Disc- I do not own X-Men, Stan-Lee does. You should know who I own by now.
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Rita woke up to see St. John standing over her bed. "What the hell are you doing in my room?"
"Magneto says to get you up. I just came to wake you, if your going to yell at someone, yell at Magneto. Now are you going to get up and get dressed, or do I need to help you?" St. John said with a sly grin.
"Get out!" Rita yelled, throwing a pillow at St. John, hitting the door just as John ran out.
Grumbling Rita got out of bed and walked to the dresser, pulling out a tube top and mini-skirt. Rita walked to the closet and pulled out her trench coat and a pair of high heels. She quickly ran a brush through her hair and ran downstairs.
The second Rita stepped into the room that the two boys, Magneto, and Mystique were in, St. John let out a long whistle, looking at Rita. He turned to Magneto, "Thanks mate, I like this Sheila." John grinned at Rita as she rolled her eyes and sat on the couch.
"Rita, go get the other boys and meet us at the institute, it's time too prove yourself to us." Magneto smiled as Rita stood up to get the other boys when Sabretooth walked into the room.
"What is she doing here?" Sabretooth growled when he saw Rita.
"Calm down Victor, Rita is on our side now, but Victor, when we get to the institute you need to find Logan and distract him, understand?" Magneto looked at Sabretooth as he nodded in agreement.
"So, what are we actually doing there anyway?" Rita looked from Mystique to Magneto.
"Its all very simple my dear. Now that your on our side we have a telepath and I want to have cerebro for you." Magneto explained to Rita.
"I don't get it, Professor X. said you helped him build cerebro, so why don't you just build it yourself?" Rita questioned.
"Oh I will, the only thing I need is the part of cerebro that amplifies your powers. Now, no more questions go get the boys." Magneto extended a hand out towards the door as it opened for Rita. Rita nodded and dropped her trench coat, earning her yet another whistle from St. John. Rita glared at him as her wings appeared on her back and spread all the way out, lifting her effortlessly into the sky.
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Silently Rita landed in front of the Brotherhood house and kicked the door open. "Get out here, NOW!" Rita yelled through the house as four boys lined up in front of the house. "Ok, Magneto wants me to get you guys and bring you to the institute, so lets go."
Rita watched as the boys climbed into Lance's green jeep, driving away to let Rita fly there.
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When Rita landed she saws Sabretooth, Magneto, Mystique, and the Alcolyte boys, but not the others. "Where are they?" Magneto ordered.
"On their way." The second Rita said that the old jeep pulled up in front of the institute gates. Magneto nodded to Rita, telling her to go on with their plan. Rita walked to the large iron gates, and put in her password that she acquired when she first took the tour of the mansion.
The nine Brotherhood members walked through the gates and to the front door. Magneto nodded to Rita again as she walked in the front door, followed by Magneto and Sabretooth. The other members would look for the X-Geeks as Magneto, Sabretooth, and Rita would go to the room that held cerebro.
Rita, Magneto, and Sabretooth were walking to the elevator to go down the large, circular room when Logan walked out of the danger room, followed by Rogue, Remy, and Bobby. "Rita!" Rita sighed as Sabretooth stepped between her and Logan. "Get out of my way cat and let me see Rita."
"I don't think so. She's with us now." Sabretooth told Logan, and grabbed his throat, throwing him side easily. All the other kids scattered when Sabretooth glared at them, Remy looked at Sabretooth, then to Magneto, and ran after Rogue.
Rita turned to see Logan lying against the wall, healing himself. Logan's eyes rose to meet Rita's and he seemed to have a genuine pain, like there was this huge pain inside him that wasn't healing, and she knew what the pain was, the pain of losing the one person he finally let himself love. "Why, why'd you leave Rita?" Logan asked, standing up as Sabretooth turned around, pissed by the fact that Logan just wont die.
