Sweet Little Lies
Chapter III: Look at What the Wind Blew In
By: Michelle
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DISCLAIMER: I don't own the X-men. I just write fanfics for fun.
I will be adding new characters. I will either explain them in the story and/or put a note at the bottom about them.
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Keys jingled loudly as he struggled to unlock the door. He wanted to surprise everyone by coming back home early, but so far it seemed harder to do than he expected. By the time he opened the door, he knew it was impossible.
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With claws extended, Logan took off running towards the front door. He wondered who the hell would be dumb enough to attack them thru the front door, but shit happens. He could hear Xavier yelling for him to stop, but he chose to ignore him. He wasn't going to take any chances.
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Kurt and Ororo shot up in bed. Numerous thoughts ran thru their minds as they quickly got dressed. They rushed out the room and down the stairs as fast as they could and met Logan at the bottom.
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Remy grabbed his cards and took off running. Someone tripped up the alarm system he created and he was ready to kick some ass for it. He slid down the railing of the stairs to find the Logan pinning the intruder against the wall.
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"I wouldn't move if I were you Bub." Logan said holding the intruder by the collar and digging his claws into his groin. "Sometimes the claws slip."
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"I'll take your word for it." A familiar voice answered. "But I already knew that."
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Look at what the wind blew in. Ororo recognized the voice instantly and flipped on a light switch. "Scott?"
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"Hey Ororo." Scott replied, containing himself from blasting Logan threw a wall. "Good to see you too." Then, he looked at Logan. "You mind."
Logan let him go and backed off. Great. The human stick up the ass is back. "Hey." He grumbled trying to be nice.
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"Hello Logan." Scott answered and fixed his shirt. "Thanks for the warm welcome."
"Anytime." Logan growled under his breath.
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Remy punched in the code to the alarm turning it off as Xavier wheeled in the room.
"Good morning Scott." Xavier said as he saw him at the door. "I had a feeling it was you. You should know better than to try and sneak up on a telepath."
"Or the security system." Scott said hugging him. "It's been a long time."
"Indeed it has." Xavier replied. Scott Summers AKA Cyclops was like a son to him. He was his first student and one of the first original X-men. Now finally, after many months of mourning for Jean, he was back home. "Why don't you get settled and reacquainted and meet me in my office. We have a lot to talk about."
"Alright." Scott looked around as Xavier left. Many of the students were gathered at the balcony of the stairs to see what was going on. Some were familiar faces, while others were a mystery to him. Of course, the same could be said about the team.
There was Ororo Munroe AKA Storm. He had know her for many years. He was more than glad to see her again. He hugged the best friend of his late wife and noticed the ring on her finger. I'm going to have to ask her about that later.
"Glad to have you back Scott." Ororo said to him. "You remember Kurt."
"Ah yes." Scott shook his hand. "Good to see you again." He said smiling. Kurt Wagner AKA Nightcrawler had only been with the team for a few weeks when he decided to leave. He didn't know much about him, but was definitely going to have to now. Especially, when he saw Kurt take hold of Ororo's hand. Did he give her that ring?
Scott turned to Logan AKA Wolverine. He never really like the man, especially since he flirted with Jean. But that was not the only thing that bothered him about Logan. He was just so uncontrollable and unpredictable. "I must say I'm surprised you are still here."
Logan shrugged. He knew what Scott was thinking about. "Shit happens."
"Yeah, well." Scott held his tongue. "It's good seeing all of you again. I'm going to get my stuff up in the room and then we can talk."
"Oh, so I ain't git no hello." Remy said leaning against the wall.
Scott turned and looked at him. He looked familiar to him, but he couldn't place the face. He can't be a student. He's too old. But he's so familiar.
"Scott, you remember my friend Remy LeBeau." Ororo said to him. "You've met him a couple of years back."
Remy LeBeau. Scott raised an eyebrow. Remy. I've met a Remy??? He couldn't place the name for nothing.
Remy shuffled his cards. He could feel Scott's confusion in his head. It was taking a lot for him not to laugh.
He must like to gamble. Scott thought as he watched him shuffle the cards. Then it hit him. That thieving friend of Ororo's that would hit on Jean just to piss me off. Oh no she did not bring him here. "Gambit." He said looking over to Ororo like she was crazy. "You brought Gambit here."
