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I Give In

Aug 20, 2011 07:26

Characters: ALEX; JEAN
Date&Time: August 12th, night; during this and this
Setting: Anchorage Correctional Facility
Summary: stuck somewhere in between minds as he's tortured and emotionally giving up, Alex gets another visit from Jean
Rating: tbd.
Status: OPEN to Jean.

( Send me off shore
She's a cold blooded war
I can't win
I give in )

original!jean grey, npc!uatu the watcher, original!alex summers

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reborninflames August 20 2011, 14:36:23 UTC

Jean took a slow, measured, breath. She was... it was similar to before, when she’d been between worlds with Alex, but it was... different, too. The important thing was that he was HERE. She could feel him, clear as day. Relief poured through her, and she made her way to the door that he lay behind. It was then that she became aware of blood trickling from her nose, echoing what was happening in the real world. She swiped it away with a hand, and pressed on.

The door was locked... and the longer she was here the more she was certain that Alex had created this space to die. With a flick of her fingers the door unlocked, and she pulled it open and stepped inside.

“Alex?” Her voice was hoarse and raspy, and very soft. It hurt her almost as much to use her voice as it did to use her telepathy, but it didn’t matter. What mattered was Alex. She could deal with the consequences of her actions after.

everambient August 20 2011, 14:52:39 UTC

Her voice in the quiet startled him, and the light from outside the window began to shine on her like a spotlight. "Jean," he replied in a whisper, as if he didn't really believe it was her. "Your eyes are on fire," he told her. His tone was almost casual, indifferent.

reborninflames August 20 2011, 23:15:51 UTC

What the hell?? Jean knelt next to him, putting a hand gently on his knee. She didn’t know what to do, what to say. But she had to do something, he was giving up and she couldn’t let him. His weird commentary about her eyes could wait.

“Alex... talk to me. Please.”

everambient August 21 2011, 00:39:12 UTC

Alex blinked and stared at her. "About what?" he asked her. It wasn't that he was oblivious to the situation and what she might be there for, he just chose to ignore it because the truth that he was being tortured back in a universe that he didn't even belong in was too much.

reborninflames August 21 2011, 10:46:55 UTC

“Anything. Everything. I know you’re giving up, I could feel it. Could feel your pain, your panic. I felt you giving up. And you can’t, because we’re going to get you back and you can’t give up before we do. You can’t.”

She was so far in over her head it wasn’t even funny. But she was the only person he had. Jean took his hands. “You’re not alone right now, Alex. You’re NOT.”

everambient August 22 2011, 01:00:33 UTC

"Why not?" he asked her, his tone almost bitter. "Why can't I give up? Because some mysterious voice gave me the ability to open dimensions, and suddenly everyone expects Alex Summers to step up and be the hero? I'm not hero material. That was always Scott, not me. He'd be kicking ass right now, and here I am getting my ass kicked."

"I'm done, Jean," Alex insisted. "I tried caring, I tried having hope, and look where it got me."

reborninflames August 22 2011, 10:29:21 UTC

“Damn it Alex, I’m not expecting you to be the hero, or anything else so asinine.” Her voice was getting hoarser sounding, but she didn’t pay it any mind. She gently took his face in her hands. “I’m just expecting you to LIVE long enough to get back home.”

everambient August 22 2011, 10:46:44 UTC

He paused for a moment, then looked at her. "You're really here," Alex realized for the first time.

reborninflames August 22 2011, 10:55:24 UTC

“Yes Alex, I’m really here. I promise,” Jean told him, her thumb brushing lightly over his cheek. “I’ve been trying to reach you again for days. And then... I felt you.”

everambient August 22 2011, 11:06:28 UTC

"I thought I heard your voice in my head," he confessed. "But everything here is so...messed up, I wasn't sure I could trust it."

"Oh god," he added, looking at her with wide eyes. "What has he done? The Alex that belongs here, how much has he ruined? He hasn't hurt anyone, has he?"

reborninflames August 22 2011, 11:14:26 UTC

Jean was relieved to hear that he’d heard her before, even if he couldn’t trust it. She hated that she couldn’t do more for him. She wished, more than anything, that she was powerful enough to bring him back home.

