(A/N this chapter jumps around a lot, from different points of view to time passing.)

Logan paced impatiently around the room. It had been two months since Logan and Rita got married, and now Rita was in the institute's med room, she'd been in labor for 16 hours now. Mr. Henry (Hank) McCoy was taking care of Rita.

Logan sighed, as he started getting worried about Rita, and then she started to scream. Logan silently laughed to himself as he listened to her "I WANT DRUGS DAMMIT! GIVE ME MY FUCKING DRUGS BEFORE I GET MADDER!" Rita shrieked.

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Rita looked around in the med room, watching Hank. She started to breathe heavily as she felt her child coming.

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Logan walked into the med room when he heard crying. He looked for Hank and when he finally saw Hank he smiled, seeing his new son in Hank's arms. Logan took his son from Hank when Rita started to scream again. Logan quickly looked down and saw almost an exact copy of his face looking back at him.

Puzzled Hank walked to Rita and noticed the reason for her screaming. "It seems like your having twins Rita." Hank said as Logan's child came out.

"Well Hank? What is it?" Logan asked, he had made his way to stand next to Rita, letting her see her son as well.

"Well Logan, you have a daughter now, but she seems to have taken on a few of her mothers characteristics." Hank told Logan as he brought Rita's daughter around the med table to show her. It was a beautiful girl with Rita's blue eyes and oddly enough Rita's black wings.

"She's a mutant then?" Rita asked as she watched her daughter's wings flap in Hank's face as she tried to fly, but failed.

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It was later decided by both Logan and Rita that their son would be named Shawn and their daughter, Marie.

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It had been a very hard and tiring year for everyone in the institute. The Professor had decided to run some tests on both Marie and Shawn when they were 10 months old and discovered that they had more powers then what was shown on the outside. Shawn had the mutation to control fire like his mother, a healing factor from his father; he was fast on his feet and could run faster then even the teenage students, and the ability to communicate telepathically with his sister because she was his twin. Marie on the other hand had the ability to fly, she had a healing factor like her father and brother, very heightened senses thanks to Logan and as well from her father sharp claw-like nails, well al that and she could communicate telepathically with her brother, she was also a little quick but only when she was flying which is why she always got mad at her brother when he wanted a race on foot.

Though Shawn and Marie were only 1 year old they loved to torment each other. Both knew a limited vocabulary and used it just to tease the other one.

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Rita took Shawn and Marie outside to the playground in the backyard that other Xavier students helped to build for the kids. Rita watched her children play in the sand as Logan walked outside holding a beer, standing next to Rita. Rita began to laugh as Marie picked up a handful of sand and flew over Shawn's head dropping it all on her older brother.

Shawn instantly turned around, throwing the biggest fireball he could throw, which was very small, at his sister, slightly scorching her wing, making her fall. Logan, dropping his beer, ran to where Marie was falling and caught her, looking at her wing as Rita was punishing Shawn. "Now Shawn, we've told you before, don't throw fire at your sister, if you want to play with her you can do it without fire."

"Sorry mommy." Shawn said as he held his arms up to Rita, giving her his best sad face which both he and Marie learned from Logan. Rita sighed and picked her son up, turning to look at Logan and Marie. Logan kissed the now sleeping Marie and looked at Rita. "Why do they always sleep for you but now me?"

"Because silly, I let them come out her at nap time until they waste they're energy and get tired. By the way clean this glass and beer up before they wake up and play out here again." Rita told Logan pointing to the broken beer bottle Logan had dropped and the pool of beer around the glass.

Rita took Marie from Logan and went inside, leaving him to clean up his mess. Rita walked into the room that was next to hers and Logan's which had been turned into the children's room and a new door was added to connect their room with their parent's room.

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Logan finished cleaning up the broken glass as Jean walked outside to see what the glass breaking was all about. "Shawn and Marie getting to you Logan? Just remember why your still here and not in some bar in Canada." Jean said as she walked with him in the house. "Bye Logan, sorry I can't stay and chat for a bit but I'm going out to meet Scott."

"Bye red, have fun with shades." Logan had started calling Scott shades about a year and a half ago just because he knew that Scott hated that nickname, but in Scott's mind it was better then Logan's old name for him; scooter.

"Hey darlin'." Logan said as he walked into Shawn and Marie's room and stood behind Rita. She smiled as Logan wrapped her arms around her and kissed her neck.

"Logan, come here, I wanna ask you a question." Rita said as she grabbed Logan's wrist and pulled him into their room. "Logan what's keeping you here so long? Why haven't you packed your bags and left by now? It's not like you to stay in one place longer then a few months so why have you stayed for two years?"

