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Author's Note: I had a request to put more Ororo/Hank with James into the mix. I decided to add some fluff and humor to this action packed chapter. As always, thanks for reading and reviewing!

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"Oh my goodness!" Ororo told Hank when she saw him. James' milk hadn't agreed with him for whatever reason and Hank was currently wearing what hadn't agreed with the baby.

"You think this is funny?" Hank asked her. Ororo just laughed. "Then here, you take care of him while I go clean up." Hank hand her James as he went to clean up. James was just giggling. Ororo seemed to understand this was more a plea for auntie O' considering the baby really didn't get sick, and certainly not to the magnitude according to the evidence on Hank. He would have to bath to get it all out of his fur.

"You missed me didn't you little one?" She said as she placed the baby on her shoulder and finished burping him. She had been occupied with other things for the past week and hadn't spent as much time with him as she wished. The routine had been that either Ororo, Hank or Iliana, or when all else failed, Jubilee, would watch the baby during the time Logan and Marie spent in the danger room. For the past week Ororo had been busy with talking to the parents of potential students for the next year, as well as sponsors for the school. Emma couldn't handle it all. As a result Hank had had been the sole babysitter for the past week, something James hadn't been used to. He seemed to like the variety. Ororo had just come downstairs for a cup of tea when she heard the commotion in the recreation room.

"It's okay. Auntie O' is here."

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The weeks went by in peaceful bliss. Hank was getting the legal paperwork ready and later that day they were going to sign their official marriage certificate. Today was one day to the year since they had taken off. In the back of her mind, Marie knew something had to go wrong. Her concentration during their morning lesson had been off because of it.

"Marie, snap out of it. You can't do that when you are in an actual fight, and you're not going to do it here." Logan told her. He was a taskmaster when it came to her training. He knew exactly what was at stake, her life. The truth was, his head wasn't much in the game right now. He kept thinking about the past and how it had become intertwined with the present.

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2 weeks earlier

"You needed to see me." Logan asked Emma, perplexed as to why he was asked to come alone.

"Ah, yes. Please sit down. I know you have lost a lot of your memories."

"Yeah, and…"

"What was the first memory you had?"

"Standing around on some excuse for an island and someone saying my name. I knew it was my name because of my tags. Well, it was at least part of my name."

"I know James." Logan jumped out of his seat trying to figure out how she knew this. She was a telepath, but that didn't give her any right to pry in his mind.

"I didn't pry. I knew you briefly before you lost your memories. I was on that island, so was Scott and a lot of the other students who originally attended this school. You saved us. But I knew of you before then. You knew my sister, Kayla." It wasn't memories, but feelings which flooded into him. Love, hurt, anger, betrayal. Why did that name inspire such feelings, one feeling which Marie could only inspire so deeply in him, even if it wasn't as deep? "You were in love with her once. We were used, her included, and it broke her heart. She loved you. And you loved her."

"So where is she? If you two knew I was still alive, why didn't she care enough to remind me of who I was? Explain that to me?" He was filled with rage. Someone had just told him about his past, someone he had known for a little while now. "And why tell me now?"

"She's dead. She died on that island." He vaguely remembered a lifeless body. He had some mix of unpleasant first memories. Why couldn't he have just died on that island? "And I'm telling you because I see the way you look at Marie. It's similar to the look you gave my sister the only time I saw you together. I want you to have at least a little bit of your past before you committed so deeply to your future."

"Listen, I'm sorry about your sister. But, she is my past. Nothing I could do could bring her back. Now I have Marie, and I have already committed myself to her." He told Emma trying to brush it off. A year ago he would have thrown himself at the chance of any clue to his past. Now he didn't really care, all his world revolved around his little family. "I'm a different man now."

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Present day….

But it did bother him. He hadn't told Marie. She didn't need to know she wasn't his first love in the entirety of his life. Maybe he had even loved before Kayla, but he didn't know that. He did know he had loved at least once before Marie, but Marie and their child was all that truly mattered to him, and he needed to be honest with her.

"I'm ending the sim. We need to talk." He told her, as he stepped out of the control room. Marie put her blades back in the new holsters which were attached to her thighs. He loved the way she looked with them and they made her feel somewhat powerful in a house full of people who could read minds, control weather, walk through walls, and turn into solid metal.

"You know I love you Marie." He told her when they met outside the danger room.

"And I love you. What is this all about?" She asked him, not bothering to put up her gear because they were coming right back after they finished their business.

"Emma clued me in to some of my past. Apparently I saved her and Scott once upon a time."

"That's great. It's another clue." She smiled at him but he didn't return it. He just stood up, not willing himself to face her when he continued.

"And she knew a woman I apparently loved." Marie froze. She knew he had been around the block more than a few hundred times, but actually loving someone?

"I wanted you to know. Marie, this doesn't change how I feel about you. I still love you. She is my past, I don't really even remember her…"

"What do you remember of her?" She picked up on the clue that he did remember at least something about her.

