Another month went by.
"Ororo?" Logan entered her room looking for her, she was on her bed looking down to the small mound on her stomach. She looked up smiling at him. He walked over to her, noticing more the little bump that she had. Logan sat next to her looking at her hand on her belly, he covered it with his. "What ya' thinking Ro?" He asked, she looked at him. "It's time." He nodded to her.
"Charles," He thought to him. "It's time to announce it." The Professor stopped in his tracks and listened. "Alright, what time you think we should?" He asked the two. "How about this evening, seems like a good time." Ororo suggested, Logan looked at her, they agreed on that. "Ok." "Everyone meet me in my office at 6 pm, It's important."
6:00
They all walked to the Professor's office, and entered the room. "Hello everyone." He greeted, they all greeted back. "What's up Professor?" Scott asked as they all came in, "I called you here because a couple of our teachers have a message for you." A couple students sighed, thinking it school related. He looked to Logan and Ororo nodding, Logan stepped forward, looking to his wife making sure she was final on her decision to tell them now, she looked confidently to him. "Is this another late homework assignment due?" Bobby asked, Logan looked to him bowing his head with an unusual smile. "The fact is Bobby, actually that this is a personal matter, and I must warn you that if told to someone untrustworthy it may be very costly." They all looked at each other curiously. "Logan and Ororo have an announcement to make…" "Thanks Chuck." Logan said gratefully. "Look, I know you'll all be wonderin' why we didn't tell you this earlier, but Ororo and I are married." Everyone was stone silent. Kitty smiled big, Ororo nudged him, he looked back at her then remembered. "And-" "We're having a baby." She interrupted joyfully, he smiled warmly at her joyful words. Everyone was even more amazed now. "You two are married? And havin' a baby!" Rogue said shocked, "So that's why!" Scott said, Jean looked at him with a shocked smile. "Isn't that awesome!" Kitty shouted jumping happily, the room slowly filled with the quiet noise of talking and wowing to each other as everyone realized what this meant to them, their two most experienced and strict instructors who were usually kind of tough on them were married… and would soon have a child of their own. "You knew about it?" Kirt asked, shock not leaving him yet, Kitty looked at him out of the corner of her eye. "You knew, and you didn't say anything?" Jean asked her. "Well yeah! They like asked me to keep it a secret, so I did, besides if you wanted to know about it you'd probably pick it up already… I mean, you're like telepathic." Jean raised her eyebrow at Kitty, who didn't bother to give any reason to further frustrate or amuse the redhead. "That's totally sweet!" Tabitha said loudly happy for the couple. "Yeah!" another voice joined in near her, other voices came alongside cheering.
Logan looked to Ororo who smiled back happily to him, an expression of pure joy and enlightenment showed on his face as he smiled back at her, he reached down to her hand taking it in his own and rubbing the back of it with his thumb. They looked to the kids that were now more excited than shocked. "Thank you all." She said happily appreciating their applauds. "Of course, Storm." Jean said gladly to her friend. "Yeah, we're here if you need us." Scott said beside her, the couple smiled at them. "Now you must all remember." The Professor's voice sounded in the room, the room quieted slowly, they all looked to him. "This is to be kept a secret for very important reasons… If anyone outside the mansion was to know it might put Logan, Ororo and the baby in serious danger." They all looked at each other, then to the couple who gave the announcement, confusion was on everyone's faces except for Logan, Ororo, Kitty and the Professor who knew what he meant. "Danger? What do you mean Professor?" Scott asked, the others quieted down to hear the answer. "There may be people looking for them. If they find them it would be very bad." "Who are these people Professor?" Jean piped in on the question, the other students were very anxious to know about this too. The three stayed silent, then looked to each other as if to say, Well, what's next? The Professor knew what to do though. "The people are part of a secret organization, if that organization gets word of their whereabouts, it could and very possibly would put both their lives and ours in very grave danger." Everyone stopped, eyes big looking back at him. "What do you mean Professor?" Jean asked concerned, the Professor looked to the couple who looked to each other, then nodded back to him, he turned back to the group proceeding to tell them of the organization, their mission, and why they were after them, they were all wide eyed at what they heard. They all walked out of there with three specific things that evening. Joy, shock, and fear.
Jean and Scott looked to each other surprise still on them. "Well." Said Scott walking alongside Jean. "That was an unexpected surprise." "Yeah, I wonder how long they've been hiding that." "Heh, I know right." "I'm sure if I was married I wouldn't be able to keep it a secret, I mean… I could hide it, but not as good as they have." "Yeah, me neither." Scott responded back to her, they looked to each other some consideration in both their faces as they continued walking. They went to his car as they had plans for that evening, the kids watched as they drove off. There was a movie that evening, it was a Zorro movie and many of them liked that kind of stuff. Heroes, rescuing innocent people. It made them all feel pretty good. They all got into the X-Van on the way to see the movie, Forge drove them.
