X4 Family Origins
Chapter Four: Located
After visiting with his nephews, Rion had taken Megan to the mansion. He and Alex had to discuss something where the dojo is concerned. Rion is set to defend his title in four months. Ray and Nick will be there to go over training sessions. Alex will be included. The men who had been following Lucy and the boys earlier stood outside watching everything including Rion. They were waiting for the right time to strike. Megan lugged into Professor Xavier's office.
"Enter Megan." Professor Xavier said as she came into the room slowly holding her stomach. "How are you feeling?" Professor Xavier asked.
"I'm hanging in there. Thank god I'm almost due." She said to him. Professor could tell she had a lot on her mind. Her pregnancy, her husband and she worried for Lucy who had informed Logan that she was followed earlier by three men in a car. Professor heard all of her thoughts in her head. He had a worried expression on his face.
"You seem like you have a lot on your mind." He told her. She nods.
"Am I that obvious?" Megan asked.
"Well I am psychic you know." He said smiling. Megan chuckled. "What's wrong?"
"I'm worried about my husband." Megan said. "Lately I've been having these bad feelings. Like something's going to happen." She told him. Professor Xavier stared at her wondering the same thing. He had been having the same feeling as she did only on a larger scale. He didn't want her to worry in current condition. "I don't know if it's a sign of hormones from my pregnancy or what but I can't shake these bad feeling." Megan said to him.
"It could very well be a sign of the pregnancy." Professor Xavier told her.
"I don't know professor. I'm not sure that's the case." Megan said.
"What do you think will happen?" Professor asked her.
"I'm not sure but I don't like how I'm feeling." Megan told him.
"Are your sure it's not the hormones that's got you feeling this way?" Professor asked.
"I don't know. This is my first pregnancy. It could be but…." She didn't know how to finish her sentence. "I don't know."
"Tell you what, I'll keep my mind open to anything out of the ordinary. In the meantime, you get home and rest ok. That's an order." Professor Xavier said smiling.
"Ok." Megan said smiling. She struggled to stand up and his helped up by the professor.
"Can you make it home on your own?" Professor asked her.
"Oh yeah I'm fine." She said heading towards the door slowly. "Good night professor."
"Good night." He said as she left his office.
Ororo had put on the Incredibles for the boys to watch. This would keep them quiet for at least two hours. She and Logan sat down to watch the movie with them. Lucy had gone to see Remy. She needed a moment with him. She had told him about the three men following her. Remy joked saying that she's hot why wouldn't they follow her. She was not in the laughing mood and told him that she was genuinely scared. He told her he'd protect her. Jamie and Oliver are laugh at something the movie. Ororo and Logan smile down at their boys.
"This movie is funny." Jamie says leaning on Logan.
"Mommy." Oliver calls to Ororo.
"Yes honey." Ororo says back.
"You and daddy are superheroes?" Oliver asked. Both Logan and Ororo looked at each other. They had been through some things before the boys were born.
"What makes you think that?" Logan asked.
"John told us that you guys save the day before me and Jamie were born. Is that true?" Oliver asked.
"Yeah dad is that true?" Jamie asked.
"Well honey, remember how we told you about bad mutants?" Ororo asked.
"Yeah you said there are mutants out there who don't share professor Xavier's ideas about mutant kind." Jamie said.
"That's right. Daddy and I along with your aunts, uncles and brother had to save the humans from the bad mutants harming them." Ororo told them.
"What would happen if mutants took over the world?" Jamie asked. Logan looked over at Ororo.
"Well son the humans would die." Logan told them.
"That's not right. Killing people is wrong." Oliver said.
"That's right. We had to stop them before that happened?" Ororo told them.
"I don't know if that makes us superheroes but we did the right thing." Logan said.
"You guys are superheroes to us." Jamie said. Both Logan and Ororo smiled pulling their boys into their laps.
"You think we're superheroes?" Logan asked.
"Yeah." Jamie said smiling.
"What would our costumes look like?" Ororo asked.
"Mommy would wear spandex." Oliver said. Ororo chuckled.
"Yeah I can totally see mommy in spandex." Logan said.
"What about daddy?" Ororo asked.
