- Disclaimer-X-Men Evolution is not mine
Note-Irene can only see a few minutes into the future, and her premonitions aren't always correct. ~Blah~ are telepathic messages. I will be referring to Professor X as 'Charles' from now on.
I Am Your Mother, I Am Your Aunt
Charles, Ororo, Logan, and Mr. Kelly looked up as Raven burst through the door.
"Raven?" Charles gasped.
"Another freak?" Mr. Kelly sneered.
"Miss me?" Raven asked snidely. She threw a glare at Mr. Kelly. "You. Out."
"Oh, no. I don't think so."
Raven smirked. "Oh, really?"
Without a second thought, she morphed into a Bengal tiger.
"Uh…uh…" Sweat rolled off Mr. Kelley's face. "I…uh…just realized I have an appointment...with my psychiatrist. Professor Xavier, I'll meet you sometime say, next week?"
Mr. Kelly picked up his briefcase and ran. Raven turned back into a human.
"What are you doing here, Raven?" Charles asked, turning his attention to the newcomer.
"I'm here to collect my family."
"What?!" Ororo gasped. "You can't take Kurt and Marie away! This is their home."
"And it's about to be shut down," Raven said. "You think just because I showed up, he won't return? You heard him! He won't rest until all of us are in chains again. I'm taking my son and niece out of here while I still can."
"Does Irene know of this?" Logan questioned.
"Irene practically sent me here. She didn't need to look into the future to know this place would be in danger."
"The Hell we all predicted is coming," Charles whispered. "But so soon…"
"Them's the breaks," Raven said coldly. "Kindly direct me to my son and his cousin."
"I'll bring them down." Professor X sent a mental message to the two of them.
~Marie, Kurt, please come to the library. Someone of great importance is here to see you.~
"Must be serious," Rogue mused as she got off the bed, "for him to use my real name."
Kurt took her arm in the hallway and teleported them to the library.
"What is it, Professor?" Kurt asked. "Who's she?"
Raven stopped cold. She hadn't seen her son for years…almost 12. She was taken aback by how much he had grown.
"Well, Kurt, Marie," Professor X said. "You've long wanted to know more about your family. Kurt, this is Raven. She…she is…"
"I am your mother," Raven said shortly.
Kurt stared, completely shocked. She…she was his mother? "You…"
"And." Raven looked towards Rogue. "I am your aunt."
"My WHAT?!" Rogue shrieked. "How is that possible? Kurt is my brother!"
"He is your half-brother. Your mother is my sister."
"OK, back up!" Kurt yelped. "Just…just start over."
"All right, I will," Raven said. She appeared stoic, but inside her heart was hammering. Finally, after all these years, she was going to live with her family again! "Your father is a player," she said simply. "He carried on relationships with me, my sister Irene, and some other girl. Dena, I think her name was. Anyway, I got pregnant with you, Kurt. Irene had Marie, and Dena had twins, Pietro and Wanda. We were all in Germany at the time. I fostered you out due to…circumstances. Irene took her daughter and moved to the States. Dena, unfortunately, did not live very long. I think your father took her twins and disappeared off the face of the Earth."
"And you are here because…?" Rogue demanded.
"Because the Institute is about to be shut down."
"It's WHAT?!" That was both Kurt and Rogue.
"Professor?" Kurt looked at Charles.
Charles sighed. "I'm afraid this place is in danger of being closed. The government…"
"…thinks you living here with other mutants will get you thinking that you're equal to humans," Raven interrupted. "That's why I'm taking you out of here before they put you back in those cells."
"They want to put us BACK!?" Kurt yelped. "No. I don't think so."
"What I wanna know," Rogue interrupted, "is why you're here NOW. Why didn't you come earlier?"
"You think if I could, I would have? I didn't even know where you were until Charles contacted me a few years ago. And at the time, you were safer here. Now that this place is being closed down…"
"You're here to take us away," Rogue said tonelessly.
"I have to."
They were quiet for a minute
"Is Mama back in Louisiana?" Rogue said quietly. She'd last seen Irene was she was 8, when they'd been separated.
"Yes, they sent her back. She's just a psychic. There are dozens of fake psychics, so they figured people would brand her as another business woman in the entertainment industry."
A trace of a smile lit up Rogue's face. She'd desperately missed her mother.
"Professor?" Kurt looked at Charles. "Are we…?"
"She IS your mother," Charles said. "And she's Rogue's aunt. If she wants to take you out of here…I can't stop her."
"So…this is it? We're actually leaving?" Rogue asked.
"Yes. You are."
No, they're not! I can't have them leave yet! But tell me what you want me to do.
A) Have Irene's house burn down so Raven's stuck here
B) Have someone attack the Institute
C) Tell me what you want, 'cause I'm outta ideas!
Would anyone mind if I started calling Rogue 'Marie' from now on? It IS her real name…
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