Author's Notes:   Good news everyone…I'm DONE!!!  WHEEEEEEEE!  Since last Wednesday actually.  Woo hoo!  And I've been working on this scene whenever I could.  It was hard since I had to redo almost the entire song (I was unhappy with the original), but I finally got a version that I'm satisfied (for the most part) with.  You don't know how long it took me to come up with a fitting main line (i.e. the title line)!  What can I say, I'm a perfectionist when it comes to these things. ^_^  Anyway, thanks again for your patience.  The other scenes should come much faster since I don't have school (well…summer class doesn't count) and since they don't need much work. :D  Anyhoo, here's a scene taking place where no scene has taken place before!  And keep in mind I wrote this back in Season 1, before there was any definition to Jean and Duncan's relationship.  And I don't really know if Jean's capable of linking with a mind so far away, but as far as my musical goes, she can. ;)  That's all!  Enjoy! :)

Act 5, scene 1

(After hearing what Professor Xavier and Storm had to say (and sing), Jean and the others begin to feel a little bit more hopeful. They all go back into their rooms, feeling slightly better than they had before.
As Jean sits on her bed, she starts to wonder if there's anything she could do to improve their situation. She feels the need to do something to help herself. She doesn't want to wallow in self-pity anymore, she wants to actually do something.


She was popular, one of the most popular girls in Bayville. Now her social life will be changed forever. Even her closest friends have turned their backs on her. Her "main man" Duncan denied her very existence and her best friend Taryn denounced their friendship.


She doesn't care that much about Duncan's callous behavior as they were never very close. He was just a guy friend she hung out with. Taryn, however.... Taryn's attitude hurts her deeply. Taryn and Jean had been best friends since her first year at Bayville. After they had met they became instant friends and soon after were the best of friends.


Jean decides she isn't going to let her life be shattered; she isn't going to stand by and lose her closest and dearest friend. She closes her door and locks it, then lies down flat on her bed. She closes her eyes and put her hands to her temples, channeling her mind to link with Taryn's. She finds Taryn in her room, oddly enough thinking about Jean and their friendship when she enters her mind. She manifests a physical image of herself in Taryn's mind and starts speaking to her.)


Jean: Hello, Taryn.
Taryn: Jean?? What the- ? Where are you?
Jean: I'm right here,  in your mind. Just relax and close your eyes and focus on my voice.
Taryn: What?? How - ? No, get out of my head!  Don't you hurt me!  Don't use your freakish powers on me!
Jean: I'm not leaving until you listen to me. I'm not going to hurt you, I just want to talk things out. 
Taryn: There's nothing to talk about. You lied to me. I thought we were best friends. Best friends don't hide things from each other. You hid your mutant secret from me.
Jean: I wanted to tell you, really I did. But do you honestly think that if I had told you before that you would have acted any different?
Taryn: Yeah.… No.…  Maybe... I don't know. But I guess we'll never know now, will we?
Jean: Be honest with yourself and be honest with me. You would have hated the fact that I was a mutant, wouldn't you? You would have thought I was a freak. You would have acted the same way you're acting now.
Taryn: How else am I supposed to act? What else am I supposed to think of you?  You're a mutant, Jean...A MUTANT! And all those things I saw you do! I don't know you. I don't know how I can trust you, or your friends or any mutants. After what I saw today, I'm afraid to be around you.
Jean: You really believe all that stuff you saw today?? You really believe I would do things like that?? It's all lies, Taryn! You know me! I'm the same Jean you've always known. I just happen to have special powers.
Taryn: Whatever. I believe what I see, Jean. And I saw enough to know to stay away from you. You're not who I thought you were.

Jean: Oh Taryn...I can't believe you would say all this.

Look much deeper than your eyes can see (To tune of "Colors of the wind" from "Pocahontas")

Jean: You think I'm a dangerous mutant

And you've heard and seen the stories

I guess it must seem so

But still I cannot see

After how long you've known me

How can I be the one that you fear so?

You fear so...

You think that every mutant is a monster

Everything is just black and white to you

And now you think that the X-men and I

Are all freaks, are all evil, are monsters too

You think the only humans who are human

Are the ones who are like you, inside 'n' out

But if you can look beyond our differences

You'll see that we are human, without a doubt

Have you ever thought that we have hearts and souls, too?

Tell me, if you prick us, will we not bleed?

Can you think with your heart instead of just your head?

Can you look much deeper than your eyes can see?

Can you look much deeper than your eyes can see?

(She projects images of their past together).

Just look at all the years we've been best friends

Just look at all the memories that we've shared

Just look at the good times we've had together

And tell me that you honestly don't care.

The X-men and I are a band o' good mutants

We learn to control our abilities

We learn how to harness all o' our powers

And use them for the good o' humanity.

How true were those things that they showed?

If you blindly b'lieve, then you'll never know

And you'll never see a person for who they really are

For the truth's always there for those who seek

We need to think with our hearts instead of just our heads

We need to look much deeper than our eyes can see

We have been best friends but won't

Be real, true friends if you don't

Learn to look much deeper than your eyes can see