Mason POV
I walked into the kitchen the next morning to see Emma sitting alone with a cup of coffee and the newspaper. She was wearing short jean shorts, a light pink tank top, and some sort of white jacket.
"Good Morning." She said without even looking up form her paper.
"Good Morning." I said as I looked in the fridge for some sort of leftovers.
"There's bacon and eggs in the dinning room." She said softly. That was weird no one made breakfast on Saturdays usually.
"Who made them?" I asked as I shut the fridge.
"Lindsey and I." She replied softly as she got up. She refilled her coffee cup and got a plate out of the cabinet. "Here you go." She said as she handed it to me. I followed her into the dinning room. Mom, Kurt, Storm, and Blue were in there eating and talking.
"Good Morning." I said as I sat down next to Blue.
"Sleeping beauty finally got up." Blue said.
"Shut up and pass me the bacon." I said as Emma sat down across from me.
"Okay, who is going to help me clean the attic today?" Mom asked as she looked at me and Blue.
"Busy." Blue said as she got up and then left.
"I will." Emma said softly.
"Oh well thank you Emma." Mom said giving me the death glare.
"I guess I could help to." I replied before I started to eat.
"Oh this is going to be so much fun." Mom said with a smile.
Kurt POV
Kitty was getting ready to go work on the attic, but right now she was helping me with the dishes. "I don't like how you keep pushing them together."
"Why not? I think Emma will help get Mason on a better road."
"Or he'll bring her down. Just like Logan did to Rogue."
"She helped that him, more than you'll ever know."
"That's why he'd still parties and drink all night. Hell, he missed his own wedding because he was in a fucking bar."
"She's not Rogue and he's not Logan. They'll be good for each other."
"Really? Or he'll get her in trouble and she'll run." I said as she walked away. Why doesn't anyone listen to me?
Mason's POV
The attic is a wasteland for everything no one wants to look at. There was stuff that belonged to Jean and Rogue. Professor put some of his memories up here, well before he went to live with the Alien chick. All three of mom's wedding dresses were up here. Actually the was a corner of stuff form all the weddings this place has held.
"Welcome to Memory Lane." I said as I held the door open for Emma.
"Um…there must be a lot of memories up here." She said as she took in all the boxes and all the random crap that covered the attic floor.
"There is." My mom said as she came up behind Emma. "A lot of good and bad memories." We were going though boxes, throwing out what we could, and restacking the boxes orderly against the wall.
"Oh my god, I knew this was somewhere around here." She said as she held up an old x-men uniform. Emma just looked at her. "It was Rogue's. You know I haven't seen this since we were in high school." I knew that after you graduate you get a new uniform, but Emma knew nothing about this life. "Those were the days we were so fucking bad ass." I couldn't believe my mother would even use such words like that.
"What are you going to do with it mom?" I said trying to hurry my mother up.
"It's not my place to decide. Everything that was Rogue's is now Emma's." Mom said.
"Emma?" I asked.
"I think I'll just take mom's stuff down to my room, if you don't mind." She said.
"I don't mind. I rather see someone use this crap than have it sit up here." I took the liberty to take box after box to Emma's room. When I was finally done Mom was showing Emma one of her wedding dresses.
Emma's POV
Kitty enjoyed talking to me about her past. I could tell. She pulled out a box. One of those dress boxes that people use to store wedding dresses. "Let's she who's dress this is." She said as she opened it. "Husband number one." She said as she pulled out a tea length satin and tulle dress. It was plain compared to the woman who it belonged to.
"I wasn't really planning on getting married. Lance surprised me. He purposed to me and then three weeks later we got married. The wedding was in the garden out in the backyard. Jean was my maid of honor. It was like a fairy tale. It was perfect, unlike the marriage that followed. At least I got Mason out of that." She said as she looked at the dress.
"What happened between you and Mason's father?" I asked.
"He was a cheater. He would come home. His whores would call for him. After I lost the baby I couldn't take it anymore. I took Mason and left." She said as she placed the dress back in the box.
"You lost a baby?" I asked.
"Yeah, it was my second child. I was in accident. The other car came out of nowhere and ran right into me. I made it out alive, barely, but I lost the baby." I saw the tears start to fill her eyes. "Why don't we see what is in these other boxes?" She said as she closed the lid on the box. She was opening another box within seconds.
