When it happened?
Don't know.
Most of the people here think it was love at first sight.
It wasn't.
She had a crush and I was after someone else.
Before that?
The kid needed a ride and as much as I wanted to leave her on the
side of the road I figured a girl that young wouldn't last out in
the Canada winter.
I let her get in my truck
It didn't cost me anything to give her a damn lift.
At first.
I haven't slept.
It doesn't matter.
I don't need to.
No chance of a nightmare.
They happen less.
She's sleepin' next to me.
All of 34.
After Jean died I held her limp body in my arms and cried.
I only remember doing that one other time.
When I woke up and couldn't remember anything.
Scott was gone.
Chuck came back…
Somehow.
Magneto started over.
I died a little more everyday.
The kid finally got a normal life.
Then it was over.
The mutation came back.
She was devastated.
Suicidal.
Bobby tried to help.
It didn't work.
She left.
He followed and came back.
Said she didn't want him around.
She needed to be alone.
I know the feeling.
And at the same time I don't.
He waited.
One year.
Tried to find her.
Didn't know where to look.
She didn't want to be found.
Chuck told him that he couldn't help.
She wanted to be alone.
He was close to the edge.
Something held him back.
A girl.
The one with the bright eyes.
His wife now.
It took him two years to realize that Bobby & Marie didn't exist
anymore.
She came back with a new guy.
Tom.
They were married.
She apologized for leaving.
They forgave her.
Why wouldn't they?
She stayed.
Tom joined up.
Said that if Marie had to fight, he would too.
I thought it was a stupid idea.
Everyone did.
The guy was had no mutation.
Even with his combat training.
Navy Seal.
He saved Storm once.
Proved himself.
It was quiet after that.
Until…
6 years later.
Killed in the field.
She was fallin' apart.
She tried to hold it together
For Jack
The kid.
It didn't work.
Took too many pills one night.
But Blue saved her.
She knew what it was like to feel loss.
I knew that feeling.
I was there.
She leaned on me.
She knew how I felt about Jean.
I talked to her about feelin' like second best when Scott was around
And even when he wasn't.
She knew the feeling.
Said she felt that way whenever Jean came into a room.
I think I knew that.
But I must've thought that she'd get over it.
She did.
With Bobby and then later with Tom.
Whatever we had changed.
I made a mistake.
Took things too far.
I was acting in the moment.
Out of grief, passion and anger.
Over Jean.
She returned my feelings.
Because of her pain…
Over Tom.
We should have regretted that night.
But we didn't.
We never looked back.
Maybe that's a good thing.
We're together now.
At least that's what they tell me.
I guess we are.
Jack's sleepin'
He's in another room.
But I can still hear him breathing.
Tom's son.
My son now.
The kid doesn't remember much.
Marie tries to tell him about his father.
How he was good man.
He was.
I probably won't ever be as good a father as Tom.
I know that.
But I have to try.
He's my son.
I have a son.
Not blood but I love him just the same.
I never thought I'd feel that for anyone.
Before Jean and definitely not after.
But I do.
For Jack.
For Marie.
Their my family now.
I don't ever remember having one.
And somehow that makes me happy.
Happy.
The words sounds strange to me.
For once I don't feel like I'm missing anything…
I have it all.
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