"Because, I was tired of you and Scott treating me like a baby. You two are always arguing over me like I'm not even a real human being, just some prize. I have parents to do that, what I want are friends, and husband who wont get jealous every time I'm with a guy, but it's too much to ask huh? Now don't make me hurt you Logan, just stay out of our way." With that the three turned and walked down the hall.
"Get out Erik, Rita shouldn't be with you and you know it, just leave." Rita looked around, hearing the old man's voice, though he wasn't around. 'Charles' she thought.
"Why Charles? She came to me on her own, I did nothing to bring her here." Erik walked to cerebro and opened the door, walking inside. Sabretooth followed Magneto into the room, and last to follow was Rita.
Rita screamed when she felt Logan's arms wrap around her body, holding her tightly. Rita tried to get out of Logan's grip, but it was no use. She couldn't ask Magneto for help, he wouldn't care, he never cared about sacrificing a teammate. Finally Rita's head dropped, she had given up hope of Logan letting go.
Rita quickly raised her head again when she heard crying in the distance. "You hear that? those are your children crying. You wanted me to know what it's like telling them why mommy isn't here, well you got your wish. Now stop this and tell me the real reason why you're with Magneto." Logan whispered in Rita's ear.
"Because, because he said that my family was alive, but to get the information on them I had to join his team." Rita said through sobs and tears.
"Let her go." Sabretooth growled as Logan turned and thrust his claws into Sabretooth's stomach.
"I don't think so bub, she's with us again." Logan withdrew his claws from Sabretooth's stomach as Magneto came out of cerebro.
"Aren't we being a bad dog today?" Magneto looked at Logan and raised his hand, taking Logan into the air and slamming him against a wall. "Come Rita, we have what we need."
"No, you're a god damn liar. My family isn't alive, there all dead, and even if they were alive they would all be in France, not just three of them. I'm just sorry it took me this long to figure it out. You made everything up, otherwise they would have come looking for me and found me." Rita yelled at Magneto, her hands disappearing into the dark, black fire.
"Is that so my dear? You're a mutant, why would your family want someone who's different? Maybe they just don't care anymore. You know the only person who could ever love you is a fellow mutant, that's why you need to stay with me. Together we can make all those homo-sapiens go away forever, no more endless torment at school, or on the streets. You know that's what you want, just admit it." Magneto smiled, trying his best to bring Rita back to his side, to destroy humans forever.
Don't listen to him Rita, he doesn't want to help you, he only wants to use you. Remember, it was Magneto who tried so hard to take your children from you. The only reason he stopped was because he knew that if you came to his side you would be much more powerful then Shawn and Marie combined. Think about what he's asking you to give up, he wants you to give up your family here. He's trying to turn you against us, is that what you really want? Rita starred blankly ahead, listening carefully to Jean's words inside her head.
"Jean's right Magneto, you're just using me. You only want me because of my powers, just to help you destroy the human race forever. But why? Why destroy them? It's because of humans that we are here. We may be mutants but we came from humans." Rita glared at Magneto, sending him flying backward into the wall as she hit him with a large fireball.
"Erik, why do you always try for the goal that you will never achieve? Now Erik, please stay away from my students here at the institute. You have no business here Erik, you didn't get what you were coming here for and lost even more, now please leave." Charles wheeled into the room and to Magneto's body against the wall.
"Fine Charles, but one day I will be back, and the humans will bow to us. We are homo-superior and they must understand that." Magneto walked out of the room and left the institute, followed by the rest of the Brotherhood.
"Now Rita, we will have a talk in my office right now. Follow me please." Charles wheeled to the elevator, taking him to the second floor on which his office was. Rita silently followed and walked through the large group of mutants standing outside Xavier's office, watching Rita following the Professor. Everyone knew now where Rita had gone for those few days, and everyone was waiting to see what became of her.
Rita sat down in the brown leather chair that she knew so well, facing Professor Xavier. "Am I grounded or something?" Rita asked sarcastically.
