Ororo's Classroom:
"And lastly" Storm turned toward her rather large class. "As the air begins to move more rapidly lightning strikes occur when strong thermal up drafts cause water droplets and crystallized ice to collide creating substances with positive and negative charges" A familiar ringing signaled the impatient teenagers to leave for lunch. Ororo sighed "Please remember to study your notes......there will be a test on Friday" she finished and began erasing the black board. The class was quit then....quiet to the point where Storm felt she could fall asleep where she stood.
"Rivetting stuff the weather" she turned to see Logan entering the classroom. "Yes it is" she answered smiling not making any move to reach out to him. They had promised one another that they'd keep their relationship or whatever it was they had a secret, and for the past three weeks they had done well and if they had more luck Jean wouldn't try exercising her telepathic abilities anytime soon. Yet Logan wasn't any help to the whole situation he'd make it his business to distract her whenever possible. He'd pop up in her class on any occasion he could hoping that she didn't see him in the back of the class......she had and it felt good to be desired.....by a man of Logan's sort. Jean wasn't to far behind him. She entered looking beautiful as always's in her lab coat and glasses.
"Storm" she began "---the Professor wants to have a meeting after your next class" "About what?" Jean shrugged crossing her arms over her chest "He didn't say but he wants to just speak with you" Storm twisted her lip "Me?" "Yeah it's something about an anonymous mutant energy being found over the North East side of New York I guess he thought you might be interested". "Q-ball been working over time" Logan mumbled raising a smile form the two women" "After your next class OK" Jean confirmed and turned to leave, but was caught off guard by her friends distraction "Are you alright" Storm pursed her lips as Jean and Logan's eye's settled upon her now filled with general concern "Hmm" Ororo shook her head "Oh I'll be alright-- -" "You don't look like you'll be alright" Logan spoke up. "Logan's right stop by the lab after you see the Professor it's probably nothing maybe just a bug or something" Jean smiled gently and turned to Logan "And I need you in the Lab now with Scott I have to examine you both if Storm's sick I need to give you something to prevent a cold" Logan shrugged "From what I can remember I've never been sick a day in my life" he pointed out reminding her of his healing factor. Jean shook her head remembering and turned toward the exit.
Logan turned to Storm giving her a rare smile....she felt the impulse to go to him, but pushed it aside and turned to the black board "I'm sure Jean want's to run some more tests on you" she said simply. "The only test I'm interested in is the weather" she turned to him amused "A weather test?" He advanced on her sliding his hands around he waist...the gesture surprised her but she didn't turn away from his grasp "Yeah you know the one on Friday" He had been listening to her lesson. In spite of herself Storm found herself relaxing in his arms "I thought we agreed that we wouldn't be---- public" "It's not public if no one's around Darlin'" he leaned in closer to her lips and she could feel her heart began to race. "I have a class" she protested "Come on" he growled "One for the road" he didn't wait for a reply. Logan kissed her full on the lips immediately sending waves of pleasure through her body.
Logan loved kissing her she was so soft and warm in his arms and he could tell by the way she looked at him everyday that she wanted him....but there was something holding her back.
Her hand went to his cheek as he deepened the kiss now gently massaging his warm tongue with her own. Who was this man? she thought Logan was a man that made her feel outrageously happy....happiness that she hadn't been quit sure existed until now. Did she love this man? No of course not It seemed silly to fall in love with a man after 3 weeks together....How much did she really know about Logan. He's the kind of man that would more then likely turn his head for Jean again if Scott even gave him an inch. A voice hissed in the back of her mind. Her thoughts began to travel going places she hadn't been in a long while.....was it jealousy.....no how could she be jealous of Jean her best friend who she had known for years? What kind of a friend would she be to question that friendship over the presence of one man. These thoughts were obviously not her own and for the life of her she did not know where they had come from.
