Title: A Harbor in the Tempest
Author: Victoria P. [victoria_p@att.net]
Summary: About seven years after the movie. The US government is persecuting mutants. The X-Men are scattered. Somehow, they manage to find each other again, in a little dive bar in a little town south of the border.
Rating: R - language, violence, sex
Warning: Character death. I didn't want to do it, but...
Disclaimer: All X-Men characters belong to Marvel and Fox; this piece of fan-written fiction intends no infringement on any copyrights. The song "All I Want Is You" belongs to U2. "We Will Rock You" belongs to Queen. "We Shall Overcome" belongs to someone, but no one is quite sure who. It ain't me, though. I know that. See other disclaimers at the end.
Archive: If you've already got my stuff, yes. If not, please just let me know you're taking it.
Feedback: Please don't make me beg. It's so demeaning. g
Notes: Thanks to Dot, Meg, Jen, and Pete. If anyone's got a better title, let me know - this thing's had three or four already.
Dedication: JenN - this was your challenge. I hope you like what I've done.
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A Harbor in the Tempest
Prologue
Magneto had been right. A war did come. A war that was still raging across the United States, pitting brother against brother, mother against child. A war that led to what Professor Xavier had hoped would never happen, and Erik Lehnsherr had always feared -- mutants made to register with the government, and carry papers at all times. Mutants herded off to internment camps for "re-education." Mutants hunted down and killed, simply for being different.
No one believed it would ever go that far; not until the day the troops arrived at the mansion on Greymalkin Lane. They attacked with unprecedented ferocity against citizens of the United States of America for these so-called enlightened times. So many were lost or killed. The X-Men were no more.
But some survived. This is their story.
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Author: Victoria P. [victoria_p@att.net]
Summary: About seven years after the movie. The US government is persecuting mutants. The X-Men are scattered. Somehow, they manage to find each other again, in a little dive bar in a little town south of the border.
Rating: R - language, violence, sex
Warning: Character death. I didn't want to do it, but...
Disclaimer: All X-Men characters belong to Marvel and Fox; this piece of fan-written fiction intends no infringement on any copyrights. The song "All I Want Is You" belongs to U2. "We Will Rock You" belongs to Queen. "We Shall Overcome" belongs to someone, but no one is quite sure who. It ain't me, though. I know that. See other disclaimers at the end.
Archive: If you've already got my stuff, yes. If not, please just let me know you're taking it.
Feedback: Please don't make me beg. It's so demeaning. g
Notes: Thanks to Dot, Meg, Jen, and Pete. If anyone's got a better title, let me know - this thing's had three or four already.
Dedication: JenN - this was your challenge. I hope you like what I've done.
indicates thoughts
{ } indicates song lyrics
// // indicates flashbacks
A Harbor in the Tempest
Prologue
Magneto had been right. A war did come. A war that was still raging across the United States, pitting brother against brother, mother against child. A war that led to what Professor Xavier had hoped would never happen, and Erik Lehnsherr had always feared -- mutants made to register with the government, and carry papers at all times. Mutants herded off to internment camps for "re-education." Mutants hunted down and killed, simply for being different.
No one believed it would ever go that far; not until the day the troops arrived at the mansion on Greymalkin Lane. They attacked with unprecedented ferocity against citizens of the United States of America for these so-called enlightened times. So many were lost or killed. The X-Men were no more.
But some survived. This is their story.
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