ENJOI

Itsumo

5 Days later at the Institute

"Thanks Scott." Elie said while she stepped out of the car and sheilded her eyes from the sun and took a deep breath of air and..."FREEDOM!" She screamed at being able to get out of the stuffy hospital finally. Scott laughed at her expression of triumph and then held Cecilia out to her in her carrier and pulled Ben in his carrier out as well. Elie slung her bag over her shoulder while staring at the Institute, at 11:59 pm she did NOT want to wake anyone, in order to avoid the kids waking up as well she and Scott compromised on taking the side door in the kitchen where she'd be able to walk to her room quietly and he as well avoiding any commotion.

Silently opening the door and watching the children, Elie made her way into the house with Scott behind her with Ben. They made they're way over to Elie's room which had in the last 5 days taken a new look on. A rocking chair sat in the corner where a window was also located, The bed now in the middle of the far right wall, now had a blue crib on the right and a pink crib on the left.

Several bouquets of flowers were on the ground, dresser and any other available surface other than the beds. Cards lay on the dresser and in the corner diagonal of the rocker was a huge mound of gifts. Elie wanted to coo and squeeze someone in a hug but managed to wait until she and Scott had gotten the kids in the cribs, Elie ensured that the curtains were closed and then turned around to fling her arms around Scott's neck while he gave a small cry of alarm.

"Thank you thank you thank you." Elie whispered into his ear while they hugged and she made them rock from side to side.

"You're welcome, now get some sleep." Scott answered.

"Alright, but don't tell anyone I'm here." Elie said with a wink.

"I won't, see ya." Scott answered leaving the room, Elie got dressed into a pair of pajamas and then went to sleep.

Morning: 7:30 am

The presence of someone other than the three current occupants of the room filled Elie's senses while Benjamin's huffing that usually came with his being picked up and woken filled her ears. Her eyes snapped open anger evident in them while she grabbed the arms of the person holding her child, grabbed her boy away, set him int he crib while he huffled, and then kneed the person into the ground face first, her hands twisting their own arms behind their back.

"Ahh...Elie...it's me, Evan!" Spyke's voice managed while Elie blinked a few times, the adrenaline still coursing through her veins, "Elieeee, that hurts!" Evan said while Elie growled.

"What do you think you were doing Evan?" Elie growled into his ear.

"I'm sorry I'm sorry! I just heard the kid crying and I thought I should see if he was okay before you were woken up!" Evan explained. By now their voices had caused Cecilia and Ben to wake up fully and Elie muttered select curses while she let go of Evan and stood up.

"Next time, save yourself a broken back and let them wake me up." Elie said stretching.

"Will do ma'am..." Evan trailed off while Elie looked at him.

"Hey, you wanna help me with 'em now though?" Elie asked smiling while Evan's head snapped up happily and he nodded his head vigorously.

"A'ight, pick up Ben and bring him over to the changing table." Elie said while she picked Cecilia up and hummed to her gently instructing Evan on what to do with Ben and then trading the kids when Evan had put Ben's diaper on correctly. A bright flash burned against the peripheral vision of Elie's eyes and she glanced at the doorway while Ben chirped loudly and happily causing Jubilee to giggle.

"They're so cyyyyuuuuteeee." Jubilee said tickling Ben's cheek and then giving Elie a kiss on the cheek before tickling Cecilia's cheek as well.

"I don't get a kiss?" Evan whimpered teasingly.

"Nope." Jubilee answered harshly.

"Ouch, Crispy." Elie said while Evan glared at her, "Just 'cause I'm a mom doesn't mean I don't know when a good burn happ-" A loud crash outside the room made Elie's traing reflexives fly into action, forcing Ben into Jubilee's arms Elie chanted her mantra of the Elements and she created an Elemental forcefield around the small group.Evan picked the freshly changed and crying Cecilia up while he and Jubilee tried to calm the kids and Elie kept glass and other material from hitting them.

"Elie!" Scott shouted as the blast died down, the door burst open and Scott came in followed by Jean and Logan. Elie's wings dispersed while the kids were calmed by the small orbs of disappearing light from their mother's slightly larger form. She came over and took both from the teenagers.

