26 * Same song, different 'verse

[starchilde_lost]

[Filtered away from Jean Grey]

This is Jean Grey.

Not the Jean from the world I came from, or even the world I was born in, but a Jean nonetheless. Which technically makes her my mother.

She's new and she shouldn't have to deal with that until... later.

So if you can help it, don't tell her. Accidents happen, I get that, but let's be careful, okay?

For my sake. For her sake.

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[starchilde_lost]

I dunno, m'head's still spinning about it. I just wanted to get this up before people started saying, "Hey, you're like that girl we know, Rachel Grey, she a relative?"

The Jean in my timeline, she didn't react well to finding out she was my mom. I don't want to put this one through that.

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[inmyothertights]

Is it impolite to wonder how she reacted?

I'm only asking because I don't know my real mom, you know.

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[starchilde_lost]

Okay, some disclaimers before I tell you. First, she'd just found out not to long before that she'd been cloned so that a madman could preserve her genetic line. AKA, so the clone could marry my dad and have a baby. Secondly, she'd gotten back together with my dad but things were kinda tense. Thirdly, I was an emotional mess when I blurted it out so I did it kinda badly.

That said... she turned her back on me. I was further proof that her life had been planned out for her, that she didn't have a say in anything, and she hated me for it.

But the situation with your mom is completely different, Billy. You shouldn't use my family as a template for... anything, really.

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[inmyothertights]

Different, but not exactly any less messy.

I'm sorry about your mom.

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[starchilde_lost]

What's the joke, all families are happy in the same way, but unhappy ones each have their own brand of misery?