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ix. 𝘨𝘳𝘦𝘦𝘯

Walking onto the plane, the first person Eden noticed was a man with blue skin sitting in the seat beside Jean. He looked up at her bashfully. "Guten tag," he said with a heavy German accent.

"Ditto," she said, taking a seat as she assumed he was the mutant that Storm and Jean had been looking for.

"Who the hell is this?" Logan asked.

"Kurt Wagner," he said, introducing himself. "But in the Munich circus, I was known as the Incredible Nightcrawler."

"Right. And does the carpet match the drapes?" Eden asked, smirking at his confused look.

"What?" he asked.

"Eden" Jean sighed, turning back to Kurt. "Ignore her. That's her way of saying hello."

"Oh, hello" Kurt smiled.

"Storm" Logan grumbled.

"We're out of here," Storm said as the engines powered up.

"Woah" Logan mumbled, clenching his seat rest as they lifted off into the air.

"Don't tell me you're afraid of flying?" Eden teased.

"If we were meant to fly, we'd have wings," he said.

"If you're scared you can hold my hand," she said, holding it out to him as a joke but a surprised smile took over her face when he actually took it.

He didn't say anything, squeezing her hand until they were settled in the air, flying smoothly.

Not wanting to draw more attention to him, she tugged on his hand to get him to look at her. "You okay?" she mouthed. He nodded back giving her a tight-lipped smile.

"Come on" she whispered, unbuckling her seatbelt. He followed her as she headed to the back of the plane, sitting on one of the small benches in the back.

"What is it?" he asked.

Storm and Jean glanced at each other before they turned around and smiled as they watched Eden and Logan before turning back around to focus on flying the plane.

"Give me your hands," Eden said. "I wanna show you something."

When he placed his hands in hers, she closed her fingers his, taking a second to marvel at how much larger they were than hers.

"I've been working on this with the Professor. Close your eyes" she said.

"It's not gonna hurt, is it?" he asked, only halfway joking.

"I'd never hurt you," she said, not joking at all. "Now close your eyes."

Logan looked at her, a bit taken aback by her sincerity but closed his eyes nonetheless. Eden closed hers too, trying to focus on everything she'd been practicing for weeks.