are two guns in the classroom. One should be loaded and one should be empty," Scott told them.
"Thank you," one of the police officers told him.
"Ms. Mayfield you shouldn't be on your feet," Jean told her teacher.
"She's right," Scott told her.
"I know I just needed to make sure everyone was okay. You're okay right?" she asked tham.
"Yeah, we're okay," Jean told her.
"Jean! Scott!" Kitty yelled from behind them.
"They're okay!" Kurt yelled.
"What took you two so long?" Logan asked joking.
"We're glad you're okay," the professor told them.
"We're glad to be out," Scott told him.
"Jean what's wrong?" the professor asked her sensing that something was wrong.
"I could have killed Scott twice and....I don't really feel safe to come to school."
"I'm okay Jean," Scott told her pulling her into his arms.
"I don't blame any of you for not feeling safe. This is a terrible thing to happen to anyone, you shouldn't have had to go through that. I wish there wasn't any violence in the world at all, but there is and I hope someday there won't be any."
"School is cancelled until further notice," Principal Darkholme announced to the students still around.
"Let's go home," Jean told them.
"Good idea," Scott seconded pulling Jean closer to him.
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The End
This is a horrible thing to happen to anyone and it is especially scary that it could happen to anyone and at anytime at any school. To not feel safe is the most horrible feeling that you can have when you have to return to that place everyday. It's like having your sancturay violated because school even though it can be boring at times, it's the place we gather together with friends and no one should have to feel threatened at all. Hopefully oneday someday in the future we or our children generations down will never feel unsafe or afraid of violence because it will no longer exist.