"You, Shawn and Marie are what's keeping me here so long. Nothing else. I stay because I want to be with you all and I don't want to leave you now, if I do I know I wont be back for you three for a least a few months and I don't want that to happen. Besides what would me leaving solve? Nothing, I'd just go back into the real world where everyone hates me just because I'm different. Remember humans don't like people who are different, their scared of people being different." Logan finished as he leaned down and kissed Rita.

Rita wrapped her arms around his neck and just let him hold her. Rita pulled away and picked up a framed picture of Logan, Rita, Shawn, and Marie. It had been taking a week ago and she smiled at Marie's beautiful silver hair she got from her mother and Shawn's dark hair from his father. Logan looked at the picture as Remy burst into their room.

"Remy, what is it?" Rita asked as Remy grabbed her arm and took her into Shawn and Marie's room. Rita gasped when she saw Pyro standing over Marie picking her up. Pyro was one of Magneto's henchmen; Rita knew that Magneto would want her kids sooner or later because they would become very powerful in the future.

"Don't St. John." Remy told Pyro as he threw a charged card at Pyro, exploding at his feet.

"Aw, Remy, so it is true, you joined the X-Men, sorry mate but I need to do this, direct orders from Magneto." St. John said with his Australian accent.

"No you don't." Rita said. "Marie dear, come to mommy." Marie flew out of Pyro's arms and to Rita. "Thank you Marie, now stay here." Rita flew up and kicked Pyro in the head, pushing him back against the window. "Say bye, bye Pyro." Rita told him as she kicked Pyro threw the window and watched him fall three stories. Rita was about to turn around when toad jumped through the window landing on Rita, catching her off guard.

"Yo, we're plan B you guys, so say bye, bye to your kids." Toad said as his tongue reached out and wrapped tightly around Marie, pulling her to him.

"Sorry bub, you don't get my family this time." Logan told toad as everyone heard the *SNIKT* of Logan's claws coming out. Logan ran at Toad and sliced his tongue, making toad let go of Marie. Logan picked toad up and sent him out the window to be with Pyro.

"I'm gonna rock your world." Lance said as everyone turned to see Lance standing in the doorway, a tremor starting and shaking the whole mansion. "Now give me those children of yours before I get made and take them for myself." Lance said as the tremor got worse, knocking things off the walls.

Rita caught a box as it fell off a shelf and threw it at Lance, knocking him off balance, ending the tremor. Remy turned around and grabbed a blanket, wrapping Lance in it and touching it with one of his charged cards, laughing as Lance struggled to get free. "Don't pull so much boy, once I let go of this card its like a time bomb just waiting to go off." Remy was just about to let go of the card as he was picked up by Fred Dukes 'The Blob'. "Let me go Fred, its be remember, your old friend?" Remy sighed, knowing it was no use, once he left the Brotherhood for the X-Men, Fred vowed he would never forgive Remy.

"No Remy, I don't remember a friend like you." Fred smiled as he began to crush Remy in his grip. The large boy always had tipped the scale at 976 pounds. Remy choked as Fred squeezed even harder, though it seemed that it was impossible for Fred to squeeze even harder then he was.

Rita jump kicked Fred from behind as Jean and Scott came running upstairs to see what the noise was about, after just getting home from their date. Logan had Jean take Marie and Shawn out of the room as Scott blasted Lance back to the wall.

After nothing happened the first time Rita tried jump kicking Fred again, making him stumble forward a little, and letting Remy wiggle free from Fred's grip. "Seems I moved the immovable object huh?" Rita taunted as she rose into the air, landing a hard kick to Fred's stomach, pushing him back against Lance, crushing his own teammate between himself and the wall.

Logan grabbed Fred and 'helped' him and Lance fly through the now broken window that the other Brotherhood members went through. Rita sighed, knowing that Pietro would be coming sooner or later to try and take the children away from the institute. To Rita's amazement it was Pietro that appeared in the doorway, it was Piotr, a.k.a Colossus, another one of Magneto's henchmen. Colossus could make a suit of armor form over his body at will the way Pyro can control fire at will.

Rita glared at Piotr and did a nice spin kick, hitting him right in the chest, the problem was the he pushed Rita back, not stunned because seconds before she kicked he put up his blue armor.

Logan charged at Colossus, hitting him with his claws, tearing right through the armor with ease. Colossus stepped back stunned, no one had ever broken his armor before and he didn't think he would find the person that could break his armor tonight just taking a few kids from the institute, but of course no one knew that Logan was the father until the very last second.