"Yes." Ororo replied slightly surprised at his reaction. "He's been here for about 6 or 7 months now."
"You can't be serious." Scott couldn't believe it. Gambit lives here now. He's a thief. Is she stupid? And Professor allowed this. "How did you get him here? Did you capture him trying to break in or something?"
Remy rolled his eyes. Once an asshole, always an asshole.
"Nah." Logan stepped in. "We reeled him in using a naked woman." He joked as he pat Remy on the back. "Ain't dat right Gumbo?"
Remy just smirked and made no comment. He looked up at the balcony and winked up at Rogue who had joined in curiosity. That's how they got me to stay here.
"Well Scott. We'll let you get settled so you can talk to Professor." Ororo said running her fingers thru her hair. "We'll see you at breakfast."
"See you at breakfast." Scott said and headed up to his room with his suitcase. It seemed like a lot things had changed while he was gone, and he wasn't so sure he liked it.
"Ease up Gumbo." Logan said smelling the anger from his friend.
"He ain't like de fact I here." Remy replied.
"He doesn't like the act I'm here either." Logan reminded him. "Just don't let that Royal Stick Up His Ass get to you. Besides, there is always the Danger Room."
Remy smirked. There was always the Danger Room. "We gonna have fun later."
Ororo sighed. She was shocked that Scott was back so early. She thought he wasn't coming back until the end of the semester.
"You alright Liebling." Kurt asked as they shooed some of the kids back to the rooms to get ready for classes.
"Yeah I'm...fine." Ororo replied. "I'm guess I'm just shocked he's back. It's just...I don't know." She shrugged her shoulders. She didn't really know how to describe it. "It feels weird. He's been gone for so long."
'Ja he has." Kurt said wrapping an arm around her waist. "But I von't be surprised if he is feeling zhe same vay."
Ororo smirked. "Why do you always have to be right?"
"Don't know." Kurt answered. "I guess I'm psychic."
"Oh really." Ororo challenged. "So what am I thinking.?"
Kurt chucked. He didn't need to be a mind reader to know what she was thinking. "You know ve can't do zhat."
"Darn." Ororo smiled. "I guess there is later." She said giving him a quick peck on the cheek. "I want to show you some catalogs."
"Alright. Kurt kissed her softly. "Bring them down to breakfast and we will look at them some before classes start."
"I'll meet you there." Ororo replied and he bamfed away to his room
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"NEIN."
"T.J., stop it." Wanda fussed as her daughter took off her hooded black cloak. "You need to keep this on."
"Nein." Talia whined. "It's hot. Don't wanna wear it."
"You have to." Wanda fought with her daughter trying to get on the cloak. "You can't go outside without it."
"Why?" Talia asked as she wormed in her mother's arms.
"Because." Wanda said getting frustrated. "There are people outside."
"Why?" Talia asked again.
Wanda sighed. 'Because they came to see Bova."
"Why?"
"Because they are."
"Why?"
Wanda was ready to tear her hair out. She didn't know if she could deal with this at the moment. It was bad enough she and Pietro were burying Bova, but to have Talia fight with her and question her to death was pushing it. She let Talia out of her arms and sighed in frustration as she watched her daughter take off the cloak. "Put it back on."
"Nein." Talia replied making her a face. Her nose was all scrunched up and her golden eyes where glowing.
"Put it on now or you are going to get a spanking." Wanda threatened. "On the count of three. One..."
Talia held her ground. She was determined to get her way and not put that cloak on.
"Two..."
Talia studied her mother hard. She wasn't sure if her mother was serious about the spanking or not, but she knew she was mad.
"Two and a half..."
Talia thought for a moment. I want my Vati (Daddy). She stepped back ready to run as her mother gave her a look.
"Three." Wanda sighed. She hated giving her daughter a spanking, but she had no other choice. She caught Talia before she made a run for it.
Talia started screaming even before her shirt was pulled down. "Nein, nein, nein. I be good." She pleaded. "I be good."
"It's too late." Wanda replied and popped her daughter once on the butt. She let her go and watched as Talia began crying.
