Ian's entire walk back to the institute was filled with doubt, for whatever reason he just knew something was wrong, so when he was met by Dani at the front gate of the institute, he knew something had happened.
" What is it, Dani?" Ian asked.
" We need to talk. Follow me." Dani told the boy.
Ian did as she asked and followed her to the gym so they could speak in private.
" So, what's this all about, Dani?" Ian asked the woman. " What's going on?"
" You and Rahne." Dani replied.
" What about me and Rahne?" Ian asked. He was beginning to feel nervous. He really didn't like where the conversation was going.
" Someone came forward and told Scott and Emma about what you two were doing behind the school's backs and I must say I'm quite disappointed by both you and Rahne." Dani spoke up.
" Yeah? Well, that's too damn bad, Cuz I don't remember asking you or what shades thought about it." Ian replied. " Whatever is going on is between us and for us to figure out."
" No, it isn't. You are a student at this school and Rahne is a teacher. We can't have our teachers' dating students." Dani told the man.
" Why not? Rahne and I were together long before she came to this school to teach." Ian told the woman. Now that was out in the open, he felt there was no need to hide anything else. The damage was already done. " You know, what I don't have to sit here and do this." Ian told the woman.
" Ian, wait. I just want to make sure you're okay!" Dani yelled.
" Well, I was just fine before you and the school decided to stick your nose into my business." Ian yelled back.
" Ian, where are you going?" Dani asked.
" To see my girl!" Ian replied.
" You can't!" Dani yelled. " Rahne.... Rahne already left." Dani stated.
" She what?" Ian asked. He was in disbelief. He turned back towards the door an ran out of the gymnasium in a hurry. Running all the way through the halls of the institute, right up to Rahne's room. " RAHNE!" Ian burst into Rahne's old room to find her gone, along with some of her valuables and Ian started freaking out.
He grabbed his chest and started gasping hard.
" Wha?" Ian was beyond confused, but more than that he was hurt. " She left? She just... Left? Why, Rahne. Why would you just leave? This doesn't make sense. She wouldn't just leave me!" Ian exclaimed. " Who did this? Someone did this?!" Ian growled. Ian searched his mind for any kind of answer to why, Rahne would just leave. But he couldn't think of how they were caught, only that someone had.
Ian's mind raced all over the place, he began sweating and panicking. His heart raced faster than any normal man's could.
" I need... I need to know!" Ian stated. In his mind he needed to know what happened and why it happened. And the only person in the school who had those answers was The Headmaster himself. Ian ran down the stairs, making a straight line to Scott's office.
Scott was in the middle of telling the other teachers the news between Rahne and Ian, making it known to all of them what had been going on, and to remind them of the professionalism they must uphold when the door to the room was suddenly flung open and Ian walked in.
" Ian, I'm glad you're here. We need to talk." Scott said to the boy as he strode into the room.
" Yeah, we do. Who was it?" Ian asked.
" What?"
" Don't play coy with me, Shades. Who told you? Who was it?!" Ian asked. He was dead set on getting to the bottom of things and he didn't care who he had to go through to find out.
" I can't tell you that." Scott replied. " And before you ask why, you need to take a clear look at yourself, and you'll see the answer. You're too emotional, you have been for a while. And that's my fault and I'm sorry. I should have paid more attention to you. We should have had you join, Kevin in therapy. But I won't apologize. You have to understand that as headmaster I can't have my teachers and students being intimate with one another in any way outside of our professional duties. You maybe eighteen now, but that doesn't mean I can just let things slide." Scott explained to the man.
Ian was taken aback. Of all the people in the school to talk about Romance, and professionalism, Scott was the last one.
" You're gonna lecture me on what's right or wrong?! You?! YOU OF ALL PEOPLE?! The man who, when his girlfriend first died, immediately turned to a woman who looked just like her, married her, had a son with her, and then abandoned her when Miss Grey came back?" Ian asked the man.
Scott was shocked. That had happened years ago, long before Ian came to the school.
