Disc- I DON'T OWN X-MEN. STAN LEE OWNS THEM, I JUST OWN MARIE, SHAWN, RITA.
~:~:~:~:~:~:~:~:~:~:~:~
It had been a whole month of constant fear, not knowing when Magneto would ever come back for Rita's children, and to help it was Friday, the day before Valentines Day. Even though Rita had finally found some to love her back, she still lived in a deep sadness, never wanting to get close and lose another person ever again.
Rita sat on the end of her bed, holding a framed picture of Logan in her hands, a tear falling onto the glass, and rolling down to rest on the wooden edge. It had been so hard to explain to her children why daddy wasn't around; Logan had left two weeks ago. Rita knew that sometimes Logan just needed his space but she never thought that it would be needed so soon.
Rita thought back to the day, it was a week after Magneto's henchman had tried to take Marie and Shawn and Logan said he just couldn't deal with the stress right now. He swore up and down that he would be back in a week and Rita had believed him, but now it seemed so hard to keep hope.
All her crying had been done when he never came home after the week was up, and now she had to face Scott every day, hear him tell her how Logan never was a family man and was most-liking giving some Canadian girl a one night stand, or was with a hooker at a run-down bar.
Rita quickly wiped the tears away as Shawn walked into the room, dragging a small, black and red blanket with him. "Hi mommy." Shawn smiled as Rita picked him up and walked into his room, putting him in his bed. It was 5 in the afternoon and nap-time for the Cromwell kids.
Rita kissed both Shawn and Marie then turned to go downstairs when her daughter's voice stopped her. "Why is daddy not here mommy?" Rita cringed the second the question was asked and wished that with all her heat she could make Marie understand the truth.
"Well sweetheart, daddy had to go on a special trip and daddy will come back soon." Rita smiled as her kids closed their eyes for nap-time.
Rita walked downstairs and saw Kurt and Kitty in the living room, they were watching the movie of the weekend, every weekend Professor Xavier would rent two movies he thought the kids would like and they could watch them whenever they wanted. The good thing this week was Even and Ororo went out to get the movies this week, so they had stuff that the students would really enjoy.
It was the very beginning of Daredevil and Kitty had already found a place in Kurt's arms. Rita would have thought the moment cute, except Kitty was talking about a mile a minute in her valley girl accent and Rita felt so sorry for poor Kurt.
"So like, Jean turned around and like, started yelling, at like Duncan Matthews. You know, like the all-star football player, then he like got all mad because like, Scott showed up and like, put his arm around Jean's waist. Then Duncan was like 'leave my girl alone Summers.' And Scott was like 'she's not your girl Matthews' then Jean and Scott like walked away just as Sara showed up and like hung all over Scott. She like, kept asking Scott to take off his sunglasses and he like, kept saying that he like, had this eye problem and he like, couldn't." Kitty summed up the whole day's gossip in a minute as Kurt had a look of true pain on his face.
'Poor Kurt' Rita thought again as she turned to open the door, Jean had promised to keep an eye on Marie and Shawn so that Rita could go out for the rest of the night and have some fun. Rita quickly grabbed her coat to go out into the fresh, winter night when she opened the door and felt all color drain from her face when she saw Holly standing there with a smug grin. "Hello Rita, guess you wanted to see me so much that you just had the thought to stand outside and wait huh?" Holly said, pushing past Rita and stepping into the institute.
"What the fuck do you think you're doing here? You don't belong here so just turn your ass around and get the hell out of my sight." Rita said as Holly looked at her and pretending to look shocked from the 'vile' language Rita just used.
"So Rita, you kiss your mother with that mouth?" Holly asked as Rita's face flamed red with anger.
Hearing all the language and yelling Kurt, Kitty, and Ororo came running into the room, stopping suddenly when they saw the two girls glaring at each other. "By the way Holly, Logan's not here for you to hang over so you might as well just leave."
"I didn't come for Logan you dumbass, I came for you, we all know only one of us can have Logan and that one girl is going to be me." Holly remarked as she took a huge knife from her coat.