"Elie, are you alright?" Logan asked while Jean and Scott worried over Jubilee and Evan.

"I'm fine Logan, the kids were spooked a nice bit though." Elie answered.

"Professor, what was that?" Rogue cried from upstairs before popping around the corner, "You got the majority of the blow, you ok in here?" Rogue asked, her southern accent thick on her tongue.

"We're fine." Jean surmised and Rogue nodded before heading off.

"Well all of ya can get outta here, I need to get this place fixed up and I need to feed the kiddos." Elie said.

"I'll clean up, you take care of the little'ns." Logan answered while he began to throw chunks of wood that had fallen in, out onto the yard, the others left for dinner and Elie put Ben in his crib before sitting in the rocker in the corner, that had been blocked away from harm by the corner, and put a blanket over her and Cecilia while she fed the baby girl.

"Thanks Lo'." Elie said. Logan huffed and continued to clean away the wood, by the time Cecilia had finished and Elie was taking care of Ben, Logan was cleaning up the glass with a broom and pan.

"Me an' Evan will get this sealed off. He's been helpin around the house a lot more lately." Logan explained.

"He's a good kid." Elie agreed.

"So are you. Now when you finish with Ben, C'mon out and eat, I'll take Cecilia out to meet everyone." Logan said while picking Cecilia up.

"Not before dressing her you don't." Elie answered. Logan undressed the baby girl and blew a raspberry at her, causing Elie to laugh as well when Cecilia began to gurgle happily. Dressed in a pink onesie with booties and a hat, Logan took her out to the living room while Elie got Ben dressed before he began to cry.

"Okay, okay, there there baby." Elie cooed while she put a towel on her shoulder and lay Ben across it, patting gently while they walked over to Logan and the others. When they reached the living room, Ben's burp had surfaced and he let it out. Elie looked at her son as if he had five heads.

"Did ya blow somethin up in there?" Rogue asked behind Elie over her shoulder cooing at Ben, "Damn ya lucky El'." Rogue said.

"Do you have your gloves on?" Elie asked.

"O' course! Why?" Rogue asked this time before Elie held Ben out to her.

"Wanna clean his face up?" Elie asked while Rogue's eyes lit up, to a regular person, this would have been an annoying chore, to Rogue, Elie was giving her permission to touch her children if she was careful.

"Thank you Elie." Rogue managed in a whisper, taking Ben.

"No problem. Where's Cecilia?" Elie asked while looking around before spotting Jubilee in front of Remy giving a small light show and cracking up, "Hey now, you bein' careful?" Elie asked like the worried mother she was.

"Yea, we are Momma Elie." Remy teased before getting flathanded in the back of the head.

"Deserved." Jean, Jubilee, Kitty, and Rogue said in monotones.

"Yeah...Deserved." Remy agreed sheepishly.

"Kay Elie! We patched her up!" Evan shouted from Elie and the kid's room.

"Thanks guys." Elie said while she smiled at them. Xavier came down and they made arrangements for Elie and the kids, the twins would get a room to themselves, next to Elie as soon as they had cleared the room out and got the kids possessions in. Xavier pulled out a package and Elie gave him a questioning look while he held it out to her.

"The entire house decided we neededto give you something, and since Kurt can't be here, we thought he would agree to this." Xavier said smiling. Elie accepted it, her ring glittering in the light as she held it to her and looked at Xavier.

"Well C'mon Momma! Open it up!" Remy yelled while Elie gave him a glare and Rogue began to tug her glove off, "AH!" He cried before diving behind Jubilee who cried out in alarm.

"Open it up El'." Kitty said hyperly while Elie gave her a smile trying to blink back her tears while she set the box on the arm of the chair next to her and picked the top off, pushing off the tissue while Rahne (holding Ben) and Kitty (holding Cecilia) stood next to her watching and grinning while Elie gasped and began to let her tears fall. A picture of Kurt standing and smiling at the camera was in the frame and Elie's head drooped while the tears she was crying spilled onto the picture.

