A/N: X-men Evolution is back on air!!! (It was taken off after the second season a couple of months ago) To celebrate I'm thinking of starting a JOTT fic. This is just the prologue, so it WILL get better, I can assure you. Let me know what you think, I'd really like to know if you'd like me to continue.
Disclaimer: I, sadly enough, do not own the X-men in any way, shape, or form. Any thing in here that you do not recognize, however, is all mine.
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Everybody loves the boy next door; the boy you've spent your whole life growing up with. Your parents meshed the two of you together at an early age, minds brimming with the ideas of carpools and shared babysitters, and you both blossomed from that early bond. He's the boy you shared carpools and toys with in preschool, occasional lunches and imaginary games with in elementary school, association, secret handshakes, and unseen conversations with in middle school, tears and heartaches with in high school, and when you're looking back on your life you realize he's the only one who's been with you through it all. When he's the new "it" boy at school, you're immediately labeled cool by association and all your girlfriends want you to hook them up with him, and he does the same for you whenever you're feeling down and without a boyfriend. He's beyond simply being the brotherly aspect of your live, but not quite right for a boyfriend. In any case he'll always be by your side, protecting you for all he's worth. He's closer than a boyfriend could ever be, but not close enough to take to the next level. He's always been your guinea pig when you've created your newest baking experiment, and he's the one you run to after you break up with your first – and last – boyfriend. He's the friend that insists on sleeping on your couch after you've fought with your boyfriend, in case you wake up with the sudden need to talk in the middle of the night. He's always offered you a shoulder to cry on, even after the two of you have a fight, he'll still stand up for you in your times of need. In a sense, he's the perfect guy, though you would never even consider going out with him. He's all you've ever needed in your life, even if you are too blind to realize it until he's gone.
For Jean Grey, that boy happened to live behind the next door, the nearest door down the hall. Scott Summers hadn't been the typical boy next door, as the two of them hadn't met until forces beyond their control brought them together towards the end of junior high, he and Jean failed to establish the crucial bonds of friendship at an early age. When they met, he had thought her a spoiled child who took the idea that she had a loving family for granted and she had thought him a hostile boy unable to love. Through the encouragement and pressure of the Professor and Ororo, Jean had reluctantly reached out to the elusive boy, and was surprised at the friend she found within him. As the years passed, Jean found that Scott was just the friend she needed, the one thing in her life she'd always been missing. He was her "boy next door," he was always there for Jean, no matter what she was going through, even though she occasionally took his extensive friendship for granted, the two of them formed a bond, deeper than the Professor had ever witnessed between two children. Jean knew that Scott appreciated their bond as much as she did, and she had never wanted to do anything that might jeopardize their friendship, so when slight feelings for the boy began to develop within her, she quickly dismissed them as a silly crush. But when those feelings began to squirm free of her protective hold over them, Jean found herself slowly beginning to question just what Scott Summers really meant in her life.
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A/N: So that's the prologue, I'll probably continue to post at least one more chapter without the encouragement of reviews, but I'd really like to know what you all think, and if you think I should continue. Please Review! I haven't written an X-men fic in quite some time . . . I'm not sure if I still have it right.