“He’s... an asshole and a pain in the ass, but we have him in hand, now, I think. It took Darwin sticking him in a freezer, but we did it.” She paused a moment, trying to determine how honest she should be. In the end, she went with mostly honest. “He’s raised a bit of hell, and I think he’s tried to get in the pants of everyone in the mansion... except me. He’s... afraid of me. Of the me I am in his world, I guess.”

everambient August 22 2011, 11:34:23 UTC

"I haven't seen you here," Alex realized suddenly, "but the newspapers..." How much should he tell her? "It's not important. Just, listen to me Jean, you need to tell the others--tell Hank and the Professor, they'll know what to do--but there is something inside of my head, something that connects me to--"

Alex paused, glancing past her to stare at the source of the voice he'd heard in his dreams so many times. The being spoke in thoughts. "Jean Grey, you are not supposed to be here."

"You're the reason this happened, aren't you!?" Alex accused, glaring at Uatu.

He simply shook his head, looking at Jean then back at Alex. "You were given the burden of the Nexus because I knew that I could trust you." Alex opened his mouth to ask what the stranger was talking about, but he answered before Alex could say a word. "The Nexus of realities connects all dimensions. This is the light you see that open doorways. Your mind perceives it as a literal portal, but it is so much more than that. Fallen into the wrong hands, reality as ( ... )

reborninflames August 22 2011, 11:49:13 UTC

Jean nodded, more than willing to pass anything along that he asked of her. Her head throbbed; being stretched so thin was tearing her apart. She ignored it, would continue doing so until she was done. “You know me?” she blurted out, before she could stop herself. Who the hell was he? WHAT the hell was he?

Whoever he was, he was explaining how it was that Alex was able to go between worlds. And then he introduced himself, which was so nice of him. Quite frankly, this Uatu pissed her off.

“You should have ASKED him,” Jean snapped, getting up and walking forward to poke him hard in the chest. “You had no fucking right to do that to him without asking his PERMISSION. Who are you to play GOD, Watcher? Your people being 'ancient' doesn't give you the right to fuck with people. And how do you plan on getting him home. This is your fault... you need to fix it.”

everambient August 22 2011, 12:06:03 UTC

"There was no time to ask," Uatu insisted. "The Beyonder sought its powers, and I had to make a decision quickly to hide it." Looking at Alex, the Watcher continued, "This is the real reason you can not give up, Alexander Summers. If your mind weakens, then any being can creep in and take the Nexus."

"I can't die, can I?" Alex realized quietly. "Every time I die I'd just wake up somewhere else..."

"An unfortunate side effect of carrying the burden of worlds," the Watcher replied, as if this were nothing out of the ordinary and in no way a big deal.

Looking at Jean, Alex told her quietly, "You should get back. You're in pain. I can feel it." It seemed their connection went both ways, and he could almost hear the distant voices of people trying to talk to her back in their world. "They'll find a way to bring me back."

reborninflames August 22 2011, 12:13:52 UTC

“If for some reason you absolutely HAD to fucking hide it in him you should have had the courtesy to leave him a USERS manual.” Jean was downright seething now. Her fists were clenching and unclenching at her sides. “That is no real reason for giving up. That’s YOUR reason for not wanting him to give up, because if he does that then your efforts are all for naught. You don’t give a damn about him at all beyond that.”

She walked back over to Alex, reaching down and taking his hand again. “I’m not going yet. I’m not leaving you here alone. With him. I can take it, I promise.”

Letting go of his hand, she spun on her heels, stalking back over to Uatu. “You owe him whatever information we need to get him back.” She hauled off and slugged him as hard as she could in the face. “He’s keeping your precious NEXUS safe. You OWE him.”

everambient August 22 2011, 12:22:18 UTC

Alex suddenly wondered if this was what Jay felt, if this was the reason she hated her immortality so much, because without an end you didn't know what you were working towards. It made existence sort of futile. He closed his eyes for a moment just to picture the redhead's face, then opened them again when Jean was talking to him ( ... )

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