" Wondering how I know that?" Ian asked the man. " It's called the library. Yeah, I spent a long time in there over the last two years. I believe her name was Madelyne Pryor, right? Yeah. And let's not forget what happened just last year. Or have you forgotten how YOU, cheated on Miss Grey multiple times, and got caught. And then not even a second after she was killed you moved on to the only other woman in the entire school who will spread her legs for just about any man." Ian all but screamed in the man's face. Calling him out in front of the entire school staff on his hypocrisy. " Oh, but sure, we were unprofessional."
" I don't care that you found out about Madelyn, but if you ever disrespect me or Emma like you just did, I promise you, there won't be any coming back from it. Do you understand me?" Scott replied. He was glaring at Ian and so was Emma.
" What will you do Mr. Summers? Kick me out? Go ahead!" Ian yelled. He kicked the table Scott was sitting at across the room with no effort at all.
" Whoa! Hommie, why don' we all just chill." Gambit spoke up.
" Oh, he'd like that wouldn't he? The little rat bastard has always been a snake. the good boy Scott Summers, the man Professor Xavier raised to be his successor. The man Jean Grey loved. The leader of the X-men. You had EVERYTHING! AND DESERVED NONE OF IT!" Ian exclaimed.
" Ian, I'm warning you." Scott told the boy.
" Oh what? What are you going tae do, Scotty boy? Kill me? Guess what It's been tried by better men than you. Ya know maybe it's a good thing, Miss Grey died. At least now, she doesn't have tae see just what kind of a shit man you turned out tae be-UGH!" Ian was quickly hit in the chest by one of Scott's Optic blasts.
Kitty, Rogue, Piotr, Kurt, Gambit, NorthStar, Xi'an, and Hank all gasped when Scott opened fire on Ian. They were surprised when he had burst in, but this was more shocking than anything.
" SCOTT!!!" Logan shouted.
" I... I didn't mean to do that. I'm sorry." Scott replied. He looked visibly shocked from his own actions and tried to quickly apologize.
" Oh, it's too late for that." Ian spoke as he got to his feet. " Just remember, you threw the first blow." Ian told the man. He looked at Scott and smiled.
Ian charged Scott in anger, running straight at him like a bull in rage, and tackled Scott out of his office window and out to the courtyard, where other students were still playing.
Scott rolled away from Ian and jumped to his feet and pulled his mask over his eyes.
" I don't want to do this kid, I said I was sorry." Scott told the boy.
" Sorry?! Do you know what you've done?! Do you all know what you've done? She was everything to me, Scott. She was EVERYTHING!"
" Ian, it was wrong!" Scott exclaimed once more.
" AND WHAT GIVES YOU THE RIGHT TO DECIDE?!" Ian exclaimed. He jumped at Scott and slammed his fist down towards the man.
Scott dodged the attack and fired at Ian. His blast hit the boy and pushed him back wards with great force.
But he couldn't stop him.
" We can't let this go one any longer. We have to stop this." Kitty spoke up.
" But how?" Kurt asked. He didn't want to fight the kid, but he knew that Kitty was right.
" Step aside." Emma told the two mutants. " ENOUGH!" Emma yelled. She placed her hands on her head and Ian suddenly stopped in his tracks.
" Emma... What did you do?" Scott asked the woman.
" I'm speaking with him, mentally, Scott. I need to focus." Emma told the man. " So much, anger... rage, grief, pain."
*SQELCH!"
" Huh! Oh my god!" Emma exclaimed.
" What is it, Emma?" Scott asked.
" HE JUST BIT OFF HIS OWN TONGUE!" Emma screamed.
" GHHHHhh! AHHHHHHH!" Ian bit screamed from the pain of biting off his own tongue, blood dripping from his mouth. He raised his fist high into the air and slammed them both back down on the ground.
" What the hell is going on?" Josh asked as he and a few others ran up to the disturbing scene.
Ian turned his head and the moment he saw Josh; he began putting two and two together.
" Josh!!!!!!"Ian growled, like a beast at the boy.
" Josh, stay back!" Scott yelled to the boy.
" You just couldn't stay away? You couldn't have things your way so you ruined it for me? Is that it?" Ian asked.
" What the hell are you talking about man?" Josh asked. " I saw you and Rahne, kissing dude. I had to tell someone." Josh replied.
" Whoa, you and Miss Sinclair... Were making out?" Laurie asked the man.
" Yeah, we were. But that's not what this was about. Is it, Josh? No. Why don't you come clean to yur little girlfriend about what this was about." Ian said to the boy.
