A Woman Scorned: Garnet

Often used and even scorned as a cheap imitiation of the more well-known ruby, the garnet is seldom valued for itself...

I died in fire.

I was reborn in fire.

I lived in ice.

I soared on steel wings.

I learned to live.

I learned to love.

I created a life: my son, Nathan Christopher Charles Summers.

And his father doomed me.

I "died" in Dallas, with the X-men, and my friend, Liz.

Again, I was reborn... Invisible to machines and technology. But alive!

I became their their computer guru.

I was happy for a time, and then Alex and I fell in love.

He was so different than Scott. Vibrant and passionate. Something of a "bad boy".

I learned about myself....

And then I saw my husband with her..

His first love. The woman he left me alone in Alaska for, when he found her.

The imposter....The duplicate...

I came unhinged as learned to hate.

And then he killed me. No matter how indirect it was...

I died in fire... An Inferno, burning with anger, pain and hatred.

And then my "son" from another reality resurrected me.

Again I was born in fire...

I live again...

The eternal flame has chosen me, a flawed garnet instead of a purportedly flawless ruby...