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X-Men:the Movie
"Gone, but not forgotten..."
Chapter 3




In New Jersey State Court, a case involving a known mutant who could phase through metal. The mutant was accused of phasing through a safe and stealing $1.5 million. He worked at a bank and was being accused by the bank's president. The jury had come back with a verdict, but before the foreperson could read their decision the doors were slammed open and a blue creature walked in. The events took place in the courthouse as it had happened in the Senate, except the mutant was spared. The creature just turned and left the court room. The mutant didn't move from his seat and was soon joined by Cyclops and Storm.

"Where is it?" Cyclops asked the mutant, but he only pointed to the doors. Cyclops made his way through the lifeless audience to the doors to look for the deadly creature that had taken his life away, his love.

Storm made sure the mutant was alright and offered him help, but the mutant refused and left the dead court room. Cyclops soon came back, angry that his love's killer had gotten away. "Let's go home," Storm told him, "there's nothing we can do here."

"I know, but I wish there was."

The X-Men left the court room in defeat. The X-Men had gone from three people to two people. Logan didn't really count as a part of the X-Men. Scott had thought that if he or Logan had been with Ororo and Xavier in the audience of the Senate that Jean would still be alive and safe. Hope that the horrible events that he had experienced was just an extremely long nightmare that he desperately wanted to end. Why had it been her? Why couldn't it had been someone else? Someone he didn't love or even know? Someone that didn't possess his heart? Someone he wouldn't be lost without? Why her? Why?

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The creature struck just about every state on the East Coast in the three months after the Senate. The X-Men had been late to the scene everytime. The professor located the creature or rather a mutant, it was on its way to Maine. The X-Men took the Blackbird and made it to Maine before it. The first time Scott Summers had seen Jean's killer, and immediately the battle began.

After more than an hour of battle the creature collapsed. "Why are you against me? I am like you!" the creature told them.

"We don't kill people, but we especially don't kill people that try to do good!" Scott told him.

"No one tries to help me!"

"Jean did!" Scott told the creature.

"Who is this Jean?"

"The Senate speaker against mutant registration," Ororo told him.

"I am sorry, I did not know," the creature told them.

"That doesn't make it better! You killed her!"

"No! Not dead, mutants are merely in a sleeping death, but not dead!"

"She's not breathing!"

"Merely in a stasis," he explained.

"She's not dead?" Scott asked in shock.

"No! I can make it better if you let me," the creature told them.

"But we buried her!" Ororo told him.

"We need her out!" the creature explained.

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The X-Men and the creature flew back to New York to the graveyard. Immediately they began to dig up the grave, it took them fifteen minutes to get to the coffin. The creature opened his mouth and retrieved a blue glowing orb, "here. Just break it open after she is out of the coffin. I am sorry." The creature turned and left the X-Men to make their dead friend live again. Scott jumped into the grave and pryed open his fiancee's coffin. She looked just as she had when they had buried her, a sleeping angel. He gathered her up in his arms and passed her up to Ororo. Scott made his way out of the grave and sat next to Jean's side with the blue glowing orb. It was broken and the blue glow surrounded Jean Grey and gave her life again.

"Jean!" Scott cried out happily as she drew in breath and opened her eyes. He surrounded her with his arms and kissed her. Ororo touched Scott's shoulder and he released Jean. Ororo then hugged her best friend heppy that she was alive and that the others would be happy as well.

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Xavier's School for Gifted Youngsters was alive once again with cheerful voices. Jean Grey had been home for only five minutes around midnight, but the school was alive with the voices of all the students. The professor had been so happy to see Jean, he had thought that he was imagining Jean's presence in his mind. But it was not just hopeful thoughts, it was real. Jean was back! He had immediately called her parents, who were overjoyed that their daughter was alive.

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So quiet. Quiet, but there was noise. There was breathing right next to him. He looked over to see his sleeping angel, his fiancee, safe. He looked at her, so happy that she was alive and that they were together. Safe...and together. It was all that mattered to him, she was the center of his life and was lost without her. Lost. Why had I lost her? Why hadn't I been there? Why didn't I save her? Why? What is wrong with me?

Nothing's wrong with you Scott! Jean told Scott telepathically, you didn't do anything wrong, you were here telepathically, you didn't do anything wrong, you were here teaching the students. Jean Grey opened her eyes and looked at her fiancee, "how could you think that?"

"I could have saved you!" he told her.

"But you did! I'm here aren't I?"

"Jean, I should have been at the Senate House with you," he told her sincerely.

"Scott, I'm fine."

"Now, but we thought we had lost you, that I had lost you."

"You can't be everywhere at once. Plus, I', fine now and we're together. That's all that matters," Jean told him pulling him to her.

"That's all that matters," he said simply.

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The End!