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Cold. Water rushing into her lungs. Fearing for herself, for others that she couldn't put faces or names to. She felt herself sink, the water completely take over. Her back touched the bottom of the lake, as darkness invaded her sight. She stopped fighting. The darkness took her.
A few moments before...
Rogue saw the water, she saw the way Jean was thinking. Too many people would miss Jean though, it would ruin so many lives. So Rogue made a quick decision while the others argued. She slipped off on of her gloves and grabbed Jean. She quietly slipped out of the jet. She used her borrowed powers to complete the plan she saw in Jean's head. She saw the jet lift off, she saw when they realized what was happening, and the last thing she heard before the water took her was them screaming her name.
The entire forest was quiet hearing the loud roar of agony. Logan could not believe what just happened. Marie, his marie, couldn't be dead. Why would she do that? Why would his Marie, his wonderful little Marie do this? He saw Scott lifting Jean into a seat and figured out how she had done it but the question was why? He turned to look at the rest of the people with him in the jet.
"WHY DIDN'T ANYONE STOP HER!" He exclaimed looking at the sorrowful faces around him. His eyes stopped on Bobby, her boyfriend, the one that he had decide to trust with her.
"Why didn't you stop her bub? We had a talk and I thought we had an agreement." He growled out. Bobby looked away ashamed that he hadn't noticed. Logan looked away, pacing like a caged animal. The rest of the ride was unpleasant to say the least.
Later when they were back a the mansion, Logan waited outside of Cerebro. The doors opened with a metallic click, the professor coming out with with a solemn look on his face. Logan felt something in him snap. He let out a long growl that pitched into a whimper. He felt tears run down his face as he slowly curled into himself. The Wolverine growled in his head, thrashing, not believing it, wanting to go find her. Logan knew though that if Chuck couldn't find her mind all there would be to find is her body. Both the man and the beast couldn't said the thought of seeing her like that.
He helped them though, they searched for months, not knowing that her body had shifted itself, using stolen powers to best protect her while she was in a hibernation like sleep. They finally gave up when the lake started to freeze over. Logan wanted to run, but the school was the only thing he had left of her, and as much as he disliked the people who let her leave, let her die. He just could stay gone for long. He never left the state when he did leave. He spent his time between her grave, his room, the danger-room, and bars where he could fight and fuck his way to numbness. He just couldn't get over what happened, he didn't want to, cause then that would mean he was accepting it. That he was accepting that she was really dead, and that was the last thing he want to do. He wouldn't believe it until they had absolute proof, until then he would wait here for her to come home, the others might have given up and moved on but he hadn't. He wouldn't.