Author's note: see ch 1 for disclaimer
Warning: mentions of spanking, mentions of sex
"Sit down, Scott-boy," Hepzibah said as she crossed her arms. Scott sat, unable to keep the whimper out of his mouth at the contact.
"Hepzibah and I agree that for this stunt, you will be spanked every night before bed for the next week." Scott lowered his head in acceptance. "As soon as Beast clears you, you will be running five miles before your workout for the two weeks. Your phone and car are mine for a month. You'll be allowed to use your laptop for school and for X-Men related things, and only with supervision. And to make sure there is no free time, when you're not doing homework, you will be writing lines. I'll give you a new sentence to copy five hundred times every Sunday. I expect them in my hand every Saturday until your grounding is over. Hepzibah? Anything you'd like to add?"
"Hepzibah is very disappointed, Scott-boy. Scott-boy attacked Corsair again. Hepzibah will not allow it to happen a third time. Does Scott-boy understand?"
"Yes ma'am."
"You will be under constant supervision. You will be with either me or Hepzibah while you are home, even if that means you're sitting in on our classes."
"What about-"
"Nathan will be busy doing other things," Chris said with his arms crossed. Scott narrowed his eyes.
"What is he doing?"
"He'll be working around the Institute for his part in allowing you two alone time."
"Dad, he didn't know-"
"You know, son, you don't have the full picture. Let me be the adult here, hm?"
"But he's my son-"
"Scott-boy, are you arguing with Corsair? Does Hepzibah need to get her spoon?"
"No Mom- uh- ma'am," Scott said, blushing at the slip.
"Ok," Chris said, patting Scott's back. "That's all I have for you right now. You're meeting Hank in twenty minutes to check your levels. He's promised if they're a little low, he'd take the crying into account." Scott wiped at his face.
"Are you coming with me?"
"Yep. I'm going to see if Beast was telling you not to have sex for two days- which won't be happening again for a long, long time, or if that truly meant no physical activity period."
"Oh… you heard about that?"
"I had a very long talk with Nathan while you were talking to Xavier. I reminded him that you might be his father, but you are my seventeen year old son."
"Dad,"
"And I can't believe you did that in here. You couldn't be creative enough to do it elsewhere?"
"Does the Blackbird count?" Scott mumbled.
"What did you say?"
"Scott-boy had intercourse on the plane, lover."
"When I was trying to reach you yesterday?" Scott was brick red as he nodded. "You lied to me about what you were doing."
"'No, son, Daddy wasn't hurting Mommy. We were playing wrestling.'" Chris had to bite his cheek to stop the smirk.
"There is a difference between parents telling their innocent children that they're playing instead of having sex and having a teenager lie and be disobedient about having sex." Chris rubbed his face. "I still can't believe you did that. My God, son. Did you at least use protection?" Scott looked at his lap. "Damn it, Scott! I know Madelyne is a very nice girl, and I doubt it's true, but what if she'd lied about being a virgin? You just opened yourself up to a world of possible diseases!"
"What's it matter? I'm fine in the future-"
"That's your- that is your argument?!"
"It's a solid argument. You can't tell me I'll get an STD. And obviously Nate is it for me and Maddie, so I don't have to worry about pregnancy-"
"You didn't meet Madelyne until five years in the future in Nate's timeline! Unprotected sex now can most certainly lead to unplanned pregnancies!"
"She's on birth control!"
"So was your mother, yet here you are!" Scott paled.
"Is she… Dad?" Chris sat on the bed next to Scott.
"Hepzibah… I need Nathan." Hepzibah nodded and walked out of the room. Nathan walked in seconds later.
"Yes Grandpa?"
"You got your wish, Nathan. Your parents have had unprotected sex. Tell your father the news."
"I don't think-" Chris stood up and crossed his arms.
"I said: tell your father the news." Nathan sighed and pulled out his wallet, showing Scott a picture of him as an infant.
"This is Carolyn Ann Summers, my big sister." Scott took the picture from Nathan and stared at it before looking at Nathan.