" What are you trying to say?" Josh asked.
" Are you an Idiot? You, jealous bastard! She wouldn't give you the time of day, so you ratted us out" Ian yelled.
" Whata re you talking about? Josh what is he talking about?" Laurie asked the boy.
" Oh, poor Laurie. Don't you get it? Josh, didn't want you." Ian spoke.
" Shut up, Ian." Josh told the boy.
" Ha! Or what?" Ian asked. " Let me tell you the truth Laurie. The night you two had your first date, little Joshey here, forced a kiss on Rahne. Ain't that right, Josh." Ian told the girl. " She didn't want you, so you chose the next best thing. You're a sad pathetic little bastard, you know that. Can you imagine how hard it was for Laurie to work up the courage to ask you out after everything she's been through? Can you imagine how hard it must have been after everything she's been through? Yeah, you and Summers can say whatever you want about Rahne and I, hell YOU CAN ALL TALK ALL YOU WANT! But at least what we had was real. We loved each other, and you bastards just couldn't let it go! You couldn't let us be happy!" Ian exclaimed.
" Josh.... Is that true?" Laurie asked the boy. " Did you kiss Miss Sinclair?"
" Laurie... It wasn't like that. We hadn't been dating yet and I just..." Josh spoke.
Laurie started to tear up, her feelings shattered. She trusted Josh completely and to find out he used her just to be his rebound girl was just more than she could handle. Laurie turned and ran away from Josh, crying her eyes out along the way.
" LAURIE! WAIT!" Josh yelled. " You bastard! What have you done?" Josh asked Ian.
" The same thing you did to me you, golden little prick. You took what I loved, and now I've taken what you loved. Funny how that works out, isn't it?" Ian asked with a smile on his face.
" Damn you!" Josh yelled. He tried to attack Ian, but Ian punched Josh square in his chest and knocked the wind from the boy's body.
Ian's fist connected with great force to Josh's chest, cracking the bones underneath with ease.
" You want to go to punk? Come on, get up. you can do better than that." Ian exclaimed.
" Kid, that's enough!" Logan shouted.
" Enough? Logan, I haven't done enough. Not yet!" Ian yelled at the man.
" Look around, kid. Is any of this making you feel better. To beat up on a kid, smaller than you?" Logan asked.
" He attacked me, and so did Scott. I'm defending myself!" Ian yelled.
" You've made your case, but this... This isn't helping anyone." Logan told the man.
" You don't get it Logan. You just don't get it. She was all I had left. SHE WAS ALL I HAD LEFT. SHE WAS THE LAST BIT OF MY HAPPINESS! AND THEY TOOK HER FROM ME! NOW LOOK AT ME? WHAT'S LEFT?" Ian asked the man. His anger was finally giving way to his sadness, and he began to cry. " What do I have left, man?"
Logan placed his hand on the young man's shoulder and Ian shrugged him off.
" I need tae find her, I need tae go." Ian left the institute grounds, a mess, to try and find Rahne but no matter where he searched, he just couldn't find her. He searched Salem, he searched her old apartment building. But nothing.
Later that night, Ian finally returned to the Institute, a soaked mess from walking in the rain. He walked into the institute, disregarding the prying eyes and whispers of those still awake.
When he got to his room, he found a note on his bed.
He grabbed at the note, gasping for any sign of hope.
" Ian, I'm so sorry tae do this, but I just can't face ye. I know I'm bein a coward, and I understand if ye hate me for leaving, but with Scott and Emma already planning tae fire me, and with Dani hatin me, I jus can't wait around until I'm thrown out. So, I left. I can't hold ye back anymore, it was made perfectly clear tae me today, when I saw ye and Megan together, you two were so happy, and normal. And that's something I cannae give ye. Ye deserve tae be happy. And with us being outed now ye have that chance. I'm sorry, I'm so sorry that I dinnae see ye one last time. I love ye so much, Ian. I really do. And the time we had together were the happiest moments of my life and I would nae trade them away for anything. But this is the end. I ask that ye don' look for me. I ask that ye move on with yuir life and try to find someone who isn't a broken mess that can love ye the way ye deserve tae be. Goodbye, my one true love. Your Wolfsbane."