Author Note: I own nothing except the twins. I just wanted to remind everyone Chris and Cadie are only 8 years old. So please forgive the biology lecture. Somebody reminded me that since the girls are so young they probably wouldn't understand about having two different dads. I'm sorry if it seems repetitive. All reviews are appreciated.
Scott sat and listened to Jean threaten to turn him and Logan into girls. He couldn't believe what he had heard; that she not only cheated on him, but had a child by another man. Chris was his daughter. It still seemed unreal. The girl was precious to him, already. But this was not how it was supposed to be. He and Jean were supposed to be married, both girls would've been his, and Logan would have only been a bad memory. Logan had no right being a part of Jean's life. Certainly not like this.
"I should probably go get the girls, so we can tell them."
"No, Jean, I'll go. Quite frankly I don't feel like being around you or Logan anymore than necessary. You disgust me."
Jean sat down on the bed, in the same spot that Scott had just been, and watched him walk out the door. She had destroyed any chance at fixing things with Scott. He would never forgive her now. Scott could accept almost anything other than her lying to him. She turned to look at Logan, with tears welling up in her eyes. He just turned and looked out the window unable to face Jean. She started to cry, quietly at first, then louder. Logan turned around and grumbled something, then sat down beside Jean and put his arm around her.
"Ssh. It's gonna be okay." He hated that Jean had lied to him for so long, and that she had been afraid to tell him that he possibly had a child. Jean was his world. She may have never been his, but that didn't change how he had felt about her and still did. If she had any clue then she would have trusted him.
"How? How is anything ever going to be okay? I gave up my babies; I lost both of the men I loved. Scott hates me, you hate me, I'm sure the girls will too."
"Relax Jeannie nobody hates you."
"How can you say that? I HATE ME!" Jean felt the rage exploding through her, the fire coursing through her body. She felt unbelievably powerful and sick at the same time. The pictures on the walls clattered, dropping to the floor and shattering the frames. She fought hard to regain her composure as the shaking slowly subsided.
Logan stared at Jean frightened for her. Her powers were growing it seemed uncontrollably. He had never seen Jean that unstable and out of control. Nor had he seen her wield that amount of power without even trying. "Jean, Scott wouldn't have gotten so mad if he didn't still love you. The girls may take some time to adjust but they already like you. I'm sure that won't change. I don't hate you, either."
"You don't?" Jean asked uncertainly. She couldn't believe that he would ever forgive her.
"You pissed me off Jean, bad. You never even considered letting me be a father to my own kid. What am I supposed to feel? But I don't hate you. I'm just disappointed that you think so little of me."
"Logan you don't like kids. Scott always wanted kids. How was I supposed to feel when I got pregnant and didn't know who the dad was?"
"I may not like kids, but I would've loved ours, I already do."
"Half the time you are trying to ditch Cadie."
"That is because the girl is like a leech. She is always there. But she is a good kid. While I'm teaching her to fight, she learns the moves the first time around. She knows how to take my shit. You don't know how to take me. Rogue does to an extent. But she doesn't give it back. Cadie does, she isn't scared of me at all. It's weird how she trusts me. I never had that before."
"I'm glad that you get along. Honestly Logan I never thought that you would be interested in being a father. I'm sorry if I hurt you."
Logan stared at Jean, thinking about how beautiful she was. She leaned toward him slightly and he stood up. Jean sat back up obviously hurt by Logan's reaction. He can tell that he had hurt her and regretted his decision, but regardless he was still mad at her, even if he did have to remind himself of that. About that time he can hear that Scott and the girls have returned.
Jean jumped up and grabbed her compact to try to cover up the fact that she had been crying. The last thing that she wanted was for the girls to see her crying. She used her abilities to move the picture remnants under the bed and hoped that they wouldn't notice. Scott opened the door and was followed in by the twins. He glanced over at Jean; it is obvious to him that she had been crying. He was torn between wanting to console her and wanting to hurt her as much as she has hurt him, if that was even possible. He looked over at Logan, thinking how much he wanted to burn him to a cinder. The bad thing is that it wouldn't work. Logan would just heal and then he would have to deal with an angry Jean, two scared little girls, and an even stinker Wolverine. He looked around, something wasn't right, but he had no clue what it could be.