"Nicely done, the X-Geeks found a way to take down the Brotherhood, very entertaining to watch as well." Came Pietro's smooth, sweet talking, voice from behind them in the doorway. He flashed Rita his famous smug, cocky, grin that always won the hearts of teenage girls in Westchester.

"Why do you always come into the house from different spots? Two of you came from the window and three from the front door." Rita pointed out as Pietro walked towards them, Rita couldn't think that even for a second Pietro, her best friend, would ever try to take her children which he has seen himself thousands of times over the past year.

"Because we feel like it ok? So sorry if it offends you but guess what, I don't care. Anyway to get to the point I'm supposed to come and get Shawn and Marie so why not just hurt me now because I know I won't even be able to touch those kids before avoiding danger." Pietro told Rita, knowing just how much she loved her kids and that even thought they were best friends she wouldn't just hand over her kids to the bad guys.

"Your right, you wont be able to touch them so go tell you father that he can't have our kids and to go fuck himself ok?" Logan said as he glared hard at Pietro, watching him run out of the mansion in about two seconds. 

Rita fell to her knees, tears rolling down her face, knowing deep inside that her children would always be in danger, until the time when they could defend themselves they would be wanted badly by Magneto and Mystic. Logan kneeled next to her and put his arms around her, knowing exactly what she was thinking. For once in the past two years they've known each other, there were no more words to say, everything that could have been said was said.

"Mommy." Rita raised her head when she heard her little girl's voice from the hallway. "Mommy no cry" Marie said as she walked to Rita and hugged her. Rita smiled and leaned back against the wall, pulling Marie into her lap, holding her close.

"Ok baby, mommy won't cry anymore." Rita said, wiping her tears away. Marie always seemed to brighten up both Logan's and Rita's day. She had a happiness about her that her brother didn't have, Marie always knew the right time to come in and say something to her parents.

"I wuv you mommy." Marie told her mother sweetly as both Marie and Logan kissed Rita.

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"Remy, what does Magneto want my kids for? There only 1, they can't be of much use to him right now." Rita asked Remy as he was waiting for Rogue to get home from detention and go out with him.

"He wants your kids now so that they'll be easier to brain wash because there weak, they haven't learned to control their powers yet. When your kids get older they will be very powerful mutants Rita, you have to understand that. Marie has nails like Logan's claws and she can fly, that's what Magneto wants for his team, someone who will one day have the power to take down Sabretooth." Remy answered Rita as Rogue walked inside.

"Thanks Remy." Rita said turning to look at Rogue who was giving her boyfriend a kiss. "Hi Rogue, how was detention?" Rita teased; Rita still went to school while Logan watched the kids during the day. Everyone knew Rita was a mutant though and the new school principal, Principal Kelly, was trying everything he could think of to find a way to get Rita out of school. He never liked mutants; he was always the one to say that they would someday kill another student if they got even the slightest bit mad.

"Detention sucks, like always, and get this Rita, Remy, Kelly is trying to ban mah gloves, saying that there a distraction. Ah hate it, ah swear he's just trying to see if ah'm a mutant or not." Rogue replied in her sweet, southern voice.

"Don't worry Chere he can't do anything about your gloves, it's not like there in the dress code or anything." Remy told Rogue in his deep, Cajun voice.

Rita walked out of the living room, leaving Remy and Rogue alone to get ready for their date. She walked outside and watched Marie and Shawn playing in the sand box, they were building a sandcastle and were covered in the water they used to keep the sand in place. Rita started laughing as Logan walked outside with a few towels and told the kids to dry off.

Rita grabbed a towel from Logan's hands and went to Marie, wrapping the towel around her body and picking her up. "Ok sweetheart, lets go and get you some dry clothes then you can come back out and play with Shawn some more, but no more water for you." Rita told Marie as she took her daughter upstairs and changed her into some dryer clothes. Logan walked upstairs with Shawn in his arms and Logan changed Shawn into dryer clothes and put him down on the ground besides his sister and watched them run downstairs to go play in the sandbox again.

Sighing Rita turned to Logan. "You know there just going to get dirty again when they play in the water, even though I told them not to."

"I know" Logan said to Rita as he bent down and kissed her, running his hand through her hair. "Don't worry, Magneto wouldn't dare try that stunt again, they'll be fine." Logan assured Rita.

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Rita lay next to Logan that night, unable to sleep. She tried so many times to fall asleep but it never happened, now glancing at the clock she saw that it was already 5 A.M. Two more hours and she would have to wake up and go to school. The good thing for her was that in the last year she finally got her own car so she wouldn't have to ride with Scott and Jean just to get to school. She had a black sports car that everyone in the institute helped to pay for as her birthday gift.