"Your Mama's dress." She said as she pulled it out.
"Mom never married." I said.
"No she didn't, but that's because things didn't work out."
"What do you mean?"
"Your father never showed up that day. Scott and Kurt found him that night at a bar. They said he was so wasted they were lucky he remembered his own name." She said softly.
"He forgot about his own wedding." I said.
"That's Logan for you. He's good at what he does, but what he does isn't good."
"What would that be?"
"Hurting people." She said softly. "Your Mother went to seventeen dress stores to find the perfect dress. She wanted one with Chantilly Lace. I never realized it would take us so long to find one." She said as she put it back. She shut the lid and then handed it to me. "Maybe one day you will wear it." She said with a smile. "Come on there is still more to look at." She said as she picked up another.
Emma's POV
I didn't realize that there was so much stuff brought down to my room till I went there. There were eight or nine large boxes and one of those screens you change behind. "Need help going though that?" Mason asked as he stood in the doorway.
"That would be nice." I said as I pulled a box over to my bed. He came and sat down next to me. I opened the box and pulled out a green dress.
"Try it on." He said softly.
"I don't have anywhere to go to do that." I said. He just pointed to the screen. I got up and went behind the screen to try it on. "I look like an idiot." I said as I stepped away from the screen.
"Trust me you don't look like an idiot." Mason said as he stared at me. "You look…wow." He said. The box was filled with more fancy dresses, I tried them on. They made me look like an idiot.
Mason's POV
I helped Emma go though the boxes. Then I helped her stack them in a corner. Right now we are lying on her bed talking about nothing really.
"So how good is the marching band here?" She asked.
"Honestly, we suck." I said as I looked at her.
"Great." She said.
"How about the one you use to be in?" He asked.
"One of the top ten in the state of Mississippi." She answered proudly.
"So your form Mississippi." I said.
"Got a problem with it."
"Not at all."
"Good." She said as she moved closer to me.
"Do you have a problem me being from New York?"
"No, I like those Yankees."
"I'm not a Yankees' fan."
"It means you're from the north."
"I knew that."
"Really?" She said before we heard yelling from downstairs.
"Get out!" That was Kurt.
"It's my home to!" I knew who that was and I pray to god that he left now.
"Who is that?" Emma asked as she got up.
"I don't know." I lied. She got up. "Don't go." She didn't listen. I followed her down the stairs where you could easily view Kurt and Logan scream at each other and Mom trying to break them up.
"You shouldn't be here." Kitty said to Logan. Emma froze.
"Emma, Come on. Let's go back up stairs and let them work them work this out." I said as I put my arm around her.
"No. I have to talk to him." She said as she moved my arm. She walked over to Logan. She practically pushed Kurt out of her way.
"What do you have to say?" She asked him.
"I don't know what you mean little girl." He said in a way that told me he had been drinking. She just looked at him.
"YOU'RE A DICK!!" She screamed as she ran out the front door. I ran after her. She was mid air when I reached her.
"Emma come back down here." I said.
"No. Just leave me alone." She said as she flew to the roof. I took the long way up to her, the stairs.
"You can't get rid of me that easily." I said as I sat down next to her.
"He doesn't realize, does he?" She asked as she placed her head on my shoulder.
"No, it's the beer. It takes him from reality." I said as I placed my arm around her waist.
"I just want him to pay for the pain he caused." She said as tears rolled off her face and on to my shirt.
"He does. That's why he's like he is. He drinks to kill the pain, but it doesn't. It just masks it."
"How do you know this?"
"He told me a few years ago. That was the only time that he ever said anything of meaning to me."
"He really said that?" She asked as she looked up to me.
"Yes, he did." I said as I wiped the tears away.
"Mason you're a good friend." She said. The word friend killed me.
"You're a good friend too." I said.
"You know it's nice to know you have someone to talk to, before I would fly to find comfort."
"Really?"
"Yeah. By the way you never told me what you can do." She said.
"I make flowers grow." I said.
"Really?"
"Basically? Why do you have a problem with it?"
"No I don't." She said as she looked at me.
"Good." It was silent for a minute.
"You know my mother always told me everything is prettier under the stars." She said as she looked up at the sky.
"Really, do I look prettier?"
"Yes."
"Maybe we should go back inside." I said.
