Mommy Mystique (cont.)
(A/N: me again. Just to clarify for my reviewers, this takes place in an alternate Season 1 where Rogue never left. But she and Kurt found out Mystique is their mother. I may get into that later.)
Later, Xavier came to see her.
"Everything looks fine," he said.
Mystique sighed in relief. "That's the first thing that's gone right around here in hours."
"Bit of a surprise, was it?"
"Bit of a disaster's more like it."
Xavier decided to broach a more sensitive topic. "Have you told the father
yet?"
Mystique stiffened and turned away. "No, I haven't, and I don't wish to
discuss that now."
"You do realize he'll have to be told at some point--"
"I said I don't want to talk about it!" Mystique shouted. "Now
leave me alone, I have a lot of things to do."
A moment later, though, she composed herself . . .
She'd had mood swings before, but this--this was positively lethal. Was I like this the first time? she wondered. How did Irene ever put up with me?
"Sorry, Professor." she said in a much calmer voice.
Why did this have to happen? Why did her life have to turn upside-down because she couldn't keep her—
Rogue interrupted her thoughts at that moment. "Ah'm goin' out."
Mystique stopped her in mid-stride. "Not so fast."
"What?" The girl stood, her arms crossed defiantly.
"What if I need you?"
"Need me?" Rogue looked at her mother as if she'd lost her mind. "For what?"
Then it started to dawn on her. She was afraid to even voice her suspicions, but maybe she was wrong.
"What's the matter, Mama?"
"We need to have a family meeting at once."
"Huh?"
"Things are changing around here, and I want everyone to know what is and isn't going to happen."
Rogue wasn't sure she liked the sound of that, but nevertheless she said, "Okay."
An hour later, the Brotherhood assembled in the living room.
"Is this gonna take long?" Blob asked. "I'm hungry."
"Big surprise there," Toad said.
The doorbell rang.
"No," Mystique corrected him, "the big surprise just
arrived."
Kurt walked in the door.