"Elie?" Evan questioned while resting his hand on her back lightly. Elie turned around and wrapped him into a hug so fast he hardly had time to blink.

"Thank you! Thank you so much! Thank you everybody!" Elie cried before burying her head into Evan's shoulder to cry and Evan smiled at her while hugging her back.

"There are some more." Xavier said calmly while smiling as Elie took a steadying breath and wiped her eyes to look into the box, She pulled out a picture she remembered from their first date that they had gotten blown up. It was one of those FotoFun pictures, the first one being one where they were smiling sweetly, the second they were giving eachother bunny ears and laughing, the third, Kurt was kissing the cheek of Elie who was winking and blushing and the fourth picture was of Elie and Kurt kissing on the lips after he had cunningly turned his face to her, her eyes were wide in surprise as she kissed is lips while he looked purely smug. Elie remembered that afterwards she hadn't talked to him for a half an hour.

The next frame held a picture of Elie and Kurt at a fair that had had a dress-up booth, where you dressed up into costumes and got a picture taken that way, Elie had dressed like a bride and Kurt like a groom in his holowatch. Elie's tear welled up into her eyes even more, this had been the closest she had gotten to wearing her own wedding gown. Kitty chewed on her lip, watching Elie's expression while Elie picked up the next one and began to cry even more, her body was wracked with her sobs and she had to kneel before she fell.

Logan was the one to come over, he picked her up while the sobs and cries continuously flowed out. Logan took her into the private of her own room where he sat with her on the bed and held her into his chest, the kids could hear her screaming as if someone really was tearing her heart physically in two. Rahne and Kitty began to talk to the babies who had started to cry as their mother was carried to her room, bridal style and sobbing. Johnny went to see that Elie was alright and let Logan leave while he took his spot. Logan came out and packed up the photos.

"Would you please tell Elie we're sorry? We didn't mean to upset her." Tabitha said, her eyes sincere with her brows knitted in worry. An expression, too unnatural on her face to ever have a full 'real' effect.

"Course kiddo. She knows though." Logan answered before taking the box into Elie's room. Her sobs were still heard in the hall and Xavier told the kids that they had another day off.

Midnight

Elie had managed to cry herself into sleep around 6 pm. Johnny had been on the bed next to her, having just finished dinner with everyone. She had cried a while more and Johnny had listened to all of her blathering before she fell asleep and managed weakly, a soft.."Thanks Johnny...". She woke up at midnight to a PJ clad Johnny and noticed she was still in jeans and a t-shirt, she got up and changed quietly into Pajama bottoms and a tank top, pulling a sweater duster on and walking out into the halls with her slippers on.

'Elie, please come to my office.' Xavier's thoughts echoed through Elie's head while she turned towards Xavier's office and began to sluggishly walk towards it.

"Good morning Elie." Charles said when Elies closed the door after stepping in.

"Morning, Charles."

"Elie, how do you feel about this war?"

"I hate it, duh. I haven't kept that under wraps."

"Do you hate it enough that you would end it before it began if you could?"

"Of course."

"Good. I have a proposition for you." Charles said, motioning to a chair. Elie gave hima quizzical look but pulled the chair away and sat down, crossing her left leg over her right.

"I'm listening."

9:00 am

"WAHHH!!" Ben's voice cried out

"GAH!!" A more developed male voice screamed.

"Jesus Johnny!" Elie scolded.

"What'd I do?!"

"Scared the crap outta me!"

"I scared the crap outta YOU!"

"YES!"

"AAAGGH!!" Johnny cried coming out with his hands in the air. His patience was worn thin and hestalked to his room to change.

"Hush little baby don't say a word, momma's gonna buy you a mocking bird and if that mocking bird don't sing," Elie's voice carried through the open door as Ben's crying quieted some, "Mommas gonna buy you a diamond ri-." The door closed shut, silencing Elie's singing into an inidentifiable muffle.

"Hey, Elie you dressed?" Remy asked knocking softly on the door.

