"I am certain that you are a better person then you think you are. Stop being so morose."
Trying to be comforting, Jean still sounded a tad arrogant. But she backed off her scanning of Rogue's mind. Gesturing down the hall to the secret elevator, where she wanted to go was very, very unofficial.
"If the only problem we have is your mutant ability, then we will need to study it to understand it fully. Your power alone could be our project...finding some way to circumvent it or help you learn to control it."
Leading the way to the elevator, she opened the secret door and stepped into the bright metal interior. Reaching out towards the button for the sub-basement level, she wanted to press the button until Rogue was inside.
"The best place to do that is Professor McCoy's laboratory."