UnHolyPimpHand
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Wolverine was pulled from his thoughts by Juggernaut stirring under him. He pressed harder against the big guy’s throat with his adamantium claws.
“Jean, I’ve lived most of my life believing there was something wrong with me—that I was broken somehow, tainted. When I met you, I felt for the first time like I belonged. You inspired me to become the leader that I have. You make me want to be a better man,” from a compartment in his over-the-shoulder utility strap, Scott extracted a diamond ring and got down on one knee, “will you make me the happiest man or mutant in this or any other universe, by becoming my wife? Will you become Mrs. Scott Summers?”
“Perhaps we could discuss this at another time,” the radio crackled as Beast weighed in from the cockpit of the X-Jet, “we need to get Juggernaut out of here before we lose containment.”
“I agree,” Storm weighed in from a thousand or so feet above them, riding the front edge of a storm front.
Though it was never spoken of among the team, it was something of an open secret that Wolverine had feelings of his own for Jean. What was a decidedly closed secret was that Logan and Jean had acted on what were actually mutual feelings between them since she and Scott had been an item.
Scott’s proposal of marriage was hardly the foregone conclusion that he apparently thought it was, but Logan suspected that the abruptness of the proposal and the decision to do it on a job, with the whole team around was a strategic decision. No room for her to engage a longer conversation, forcing a binary decision in the moment—accept or reject. Anything other than acceptance was a refusal.
There were still people buried in the rubble.
Rogue and Wolverine finished latching the adamantium restraints around Juggernaut’s arms, legs and shoulders. The both of them were scarcely able to drag the massive human back to the plane.
“We gotta go,” Logan said at last, gruff and authoritative. Unlike Beast and Storm’s objections, everyone turned when Wolverine spoke.
Scott remained on his knees, his linear, red eye still on Jean’s face—unwilling to move until she answered him.