"Leotards." Both Oliver and Jamie said earning a chuckle from Ororo. Logan frowned. Both boys laughed.
"Oh yeah." Logan said beginning to tickle his boys who laughed hysterically forgetting the movie. Ororo got involved in the tickle fest when Jamie attempted to tickle her. All four are laughing. There's a knock at the door. Ororo got up off the couch and heads to the door. She opens the door. Jean is there.
"Hey Jean come in." Ororo said smiling. She seemed a little out of breath.
"What's going on here?" Jean asked smiling upon seeing the kids.
"A little tickle fest." Ororo said smiling.
"Hi aunt Jean." Jamie and Oliver said unison.
"Hi boys." Jean said smiling. She liked it when they called her aunt Jean. They all considered themselves a family. "This came for Roh." She said handing the letter to Ororo.
"Who's it from?" Logan asked.
"There's no return address or name." Ororo said. Logan had Jamie in his lap and Oliver on his right side of the couch.
"What's it say?" Jean asked. She wasn't trying to be nosey. Ororo's expression was making her concerned for surrogate sister.
"It says 'The truth shall set us free.'" Ororo said confused.
"What the hell does that mean?" Logan asked.
"Not sure." Jean said.
"The truth about what?" Ororo asked to no one in particular. "This is strange." She said.
"Yeah it is." Jean said.
"First my sister is followed by three men in some car and now this." Logan said standing up. He pressed a button on the TV so that the movie played for the boys. "Boys finish watching the movie." He told them. He, Jean and Ororo went into the kitchen. Jean sat down at the kitchen table.
"What's this about your sister being followed?" Jean asked.
"She had the boys out earlier with her. She said she was followed by three Japanese men in a car. She was able to lose them before getting back to the mansion but she seemed shaken up." Logan told her. This got Jean's attention. The professor had told her and Emma earlier about three men who were in a car watching the mansion.
"She ok?" Jean asked.
"Yes." Ororo said. "She's going to stay the night."
"Where is she now?" Jean asked.
"She's with Remy." Ororo said.
"She thinks I don't know they are dating." Logan said. Jean smirked.
"How do you know they are dating?" Jean asked him. Ororo smirked.
"He's clairvoyant." Ororo said smirking.
"No, I've seen how they interact. It doesn't take a genius to figure it out but I figure when she's ready to tell me, I'll act surprised." Logan said being funny.
"It's weird that Lucy was followed by three Asian." Jean told them.
"Why is that?" Ororo asked.
"The professor said that there three Asian men were in a car watching the mansion earlier." Jean said. Logan and Ororo are now a little worried. "Coincidence?" She asked.
"No." Logan said. "I have a bad feeling something's about to go down. I hate not knowing."
"Professor has the same feeling." Jean said.
"These Asian men, did the professor say that they were mutants?" Ororo asked.
"No. They're human." Jean asked.
"This is weird. Something about this is not right." Ororo said aloud.
"Where's Scott and Nathan?" Logan asked.
"Scott is at the house with Nathan. Alex is with Rion and his trainers. Megan is at the mansion with the professor and Emma." Jean told them. "Warren and Kurt are at mall. I'll call them."
"John and the others are on dorm." Ororo added.
"Ok." Logan said nodding. "No one's alone. That's good."
"What should we do about this?" Ororo asked.
"We have to keep our guards up." Logan said. Jean and Ororo nods. Jamie and Oliver laugh again. All three adults turn their attention to their laughing toddlers. They smile.
"They are too cute." Jean said.
"They know we're superheroes." Ororo said to her. Jean smiled at that.
Scott had gone to see Remy after he called him and told him that Lucy was followed by three men in a car. Scott had Nathan with him. Lucy had told him what happened. Scott nods realizing that they may have a situation on their hands. The Nathan had no idea what was going on but knew enough to be worried for his parents and those he's come to love like family.
"Ok so what happens now?" Remy asked.
"Well we need to keep our guards up. I'm gonna arrange a meeting with the professor tomorrow and we all need to be there." Scott told him. Remy nods.
"Scott you and the others shouldn't make a fuss over me. It was probably nothing." Lucy said not wanting to make a big deal out of this.
