Chapter 10: Dreaming in a Nightmare
Chris watched as Rogue walked through the two giant doors and took in a deep breath and relaxed. "Go get him Rogue." Chris sat down beside Jill and pulled her head onto his shoulder and wrapped his arms around her in a gentle hug and soon he fell asleep.
"Chris, Chris wake up." Chris slowly opened his eyes and found himself lying in a bed with Jill sitting down next to him. "Hey Chris, you really hit your head hard."
Chris blinked a few times and then sat up and rubbed his eyes and looked at Jill on confusion. "What's going on?" Chris asked rubbing the back of his neck.
"You and Leon had quite the game going when the ball hit you in the head and hard at that?" Jill said wrapping an arm around Chris.
"What, I guess it was all a dream then and what happened?" Chris asked still confused by the whole thing.
"The football hit you really hard huh?" Jill chuckled and then continued. "Claire, the kids, and I all went out while you and Leon had a guy's day out." Jill said sitting behind Chris and messaging his back.
"Kids, what kids?" Chris asked still confused.
A worried look appeared on Jill's face as she flipped around and faced Chris face to face. "You don't remember your own children?' Jill asked worried.
"What are you, are we" Chris put his face in his hands trying to think as Claire walked in.
"Hey how are you bro?" Claire asked.
Jill stood up and walked over to Claire. "I think he has amnesia Claire." Claire covered her mouth in shock and worry. "He doesn't remember his own kids Claire and so I highly doubt he'll remember yours. I don't even think that he remembers that we're married." Jill and Claire looked back at Chris worriedly.
"He probably doesn't remember my marriage to Leon then. This is bad but what do we do?" Claire asked scared for her brother. "Maybe I should go get Leon, maybe he can help." Claire left with a nod from Jill.
Jill went back to Chris and sat down next to him. "What do you want to know Chris?" Jill did the best that she could to put on a happy smile as she said this.
"I want to know everything about…I don't know. What do I need to know?" Chris said not sure what to ask.
"Then I'll start at the beginning then." Jill said as she sat in front of him. "You and I married six years ago and about two years later we had our first child Megan. She is now four and within those four years she has learned more then any four year old should know. Principles think she is already ready to start kindergarten. However we both agreed that it would be best for her to start at the same age as everyone else. Somehow though, I don't think she'll be there for too long. The schools will probably want to send her to second grade by then." Jill stopped and let Chris take it all in. After a few seconds, she continued. "Two years ago we had Caleb, our second child. He is two now and ready for his father, you, to take him to learn to ride a bike. As for you and I, we plan on having at least three more kids." Jill gently caressed Chris's face and then kissed him lightly. "I need you to remember though."
Chris looked around and nothing seemed to make any sense to him. "How can I remember something that I don't remember happening? I'm so confused." Chris said as Claire walked into the room with Leon right behind her. "That's the other thing, why would I have been with Leon and" Chris was then cut off by Claire.
"Chris, Leon and I have been married for five years now; he is your brother in law Chris. We have one child, Samantha and one on the way." Claire went over to Chris and sat down next to him in which he then noticed the small bump where her stomach is. "Chris you and Leon have become the best of friends." Chris then started to zone out. "Chris, Chris, wake up Chris."
Chris shot up from his sleep to see Jill beside him. Chris felt himself up and down to make sure that he is still alive though he didn't really need to. "How long have I been out for?" Chris asked.
"You've been out for about an hour and a half." Jill said with a small smile on her face.
"The dream I had, was wonderful, I think I'd rather just go back to sleep now." Chris said when Jill grabbed onto his clothes to keep him from falling asleep.
"So what was this dream about Chris?" Jill asked.
Chris blushed slightly and then nodded. "You and I had gotten married and so did Claire and Leon. We had two kids and Claire and Leon had one with one on the way. There really wasn't that much to it though since you woke me up." Chris said. Jill was about to apologize when footsteps could be heard as well as grumbling noises. "I guess this was the best time though." Chris stood up and readied his shotgun.
Meanwhile Rogue had finally made her way to the portal. She is only about four hundred feet away when her head surged with pain. She grabbed onto her head and then fell to her knees. After a few seconds the pain stopped and Rogue managed to be able to stand up again just in time for another horde to rush her for the fifth time since she left an hour and a half ago from the accursed tunnel.
In a simplistic home Destiny had been having some tea when a vision came to her. She dropped her tea in shock of the vision and knew that Rogue would soon be in trouble. "My dear child."
In the mansion, Xavier had cerebro on and it picked up a major wave of mutant energy. Xavier ran over to the training mutants and stopped everything and asked everyone to meet him in the kitchen while the younger mutants trained. "Logan, go get the X-Jet, we need to reach Rogue, her powers are growing and I fear that this is a bad time for such a thing to happen." The group without question ran to the Jet and climbed in and off they went.
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