AN: After watching X-3 I decided that Rogue and Jean had been hosed! So I decided to start from the end of the first X-Men movie and see where my muse and my readers (all 3 of them, no wait 2) take me. I am open to and encourage suggestions from readers and other authors. (But please be polite about it.) So, without further ado, here's the first chapter of my untitled story. (By the way, I'm open to suggestions on the title as well.)

Prologue

'I have to tell him, this is hurting us both. I can't keep pretending.' Jean stood outside of the room that she and Scott shared, her hand trembling over the handle of the door. She took a deep breath to calm herself and slowly turned the knob. Scott looked up from the car magazine he was reading. "Jean? Is something wrong?" He asked, his concern evident behind his ruby quartz lenses. Jean fought the urge to cry as she looked at her high school sweetheart. It hurt to do this, but Jean knew that she couldn't pretend to be happy when she knew that she wasn't.

She knew soon into their relationship that she was not in love with Scott. She did love him, but only like a little sister would love her older brother. She just couldn't bring herself to break the truth to Scott. He was always such a sweetheart to her, but lately she had realized that she was hurting Scott even worse by stringing him along. She had always kept up the act because her and Scott had always seemed like the perfect couple. Lately though, she had been having dreams about someone else. These dreams had caused her to rethink her relationship with Scott and helped her to come to the conclusion that she needed to break it off with him ASAP.

"Scott-"

"Jean-" They shared a small laugh as they both spoke up at the same time. Scott looked around awkwardly, trying not to meet Jean's emerald eyes. Finally he spoke. "Jean, I need to tell you something very important. It's something that will affect us for the rest of our lives." Scott took a shakey breath and somehow found the will to keep talking. "I know that we've been dating for a while now. But I need to tell you that I'm not in love with you." He winced at his own words. He really didn't want to be so blunt but he really didn't know how to break it to her. Jean stood silent before she finally spoke.

"Scott, you have no idea how relieved I feel right now!" She said smiling at the confused X-Men leader. She ran to him and hugged him tightly. "Scott, I came to tell you the same thing! I realized how much it was hurting to pretend so I came here planning to break up with you. I guess you kind of beat me to the punch, huh?" Scott soon got the feeling back into his arms and wrapped them around Jean, engulfing her into a bear hug.

"So...I guess that it's safe to assume that you're not mad at me?" Scott timidly asked. Jean smiled warmly, Scott was always adorable when he was nervous. Their tender moment was soon broken by the sound of a deep growling. Scott laughed and gently poked Jean's stomach. "C'mon Jean. We'd better go and feed the beast before it attacks."

Jean thought about her revelation with Scott as they headed for the dinner bell. She had expected Scott to fire off at her and stalk off to the Danger Room or to the garage. She hadn't expected things to go so well. But know that things were okay between them, Jean could focus on the pursuit of her dream lover. It had taken her a few weeks to figure it out, but she finally figured out who she had been dreaming about.

The dream lover was Rogue.

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