She'd made a few pals in this time, and had gained plenty of trusted allies... but this felt like truly having a friend, which was an amazing feeling.
"Gosh... this all still sounds so weird even to ME..." Jean muttered, before just diving right into it. "Well... you remember Hank, my classmate at the school... a version of him from the future came to us, and told us we needed to come with him to stop one of us from... well... messing up human/mutant relations to the point where there'd be no fixing it. So we did, and he brought us to this time, and we got stuck here. But there's not two versions of me here because apparently the future-me died. Like... twice."