Usually it was Scott was doin the over thinking. Now they were both running all the options and coming to the same grim conclusions. Thankfully, Jeans verbal admission was a nice distraction and it forced him to switch gears. Instead of silently spinning out, he started thinking of ways to ease her.
"Technically we don't know anything about this other Jean. Maybe she hasn't come in contact with the phoenix force yet. "
"Oh, she hasn't. And that's the issue. She doesn't even have her telepathy. I don't want to be all doom and gloom, sweeping in and saying, hey, kid. By the way, you may die and become a conduit for a cosmic force. But don't worry! You are the cosmic force. Can you imagine if anyone had said that to us when we were still trying to figure out our place in the world?" Pausing to suck in a breath, Jean tried to reel it back. "Which brings us back to: I don't want to do this again. But we have to."