"How much older?"
"She'll be here in August, Dad." Scott shook his head.
"No. No, I'm seventeen. I'm not- I'm not ready to be a dad- not a real one!"
"Sorry, son. You were told about risks of sex. This is a consequence. You two will have to figure out how to be X-Men, parents, and college students."
"Dad,"
"I warned you."
"What do I do?"
"First, we're going to see Hank and make sure you're safe from your activities yesterday and today, and that you're working on getting hydrated. Then, you're going to serve your two weeks as we wait for Madelyne's body to produce enough hormones to give a positive test. Then you will serve your next two weeks and we will go from there."
"Do… should we tell Maddie?"
"No," Nathan was quick to say. "She's got enough going on right now." Scott shook his head.
"I don't… I can't keep this from her." Nathan sighed and put his hand on Scott's head for a moment.
"What did you do?"
"I locked his memory. He'll remember this once Mom tells him, but he won't be able to tell her on purpose or as an accidental slip." Chris reached over and smacked the back of Cable's head.
"Next time, ask me for permission to mess with my child's mind."
"Yes Grandpa," Nathan said as he rubbed his head.
"What's going on? Are we going to Beast now?" Chris nodded.
"Yep. Let's go." Chris went to Scott's door and opened it, looking expectantly at his oldest. Scott took a breath and followed Chris out of his room and then out of the suite to the elevator. Chris took it to the main level and the doors opened. He started walking out, but saw Scott wasn't following him.
"Scott."
"Everyone is in there."
"You're going to have to face them eventually."
"Dad,"
"Scott Christopher, now is not the time to test me. Let's go before they get another show." Scott shoved his hands in his pockets and followed Chris to the other elevator. He was immediately bombarded by his team.
"Holy crap, man, are you ok?"
"Wow, Scott, I didn't realize your dad was like, that strict!"
"My dad vould have done the same thing," Kurt admitted to him quietly.
"I got it plenty a tams before mah powers came out." Scott just kept walking behind Chris towards the hidden elevator for the lower levels.
"Still happy he's here?" Jean asked. Scott stopped walking and turned around.
"Really?"
"Scott, Beast is waiting," Chris said by the elevator.
"Is Mr. McCoy checking on you to make sure 'Daddy Dearest' wasn't too hard on you?"
"Ms. Grey," Chris said, walking over to Scott. "Logan and I will be observing the Danger Room session tomorrow. I'd like to see how Iceman does with the main team, so be sure to incorporate that in there. And then, since Scott is medically pulled from the team for the next two days because he wasn't eating or drinking, you'll also be taking over his role for the New Recruits' training tomorrow. I was scheduled to work with him. We had planned on the obstacle course, but since we just did that yesterday, you'll be responsible for coming up with a new lesson. You might want to go work on it because you'll be judged on how you handle the stress. Scott, let's go." Chris put his hand on Scott's back and led him to the elevator. Once they were behind the doors, Scott let out a long breath.
"Thanks."
"For what? You're my kid. I'm the only one who gets to bust your balls."
"Dad!" Chris smirked at Scott as they walked into Med Lab. Hank was getting a cup for Scott to use from the cabinets.
"I see you're in a better mood," he noted.
"I guess," Scott shrugged.
"Take this into the bathroom, Scott." Scott took the cup and went into the bathroom, quickly shutting the door behind him.
"So tell me. The next forty-eight hour ban from activities- is that real or was it a way to tell him no sex until I heard about what happened?"
"Nathan talked to you?"
"I didn't give him much of a choice."
"If his levels are up even a small bit compared to earlier, Scott will be fine to workout with you before school tomorrow. If they're lower or the same, I won't follow through on my threat about pulling him from the X-Men tonight because I understand there have been many tears shed this evening, but my ban will be in effect for the next two days. I've heard enough about him passing out because he forgets to take care of himself. It won't happen on my watch." Chris nodded.
"More than fair."
"How much trouble is he in?"