"To be honest, I remember seeing a lifeless body as I left that island. A couple weeks ago Emma informed me that was Kayla."

"I'm sorry."

"You have nothing to be sorry for. Like I said, she was apparently part of my past."

"Logan, I understand. I'm sorry for both your loss of her and your memory of her. Love is a rare thing, and I wouldn't be honest if I didn't say I was a bit jealous, but if she made you happy once, then I am glad." She said, stroking his cheek. He kissed her hand and spoke again.

"Emma said the way I look at you reminded me of the way I had once looked at her sister. I remembered some feelings, but the love was never this strong. Marie, I'm yours and you are mine. I just wanted you to know because I couldn't keep it from you. It wouldn't be fair if you didn't know what I knew, especially something like this." Logan soothed with a hand on her arm.

"I understand. And I love you."

"I love you too Marie. Now I think we need to go sign some papers." He told her as he led her towards Emma's office.

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When they arrived Emma, Iliana, Hank, Ororo, Jubilee, and James. Iliana and Hank had been openly dating and were hardly ever separated. Jubilee and Marie had resumed their friendship and would baby-sit James when Ororo absolutely couldn't and Marie was able to convince Logan the baby would be fine.

"So, where's this paper we need to sign?" Logan asked Emma.

"Right here." She told him.

"Are you sure you don't want a ceremony?" Iliana asked Marie.

"We've already got a kid, have lived together for a year, and considered ourselves married for over half a year, so it really isn't a big deal." Marie told her.

"If you change your mind though Iliana and I would love to plan one for you chika." Jubilee told Marie. Marie could see Jubilee's eyes light up at the chance to go shopping.

"Logan, you just need to sign here." And he did.

"And Marie, you will sign your name, maiden name, on this line." And Marie picked up the pen Logan had just laid down and signed.

"Congratulations, you are now legally married." Emma told them. Logan put an arm around Marie, who was reaching to take James from Ororo's arms when the doors were pushed open.

"Bobby, I told you a week ago, it's over!"

"I don't think so…

"Get over yourself. You're not the person you once were and I can't stand who you have become!" Bobby tried to grab Kitty but she just phased her arm through the touch and went to move towards the protection she knew she would find with the other X-Men. As he approached, Logan moved Marie behind him, his instincts to protect his mate kicking in. His claws came out and a snarl had taken its place on his lips. Hank had done the same with Iliana, despite the fact she was probably one of the more powerful mutants in the room.

Piotr had heard the commotion from down the hall. He had tried to give Kitty her space despite the way Bobby had been acting towards her since she had ended her relationship with him. He tried convincing himself that she could at least hold her own against him, but he still feared for her. When he heard the argument, he had to follow. By the time he walked into the room, the older men looked like they were poised for a fight. Kitty was hiding behind the rest of the group and he knew there had to be something more to story than what she had told him.

"Drake, leave her alone." Piotr said as he turned into his metal form.

"Oh really, you and what army is going to stop me?" Drake told him.

"It won't take an army to kick your sorry hide." Marie chimed in. Her daggers were in her hands, poised at her side. She was ready for a fight.

"Wow. If I would have known she would have been that feisty, I might have kept her around for a little while longer." Drake said, directing his comments to Logan who currently wanted to cut his head off. He was in human form, it would stick this time, but one thing was standing in his way: Marie.

"You know, you can look at me when you say somethin' about me. I ain't def." Marie told Drake.

Emma probed Bobby Drake's mind to see if escape was possible. All he seemed to be noticing was Marie and Logan to an extent. He wasn't even paying attention to the baby. Jubilee, Iliana, Ororo, take James and get the children into a safe place. I have a feeling this may not end well. Emma told them telepathically. Jubilee made it out first, sneaking around the back of a distracted Bobby Drake. Iliana and Ororo with baby James followed a minute later. Emma had already called all the students into one of the lower rooms. When Ororo found the gathered group she led them to the basement to a safe area which had been built in case of another attack. The three X-men would guard the entrance with the help of a few of the older students if worse came to worse. Ororo never thought she would see the day where the true danger came from within their ranks. At least St. John had bothered to defect first.

Marie was starring Bobby Drake down, almost daring him to make a move. She knew she was ready despite her distractions this morning in training. She was ready for her revenge for what he had done. Colossus had made his way over to Kitty ready to fight if need be. Logan was having a hard time not jumping in. Emma and Hank were trying to think of another solution. When a thought occurred to Hank he made his way out of the office and down to the med lab. Things had gone too far and he hated the idea of doing such a thing to anyone, much less someone who had been a combat in arms, but the options had become very limited.

Marie had noticed Hank leave, but Bobby Drake seemed to be oblivious. The rage was seeping through his ice blue eyes and she knew the stare off would end soon and the real fight would begin.