"WWWAAAAHHHHH." Talia sat on the floor screaming to the top of her lungs.
Pietro sped in the room to see what was going on. What he found was Talia in a temper tantrum. "What the matter?"
"She won't put on her cloak." Wanda replied with her eyes watering.
"She won't put on her cloak." Pietro repeated and looked at his niece. "Why you won't put your cloak on T.J.?"
"Cuz." Talia sniffled repeatedly. "It's hot and Muti says I gots to where it and I don't want to and she counted to three and gave me a spanking."
"Aw she gave you a spanking." Pietro replied.
"Ja." Talia replied and clung to his leg.
Pietro pet her hair and stooped down. "You know you made your Muti cry."
"Nein." Talia looked over to her mother. Muti's crying. I made her sad.
Wanda wiped her eyes. She was so stressed out at the moment that she felt like she was going to burst. But, she needed to calm down to keep her powers from going haywire.
Talia wiped her nose on her arm and climbed up in her mother's lap like a good girl. "I sorry Muti." She said and snuggled up in her mother's arms.
"It's alright baby." Wanda replied kissing the top of her daughter's head. She looked over to Pietro and smiled. Thank you. "Let's get your cloak on."
"It's hot." Talia replied.
"I know." Wanda replied as she put it on her daughter. 'It's just going to be for a little while. I promise."
"K."
Wanda covered her daughter's head and stood up.
"Did you call him?" Pietro asked as they walked out the room.
"No." Wanda sighed. "Not yet."
"You need to call him." Pietro reminded her.
"I know."
"So when are you.?"
"After the funeral." Wanda switched Talia on her other hip. "Afterwards."
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Kurt sighed as he lay on the bed in his room. He knew he should be changing and getting his stuff together before classes started, but he just wanted to relax at the moment.
He dug in the nightstand beside his bed and pulled out a couple of Polaroid's. He never showed them to anyone expect perhaps the Professor when he first came to the mansion. Ororo didn't even know about them and he told her everything. His own guilt was destroying him.
"Stay still while Tante Jemaine takes pictures." Kurt fussed the squirming three year old in his arms.
"Nein. Wanna go down" Talia wormed.
"Alright." Kurt said giving up. There was no way he could win a battle against her. He put her down and watched as she began her mischief.
"You know." Margali, his foster-mother, addressed him. "She's a lot like you when you were her age."
"How so?" Kurt asked. "T.J., stop climbing up on the wall."
Margali laughed at him as he took his daughter back in his arms again.
"How many times do I have to tell you?" Kurt fussed.
Talia shrugged and gave him her cute and innocent look. "I don't know?"
"Alright, you two." Jemaine said getting the camera ready. "Think we can try this picture thing again."
"Nein." Talia replied and buried her head on her father's chest.
Kurt chuckled. "You're not camera shy are you." He said kissing the top of her head. It was obvious that she was tired and needed a nap soon. "You know I take pictures all the time."
Talia nodded and clung tighter to her father.
"You know why?" Kurt asked.
"Cuz you the Inkable Nightcaller." Talia responded.
Kurt couldn't help but laugh at the way she tried to say Incredible Nightcrawler. "That's right." He replied. "I'm the Incredible Nightcrawler." He tucked a lock of his daughter's ebony hair behind her pointed ear. "You don't want to take pictures with me." He said giving her a sad face.
"Ja, take pictures." Talia turned her head to face her family. There was her Tante Jemaine, Onkel Stefan, and Oma Margali.
After a couple of pictures, Kurt went to put Talia down for a nap. She was half asleep in his arms when he noticed Stefan seeming fidgety. "Are you alright, mein bruder?"
"Yeah." Stefan replied. "I just need to get out for a while. I'll see you later. Bye T.J." He said kissing her forehead. "Make sure you keep your vati on his toes."
"Bye-bye." Talia waved half asleep.
Kurt brought her to her bed in his trailer and laid her down. "You take your nap and then Muti will be here." He said tucking her in.
"No want to go." Talia began to cry. "Don't want to go with Muti."
"T.J., you have to." Kurt replied. "Muti is going to take you to Bova again."
"Nein."
