Human kind
Cannot bear very much reality.
Time past and time future
What might have been and what has been
Point to one end, which is always present.
-T.S. Eliot

( 'We'll all have time for nervous breakdowns later,' Scott said. But they didn't. (Prompt based on House of M miniseries) )

( So, said Jean. I've been talking to Susan Richards, about the hard-headed alpha males we try to share our lives with. )

Place all your bets and watch me lose
The life that I got but never used.
Dream every night that one will come true
But only bad ones ever do. . .
Won't let it pass me by again

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( The life that I got but never used (R-rated content behind the cut) )

"Hold on to your brother," said Katherine Summers. She handed ten-year-old Scott the cord for the only functioning parachute; the others had caught fire when the engine exploded. "Hold on very tight. And don't let go ( Read more... )

(Inspired by this photo, by a comment ice_emma made in RP, by that New X-men annual issue where they're in Hong Kong, and by the movie Lost in TranslationScott wonders, sometimes, how his life would be different if he had just slept with Emma that night in Hong Kong ( Read more... )

My name is Scott Summers.  I'm also the X-man known as Cyclops, in case anybody doesn't know that by now.  I'm the co-headmaster of the Xavier Institute  for the Gifted, which is also (again, this shouldn't be news)  a branch of X-Corporation and the headquarters of the duly registered superhero team known as the X-men. In other words, we're ( Read more... )

 He was eleven years old, a newcomer at the Nebraska Home for Foundlings.  He was new,  he was skinny, he was bruised and bandaged and had a preposterous story about surviving a fall from an airplane, an accident that had killed his parents.  Of course, he became an easy target for bullies.  Why couldn't he  just admit, they jeered, that he was ( Read more... )