Rita sighed and flew into the air; nearly missing Holly's little knife attack. "Ok, no more of this, I'm tired of having to fly around a damn human" Rita said, her hands charged with a dark black flame, the flame continued to grow into a ball as Rita let it go, hitting Holly right in the stomach. "That would be payback." Rita smiled as Holly stumbled backwards, bleeding badly.
Rita flew down to Holly and picked her up by the shoulders, slamming her into the wall, hearing a nice 'crack' of Holly's bone. Holly screamed out in pain as Rita was about the grab Holly, but was stopped suddenly by the wonderful whimpering of pain.
Rita was ready to deliver the final blow to Holly as Kurt grabbed Rita's arm before she could kill Holly off. "Zhats enough Rita. She dozen't need to die." Kurt's strong German accent filled Rita's head as she put her hand back down to her side.
"Get out now Holly, and never cause trouble with me again, or you may not be so lucky next time." Rita said as Holly weakly stood up and walked out of the still open front door.
Ororo gave Rita a stern look, knowing that Rita was easily angered lately, now that Logan wasn't around. Rita's heart was broken, knowing that she could never keep anyone around for long. People always left her alone or they died, it's just the way things happened in Rita's life.
"A little hot-tempered now aren't we?" Pyro's voice came from the ajar door. "You know Rita, Magneto still wants those ankle-biters (A/N ankle-biters is an Australian word for children, kids) of yours and I'm here to get them."
"Don't you ever give up? You won't get them now, or ever so stop trying, and by the way you can tell Magneto that if he's still mad because I got rescued, then he needs a life. And by the way Pyro, give Mystique a little message while your talking to Magneto, tell Mystique to go fuck herself if she's planning on getting the kids herself, ok?" Rita said, throwing a fireball at Pyro, making him step backwards as Rita kicked the door shut in his face.
Rita looked around at all the shocked faces as she grabbed her trench coat once again and opened the door once she knew Pyro was gone, flying out into the sky that had darkened quite fast.
~:~:~:~:~:~:~:~:~:~:~
It seemed as if Rita had been flying for days now instead of all night. Finally at 9 the next morning Rita landed in a small city in Canada, determined to find where Logan was, and who he had to be with this whole time.
Rita walked among the snowy streets, wearing her trench coat to hide her wings, until she came upon a bar. Rita smiled as she walked in the bar, by now most of the drunks had already stumbled out the door to go home, but a lot of people were still around just to see the bar fights.
Rita made her way to the bartender, ignoring the loud whistles from the men. "Excuse me." Rita looked at the bartender as he turned to see what she wanted. "I was wondering if you help me."
"Now what's a pretty girl like you doing in a place like this?" the bartender smiled at Rita.
"Well to be honest sir, I'm looking for someone. He goes by the name 'Wolverine' do you know him?" Rita almost shouted over the continuing whistles.
"The Wolverine? Well of course I know him honey, but you just missed him, he came by here last night for a few fights then left at dawn." The bartender told Rita as she thanked him and left the bar, wondering where Logan could have gone to.
Rita walked to a park and sat on the bench, silently crying, blaming herself for coming so late and missing Logan. "Logan, why can't you stay in a bar more then a few hours?" Rita asked herself through tears.
"You talking about 'The Wolverine'? If you are I just saw him last night, I overheard him mutter to himself something about a cabin up in the woods." Rita dried her tears and turned to look at a middle-aged man.
"Thank you so much." Rita said as she ran into some trees and took flight, looking for any sign of woods.
~:~:~:~:~:~:~:~:~:~
Rita flew for an hour and finally landed at a cabin in the middle of no where. She walked to the door and knocked loudly. When no one answered she turned the handle, which was unlocked, and silently walked inside. She could smell cigar smoke and beer, that alone gave away that this was Logan's cabin. Rita ran to the window and saw fresh, motorcycle tracks in the snow. She missed him again.
Rita sighed as the phone rang. She picked up the phone and immediately heard Charles voice. "Well hello Logan."
"Sorry Professor, it's not Logan, but I wish it was." Rita answered.
"Rita? Where have you been and why are you in Canada? Jean has been worried sick and your kids keep asking why your not the one putting them to bed." Charles told her.
"Well I had to come look for Logan, but missed him twice, so just tell Shawn and Marie that mommy's coming home." Rita responded as she put the phone down and sat down for a minute.