Disclaimer: Sorry I forgot this part last chapter (as someone so nicely reminded me) Anyone you recognize from Marvel, belongs to them. I only own Frankie and Jan. If you want to borrow either one (although I have no idea why anyone would want Jan) just send me and email. The song Beautiful in the last chapter belongs to Christina Aguilera.
A/N: This chapter starts the explanations on why Bishop is there. Please read and review. That way I know how I am doing so far.
Chapter 11
The next morning
Frankie woke up early, just when the sun was starting to rise. Because they only had three bedrooms at the warehouse, it was decided that Jubilee would sleep in Frankie's room with her. When Frankie woke up, she looked over to Jubilee. Just then Jubilee turned over, giving Frankie a good look at the bruise on her jaw from the punch she took from Jan. The sight of it made Frankie angry and she decided to go down to the warehouse to get some of energy that anger brought up.
When Jubilee woke up about an hour later, she noticed Frankie was already up. Deciding to use the easy way to find her, Jubilee searched for her through their link. When she met a wall, she was concerned. Then she decided to find her the old fashioned way, by looking. She searched the kitchen, living room, and bathroom before she decided to see if maybe Frankie was on the loading dock off the warehouse. It never occurred to her that Frankie would try training alone. So when she got to the warehouse, she saw the last thing she was expecting, Frankie, out cold. She ran to her, trying to figure out what happened. When she got to her, Frankie was just beginning to come around.
"What happened?" Jubilee asked Frankie.
"Guess I tried to do too much, too fast," Frankie replied.
"What in the hell were you thinking, training by yourself? Something could have happened. Oh wait, obviously it did. You were out when I finally found you."
"I'm not a little girl, Jae. I can take care of myself, normally. I wasn't doing anything really strenuous. Just trying to work on my control a little. Guess I took it a little hard on myself. When I woke up and saw your jaw, I just snapped again. I knew I had to get it out of my system fast, or something worse might have happened."
"You got angry because of a little bruise? God, Frankie, I've had worse than this before."
"But not because of me. You got hit because I was so angry at Jan, I wasn't paying enough attention to what was going on. She hit you because I failed. That isn't going to happen again."
"I don't blame you. I was the one that walked in the way of her fist. She was aiming at you, not me."
"That's what I mean. I should have seen it coming and took care of it myself. Instead, I let my emotions over-take me."
"Frankie, your an empath. You probably had everyone's emotions going through you at the moment. We haven't really gotten your shields built up yet. So quit blaming yourself. Now, tell me what you were working on so hard, you passed out."
Frankie just smiled and had Jubilee sit against one of the outer walls. Then she walked out to the middle of the room and started glowing. She then held up her right hand, palm up and concentrated on it. Suddenly, a sword appeared, made up of the same plasma as her and Jubilee's pafs. Once she was finished, she turned and looked at Jubilee.
"I decided to see if we could do more than just make pafs. Took me most of the morning to figure out how to do it." With that, the sword disappeared.
"Wow, that is amazing. I had never thought to try that before. Can you make anything else?"
"That was the first thing I thought I would try. It takes and incredible amount of energy to do though. That is probably why I was passed out when you found me."
"Ok, maybe we can work more later. Right now, let's go get some breakfast. After that, we need to have that talk with Bishop."
"Breakfast, music to my ears. You cooking this morning, or do I have to do that too?"
"Hmm, I think I can be persuaded to cook, if you can teach me how you did that."
"Sounds like a deal to me."
Later that morning
Once everyone got up, and ate, they all met in the living room for the much needed discussion on what was going on with Jubilee and Frankie. For some reason, Frankie was feeling very anxious about this discussion, and tried, unsuccessfully, to have it put off a little longer. Bishop almost let her get away with it, but Jubilee and Kitty wanted answers. Since it was two to one about it, Frankie gave up and went with the other three into the living room. Once they were all seated, Bishop started with the explanation.
