I do not own the X-Men. They are owned by Marvel and Disney. I only own the non-recognisable characters, like Alika (AL-ick-ah) and Beta (bet-AH)
If I did, Logan would actually be married to Storm, and have kids.
Chapter 1
Beta
The Man had hit her again. She hadn't answered him fast enough when he asked her if she had broken the cheap, knock-off vase that he had gotten at a garage sale ten years ago. She told him that she hadn't, but he didn't believe her, because he never believed her. The real culprit was his real son. He had been playing baseball in the house. She told him that, but her adopted father just scoffed.
Now she was in the small room that her adopted family had provided for her, crying. She hadn't done anything wrong, but she was still being punished. It didn't matter if she was innocent. She was the different one, so, naturally, all the bad things in the world had to be her fault. Because she was a mutant.
Beta, or Bets, was four when her mom died from the brain cancer that had been eating away at her body and mind since before Bets had been conceived. Bet's mother had been crazy, hence the odd names of her and her sister Alika, or Ally. It had been three years since.
Beta missed her sister, and needed her to comfort poor, tired Bets. Drawing up an image of her sister, her pretty face, black hair with blond highlights, and everything else that she could think of, she thought hard on telepoting her sister to her. There was a puff of vanilla smelling gold clouds, and her sister was there, by her little bed, with a sightly annoyed look on her face.
"What's the matter, darlin'?" Ally asked, her annoyed, yet concerned tone matching her face. Beta could see why. It was the third time this week, and both other times Ally had been driving her motorcycle, and Beta could only imagine how banged up the bike was right now.
"He hit me again," Beta informed her sister glumly. "This time it started bleeding." Ally sighed sarrowfully, but didn't bother to look for her sister's wound. It would already be gone, thanks to their healing abillities that they had inherited from their father, whom they had never met, even though the sisters were seven years apart.
This time it was Ally that closed her eyes in concentration. Two animals appeared out of thin air, a wolf and a cougar.
"Do you want Wolvie or Cougy to stay with you tonight?" Ally asked, giving herself a choice between her companions.
"Can't I pwetty pwease have both? I ain't gonna be able to sleep if I don't have both," Bets pleaded in her adorable adolecent voice.
Ally raised her eyebrows, but only said, "Fine, but just for tonight," and to her companion, she said," Keep her safe. Stop any intruders that try to get to her, unless they are blood kin to her." By this she meant only her, not realizing that this would be a huge mistake. There was another cloud of gold vanilla, and Ally disappeared, leaving the two feral animals to watch over her sister. Beta fell into a fitful sleep, full of nightmares of darkness and falling.
