WHO: Scott Summers and Jean Grey
WHERE: The Institute
WHEN: TSunday night, late
WARNINGS: None
SUMMARY: There are things Scott needs to tell Jean, so they meet over coffee to talk.
FORMAT: Paragraph.
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Scott was getting good at this, meeting his wife after she was dead. )
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"Well, we didn't exactly set a time," he said, smiling up at her and gesturing for her to take a seat.
If he hadn't been gradually numbed to the site of Jean, or at least versions of her, over the last few months, it would be harder to see her. As it was there was just a sense of oddness about it all, although he wondered if that would change the more he talked to her and the more she began to feel like his Jean.
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That memory, longing to be snapped shut as easily as it was pried open, loomed over Jean's presence, and she suddenly felt as if it were haunting this very interaction, teasing her.
She thought about what Emma had said about she and Scott having children. About Scott changing.
There was a slight disappointment in herself as she found that she had to fight a myriad of what she saw as feelings of possessiveness that she was no longer entitled to at all.
All she could do was just be. It was her job to help Scott in any way she could -- as a friend, as a partner, a colleague... everything but what he had decided she couldn't really give him ( ... )
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"It's not out of my way," he said, shaking his head. "But even if it was, I'd still have done it."
That much was true. Scott may not have the same feelings for Jean that he once had, but she was still a friend. Still an X-Man. Still... someone he cared about, only in a different way than before.
"There are things I need to tell you, about what's happened since you were gone," he added.
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