The Marvel Academy For Gifted Students

The Truth

Jean
She had surprisingly managed to make progress with Logan, they had discovered his real name was James and that he had a brother.

Today really early she has visited him once more, now more than ever he looked bored and distant. She knew he really wanted to leave, of course she noticed he was planning on doing so more soon than later but she couldn't stand that idea, he had truly become very important for her, selfishly she needed to keep him here.
Having read a lot of the Professor's work she tried this time one of his strategies to deal with minds, instead of trying to trace down his memories from the earliest one to the present, like she had been doing, this time she would go backwards from the present to the past.
Jean made him kneel down so she could easily reach his head making it easier to access his mind, just like him she also knelt down and closing her eyes she tried again.

How could she begin to describe it? It was all a big beautiful sad mess; she had never seen a case like this, not even in the Professor life's work. Jean had to concentrate deeply, she could now hear his memories replaying at the same time, where could she start? They were all scattered around... suddenly something caught her attention, a wild scream, his scream. She tracked it down, he was going through an experiment of some sort, seeing him in such state made her shudder, she felt his pain and it was the worst monstrosity she could have ever imagined. They wanted to make him a weapon, with his healing factor he was the perfect subject and quite possibly the only one that could survive the treatment, she saw him running away from the place but it was too late, his skeleton was now fully replaced from bone to adamantium. After that his memory went blurry again, she had to go around one more time seeing Logan around random people and following routines. Once more she caught another important memory...his brother had been the reason he signed up for the experiment, he had done something terrible to Logan so he wanted revenge. The memory changed, Logan held a woman's body in his arms, she was clearly dead and he cried. Jean suddenly jumped to the first time she saw him in the gardens at the Academy, then tried again to get a track....then he was there again, his brother... Victor! That was his name, he was trying to talk to him, they were interrupted by a fight, Logan went out to help a girl...was that Rogue?? Victor was now attacking him, Logan ran away after the fight thinking Victor had died, again his memory faded. She jumped back and forth in some memories and finally she found it, his last memory before arriving to the Academy, Logan was with some guy who appeared to be his friend then people appeared trying to attack him, they wanted to take him back to the experiments so Logan ran away, his friend helped him...the last thing before the memory disappeared was the sound of a gun.

Jean returned to reality, she was breathing heavily and Logan stared at her concerned

"Are you alright?" He asked

Jean nodded "I found something"

He helped her sit down and she took a deep breath. Would he leave if she told him? The only reason he was still here was because he needed his memory back so...would he leave her?
Everything around Jean seemed to be collapsing, she was probably having the worst time in the Academy and the only one that had been with her was Logan, he understood what she was going through in some way, Jean hadn't been feeling particularly great since she had been in Xavier's mind, it was as if something had awakened the moment she controlled for a second the other person's mind. It was Logan and not her other friends she had told about the way her abilities might wake one day and take control over her, and he had listened, he had understood and calmed her down.. what would she do if he left? So to keep him here she wouldn't tell him the whole truth in what she had discovered, at least not yet, he was safe at the Academy.

"Victor" she started "that's your brother's name"

Logan's face suddenly dropped, he remembered "What happened to him?"