"Jack! What are you doing here?" Just as Jack was about to vanish from the spot, he heard the familiar voice of his high school friend.
"Pete! I was just looking around for something," Jack shrugged it off, Gwen and the others swarmed towards him as Jack talked with them regarding the recent events.
Though they had to relocate since it wasn't nice to talk with so many people around,
They arrived at the favourite pizza place as Jack recalled the events of the parallel world,
"Heh! So you met three other versions of Peter Parker, and one of them looked like our Peter," Gwen asked in surprise as she rose from her seat.
"Yeah," Jack replied as he backed away, perhaps to his friends, the idea of a parallel world was very interesting, but Jack has traveled so many worlds by now that it wasn't that different from a park walk for him.
"So you fought a bunch of villains, I can't believe you didn't take me along," Peter complained as he took a sip of his drink.
"I wasn't exactly in control as the world itself threw me under the bus quite metaphorically," Jack shrugged.
"Speaking of worlds, how's the situation on your planet, Emperor," Felicia teased at this moment as the others perked up as well, clearly very interested in what was happening on the planet of yellow skinned people they had gone to.
"They have developed much in this time, I guess some of them are going planet to planet, working as a kind of liberation force while the others are just managing the place or mining the ores of Vibranium," Jack replied not bothered by Felicia's words who harrumphed, clearly not satisfied with Jack's bland tone.
Jack went around with them for a while as he had nothing urgent to do for now, they went shopping, as Peter himself was now working for Jack's company and was also an Avenger by now, so he had a sizeable income, Jack bought a few clothes he liked as well while the girls went on their own little adventure inside the mall, arriving a bit late for the movies as Jack didn't wait and went inside ahead of Peter who was obliged to wait until his girlfriend arrived.
Though he would be lying if he said he wasn't missing Jean, with whom he had developed feelings for,
"I wonder what she is doing right now," Jack thought as he watched the newly released Puss in boots, no one would have believed if someone told them that the world's strongest man was currently watching a cartoon with them, though it wasn't their fault as he always changed his face whenever he went out to avoid trouble,
The movie ended so Jack left after saying his goodbyes to his friends as Peter also swung away hearing the sound of sirens coming from afar, Jack didn't intervene as Peter probably had it covered and instead headed for the X manor where Jean was currently residing according to his senses.
He arrived inside the mansion,as soon as he did so, he felt his mind connect to Jean who was more than happy to see him step into the manor after a long time,
"What are you doing here Jack? Did you come to meet me?" Asked Jean a little hopeful, her sweet voice ringing in Jack's mind as he smiled.
"And what if I am," Jack asked back, his feelings for her were apparent through the telepathic link between them, and her feelings to him as well.
No further words were heard as Jack knocked on the big doors, although he didn't want to come in case someone among the x-manors residents wanted to pick a fight with him for what happened the last time he came here.
As expected, the door opened to reveal a smiling Ororo, though the smile soon disappeared as she noticed him.
"It's you!" She said as her eyes were raised with surprise and slight anger.
"Yeah! Is there a problem," Jack replied, not backing down either, although he felt awkward about how he acted the last time, it was for a good reason and he wasn't going to apologize for that.
"You are not welcome," she replied, trying to close the door, though it was stuck in between as she could move it even using all of her strength, Jack shrugged his hands as he saw her eyeing him with anger.
Showing that he wasn't the one doing this, "Let him in Ororo, how long are you going to keep this useless grudge," Jean's voice came as the door fully opened, Jack stepped inside smiling at the pissed off Ororo.
He honestly didn't understand how this woman could still be mad at him, he helped them get rid of a mind raping idiot, just because he helped you when you were a thieving child in your younger days doesn't make him a saint for life.
Though what he didn't know was that Ororo considered Jean her sister and was equally angry at Charles for what he had done, so much so that she had even gone to him later to inflict some punishment a few days after the battle.
The reason she was angry at Jack was because of how humiliated she felt when he defeated her so easily, though Jack wouldn't know that as he mostly kept his telepathic abilities closer.
Jack didn't pay any attention to Ororo as he was immersed in the beautiful image of the love of his life, Jean was wearing a beautiful red dress that further highlighted her flaming red hair which reached her waist, though sadly, she had the hair tied up.
Jack couldn't help but hug her, as she did the same soon after while Ororo glared daggers at Jack's bag.
"I will inform the others while you two lovebirds talk it out or whatever," Ororo said as she smiled at Jean and left.
"She isn't going to let it go, is she?" Jean asked as she looked at Ororo go.
"Atleast she doesn't glare at you like you killed her family," Jack replied as they both walked side by side with hands in hands.
"Give it some time, you did utterly humiliate her in front of her students the last time you came," Jean replied, assuring Jack who only shrugged his head in response.
"So where have you been?" Jean asked as she wasn't able to sense Jack's presence on the planet for three straight days, and no one else knew where he was.
"that, errr," Jack fumbled as he looked for words to speak, he remembered promising to bring her around the next time he went to some other world.
He knew from Jean's tone that she was leading him into a trap by now, his arms gripped by her vice-like grip as she leaned into him, pressing for answers.
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