Title: "Jean's Gift"
Author: Pirate Turner
Rating: PG
Summary: Charles treasures Jean's gift.
Warnings: Het, Drabble
Word Count: 100
Date Written: 12 March, 2012
Challenge: For a XMen100 LJ comm's challenge
Disclaimer: Professor Charles "Professor X" Xavier, Jean "Marvel Girl" Grey, and the X-Men are ﾩ & TM Marvel comics and Disney, neither of which are the author, and are used without permission. Everything else is ﾩ & TM the author. The author makes absolutely no profit off of this work of fan fiction, and no copyright infringement is intended.
He should be used to being without his legs, but the dead weight still becomes an unbearable pain some nights. On those nights, he feels her enter his mind and lets her in, smiling. She slips into him like a hand sliding into a glove. It reminds him of two lovers slipping quietly together, but to her, it's a father and daughter's hug. He shields his true thoughts from her even then as he lets her in. Yet, for a time, as they linger together, the pain stops, and Charles is eternally grateful for the gift Jean has given him.
The End