Disc- Me own only Gordon, Rita, Shawn, and Marie.
(A/N hope this makes up for the short chapter last time)
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Logan walked into his cabin and looked around the small living room. Something was not right; a sweet smell came to his nose. Logan gently shut the door, walking in the direction of the smell. Logan knew the smell but just could not place it.
Logan stopped at a chair and looked down to see a sleeping Rita. "Well hi there darlin'." Logan said rather loudly, waking Rita up.
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Rita looked up from the chair into Logan's deep brown eyes. "Don't 'hi darlin'' me! You said one week, it's been two!" Rita jumped out of the chair, yelling at Logan. "Oh, but it must not matter much, your not the one who has to tell two 1 year old children the reason daddy isn't home!"
"I know Rita, I'm sorry, but one thing led to another, then it was two weeks." Logan told her, walking towards Rita, to hug her.
"Don't touch me!" Logan backed away in defeat at Rita's harsh words. "If you only knew what's been going through my mind! I mean, I even started to believe Scott, that you were off with some girl at a run-down bar or something!"
"You know me better then that Rita; I just got caught up when I saw an old friend. But what about you? You just left Shawn and Marie?" Logan tried once again to get close to Rita but backed off as she glared at him.
"I left to find you, and I'm sorry I did. I thought I knew you better, but I guess your friends will always come before your children and me. By the way, Holly came round for a fight last night, and Pyro came for the kids if you even care. Bye." With that said, Rita opened the front door and flew off.
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Logan managed to follow Rita back to the institute and be inside, standing in front of the door when she came in. "Just don't give up do you?" Rita asked coldly as she pushed him aside and walked upstairs to see her children.
"I never give up if I want something bad enough and I want to talk to you without you yelling at me." Logan followed Rita and stood by the door as Rita checked on both Shawn and Marie, then followed her into their room.
"You have five minutes, now talk and it better be good." Rita gave Logan a cool, blank look.
"Look Rita, I love you and I love those kids, but sometimes I just need to get away. Three weeks ago, you asked why I didn't leave, and I told you because I love you, but a week later, I just had to go away for a bit. I just got so caught up in my past, that I couldn't go home, not that soon. And when I saw you in my cabin I knew you had to have searched forever to find it, no one knows where it is, or that it even exists, but you must have missed me enough to risk going out into the cold just to find me." Logan told her, as he turned around to leave the room.
"See, there you go again, always running away when things get bad. Is this how it's going to be every time something goes wrong? Cause if that's the case I won't allow it, if that's what's going to happen then leave now before Marie and Shawn have seen that you came home. I won't stand in your way anymore Logan, walk through that door and go now and never come back, ever, or turn around and talk to me." Rita crossed her arms and waited to see what would happen next.
To Rita's shock Logan turned around and crossed the distance between them and put his arms around Rita. "I won't leave, not forever. You knew long before we got married that I needed to leave sometimes, so I still don't understand why you're mad."
"I'm mad because you promised it would only be one week, then two weeks passed and I got worried. I don't care that you were gone, I've never cared, but the fact that you didn't even think to call me and say you weren't coming home as soon as you planned, that made me mad." Tears stung Rita's eyes as she gave into Logan's arms and pressed her face against his chest, letting her tears drop, dampening his shirt.
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Two days later, Rita found herself walking up the same school steps, and felt the same crowd of eyes watching, staring, gawking, everything that happens to mutants in public these days. Rita walked silently into her homeroom and took her seat in the front of the class. Mutants were forced to sit in the front of the class so that they could be watched more carefully.
Of course to Rita's luck Holly walked into class, her arm in a sling and her leg in a cast. Holly walked up to the teachers desk and talked to the teacher about what happened to her and that Rita Cromwell had to be watched even closer now that Rita had a temper problem and just hated Holly for no apparent reason.
