#scott 001

WHERE: Annabelle Lee, countryside

WHEN: March, 2024

Since returning to Merrock, Jason had reconnected with his family, forged friendships with people he had yet to meet, patched up old rivalries into new connections, and mostly felt like he had settled in... but he couldn't lie and say that having someone from his 'old life' in town didn't feel good, too. Someone who didn't just know him as the eighteen year old kid that had shipped off to join the army, but knew him as a young man (and then older), and saw him through his good and bad times, and everything in between.

And, of course, someone who would come over with beer.

Although the weather was far from warm in Merrock, Jason had still been trying to get ready for the spring season, was picking up some fallen limbs around his property when he heard the familiar vehicle coming down the driveway, glancing up to see his friend and lifting his hand in greeting, a grin stretching across his face. "Sure, you show up right as I finish working outside."

The last time Madelyn Pryor set foot on the X-Mansion’s grounds was her wedding day. She could have laughed about it all now but now she was more than the woman who married Scott and the woman was made in Jean Grey’s image. She was a mutant in every right. She was the Red Queen. When she walked through the school’s halls, some students still greeted her as Jean Grey but she didn’t bat an eyelid. “Honey, I’m home.” Madelyne used her powers to open the door without knocking. “What no warm welcome for the mother of your child?”