AN: I made a small mistake with Kurt's mother's name in the last chapter. I forgot that Margali is Amanda's mother's name. So I changed Kurt's mother's name to Jimaine

X-Men Christmas

CHAPTER 4: FAMILIES

It was later that day and the Wagners were getting ready to go over to the Sefton's home. Amanda's parents had invited Kurt and his family to come with them for dinner that night given that Amanda would spend Christmas with her family and would stay over there for a couple of days.

The Wagners were eager to meet her parents and they also thought to invite Rogue along, after all, this was a time for family and they considered her a part of an extended family. And with her along they couldn't leave her boyfriend out either as they also wanted to meet a bit more of the young man. Ororo at this time was getting ready to go to her sister's with Clarice.

The two of them would travel via her portals given that she could take them that far. Lately Blink was getting the hang of her powers and they had recently found out just how long a range she had a couple of months ago thanks to a few tests by Forge and Beast.

And of course Sarah was having a nice time with her mother as they started to talk with Logan in the room too. He didn't say much he just wanted to make sure that nothing happened, mainly Sarah loosing her temper. He knew that she wanted to get to know more of her mother but there were a lot of issues they had to deal with. Thankfully they had stayed clear of anything Hydra related.

Ray was not over at Pam's for dinner as well as he was starting to make his girlfriend's mother more comfortable with him and mutants.

The Seftons were in their new home, after the destruction of their old one they had tried to make their new one feel like a home. Margali Sefton and her husband Steve Sefton were busy working on placing dishes on the dinner table. Margali was smiling, happy that their daughter would be home.

It was hard at times knowing that their only child was not living there, but it was for the best. After that FOH attack on their old home they knew that they couldn't protect her, and even though her life wasn't exactly safe now, at least their daughter had friends to help her out and was learning on how to be able to defend herself.

Steve looked over at the clock on the wall, "Well they should be arriving pretty soon."

She looked up and nodded they would and then there was a buff of smoke as well as a few flashes of light from the living room. There standing there were their guests and Margali had to shake her head at the entrance. Ever since their daughter had learned how to teleport that was how she liked to drop in on them.

It had given them a few surprises when she had just shown up out of nowhere but they were getting used to it. Amanda smiled and ran to her parents giving them hugs as they hugged her back. She was dressed up nicely in an orange dress, with Kurt in nice clothing and in his real appearance. The Wagners were in decent clothing too since this was a bit of a formal dinner.

Rogue had put on the best she had, mainly a long skirt and matching black top. She had put aside the rings normally she wore after all she wanted to make a nice impression and yet keep her style as well. Vince wore nice pants with a sweater on top, both had only met the Seftons a few times and this would be the most time they would have spent with them actually.

"It is so nice to meet you," Stephan Wagner said stepping forward, "You have a very vonderful daughter."

"Thanks and welcome to our home as well," Steven said giving the other man a handshake. He looked at the pair they were a bit older then he and his wife but they seemed like nice people. He knew that Kurt's adopted parents were human but given Kurt some part of him kind of expected for them to be a bit more…Different in some way.

"Well now dinner should be ready soon," Margali Sefton said to them all.

"Ah vell if you need any help please let me."

"Oh you don't have to."

"Oh please ever since Kurti left I've had to learn how to cook normal size meals again. Trust me after cooking meals for my son all his life I'm used to a lot of kitchen work," Kurt groaned at the use of that name again. He really didn't like it when his mother called him that in front of others. Amanda tried not to laugh holding a hand over her mouth, and Margali was even amused at that.

The teens sat together in the living room talking while Steven and Stephan were talking to eat other and the wives were doing the same while getting things ready. At the dinner table they all gathered around. It was really nice time with the two families, Kurt and Amanda sat next to each other of course.

Rogue was having a nice time as well and Vince even though he missed his old home and friends, this was still nice. Both had never had a Christmas like this before and so it was a nice change for them. The Wagners were getting to know all about the Seftons and Amanda's parents were getting a bit more of an understanding about Kurt in a way too.

