All Too Late
Author: Sparkling-Diva
Summary: Marie finds out some things that she didn't want to know.
Disclaimer: Alas, it's a pity that these wonderful characters are not mine.
Rating: PG-13 (Just to be safe).
Feedback: Please!!!! My e-mail is rogue200348@yahoo.com. Thank you very much!!
There was absolutely no way that her broken heart could have been fixed. She knew something was wrong from the beginning and when she found out, she knew that it was all too late.
She had woken up one morning to hear the sound of yelling coming from the bottom of the staircase downstairs on the main floor. It was summer vacation and most of the students were long gone and only the X-Men and the professor were still in the mansion.
She got up, still trying to adjust from the bright light that was shining through her window.
She headed towards the door, opened it, and peered out. There didn't seem to be anyone there.
Then she took a few steps and once again heard the sounds and was able to figure out, by concentrating, which mutant it belonged to.
Scoot, Logan, and Jean.
Without being noticed, she quietly sat near the wooden bars of the staircase up on the 2nd floor and listened and witnessed the scene before her. By now she was becoming wide awake.
"I TOLD YOU TO STAY AWAY FROM MY GIRL!!!!!!!!" screamed a very upset Scott Summers at a very shocked looking Logan.
"Scott, stop it!" replied Jean as she stood in front of Logan protecting him, "Please, can we all just be calm?"
"Calm?! HOW THE HECK CAN I REMAIN CALM WHEN I WALK INTO OUR ROOM AND FIND THE WOMAN OF MY DREAMS AND THE PERSON I HATE THE MOST ALL OVER EACH OTHER!!!!!"
"Hey, bub," Logan said surprisingly calmly, "I swear that I didn't mean for anything of this to happen."
"Oh you didn't did you? I've had my eyes on you since the very beginning and all you have ever done was fight and flirt with Jean."
"Scott-"
"No!" Scott yelled as he cut her off. By now he was crying and had the worst look of agony across his face. "And you," he continued pointing at Jean, "I loved you and I can't believe that I trusted you. For God's sake I was going to marry you and you were going to be my wife and we were going to raise a family together!! But you want to know what? You mean nothing to me now. And listen when I say this. You are going to pay back for all of this and so are you Mr. All-High-And-Mighty-Big Shot!!!!"
"Cyke," Logan began.
"No. I don't want to hear it I'm leaving."
"Scott don't," said Jean trying to refrain him from the front door by grabbing his arm but he just pulled away.
"No," Scott said as he held on to the doorknob and looked back at Logan, "You were wrong, you know? Congratulations!! She chose you. Not me. And you really can bet that-"
He was cut off guard as something caught his eyes. He looked up towards the staircase and saw the young teen staring back at him in shock and confusion. She had tears rolling down her cheeks but yet she failed to either flinch or make a sound.
Scott understood why and he was even more hurt than before since he just realized that the incident that had just happen didn't only affect him but other people they cared about as well too.
Jean and Logan looked from Scott and followed his gaze until they saw her too.
"Marie…" Logan shuddered in shock under his breath. He was almost on the brink of tears. A look that one wouldn't expect from the Wolverine.
Scott gave Rogue a look of sympathy and then stared back down at Logan. He saw how Logan and the young girl's gaze was locked in position and there was much inner conflict involved. He wanted no more part of this and wished her the best since he knew that she was one of the people that could not escape from this horrible dilemma.
Scott turned the doorknob open and told Logan in a harsh voice, "Have a nice life," before taking a quick glance at Jean and then Rogue.
He then shut the door with a loud bang.
There was a long pause where everyone was trying to gather their thoughts.
"Oh my gosh!! Scott!!!!" Jean said after one quick glance back at Rogue and then to the door as she tried to run after him but failed. By the time she got to the garage, the car had left and was leaving the driveway and turning the corner away from the mansion.
Logan was now down there all by himself.
"Marie," he said as he started to advance up towards the stairs.
With a gulp, Marie carefully let go of the staircase handle, got up, and backed away slowly never taking her eyes off of him. She could sense his every motion and every intention.
"Marie, listen to me," he said now reaching the first steps.
She turned and ran back to her room. All the way, she heard him running up the stairs at full speed behind her and calling her name.
Just as she reached her room, got in, and locked the door, Logan had caught up. He began pounding the door and yelling for her pleasing if she could just listen to him.
"Marie, darling," he said. He sounded as if he was crying and in pain. "Please let me talk to you. I need to. I need you. Don't do this to me. What you saw…I can explain. Please open up, baby. Please. Marie."
Marie practically out of breath from running so much, put her back against the door and fell to the floor. There she cried to herself with her head in her hands into the night. All that could be heard where the pleas from the man she loved most trying to explain himself while she knew that his words were all no good and that it was all her fault because now he would never know how she really felt. It was all too late.