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I know part of this was last chapter, but I re-read it and added some more to make this worth posting.
I hooked the baby monitor to my belt and walked to the training room. I was working on getting better with different weapons, if they didn't think I could get out in the field, I would show them how much of an asset I am.
The computer turned on as I walked in.
Hello Ms. LeBeau, which program would you care to use this evening?
"LeBeau133alpha2," the holographic wall shimmered for a second and were replaced with Ultroncity's before the Next Avengers saved it. A pack of dirty ran-sackers circled around me.
"Boys, you shouldn't do this," I flipped out my Bo. I flipped it around and clipped one of them in the temple. The rest was easy from there.
I was on top of a skyscraper battling some faceless villain with a pair of sai, my newest weapon, when one of the babies started to cry, I didn't think I had been fighting for that long.
"Computer, pause and save program for a later date," the images shimmered and went away, I ran back to my room to care for my babies.
"Hush little baby, don't say a word momma's gonna buy you a mockingbird," Robin had a little smile, like she knew that her grandmother's name was Mockingbird, but that's impossible. I bounced EJ up and down, trying to make him stop screaming. He hadn't since dinnertime. I was walking back and forth through the entire apartment trying to get him to calm down and go to bed. Robin was just watching, amused from her crib, she couldn't hold herself up yet, but she kept her blue-green eyes locked on mine. I was running out of songs to sing for him. I laid him down in the middle of my bed and grabbed some pajamas, I might as well be comfortable. He screamed and cried and then I felt it. I wanted to play Where's Baby? I looked at EJ,
"Oh no…" I walked back over to him and covered my eyes. "Where's baby?" EJ hiccupped. And stopped crying… I uncovered my eyes and smiled. "There he is!" He stopped crying. I felt elation- EJ's elation. I didn't know what that was, I didn't mean to read his mind, I didn't think I even did it, could this little baby have projected his thoughts to me? No, that's impossible, it was just my subconscious manifesting itself into basic thoughts.
I picked him up and put him back in bed so he could sleep. Robin burbled and spit up on her onezie. I picked her up and changed her. It was a never ending loop of baby now. Everything I did was for the babies. I don't even remember the last time I slept for more than an hour at a time. I turned on a disk of soothing music with my telekinesis. Using my powers even made me tired now. I sat down in the rocking chair. Not even bothering to rock it. It turns out all the X-men went on the mission. I was worried about them; they were in the belly of the beast by now. I was pretty much alone and the silence was deafening.
I was making a batch of formula to feed the babies. They were lying on their play mat in the living room. I had turned on some music to fill the quiet space. After having a bunker full of people, being left alone with two babies was a very big change.
I heard my computer tablet beep and I tapped it on. My friend's faces filled the screen; everyone was trying to get into the view of the camera. They had scratches and bruises that had been patched up, but everyone looked intact.
"Hey! How'd it go?" By their smiles, I knew they had succeeded in telling S.H.E.I.L.D. how it was going to be.
There was a chorus of hoots and hollers. My eyes darted from face to face.
"Where's Francis?" No one would meet my eyes. "Where is he!" I heard a door slam, but where was Francis. James rubbed his newly healed arm.
"Best-Friend Mattie…" Torunn looked straight into the camera. Someone touched my shoulder, I spun around and kidney punched him.
"Oof!" Francis curled over and held his stomach.
"Shit!" I unconsciously apologized to him in his mind. He held up a hand in forgiveness. When he straightened up and his dark brown eye met mine, I wrapped my arms around him and kissed him like there was no tomorrow, because, I didn't know then, but there wouldn't be.
duh duh duuuuuuuuuuuhhhhh!
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