"Well, about the time of Frankie's graduation from Basic, Jubilee had been kidnapped. We still to this day don't know what happened. All we do know is when she was found, she had retreated into herself. She wouldn't talk to anyone, not even Logan. Since I was going to be going to the Air Force graduation about that time, it was decided it would be good for Jubilee to get away from the mansion for a while and come with me down there."
"Well that explains how you got me down there. If I had been in my right mind, I doubt I would have agreed to go. But that still doesn't explain why you went. You had never went to any military graduations before. What was so special about that one?"
"That explanation is going to have to wait. It's not really important right now. Now, let me continue. Once the parade and ceremony were over, the graduates got to spend the rest of the weekend on Base-Lib. Basically, that means they could go pretty much where they wanted, as long as they stayed on base. I went up and introduced myself to Frankie."
"Why me? I didn't know you from Adam till that day. Out of the 60 members of my flight, not to mention the other two flights that graduated that day, you picked me to come up to. Why?"
"I can see that you are not going to let me wait for the explanation, are you?"
"No. Plus there is what Jan said about you going after her, telling her your my brother. I know we got close, but that still doesn't explain anything."
"You're right and you have a right to know. As Jubilee and Kitty will tell you, I am from the future. I also come from another time line than this one. In my time, I had an older sister. When I got back here, I decided to see if I could find her. Imagine my surprise when I found out she followed in the family footsteps and joined the military."
"And this has to do with me, how?"
"I think he is trying to tell you, that you are that sister," Kitty jumped in.
"Whoa, wait a minute here. I don't have any younger brothers. My parents divorced about a year after my youngest sister was born, and my mom never had another long-term relationship after that."
"I told you I came from another time-line. In my time, our mother did have another relationship. I am the result of it."
"Great, so now I get the younger brother I always wanted, and he is older than me. That just figures." Frankie said, not really believing any of what Bishop had said.
"Frankie, calm down. You don't want to pass out again, do ya?" Jubilee said.
"Calm down? CALM DOWN? How in the hell am I supposed to do that? I just found out I have a younger brother, that came back from the future. He's been in my life now for ten years, and just now decides to tell me? Hell no I won't calm down." With that, Frankie turned on her heel and ran out of the room.
Jubilee jumped up and got in Bishops face. "You never told her? In ten years, you never thought it was important enough to let her know you were family? Why did you keep that from her?"
"It never seemed the right time. I tried to tell her that first weekend, at her graduation, but she was kinda spaced out the first day, then you were tagging along behind her the rest of the time. I didn't think she could handle it when I went to her two years later. She had too much to deal with then, without me adding this to it. After that, I thought maybe it was best if I didn't tell her. I know I was wrong, but how would you have handled it?"
"Does anyone else know?"
"The professor. I had to explain to him why I wanted to go to her graduation, then when she was hurt."
"Listen. Let's continue this talk in a bit. Right now, I have to go make sure she isn't trying to hurt herself." And Jubilee took off in the same direction Frankie did minutes earlier.
When she finally caught up to her, Frankie was sitting on the loading dock, trying to come to terms with everything.
"I heard you going after him Jae, and what he said. I don't agree with it, but I can understand a little."
"He could have found a way though. I mean in ten years, he never found a way to tell you? I find that a little too unbelievable."
"I don't. Most of the time, all we did was talk over the phone. That is not something to tell someone that way. It also explains a bit why he didn't want me to visit him in Westchester. With the professor knowing, who else might have guessed?"
"Logan might have, with that sniffer of his. But both wouldn't have said anything, unless Bishop ok-ed it first. It just upsets me, ya know? If I were in your place, I would have wanted to know right away. Then again, I am an only child, so if I had another sibling, I would really want to know."
"Oh, he isn't getting off that easy. Now that I know, he has no excuse for not coming with me to the family gatherings," Frankie said with an evil smirk on her face.
"Oh man, from what you told me, that is cruel and unusual punishment."
"So glad you think so, cause your going too."
"What? And how do you think to can get me there?"
"Oh I'll think of something," Frankie said, grabbing Jubilee and kissing her. "Thank you for coming after me. I needed this. Just give me a few minutes more, then we should head back and finish all this. I have a feeling that is only the tip of what we have to learn today.