"Shh-shh-shh." Elie's voice carried through the door. Soft carpet padded footsteps came closer to the door, "No but you can come in." She answered in her PJs, "While I DO dress however, wanna take care of the babes?" She asked while she fished into her closet to find a tank top, loose jeans and a sweater. Pulling out a changing screen she vanished behind it after grabbing underwear and a bra and Remy began to cradle Cecilia, "So what'd you wanna talk about?" Elie asked slightly puzzled.

"I was just wondering if you were planning anything today?" Remy asked. Elie poked her head around the side.

"Should I be?" She questioned in return.

"Well, I dunno. Rogue just told me to ask you and tell her what you said." Remy answered. Elie scrunched her nose up.

"Nothin final. I was thinkin about taking the kiddos out though." Elie answered, vanishing behind the screen to pull on her bra, tanktop, underwear and jeans. She walked out from behind the screen and scooped up Cecilia from Remy's arms while he dipped down to pick up Ben. She smiled at the kids and blew raspberries at them, Remy laughed with the babies and they made their way into the hall, Elie slipping out of her slippers and into flip flops before hand. In the warm July morning, she was ready to deal with just about anything.

"Hey El, plans?" Rogue asked.

"None to report ma'am!" Remy replied teasingly until Rogue scrunched her nose up at him.

"Nope, no plans Rogue." Elie answered.

"Why not the zoo then?! I bet the kids would love it!"

"Sure. Why not. Maybe we should leave Rahne behind though. You know what happened when she saw the birds last time."

"Yeahhh...that didn't go as planned did it...?" Rogue asked laughing nervously.

"No, not really." Elie answered.

"Elie! Elie!" Jamie cried running towards her before Elie quickly but gently passed Cecilia to Rogue's covered hands and arms and then was slammed into by the rocketing younger mutant.

"Ai-ei!" Elie cried out when her butt landed in the couch, her legs attached to the leech..er..kid...

"Elie! Elie! Guess what!"

"Nani Jamie? Oops..I mean, What Jamie?" Elie asked, the translator having malfunctioned for a moment.

"Professor Xavier said if you're going out you gotta take me, Rahne, Evan, and Jubilee with ya! Plus Logan, Rogue, Remy, Johnny, and Bobby!" Jamie said his eyes as wide as saucers in his excitement. Elie sighed.

"Alright, Alright. I guess we'll have to forfeit the idea of going to the zoo without Rahne then." Elie said chuckling while Jamie unlatched himself and danced around. Scott and Jean were out with Ororo and Hank at the moment on a mission leaving everyone almost completely bored to tears.

"JOHNNY!!! COME ON! WE'RE GOING TO THE ZOO!" Rogue shouted up the stairs, "Jamie, go on and get Rahne, Evan and Jubilee up, oh and Bobby."

"Yes ma'am!" Jamie replied happily before dashing off. Elie laughed when Rogue ordered Remy to wake up Logan.

"What!? No!"

"Remy..."

"Fine."

"Thank ya!" Rogue said happily taking Ben from Remy.

"AIEEE!! JAMIE! OUT! NOW!! GIT OUTTA HERE!" Rahne screamed while Jamie dashed out of a room as a stiletto followed through the door and stuck true to the wall.

"YOU LITTLE CREEP!" Jubilee screamed before the door was slammed shut.

"...What the hell did you just do Jamie?" Rogue asked while Elie carefully walked up the steps to check on the girls.

"I woke them up."

"How?"

"I put their alarm clocks next to their ears."

"Oh."

"Did you know that they sleep commando?" Rogue hit her palm against her forehead.

"GANG WAY!" Remy cried running for his life and dodging Elie and Cecilia. Logan came tearing through the hall as Jubilee pulled her to safety into the room. Logan's claws were unsheated while he simply wore boxers.

"Who wants cajan for dinner!?" Logan screamed.

"LOGAN! Go change! We're goin to the zoo!" Elie said. Logan paused.

"We are?"

"Yeah, oh and nice hearts." Elie said, one eyebrow cocked and a mocking grin on her face.

"Shuddup!" Logan returned now a light red as he walked back to his room. Elie chuckled while walking by Bobby's door and kicking it a couple times as if knocking.

