A/N - This is my first attempt at Fanfic. I know my grammar probably isn't the best but I would really appreciate feedback and maybe some other story ideas. This is really a tester story to see if it is any good to expand on this X-Men AU. Criticism is accepted but please be constructive . Enjoy and Review.

Scott Summers awoke with a start. The alarm just seemed to gnaw at him this morning. He raised his arm, hit snooze and tried to return to sleep. He was a few months shy of his thirtieth birthday and Jean had been gone three years. He had toyed with the idea of moving on with Emma, but in the end Jean had won out again. After all , this was only like the fourth time she died so he expected her to come walking back through the door whenever fate felt like life was getting to normal. But that was just it; life had gone back to normal, months had turned into years and maybe Jean's soul was finally at rest.

He let out an audible sigh as his feet touched the floor. It was five now and his Advanced Mathematics class didn't start till ten but then again his morning routine was an unforgiving mistress

An hour of squats, stomach crunches and pushups in rotation followed by an hour of jogging through the paths on the estate always left him feeling battered but better for it. As soon as the air was whipping at his face he felt alive. The snow crunching at his feet , the crispness of the air, this was bliss. It only took one more thing to make his morning complete and as he saw her footprints up ahead he rushed to meet her.


Anna Marie loathed getting up this early in the morning . If it were up to her, getting up before the crack of noon would be illegal. She had barely slept all night thanks to a drunken call from that bastard Gambit. He wept and told her how much he missed her and how sorry he was. He didn't mean to abandon her and the x-men when they found out about his role in the Morlock Massacre. She simply stated that he never call the mansion again, that he was dead to her and then disconnected the line. Fuck, did she ever hate mornings. But then again , mornings were also her best times. Even in her bad mood she couldn't help but laugh as she heard the steady crunch of snow getting louder and louder behind her . She looked back to see a determined smile on his face that said "I'm going to beat you today".

As she turned around and started to lift off the ground , the whole while laughing at Scott trying to win this race in vain , the memories came flooding back to her. The day that Jean died , killed by some Magneto imposter named Xorn. He locked himself away after her funeral , He tried to move on with Emma but her ghost kept haunting him . He was still a great leader and a good man to talk to but you would have to be blind not to see how emotionally cut off he was. This went on for what seemed like forever and then, Remy left. Well more like kicked out , the rest of the x-men just felt anger and betrayal but they couldn't hold a candle to her. She had loved him with every fiber of her being and he had told her the same but he had lied to her all these years. He killed a little piece of her that day.

She moped around for months . Sometimes not even being able to get out of bed in the mornings. It got so bad that she was pulled into Scott's office. He exploded on her. "What the fuck is your problem , Rogue? I mean Gambit fucked us all over, he lied to use all but it's been months and you know what. We've all moved the fuck on except you". Her eyes got wide at the amount Scott was screaming , Cool, In-Control Cyclops a volcano of rage. " You can't let your emotions get the best of you, you're an X-Man, God Dammit". She couldn't help it, she broke out in another rapid succession of sobs and buried her face in the granite chest of the man who had just made her cry. He just stood there like a wall for what seemed like eternity. Then , his arms enveloped her and squeezed. It was the tightest hug she had ever felt since her mutation manifested and without even thinking her arms slipped around him as well. She felt his head drop onto the neck of uniform and his whole body started to shake. She went silent as she heard the strangled, muffled cries of a year of sheltered emotion bursting at the seems. He cried into her for the better part of an hour and she just silently but strongly held on

After that, things got better . Scott became more animated and lively with not just her but the rest of the team. Scott even loosened up more than before. An effective , efficient team lead but this time without the stick up his ass. Hell, even Logan , who couldn't even stand a syllable out of Scott's mouth, smiled and laughed with him. Before Jean's death, they were a unit, now it felt like they were a family.

A lot had changed.

Charles and Magneto had made amends and now toured the world fighting for Mutant Rights. Now they were lobbying hard in senate and in public as proponents against Tony Stark's new Hero Registration Act.

Logan finally decided to give up being a nomad and is now coordinator for all of the x-teams. He and Ororo found kindred spirits in one another and added another to our little family , James Munroe-Howlett.

Beast became a world famous author and Headmaster of Xavier's School at Charles' insistence. Surprisingly, he and Emma married and have appeared on the cover of Forbes as "Power Couple of The Decade".

Bobby and Warren rejoined the X-men fold and have , unsurprisingly , not grown up one bit. Bachelors who act more like teen then in their twenties.

And through it all Scott and her became inseparable friends. She felt like she could tell him everything and she knew the same went for him .

With that she snapped back to reality as a laughing Scott took advantage of her trip down memory lane by grabbing her foot , and using her own inertia to sprint past her while making her crash into the ground .

" Summers, You Are Dead" she laughed as she dusted herself off and launched herself towards him as fast as she could fly.