Emma's One Time (X-Men; Scott/Emma; G/K; #62: Seduction)
Title: Emma's One Time
Author: Kat Lee
Fandom: X-Men
Characters/Pairing: Scott/Emma, past Scott/Jean
Rating: G/K
Challenge/Prompt: #62: Seduction
Word Count: 500
Summary:
Disclaimer: All characters belong to their rightful owners, not the author.
Her body has been a weapon she's wielded perfectly for years. People scoff at the way she dresses, but there's a reason why she keeps so much of her body revealed, even in battle. Seduction is the keenest weapon there is to use against man, and when everything else is stripped away, all other powers, weapons, prestige, and wealth, she still uses her beauty to twist men's minds as easily as a piece of paper can be twirled.
No man can deny her, or so she once thought. She'd known she would be able to break up even the most blissful union between the X-Men's pretty boy Scott Summers and their precious Jean Grey. She'd known she could destroy their marital bliss and, by doing so, damage little Jeannie's heart in a way the redhead had never felt before. She could rule the world from behind Scott Summers.
Charles Xavier didn't make his favorite son into the man he is today. He shaped the boy into a man, but Emma took the man. She wielded him into the perfect General. She made him into what she wanted, but somewhere along the way, she let slip the words that are only ever supposed to be a tool, "I love you," and was foolish enough to mean them.
Now she watches him through guarded eyes, still leading the world, still being the perfect warrior, the ultimate mutant General. She watches him laughing and talking with their students, saving more lives every day, and she burns inside. At some point, somehow, the tables turned on her. She no longer has any power over him. He barely looks at her most days, and yet one smile from him is enough to make her knees go weak.
The seduction is all his now, and she is the mouse, unable to ignore the pull his body has on hers. Fire jumps within her whenever they touch. She dreams of him every night and remembers every day, every time she looks at him, what could have been, what should have been if Jean Grey's Phoenix hadn't returned to make her destroy everything she'd worked so hard to build.
She looks at him and remembers a world she could have had, a world she did have for far too short a time. She remembers a world in which she was loved. She remembers holding hands and waking with passionate kisses. She remembers a love that wasn't purely based on sexuality. She remembers what it felt like to be truly adored, and she misses those moments, that man, and the woman he made her into with every breath.
That time will never come again, she knows. She's tried every trick she has on Scott, but he knows all her tricks. She aches, but no tears fall from her eyes. Sorrow rains inside her, though, as with every glance, she yearns for a time that will never repeat itself, the one time when she was truly happy for a while.
The End
Author: Kat Lee
Fandom: X-Men
Characters/Pairing: Scott/Emma, past Scott/Jean
Rating: G/K
Challenge/Prompt: #62: Seduction
Word Count: 500
Summary:
Disclaimer: All characters belong to their rightful owners, not the author.
Her body has been a weapon she's wielded perfectly for years. People scoff at the way she dresses, but there's a reason why she keeps so much of her body revealed, even in battle. Seduction is the keenest weapon there is to use against man, and when everything else is stripped away, all other powers, weapons, prestige, and wealth, she still uses her beauty to twist men's minds as easily as a piece of paper can be twirled.
No man can deny her, or so she once thought. She'd known she would be able to break up even the most blissful union between the X-Men's pretty boy Scott Summers and their precious Jean Grey. She'd known she could destroy their marital bliss and, by doing so, damage little Jeannie's heart in a way the redhead had never felt before. She could rule the world from behind Scott Summers.
Charles Xavier didn't make his favorite son into the man he is today. He shaped the boy into a man, but Emma took the man. She wielded him into the perfect General. She made him into what she wanted, but somewhere along the way, she let slip the words that are only ever supposed to be a tool, "I love you," and was foolish enough to mean them.
Now she watches him through guarded eyes, still leading the world, still being the perfect warrior, the ultimate mutant General. She watches him laughing and talking with their students, saving more lives every day, and she burns inside. At some point, somehow, the tables turned on her. She no longer has any power over him. He barely looks at her most days, and yet one smile from him is enough to make her knees go weak.
The seduction is all his now, and she is the mouse, unable to ignore the pull his body has on hers. Fire jumps within her whenever they touch. She dreams of him every night and remembers every day, every time she looks at him, what could have been, what should have been if Jean Grey's Phoenix hadn't returned to make her destroy everything she'd worked so hard to build.
She looks at him and remembers a world she could have had, a world she did have for far too short a time. She remembers a world in which she was loved. She remembers holding hands and waking with passionate kisses. She remembers a love that wasn't purely based on sexuality. She remembers what it felt like to be truly adored, and she misses those moments, that man, and the woman he made her into with every breath.
That time will never come again, she knows. She's tried every trick she has on Scott, but he knows all her tricks. She aches, but no tears fall from her eyes. Sorrow rains inside her, though, as with every glance, she yearns for a time that will never repeat itself, the one time when she was truly happy for a while.
The End