Chapter 8!!! Wow, I can't believe how far I've gotten in this story. It's nearly over! Well, not really, there's still much to happen. Anyway, read, enjoy, review.

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Magneto stared at his daughter before him. She looked so different than he had last seen her. She looked much older, much more mature. She had let her hair grow out, a much more becoming look on her, he thought. She had grown into a very beautiful woman. A beautiful woman who looked ready to kill him right there.

"Wanda, I don't want to fight you.," he told her, hoping she'd calm down.

Wanda released a bolt, and Magneto found he could not move from the spot he was standing. "I don't care what you want, " she informed him as she walked closer. "Where is she?"

"She's safe, Wanda. You know I would never hurt her. She's my granddaughter, after all."

"She is NOT your granddaughter. Do not EVER call her that." Wanda screeched.

"Please, listen to me. I know what I did seemed wrong, but trust me, it's for the best. You are on the wrong side, all of you. There is a war coming, the humans are planning things."

Wanda watched him with a cold stare. She didn't care about any war. "Where IS she?"

"I'm afraid I can't tell you that. Not until you listen to me. You have no idea how hard all this has been on me. Watching you and you're brother leave me like that. I have missed you. And I know you would never believe it, but I've always loved you."

She just about lost it there. She used her power to push Magneto back against the wall. "How dare you say that to me?!" She lifted furniture with her power and began aiming it at her father. "After all you have put me through?! How could you ever say that you loved me?!" She let a chair go directly at him. He ducked his head just in time. "Now, I'm only going to ask one more time. WHERE IS MY DAUGHTER?!"

Magneto shook his head. As strong as his daughter was, he knew he could defeat her. "I'm sorry, Wanda. I didn't want it to come to this. I thought you'd understand." With that, the coils inside the nearby couch shot out and pinned her hands against the wall. More kept coming out, pinning her down. She tried to use her hex bolts against them, but they were coming fast. Magneto just kept them at her, and when he had run out of them, he threw anything else metal in the room at her. She struggled against all of it, and finally was able to move out of the way. But a certain shard had been aimed to land into the wall at her hip. When she moved, it caught her directly in the stomach. She clutched her stomach in pain, feeling the piece of metal cutting deep within her. Magneto stopped in horror. He hadn't meant to hurt her at all.

She staggered forward and Magneto jumped to his feet and ran to her aid. He caught her as she fell, and held her in his arms. "I'm sorry," he said. Tears began to spill out of his eyes. "God, I'm so sorry."

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Kurt peered into the first window. She wasn't in there. So he moved on to the next one. There he saw the most wonderful thing he had ever seen in his life. His little angel, sound asleep under the window. He moved his hands up and tried to pry the window open. No luck. He'd just port in, then. With a 'bamf' he was standing beside his daughter. He had never been so happy to see anyone in his life. He bent down and carefully took her into his arms.

Talia stirred a bit and opened her eyes slightly. "Daddy?"

"Shh, baby, I'm here," he soothed. "Go back to sleep, we'll be home soon."

He was about to teleport out, when he heard the commotion in the other room. Things didn't sound very good. So he put his daughter down on the bed again. "I'll be right back, liebechen. Stay right here, ok?"

"Ok," T.J. said with a yawn. Kurt gave her a kiss on the forehead and walked toward the door. He yanked it open, and walked out into the hall. He was about to turn a corner, when he heard a voice behind him.

"Where do we think we're going?" He turned to see Mystique standing behind him.

He immediately lunged at her, but she moved too quickly and he hit a wall. He fell to the ground and looked up at her. A growl escaped his throat and he ran at her again. And again, she dodged him.

"You may find it in your interest to listen to us, Kurt," she told him.

"You took my daughter," he said with utter hatred in her eyes. "I'll listen to nothing." This time he jumped at her and caught his arm around her neck. She tried to flip him over her, but he was too strong for her. She was shocked at the strength he had now. He threw her against a wall, and she fell to the ground. He picked her up and flung her again. She sat on the floor where she landed. She tried to get up, but Kurt was on top of her in a second. He looked her straight in the eyes and said "I should kill you right now."

"You'd kill your own mother?" she said to him, hoping to get the upper hand. But it didn't seem to phase him. If anything, it made him more angry. But he backed away from her.

"You are not my mother," he told her quietly. "And I believe it may be in YOUR best interest to stay away from me and my family." With that, he turned away from her, and walked back toward where his daughter was sleeping. Raven tried to get up and stop him, but she couldn't.

"Kurt, wait!" she called, but he didn't listen. She wanted to talk to him, to tell him everything she had been holding inside her for so long. She knew that she hadn't done the right thing in taking Talia, and she was sorry. She really loved him, and she loved her granddaughter, and she wanted to start anew. She wanted more than anything to be a part of their lives. But he didn't come back to her. And Raven was too much of a coward to go after him.

Kurt entered the room looking for his daughter. She wasn't in the bed, where he had left her. He looked around in the dark room. While he had better vision than normal in the dark, his daughter shared his talent in blending into shadows. But a whimper from under the bed alerted him to her whereabouts. "Talia, baby, come on out of there." He kneeled down and reached out to her.

She came out from under the bed and Kurt picked her up. He carried her out of the room, and past Raven, who was slumped on the floor, crying. "What's the matter with Miss Mystique?" Talia asked him.

"Don't worry about her," he said. "We're going home now, ok? You want to go home?"

Talia nodded then buried her head in her father's chest. Kurt hugged her close as he ported her out of the house. His 'port landed them right in the midst of the waiting X men. She shifted in his arms, apparently trying to go back to sleep.

"Here, I'll take her, Kurt," Ororo came up to him and took her from his arms. "Hank is waiting in the jet to give her a once over." She and Talia disappeared into the Blackbird.

Kurt scanned the other X men, almost content to just get the hell out of there. "Where's Wanda?"

"She hasn't come out yet," Kitty told him. Suddenly, Rahne appeared.

"Wanda's been injured," she told them.

Without thinking, Kurt immediately 'ported back into the house. The other X men followed, but were stopped when they noticed something looming over the trees. A gigantic humanoid robot glared down at the group.

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Hmmm.me and these cliffhangers..I dunno about this chapter again. Not loving it. I dunno, what'do ya think?? Lemme know, you know I love reviews!!