Title: Out of the Garden: Cain

Fandom: X-Men Universe comics / movies

Pairing: Jean G./Emma F.

Rating: R

Notes: Alternate Ending 1

The redhead closes her eyes as she squeezes the blonde's neck tighter and tighter. Emma tries unsuccessfully to shift into her diamond form. Jean is telepathically stopping her.

"How could you do this to me again? How could you choose him?" Jean says staring up at the blonde.

The redhead could no longer think clearly. Her mind was completely clouded by anger. Her emotions being increasingly amplified by the Phoenix with every passing second. Images from Scott's infidelity raising the temperature in the room.

Betrayal and resentment, jealousy and suppressed infatuation fueling and justifying her actions.

Jean was enraged seeing his lips against Emma's, his arms wrapped around her waist. And the fact that the blonde wasn't resisting any of his advances in that moment.

The blonde doesn't put up a fight seeing the tears streaming down her livid sorrowful lover's face. Emma shifts her eyes over to Scott for a moment. She tries to send him a telepathic message but is being blocked. So she grabs Jean's wrists trying to pull up to get more air into her lungs. Scott just floats there and smiles at her. It's like he doesn't even notice that Jean is there.

Emma knew this was her fault. She saw how unstable Jean had been becoming, but she chose to turn a blind eye to it. She had driven her to this.

Jean notices her lover's movements. She begins to laugh as her eyes glow and pulse intensely.

"It's him, it's always been him hasn't it? I wasn't ever good enough for you was I? Of course you'd want him." She turns her head toward Scott as she frowns. "I used to want him too…Until I met you."

She pulls the blonde's face into hers kissing her lips softly as she continues to squeeze her neck. "You're mine Em. Don't you know that? You don't need anyone but me."

The blonde can't speak. She'd heard those words too many times from people who had been secretly obsessed with her. She could see that the redhead was losing control. She also knew what was coming next if she couldn't get through to her.

~ Tiger, I love you. I don't want anyone but you. Scott and I are over. Can't you see that? Please, Tiger, you've been inside my heart, now look inside my mind. Please. You don't have to do this. I just came to say goodbye to him. ~ She mentally whispers.

Jean closes her eyes only hearing what the Phoenix will allow her to receive. Her hands tremble as her mind puts words and phrases in a different order. She sobs even harder as she shakes her head.

- Tiger, I don't want you. It's Scott and I. Can't you see that? I don't need you inside my mind or in my heart. We're over. I'm glad you came, so I can say goodbye. -

"You're….mine." She says softly.

The blonde lifts her hand and gently cups the scorching hot redhead's cheek. She knew her message hadn't reached her.

"You're mine Emma Frost and if I can't have you then no one can." Jean says sitting the blonde down on her feet and taking her hands away from her neck. She stares into Emma's eyes, now shedding unconscious tears seeing a loving, gentle, surrendered smile on the blonde's face.

Emma takes a deep breath knowing there was nothing else she could do. She used the time she had left to speak to the woman she had fallen in love with. "I love you Jean Grey. I'll always love you, with everything that I am. I'm all yours. I'm sorry I couldn't tell you that sooner. For what it's worth, I'm glad its you. I couldn't ask for anything more than to be with the one I love when I die." She closes her eyes not wanting to remember her lover this way. Jean gently grabs the nape of Emma's neck and puts their foreheads together.

~ I love you…Em….Please…..forgive ….me ~ She hears the redhead whisper softly.

Emma knew Jean's voice. She shed a few tears of her own as she hears her enraged lover speak.

"Don't worry baby, from now on...we'll always be together. Forever." She says suddenly grabbing a hold of Emma's head. She mentally forces the blonde to crystallize her head and neck as she covers her in telekinetic energy.

Emma's body falls to the floor twitching. Jean holds her head in her hands and brings their lips together. The redhead sighs as though she is relieved, suddenly calm and happy. She drops Scott to the floor. He immediately runs to Emma's body and cradles it in his arms.

The door blasts opens. The rest of the team had been trying to get inside.

The professor sees Scott holding the blonde's headless body on the floor. He turns to see Jean smiling from ear to ear.

"Oh hey professor. I'm sorry about all the noise. Emma and I just had a little fight. We're fine now though, right baby?" She says looking into Emma's crystallized eyes. Jean smiles having heard an answer that her mind created. "I love you so much Em. Come on let's get out of here."

Charles clears his throat. Seeing that both Jean and Scott were both disillusioned. "Jean…" He says with a half smile. "Would you and Emma mind coming to the medical bay with me?"

The redhead furrows her brow then looks at Emma. "Okay, but Emma can't stay long she has to get back to her office for work." She walks toward the door with the blonde's head.

Scott picks up her body. "Professor, can Em and I come too?"

Charles scans his mind and takes in a deep breath. "Yes Scott, please follow me."

Logan covers his mouth. He never imagined that things would turn out that way. Scott stops in front of him as he leaves the room. He sighs then looks at Emma with a smile. "I'm real sorry badger, but Emma and I are back together now." He turns to Logan. "Is that okay?"

Logan swallows hard and tries to smile. "Yeah kid."

Charles has Scott sedated and put under 24 hour surveillance.

Jean however was another story. After hours of conversation Charles and Hank convince her that Emma needed to go away on business and wanted her to come along with her.

They searched Jean's apartment and found the shrine she had erected of Emma with hundreds of pictures and a long lock of her hair. They had no idea how obsessed Jean had become with her. There was no trial. After much questioning, they determined that she had gone completely insane.

She now remains confined in a nuclear shelter below the institute having conversations with her decapitated lover's head.

Emma had prepared for her death weeks earlier. All of her assets were transferred to the institute.

And that was the story of them….

Ending #1