Chapter 18

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Jean Grey pov

***Boston Mass, Kent's Residents ***

Jean was standing outside the Kent's door, she wasn't sure how to bring up the information she was about to.

Before she had a chance to do anything the door in front of her opened up, revealing the shocked face of Jane Kent, the woman looked worst for wear, after all barely a week had passed since Clark had fought the maddened hulk and dyed, at least officially.

Jane Kent, as soon as she saw her had started to greet Jean and said "well hello Jean, how are you doing?"

Jean gave her a small smile that didn't reach her eyes and said "doing a little better Jane… and how about you? How are you doing?"

She could tell that the woman was crying recently, maybe even this morning, and said "a little better as well, but not as well as I'd hoped."

Jean could understand that, she was in a similar situation herself, the only reason she had the strength to come here this early after the battle was because of what she had felt that morning, which reminded her why she was here in the first place.

Jean nodded and said to Jane "actually Jane there is another reason that I am here besides checking up on you…. Can we talk inside?"

Clark's mom just gave her a short look before she nodded and said "of course dear, come in come in."

As she gestured for her to get in the house, Jean had thanked her and she sat in the living room while Jane was making them both coffee.

As she sat down she asked. Mrs. Kent "by the way Jane does Marcus happen to be here?"

Jane just shook her head and said "unfortunately no, he went to the grocery store but he should be back soon… why?"

"the thing I wanted to talk to you about… I wanted to talk to the both of you, and I don't want to tell you the same thing twice."

Before Jane could say another thing the door was opened and inside came Marcus Kent, with hands full of grocery bags.

As soon as he saw Jean, he gave her a small smile and said "Jean! So good to see you, how are you doing?"

Jean gave him a small smile as well and said "better, thank you for asking Marcus, and how you been doing?"

He nodded his head a little while saying "hopefully getting there."

Jean could understand that, no parent should be berrying a child, but when it does happen, all you can do is be there for them and help them get through it.

Jane looked at her husband and said "Jean was just about to tell us something important."

Marcus looked at her now with curios eyes and said "oh really? Did you now?"

He said the last part referring to Jean and she smiled and said "how about I'll help you set the grocery and make you a cup of coffee first?"

At that Marcus gave her a hesitant smile and said "well… if you insist…"

It was a few minutes after when they all sat there in the living room, each of them having a cup of coffee, Jean did not know how to start the conversation, on the one hand, she felt that this was a piece of information they absolutely had every right to know, on the other… she did not want to give them false hope, lord knows they went through quite enough.

Eventually, she gathered enough courage and said "this morning when I woke up… something happened, I felt something-"

"OH MY GOD, YOU'RE PREGNANT!" Jane interrupted excitement in her voice.

Jean almost didn't have the heart to take that hope from her, but eventually, she got over her apprehension and said "I'm sorry Jane, but no I am not pregnant, however as I started to say… I felt something this morning, you guys remember the psychic link that Clark and I used to share as children?"

Jane nodded and said, "yes, after you and Clark started to date, he did mention something like that, but he never really elaborated on the matter and we didn't press, hoping the one day you would feel comfortable telling us in detail."

That made Jean smile, she loved how the Kents were so accepting of her being a mutant, and even how they were decent enough folk and not pressing for information.

She looked at both Jane and Marcus and said, "well it was one of the most important mental link I had ever made, actually he was the reason I discovered my powers, and he was the first person to make that mental connection with, and when we started to date the connection became even stronger than before."

Jean took a moment to take a sip of her coffee gathering what courage remained and said "after Clark had… died…" she paused and looked at the Kent's faces, seeing that they almost broke down, but seeing that they held themselves she continued "this morning, when I woke up, for the briefest of moments.. I felt that connection again, it took me a moment but there was no mistaking it, Clark's mind had touched mine."

Jean knew that it would be a hard pill for the Kents to swallow, and she was hoping they would not start to break down or worse… kick her out of the house but she most certainly did not aspect this.

"tell us everything." Marcus said firmly.

Reed Richards pov

***Baxter Building- New York***

Reed was just sitting in his office, still wrapping his head around what Tony had told him when they went to his lab.

Flashback two days ago

"explain. Now." Reed said with anger and anxiety in his voice.

Tony just rubbed the back of his head while saying "well reed… where do I start?"

"Just tell me you didn't make another clone of a powerful being that can come back to bite us in the ass."

"oh trust me, dear Reed, I had learned my lesson on that front… the hard way."

Reed's eyes widen in shock as realization dawned on him. "then is that…

?"

"the genuine article? Yes, yes he is." Tony corrected.

Reed just gave him a look and said "you still haven't explained a thing Tony, ya know that right?"

"well I guess I need to get from the start, after the paramedics had declared him dead, I had Friday scan him in order to understand what made him this… well… super, you could imagine my surprise when the scan should me that he was still alive, granted it was barley anything the paramedics equipment could register, of course, Friday is no ordinary equipment like what those paramedics have at hand-"

"get to the point Tony." Reed had cut his friends with mild annoyance in his voice.