"Up and at 'em Snowflake." Elie said a groan of annoyance came through the door before the nickname registered and Bobby yelled at Elie who simply laughed while walking away, "Jamie! Go wake Evan up please!"

"Hes not in his room!" Jamie answered.

"Hmm, try out back and if he's not there take Rogue and go to the lab."

"No need!" A voice cried out, Remy stole Cecilia and Evan slammed into Elie's back sending them down the rest of the stairs and in a pile of limbs and blood.

"Evan..."

"Oops..."

"I'm gonna kill you. Hows that sound?"

"Painful."

"Good." Elie growled as Evan tried to untangle himself, Elie's legs trapped his own and after a few minutes of Elie beating Evan with a fist over the head they headed out to the zoo. They took Cecilia and Ben around to see the tigers, wolves, and lemurs and to the penguins, bats, and lions. They loved them all and they wheeled the kids out to a restaurant for lunch.

As they walked on the sidewalk they noticed a large group seemingly crying infront of a TV store. The colors Red, White, and Blue were flashing across the scene from the glimpses the group could catch.

"Be right back." Johnny said as he walked over to see the commotion. When he came back out he was tearing up and he came over, "Come on, it's nothing."

"Why are you crying?" Rogue asked.

"I'm not crying, I have dust in my eyes." Johnny answered. Johnny looked around for Elie after registering hers and Logans disappearance, "Elie! No! Don't look!" Johnny shouted noticing her step into the crowd. A sharp scream came from the crowd and Johnny made his way in. Scrawled across the screen read: Captain America Announced Dead with a picture of Captain America on a stretcher in an ambulance, dead.

Elie was crumpled into Logan's arms and sobbing while Logan silently cried, hiding his own face into Elie's hair. People all around them were crying and holding eachother. Johnny dropped to his knees next to Elie and Logan and wrapped both in a hug, and despite his lack of interest in hugs, Logan didn't refuse this one. Elie sobbed somemore before they managed to get her onto her feet. They walked with her out of the crowd befor eher knees buckled and she leaned against a trash can to wretch into it.

"Elie!" Rogue and Remy cried, Evan and Rayne were already over seeing if Elie needed help. Johnny and Logan backed off and told them to take Elie to the car.

"What happened?" Remy asked as he and Rogue crossed the street and stood infront of Logan and Johnny, they waited until Evan and Rayne were out of earshot before answering.

"Captain America was killed." Logan managed to answer.

"...You're joking..." Rogue said.

"I wouldn't joke about this Rogue!" Logan snapped. Remy sighed

"Come on, lets get home then." Remy stated, taking the stroller and pushing it towards the car.

"You okay Johnny?" Rogue asked.

"No." Johnny answered before walking ahead of them and got to the car before them.

Xavier's House

Sobs echoed through the house but Elie managed to walk to Xavier's office.

"I want to do it now." Elie stated, ignoring Ororo in the office trying to calm an upset McCoy.

"You don't wish to wait?"

"No."

"Very well. Are all of your things in order?"

"Yes."

"Take care Elie."

"Thank you. You as well Charles."

"Step on this platform."

"What's going on?!" Ororo interrupted. Hank looked at the platform.

"Charles! That's a time and Space Interdimensional transporter! What in the world is Elie going to be doing using it!?" Hank cried.

"Finishing this war before it can start." Charles replied, "Elie, I'm sorry that we could not identify another way. you'll have to keep you identity under wraps while you tend to this situation as your other self will be there as well and finish your life on that stream naturally." Elie nodded.

"I just don't want someone else to suffer as we have in this stream." Elie said while she stepped onto the platform. "There's a bag labeled Send To, they're the HoloNotes you had me create, send them to the recipients. Ben and Cecilia have already been taken care of. Ben is at Wayne's house and Cecilia is at the Fantastic Four's tower. Thank you for everything Charles." Elie said while bending over and planting a kiss on his bald head. "Bye Hank, bye Ororo." Elie said while the platform began to light up, her loose hair flicked about as the door burst open. Her eyes closed as the hair whipped around her and her clothes began to flutter around her. Her shirt lifted up to her breasts that remained concealed.

