X-Men Begins
Chapter three
The following day after breakfast, Charles, Hank, Eric and Amelia went down to the 'secret basement'. The others were left behind in silence.
"Where are your parents?" Jean asked. After some moments of silence, she asked Scott to answer.
"They're dead" Scott answered
"I'm so sorry. Ororo?" Jean said
"They are dead" Ororo said
"Anna, are your parents dead too?"
"No"
"Then where are they?" Jean was starting to become impatient with their short answers.
"My mom is in Chicago"
"And your dad?"
"He's in Mississippi"
"Are they divorced?"
"They never met each other"
Everybody stared at Anna in confusion, until she sighed and explained: "I ran away from home and Raven adopted me."
Everybody nodded understanding.
"What about your parents?" Anna Marie asked Jean. Jeans face lit up and she said: "They live together in New York City. Annandale on Hudson to be precise. They're very happy and glad to get rid of me. Now they only have my sister Sara."
The others stared annoyed at Jean, except Scott.
"Okay… Remy, where are your parents?" Anna Marie asked.
"In New Orleans" he answered
"Why did you leave them?" Jean asked.
"Doesn't matter" Remy said.
Jean screamed with frustration and put her head in her hands. After a while she gathered herself and asked: "Scott… what did you do in your free time?"
"Didn't really have free time"
"Ororo?"
"Goddess" Ororo answered
Jean sighed and asked Anna Marie the same question.
"The usual… the same as every other teenager" Anna Marie answered
Jean stormed out of the living room and down the elevator to the 'secret basement'.
"Isn't she just a pain in the ass?" Anna Marie asked the others, when Jean was gone.
"Yeah! If she hadn't left I would have strangled her." Ororo said.
"She's just interested in us…" Scott said.
"No, she's crazy!" Remy said.
"Why are you two together?" Scott asked.
"She's hot and the sex is great"
"There was a man in my village, who was exactly like that" Ororo said "I think that is so wrong!"
"You're exaggerating. And she feels the same way" Remy said.
"Why don't you break up, then?" Scott asked
"'Cos we're both too hot to be single"
"What if you fell in love?" Anna Marie asked
"Been there, done that!" Remy said with disgust and sadness.
"Who?" Ororo and Anna Marie both asked.
"BellaDonna" Remy just said.
"Who is she?"
"My wife"
"WHAT!" Scott and the girls asked shocked.
"I mean… my ex-girlfriend"
"You're married?" Scott asked.
"Jean, this is a SECRET basement! You cannot do down there! Bad!" Charles yelled at Jean and went down to the basement again.
The girls and Scott stared at Jean with sympathy in their eyes.
"What?" Jean asked annoyed.
Remy escaped to the garage before things got ugly.
"Remy's married" Anna Marie explained.
Jean sat down on the floor by the elevator and started sobbing quietly. Scott went over to her and comforted her, while Anna Marie and Ororo went outside and happened to find the stables.
"Well, this has been an… interesting day" Ororo said, while they were getting the horses ready.
"Yeah, I actually feel bad for her" Anna Marie said.
"I know. Suddenly she doesn't seem so bad"
"Maybe we should be nicer to her"
Ororo and Anna Marie rode past Remy, who was now sitting in the garden.
"Jean is crying" Ororo said to him, with a slight touch of hate in her voice.
"And it's all your fault!" Anna Marie added.
Remy sighed and went inside to find Jean.
"Why didn't you tell me?" Jean sobbed. Scott quietly went out to the other girls, so they could make up alone.
"You never asked" Remy answered
"You should have told me!"
"Do you love me? Do you even care about me?"
"Of course I care about you"
"Really?" Remy snorted in disbelief
"As a friend"
"A friend you're having sex with?"
"Yes"
"Then let's be real friends"
"That sounds like a great idea" Jean smiled and hugged Remy.
During dinner Anna Marie and Ororo scowled at Remy, until Jean said: "Stop hating him! He hasn't done anything wrong. I have forgiven him and so should you!"
After the meal Jean and Scott went out.
In Charles' bedroom
"You're packing?" Charles asked Amelia, with both hope and confusion.
"Yes." She answered hard. "A good friend of mine needs some help with a project abroad. I have to leave now"
"I'm so sorry—" Charles began.
"Save it! We both know how we feel about each other, okay." Amelia sighed and got a sad look in her eyes, but it quickly disappeared and she smiled. "Good luck with your school, Charles. I hope it works out the way I dreamed".
Then she took her suitcase and left Charles, again.
She didn't say goodbye to anybody else, much to Jean's dismay, when she and Scott returned from their date. But she quickly got over it, and life went on.
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