"I take it Kurt had to be a handful?" Margali asked Kurt's mother.

"Oh yes, zhank God that he didn't have zhat teleportation of this. He had the energy of ten children. And let me tall you somezhign vhen he got sugar into his system he was all over zhe place," She told her laughing making Kurt palm his face.

"Oh trust me children can be like that, I swear when Amanda was younger she often go out with no shirt on at times."

"Mother!"

"Oh please you were only three at the time honey, and let's not forget your princess phase too," Her mother teased and Amanda blushed deeply. That was something that she didn't want her mother to go into detail about that. She remembered those pictures about her dressing up as a princess a lot of the time.

"Oh man ah think ah'm really glad to have come to see this," Rogue whispered to Vincent grinning like a mad woman. He nodded his head looking at the two embarrassed teens across from them. The dinner went on and both Amanda and Kurt were thankful when their parents got off the topic of them for once.

After dinner the parents decided on talking to eat other in the living room, Vince went to walk Rogue home for that night after saying goodbye and thanking everyone. Kurt and Amanda went to her room to be alone. Kurt sighed and collapsed onto her bed, "Oh man I'm glad zhey stopped vith the stories."

"So am I, you don't think Rogue and Vince will tell anyone will you?" She asked hopefully and when she saw the look she got from him she groaned knowing the answer. "Great."

She sat down onto the bed with him as they just lay there content with each other. Kurt was smiling now as he got up on one elbow and looked at Amanda, she looked just so beautiful, her hair all done up and in that dress too. She looked up at him and smiled, "What?"

"I zhink zhis is zhe best Christmas ever, I have mien family here, mien sister and I got the best present of all."

Amanda thought back to the gifts they gave each other, she had given him a DVD he wanted of one of his favourite movies and he had given her a beautiful charm bracelet. So she wasn't sure what he was referring to. "What gift do you mean?"

He leaned in close to her, "You liebe," He leaned down and gently kissed her lips as she wrapped her arms around his neck pulling him closer into the kiss. For a moment they stayed like that until they had to pull away from each other both slightly out of breath but smiling lovingly at each other.

"Merry Christmas Kurt."

"Merry Christmas Amanda."

-New York-

Ororo stepped out of the blackness it only lasted less then a second and yet it was still an odd way to travel. You'd expect some disorientation or something but there was nothing, you just appeared somewhere else with only a split second of darkness when you teleported with Blink. The two of them were outside of Vivian's and her husband Carl's home.

They had all the lights and decorations up as the two of them walked up, Clarice was looking forward to this. Storm rang the doorbell and Vivian opened up, the two sisters smiled and hugged each other. After that she stepped back and she looked at her sister, trying to see how far along her sister was.

By the looks of the large sweater she must just be starting to show at least a little. "How are you Vi?"

"Better, morning sickness is gone and let me tell you I had forgotten how that was a pain with Evan." She told her and Ororo had to ask if Evan had shown up lately. Vivian sadly told her no, she had heard from him a few times but that was it he was keeping low as he had said to her.

"Well come on I don't want to keep family waiting out in the cold," Vi moved aside as they entered into the home. "So how are you Clarice?"

"I'm doing well thanks Aunt Vi," It had taken Blink a couple of months to get used to calling her that but Vivian had insisted on it. Plus it was really nice to have family again, back with her original one she had rarely seen most of her extended family. She wasn't sure why although her grandparents apparently had died when she was really young. Clarice did have at least one uncle that she remembered who visited a few times.

He had seemed nice and she often wondered what became of him. But that was her past and she wanted to forget it, to bury it. She had a new life now, the girl that she had been was gone. No one from her old life would recognize her now, and not just because she have lavender skin, white eyes and pink hair. She had grown as a person over this time a lot in thanks to Ororo, her adopted mother.

