Wow what a chapter!

Whoa!
But, I'm slightly confused...I completely get Xavier's need for Jean to help shore up his own abilities. Especially with the internal struggle going on between the darkness and his conscience. But it seems like an opposing reaction for Jean's exclamation to have unleashed his dark side. Shouldn't her discovering all that he's been up to, and her riling against it (and him), have caused the utter distruction of his darker side when he finally found Scott, and by extension, her?

I guess the one good thing that can come from his destructive actions is that commando force from the last chapter 'should' fall to this murderous mental rampage. Shouldn't it??

And also, how sad that even the world's most powerful telepath can't or won't see past the surface level of things. Yes, he may have had a hand in the creation of the Wolverine, but to never have seen beyond that, to still see and think of Logan as just "an animal, a monster" is so very, very sad. But then, I guess it's that very thing, the inability to see those around you as (fellow) human beings, and not just things to be used as a means to an end, that leads one down this road to manipulation, narcissism, megalomania.



Author's Response: Hiya ct_xfan, I'll try to clear up the confusion.... When Charles found Scott he was trying to locate him, trying to use his mind's echoes to get in. Jean's powers are so much stronger than his have ever been now. But the danger is this, she *knows* everything that Scott knew, she has the information about everything he'd ever done while she was there. All the manipulation, all the things he'd done, all the late night conversations about how he should handle her as a lover. She's found out exactly who Charles *is* and what he needed her for. When she shouted NO at him it wasn't his dark side (subconscious) reaching out to Scott it was his conciousness. This is why he's been damaged the way he has and what it'll mean for the rest of them. The force that's on it's way hasn't been killed, Charles's mind struck out blindly, he didn't kill them but some other poor soliders did. An finally the way he'd been using people, Charles had always been fighting for a *race*, individuals don't matter to people like that. We all do it, our own leaders do it but here it's like Cro-Magnon versus Neanderthal. One will come out on top and Charles is backing mutants in his own way. Otherwise why would he have given Marie to Logan or Kitty to Peiter? You gotta give them something to fight for haven't you? Hope that clears a few points up hon. Jo