The hand to her cheek does provide an amount of comfort to her and Jean finds herself releasing a breath she hadn't even quite realized she had been holding. Things would be fine and the professor along with everyone else would be saved. But it's the things that she felt within her, deep deep down, when ripping apart El Sabah Nur that cause that bit of apprehension within her, quietly pushing it all down and away from the professor's awareness. It's not that she doesn't trust him... she trusts him above everyone else when it concerns her mind and everything that has to do with it. But for now, she's just glad to see him and decides to leave all of that for some other time.
So she chooses to smile instead and quickly dismisses his apology with a shake of her head.
You don't need to apologize for that. There's some things I need to do on my own, right? Because as much as she relies on the professor and looks to him for guidance with her 'gifts', she knows that she can't always use him or rely on him to help her out of things... something she had been learning when he had disappeared from her. Thankfully, she had Erik to go to.
But I can't say that it's not nice to hear again. To have his voice speak within her mind.
That's when she reaches forward and wraps her arms around him in a gentle hug, chin pressed to his shoulder as she sighs. She doesn't need to allow her thoughts to push into his to let him know how glad she is to see him, to be able to speak with him like this.
"It sounds really weird to say I've missed you but... time's really weird here in general. It kinda takes a bit of getting used to," she smiles and gives the Professor just a little more of a squeeze. "Erik says to look at it like a vacation of sorts." She makes a bit of a face at that, but still smiles some. "I just wouldn't really expect any drinks with those little umbrellas in them to be handed to you on this vacation."
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So she chooses to smile instead and quickly dismisses his apology with a shake of her head.
You don't need to apologize for that. There's some things I need to do on my own, right? Because as much as she relies on the professor and looks to him for guidance with her 'gifts', she knows that she can't always use him or rely on him to help her out of things... something she had been learning when he had disappeared from her. Thankfully, she had Erik to go to.
But I can't say that it's not nice to hear again. To have his voice speak within her mind.
That's when she reaches forward and wraps her arms around him in a gentle hug, chin pressed to his shoulder as she sighs. She doesn't need to allow her thoughts to push into his to let him know how glad she is to see him, to be able to speak with him like this.
"It sounds really weird to say I've missed you but... time's really weird here in general. It kinda takes a bit of getting used to," she smiles and gives the Professor just a little more of a squeeze. "Erik says to look at it like a vacation of sorts." She makes a bit of a face at that, but still smiles some. "I just wouldn't really expect any drinks with those little umbrellas in them to be handed to you on this vacation."