"So then…How is that nice boy Ryan?" Vivian asked.

Blink was surprised she even knew about that boy that she kind of liked. Well okay more then just kind of, but she didn't know how to go about it hell he didn't even know what she really looked like. The only person she talked to about Ryan was mainly Amanda, the other girls knew and of course…

"Mom!" Blink turned quickly to Ororo who was the only person that could have told Vivian about this.

"Vivian just wanted to know how things were going it's not a secret," Ororo defended herself seeing Blink's blushing face. "Besides she wanted to know how you were doing."

Clarice groaned lightly and Vivian put a hand on her shoulder, "Now don't be like that, it's natural to like a boy and you're a great girl."

"Can we please not talk about it?" The teen begged hoping to get off and thankfully Carl had heard what was going on and came to her rescue when he said hello to Ororo and started up a conversation. Clarice made an excuse about putting away their coats and quickly slipped out of there before things got even more embarrassing.

Later the entire family was together filling each other in one what was happening. Vi and Ororo were talking of course about the baby and how they were dealing with that. Carl was already turning the guest room into a nursery for the child as well. It wasn't until a few hours later that the doorbell rang.

Blink decided on turning on her holowatch just in case but Carl went to the door hoping the same thing as the rest of the family. When he opened up the door he saw two figured in large coats and hats covering them up. There was a small moment of silence when one spoke up, "Uh…Hey dad."

"Evan?" He asked and the other pulled off the hat and he could see it was his son. They had seen Evan for a bit although it was still a bit hard to see what happened to his son. But still he was glad to see him.

"Son it's so glad you could stop by, we weren't sure if you were coming or not. You were worrying your mother and me a lot." He didn't want to lecture him but it just kind of came out.

"I know I know dad but you know how things are. It's not like I can just walk home any time I want to these days." Evan shot back.

Thankfully before it could get out of hand the other one spoke up, "Hey I don't want to freeze my ass off out here so could we go in or not?" The female said to the both of them. Carl and Evan both moved aside as she walked in. She took off her own hat to show a purple skinned teen about Evan's age, with short cropped pink hair and some bones growing out of her skin.

"Evan?" Carl asked his son.

"This is Marrow dad, she's my girlfriend I hope you don't mind. I invited her along."

"Yeah after I had to talk his ear off about it, I can't believe you never told them about me. We've been dating for months and now you just tell them this?" Marrow sometimes wondered what she saw in Evan but then again he did have his good points. It was just that he could be very infuriating at times.

"Hey it's not like I had the time to sit down and have a nice long talk you know. We've been very busy down there getting things set up and ready, training and all the other stuff." Evan defended himself.

"Well anyway I'm glad you're here and your friend is welcomed in our home son," Evan's father told his son. In a way he was glad that his son seemed to have found a girl and this one seemed to be able to kick some sense into him a little too. Maybe she could get him to think a bit more, lord knew he had tried but his son could be very stubborn at times.

Vivian and Ororo went to their feet when they saw who had come as both women went over to Ororo. Blink was relieved and turned off her watch to look normal again. She watched at the two women talked with Evan about how things were and of course glad that he had come.

Marrow looked around, she had lived all her life in the sewers at least as far as she remembered and this place was a palace in comparison. She just couldn't believe that Evan had given all this up but after thinking about it she knew he made the right choice. Despite his parents not many others from up here would accept people like them.

She noticed Blink one of the X-Men and even though the relationship between the Morlocks and Xavier's people were strained since they didn't see eye to eye on a lot of things, she figured that the other girl wouldn't be a problem. She seemed kind of the quiet type anyway and after all given her looks she could have ended up as a Morlock.

So she just gave the other girl a nod as she went to sit down. Evan was getting swamped with all sorts of questions from his mother and he had to admit it was nice to even have that from her. He missed his parents but given how his life was at the moment it was best to keep out of sight.

