"Then grab another refill and come outside with me," he said, and hopped down from the counter. No need to feel guilty. He didn't think it was pleasant, but they all did what they had to do to manage. He grabbed his soda can to take with him.

"Charles does some information gathering, finds new mutants, that kind of thing, but most of the missions are coming from Scott, anyway. You can go talk to the Professor if you want, but you might as well wait on Scott to come around and be ready to go since he's going to have to pull it together."

Jean was gone, Scott was quasi-functional. Storm could take over, and had before and would again when it was dire but that could only happen when Scott was truly out or let it and Bobby didn't figure either was going to apply, here.