"Girls we need to talk. Remember how we said that we would try to find your real parents?"
"Yep."
"Yes, mam."
"We found them."
"Where are they?"
"I will get to that in just a moment. But first what do you girls know about where babies come from?" Jean asked hoping that she didn't have to have that talk also.
"We know about sex. Our mom told us a few months before she passed away. One of her friends was pregnant." Chris explained as though it were nothing.
"I think it's disgusting." Cadie scrunched up her face.
"That's right Cadie. Sex is horrible. You should never ever do it." Logan thought to himself that he wouldn't want to have to kill some kid. Though he was certain that was what would happen to any of Cadie's boyfriends. Scott looked at Logan thinking that for once they agreed on something other than Jean. Jean felt sorry for the girls knowing the difficulties that they would have when they reached dating age. One thing Scott and Logan had in common was their protectiveness. Chris just thought to herself that if sex was so horrible there wouldn't be so many people in the world. Of course she would never voice this opinion.
"Do you understand about how twins occur?"
"Nope."
"Not really."
"Okay, identical twins happen when one egg and one sperm join and then end up splitting into two separate babies. Fraternal twins are where two eggs are released and join with two separate sperm. You girls are fraternal twins. Do you follow me so far?"
"Yes, mam."
"Sorta."
"I am your mother. Scott is Chris's father and Logan is Cadie's father," Jean explained hoping that she hadn't rushed it too much.
"I don't understand."
"What's not to understand, Chris? They are our parents."
"But if we have two different fathers then we aren't sisters."
"Of course you're still sisters. Because you have different dads you are half sisters. That doesn't matter, sweetie. You are still twins. Nothing will ever change that."
"But we aren't whole sisters!"
Chris turned and ran out the door, crying. Scott and Jean exchanged a look, while Logan rubbed his ears which hurt due to the volume of Chris's scream. Cadie merely looked annoyed. No one expected Chris to act that way. If anything they figured that the high-strung, dramatic Cadie would have been the one to freak out. Certainly not responsible, lady like Chrissie.
"Somebody had better go after her. Do you want to Jean or do you want me to?"
"I'll go. She's my sister."
"No offense Cadie but I think that right now Chris needs to talk to an adult."
"No offense Scotty, but right now my sister needs to talk to the only person that has always been there for her. I don't believe that is you. Oh and Jean, Logan is right, we don't hate you." Cadie was infuriated that Scott would assume to be better equipped to help Chris than she would. They were twins, they shared everything. Of course she knew her better than some guy they only recently meet, even if he was Chris's dad.
Everyone merely stared at Cadie in disbelief as she turned and left the room to find her crying sister. Jean didn't understand how Cadie possibly knew about her and Logan's conversation unless she had tapped into Jean or Logan's mutation. Cadie had used Jean's telepathy before, with her permission, during training sessions. She had also used Logan's healing abilities when she fell. But both times they had felt her tapping in. This time neither Jean nor Logan felt Cadie using their abilities. Though she must have.
"Jean are you thinking the same thing I am?" Logan asked.
"Yeah. I didn't feel her. Did you?"
"No."
"What are you two talking about?" Scott had no clue what was transpiring. All he knew was that he didn't like the idea of being on the outside. Even if he was mad at Jean he certainly didn't want her to be sharing things with Logan and not himself.
"While you were gone Logan and I talked. I said that everyone hated me, including the girls. The only way Cadie could have known that is if she had tapped into my telepathy or Logan's heightened senses. But either way we should have felt her and didn't."
"Wouldn't that have taken an incredibly powerful mutant?"
"We have already determined that the girls are powerful. Though I believe they may be even more powerful than we originally thought. They have only had their abilities for a few short weeks. They shouldn't be so advanced yet."
"They are going to have to increase their training. We do not want them using these abilities that they have no control over. Jean what happened to all of your pictures?" Scott looked around finally realizing what was missing from the room.