Because of the fact that Rita left without telling anyone her car was taken away for a week, so Logan had to drop her off and pick her up from school for the next week. "Class, we have a foreign student attending our school for the next month so please be nice to him." The teacher's last few words about a new boy at school excited most of the girls in the class, well all the girls except Rita.
"Um, Miss, is he a mutant?" One of the preppy cheerleaders asked.
"I do not know Miss Sanders, but he should be coming a few minutes." The Teacher said just as a cute, boy wearing black sunglasses, a blue shirt, and black baggy pants walked into the room, giving the teacher a piece of paper.
"Class, this is Mr. Gordon Bird, he's our new student from England for the next month. By the way Mr. Bird could you please take off the sunglasses?" Every girl in the room was eager to see the boy's eyes, everything about the boy was cute, and his eyes must be perfect they thought.
"Ok Ms." Gordon said in his deep British, accent. Gordon took the glasses off as every gasped; he had dark black eyes, with an ice blue pupil. He was indeed a mutant. The girls sighed; they wouldn't be caught dead with a mutant, no matter how cute he was.
"Well kids, guess we have another mutant, Mr. Bird please take a seat next to Ms. Cromwell." The teacher told Gordon as Rita waved at him, signaling that she was Ms. Cromwell.
Gordon took his seat next to the hot, raven-haired girl. Gordon looked to the teacher as Rita placed a note on his desk; the teacher was watching but just shook her head. The teacher was too much of a chicken to ever intercept a note passed by a mutant.
Hi, I'm Rita Cromwell. It's good to finally have another mutant here, the girl next to you with the brunette hair up in a ponytail; she's the only other mutant in this class. Her name is Kitty Pryde. So what are your powers?
I can freeze things with my mind; it's so cool, what about you?
I'm pyrokinetic, plus I can fly, and read people's minds sometimes, but not that well. Everyone calls me the Hell Angel though, so why would you come to a public school full of humans who want us dead?
Well, it was though. My mother wanted me to come to a school in New York for a little while and this was the only school that would let me come because I'm English and they didn't want me to get wrapped up in the mutant crisis here.
It's not the only school. Apart from this dump both me and Kitty attend Charles Xavier's School for the Gifted, or if you want to call it Xavier's school for mutants. All kinds of mutants live there, plus the X-Men, which are the adults who live there; the X-Men are also the teachers. A few teenagers are X-Men but not many, I am, and so is Kitty and a few others who you should meet during lunch.
I'll look forward to it.
Rita smiled when she read Gordon's last reply, that is until the teacher came up behind her and grabbed the note from Rita's hands.
"This isn't the time to socialize Ms. Cromwell." The teacher snapped at Rita, putting the note in her pocket as Rita's hands were devoured in dark flames, her teachers refused to call her Mrs. Cromwell.
"Ms. Cromwell! You know better then to use your powers in my classroom, I'll" the bell for second period rang, saving Rita from having to talk to Principal Kelly…again.
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Rita was walking to lunch when she ran into Gordon. "Hi Gordon, you better come with me and sit with me and my friends, the mutants have to stick together, no one else will sit with us." Rita grabbed Gordon's wrist and dragged him to the table that Kurt, Kitty, Jean, and Scott were already sitting at. "Hey guys, this is Gordon Bird, he's the foreign student that's coming to Bayville High for the next month. And don't worry Scott, he's a mutant." Rita laughed when she saw the look on Scott's face soften when he heard that Gordon was a mutant.
"Hi Gordon, I'm Jean." Jean smiled as he sat down. "This is my boyfriend Scott, and that's Kurt and Kitty."
"Hello Scott, Jean, Kurt, hello again Kitty." Gordon's strong accent made the girls smile as Rogue and Remy walked up.
"Rogue, Remy this is the new student from England, he's a mutant. Gordon this is Rogue and her boyfriend Remy." Rita introduced the three mutants as Pietro was suddenly sitting next to Rita with his arm around her.