Ororo was a little reserved about it given that the Morlocks and X-Men weren't on speaking terms but after a small uncomfortable moment between aunt and nephew they started to talk again. Ororo kept it away from certain topics knowing how Evan could get and she didn't want to start a fight. Evan did the same he didn't want to ruin this day.

After that Evan introduced Marrow to his family, he could tell she was a bit uncomfortable about it, they were the only humans that had actually bothered to just talk to her. Most times her encounters with humans wasn't exactly 'civil' to say the least.

By the end of the meal everyone was stuffed to some degree, it had been a long time since Evan had eaten that well and as for Marrow she hadn't eaten that good ever. It was also why she was the only one at the table frowning. "What's wrong?" Evan asked her.

"Aren't you feeling the least bit guilty?" She asked him leaning back and crossing her arms. "We're eating like this while I bet the others are barely getting by."

Evan sighed and now that she mentioned it, it wasn't exactly fair. They shouldn't be enjoying all of this. "Yeah you're right."

"Evan you know that Xavier still wants to help in any way." Ororo told him, "Despite everything he's still willing to help your people. Medicine, food, clothing anything that you may need we're still happy to help out."

"Yeah like we're a charity case for him, some tax write off." Marrow grumbled out, Morlocks didn't beg they had their pride and they didn't do handouts. They only had themselves to relay on and so they only trusted themselves.

"That's not true and you should know that young lady," Ororo's voice turned icy cold and the two females. Everyone could feel the room get a bit colder at the moment, Blink bit her lower lip trying to think.

"Um…why not just take the leftovers from this? I mean it's Evan's family so it's not a handout and well…it has nothing to do with Xavier?" She offered and Marrow and Evan looked at each other. They both knew that Callisto didn't want to depend on anyone and not Xavier especially.

"Hey we got plenty son and if you people need it then you're welcome to it all," His father told him and Vivian agreed to it as well. Besides she wanted to help out Evan in any way she was his mother still no matter what.

"I say we do it I mean it would help out and would make the day of a few people as well." Evan told Marrow and she had to admit it would help out.

"Well that's all well and good but how are we going to get all of this down there?"

Blink raised a hand as all eyes turned to her, "Um…I could just teleport you all there, it wouldn't be that hard and I know where the place is too. That is…If you don't mind?"

The two Morlocks exchanged looks and Evan shrugged it was a good idea. So they went with it, they helped to pack up the food and Evan's parents hugged their son and said their goodbyes. Ororo and him did the same and Evan walked over to Blink, "You know I want to thank you for the help."

"It's okay I mean…What's family for?"

"Yeah, thanks…cousin…man it's weird calling you that," He admitted. She nodded her head it was strange at first but after all it took her time to call Ororo, mother and later the same with Vivian and Carl too. They all gathered together as they said their final goodbyes, even his parents gave one to Marrow.

"Well it was nice meeting you Marrow," Vivian had to admit that Evan had strange tastes in women but then again it was hard to get to know this girl. "Although could you do me a favour? Try to keep him out of trouble?"

"I could try but that depends on how long you want him unconscious," She said with a straight face and saw the shocked reactions but then she got a small grin on her face to show that she was joking. Well she was half joking but then again that was part of the fun of the relationship she had with Evan.

By then Blink concentrated and then a black disk appeared to swallow them up as she sent them to a large area she remembered when she went there. When Evan and Marrow arrived everyone was surprised by their arrival. Although when they saw the food they had it was quickly forgotten, they quickly passed out the food to everyone there. It wasn't much but it sure helped things out.

Callisto came when she heard about this and when she heard the story she didn't say a word she just let them go on and watched as her people had the best meals they most likely had in a long time. Even the Morlocks had started a little decorations for this time, it wasn't much.

But Callisto felt it would help lift their spirits and this little gift was just what they needed the most. She smiled seeing how some of the faces lit up as they started eating and talking to each other. She knew it wouldn't last but for a small time their lives were a little less glum, and it was moments like this that were truly important.

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