Two

    "Watchoo' smiling bout sugar?"

    Gambrel smiled. "Bless you."

    "Cuse' me?"

    "You sneezed, I said bless you."

    The woman slammed her hands on the bars in an attempt to scare Gambrel, but Gambrel took the opportunity to grabbed the woman's hands, pull them through the bars and proceed to break her fingers one by one, then her wrists before an officer slammed his baton on the bars and Gambrel let the woman's hands go with a huge grin on her face.

    The officer shook his head disapprovingly at Gambrel but did nothing but shove the woman back into her cell.

    Gambrel nodded and went behind the five-foot wall to take her shower. After she toweled off she searched her laundry bag and pulled on the clothes. She was brushing out her hair when the cell doors opened.

    "I already told you Professor Xavier, I am not going to talk about my innocence or guilt."

    "I'm not here to discuss that." A deeper voice said.

    She spun around and gasped in shock to see Logan standing there with his arms folded across his chest.

    "Why didn't you contact me kid?" he demanded.

    Gambrel collected herself then smiled. "I already told you daddy dearest."

    "You cannot hold that against me-"?

    "WHY NOT?" she screamed. "YOU VOLUNTEERED FOR THE OPERATION, IT WAS YOUR OWN DAMN FAULT YOU GOT THAT AMNESIA AND FORGOT ABOUT US!"

    "I didn't know-"

    "BULLSHIT LOGAN!" she threw her brush at him but he blocked it. "You left us for that damn Stryker man, and you don't even remember it. do you remember who I am? Do you remember what my powers are? Do you remember anything about me besides that I am your goddaughter and even at that how much do you remember Logan?" she narrowed her eyes and took a step toward him. "How much?"

    Logan glared down at her. "I remember you are only twenty one, I remember that you would never hurt anything, I remember Tommy is your brother-"

    Gambrel turned away lowering her head.

    "Where is Tommy anyway? Does he come and visit you?"

    "He's somewhere in Japan." She said tonelessly.

    "And I remember perfectly well that I am your Godfather and I am furious to know that you are in here and I had no clue about it."

    Gambrel rubbed her eyes. "Look Logan, if it helps then I'll tell you. Hey! Godfather! I am in jail on the charges of murder. There are you happy?"

    "What is this hate?" Logan asked.

    She turned to him, her tears torn into her cheeks. "Three years! Three years I have been here, three year I haven't breathed fresh air, three years I haven't stood in the sun and three years I haven't cried. And it's been what? Fifteen years since I last you? I WAS SIX THE LAST TIME I SAW YOU!" she slapped Logan and shook her head. "You are nothing to me anymore Logan, you are not my godfather, you have been gone for so long, I have heard a lot about you though, Professor Xavier first told me about you about a year and a half ago back, when you and some girl name Rogue came to him. You became and X-man… woo-hoo, good for you. You get pissed at me for not telling you, well how could I Logan? I never knew where you were and you had been gone for so long, I almost cried when I found out Saber tooth didn't kill you on that liberty statue."

    Logan took a deep breath trying to clam himself down.

    "I heard that Rogue chick is taken with you and you are taken with Jean Grey and you protected Rogue on during the Liberty Island incident like you should have been protecting, oh I don't know, your godchildren for example?" she raised her eyebrows then spat at him. "I am not saying that this," she raised her arms. "Is all your fault, no, it is my fault, my decisions, my choices. I choose to protect and you chose what? To get claws and no memory?" she looked at the officer and nodded he opened the door and took Logan's arm.

    "Wait, what do you mean you chose to protect?"

    "I guess you'll never know huh?" she turned her back and the officer pulled Logan out of the cell and locked the doors shut again.

    Logan sighed heavily and let the officer lead him back to the main foyer of the prison. As he left the building to the motorcycle, Gambrel watched him from her window. He looked up at her and shook his head. She took the rose blossom she got from Tommy and threw it out the window and as it descended toward him, the wind ripped it apart, petal by petal and took it away.

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    "Scott was right this time Professor, she doesn't want to be out of there."

    Scott starred at Logan. "You are agreeing with me?"

    "Miracles do exist." Jean smiled.

    Logan shook his head. "I went to talk to her, and she said she made hr choice and she chose to protect somebody, but what does that mean?"

    "Maybe," the Professor smiled. "She is in there because someone else committed the murder but she is protecting them so she took the blame."

    "But who would she do that for?" Jean asked.

    Logan sighed. "Do you really have to ask?"

    "Tommy." The Professor sighed. "How did I miss this earlier?"

    "I wouldn't have seen it either."

    "Well, just use Cerebro, find him that way." Scott shrugged. "It shouldn't be hard."

    "No, Tommy isn't a mutant and even though I could use Cerebro to find all humans, I cannot use it to find hybrids."

    "Hybrids?" Logan asked.

    The Professor nodded. "Yes Logan, hybrids. I think you need to talk to your goddaughter again."

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    Gambrel laughed so hard she was tearing at the eyes. She gathered herself and sat on her bunk. "I am sorry Logan, I just… you just confirmed my thoughts."

    "Oh? And what were they?"

    "That you really don't remember jack about me or Tommy." She shrugged. "Hybrids," she shook her head. "Dad was a mutant, mother was a mutant, and dad was attacked by a vampire and made into one. Tommy and I are half vampires, half mutants. So you see, since the mutant gene is not dominant in Tommy, Cerebro would most likely classify him for a void. It wouldn't pick him up."

    "Would it pick you up?"

    "Yes," she nodded. "It does, but it doesn't matter, I am always here."

    "I can bust you out of here, I can get Kurt-"

    She shook her head. "You are senile. I said I am in here because I CHOSE to protect someone."

    "Who? Tommy?"

    "Like I said, I guess you'll never know."

    "Why protect someone Gambrel. I can get you out of here and into the daylight-"

    "YOU THINK I CAN'T DO THAT FOR MYSELF? YOU THINK I AM A MERE HYBRID!" she whipped her hand back and then forward, a pillar of fire shot out from her hand, through the cell bars and destroyed the wall opposite of her cell. "I can get out of here by myself, but like I said, I choose to stay."

    Logan sighed. "Why won't you tell me?"

    "Because if you truly wanted to know, you would find out for youself."

    Officers came running and gaped at the whole in the wall.

    "That woman did it," Gambrel said pointing. "She's trying to escape and blame it on me!"

    They tackled her, she screamed out in pain as the weight of them crushed her already broken hands. Gambrel laughed as the officer dragged Logan out of the cell.

    "I'll find out why Gambrel! I swear it!" Logan shouted all the way down the hall.

    "Yeah, you'll discover why I am in here, I know you will." She smiled and closed her cell door, which was left open in all the chaos of the large whole.

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    "We have to find Tommy." Logan said to the Professor.

    "I agree, she said he was in Japan didn't she?"

    "But how will we find him?" Jean asked. "I mean, if we can't use Cerebro, how then?"

    "The old fashion way," Logan said. "We'll look."