My husband and my best friend

My husband and my best friend


Marie yawned and stretched like a content cat, as she woke that next morning. She lay back and looked up at the ceiling, realising it would be the last time she would see it. It would be the last time she slept in her current bed. It would be the last time she would sleep in this room, Period.

Yesterday whilst Scott and she had been out, Charles had arranged for her things to be moved into Scott’s room. Seeing as that night it would officially become their room.

Her room seemed so bare. Everything that was movable had been moved to Scott’s room. She turned her head towards the wardrobe and sighed as she eyed her wedding gown that was hanging up and being protected by a plastic bag.

In five hours time she would officially become Mrs. Summers, her and not Jean. She wondered what her fiancée was currently doing; she knew he’d be a wake.

Scott sighed as he sipped his coffee. The night before had been both pleasant and painful. Pleasant because he got to spend sometime on his own with Marie, having not been able to over the last three weeks, having been busy planning and preparing for their wedding.

And painful because after he had proposed to her and she had accepted, they both ended up reliving that day when they caught the ones who were supposed to love them, cheating on them.

Scott sighed into his mug as he drank its contents. Ororo and Rini were preventing him from seeing Marie, claiming it was bad luck for the groom to see the bride before the wedding. Scott snorted as replaced his mug on the table in front of him in the kitchen. ‘Load of crap’ he thought.

He turned when he heard Alex, Bobby and John enter the kitchen. John headed straight for the coffee pot, and poured him self a mug, black without adding any sugar. He just downed the mug of hot coffee.

Scott winced, as he watched John down the hot coffee in one go, and black at that. Everyone knew it was unsafe to try and talk to John until after he had had at least two mugs of strong black coffee. The man was a complete and utter bear of a morning. No one in the mansion envied Kitty who was married to him since she turned nineteen.

Bobby on the other hand immediately raided the fridge, looking for orange juice and milk for his cereal. He refused to begin the day without his juice and his cereal. He needed it to day of all days, to keep him going until after the ceremony when he could eat at the reception.

Alex grunted he was not a morning person that was where he and Scott were very different indeed. He immediately poured himself a mug of coffee and added cream and one sugar before John drank all of the coffee.

The man, who produced fire from his hands, was a complete and utter coffee fiend, first thing of a morning. Who was he to fight with a man for coffee, who had the code name Pyro.? The name spoke for itself.

“So are you ready to get shackled?” John asked, smirking at the groom to be. Scott snorted and replied dryly “Says the man who has a set of his own shackles.” John continued to smirk and replied “Naturally, shackles I’m more then content to wear.”

Bobby grinned and replied, awe evident in his voice “I never ever thought I would see the day that you would willingly shackle your self to just one woman.” John grinned and replied “Yeah and, your point being? Don’t tell me you don’t feel the same about Jubilee, no matter how hyper she is.”

Bobby grinned and said “What can I say; love will do that to you?” Alex snorted and added “Trust me there sure as hell wasn’t any love lost between me and Rini when we first got married a couple of months back. I was convinced I was marrying the ice queen. But now I won’t deny I do have more then a soft spot for her. Its not love yet, but you never know when that could change.”

Scott smiled and said “I never really paid much attention to Marie, I honestly wish I had. She was just Rogue my student, and I was her teacher. She was Wolverine’s girl and Jean was mine. It wasn't until Jean and Wolverine starting spending more time together and avoiding me and Marie, that we starting talking and spending time together. We were no longer just teacher and student, we were fast becoming friends.”

He added “I’m not love with Marie, but I do love her dearly. She is my best friend; I have never had a friend like her. Who knows if our relationship can involve once we marry and become something more. We’ll take it as it comes.”

John nodded and said “I know what you mean. When I first noticed Kitty, she was just one of Marie’s best friends and nothing more. I was after Marie, whilst she was still dating Bobby. Then when Marie started dating that hairy prick Wolverine, I began to notice Kitty. Then Bobby after he broke up with Marie began to notice Jubilee.”

He concluded “I never thought I could love anyone as unselfishly as I do Kitty. I could not stand to be parted from Kitty. At first it terrified me, but now I wouldn't and couldn’t have any other way.”

Bobby nodded and commented “Yeah I’m the same with Jubilee. When I first really got to know her she was just Marie’s annoying and hyper and overly loud friend, but now I can safely say, she is my every thing, as sappy as it sounds it’s the truth. I wouldn’t have asked her to be my wife other wise.”

Scott smiled into his cup remembering how those two had been as his students, not even four years ago. He never imaged Pyro would have fallen head over heels in love with the Showcat, and married her, they now having been married for nearly three years.

And the Ice man with Jubilation Lee, and was due to marry her in five months time at Christmas. Yeah but he never imagined he would have Rogue as a wife and not Jean. It just went to show how things never turned out how you imagined them to be.

Scott looked up when Ororo and the rest of the girls that would be in the wedding, entered the kitchen. He watched with a small smile as Kitty gave John warm good morning kiss and Jubilee did the same to Bobby. He wondered if he and Marie would ever become that close and that madly in love with the other.

He watched Alex placed a kiss up Rini’s forehead as she smiled at him, asking how he had slept. Scott realised there and then, that if his brother and his sister in law weren’t in love already, he knew it wouldn’t be a long time coming.

Ororo soon had them all eating something, claiming they needed their strength for the up and coming day. No one dared argue with the weather Goddess when she had her mind set on doing something. She was relentless and would not give in until she got her way, if she could help it.

Scott affectionately rolled his eyes at his dear friend and her motherly antics. He knew she would make some lucky guy one hell of a wife and some child a loving mother.