Emma laid in her hospital bed, completely out of commission. One of her ankles was broken, the foot imprisoned in a cast. The other leg was fractured—it was casted and then held up in a sling. Her left arm was broken; it was in a sling. And her right arm had a broken wrist.
It was incredibly frustrating, mostly for how avoidable it had been. They'd had Juggernaut's helmet off, she was the telepath on call, so it was up to her to put him down. And right when he was on the verge of stepping on Gambit, too. All told, it was looking like another happy X-Men caper when some drunken idiot had driven his Jaguar into the warzone.
Emma could've shifted into diamond as the Jag came right for her, but that would've let Juggernaut up. She finished putting him in a comatose state just when the car hit, sending her flying over the hood and leaving her in the all-but-useless state she was in now. And she'd
just
gotten done with a round of plastic surgery.
Now she was laid up, naked except for a hospital gown, which even she couldn't be sexy in.
The team had at least been duly appreciative. They'd crooned over her, signed her casts, let her make bitchy jibes without responding in kind. It was so frightfully abhorrent that Emma was sure she didn't want to get used to it. She'd happily trade all their kudos to go back to being the X-Men's cunt, so long as it meant her ribs were intact.
Of course, to a telepath, a broken body was no large obstacle. She'd partake of pain meds, allow mutant surgeons to work their magic, trip on the astral plane, and in a few weeks she'd be good as new. But in her present condition, there was to be no sex play.
That
was intolerable.
Emma could use her telepathy, but that was only good for foreplay. She preferred the tangible yet ephemeral qualities of the physical for lovemaking. Subsuming herself into those wonderful vagaries of heat and instinct and chemistry, becoming concrete intensities at the moment of orgasm, with a man who could both overpower her and overwhelm her. Something that wouldn't happen on the psychic playfield. Her sex yearned for something real.
What's worse, the feeling of being restrained was incredibly arousing. Her pussy was twitching and dripping and burning, soaking her gown where it fell between her thighs—it was only her wool blanket that covered her damp crotch and hard nipples. But if it were a few lengths of leather that had her feeling so cramped instead of her own body's frailty, she'd be in heaven.
She was just about to try for some psychic sex with Jean... which might prove somewhat as challenging as what Scott could do in the physical realm... when the man himself entered her private room. He locked the door behind him.
He looked at her with that stare that she could feel—didn't need to see the look in his eyes—just needed the tiniest flicker of it from his mind to hers to know that she was prey and it was hunting season. Emma's breath started to rush before she remembered what an impossibility it was. It
sounded
all well and good, breaking a hip in sex, but she had no desire to prolong her exposure to hospital food.
"Come to praise me and tell me what a good girl I am? Oh, don't tempt me now, Scott," she moaned. "You don't see me wagging it in front of Daredevil during Lent..."
"You're down in the dumps," Scott observed. "The Emma I know would have some way around this as soon as the cast set."
Emma stuck out her lower lip, gratified by Scott's recognition of her eroticism, but the fact remained that there was only so much that could be done with her mending body. "I suppose if you wanted to get Betsy in here..."
"No," Scott headed her off. "You wouldn't be able to take not being the center of attention."
"True enough," Emma sighed. "Then what did you have in mind?"
"Well, I don't pretend to be the walking Penthouse forum you are..."
Emma shrugged, the gesture made modest both by her condition and what humility she did have.