Moving with Babies
Chapter One
" Jumping Ship"
In the twenty-four hours following the Salesmen invasion, the dynamics of the household changed dramatically. Xavier seemed, at least for now, to have been restored as Headmaster. Logan had remained in this position as well, leading several to wonder how that would work, long term. For now, however, they were working well together as they organized the move.
Kitty's automated program had sent an e-mail, informing all of the parents of the move. This however, led to some negative reactions that Logan had not expected. In fact, by the end of that first twenty-four hour period, about half the student body's parents had written back, stating that they would be withdrawing their children. For some reason, these same 'brainwashed' parents, who were fine with rule changes, were far less alright with their child or children being moved to an undisclosed location. Logan continued to refuse to release the new address, even when these messages arrived.
Teachers as well, began jumping ship, after the initial overreaction had worn off. Several of them realized that they were unwilling to pack up their lives, and in most cases children, and move to the middle of nowhere. This again, was made worse by Logan's refusal to release the information.
By the end of the day, Angelo Espinoza, Illyana Rasputin, Josh Foley, Hope Abbott, Julian Keller, Ruth Aldine, Victor Borkowski, Laura Kinney, Gabriel Cohuelo, James Madrox, and Rahne Sinclair were the remaining student body. However, by the next morning, Hope, Ruth, and Gabriel had also been withdrawn from the school.
Additionally, Bobby, Jubilee, Ray, Amara, Sam, Tabitha, Elizabeth, Warren and surprisingly Jean ( who had somehow decided to give Scott another chance) had resigned their positions. Logan however, took this in stride, that was until Ororo and Henry resigned as well. Logan nearly lost it then. Ororo had been teaching at Xavier's nearly as long as he had.
" How could you abandon us in our hour of need like this?" Logan demanded.
" Logan. I'm tired. I'm tired of the drills, and the lectures. I'm tired of the children's constant fear of this 'Baby Apocalypse' . And I'm not moving to the valley with you. I'm just finished." Ororo replied, tiredly.
" Fine. Stay behind to see how well you can handle this new world without the support of the team! Just know that if you remain behind, we will not be excepting you back!" Logan growled.
Nodding , Ororo walked away to pack, and Logan then stormed to his office, completely missing the wide-eyed looks he had gained for his outburst. Piotr had considered, until this point, refusing to go as well, however, he hated confrontation, therefore changed his mind.
Wade and Emma, along with Megan would be coming ,of course, though Emma too was reluctant after the initial fear of the salesmen wore off. Wade was always game for whatever Logan came up with this time.
Wanda and John discussed it at length, and neither one of them was bothered by the move. Logan, however, would have been shocked to learn how close he had come to losing Remy and Rogue. He would have lost them, in fact, if not for Jamie.
Jamie overheard them talking about staying behind, perhaps moving west or possibly further south. He had begged them to stay, because despite the fact that Rogue used to scare him up a tree, frequently, he thought of her almost as a big sister. When Jamie, tearfully, asked Rogue not to leave him, she immediately agreed.
So, by the end of the first forty-eight hours, they had seven students, ten adults, and five babies moving to Snow Valley, including Charles and Logan. For some reason, this too pleased Logan. Mostly because he'd decided that they had too many people with them who didn't see the importance of either the Book or the Charts.
Before anyone else could change their minds about going, however, he decided they needed to clean and pack. Once again taking over control, Logan assigned jobs to the remaining residents.
" Okay. Everyone who claims residency ,still, we already cleared out the rifraf and deadweight, here IS what we're gonna do. Everyone, when I call your name, teachers too, I'll pull a card with a chore on it. That IS the job you will do, no trading, no complaints, no exceptions... The pregnant 'uns can redraw if they pull a card that may be hazardous to the baby, but NO EXCEPTIONS. We will then do it again for the packin'."
Everyone was too afraid to point out that he just listed an exception. Even Julian , miraculously, stayed silent. Though that may have been largely because the boy was preoccupied at scrolling through his playlist, and wasn't really paying attention.
The trouble started, surprisingly enough, with Charles, who wheeled up to him, as soon as Logan released the meeting. Logan had 'somehow' managed to draw 'Logan's Office' when he drew the first card, attempting to prove to everyone that it was fair. He now made his way to his office to 'clean' it when Charles rolled up.
" Logan. I know you said no exceptions... I cannot perform my assigned chore however."
" Why not? Everyone should be well suited to perform any job on the list, I see no reason for you to complain. Perhaps if you had ever bothered to assign these jobs when you were in charge-"
" Logan, you assigned me the BANISTERS ! It says to 'polish every banister in the house, all three floors and the emergency landing of the basement levels'. I CAN'T do the banisters!"
"... Fine, if you can't take the challenge, Julian! Trade with Charles." Logan replied, pointing at the boy.
" Okay." Julian replied, handing over his card.
Logan nods and headed to his office as Charles yelled " OH FOR THE LOVE OF- POLISH THE GRAND HALLWAY?! "
Logan then walked into his office, and began packing. It wouldn't take him long, and then he could move on to supervising everyone else. He still didn't trust that a stray salesman may break in somehow. No one questioned the logic of cleaning the mansion, when they were abandoning it, at least not out loud to Logan. Plenty of them thought it however, as they moved to their assigned chores and packing. Julian, being Julian, decided to interfere as much as possible.
After all, how much worse could it get? In hindsight, he realized that planting the test on his girlfriend had been a mistake, however, she wouldn't talk to him long enough to apologize. Jamie was probably mad at him still too. The teachers, he was sure, were still livid. So he could do whatever he wanted. After all, what were they going to do, expel him? Well, probably, but Julian found he didn't care.
In fact, maybe he would try to get expelled. Perhaps. He hadn't decided yet. Seriously, aside from Laura, who really had the right to be this mad at him anyway? He hadn't done anything THAT terrible. Plus he felt this whole 'moving' thing was an overreaction.