"Give it a few more minutes." She said as she looked up at the sky.
Lindsey's POV
I came home around eleven to find Logan passed out on the sofa and Mason in my room. He was lying with Emma. Holding her. Talking to her.
"Well, hello." I said as I walked in.
"How was you're boyfriend?" Mason asked. He usually tried to start crap with me.
"Just great actually." I said as I pulled my pajamas out of my dresser. Then I walked out of the room.
Mason POV
"I probably should go to bed." I said as I started to get up.
"Night." She said softly.
"Night." I said as I walked away.
Lindsey POV
When I went back to the room. Emma was sound asleep in her bunny rabbit pajamas. Mason was gone. I just went to sleep.
Emma POV
I could sleep so I found myself wandering down stairs. I made my way to the living room. He was in there. Asleep on the coach. Someone had turned him on to his side. I stood there looking at him for a minute. Trying to see what mom seen in him.
"If you want him to be a perfect father, you should just leave right now." I heard someone say. I turned around to see Laura, Kitty told me about her. "He won't be there when you need him. He'll come back for awhile. He'll come in drunk. You spend the time he's here turning him on his side and watching him sleep. But, he won't be here in the morning." He voice told me she was tried of his behavior as she sat down.
"I'm sorry." I said as I sat down in the only other chair in the room.
"You shouldn't be sorry. This will be you in a few years. Hoping one day he'll stay. Hoping you could have the picture perfect family. I had that at one time. With Rogue he stayed more. With Rogue he really did try. Now he doesn't. He has nothing without her in his mind. He doesn't realize that I'm still here. He doesn't think about the people he hurts." She was crying now.
"Why do you still try if he doesn't?" I asked.
"Because I still love him. He's still my father. Even if he doesn't want to be." She said as she looked at him. "He looks cold why don't you get him a blanket. They are down this hall in the second door on the left." I went and got him a blanket and covered him up. Then I sat back down.
"Thank you." She said softly. "You know I really hope it's different for you."
"Why?" I asked as I sat cross legged in the chair.
"Because you deserve better than this."
"You do too?" I said softly.
"Maybe that's right, but it's too late for that."
"You know that's one thing my mother taught me. It's never too late."
"I always wanted him to walk me down the aisle, but hell he missed his own wedding what says he'll show." She said softly as I realized that she was wearing an engagement ring.
"Did you ask him?"
"No, I haven't even told him yet. I really don't want to. I don't want him to ruin my day." She said.
"Ask him. Let him know. Let him to know that you haven't given up on him. You never know he might just change his ways."
"How old are you again?"
"Seventeen."
"You're unusually thoughtful for a teenager."
"I'll take that as a complement." That caused her to chuckle a little.
"You aren't going to ran again are you?"
"Why?"
"It's a bad habit to start. Plus, I know a boy who would be heart broken."
"Who?"
"Mason. You know he's usually distant, but these past two days he's started to change. Miss. Kitty seems to think it's you."
"That's crazy. We barely know each other."
"Life's crazy. That I know for a fact."
"I think everyone knows that."
"You know what; I think I can deal with this having a sister thing." She said with a laugh.
"Good cause you're stuck with me." I said softly.
Kitty's POV
I woke up and went down stairs. I found Emma and Laura in the living room sound asleep. I found Logan making his way to the door. "You walk out that door and you'll never come back in this house again." I said.
"What power do you have to say that?" He asked as he turned around.
"I'm the one who cleans up all your messes and I'm not going to do that anymore." I replied. That's when I heard the sound of foot steps. Then I saw Laura standing in the doorway to the living room.
"No one ever told you to." He said.
"What was I suppose to do? Was I just supposed to let you ruin everyone in your path?" I asked as he looked past me.
"Laura, what's going on?" I heard Emma ask.
"Logan we need to talk. The office now." I said as I walked away.
Logan's POV
I had my heart ripped from my chest when Kitty said "Rogue's dead, Logan." I couldn't believe that.
"No, you're lying." I said as I felt the tears start. I was never one for crying, but this was my Rogue.
"Logan, she's my best friend. I wouldn't lie about this." Kitty said as she sat on the professor's old desk.
"She's really gone." I said to myself. I was trying to hold myself together. "How did you find out?"
"Her…your daughter told me." Kitty said as she looked at me.