"well I was just about to get to it, anyway when he was taken to the morgue, I had two of my drones fetch him to me and put him in this tube to monitor his health."

Reed felt a little satisfied with Tony's answer, but there was still one detail that bothered him and he asked "so why did you gave him that suit? And why make it from solar absorbing materials?"

Here Tony's face cracked in a big smile, and he said "finally Reed, you are asking the right questions, you see? When we first got a hold of his body, we started running his blood work to see what he did to hide his powers, and you won't believe what we found."

Now Reed's scientific curiosity was peeked and before his brain could catch up with his mouth he asked "what did you found?"

Tony, still smiling said, "that is just the thing, at the first day, when we ran his blood work, it came back negative to any and all superpowers."

Reed's jaw was hanging open as he just stared at Tony in shock "H-How is that even possible?" he asked, after eventually finding his voice again, he did not expect this one bit.

Tony continued "well we didn't know then, to be honest, we still don't know, we ran it several times just to be sure, and every time the result was the same, but the next day… I don't know how it happened… maybe it happened by accident but someone had a different project going on with solar absorbing fabric, to help with the energy crisis, and one of the artificial sun lights had changed its aim from the table to his body, and that changed everything."

Reed was almost screaming as Tony kept dragging the story, but held his tongue in fear that he would shut up, he wanted him to finish telling him his explanation.

Tony continued "the next day we were about to take his blood work again and found that his skin had become stronger, thicker, it took us a little effort but we still managed to do it, and when we ran it, it was totally different from the previous day, it was still human but it was also something different, something… Alien."

Reed was taken aback at hearing this, now he was in full scientist mode, and his brain was working overtime to try and figure out how it is remotely possible, but then Tony spoke again.

"it took us a while to figure out it was the sun that had made the change to his blood, his D.N.A as a whole in fact."

End flashback

Reed thought at all the data he went through with Tony, he contemplated the ethics of studying Clark's body, even though Tony had shown him the c.t scan of Clark's brain and assured him that he is in a deep death-like coma, but still... deep down he felt sickened by what he was doing… again.

"no wonder Sue wants to divorce." He said to no one in particular, he just stared at the new York view from his window.

Jean Grey pov

***Boston mass- cemetery***

Jean still could not believe what she was doing, after she explained to the Kent's what she felt and what she wanted to make sure, they said yes to her surprise, and she went and gotten to work.

Which brings her back to the present, she used her telekinesis to dug up the earth above Clark's grave, she hoped, no prayed she was right for to reasons, the first being that she wanted to see Clark's handsome face once again, the second was… well.. she really did not want to see his rotting corpse in there.

She finished digging up the last bit of earth and took a breath before opening the coffin, she could hear her heart pounding in her chest, and she felt like she could throw up from excitement.

She used her telekinesis and opened it, only to find it completely empty.

Sighing in relief, she closed it, put the earth back on top of it and looked to the sky, smiling and said "Clark, don't worry, I'm going to find you and bring you back to me, and to your parents." She added laughing a bit at the end.

Now the only thing she needed to do was get a location of his whereabouts and she would be set to go, at least that what she planned on.

Time skip two hours later

***Xavier's institute for gifted youngsters***

Jean had entered the school, she did not stop to greet anyone as she strode to the Cerebro room.

After getting to the room, she puts on the helmet and activates the machine, normally it would be used to locate mutants, but seeing as Jean already had the signature for Clark's brain, it was only a matter of locking in on it again.

It took her close to eight hours to get a fix on his location, due to the signature being super week in the first place, but when she found out where he was, all she could say with a croaked voice was "why am I not surprised, I hope you guys are ready for us." She finished as she took the helmet off and walked out of the room, already planning how to do a rescue operation with a few of her friends.

The next day

Carol Danvers pov

***Boston mass***

she was sitting at her home, just looking at the Kent's residents, she wanted to go over there and talk to the Kents, she didn't know what she could say or do that will change how they feel, she was just mustering enough courage when she had a call from Tony.

"Go for Danvers."

"Carol! Get to the Baxter building, NOW!"

Hearing the urgency in Tony's voice she asked "what's wrong Tony?"

"We are under attack, they have powers, get your ass over here ASAP!"

"on my way." She said as she quickly changed to her suit and afterward flew in top speed towards New York, all the while images going through her head as she tries to figure out who might have launched the attack, but all that can wait for later, right now she has a mission on her head.

And she won't fail her mission, not again.

To Be Continued

A/N so here is the next chapter, sorry it is still too short, but hopefully I will write longer chapters in the future, but no promises. So tell me what you guys think, review and comment, it lets me know that you guys like the story and gives me the motivation the keep writing it for you guys.