Days of Becoming, Chapter 31

Title: Days of Becoming, Chapter 31 - “The Torrent (X2)”
Author: Talktooloose
’Verse: X-Men movieverse
Warnings: Angst, swearing, character death (well, it's Jean Grey, so "character death" is sort of a murky concept)
Betas: mofic and lux_apollo and kuriadalmatia. Lots of opinions on this one! I wish I could make you all happy simultaneously. But awesome insights. Thank you.
Disclaimers: Marvel and 20th Century own the X-Men, I own my original characters, we own the breath in our lungs.

Series Summary: This novel focuses mainly on the paths Iceman and Pyro take on their way to adulthood and how they discover and deal with their love for each other. It is a novel about what Joni Mitchell calls ”the dream's malfunction” and how we can learn to make our own dreams when our heroes fail us. Other X characters (including ones from comicverse and elsewhere) and OC's play prominent roles and the action begins before X1, continues through the events of X2 and X3 and concludes in the aftermath of that movie.

Previously in Days of Becoming: After the attack on the mansion, the battle of Bobby's lawn, the fall of the Blackbird and more, everyone has taken a moment to breath. In a Northeastern woodland, events of the heart, mind and cosmos unfold quietly. The Phoenix and John meet again, Rogue processes her absorption of John and Bobby, while those two hook up again when they least expect it. At the mansion, Peter and Kitty also make an unexpected connection. A day of reckoning is coming...

NOTES: Even I can't control the Phoenix! She hogs this chapter abominably as if she were the star of the novel. Good thing we won't hear from her again until the X3 chapter! For everyone who is worried about the future of the fic's OTP, well, they hit rock bottom here, so there's nowhere to go but up! ADMIT IT! YOU LOVE THE ANGST!

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