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- "Jean, are you mad at me? Maybe I shouldn't have answered to your kiss, and broke it before you, I dunno, but do you hate me?"

She turned herself suddenly:

- "No Scott, never…It's not your fault, it's all these recall…This wouldn't have changed anything, I…It wasn't premeditated, I dunno what took me…I'm sorry for having avoiding you, but…"

- "…but you needed to be alone to think about it" he ended.

- "Yes"

- "I understand that Jean, but I would have liked you to tell me it, I've really thought that I had made something bad and that you would never speak to me again…"

- "I'm sorry"

- "Don't be, I should have understood immediately"

- "And I should have thought about you" she said.

He smiled and proposed to her to curl herself in his arms, she accepted the offer and he hold her against him.

- "I love you, do you know it?"

- "So do I" she answered, expressing her feeling verbally for the first time since more than one and half a year.

The adolescent kissed her on her forehead and they ended to fall asleep.


Two months had melted away. During the last two nights Scott had had to leave with the other X-Men and she hadn't slept. Knowing that he was safe this day, Jean had gone to bed early. Scott was taking a shower, she was hearing the water flowing into her subconscious…

hours spent suspended by the arms with a butcher hook, soaked by the water which was flowing down her head…guards laughing and one of them was approaching with an electric cable in his hands…

- "NO!"

She had woken up with a start, Scott was in the bed, she might have fallen asleep since more than one hour.

- "Jean?"

- "A nightmare" she said with lassitude "another one"

Just some a couple of months and it would make 2 years that she had been kidnapped.

Scott took her in his arms:

- "It's nothing, everything is all right"

- "I'm sorry"

- "Why?"

- "For waking you up every night, if I wasn't sleeping here…"

- "It would be the same, I would came to you"

- "So I'm doubly sorry…"

- "Jean, you're not responsible, and I'm happy that you sleep here with me, at least I know you're there and that if you're not well, I would be near you"

- "Thanks, thanks for being here…but…but Scott, you have to forget me, you have to find someone who…"

He silenced her by laying two fingers on her lips.

- "Don't say such things, I love you and nobody else"

- "But I can't give you anything, it has been two years and they're still haunting me, I can't give you anything"

- "You're wrong, you're giving me your presence, you're here, alive, that's all that matters"

They stayed silent some instants, in front of each other before Scott decided himself to ask her:

- "Can I….Jean can I kiss you?"

Jean, averted her eyes:

- "I don't know…I don't want to hurt you"

- "You won't hurt me Jean, I will speak to you, like that you won't think about them"

She looked back to him and timidly nodded.

- "You're sure? I don't want to rush you"

- "Yeah I'm…I'm sure"

He waited a moment to be sure she wasn't telling that for pleasing him, and laid his lips on her in a tender kiss.

Everything is all right Jean, you see? What do you feel?

Softness, love

What do you experience?

I don't know, it's confusing

He delicately broke their kiss.

- "You're ok?"

She nodded before saying with astonishment.

- "We kissed…"

- "We kissed"

- "And I didn't push you back…"

- "And you didn't push me back" confirmed Scott before saying "Hey, but it looks like the premises of the premises of a smile"

- "I didn't let them enter my mind"

- "You're stronger than them Jean, the proof, they were too coward to affront you without sedating you, without blocking your powers"

She nodded slowly before coming closer.

- "Again" she said.

- "No Jean, not tonight, it's better to stay on a success, you understand?"

- "You're right" she nodded.

He kissed her on the edge of her mouth.

- "There is only the smile that's missing"

- "I don't know anymore…"

- "I know, one day, it'll come back naturally"


The day after, when Scott went in the kitchen where Kurt was stuffing himself with food as some professors and other students were taking their breakfast, they didn't last to see that something had change, indeed, Scott was particularly shinning.

- "Something happened or I've missed an episode?" asked the Elf.

- "I kissed Jean yesterday" said Scott "And it went well"

- "How?" asked Ororo, surprised.

- "I asked her before, and I've had the idea to use our bond for invading her mind in order to prevent her recalls to do it, and it worked"

- "She hadn't pushed you back?"

- "No, she had lived the present moment"

- "That's a big progress and I understand that you haven't taken advantage of the moment" said the Professor.

- "No, she wanted us to kiss again, but I told her we better stay on a success"

- "That's really good" approved Moïra.

- "I thought she was about to smile after that, she was proud for having reached to push them out of her mind

- "It's important that she regains her self-trust"

- "In all way, we have to celebrate it!" said Tabitha. "Where is she?"

- "She's still sleeping"

- "When she'll come down, don't speak about that with her, she needs to think about that alone, and not feeling herself under pressure" said Moïra.


To be continued

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