Sorry this part of the story isn't anything spectacular, especally since it's the end. Again, these are my ideas about who, what, and why they believe what. I'm sure there are many other theroys out there, but just follow mine for the sake of the story, then scream and shread me later for being wrong.






Mystique turned in fear, seeing her master floating down from the sky to the ground inside the destroyed castle. "But... but... how did you know where to find us? We could have been anywhere!"

Magneto gave a laugh with a devilish grin, "My dear Mystique, with both you and Irene gone at the same moment I learned from my Brotherhood that Nightcrawler and Rogue had gone missing, this was the only logical location." He spun slowly, taking in the full view of everyone around him in the old wrecked castle. "Now isn't this nice? It is almost like our own little family reunion. It's been much to long."

Rogue was all confused. She thought she knew it all from Mystique's story, but nothing about what Magneto had brought to the table. "I don't understand what you are talking about. I don't know anything about this `family' or why you feel that I'm Marie. No one has ever called me that, and I don't feel I have any reason to hide."

"You came here seeking to find the answers to why you are suffering from these nightmares that involve mother and child, but nothing to do with you," Irene spoke up, knowing this from receiving visions of Rogue's dreams before. "But they are not dreams at all, they are memories. Don't you see Rogue? You are Marie. You were the little girl hiding in the shadows that saw all this pain. Your young mind must have been able to push it aside but know that you are older you can't forget it."

It started to make sense to Rogue. It was for once a reasonable answer to her question. Why her and not Kurt, because she was there as well. In a sudden rage she looked straight to Magneto, "Then why do you come here? You have no right to find us your `family' because you are the one that tried to kill it's own members."

Magneto took a deep sigh, gathering his thoughts before he spoke like any good statesman. "That was all a long time ago Marie and I have changed much since then. There are many things about humanity and mutants that you do not know and that you will never know because Charles refuses to teach you. He feels that if all you know is pacifism then there is no other goal but pacifism. That is all fine and wonderful from a mutants point, but the humans know no such thing. The moment you let your guard down to make peace with them they'll strike and slip the knife in your back."

"So just what is your plan then? To go on a mass genocide of the humans? Exterminate them all so only mutants can live in peace together? That's the idea of a madman!" Rogue shot back.

"I have no plans for extermination nor ever had," Magneto kept his voice calm and cool in the face of Rogue who was ready to explode again. "The only things humans understand is falling behind fear, and hating anything that is different from them. It is the reason why mutants are hunted down. It's not that they fear us, it's that we are just different. They know no real fear of mutants, however if they did they we could be left alone. It's my idea to be able to finally allow mutants to stop being persecuted and murdered. All we must do is rise up together and show our combined strength of ever mutant in the world. Surely the humans will be in such awe of our power that they will hide from us and do us no harm."

"But you are allowing the actions of only a few humans to speak for all. I am sure that most of the world does not mind for mutants as long as we do not do harm to them," Rogue replied.

Magneto's voice became more harsher and his speech became quicker. There was a sudden hatred for all humanity in his words and feelings. "The human kind can not even live peacefully with itself without persecution of the different. You do not know what it was like to be hunted down by your common man and to be whipped, tortured, and murdered all because you believe in something different. Do you know what it was like to be a Jew during Hitler's reign of terror? This wasn't an outside force threatening humankind. This was humankind killing off it's own members for no other reason than they were different. If humans can do that to themselves, what could they do to us?"

"But then what is it that you were doing yourself with these tubes?" Rogue's responds was surprisingly quick and to the point. "You left Kurt in one of those tubes and left him to die had you gotten your way and wanted to continue the experiments."

Magneto calmed a little, being able to forget his past made him a bit easier. "I was going to save mutant life and know one needed it more than Nightcrawler. Don't you see? If those tests were successful, then we could allow mutants the ability to hide their true nature and let them live in a human world until the point we couldn't hold them back any longer. By that time they would have been able to grow up and see how wrong humanity is in their treatment of our kind."

