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Chapter 9

Logan sat in the teacher's lounge trying to pass the time. The only time he taught was when there was danger room sessions- and that was only once a week. He liked the teachers lounge- it was the only place where he couldn't get annoyed by screaming teenagers, even his own bedroom had become a public place- which had been made clear that very morning when Jubilee had burst into his room to find him and Jean sleeping. Jean had been curled up against Logan with her head on his chest and her arm draped across him, his arm had been around her waist. Jubilee now had what she saw as proof to why Jean had left Scott- for Logan. When Jean and Logan woke up to the delighted screams of the teenager neither of them denied it because they both knew it was true.

"What's quite annoying about it all is that if they stay on to be X-Men they are allowed in here." He heard Jeans voice coming from the doorway. He looked up at her- she flashed him her signature smile, it always made him smiled back- no matter what.

"What?"

"You were thinking that you like it in here because it's private."

"And how do you know what I'm thinking?" She looked at him as if he was stupid.

"I am a telepath- it's not impossible for me too read minds." She replied sarcastically. She rolled her eyes and sat next to him on the sofa. "You're lucky- you have been able to sit in here all day away from the kids. All morning I've heard Jubes asking every person, including Bobby, 'if you where Dr Grey who would you rather have- Mr Summers or Logan?'" She sighed in what seemed to be mock despair. She then thought about Scott, which made her suddenly become more serious.

"What am I going to do Logan?" She asked sadly.

"About what?" He furrowed his brow in confusion; he had a feeling she wasn't talking about Jubilee and her antics anymore.

"Scott- when he comes back he needs to know that I know about the fact he has a child. And I also don't know if I should tell anybody."

"Don't see why you shouldn't. You don't exactly owe him anything" Logan paused a moment "except maybe a slap or something." Jean rolled her eyes at him.

"Violence is not the answer Logan."

"Never said it was- it will make you feel better though." She smiled this time.

"True." Her smile faded. "It's just I still can't believe Scott would do that to me- especially because he was constantly accusing me of sleeping with you." Logan raised his eyebrows

"If only." Jean lightly smacked him on the arm.

"I'm trying to be serious Logan- it doesn't work if you keep on being sarcastic."

"Who said I was being sarcastic?" He looked at her the same way he always did when he flirted with her, she blushed and he smirked at her. Just before Jean could retaliate Ororo came in.

"Hey guys- the professor wants us."

"Don't you ever knock?" Logan asked, looking slightly irritated- which made Jean suppress a laugh, she was one of the few people that the irritated look didn't scare- most of the students think that he's going to tear them a new one when he made it

"No? Do I need to?" Ororo looked confused, she looked to Jean for help, but Jean was just smirking, and Ororo took note of how comfortable Jean seemed so close to Logan, which was new. I'll have to mention that to her later. "Well anyway- the professor wants as all now."

"Why?" Jean asked.

"No idea- he didn't say."

"Brilliant." Logan remarked before getting up and walking out the room before the two women, if he got there soon it should be over quicker- he tended to hate X-men meetings, they often ended with him having bullet holes in him or in fact having to drive his own claws through his body.

As Logan walked towards the professor's office he could hear him talking to someone… a woman- he didn't know who it was. When he turned into the door he saw the woman; she was blonde, he guessed some men would find her attractive (although he would not fall into this category). As Jean entered the room behind him he heard her gasp, he turned to se if she was ok- all the colour had drained from her face he started to ask her if she was ok when the professor interrupted him.

"Ah- you're here." He turned back to the mystery woman and then started talking again. "Emma- I trust you remember Jean and Ororo, this is Logan." He pointed to Logan, it seemed that's when it hit him. This was Emma, the woman who Scott had been cheating on Jean with.

"Hi Jean." Emma said sweetly, Jean and Logan could both sense the bitterness behind it- no one else could, but then again no one else knew that Scott was the father of the little girl next to Emma.

"How rude of me," Emma said happily, "this is Celine- my daughter."

"She's so cute." Ororo said excitedly, she'd always loved children. Although Jean couldn't disagree with her, she really was a beautiful little girl, he fair hair framed her small face very well. The only thing that disturbed Jean was the girls eyes- they were a beautiful blue colour. They didn't match Emma eyes, which made it clear she had inherited her eyes from her father. She had Scott's eyes. It disturbed Jean that the first time she had seen Scott's eyes were through his daughter, his daughter that was not hers. She'd always wanted children with him- now she was pleased that she hadn't.

