The media frenzy was high of course it was because three big companies were involved. First the police questioned all of them, then the FBI and then probably every authority in the US did it again. Rogue still doubted that anyone would have listened to them at all without the tangible proofs Harry and John had provided.

It was the last night at home for them. Only John and Piotr would stand witness in court, together with Harry, of course. They were the closest Francis Drake could get to Angel and Remy. They would be moved to protected custody for the trial. Bobby had been adamantly that he would come with John, much to his parents' dismay, Rogue imagined.

Logan had come too. Rogue didn't know if Raven had called him or if he had come because he had picked up a newspaper somewhere.

'Heard you have found a relative.' He said to Jubilee.

'My aunt.' Jubilee beamed at him. It had turned out that her aunt had been looking for her since Jubilee's parents' deaths. She was the happiest of all of them. An aunt meant family, a steady life, school and friends, a normal life, something that Jubilee missed more than the rest of them except John.

'She lives in San Francisco. You've ever been there?' She asked Logan.

'It's not much different from Boston.' He said but Jubilee looked like she didn't quite believe him.

'It's on the other side of the continent.' She argued: 'It has to be different.'

Logan shrugged at that.

'And you came out to your family for the bunch of them?' That was for Bobby. John had told Rogue once that he knew he was in love with Bobby after Bobby had faced Logan without being intimidated the slightest bit. Rogue had thought that he was joking back then but now she saw that he had spoken the truth.

'Funnily they found the mutant thing worse than 'My mutant boyfriend is working for a criminal' side of the story. My mum even asked me if I tried not being a mutant. Oh, and my brother hates me.' He said this in a flippant tone like the one John would use but John was sitting next to Bobby and looked at him with a deeply adoring gaze in his eyes.

'On the other hand my uncle couldn't be more proud of me if he tried.' Bobby added.

'You're giving up a lot to do the right thing.' Piotr said: 'They should all be proud of you.'

Rogue didn't hear Bobby's answer because she had already left the flat to get the mail for today. Most of it was junk but between two flyers she found a postcard signed by Nick and Cassie from Hong Kong. They had left Boston and the USA as soon as John and the others had told them that Essex would be made accountable. Every name in Essex papers would be examined and wherever Nick and Cassie came from it was clear that they didn't want to return there. Rogue regarded the card wistfully. Lots of things were happening at once and she couldn't keep track of all of them and she doubted that she wanted to be there when some of those things happened.

For the last 17 months this flat and this group of mutants had been her home, her family and deep down she had hoped that it may stay this way forever. But they were mutants and happy endings were not written for them. She knew that siding with Harry had been the right decision but t hadn't been the easy one and right now Rogue wished that they would have taken the easy decision.

'Hey kiddo.'

'I'm not a child.' Rogue told Logan, who had followed her downstairs without her noticing it. She turned around to face him.

'Raven said something similar the last time we spoke.' Logan reached out to take her gloved hand in his: 'I'm sorry this deal with Essex didn't work for you.'

'It worked out for none of us.' She shrugged as if it didn't matter: 'Angel and Remy are dead. Piotr will be send back to Russia after the trial, John, Jubilee and Bobby will leave, too.'

'What are you going to do?'

'I'll probably go back to sleeping in the storage room.' She replied dryly.

'You could come with me.' Logan suggested.

'And wait in the trailer ever night while you're out drinking and chatting up some woman? I think not.'

'Damn, Marie, it wouldn't be that way. He argued but Rogue wasn't convinced.

'It was that way last time.' She pointed out: 'What changed?'

'You changed. As you pointed out, you're not a kid anymore.'

'I weren't a child when we met either.'

'More than you think.' He smirked at her: 'Come on, do you really want to stay here? You said yourself that everyone else is leaving, so why not you, too?'

She looked at him, considering while deep down she had already made her decision.

'You still can't touch me.' She pointed out.

'We'll figure something out.' His smile told her that he knew what decision she had made.

It wasn't an ending but it may learn in time to be happy.

The End