"Rita, what you did was a very unintelligent thing to do. Joining Magneto because you got mad at Scott and Logan is not at all a reason to do what you did. I know that you're 18, and an adult now, but you are still living here and in my care. Besides, the fact that you used the mental shields I showed you to keep me out of your mind is not the reason I showed you how to keep telepaths out of your mind. I know that sometimes Scott can become very protective but that's not a reason to leave. Everyone here loves you, most of the younger girls look up to you, and a lot of the guys like that they can talk to you. You must understand that Scott looks to you like a sister, he just wants to make sure that you are ok, and not doing something you shouldn't do." Charles looked at Rita and gave her a reassuring smile.
"You don't understand! If you ever knew what was going through my head last year when my powers first started. I know that you must have been young when your powers started, but mine started when my best friend called me a whore. You will never understand, my best friend has always been very protective of me, then one day he stopped talking to me and hated me. I don't want to have to lose another protective friend ok?" Rita stood up yelling at Charles as she heard whispers from other mutants behind the dark, wooden door.
"That may be hard on you, but it's still no reason to run away. I'm not going to punish you Rita, though I will ask you one thing. Before you left I was going to ask you to become a teacher here. I thought that you might be able to help teach the kids to control their powers." Charles told Rita as she relaxed.
"Ok Charles, I'll take the teaching position. Do you have anybody in mind?" Rita questioned as she stood up.
"I thought you could help Logan, he always tries to solve problems with violence and that's not something that these kids need to see." Rita agreed to help Charles when he told her about the person he had in mind. When she opened the door to leave about 10 mutants scattered, trying to run away before the prof. saw them.
Rita laughed and walked along the hallway until she came to the stairs, going upstairs to see her children. She walked into Shawn and Marie's room and saw Logan holding Shawn, trying to calm him down from the fight earlier when they started crying.
Rita smiled and walked top Shawn, looking at him in his father's arms. "Shh Shawn, its ok baby. No need to cry." Rita took Shawn from Logan and the second Shawn was in his mother's arms he stopped crying and closed his eyes, drifting off to sleep.
"I still don't understand how you do that. They never cry for you, what do you do that I don't?" Logan asked, watching Rita slowly put Shawn back into his crib and put the blanket on him.
"The difference between us is that your Logan, and I'm the mother. They've always loved me more then daddy." Rita teased as she kissed Logan and went to their room. "It's good to be home." She whispered to herself.
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Rita lay awake at night, thinking about everything that has happened in the past month. Everything had been fixed except the whole Holly thing. She still wanted Logan and would stop at nothing to get him, Rita knew that.
Rita turned to look at Logan, he almost seemed happy. In the past year Logan had changed a lot, he had taken responsibility for Shawn and Marie, and had only left once. Logan seemed to finally have the family that he always wanted, the family that judged him for who he was and not for the metal that lay inside his body.
Rita looked at his hand and ran a finger between each knuckle. She gently picked up his hand, careful not to wake him, and kissed one of his knuckles, looking at his face. "Oh Logan, you judge yourself so critically, one day you'll judge yourself so bad that you'll think no one can love you, but its not true, its never true. I love every bit of you, even the metal." Rita dropped his hand and lightly kissed Logan, lying back down, starring at the ceiling.
"Is waking people up in the middle of the night one of your powers now darlin'?" Logan turned and looked at Rita.
"Sorry Logan, I thought you would sleep the whole time. So when did you wake up?" Rita asked, smiling at him.
"I've been up since the beginning, just never let you know that. so what did you mean by that little speech of yours?" Logan leaned over and kissed Rita.
"I meant everything I said. You really do judge yourself, and badly at that, you think that because you don't know anything about your past, or that because half your body is metal you should live life without love. But that's not true, no one should have to live life without love, no matter what they remember or what they have in their body. I love you for just being you, that's all you really need to know, and that's all I need to know to trust you."
