crack_van | Cyrus Jones Lived Forever by Hotel Montana (PG)

Fandom: MARVEL COMICS
Pairing: Wolverine, gen; background Scott/Emma
Length: 690 words
Author on LJ:

hotelmontana
Author Website: Hotel Montana's Journal
Why this must be read: I wanted to recommend another Wolverine story before moving on to other characters, and this is one of my favorites.

hotelmontana is a master of this kind of quiet, introspective storytelling: a deceptively simple story that sneaks up on you and breaks your heart. This is a couple of years old, in terms of Marvel canon, but things haven't changed that much for Logan -- which is largely the point. He's still the guy who is seemingly part of every team and yet, in this fic, we see him as someone becoming slowly detached from the world around him.

Indulging my shameless character bias (which will become increasingly evident with the next few recs), this is my favorite passage:

Logan knew Jean was gone. That wasn’t something he ever forgot. But when Scott smiled at the Emma, Logan felt the loss just a little bit harder, even though he’d let go of Jean long ago. He’d pushed her out of the nest she’d made of his feelings for her, pushed her out and hoped she’d fly. She had, in a way, for just a moment; and then she was gone again. So gone that he couldn’t imagine how she’d get back to them this time. Gone for good.

Maybe that was for the best, all things considered.

Go read the whole thing here:

Cyrus Jones Lived Forever