Title: In Darkness
Author: m.jules
Email: [email protected]
Summary:  I'm sorry.
Rating: R
Feedback: Yes...I think.
Author's Notes Pt. 1:  See summary.
Author’s Notes Pt. 2: Answer to First Line Challenge posted to DDFH by Karen.  Also incorporates 100-word challenge using a given line.

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IN DARKNESS

She’s perfect in that fucked-up way the magazines like to glamorize.  Her hair looks like it hasn’t been washed in a week by order of an exclusive stylist; her eyes have shadows under them that are so natural they look painted.  Her eyes are telling me everything I know and don’t want to know about myself.  And she is waiting. 

She knows what the answer will be.  Only half the money is in my pocket; the other half waits in his metal-manipulating hand for me to bring her heart back in a box… but I’m not doing it for the money.

Good?  Bad?  I’m the one with the gun.

She is the hunted, knowing that her history with me won’t be enough to save her…because her death has already been bought, bribed, and blackmailed.

It’s her or Logan.  I’m the Rogue—my lines have already been written. 

 
I’m sorry, Jean.

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Author's Notes Pt. 3:  Why would Magneto want Jean dead?  Assume that she was somehow able to break through his defenses in the first movie, and he knows it, and wants to prevent a repeat.  ("I know where Magneto's going.")  Either that, or he’s got as many Jean Issues as the rest of us.