[ Jean stares at the thing on his shoulder, wide-eyed. It's a new, grotesque parasite that's locked itself onto him, and somehow it looks like he hasn't noticed. The face on it is unsettling, and James looks at her like a trapped animal, wide and green and more lost than he's ever been.
She knows, Of course she does, the years that he's endured, the memories he's only just getting back, warped by this thing on his shoulder, drawing whatever it can from him. It takes her a few moments to grasp the entirety of this, the fact that he deserves better after all that he's endured, the pain and the isolation, the awful way he had been taken and used for other ends, manipulated and exploited -- a victim of circumstances.
Jean is apologetic, and she steps forward, refusing to be afraid of the creature that hisses at her. She has to save him; she must. ]
I'm sorry. [ She says quietly, meeting his eyes. ] My name is Jean. Jean Grey. I'm a student at Professor X's School for the Gifted. [ Things she wouldn't tell anyone, things she would have never spoken out loud; but Jean needs him to believe that she won't hurt him, and she has to show him that he has nothing to fear from her. The same cannot be said for the hellish parasite. ] Let me help you.
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She knows, Of course she does, the years that he's endured, the memories he's only just getting back, warped by this thing on his shoulder, drawing whatever it can from him. It takes her a few moments to grasp the entirety of this, the fact that he deserves better after all that he's endured, the pain and the isolation, the awful way he had been taken and used for other ends, manipulated and exploited -- a victim of circumstances.
Jean is apologetic, and she steps forward, refusing to be afraid of the creature that hisses at her. She has to save him; she must. ]
I'm sorry. [ She says quietly, meeting his eyes. ] My name is Jean. Jean Grey. I'm a student at Professor X's School for the Gifted. [ Things she wouldn't tell anyone, things she would have never spoken out loud; but Jean needs him to believe that she won't hurt him, and she has to show him that he has nothing to fear from her. The same cannot be said for the hellish parasite. ] Let me help you.