Ororo and Logan watched as they all drove away from the mansion, except for them and the Professor. "Been a little while since we had a movie night, just us." Ororo commented, Logan just looked to her first, then smirked. "Ya wanna change that?" She smiled to him at his question, planting a kiss on his cheek, he smiled warmly at her action. "Ok!" He said picking her off her feet bridal style, she yelped at his action not expecting it. He held her like that as they walked out of their bedroom and down to the rec room, or rather as he walked and she rode in his arms. He set her down on the couch in front of the tv, she chuckled and smiled to him as he straightened back up. "What do you think we should watch?" She asked, he looked to be thinking for a moment. "I think I want you to choose." She squinted at him for a second. "Are you sure about that?" "Heh, I'm not the one who's five months pregnant." She nodded at his statement. "But I'm not the one who's going to be a Daddy after the remainder of my term." "But I aint gonna be the Mom." He stated back, she looked to the tv thinking. "What about Maze Runner?" He smiled and looked where she was looking. "You sure?" "Just because I'm pregnant doesn't mean that I can't stand action." "Ok." He grabbed the remote, turned the television on, switched to Netflix and selected it, he paused it before it started. "Ya want anything?" "Some coconut water?" "Anything else?" "Piece of Salmon with whipped cream." He chuckled at her request, he'd gotten use to her new preferences in food, and frankly he didn't think they were that bad, he'd had some of it himself and thought that some of them were pretty good. After going to the kitchen and getting what she'd requested and something for himself he went back and sat down next to her as they started the movie.
In his office The Professor was happy that the two had finally spilled their little secret so that they no longer had the pressure of hiding it from everyone on earth except him. He watched the two through his mind as they sat in front of the tv set watching the intro. He would've told them how proud he was that they finally shed light on the subject after all these years had they not been having some personal them time at the moment. He turned his attention to the window as the X-Van drove off the property. Though the windows were blacked out to a degree he could sense the excitement of the students, pumped to see this new movie. He smiled watching them ride out of sight. He decided to take the time he had and catch up with a friend on some details that they'd talked about before.
An hour later:
The kids were on the edge of their seats as an action scene played out in the movie they were watching, big smiles, and some concerned faces as the hero constantly evaded the weapons of his enemy, swords clashed, men ran and fought. "Oh yeah!" Kurt said excitedly. "SHHH!" Rahne hushed him, he cringed at her silencing. "Geeze, right in my ear." He announced not as loud as before, she shrugged smiling innocently, then turned back to watch the movie, he raised an eyebrow at her disapproving of her hushing for a moment, then sat back and watched. "It's too bad Zorro didn't have your flexibility Hank; this movie would be even cooler." "I think it's cool like it is." "Yeah?" "Oh yeah, if everyone was like me they wouldn't have those suspenseful scenes in movies that make all the difference when it comes to storylines." "Huh, I guess your right." Hank smiled to him as they turned back and watched on.
Back at the Mansion:
The two were still on the couch huddled close together, both sleepy and partially warn out. Him from some of the pressure of the day, and whatever other reason that somehow he couldn't pin point. Her from the pressure of being pregnant, and having to go around like everything was normal. Finally, after a little while longer the movie was over. They turned off the television set, got up, checked on each other, and made it back up to their bedroom. It was darker than before and almost pitch black in the hallways of the institute. Ororo reached for the light switch that had been so easy to find earlier. Suddenly the lights were on, they made it the rest of the way back to their room. She opened the door, and walked in, he followed, they changed, and plopped down on their bed for the evening. "Ro." Logan said quietly to her as they laid there, she looked to him. "Ya think it was a good idea to tell em?" "If we didn't the baby would have." He smiled slightly to her. "Yeah, but ya think their gonna be able to keep it a secret from everyone else?" "If they don't I know very well what you'd do." "Ya sure do." "James." She said his name softly, he looked at her. "We will be fine, I know we will." "You sure?" "Yes, I am." He tried to smile, and did some, his worry showed through his happy expression. She was worried to, he could sense this on her. They smiled to each other trying to push the anxiety down, she nuzzled into him, he put his arm around her comfortingly and looked out the window like he always did when he was looking for something to happen. A silent prayer went up that night, a prayer for continued peace and community. A prayer that pleaded to ears on high for a family to finally come through this one, and in one piece. Literally.