"Trying to get all love-sappy there darlin'? Got any other sweet words or do I get to sleep?" Logan teased her, running a finger down the side of her face and kissing her.
"No you can sleep, don't let me keep you up even though you do have that wonderful healing factor which doesn't make you that tired." Rita smiled and kissed him back, closing her eyes when Logan put his arms around her.
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Bang-bang-bang-"Rita! Get up!" Bang-bang-bang
Rita and Logan slowly woke up to the sound of Scott banging on their door. They learned from their wedding night to always lock their door, no matter they do, if they end up doing anything or not.
"Grrr. Go away!" Logan growled.
Bang-bang-bang-"Wake up! It's almost time to go to school!"
Rita sighed, knowing Scott would never give up as she heard a small 'click'. great Rita thought he got his telekinetic girlfriend to unlock my door, wonderful. The next thing Rita knew Scott was in her room and standing over her bed, telling her to wake up.
"I don't wanna go to school daddy." Rita teased Scott as she stood up and pushed Scott outside so she could get dressed. Rita smiled at Logan and threw off her spaghetti strap shirt and sweat pants, and put on some hip-huggers and a v-neck shirt.
Rita sat on the edge of her bed and put on her shoes when Logan, still in bed, sat up and wrapped his arms around his wife. Smiling Rita turned and kissed Logan, telling him 'goodbye' and telling him to tell Shawn and Marie that mommy said bye.
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Rita stepped out of Scott's car and walked down the everlasting path of chanting humans, yelling about mutants needing their own school. When Rita reached the top of the school stairs she saw Holly, leading the crowd in the mutant protest. "What Holly? And if you even mention Logan's name in this your dead, understand?"
"I was just telling these wonderful people how dangerous mutants are, mainly mutants like you who threaten innocent people's lives, who don't have 'powers' to defend themselves." Holly smiled to Rita as she continued on the protest.
Rita glared at Holly and turned to see the crowed yelling as the Brotherhood came, more freaks to them. "Ok you all, listen up. If you're going to trash mutants at least pick like one day of the week for it instead of everyday. I swear you all act the way people used to act with blacks and whites. But look at you all, blacks and whites uniting together to scream about how mutants are dangerous, and shouldn't belong in public schools, think about how your parents or grandparents acted when they got in trouble for being different. Well you know what? True were different, but were not at all dangerous, at least not the Xavier kids, we risk our lives to protect you all, but you don't give a damn do you? You're just like racist people, and sexist people, except your worse, you protest your opinions everyday to try and make us feel bad." With that Rita turned and walked inside as she heard mutants clapping and cheering.
Holly ran after Rita, and finally caught up with her. "What the hell do you think you were doing back there? You really wanna get expelled from this school don't you?"
"You know what Holly, I don't care in the least about getting expelled, and I hate this school anyway. This principal sucks more then anything, you suck, you wont fucking leave me and my husband alone for a second, you have to flaunt yourself ever second you get, and mutants are not dangerous understand? So get your ass outside and retract anything you said to get those people protesting." Rita took a breath and pushed passed Holly, leaving her in the hallway muttering to herself.
"I'll get that man of yours one day Rita, trust me I will."
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Rita walked outside after school and saw Logan waiting for her, though of course if Logan was around so was Holly. Holly was already making her way over to Logan and had obviously undid the top three buttons on her blouse to show off her breasts. Rita took a deep breath and walked over to Logan, giving him a kiss.
"If you're trying to drive me away Rita it's not working." Holly said with a grin.
"That's nice and all Holly, but if you feel that you really need to unbutton your blouse then at least have something to show off up there, because I've never met a guy who goes out of his way to look down the shirt of a girl who stuffs her bra. So have a nice day Holly, but I need to go home and see my children." Rita smiled and kissed Logan again, climbing onto the back of Logan's bike, wrapping her arms around his waist.
Logan took off for home as Rita turned around and waved goodbye to Holly.