(Okay sorry about the delay, holidays and then multiple family members in the hospital were a major delay, here is the next chapter, I hope you enjoy and I will try to update regularly…promise!)
The jet touched down in the clearing and Alia felt her eyebrows rise. That was a nice jet. James would know what kind of jet it was of course and was probably getting overexcited about it right now and would later recite to her everything that said jet could do. But for now she and her brother stood in silence as Logan went on to the jet to talk to a man named Charles Xavier.
There were butterflies in Alia's stomach. It was one thing to trust Logan, he was just one person. The fact that he was their father was something Alia was trying to ignore. This situation was getting complicated enough without adding that into the mix. Now they were going to trust an entire school with their secret? Logan said that wasn't the case that it would only be a select few who would know the truth about Alia and James, but Alia had been to high school, she knew how fast news traveled, especially among teenagers.
The first person to come out of the jet was a boy, about James's age with a visor covering his eyes and brown hair. He was slimmer than James, but she could tell he was well built and probably did some fighting. Next was a great blue monkey man. Alia gasped when she saw him get out of the jet and she looked at James to see his reaction. He was smiling.
"What the hell are you smiling about James?"
James shook his head, "I think I'm gonna like this school."
Alia shook her head. The blue man was talking to Logan, who was pointing in their general direction. Alia almost instinctively hid behind James who continued smiling.
"He ain't gonna hurt ya Al."
"I know that!"
"Then what ya hiding from?"
"I'm not hiding! It's just, well; I don't know I'm nervous okay? The last time we met new people was when we started high school and that didn't exactly go well now did it?" James shook his head in acknowledgment."A lot of people just don't like us very much, and…"
Alia was interrupted as the blue man came up to James and began to introduce himself.
"Hello there, I am Dr. Hank McCoy. You must be James."
James nodded his head and grunted as Alia found her interest peaked, Doctor?
"Not very verbose are you?" Alia smiled, she was going to like this blue Doctor man. "You must be Alia." McCoy's attention turned to Alia as she stepped out from behind her brother and smiled, extending her hand.
"Yeah, and don't mind James, he prefers his native language of grunting to actual human speech."
McCoy laughed as James scowled at her and Alia felt her tension go down.
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Logan watched Hank introduce himself to the twins and then went into the cockpit with Charles who had wanted to speak to Logan alone before they took off.
Charles had been Logan's friend for a long time. He had helped Logan to get a hold of the animalistic side of Logan that had once dominated his consciousness. Since then Logan had dedicated himself to Charles and his dream, even if he wasn't sure he always believed in it. Humans and mutants living together in peace seemed like a pretty big dream, bigger than Logan liked to focus on. So Logan focused on the kids. He focused on training them to be able to defend themselves and others. Logan focused on things that were reachable and realistic. That was the way he worked. He had to see it to believe it. But none the less Charles knew that when push came to shove Logan would be there and he would stick it out to the end. Even if he grouched a little on the way.
"I wanted to let you know Logan that the man whom you said is after Alia and James, Omega Red, was spotted the other day; he was leaving the twin's safe home when the police began their search for information regarding the death of their guardians."
Logan felt his eyes lock with Charles.
"What direction did he head?"
"The opposite direction of where you were. I think for now Omega has given up on James and Alia, at least for their sake we can hope so."
"Yeah." Logan shook his head. He knew Omega wouldn't give up that easily but a timely retreat wouldn't surprise him at all. "They're good kids Charles; they won't cause any trouble at the institute."
"Logan, my friend you misunderstand if you think that I meant that as a strike against them. Omega being after them most certainly does not affect their welcome at the manor. I am merely telling you as a precaution for their safety."
"Thanks Chuck. I appreciate it. I'll be keeping an eye out for Omega, that's for sure."
"Indeed. But in the mean time, let us take care of getting James and Alia settled into the mansion. There is going to be plenty to do regarding the police and the murder investigation. We must first take James and Alia to the house to pick up a few things and to talk to the police. We are going to need to convince them that the best place for Alia and James is the institute. They are eighteen aren't they?"
"I dunno you'll have to ask them."
Charles was quiet a moment. Logan's mind went to Anya again. It had been at least eighteen years since he last saw her, hadn't it? Maybe. What had happened to her? Logan was having a hard time believing that Anya was killed by a fire, even if Fury said that they had found human remains in the ashes, it just didn't make much sense. Anya was invincible. Okay, not invincible, if she was hit by a train moving at a decent speed it would have hurt her a bit, but a fire? This was the woman who brought half the Soviet Union leaders to their knees begging for her mercy. Logan chuckled, damn he missed that woman.
"Logan?"
Logan drew himself out of his memories and turned to Charles.
"We should get going."
"Yeah." Logan nodded and went out of the cockpit to find the twins.
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James didn't get nervous when he met new people. Alia did. She was downright shy sometimes. But James wasn't shy, James was cautious. He had to admit he liked the blue monkey man, McCaw or something like that. But this other kid was getting on his nerves already.
