Eliyes

As I mentioned in the Author's notes of Do Over, I rewrote it several times before I got something I was willing to post. Well, I've recently decided that the second-to-posted attempt doesn't entirely suck -- it just wasn't what I was looking for -- so I'm going to post it up as a deleted scene.

Minus all the angry editorial scribblings in the margins, of course.

It would be best if you've actually read "Do Over", but if you don't wanna, here's what you need to know: in Wolverine v.3 #25, a brainwashed Wolverine killed Jean-Paul Beaubier (Northstar). In this fic, when Bobby Drake (Iceman) died (whenever that will be), a higher power offered him the chance to go back and change one thing he'd done in his life, and relive things from that moment as they would have been if he'd done that the first go around, with no memory of the choice. Bobby chooses to save Jean-Paul.

All of this is in "Do Over", but here's what he did, what happened, and what happened next from an earlier version. I ultimately didn't go with this because it switches perspectives, and Jean-Paul wasn't as shaken by what happened as I wanted. It is, consequently, a lot more upbeat.

( Do Over: Deleted Scenes )

Cross-posted to speedsicle and also to frozen_breaths, since "Do Over" was cross-posted to them originally.