Scott Summers opens the door and leads his
darling Jean Grey into their room. She seems to be going in and
out of cosciousness, yet staying alert and awake. It is almost as
if she falls in and out of comatose seizures. She walks over to
her bed and sits down and falls back and smiles.
"Home, sweet home!" Jean calls
out as she throws her pillows back and props her head up.
Scott smiles at her, showing just how
lovely this woman can be, not caring about what someone might
think and just doing what her heart desires. He walks over to the
bed and sits beside her and leans back into the pillows on his
side. Jean curls up beside him and lays her head on his stomach
as he runs his fingers through her hair.
After a few moments of silence, Jean looks
up at her fiance. "What are you thinking?" she asks him
with wonderment in her eyes.
Scott smiles coyly at her. "You're the
psychic, darling..."
"...can't you figure it out,"
Jean finishes. "That isn't what I meant, Scott." Jean
adds. "If I wanted to know what you were thinking, I would
simply get into that gutter of yours and dig around. I want to
talk, Scott. Hear what you think through you're own words, not
just symbols and thought patterns."
"Well," Scott begins, "of
course I am thinking about how much I love you and how beautiful
you look."
"Flattery will get you nowhere,
Scott." Jean comments.
"It is the truth, my dearest,"
Scott adds.
"Well," Jean nercously replies,
"let me rephrase that. What do you think about me now, after
what has happened the past few days."
Scott hesitates at first as he lifts Jean
up at eye level. "Like I said before: All I can think about
is how much I love you." He shifts so that he and Jean face
each other. "It doesn't really matter what kind of threats
or obstacles we face, Jean. As long as we face them together. I
love you Jean Grey. I always have and always will. Nothing will
ever be more important to me than that."
Jean smiles as a tear falls from her eyes
and she and Scott engage in a kiss.
"Heaven help me," Katherine Pryde
silently prays as she lifts herself up and begins to float from
level to level of the mansion on the outside of the house,
weaving in and out of walls, trying to find what she was sent
after. She knows where it is, as per say, whos room it is in, but
she can't quite recall which room was his.
Jubilee and Dani sit outside and think
about what is taking her so long. It isn't a massive ordeal, they
just want to see what they are like, nothing more. At this age, a
teenager tries everything. A genuine cigar left over by Logan
isn't that big of a deal. They just want to know what it is like.
Inside the mansion, Kitty finds the prize
she has searched for and continues along the mansions levels
until she can reach the roof. There, she will ancounce to her
friends that she has what they are looking for by being the first
to smoke it.
Kitty stands tall on the roof as she holds
it high above her head like a trophy. Jubilee and Dani look up
and cheer as they see they picked a winner! Kitty pulls the
matches out of her pocket and strikes one. The fire sparks up and
she drags the cigar.
"-koff-hack-hyack!" are the only
sounds you can hear, as Kitty realizes that smoking is bad. She
tries to maintain her compsure, but feels flacid like a leaf in
the wind. She holds on to her knees, hoping to steady herself,
but with the sudden rush she recieved, she plummets from the roof
and free falls towards the ground.
*BAMF*