"Ugh, Pietro, get off." Rita shoved Pietro off her as he fell to the ground, quickly getting up as Lance and the other Brotherhood members showed up.
"Aw come on Rita, its just a little fun, nothing more then that." Lance said. "So who's the new X-Geek?"
"His name is Gordon and he's the new student here for a month." Rita answered Lance's question as toad's tongue hit a fly and brought it into his mouth for him to eat. The girls turned away, ready to throw up.
Rita laughed, as Gordon turned a little green. "Poor Gordon, you get used to it after a while, thought not too used to it."
He smiled as the bell for 5th period rang and the mutants filed into the school halls.
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Rita and Gordon walked out of the school talking; Gordon was going home with Rita to see the institute and would call the family he's living with from there. They walked outside as Rita gasped and grabbed Gordon's arm, stopping him from walking. Holly was talking to Logan!
"That, that's my husband, and Holly!" Rita was shocked, and went pale white as Holly wrapped her arms around Logan's neck, moving in to kiss him. Rita sighed as Logan pushed her away and watched her hit against the wall.
"You dam bastard!" Holly yelled as she moved away from the wall only to run into Rita and Gordon.
"Funny isn't it Holly? I mean I swear I told you to stay away from me and Logan, but you couldn't could you?" Rita's eyes turned deadly black as an orange flame with a blue center flickered in her eyes.
"You freak!" Holly yelled before running away.
Rita turned to look at Logan and saw Kitty standing there. "Kitty! Why didn't you say something to me about Holly?" Kitty looked down when Rita asked the one question Kitty was dreading, it was true, she never said anything to Logan when Holly actually kissed him before Rita walked outside.
"I'm sorry Rita, but do you want to walk up to Edward Scissor hands and yell at him? It's not safe for your health, mainly when he kissed her." Kitty gasped when she realized what she had just said. Rita's color came back to her face as she grabbed Gordon's wrist and said they would walk back to the institute.
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"So your married I take it?" Gordon asked as the institute came into view, Logan's motorcycle in perfect view behind the large metal gate.
"Yeah I am, but it doesn't seem to be going very well these past few days." Rita said as she walked to the gate and put in a series of numbers, opening the gate.
Logan was standing next to the bike, out of view if you weren't on the campus. Kitty took that as a time to run out of the institute and grab Gordon's arm, dragging him inside to use the phone so Logan and Rita could be alone.
"Rita, I'm sorry, I didn't do anything, she kissed me, I never kissed her." Logan's eyes pleaded with her to believe him, but she just couldn't.
"And what did you do to stop her Logan? Did you pull away? What?" Rita looked at him and hoped his answer would be yes.
"No, I didn't do anything Rita."
"Exactly, you did nothing."
"I'm sorry, it wasn't my fault. Just forgive me." Logan's eyes continued to silently plead.
"Logan, I forgive you for being with her, I forgive you for not doing anything, and I even forgive you for the kiss, but how can I forgive you for not telling me about the kiss? Kitty shouldn't have to tell me, you should tell me. So tell me Logan, what am I supposed to think? Tell me now Logan, please tell me how I can still trust you." Rita's face saddened when Logan said nothing.
After a few minutes, Logan looked at Rita. "You can trust me; you saw yourself how I pushed her off me, isn't that enough for you?"
"I don't know anymore Logan, Holly is a witch and she'll do anything in the world to wreck this family and get you for herself." Rita sat on a nearby garden bench as Logan sat next to her and put an arm around Rita's shoulders.
"Your right, but she won't get me. I don't like her in the least, I like you. Just because she'll stop at nothing doesn't mean that she's going to actually get what she wants. She'll die wanting me before she gets what she wants." Logan kissed Rita as Shawn and Marie took that time to walk out front and look at their parents.
"Ewww." Marie and Shawn said in unison as Rita and Logan started to laugh. Rita picked up Marie and Logan picked up Shawn, putting them on their laps and hugging them.