A couple weeks passed.

Everyone was talking about plans for autumn, Thanksgiving, and Halloween. "What're you planning for Halloween?" Bobby asked Kurt, Kurt wagged his tail a bit. "I'm not sure, my family's never really celebrated it." "Never celebrated Halloween?" "Why haven't you?" Rahne asked curiously, Kurt just put his head down on his arms on the table and stared strait ahead, as if to say It's a long story. They didn't really mention anything else on the subject for a while. "Hey!" Kitty chimed in happily, they all looked to her. "You can probably go out like that, and no one will notice that it's not a costume." He looked at her suspiciously. "How do you know zat?" "Well Duh, it's like Halloween, people expect you to where stuff like that." "Not vere I come from zey don't." They felt kind of sorry for him and a little guilty at the same time. "You know, you don't have to celebrate it if you don't want to." Ororo added to the conversation, he just looked to her then back down to the table. There was silence in the room for the next few minutes. "What are you guys gonna do?" Kitty asked looking to the two, they looked at her then to each other. "We may celebrate with you." "You guys have to come to the party!" Said Bobby leaning over the table so he could see them. Logan gave him a look, Ororo put her hand on his arm. "It depends." She said laying a hand on her bump. The others understood more what she meant now that she had put some detail to it. It depended when the baby decided it was a good time to make an appearance.

As the time for the arrival of the baby approached the others couldn't help but notice the change in their teachers. It wasn't all that obvious to any onlooker, just to those who really knew the two as people. Ororo seemed to glow with a beauty that she somehow hadn't had before, she was also more protective of herself, physically, mentally and emotionally, not just for her, but also for the child growing inside of her. She was also at times a little more moody with certain people. Logan was changing as well, but not exactly like Ororo was. He still had his rough exterior, but the students started to see a softness arise slightly above the gruffness

A few weeks later:

It was about six o'clock in the evening, Jean, Kitty and Rogue had just gone off to a girls only party that was being held at a friend's house. Logan, Scott and the rest of the guys besides Xavier were in a training session outside.

Ray and Sam were running through the obstacle course that Hank and Wolverine had specially prepared for them. "Come on, there's the finish line!" Ray said loudly to Sam as they ran, Sam pounced, flying straight into the tape ripping it apart as he landed on the ground. He looked around and laid low as he prepared himself to be fired at by lasers or tennis balls. A moment later he opened his eyes and raised his head seeing nothing but his previous surroundings, and Ray panting as he finally got there. "Whoa, no booby-trapped finish line?" Sam said a little shocked. "Are you sure that… this is the finish? I mean, knowing Wolverine it could be a decoy." Ray stated as he was wide eyed and looking around same as his teammate. "Oh this is the finish line alright." Said a voice from in the trees, both boys looked to where it came from seeing a shadowy ape like figure hanging from a branch. "It's not booby-trapped either, but I suppose if you want to give Wolverine a new idea for how to make the next one, then go ahead. The kids jumped back for a second at his words. "Oh, no! I mean… No thanks… we've got plenty of training as it is with this course, and we're both kind of tuckered out." The blue man looked at them knowing what they meant. "Alright, I guess that's all for today!" He said exuberantly, the two boys cheered and high fives each other happy that this wasn't like some other training sessions that Wolverine held.

Five minutes later:

Hank and Wolverine were talking about the kids and their training earlier that day. Nobody knew this except for them, but Logan had secretly come to the furry mutant for some personal mentoring, mainly how to handle children better. He knew he was good with kids to a degree, but he wanted to make sure he was ready when his son or daughter came into the world. "You know Logan, you actually handle kids pretty well. You're kind of already like a Dad to all the ones here." Logan raised an eyebrow at Hank's statement, Hank smiled a bit at his friend's response. "It's true, Kitty and Rogue see you very much like a Father figure to them." "They told you that?" Logan asked unconvinced, "No, but I can see it all over them when they're around you, it actually shows on you as well." Logan's expression changed from sceptic to amazement as Hank told him these things, he'd always seen those two girls as if they were his own daughters for some reason. He never thought of it lightly, because he knew what a big responsibility that was.

Being a Father meant you couldn't just go around and have every freedom that you always enjoyed before… being a Father meant having dedication, and loyalty to your children, and being around when they needed you. He thought about it previously as more of a tip toe through the two lips type of subject, he knew that Ororo would probably want a child of their own some time, and he didn't have any objection to that, but he enjoyed his freedom while he had it. When Kitty came to the institute he took a particular liking to her, thinking she thought of him like an uncle or something, especially after he accidently brought them to Canada that one time before he had the chip removed from his brain. Then after that when Rogue came to the team it was almost like he saw her as a little pup without a home or family, which was true for everyone else there, but it stuck out more with her. Something just pushed him to be there for her in ways that no one else could, to be a mentor and guide, and he always knew she saw him as more than just a teacher. Now that Hank specified it, it made a lot of sense to him. Which was very encouraging.

"Yeah, I guess you're right about them." "Everyone here sees you at lease some as a Father figure, even the new recruits." "Ok… how." Logan asked looking to Hank inquisitively. For the next ten minutes Hank explained what he meant about them all both as a group and individually. Logan was dumbfounded at the end of their conversation, not knowing that he was capable of such things. They still talked about things that would make kids happy and secure though.

The next day:

Logan, Ororo and Jean were at the market the next day getting some things for the baby. They'd all gone in together, till the expecting couple had a moment, and Jean decided not to make it awkward and to go look for something. Upon finishing their moment, they looked around to see that Jean was nowhere around. "Looks like we scared her off huh." Logan said sarcastically, "Hm, I guess so, I never knew we were so scary together." He smiled at her comment giving her a kiss on the cheek. For the next few minutes they just wondered around the baby and toddler isles investigating. Getting to the area that was mostly baby clothes they couldn't help but smile at how cute they were. "Hey Ro, look at this one." He said pointing to a little onesie that said Party my crib, 2 AM bring a bottle They both laughed and picked that up as well as a bunch of other outfits for the little one on the way. Jean came back a couple minutes from then, they all continued looking for stuff that the baby would need upon arrival, car seat, diapers, baby clothes, etc. After they had just about finished They thought about getting one more that said little nipper on the front, by this time they already had about twenty pairs of clothes for their baby. "I think we have enough for little you know who down there." He looked over to the redhead, then leaned over to whisper in her ear. "We could start a collection for Red and Cyc." They both laughed out loud at that statement.