Fighting Till Forever

Chapter 18

Jean pov
When I saw the note, my heart basically was beating at 100 mph. "We need to get back to the school!" Angel yells at me. The rest of the teams had just arrived. Everything was chaos, only Angel and the professor looked like the calm in the storm. The professor gets on the jet, followed by the rest of us. My hands were literally shaking, Storm had to take over flying. I went out of the cockpit and sat down in the back, next to the professor. I just kept thinking, 'Please let school be alright, please don't be what I think is going to happen.' The professor took my hand and then said inside my mind 'Everything will be okay.' I hope he's right, because even after he said it I'm still shaking. He looked so calm for a person who has spent his whole life making this school, teaching these kids, he even taught me. I lean back in my seat and look out the window at the view of all the skyscrapers in New York.

Charles pov
I tried to calm everyone down but it didn't seem to help. They just want to get back to the school. Jean looked at me and thought I was the calm in the storm, I'm not. On the inside I'm worried just like everyone else, but the difference is that I'm need to be there for everyone else, I can break down in my own time, in private. Angel knows the importance of that to, she is talking to Logan and Max about what might happen when we get back. The truth is, I don't know what we will expect, but I know it's not going to be good.

Max pov
We arrive at the school, it's raining out and over cast. Everything looks fine when we land, but this was just the basement. We walk through the halls, that's when I saw the front door was open, I was just about to go see where Ronnie and the rest were. I go to the door and shut it, as I walk back down the hall I step in something, I look down, it's blood, lining the hallway. Oh my gosh oh my gosh oh my gosh. Don't freak out Max, don't....to late. I run, I run straight to Ronnie's room. The door was busted down and there in her little toddler bed was Ronnie, I go over and check her out. She had been shot. That's when I break down, for the first time in what seems like forever. Angel comes in to the room, then Fang. Fang looks at Ronnie, then at me. He comes over and we hug, he lets me cry on him. "The rest are all dead." Angel says to us. I can see that she is on the verge of tears as well. All of a sudden I hear yelling, lots of it, some people are screaming. "We need to get out of here! Now!" Jean yells to us. "What..." Max asks. Then I smell the smoke. I get dragged out of Ronnie's room, I didn't even get to grab her body. All I remember is being carried by Fang. My life was crumbling apart in front of me.

We watch once outside, the mansion burn, Bobby is trying his best to stop the fire. After 20 minutes it has dispersed, but what's left, is not a lot. Everything on the side of the kitchen is in ashes. My home for so many years, half destroyed.