She could hardly breath now and Logan's hold on her was becoming even more intense my the moment, the throbbing sound of blood filled her ears and her knees felt weak she needed.............AIR. A violent gust of wind suddenly broke their kiss slamming against Logan's gut and tossing him across the room. Storm stood in shock and surprise covering her mouth with her hand. It had happened so quickly....what had happened. "Oh Logan are you alright I didn't---" Logan grunted and cradled his stomach as he slowly stood to his feet "Ok Storm I get the message....damn if that's what happens when you get excited then---" The bell range drowning out what he was getting ready to say. Which Storm guessed was any thing but appropriate. "Um--You should go I have a class" she pointed to the excited teens that entered to room. "Yeah I know" he grunted again and left holding his stomach.
Storm took deep breaths. Then without warning the voice inside her head came once again now in a stir of echoes Logan is a man with no past and a lost cause for the future ----it reminded her to much of a man she escaped many years ago. A man who has remained as a SHADOW in the back of her mind....until now.
Professor Xavier's Office:
"Professor you wanted to see me" Ororo announced as she entered. Charles's Xavier looked up from his desk and directly into his students eye's. "Storm your right on time....would you like some tea?" Storm shook her head and took a seat in the chair across from her mentor's desk "Jean said you wanted to talk to me about a mutant power that Cerebro found in New York"
The Professor pulled out a remote and pressed a button which commanded a transmitted computer screen to appear between them. The large screen shined with individual yellow dots that would blink every so often "Yes I ran a check on our Radar system a few day's ago....as you know all mutants give off a certain amount of energy on the radar like normal body heat.....the more power the larger the yellow dot that you see before you....now I want you to take a look at this" he pushed another button and A larger yellow dot appeared in the far corner of the map it was blinking faster the the other's and it seemed to be growing.
Ororo squinted "Who is that?" Charles pressed another button and the screen disappeared "That abnormal dot Storm is you" Storm's breath caught in her throat....and her mouth went dry. "I had hoped that you would have come to me sooner about this I waited only a few days before now to confront you about it" Ororo frowned "I didn't--- Professor I mean I was not aware that" She tried to find the word and was unsuccessful.
"You mean you didn't know" the Professor tapped his fingers against the arm of his chair "That dose present a problem----I'm going to propose something. I'd like to take a look into your mind, but I want your permission before I do so" Ororo took his offer into consideration for a few moment's suddenly coming to the conclusion that something was happening to her, letting to the Professor inside her mind could give her some answers and she trusted him enough to know that he wouldn't pry to deep in the depths of her mind opening doors she wanted to remain rusted shut. She shook her head in agreement and tired to relax. The process of a mind sweep was quick and almost felt like a sneeze...her eye's shot open and looked to her mentor who seemed dissatisfied with what he had seen.
"Professor what is it?" He shook his head "It's more worse than I thought....you haven't been sleeping well lately have you" Storm shook her head "Insomnia, but it's nothing drastic I'll be alright in a few day's" The Professor shook his head knowing the truth behind her words "No your afraid to go to sleep Ororo and I need you to tell me why? You must get this in the open" Storm took a shattered breathe and ran her tongue over her now chapped lips. The Professor was always right about these kind of things it would be better to get it out in the open, but so much could come of her realization.
"The Dreams" she confessed refusing to bring herself to tears. Ororo clasped her hands together for they had begun to shake. *Why don't you say his name?* the professor spoke through his mind to her and she shook her head trying to regain herself "That would mean so many things Professor's ---and you taught me that the past should stay true to it's name." *I also taught you that you should let it go, but your holding on for some reason. Why?* "I am not holding on Professor! I--- It won't let me go you yourself should know a thing or two about that" she snapped surprising them both.
"Professor I'm sorry I didn't mean---" "I know Storm it's alright, but the rapid increase of your power is not. I want you to go under some observation for a few weeks with Jean and she also may be able to give you something so that you can sleep" Ororo shook her head in agreement and stood to her feet. "Of course Professor" she made her way around the desk gently kissing him on the forehead as a way to say sorry and left in the next instant.
She would not say his name.
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