"Ja." Kurt hated to see his daughter whine when she couldn't stay with him.
"Nein." Talia cried. "When I go Bye-bye, I no see you no more."
"I'm going to see you."
"Nein." Talia answered. "I no see you for a long long long long time."
Kurt couldn't respond. He could see her as much as he wanted. The circus took up so much of his time. Yet, he never did anything about it. She had spent the week with him only because he was off. Normally, he would be working, but the circus was being bought out by a new owner.
"Don't wanna go." Talia said with her face flowing with tears.
"I know." Kurt replied. "I promise I'm going to see you as much as I can, but Vati is busy."
Talia sniffled. "You always busy. Too busy to play with me. You no love me no more."
Kurt felt like a knife had been plunged into his heart. His daughter thought he didn't love her. Of course, he couldn't blame her. There were so many times that she was placed second in his life. "I love you Talia." He said wiping the tears from her eyes. "One day I'm not going to be busy all the time and I will be able to play with you everyday."
'Promise."
"I promise." Kurt said kissing her on her forehead. "I have something for you." He said getting up and digging in his circus stuff. He pulled out a small doll that resembled himself. They called it a bamf doll after the sound he makes when he teleports. "Look here."
Talia looked up at the doll and reached out her arms.
"So even when I'm not there, you can be with me." Kurt said seeing his daughter cuddled with the doll.
"What will Vati have to think of T.J.?" Talia asked.
Kurt smiled. "I've got pictures. So I can show everyone my favorite girl." He said brushing her hair out of her eyes. "Now get some sleep. Your Muti be here in a little while."
"O-Tay." Talia said as her father kissed her on the forehead. "Vati." She called out to him when he turned to leave.
"What T.J.?" Kurt said coming back to her bed.
Talia got up and kissed him on the nose. "Wove you Vati." She said and climbed back under the covers.
"I love you too."
Kurt ran his fingers thru his hair as he stared at the pictures. That was the last time he saw her. Sure he had called over the phone and talked to her when no one was looking, but that wasn't the same thing. Now it was killing him inside. It was like he had abandoned her. It was like he turned into his mother, Mystique.
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Scott walked into his room and was surprised at the sight he saw. Every thing was the same as he left it and the room was well kept. Ororo must dust and clean it from time to time. He thought as he dropped his bags at the door.
He closed the door behind him and took a deep breath. It was so quiet. It was rarely like that when Jean was alive.
Jean giggled as he chased her around the room. She cheeks were rosy from the running and her hair was a mess. Of course, to him, she looked more beautiful as ever.
"Scott." Jean said on the other side of the bed. "We have classes tomorrow."
"I know." He replied. "But it's still early."
"True." Jean answered. "But we both have lessons to plan. And, I have tests to grade."
Scott climbed over the bed and scooped her up in his arms. He wished he could see how beautiful she was without his visors. "Is that the best excuses you have?"
"Until I find some new ones." Jean replied and kissed him on the lips.
Scott plopped down on the bed. He had made it so many months without her, but now it was different. He was back home. There were so many memories. He didn't know how he was going to make it.
He had to make it. After all, he was the X-men leader. Right? I am the X-men leader. Jean wouldn't want me to continue sulking. She would want me to move on and take care of the team and the students. I'm going to make it.
Scott laid back and smiled. He was going to make it. He couldn't wait to take back leadership over the team. Bet Storm will be more than happy for me to take leadership back over. They probably haven't had a decent session since I've been gone, especially with Wolverine and Gambit as part of the team.
He decided he was going to put off his unpacking until after his talk with Xavier. He was starting to like being home already.
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Well that's the end of Lies3. I will post another chapter in a week or so. I'm currently working on Prince of Thieves as well, so it will be my first priority until its done.
FYI: Yes, Scott is in this fic and Jean is still dead. I will not write Jean returning or anything like that. I'll leave that up to X3 whenever someone decides to write it. (Of course, I would love to write the script for X3). Anyways, Jean will only appear in flashbacks.
Well, I better get back to work. The next chapter to Prince of Thieves will be up soon. See you next story or chapter.
Thanks TheDreamerLady for help with the chapter title.
Thanks for all of the reviews.
Michelle