"Good luck with trying to get Logan to conform to state standards." Franklin couldn't help but smile faintly. It didn't last long though and he frowned slightly to see Rachel look so crestfallen.

"We'll get through it. There's been dark days at the Institute before." Worse ones, in many ways. The aftermath of the Mutant Massacre and the destruction of the Mansion after Inferno. The ugly tensions during the first Stryker Crusade.

Franklin was confident they'd make it.