The kid was a little taller than him, had brown hair and worn some kind of weird suit thing, he looked like a funky boyscout. He had a visor covering his eyes. Reason number one James didn't like him, he couldn't see his eyes. You could tell what someone was going to do just by looking into their eyes, so the eyes being covered up bothered him.
Alia started talking to the blue guy and the boyscout approached him. James wanted to ignore him, but Al would never forgive him, and he really didn't want to hear her bitch. So he sighed and crossed his arms, he would play polite, for now.
"Hi, I'm Cyclops, you're Logan's boy right?" He smiled and offered his hand.
James felt himself bristle. This boyscout was calling him...
"The name is James actually, and considering I met Logan an hour ago I wouldn't call myself that no." James sneered at the hand Cyclops was holding out and glared at him.
Cyclops lowered his hand slowly "Sorry, I didn't mean to offend you, I just thought...So you're going to be staying at the mansion then?"
James shrugged, "for a few weeks, maybe."
Cyclops's eyebrow cocked "Really? Oh. Well, nice meeting you."
James nodded his head as Cyclops walked over to his sister. James couldn't place it, but he just didn't like the kid. Then again, James was no boyscout.
James turned as he heard Logan come over. James cocked a half smile at the man. He owed Logan a lot. They would have eventually escaped Fury, but it would have been a lot more painful and a lot more difficult without Logan's help. No one had ever risked themselves for him before, it was a weird feeling.
Logan returned the smile and stood next to James, "We're getting ready to take off, we're gonna go by the house and let you two pick up the necessities and then head back to the mansion." Logan paused as if to say something and then seemed as though he wasn't going to say it.
"Anything else Logan?"
Logan gave him a small look and then sighed "Yeah, I don't know how close you were to them kid, but you're guardians are...dead. Omega got to em."
James was a little surprised, but not really sad. More, disappointed that he had let Omega kill someone on his watch. James should have made Ali run and stayed to deal with Omega himself, then maybe he wouldn't have gotten the chance to kill.
"Kid, he killed them before he came after the two of you, I'm guessing that he got you're location from them." Logan stated, James felt like he was reading his mind.
"So, they were dead before he attacked us?"
Logan nodded and James sighed, then there was nothing he could have done. If he had stayed to fight Omega it would have probably only resulted in his death. It was a little sick that it made him feel better, but it did. Knowing that there was nothing he could have done was better than wondering for the rest of his life if he could have saved them.
James shook his thoughts away. He shouldn't think so much, that was what Ali was for.
"You alright kid?"
James jumped, he had forgotten about Logan for a second, his presence was so quiet and calm, unlike anyone James had ever met.
"Yeah. Just thinking too much you know?"
Logan grinned and nodded. James figured he understood. The pair stood in silence, both thinking silently.
"So I guess we'll be there for a few weeks huh?"
Logan looked at James quizzically.
"At this school of yours?"
Understanding dawned on Logan's face, then something else, was it, disappointment? Why would he be disappointed? Was a couple weeks...too long?
"Yeah. I guess you'll stay there as long as you want."
James nodded. Good. Then a few weeks was okay, long enough for James to think up a plan. He was glad that it was understood that this wouldn't be a forever thing. Because the truth was nothing was forever. Especially in James's world.
"I'm gonna go let Al know about the guardians." Logan nodded and James walked away, both feeling things they weren't familiar with.
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Logan furrowed his brows. He hadn't thought about James and Alia not staying at the manor. When the X-men brought people to the manor they stayed, it was simple as that and that's what Logan had limited it to in his mind, he hadn't thought about if they didn't want to stay. He couldn't make them stay of course, wouldn't either. But where would they go? Fury wasn't going to help them anymore, their previous guardians were dead, sure they were eighteen (seventeen, something like that) but still, they would have all kinds of people after them, fending for themselves in the world wouldn't be easy, it would be down right deadly, joining the X-men would save them a lot of danger.
Maybe he could have Charles talk to them, he was good at this kind of thing. Maybe Logan could talk to them...well maybe James at least. Alia would probably listen to Charles more than him, but James, James might listen to him. Logan sighed. Having kids was turning out to be a pain sometimes.
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The jet stopped at the house and James and Alia quickly grabbed their already packed emergency bags and headed for the jet. They weren't really surprised at the state of the house, and since no one was going to live there anymore it didn't seem like a very big deal. James didn't like all the cops being around, but dealt with it well, at least for James. He only growled twice.
"You already had bags packed?" Questioned Hank McCoy
Alia smiled it made no sense to anyone except her and James, "Yeah just in case anything ever happened we have these bags packed full of our most important possessions, so we can get out as fast as possible."
McCoy nodded. "I see, very practical. Why don't you grab some extra clothing though, I'm afraid laundry doesn't get done on time all the time at the manor. Especially if Bobby is on Laundry duty."
Alia nodded and went back to pack a few extra clothes. James stayed in the jet. He had been really quiet after his talk with Logan. Alia was hoping that they hadn't had a fight already, but couldn't get anything out of James, and Logan didn't look like he was in the mood to talk.