"I understand that Lucy but we know from experience that whenever someone we know is a target then we prepare to defend ourselves. We have to make sure that if this is nothing then it should be exactly that but from past experiences tells me something else." Scott said to her. Lucy sighed heavily. Remy rubbed her shoulders.
"Don't worry Chere. Gambit gon protect his lady." Remy said to her. She smiled at him.
The same men who followed Lucy earlier had been parked outside of the mansion in the same spot as they were in earlier. They continued to watch the activities around the grounds. They spot Rion talking to Nick and Ray outside of the mansion on the veranda. Alex is with them. They continued to watch the conversation.
After leaving the professor's office, Megan had gotten hungry and headed for the cafeteria. She knew there were leftovers from lunch and decided to finish off the food. She had taken out the leftover pizza from earlier as well as a small jar of pickles, chocolate ice cream and to wash down that snack she put out was vanilla nestle quick drink. Emma had heard the commotion in the cafeteria and went into to see who was in the cafeteria. She saw Megan sitting eating everything. Emma smirked remembering the kind of cravings she got when she was pregnant with Lex who is with Jubilee. Emma was grateful for Jubilee watching baby Lex. Mainly cause he liked hanging with the older kids. She decided to go check in on her other surrogate sister.
"That's quite the spread you got there." Emma said to her smirking.
"I'm hungry." Megan said. "I am eating for three."
"Right you're having twins." Emma said. "What is it about the sperm Rion and Logan have that they produce twins?"
"I don't know." Megan said.
"You gonna share that?" Emma asked teasing her.
"Leave me alone Emma." Megan said with her mouth filled with food.
"I'm sorry I can't hear you with your mouth full." Emma said teasingly.
"Back off." Megan said angrily then taking another bite of the pizza.
"Ok, ok." Emma said smirking. "Pizza, ice cream pickles. Eweell. That's nasty. How the hell are you eating that shit?" Emma asked.
"The same way you had strange cravings when you were pregnant with Lex." Megan said.
"Yeah but there's cravings and there's cravings. I don't know what the hell this is." Emma said to her. Megan chose to ignore her and continue eating. She took a sip of her vanilla nestle quick drink. "Wow." Emma said laughing. Megan stuck up her middle finger. Emma laughed even harder. That did not phase her one bit.
Rion and Alex are at the front door of the mansion. They watch as Ray and Nick pull off heading for the gate entrance to the mansion. They had discussed a training schedule for Rion's title defense match coming up. Alex wanted to be part of the training sessions. Rion was glad his best bud and brother would be helping him out. They'd have to talk to John, Bobby, and Peter about teaching classes. Now that they are sempi's they can teach classes.
"I'm glad I'm going to be helping you prepare to defend your title." Alex said.
"Me to bro. Can wait til we…." Rion pauses looking around frowning. He lets his pupils dilate to scan the mansion and grounds. He looked around to see if there was anything out of the ordinary. Alex thought it was weird when he did that but is now alert. He knew that whenever Rion did that met that he was sensing something.
"What is it Rion?" Alex asked. Rion didn't respond. Rion's eyes went back to normal. He hadn't spotted the men in the car. Mainly because they were gone from the premises. "What?" Alex asked.
"Nothing." Rion said turning back to him. "Can't wait til we train." Rion said smiling. Alex smirked to both turned around one last time before heading back into the mansion. Rion hadn't seen the men in the car and doesn't know that one they're had been followed.
Warren and Kurt had gotten back to the mansion grounds after being at the mall for several hours shopping. Jean had called Warren letting him know what was going on. Scott told them that they'd be meeting in the morning at the professor's study to discuss the situation. Jean had called Ororo letting her know what was going to happen in the morning. Ororo passed the message to Logan. Hank was in Washington on his way back home and it was the professor who informed him on the situation. Scott told Alex about the situation and that they'll be meeting in the professor's office tomorrow morning. He told Emma who told Megan. Logan informed John about the situation and that he has to pass on that message to Bobby, Rogue, Kitty, Peter, Jubilee, Theresa and Evan. He does so. For now everyone was to rest.