"Laura?" I asked.
"No Emma." She said as she handed me a picture of Rogue and a little girl. "She's your one chance to get it right, Logan." Kitty said looking at me with tears in her eyes.
"What am I suppose to do?" I asked.
"Don't mess this up. You only get one chance Logan. Oh and maybe you should talk to Laura too. She needs you just as much." She said softly.
Laura's POV
I was looking out the front window as Emma and Mason were talking outside. I couldn't tell what they were talking about but I think it had to do with his bike since he kept pointing at it. Kurt wasn't far behind me making it clear he didn't approve.
"So, she hangs out with people like him?" I heard Logan ask from behind me.
"You have a problem with that?" I replied as he moved next to me.
"Yes, he's…too much like me." He answered.
"I finally agree with you." Kurt replied. Logan ignored him.
"I just thought I would tell you that I plan on sticking around for awhile." Logan said as I watch Emma get on Mason's bike. Next thing I know she's driving around him in circles.
"How along is awhile?" I asked not looking away from my sister.
"I don't know yet, but I want to be here for you girls." He said as he laughed. "She's just like her mother ain't she?"
"Sure seems like it." I replied as Emma still circled Mason.
"Who is he?" Logan asked as he looked at the ring on my finger.
"Jason, you remember him don't you?" I asked remembering the good times. The high school years. The family years.
"The dork you use to hang out with in high school?" He asked.
"Yes, but he's not a dork anymore." I said looking out the window.
"Why didn't you tell me?" He asked.
"You have only cared about yourself since Rogue left. I figured you wouldn't care."
"I messed up, I know that. Can you forgive me?"
"Give it time. Time can fix everything." I said as I looked at him. "Don't hurt her though, she don't deserve it."
Mason POV
Emma finally stopped the bike after she rode circles around me for a good ten minutes. "Don't ever underestimate me." She said as she got off the bike.
"Trust me I won't." I said as she walked over to me.
"Good." She said as she stood in front of me. She looked like an angel with her ripped jeans, leather jacket, and black high heel boots. Come on dude get it together. Don't let her get to you.
"A prize for the winner." I said as I used my lame power to make a flower pop right out of the ground. I pull it out and handed it to her. "Lame power I know."
"Kind of, but so is flying." She said as she broke off most the stem off and then stuck it in her hair. "Hey, at least you'll always remember to get your girl flowers." She said with a laugh.
"Yep." I said as I heard Logan say "How's it going kid?" He patted me on the back. Logan had always liked me, most likely because I'm more like him then any other student here.
"Just great, Logan." I said as I saw Emma stare at him.
"So, you kids got plans today?" He asked.
"No." Emma answered.
"Good, you kids can help me with my bike. I got a leak on my bike and I can't seem to figure out how to fix it." Logan said. I don't know if this was a joke or someway to get father daughter bonding time with Emma. Logan never needed help.
"Sure." Emma said softly. I just followed them to the garage. Emma just sat stood by the tool box as Logan showed me the problem.
"Umm…well we might be able to fix this." I said as I thought back to my auto shop classes I took freshman year. For awhile Emma just sat there watching us.
"You're doing it wrong. You're just going to make it worse." She said as she walked over to me. "Move over and let me try." I let her fiddle around with it for awhile. "There, now try it." She said as she got up and sure enough she fixed it.
"Wow." Logan said as he looked at his bike. "How did you do that?"
"Anyone can take an auto shop class and my mom taught me some things." She said as she wiped her hands off with a wash rag. "I'm going to go wash up. Motor oil isn't my color." She said with a laugh. If her father wasn't sitting there with me I probably would have told her she looks great in anything, which is the honest truth. I watched her walk out. Then Logan shut the door.
"Sit down boy." He said. I did as he said sitting on a work bench. I knew what was coming up. The talk. The "don't hurt my daughter or I'll stick my claws though your heart" talk. "You know I wish I could tell you that I loved her first, but by the look in your eyes I can tell that's not true. Just don't hurt her. It would be a shame to have to kill you. You're one of the few that I like." He said the last part with a laugh.
"You know Logan; soon you will know just how much you missed." I said as I looked at him. "You have two great daughters. Now you just need to be the father they need." I said as I got up. "Oh and don't worry about Emma. She doesn't feel the same way." I walked out after that.