The man named Charles was talking to the police about James and Alia staying at the manor. He ended up telling them that they had been enrolled last month and that they were scheduled to move in next semester, but an exception was being made. The police bought it. Alia finished packing her extra clothes and looked longingly at her book collection. She was going to miss it. She went over and ran her fingers down a few spines, stopping when she got to her latest addition, "Biological Evolution: Mutants, an evolutionary step? Or mistake?" The author was relatively unknown but the book was interesting. His opinion was actually non biased for a change and he made interesting points. Alia packed it and prepared to head out.
"So this was you're domain?"
Alia whirled to Hank's voice.
"oh. Heh, yeah. Wish I could say Omega trashed it, but it pretty much looked like this all along, me and my brother are slobs."
McCoy chuckled and moved to look at her book collection. He turned to look at her with a raised eyebrow.
"Quite an impressive collection you have here."
"Thanks."
"How many of them have you read?"
"All of them."
"All of them?"
Alia nodded. McCoy chuckled.
"Well, then I guess you will certainly enjoy the library at the mansion. It is slightly larger than your collection."
Alia began to beam. "I doubt you'll be able to stop me."
Hank chuckled as they both headed back to the jet.
The flight was smooth and very quiet. The boy named Cyclops was attempting to tell Alia all about the mansion, but she found it hard to focus on him, when she still didn't know what was bothering her brother.
When they arrived, Alia felt the butterflies building up in her again, new people, more new people. She breathed deeply, James looked at her and tipped his head, silently asking if she was okay. She smiled and nodded. She was okay, just nervous.
They exited the jet to be met by an exotic woman with white hair. She was beautiful. Her dark skin was smooth and her white hair...Alia was mesmerized by it.
"Welcome, you are James and Alia?"
The twins nodded as Logan, McCoy, Cyclops and Charles exited the jet.
"Ahh, hello Storm, I see you have made acquaintance with James and Alia."
She nodded and smiled at them, and then turned to talk to McCoy. Alia liked her, she was a unique woman.
"Well then, if the two of you will follow me, we'll get you set up in your rooms and then introduce you to everyone else, alright?"
Alia nodded and James shrugged. Alia elbowed him in the gut. Really! The guy was letting them stay here for free, James could at least pretend to be grateful. Agh! Brothers.
They followed Charles to the upstairs of the Xavier mansion.
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"Kitty I'm not eating zaht. Ask Bobby!"
"No way man! I don't got a death wish!"
"Bobby! I'm getting really good at cooking, really!"
Kurt and Bobby exchanged looks and burst out laughing.
"Da, and Logan is going to teach a sensitivity course next semester."
"Ha ha Kurt, Just try it."
"No way Kitty! Last time you made muffins ve used zehm as baseballs and zey broke zeh bat!"
"Hey, that bat was old anyways!"
"Not the point." Bobby commented.
"Humph." Kitty turned away from the two, If they didn't want her cooking, fine. They were missing out.
Kurt and Bobby laughed. Poor Kitty, baking soda was a foreign concept for her.
"Hey man you wanna go to the concert tonight?"
"Na, I have to meet the professor. We are getting new students and zeh professor wants some of us to help zehm adjust."
"Bummer! Well see ya later bro!" Bobby high fived Kurt and headed out. Kurt shook his head and teleported to his 'sister' Rouge's room.
"Rouge? The professor wants us to meet the new people now! Where are you?" Kurt scratched his head and was about to teleport out when the door opened and Rouge came in.
"Agh!"
"Agh!"
"Kurt!"
"Vhat? I vas looking for you!"
"Haven't ya'll heard a knockin? Geez."
Kurt shrugged. "Come on!" He teleported them both to the room the professor had specified. Apparently the two newbies were related to someone at the mansion and Kurt couldn't wait to find out who. Maybe he had other siblings he didn't know about? A long lost half brother perhaps? He knew it was unlikely, but he could hope right? It had happened to Scott.
They were the last ones in the room, Jean, Mr. McCoy,Mr. Logan, Professor Xavier and Scott were already there. Kitty sat on the couch next to Jean, pouting. Kurt sighed, now he'd have to eat the blasted rock. Curses.
"good. Now that we're all here I would like to let you know what's going on with our new additions exactly."
Kurt sat on the edge of his seat.
"As you have probably already heard, yes they are related to someone at the mansion, but before I tell you, you must know that this is top secret and not to leave this room. They are here to be protected from a serious danger that is chasing them,and if they are revealed they could be in mortal danger. Understood?"
Everyone nodded and the professor smiled lightly.
"Alright. Their names are James and Alia, and they are the son and daughter of Logan."
The whole room sat in silence, until Kurt finally found his voice,
"Heiliger mist!"
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So there it is! Kurt said holy crap at the end by the way. Love to the blue man! Will try to post soon, Promise! Enjoy! Kurt dialog was hard to write, hope it came out right.