Warning : Death... and Scott... (hey not everyone likes him.)

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HerHands

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The child stood directly in front of Cathryn, she had beautiful blue eyes, and angelic golden curls encircled her tear streaked face. A scared angel in the middle of a dark and desolate place. Cathryn stopped half way through loading the gun and stared in disbelief. The child blinked, Cathryn blinked back, and then she looked around expecting to see a white light calling her to heaven, thinking the child was an angel sent by god.

"Can. you help us?" the child sobbed, small tears running down her face leaving paths in the dirt.

"Us?" Cathryn was stunned, if there were children left, in the middle of a battle.It was too horrible to comprehend.

"Me and my brothers, and our mommy. She's asleep. We can't wake her up, can you wake her up?" Had the sound of gun fire and the screams in the air stopped it would have been possible to hear Cathryn's heart break in that one moment.

"Sure. Show me where she is." the smile was false, trying to keep the child hopeful.

"Please hurry... she won't wake up and were scared."

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Her name was Mary-Anne,

I crawled after her,

Encouraging her to keep low.

Her head didn't even reach the top of the turned over tables.

She stopped at a group of tables that were stacked together.

Miraculously untouched by bullets.

She motioned me inside.

Her mother was dead.

But her friends were alive.

Three boys.

All around her age.

The oldest of them wasn't over the age of thirteen.

Their father,

They said,

Had told them to hide with their mother.

"But she looked up and then she fell down"

She had taken a bullet between the eyes,

One single shot.

I assumed their father was one of the baselines that offered himself to the FoH.

I motioned them to come with me.

Led them back to Logan.

I swear he paled when he saw them,

He had been yelling at Scott,

Calling him an idiot.

The minute I crawled up with the four little one in tow,

His entire face changed.

So did Scott's.

I was urged to get them out.

I was ordered to get myself out.

Some bull shit about it being a mans war.

That they didn't want me to come back.

Then Scott dropped the bombshell,

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"Pierre and Remy took a vote. If you aren't back at the club tonight they are coming in after you." Scott crossed his arms and looked at Logan for reinforcements. Logan nodded; one of the boys had crawled into his lap and snuggled there. I was to busy thinking about Remy and Pierre to notice it then but looking back; I think Logan found his peace there, with the child asleep on him. Scott giving me my opition broke the tender moment.

"So you are leaving. With these children and the other junior x men." He glared at me, trying to make me agree with him.

"My heroes, But my concern is with the other forty odd people, who are stuck in the heat of a battle they can not possibly win" Logan cleared his throat. I knew he was on Scott's side. He glanced down at the child asleep in his lap in a fatherly fashion and looked at me with the same eyes. He sighed.

"Look Cathryn, the FoH are bringing in more and more troops, I'm sending you and all the other young ones out. That includes the junior X-men and the brotherhood. You're all on the same team. Get to the Mutant Pitt, they've set up a makeshift hospital there and from what I've been told about the defences everyone there will be safe." Jubilee, Bobby, Rogue, Lance, Toad and Amara crawled into what had been thoughtfully nicknames 'HQ.' apparently they weren't happy with Logan and Scott's decision, this created a heated argument between those that wanted to stay and fight, And Logan and Scott.

In the end Logan and Scott won.

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