Title: Radio Stations
Fandom: X-Men: Dark Phoenix
Rating: G
Length: 150
Characters: Jean Grey, Charles Xavier
Content notes: choose not to warn. Spoilers for the opening of the film.
Author note: fill for the Station square on my bingo card.
Summary: This is what she doesn't remember.



This is what she doesn't remember: a long car journey and a song she hates on the radio, syrupy and sad. Her mother saying she'll change the station after this one song, but she said that two songs ago. The dial on the car radio twisting of its own accord and her mother, angry and scared, turning it back again and again. Till the noise of the radio stations and the voices in Jean's head grow so loud that she screams at them to stop.

Everything stops. Twisted metal, broken glass. Broken bodies. Her family, destroyed because of her.

I break things, she tells the man who isn't like the other doctors at the hospital.

He tells her he can fix what she breaks. (He can't.)

He tells her she isn't broken. (He's lying.)

He locks her memories away. It will be another seventeen years before she learns the truth.