The tension in the room was unbearable, Ororo didn't really know why there was tension. When they were students at the mansion they all got along fine. She looked at Jean and Logan, Jean had a mixture of shock and anger across her face and Logan just looked angry. There was something going on that she didn't know about and that was unusual.

"So, what brings you here Emma?" She tried to break the unbearable silence in the room.

"Celine's father isn't paying child support- I needed a place to stay." She looked complacent, which once again confused Ororo- surely that wasn't something to be smug about. Emma looked at Jean and smirked, then continued talking "I thought coming back here was the best bet."

"Excuse me." Jean said quietly. "I have to go check on something in the lab… sorry." The excuse was poor and easily transparent- everyone knew something was wrong. Ororo saw Logan follow her out the room without saying a word.

Jean didn't go to the lab. Instead she walked straight to Logan's room and sat on the bed, Logan sat next to her, he was unsure of what to do- her face was unreadable. He didn't know if she wanted him there or wanted to be alone. As if she had sensed his troubles she leaned closer to him, resting her head on his shoulder. He put his arms around her- only then did she speak

"Why is she here?" She asked softly. "To make me look like an idiot in front of everyone? I mean when everyone finds out they are all going to be asking me how I didn't know, how come I hadn't figured it out? Why didn't I know Logan- I'm a bloody telepath!" She was angry with herself as much as Emma and Scott, angry that she hadn't figured it out and had wasted years of her life convinced Scott was a the good guy.

"Don't get angry with yourself Jean- it's not your fault."

"I'm angry because I have wasted year of my life with Scott- if I had known or figured it out- I would have been able to move on years ago." She sighed and leaned deeper into Logan's shoulder; shoe brought her legs up onto the bed so she could curl up to Logan's side. "I just don't want everyone laughing at me." She said softly.

"They won't laugh at you, and if they do they'll have me to answer to." Jean smiled and looked up to him. "Everyone's going to find out Jean, they are more likely to be angry at Cyke than laughing at you."

"I guess." She sighed. They sat in silence for a few minutes, both of them just enjoying the closeness of each other.

"Not that I'm complaining but shouldn't we be getting back downstairs."

"Probably."

"So are we going to?" Jean shook her head.

"No- I want to stay like this for a bit longer." Logan smirked and kissed the top of her head.

"Me too red, me too."

Jean sat in the kitchen with a cup of cold tea held firmly in her hands, she had been too busy thinking of the up and coming revelation she had to break to everyone to drink the tea, no matter what Logan said to her a little bit of her was still worried about it.

"Jean?" Jean jumped to the sound of Ororo's voice.

"Hey 'Ro." She said quietly. Ororo sat next to her at the kitchen table.

"Is everything alright Jean, you seem distant." She was concerned for her friend, she hadn't completely been herself since Alkali Lake, and her leaving Scott for Logan was out of character.

Jean couldn't lie. "No, no everything's definitely not alright."

"What's wrong? Did Logan do something?" Ororo asked concerned.

"No! Logan didn't do anything wrong, in fact he's the one who's helping me though this." She looked down at her cup, just tell her straight out, no hesitations.
"Well what is it?"

"You know Emma's child Celine?" Jean asked, she looked at Storm who nodded her head in confusion, wondering what the little girl had to do with this.

"Scoot is her father." She looked at Ororo, her eyes widened in shock.

"What?" Jean nodded to confirm what she had said.

"Yeah- I couldn't believe it either. He spends months accusing me of sleeping with Logan and telling me I shouldn't spend time with him and all along he knew he had a daughter through an affair."

"Bastard." 'Ro said still in shock.

"I know."

"I take it Logan knows."

"Yeah- he's been helping me with it."

"How does she have the nerve to come here?" Ororo asked in disgust.

"Because she only cares about herself." Jean answered. "Don't tell anyone yet 'Ro- I want to come to terms with it all out first before everyone finds out."

"Sure thing." The two women then carried on with conversation, unaware that Jubilee had been standing outside the kitchen, and had heard everything.

Later that Evening Jean walked up to Logan's room, she hadn't seen him since they had found out about Emma's return and guessed he would be there. Logan wasn't the type of person Jean saw herself being with when she had been younger, she had definitely not seen Logan as the person who would make her want to leave Scott, the 'perfect' man. It hurt that Scott had done that to her, had a child with another woman, but she imagined if Logan did that to her it would hurt a lot more and if she was honest with herself more likely to happen. Logan was not the kind of man who settled down, who stuck around when things got hard- well that's what she thought when he first arrived.