"But why Kurt?" Rogue looked to her teammate who had been silent for most of the night. "You were going to kill him as a child! He didn't know better."

"Look at him though! I have no quarrels against Kurt for he is a very bright and intelligent young man, but his appearance is his undoing. I can see though it as can you because we are mutants. We see though each other, however the humans do not. All it would take is one human to see him in that state and he would killed immediately or captured and sent to a life as a guinea pig for science." Magneto took a quick glance to the furry mutant before continuing. "If we could surpress his mutant gene, he would have been able to actually live. It is no difference than his holographic appearance does to him, only it would have been real! He could have lived! It's only by the stroke of luck that he landed in the arms of people who were able to look past him."

"Then what is your real purpose of coming here?" Rogue questioned him suspiciously. "We could have gotten all this from Mystique and Irene."

"I come offering you a proposal," Magneto's voice quieted and then stopped for an added effect of importance. "You have heard my side of the argument, and you have heard Charles's. I give you a choice to come and return to my side and to be able to live, and to live as a family once again. For you, a chance to live your Irene and your step mother, as well as your brother Kurt, this offer goes for him as well." Magneto looked to Rogue with a grin. "So what do you say?"

Rogue couldn't help but take the opportunity to look all around her, at all the faces that know she is seeing in a different sense. Mystique, Irene, even Kurt still keeping his silence, and then back to Magnus. "If there are people in this world like those who picked up Kurt and raised him, who were able to look past his appearance then there must be many more out there. I think scaring humans will only cause them to fight back and it will be the end to both of us. Humans are learning more than ever to live together and pacifism is the only way it will work."

Magneto gave a growl, but was able to keep in down. He tired, but could turn her back, there was nothing more he could do. "And you Kurt? You've kept yourself quiet this entire night, what say you?"

Kurt finally spoke up, looking harshly into Magneto's eyes. "Professor Xavier has given me a life vhat I vould never of have vith you. I know humans can care for a mutant, and zhat people can look past it. I stay."

"It is a mistake that you are both making, however I can not sway you anymore," Magneto finally gave an upset sigh. "However you are both still young. If you ever come to my understanding, my offer is always on the table for you to take." With that Magneto took flight back to the sky, knowing he couldn't do anymore. "May your choices in the future be wise ones, or at least safe ones." His voice trailed off and he disappeared into the darkness of the night.

As Rogue watched him fly off, all the rage and anger she had suddenly cracked and she broke into tears, taking a hold of Kurt while sobbing the whole time. "Oh Kurt.... I... I'm sorry about all this. I should have told you the real truth about my dreams, about your past. I.... I didn't know anything about me being there, honestly. I'm sorry."

"Ja, it's okay," Kurt tried to comfort her, "I know how you feel, I never told you about zhe dreams I had as vell. You aren't zhe only von haunted by zhis castle in your sleep."

"You knew about this place all along? And you never told me?" Rogue looked up, finally controlling herself. It was hard, after building up all that rage, once it was gone there was nothing left to support her. Kurt nodded with a childish grin. "I can't believe you!" She gave him a playful punch to the shoulder.

Mystique spoke up, siting next to Irene still, looking to her children. "Please forgive me for breaking up the reunion and all, but I must ask of you a favor. Please help Irene here return to Mississippi when you return to Xavier's place."

"But what about you? Why aren't you helping her get back home? Don't you have the Brotherhood to take after?" Rogue shot questions back at her.

With a devilish grin, Mystique gave a slight laugh. "I have business that takes me all over the world, much more than you know of, and even more than Magnus does. I shall ensure you a safe trip home, none of my mutants shall harm you in your travels. It is a promise." Mystique turned to leave the castle, finding the door through all the rubble and fallen stone. "It was nice to have us all together, perhaps some day we can do this in peace and happiness. Until then, good-bye Kurt, good-bye Marie, live well my children...."


The End


I know, really crappy ending but I can't think of anything well to finish it with. Sorry