A/N: Sorry, folks! I know I haven't updated for (#checks#) God! Six months! I've been waitin' for so long for an inspiration for a song, and I finally got it. Sorry to say that this is the final chapt for the story of 'Hello'. Hope ya'll enjoy what's left!
Disclaimer: X-Men not mine (#curses#) The song, 'Show Me The Meaning' belongs to the Backstreet Boys. Sorry, ya'll if I disappointed you, but I used to be a hardcore fan. #cough, (hotties!) cough#
Scott lay with his long-missed fiancée in their bed in the dark. Her head lay on his chest as she peacefully slept. But Scott had not found it nearly as easy.
Show me the meaning of bein' lonely
Jean was back, but she'd changed. Something was different and/or out of place.
So many words
For the broken heart
It was like some other person…or creature had abducted Jean's voice, mind, and powers and pushed its personality alongside her own. She'd almost killed Storm, for Christ's sake! But Scott couldn't help but love her
It's hard to see
In a crimson love
So hard to breathe
Walk with me
And maybe
for he felt a change in himself, too. Something was itching in the back of his mind, telling him something wasn't right.
Nights of light
So soon become
Wild and free
I could feel the sun
Your every wish
Will be done
They tell me
He was alone, yet not alone at the same time.
Show me the meaning
Of bein' lonely
Would it ever go away? Is it merely an aftershock of his beloved fiancée returning? A power unheard-of?
Is this the feeling
I need to walk with?
He felt as if he was drawn towards Jean, yet in another sense, away from her. Why couldn't he follow and be where her heart and mind was? A hole made in his heart when she died had been refilled, but another was burned through. He couldn't put his finger on it. Still he wondered as he stared at her, searching for the answer.
Tell me why
I can't be there
Where you are
There's somethin' missin'
In my heart
He couldn't just ignore—like others had—the sudden appearance as if she had never died and had been there all along. So much had changed within her. Wrath and joy at the same time followed her continuously.
Life goes on
As it never ends
Eyes of stone
Observe the trend
They never say
Forever gaze
If only
But he couldn't help but love her still. It's as if…his love for her—much less anything else—was uncontrollable. Even for someone who's always in control.
Beauty roams
To an endless love
There's no control
Are you with me now
Your every wish
Will be done
They tell me
What Scott couldn't see was that she was trapped. Caught in crossfire of Jean Grey and the Phoenix. She was torn two ways. One towards ultimate power and destruction. The other, her normal self as an X-Man, er, Woman. She couldn't accept her pursuing evil, yet couldn't run from it. This time, Scott couldn't help her. She was on her own.
Show me the meaning
Of bein' lonely
Is this the feeling
I need to walk with
Tell me why
I can't be there
Where you are
There's somethin' missin
In my heart
There's nowhere to run
I have no place to go
Surrender my heart
Body and soul
How can it be
You're askin' me to feel
Things you never show
Yet, what he could do was be there for her. It's all he could do. But he still wants to help. Why couldn't it be her and him alone? He doesn't know what he's missing. But if he did know, he would be thankful if he didn't.
So he lay watching her. Thinking, wondering. What had changed Jean so much? Little did he know that the answer would find him. Sooner than expected or wanted.
Jean's eyes opened with the color of orange-red. But it wasn't Jean. The Jean-like creature sat up, turned to him, and grabbed his arm.
Show me the meaning
Of bein' lonely
Is this the feeling
I need to walk with
Tell me why
I can't be there
Where you are
There's somethin' missin
In my heart
Show me the meaning
Of bein' lonely
Is this the feeling
I need to walk with
Tell me why
I can't be there
Where you are
There's somethin' missin
In my heart
"Honey," its dark voice said.
A/N: The End, folks! Even in the end I left a cliffie-like ending! What's wrong with me!? I'll figure it out soon enough, I guess. I was thinkin' about doin' another songfic, but I have a promise to keep, first. If you read the A/N on my newest fic, you'll see what I'm talkin' about. Anyways, hope ya'll enjoyed this last chapt and I hope ya'll review and tell me what you think. Sayonara!