"He's grounded for a month, he's getting his ass tanned every night for the rest of the week, he's not allowed out of mine or Hepzibah's sight while he's here, he's going on a five mile jog every morning before he works out for the next two weeks, he'll have a sentence to copy five hundred times each week of his grounding, he has things to do every week from Charles, and he and Madelyne have a ten page paper to research and hand write due to me in two weeks about the dangers and negative aspects of premarital sex." Beast whistled.
"You don't think that's a bit much?" Chris raised his eye.
"It was the second time he attacked me. And he completely disobeyed me twice by having sex. Which, I was hoping you would do an invasive scan to make sure he was ok after having unprotected sex." Beast nodded.
"I'll see what I can do. It'll be a lot of bloodwork, and I'm hesitant to take more with what he's lost today."
"Hm. When will it be safe to conduct these tests?"
"With as much as he lost, I'd be more comfortable waiting at least a week before taking more." Chris nodded.
"Then let's plan to do that next Sunday. Oh, how are your skills in obstetrics?"
"Rusty, but passable. I take it I'll need to study up?" Chris nodded. "I'll make that my goal for the next few weeks. I'll also order some new equipment to make sure the little one is growing correctly. Do they know?"
"No. They won't know for two weeks at the earliest. Scott knew, but he was threatening to tell Madelyne and Nathan was adamant that he keep it quiet, so he locked the memory until she tells him." Beast's reply was cut short as Scott came out of the bathroom.
"Sorry… I didn't have to go for a bit. Nerves, I guess…"
"It's fine, Scott. Have a seat on the table." Scott groaned, but dutifully sat while Chris leaned against him. Beast pulled some urine from the cup and put it in a vial before running it through a machine.
"Now," he said as the machine started, "I'd like to give you some pamphlets about protection, STDs, and a whole range of other things that happen when you start having intercourse. Do you know if Madelyne is on birth control?"
"She is," Scott said softly.
"Then I'll want to see her and check that prescription as well as give her an exam to make sure she's healthy enough to be doing this."
"Even if she is, I doubt Dad will let one or both of us out of his sight long enough to do it again," Scott said as he crossed his arms.
"Damn straight."
"He might be able to do something about you, but what if Madelyne decides to break things off and be with someone else?" Scott scowled.
"She wouldn't do that." Beast and Chris sighed.
"Unfortunately, Scott, it's very rare for high school sweethearts to stay together."
"My parents were together in high school." Chris rubbed his eyes.
"I've told you, Scott. Your mother and I didn't have sex in school. She was serious about her snowboarding, and I wasn't ready for a family until I could get settled with my career in the Air Force. It wasn't until I was set to even leave for boot camp that we took that step. By then we were engaged."
"And? I already know I'm going to marry her-"
"Just because that was the timeline Nathan came from doesn't mean it will occur in this one," Chris said firmly. Scott huffed.
"Can I go now?" Chris popped the side of Scott's thigh.
"Lose the attitude or I'll add another week to your grounding." Beast turned back to the computer to see the results.
"I've got good news and bad news," he told Scott.
"What's the good news?"
"Your hydration levels are better than they were this afternoon."
"The bad news?" Scott asked, suddenly worried.
"The bad news is that means you're up at four tomorrow morning to run five miles before your pre-school workout." Scott groaned at Chris' explanation.
"Great. Are we done? I have homework to do before tomorrow." Chris narrowed his eyes.
"It's seven o'clock."
"It's just math. I had everything else done before the Danger Room session on Thursday."
"I'm finished. Remember to continue eating and drinking."
"Yes Beast." Scott got off the table and rubbed his butt, hissing. He walked with Chris up to the elevator, getting off at the main level, and then getting on the second elevator to go up to the third floor. He went into his room and grabbed his backpack to do his homework in the living room of the suite. Scott spread his book and papers out as he sighed. He tried sitting on the floor, but quickly had to move to lie on his stomach.
"It'll only get better from here, dear," Deborah told him as she brushed Madelyne's hair. Scott scoffed.
"That's only because it can't get any worse. This is going to be the longest month of my life."