Reunion

Chapter 4

Eli looked at Charles as they made their way towards where Lucas had led Jawn with Kathy. He noticed the issues he'd had at the start and realized that Lucas must have done this on purpose. He would have wanted to make it as difficult as he could for Charles to get there and interfere with the fight.

"Are you okay?" Eli asked.

"I will be as soon as I know that Kathy and Jawn are okay." Charles replied.

"You know you should really consider investing in a hover-chair." Eli said

Before Charles could respond Kathy's voice rang through the air.

"JAWN!" she cried her tone dripping with terror.

Scott made eye contact with Kurt.

"Nightcrawler... get me to her... NOW!"

"On it!" Kurt replied.

"Hey, what about the rest of us?" Eli asked but soon they were all levitated by Jean and were set down where Jawn and Kathy had been taken. Kathy was free by the time the rest of them arrived and was trying to keep Jawn from bleeding to death as Scott was searching the area for Lucas.

Charles approached them.

"What happened?" he asked.

"Kathy...I'm sorry." Jawn muttered before lapsing unconscious.

"He... he was fighting Lucas, power for power... and... and he was winning too when... when I saw a flash... over there..." Kathy pointed towards where the shot had come from "and... and Jawn went down."

"Lucas shot him?" Scott asked in surprise.

"No... someone else... I couldn't tell who it was. I couldn't see them... I... I'm sorry I..." Kathy began to sob as Beast checked on Jawn.

"The bullet went all the way through..." he observed.

"Then... like why didn't we hear a gunshot?" Kitty asked.

"Silencer..." Eli muttered as he walked to the spot Kathy had indicated the bullet coming from.

"Is... is he going to die?" Kathy asked now leaning against her father's wheelchair, as he gently ran his fingers through her hair.

"Hey, munchkin... what happened to your lip... it was bleedin pretty bad earlier." Logan observed.

"Jawn healed it." She replied wiping her eyes.

Rogue looked at Kathy.

"Since when could he heal?" she asked.

"I don't know... he said he's been working on it for a while."

Rogue nodded peeling her glove off then touched him for a moment then used the obtained power to heal him.

As this was happening Eli stood where Kathy had indicated. He acted out someone standing in the spot aiming a gun at Jawn. He then followed the presumed trajectory and located the bullet. He went to grab it, but Wolverine stopped him by grabbing his wrist.

"Don't touch it... somethin' don't smell right." Wolverine pointed out.

"You think it's been laced with something?" he asked.

"Yeah... somethin bad... Beast will be able to tell ya what better than me." Wolverine sighed as Jean levitated the bullet off the ground.

"We need to get this back to the institute; we'll be able to figure out what it is there." She replied as Rogue finished healing Jawn.

"Then let's all go back." Charles sighed "We can continue the search for Lucas later."

Wolverine picked up Jawn and they started back to the X-Jet.