Finally at 5:21 Rita fell into a nice, deep sleep. Luckily her sleep was dreamless, she was sure that she would have the worst nightmares in the world about losing more people she loved. Rita always lost the people who were closest to her and she didn't want to continue that kind of awful life. She didn't want to lose Marie or Shawn, they were the world to her, and Logan was the person that held the whole family together.

"Wake up darlin'. You don't want to be late for school." Rita's eyes fluttered open as she heard Logan's voice, she looked around and saw Logan standing in jeans at the sink, shaving.

Rita got up and threw on a tube top and mini skirt, knowing that no one would care about the clothes she wore now that everyone knew she was a mutant and feared her. She walked up behind Logan and put her arms around his stomach. "Do I have to do to school?" Rita whined as Logan put the razor down and turned to kiss her.

"Yes, you do. Sorry darlin' but you need to." Logan told Rita, deepening the kiss he started.

Rita sighed as she went to her closet and pulled out her trench coat, putting it on. She was in the process of brushing her hair when she heard Shawn start to cry, no one knew how she did it but Rita always knew exactly what child it was crying.

"Wanna go take care of that Rita?" Logan asked as he was putting on his trademark flannel shirt.

"Nope, before 10 A.M and after 10 P.M. their your kids, not mine." Rita answered with a slight grin.

"Fine, be like that." Logan said disappearing through the door that connected their room with Shawn and Marie's.

Rita looked at herself in the mirror. Over the past year she had gotten her original, slim, figure back and now at age 19, looked even more beautiful then she ever had before. Rita smiled at her reflection; she knew that some people liked mutants, like her friend Shawn, who she had named her son after. Even though Shawn got badly hurt by Logan a year and a half ago, he was still her friend, even though she was a mutant, he just didn't care, which is the reason that she stayed friends with him so long.

Rita's smiled widened as she saw her little boy's reflection in the mirror behind her. "Hi Shawny" Rita said as Shawn gave her his cute smile, which of course was taut to him by his father.

Rita turned her back to the mirror and kneeled so Shawn could give her a hug before she had to leave for school. In truth Rita would have graduated but she was taking senior courses for the time she missed when she was with her kids for a year. Rita just started going back to school four months ago and had only two more months to go.

Shawn gave his mother a hug just as Marie came running into the room to hug her mother. Ever since Marie had learned to fly, she could fly out of her crib, which is why she never got time outs anymore, no one could keep her from flying out of her crib.

"Buh, bye mommy." Marie and Shawn said in unison as Rita walked out the door.

"Bye Shawn, goodbye Marie, bye Logan." Rita told her family, kissing them all goodbye.

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Rita walked up the front school steps when she came face to face with Holly, the wonderful girl who put Rita in a coma. "What do you want Holly?" Rita asked pushing Holly aside, walking to her first class. Holly never graduated; she got bad grades and was held-back.

"I think I remember telling you a year and a half ago, I want your man, and now that you're obviously not pregnant anymore he has no reason to stick around and stay with you." Holly answered with her smug grin as she stepped back into Rita's way.

"Well, guess what, we got married last year in May, and he's not even close to leaving me so don't try your little stunt again, ok? Now stay away from both me and my man or else you get hurt." Rita warned.

"And how will you hurt me? If you even think of using your 'powers' Principal Kelly will have you expelled very fast." Holly laughed, knowing she had the advantage just because Rita was a mutant.

"Leave her alone Holly." Came Shawn's voice from a crowd of people. Shawn was now a senior and one of the most popular boys in school, which is why some of guys around the school didn't mind mutants.

"Really, like, leave her alone." Heads turned to see Kitty Pryde, her valley girl accent was unmistakable, Kitty was finally a sophomore and didn't have to worry about freshmen Friday anymore. 

"Why should I listen to you? You're a mutant, you're just another one of those institute freaks, and I hear all the rumors about you guys, that you're taut by blue apes. And Shawn, you don't need to defend them, just face it, freaks are freaks and nothing will ever change, I mean, think about the rumors, her husband doesn't even know his own last name so he has to use hers." Holly finished as Rita's hands were surrounded by black flames.

"Our teacher is not an ape, you should remember him, he used to be like, your favorite teacher, and it's like, Mr. McCoy. Come on Rita, like, don't give this geek the satisfaction of getting you expelled." Kitty said, taking Rita by the wrist and walking with her to English Lit. They both had all the same classes despite the age difference because Principal Kelly wanted all the known mutants to be put in the same class, so they wouldn't harm any of the 'normal' students that attended Bayville High.