Reunion (RP for Logan and Jean)

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*OOC -- After this. Jean (Phoenix?) has returned to Earth on a mysterious errand, and passed out in Scott's arms.Scott took her to the Danger Room. Or he took her to what was left of it -- and that was another thing to explain. If there was ever a time. If there was ever a need. If there was actually a Jean Grey there to explain anything to

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[canadianclaws]

Logan knew that tone in Scott's voice, and he knew better than to question it. Whatever was going on between them right now, for good or ill - and Logan really wasn't sure which of those things it was - the X-Men still came first

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For a moment, Scott was ridiculously reassured that Logan could smell her on him.

"Yes," he said. Then, "No. I don't know. I thought you --"

He pointed through the window to where she on the floor. "She just came. She said she wanted to see Emma, but -- the thing is, I can't fight her. I won't be able to, if it comes to that. We've established that the Phoenix just feeds off my power; when she's not stopping it altogether." He looked down, cleared his throat. Without raising his eyes, he put a hand on Logan's shoulder, weighed everything in him that wanted to press closer against everything that didn't. He stayed in place.

"Maybe she just needs to talk to someone she trusts. Do you think you could --?"

[canadianclaws]

Logan looked through the window, in the direction of Scott's gesture. Red hair, white dress - Sleeping Beauty on a cold metal floor. It looked like Jean

[justjeangrey]

Jean knew the voice; she heard it in her dreams. Phoenix heard it in her nightmares.

A smile tugged at her lips. She breathed in the air between them and in one swift motion grasped his hand and pulled herself up and into his arms. "Logan..." She buried her face in his chest, felt his heartbeat against her cheek. It felt real.

"Where am I?" she asked, her voice muffled. She clung to him. The words she'd spoken earlier ringing in her ears...I want to stay. I always want to stay.

"Where's Scott?"

[canadianclaws]

"Yeah," Logan muttered, not attempting to hide his bitterness. "It was a real laugh riot."

He glared at Scott. "Let the lady talk about whatever the hell she wants to talk about. She just came back from the dead, for Christ's sake." And I thought - he put up a slight mental shield, to block the thought from Jean's potentially still-probing mind - that the plan was to not piss her off.

If they kept her thinking about this - something completely inconsequential for the Phoenix - they could buy themselves more time to come up with a better plan.

[justjeangrey]

Jean watched Scott squirming and Logan posturing and couldn't help but start to giggle. It started small but before long she was doubled over with laughter, before long she was out of breath and collapsed in a heap on the floor.

"You're right, Scott," she said finally. "It's really quite funny."

She pulled her knees up to her chest and laid her chin on them. There was no trace of Phoenix. "I've missed you, too, Logan," she said, as if continuing a thought, though she'd said it to Scott maybe hours before.

[canadianclaws]

The laughter didn't bother Logan. The whole thing was a little absurd. And the Phoenix - it didn't laugh like that.

Logan smiled, a little sadly. "Yeah. Same to you, Jeannie."

He looked around. They were still standing in the front yard of Jean's childhood home.

"Look, I don't wanna stand around on this fake grass. Why don't we go inside of this hologram and sit at a table or something? Talk about what's going on here."

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Jean nodded an assent. Scott reached into his pocket and touched a few buttons on the Danger Room's remote callibrater and they were suddenly standing in John and Elaine Grey's well-lit living room. It looked exactly the way that Scott remembered it, the first day he had gone there to meet Jean's parents. They hadn't exactly told her family that they were dating yet, but Scott had gotten the strong impression that Professor Grey suspected something, and was only making it worse by being so damn friendly. And the nicer he was, the more Scott couldn't stop thinking, "I really want to have sex with your daughter." He remembered hoping desperately that telepathic gifts didn't run in families

[ice_emma]

OOC: Fangirling all three of you for this, it's brilliant!!!

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Thank you! I'm avidly following the beginning of the Jean + Emma story; once you guys have that going a bit, maybe we can chat about what should come after?