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Title: "The Kingdom of Her Heart"
Author: Pirate Turner
Rating: G
Summary: Jean remembers the first time her beloved Scott awoke her with a surprise in bed.
Warnings: Het, Established Relationship
Word Count: 381
Date Written: 28 November, 2010
Disclaimer: Scott "Cyclops" Summers, Jean Grey-Summers, and the X-Men are © & TM Marvel comics and Disney, neither of whom are the author; are used without permission; and may not be used without permission. The author makes absolutely no profit off of this work of fan fiction, and no copyright infringement is intended.

The first time Scott woke Jean up with a surprise was definitely not the way she had hoped he would eventually awaken her. They had barely crawled their exhausted bodies into his bed when his alarm had gone off. Scott had sprang upright and immediately blasted his poor clock to smithereens.

The shock on Jean's face had quickly been replaced by a smile that hid a laugh at the realization that her beloved, whom every one, including herself, called the Boy Scout at some point or another, was really not as strict and uptight as every one thought. Then she had noticed the scared look upon his handsome face as he had waited for her reaction, and her heart had completely melted the rest of the way. She had taken him in her arms; pushed her fingers up into his soft, brown hair; and softly whispered to him, "It's okay. It'll be our little secret."

He had slept in her arms for hours that day, and it had felt wonderful to hold him. It still felt wonderful to hold the King of her heart, and she knew that it always would for only with him, holding him and loving him, was she complete. Jean smiled at the memory as she closed the drawer into which her darling husband raked the ashes of their clocks every morning.

Her smile grew as his strong arms wrapped around her and his lips touched her ear. "A penny for your thoughts, sweetheart?" he whispered.

She sighed happily. "My thoughts are always free for you, my love," she told him. Then she shrugged against him and enjoyed the feel of her skin sliding against his muscles. "I'm just thinking about the most wonderful thing in all the world."

"What's that?" he asked, though they both knew that he could easily read her mind through their telepathic rapport that always remained open.

She turned in his arms, and her eyes shimmered as she gazed up into his red orbs with all the love she'd always feel, and always had felt, for him alone. "You," she answered softly, "and our love," and then she kissed him in the start of making another memory to treasure forever and beyond with the man who possessed the entire kingdom of her heart.

The End