He had proved her wrong, he had saved them all from being hurt or killed time and time again. When they had returned from Alkali Lake Scott had shouted at her for doing something so stupid and it had turned into an argument, he didn't understand her reasoning that she was saving them all. At the time she had gone to Logan, hoping he would understand, he just held her as she cried. Logan was very complicated- but that's why she loved spending time with him- there was always something new to learn.

She had thought a lot about their relationship over the past few days. She had told Logan she wanted to take it slow, Jean had never been the person to rush into a decision, and she had never fallen head over heels for anyone before. That was before Logan had turned up. He had completely turned her life around; he was not afraid of anything, or worried what everyone thought of him. She wished she were like that- the idea of the Phoenix was scary enough for her, she was the Phoenix and she knew sometime soon she would have to face that.

She walked into Logan's room; he was lying on his bed staring up at the ceiling.

"Hey Red." He sat up on the bed and just stared at her.

"Hey." She said softly.

"You feeling better?"

"Yeah, talked to 'Ro. It's good to talk about it." She walked over to the bed and sat down next to him. "The only thing I haven't got figured out is what I'm going to do when he gets back home."

"I still think you should hit him." She hit him playfully on the arm. "Hey, I said hit him not me."

She smiled, "Well if you behave it won't happen again." He raised his eyebrow at her, a look that always made her melt inside. Jean suddenly looked at him intensely. They were so close; it was weird to her how comfortable she was with this. Her heart started racing… maybe this was it. The point where she made a decision that would change her life forever, or maybe she was taking it too seriously.

"Jeannie, are you ok?" Her answer was to lean forward and kiss him firmly on the lips. The passion between them grew quickly; it was Logan to pull away. Jean looked at him confused doesn't he want this?

"Are you sure Jean, I mean you said you wanted to take it slowly?" His voice was husky; Jean didn't say a thing. She leaned forward to kiss him again and hoped it was the answer he needed. She had decided taking it slowly wasn't what she wanted. As their clothes started to become discarded garments on the floor she was no longer able to think.

"Kitty you will not believe it!" Jubilee ran into the dorm room shouting excitedly.

"What?" Kitty smiled, she always loved a piece of gossip. Rouge, who was sitting on her bed reading rolled her eyes, those two will never change.

"Well you know that Emma woman's daughter?"

"Yeah."

"Cyclops is her dad!!!" Jubilee looked like she was going to burst. Kitty's mouth dropped open.

"No way."

"Yes way, I just heard Dr Grey telling Storm." This new detail caught Rouges attention.

"You eavesdropped on their conversation?" She put down her book. "Don't be such a drag, and I didn't mean to- I went to get a drink and heard them talking."

"I can't believe Cyclops would do that." Kitty said thoughtfully.

"Me neither." Rouge said, the other two teenagers gave her a look. "What I'm not allowed to join in?"

Ororo sat in the kitchen still reeling slightly from the news that Jean had given her. It wasn't something she or anyone would expect; Scott had been cheating on Jean. As if it had been timed Emma walked into the kitchen. She didn't even look at Ororo.

"You have some nerve." She said to Emma.

"Excuse me?" Emma turned to her, with a confused look on her face.

"Jean would never say anything to you, she's not like that, but I am." Ororo stood up from her place at the table. "People are starting to hear about your and Scott's affair and when it gets around you won't have many fans here."

"I just need a place to stay, that's all." Emma said innocently.

"I highly doubt any amount of money that Scott has been giving you to keep quiet is anywhere near enough to keep a house. So you have come here out of choice."

"I forgot how intelligent you are Ororo." Emma said callously. "OK, maybe you are right. I came here to knock some sense into little Jean Grey- but it looks like someone already did. That man she was with, what's his name?"

"His name is Logan. And you are very much mistaken if you think you can make him leave Jean- Logan has finally got a chance with her, even he's not stupid enough to blow it." Emma gave her a confused look. "I may not be a telepath like you Emma- but I know what you are like: if you like someone you will stop at nothing to get your way." She left the room, leaving Emma standing alone in the kitchen wondering how she could make the whole situation work to her advantage.

Logan looked down at the sleeping form in his arms and smiled to himself. Jean was curled up to him, her head on his chest with one of her arms draped over him. He kissed the top of her head before falling asleep himself.

So I hope that was worth the long wait...I get my exam results next week, I'm starting to get a bit nervous. Heres an equation for you:

Good results Money + money from my accont Shiny new Laptop more time on computer (because i'll have my own) more updates.

So basiclly I'll be good in future and update more often :D.

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