Reunion

Chapter 5

Storm was patrolling the halls when she noticed Kurt and Kitty standing with their ears pressed to the door to Charles's office but before she can open her mouth to say anything the door swings open causing the two teenagers to fall into the room.

"Elf... Half-pint... don't you have a place to be, like... I don't know...BED!" Logan growled.

At seeing that Logan had the situation in hand Storm went on to check on other students.

"We were like totally worried about the professor." Kitty protested.

"I'm glad yer so concerned but ya seem to forget you two still have school in the morning." Logan pointed out.

Eli grinned slightly at the interaction between Logan and the students who now sulked away to their bedrooms.

"I must admit, Charles I'm rather impressed with how loyal your students are to you" Eli sighed as he leaned on Charles' desk. "So loyal that they were worried enough to point all of this out to me, someone they have barely met. They were also loyal enough to listen out in case you needed protection from me."

Charles leaned forward resting his elbows on the arms of his chair with a tired expression.

"Now I've got another question." Eli added. "You said Jawn is your nephew, but Megan wasn't too clear when she told me about him, am I to assume he is Kane's son?"

"Yes, Eli, unfortunately he is." Charles sighed "Kane is, as of now, unaware of that fact for the simple reason that any time he has left prison he has had the singular goal of killing me and has not been open to discuss anything else."

Eli nodded silently.

"Does Jawn know who his father is?"

"Yes, Jawn does know"

"How does he feel about his father not knowing."

"As far as I can tell he understands that his father is dangerous and has been okay with the family he has but to be honest I'm not so sure about that."

Eli stood and walked over to Charles.

"Now that we have that settled your students had an idea." Eli smiled.

"What kind of idea?" Charles asked dubiously.

"They think it would be best if you and Kathy got away for a few days."

"Are you sure this is a good time for that?" Charles looked at Eli in confusion.

"There's nothin' more we can do right now; Jawn is in the infirmary and Lucas is in the wind... best thing we can do right now is focus on Kathy... well scratch that, you can focus on Kathy." Logan chimed in.

"What about the school?" Charles asked.

"You have plenty of teachers here, Beast, Logan, Ororo and now me... I think we can take care of things for a few days while you focus on taking care of your daughter." Eli pointed out.

"Yes, you are right, but where can we go?" Charles asked.

"Don't worry about it, I have already made the arrangements."

"Why do I get the feeling you did that before you came to confront me?" Charles mused.

"Well quite frankly because if I did otherwise you would have vehemently refused."

Charles glared at him silently as he felt Eli was more than likely right, but he wasn't ready to admit it.

"So where are we going?" Charles asked.

"A cabin of mine."

Charles gave him a look that clearly read "That didn't answer my question" but said nothing.