Dr. Jean Elaine Grey | ``The Phoenix`` (ex_the_phoen109) wrote in x_aftermath_x, |
After coming back from the dead a week ago, Jean had been more or less been keeping to herself. She hadn't gone back to her duties as an in-house physician, so needless to say she had a lot more time on her hands. Most of that time was spent either up in her room or downstairs... in the sitting room or rec room whenever it was empty, which didn't happen very often.
This just happened to be one of those rare occasions.
Jean had been curled up on a chair, reading... nothing, actually. She had gone in there with the intent to read the book she had brought along with her, but it still lied on the table, untouched. However, Tony's voice permeated through her silent reverie and snapped her right back into the here-and-now, where she truly belonged; so many things had been weighing heavily upon her mind, that she been making a habit of adopting a thousand-mile stare.
Blinking some of those stray thoughts away, Jean sat up a bit straighter and forced a smile to appear in the corner of each side of her mouth.
"Damn, Red. You're looking good." Really? Did she? The redheaded telekine hadn't really been thinking much about her appearance lately; she had no one to impress these days. And even if she did, she really didn't feel like taking the time to make herself look pretty.
Depression and guilt did that to you.
Still, it was nice to see someone who genuinely seemed to be happy to see her.
"Please," she replied, gesturing for him to take a seat. "It certainly has been a while." In fact, Jean couldn't recall the last time she had seen or heard from Tony.
"It's really good to see you again."
[ OOC: Grr. IJ keeps messing up my HTML coding. >:[ ]