Taking up his Mantle

Laura heard the thump before she even heard the scream she knew what it meant she'd been dreading this moment since her husband Peter died. Her daughter had her father's power and she didn't want her daughter to suffer the same fate he did. She had kept her in the dark about her and Peter's younger days making up things as their children grew up. Their oldest son Ben had the same powers as Laura and Logan. When Ben's powers activated Peter and Laura enrolled him to the institute and joined the X-Men and became the new Talon while Laura took the mantle of her ' father' The Wolverine.

She ran to her daughter's bedroom and looked up at the ceiling and there hanged her fifteen-year-old daughter Jamey. Her green eyes huge in shock and her black hair dangling upside down due to her predicament she was in.

"M-om what's happening to me I woke up on the ceiling this morning" Laura didn't say anything she just looked at her daughter" MOM!" Am I-I a… mutant" she said her voice shaking her grip on the celling loosening then suddenly she lost her grip and fell to her bedroom mattress which broke as soon as she hit the bed.

Laura walked to her daughter putting an arm around her shoulder. She had never been the greatest person before she met Peter hell she wouldn't have been a good mother due to this and thanks to Peter she knew what to do in this situation.

"Do you remember that place I sent your brother to when he was your age the school for gifted children" said Laura this caused Jamey's eyes to grow bigger "You mean to tell me my brother's a mutant too and you never told me!" she yelled out.

" Your father and I made a lot of enemies when we were growing up that's why I didn't want you and your brother to know about our past…. I did a lot of horrible things before I met your father. When we had your brother we swore to never tell our kids we were mutants"

"So you've been lying to me for my whole life tell me the truth mom the whole truth who were you and dad huh a bunch of terrorist?"

Laura gave her daughter a stern look 'stubborn just like Peter always wanting answers' she thought to herself then left the room only to return a few minutes later with a box that read DO NOT OPEN in big capital letters. Jamey remembered seeing the box growing up.

"This was your father's legacy all in this box is his story" she handed the box to Jamey who placed it on her lap just starring at it her mind in a state of confusion.

"Jamey if you decide to accept this responsibility I wont stop you but this isn't an easy task if you decide to take up his mantle if your father were still alive he'd want you to have this"

Jamey looked up at her mother with a puzzled and angered look "what are you talking about mom you keep saying dad's legacy and responsibility just what is dad's legacy"

"Open it and you'll find out…. But you might not like what you see"

After her mother left her room Jamey starred at the box a million questions were running through her head.

Are my parents terrorists?

What was my dad trying to keep from me?

She breathed deeply and slowly lifted the lid from the box. When she looked inside her eyes widened. There in the box was a suit no a costume. It was red and blue with black webbing outlining it with a black spider on the chest; a red mask with the same black webbing pattern and big white bug lenses on top of the clothing was two metallic bracelets. Jamey dropped the box the contents of the box spilling everything out on the floor.

My dad was Spider-Man?

She looked down the costume; the bracelets were all on he floor. Jamey then noticed photos on the ground she picked some of them up. The pictures were of her parents and her Uncle Bobby, Aunt Katherine, and Aunt Marie all younger and wearing black jackets with a yellow X patch on both shoulders the caption on the right said X-Men of 2004. Then something caught her eye her mother had claws coming out in between her knuckles one on each end of her hand.

My mom was Talon?

She finally put the pieces in her head the jackets they had an X on each shoulder it all made sense her parents were part of the X-Men.

Jamey looked at another photo this time a picture of her mom and dad but a little older. Her mom was wearing a white dress and her dad was wearing a tux it was their wedding photo she'd seen this by her mom's nightstand but this one was different because next to her mother stood a scruffy looking man with a beard and messy hair also wearing a tux it was her grandpa when he was alive. Jamey had only met her grandpa Logan once and she was really young when she met him probably five or six. She remembers sitting on his lap while he was telling her some story what the story was she couldn't remember.

Laura came back into her daughter's room and saw her starring at the two pictures. Laura saw the one with her and Peter and all their friends she remembers who it took Bobby forever to get that camera set up. Then she see's the one of her wedding day with Logan standing next to her it brought tears to her eyes she missed Peter and Logan so much. Jamey looked at her mom.

"Tell me everything not one detail out tell me from the beginning I need to know what happened to dad if you and dad were really part of the X-Men just tell me please" Laura nodded slowly "

"Were you Talon" Laura nodded again

"Was dad Spider-Man" she nodded then sat next to Jamey she looked at her daughter who had a serious look that she'd seen Peter give and she knew what it meant.

" I want to take dad's place"