"ELIE! What's going on!?" Johnny's voice snapped into her concious as orbs of light began to flow around her, "ELIE! I can't find Ben or Cecilia! Where are they!" Johnny shouted, "COME OUT OF THERE AND TALK!"

"They're with family Johnny...with familly..." Elie answered as her form began to shift into a paled formation.

"Elie? What's happening to you!?" Johnny shouted as he lunged for Elie, Hank grabbed him and held him back.

"You will be severly harmed it you touch the area around her at this time." Hank stated as Elie's form became Transparent.

"ELIE!" Elie's eyes opened to see the scene before her.

"I'm sorry..." She added as her form completely disappeared, the orbs died out and the wind of the platform ceased.

"What just...what..what happened...? XAVIER WHAT HAPPENED!?" Johnny shouted.

"Elie is saving the world..." Xavier answered hiding the tears choked from his voice

Stamford, Connecticut- New Warriors

"Guys, take it easy." Ella said while walking between the two arguing teens, Speedball and Night Thrasher.

"What are you our mother!?" Speedball threw out while Ella's mscles completely tensed.

"Not yours. But I am A mother and I know how to dish out punishment. Wanna test me now?" Ella answered growling out the answer, her eyes slitted behind her white mask as Speedball shrunk down a bit.

"No ma'am." He managed.

"That's what I thought. Now stop arguing and work together before your arguing leads to mistakes and mistakes lead to loss of lives. Am I clear?" Ella growled out again. Everyone nodded, "Good." Ella walked past the boys and out into the open air to take in the fresh air.

"You are a mother?" Namorita asked after following Ella.

"Yeah, on another streamline."

"As in, another dimension?"

"Something like that, yeah."

"Who was the father?"

"Do you know Kurt Wagner?"

"Nightcrawler? He was the father?"

"Yes, but in my streamline he was killed protecting someone dear to both of us." Ella answered.

"Ella, is that really your name?"

"Yes and no, I was usually called Elie but both come from my true name, it translates into Elie or Ella in English."

"Girls come on!" Microbe shouted.

"Coming!" Namorita said as they waited in the brush. Ella watched it all until Namorita sent Nitro into the bus, Ella's elemental features became enhanced as she ran to the bus, pulled Nitro out and flew up into the sky with him, his explosion beginning.

"NO!" Nitro shouted as Ella formed a shield around them grinning, "LET GO!" Nitro shouted.

"Not a chance." Ella responded as the explosion occured in the small force shield. Nitro was destroyed but Ella somehow managed to continue living a few more minutes. As she fell she fell towards a tree and one of the branches that stuck out passed through her back, lungs, and ribs and protruded from her body as she coughed and choked on her own blood.

Kurt's ghost stood on the branch next to her watching her die sadly, wanting to let her die without her pain. Her mask was gone, her face burned to reveal her muscles and her entire body convulsing, he gave her credit as she only cried. Namorita floated up.

"ELLA! ELLA! ELLA YOU MUST LIVE FOR YOUR CHILDREN!"

Children...that was a new one...he had only been sent down to gather her up, he wasn't allowed to watch over her...who's children were they then?

"Ella?" Elie's head had tapped to the branch, her heart now stopped, "ELLAAAAAAAAA!!!!"

Kurt watched as Elie's soul appeared from the body of 'Ella'. She looked to have aged a year or so since Kurt had seen her. She stared at her body and then looked around for him. Kurt's own spirit grabbed her in a hug and kissed Elie's spirit while Elie's arms wrapped around his neck and she kissed him back.

'Where do we go Kurt?' Elie asked as Kurt smiled.

'We're taking the final road to heaven.' Kurt replied while Elie laughed, 'Oh and NAmorita said something about children...whos are they?'

'Yours Kurt. I named them Cecilia and Benjamin. I hope you don't mind...' Elie replied.

'You need to fill me in up in heaven...' Kurt muttered as they walked onto the clouds.

'Will do Kurt, will do...' Elie answered as she intertwined her fingers with his.

Stay Tuned for the Epilogue

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