Chapter 10- Promise Kept
"She's coming home!" Xavier began to read Jean Grey's brain signal after six months of her gone with the Phoenix. Scott will be so happy, Xavier thought to himself. "I'd better go tell him."
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"Really!" Scott exclaimed.
"Yes."
"When?"
"Soon."
"How soon?"
"Very soon, but Scott she may still need to go see Moira."
"But..."
"Scott, just because the Phoenix said it would release Jean to us doesn't mean that she will."
"But the Phoenix promised and I think that she will come back..."
"We'll see Scott, but I want you to be prepared in case the Phoenix does not."
"I understand Professor."
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The Phoenix entered Earth's atmosphere and headed toward New York, toward the institute. The Phoenix was sad to be returning to Earth to let her human host go. Funny, the Phoenix never had emotions before she met Jean Grey, how interesting these emotions. So powerful, but also weakening. How strange humans preceive things in the univesrse.
"I can see home! We're going home?"
Yes I will return you as I promised and thank you.
"Your welcome."
The Phoenix landed on the institute's grounds, leaving Jean on the grass in front of the mansion. She was unconscious and wiped out from the sudden removal of the Phoenix.
Professor Charles Xavier had sent Ororo Munroe and Logan to retrieve her. He had thought it best to keep the children away until they knew how Jean was emotionally and physically. He did not feel it necessary to hurt them or upset them if he didn't have to. She had been gone for six months and in those six months the children at the institute hadn't been the same. They missed her, they were apart of each other and when one was missing...a piece of each and everyone of them was missing. But now she was home...hopefully for good. The professor feared that the Phoenix might come back and use Jean as it's human host once again. Could the other students bear to have her gone for a long length of time again? How could he keep all of his students safe? There were so many dangers in the world, especially for mutants. Normal people hated mutants, but not because they were different perhaps only afraid of the unknown of what evolution might bring....