Disc- I don't own X-Men. You should know who I own by now.
A/N: The beginning of this chapter is still the same day that Rita talked to her teacher, its just later in the afternoon.
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Principal Kelly sat on the edge of his desk, looking out the window, as he turned into Mystique.
"Um…Mystique?" she turned to see Lance Alvers walk into the office. "I overheard the X-Geeks, Rita's gonna bring Shawn and Marie to class tomorrow if it's ok with Logan, and the teacher likes mutants so he has no reason to say no." Mystique's face widened with a smirk as she heard the wonderful news, the Cromwell children would be in her school tomorrow, and so would their parents.
"Perfect, make sure that Logan says yes, send Pietro over there later today, I don't care how you do it just as long as you do it." Mystique stood up and walked around the desk to face Lance as she looked down and saw the metal tip of her pen moving. "Erik, Lance has given me wonderful news."
Magneto stepped out of the shadows and into the light coming from the window. "So I've heard, I want those children in my possession by 4 tomorrow, make sure I get them, but Raven, don't send Sabretooth after her." Magneto nodded to Mystique and began walking away. "And by the way Raven, you can have the piece of Victor's ass that you want, I've been watching Rogue all day, she seems sad and worried about Rita. Remember, those kids are mine now."
"Of course Magneto." Mystique turned her attention back to Lance who had stood in the corner, not daring to enter the conversation. "Go make sure those kids are coming tomorrow, and I mean go now."
Lance walked out of the room and toward his jeep, driving to the Brotherhood house. "Where's Pietro?"
"Yo Lance, he went to chase some girl, why?" Toad was on the ceiling, looking down on Lance.
"Mystique needs him to go talk to Rita, and she needs him now." Toad's eyes widened at the mention of Mystique.
"I don't know when he'll be back, but I'm hungry yo, I'll be in the backyard." Toad walked off, falling from the ceiling and hopping the rest of the way to the backyard.
"Where's Todd?" Fred came downstairs, shaking the whole house.
"He's out back in 'Toad's buffet'." Lance looked around the old house and took a seat on the beat-up couch. After a few seconds Pietro zipped in the house and into the kitchen for something to eat.
"Pietro! First of all you know there's no food in the fridge, there's never any food in the fridge, and second, Mystique has a job for you." Pietro looked around the house quickly, making sure that Mystique wasn't in the house at the time.
"What do I have to do?"
"You have to go over to Xavier's and make sure that Logan allows Rita to bring the kids to school tomorrow." Pietro sighed and was gone before Lance could say anything else.
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Pietro stood at the front door of the Xavier Institute; he never waited at the gate. Logan opened the door and let out a deep growl, he was never happy with Pietro hanging around. "Is Rita around?" Pietro didn't even wait for an answer as he ran past Logan and up the stairs, stopping at Rita's room, knocking on the door.
"Come in." Pietro walked into Rita's room and saw her sitting at a desk, doing some extra homework that Beast gave the students sometimes, with very wet hair.
"Take a shower and didn't invite me?" Pietro smiled, picking some of her wet hair and letting it drop as Rita glared at him.
"No Pietro, Logan dropped me in the pool earlier today when he found out that I took his Porsche to school." Rita never looked up from the homework she was doing as she continued to do the science formulas.
"Sounds like fun, I still would have liked to come and watch, but anyway, are you bringing Shawn and Marie to school tomorrow?" Rita looked up at Pietro for the first time since he had come in, and regarded him oddly.
"How do you know about that?"
"The Brotherhood overheard your conversation with Kitty during lunch and I just wanted to know if you got Logan to allow it." Pietro smiled again and walked around the room, sitting on the bed, watching Rita do her work.
"Comforting thought, you guys listening to our conversation today, maybe everyday, but anyway he said yes, as long as he could come." Rita sighed and erased something on the paper then wrote something again as Pietro smiled to himself, mission completed.
"That's good, I think that it might help the humans understand mutants better if they see baby mutants." Pietro looked around as Logan walked into the room and growled at Pietro.
"Get out." Logan growled again, making Pietro run out the room and out of the institute. Logan turned to look at Rita and put a hand on her shoulder, leaning down to whisper in her ear. "You don't really want to do homework do you?" Logan grinned as Rita turned to look him in the eyes; she rolled her eyes and went back to her work.
Logan walked to the bed and lay down; looking up at the ceiling, though it was still afternoon Logan hadn't slept at all in the past few days since he was working on something for Charles that he wouldn't tell Rita about.
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Rita finished her homework quickly and turned to look at Logan, watching him slowly drift off to a light sleep. She smiled and turned back to the desk she was working at, pulling out some blank paper and began drawing the sleeping Wolverine, quite well too. Within the past few months Rita had been taking art in school and working with Rogue who was very good at drawing, she just never told anyone.
Rita sketched a bit and turned back to look at Logan as he screamed, sitting bolt upright. "Logan, what is it?" Rita left the half-drawn picture of Logan on her desk and sat on the edge of the bed, looking at Logan.
"Nothing, just a dream about my past, it still doesn't make any sense to me." Logan shook his head and looked down, trying to think of what he had just dreamt of.
"Logan, you shouldn't go looking for your past or future, you should let it come to you, if it ever does. Everyone has a grim part of their life, and 15 years ago was your grim part, but if you continue to dwell on it then it will just get worse. As long as you try to make your future happy, you'll make up for all the bad parts in the past." Logan looked up at the words that came out of the young girl.
"You're smart you know that? It's amazing some times, I watch people when the first see you, and they don't believe at all that you're really 19, the things you say make you wise beyond your years, I don't even know how old I really am and I've never heard half the stuff you say." Rita looked down, she never really liked be being on the spot, it always made her feel uneasy as if people could see through her and she wouldn't be good enough for anyone. Logan grinned at Rita and leaned over, kissing her.
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Rita woke up the next morning, hitting the button on the alarm clock to stop it's beeping, and like usually Logan was already up and downstairs. Rita dragged herself out of bed and went to the bathroom, Rita was lucky; she never had to wait in the long line for the bathroom since she went to Logan's room. Logan was a teacher at the institute and got a bathroom connected to his room.
About 10 minutes later Rita walked out of the shower and sat at her bureau, running a comb through her wet hair. She stood up and walked to the closet, pulling on a pair of baggy pants and a plain tee shirt. She turned around and saw Logan standing in the doorway, holding a beer. "How long have you been there?"
"Just got here." Logan kissed Rita then took a drink of his beer, walking back downstairs for a few minutes. Rita watched Logan leave then turned to Shawn and Marie, waking them both up.
She dressed Shawn in a pairs of pants and a shirt and put Marie in the same. Rita swore that she would never put Marie in a dress when she was baby, she remembered her real parents doing it to her, and she hated it. Rita had quickly put a coat over Marie's wings just in case Amber was around when they got to school.
"Ready to go?" Logan was back in the doorway, holding the keys to his Porsche.
"Sure." Rita picked up her bag and put it over her shoulder, then picked up Marie, leaving Shawn for Logan. They walked downstairs and into the dark garage, Rita turning on the lights and putting Marie down to walk on her own. "Go to daddy's car Marie." Marie smiled up at her mother and slowly walked over to Logan's Porsche.
"Since when does she own my car is the Porsche?"
"Oh, I told her a few months ago when I was down here putting some things in my car." Rita left the garage and came back with two bottles, giving them to Shawn and Marie as she put their car seats in Logan's car and put the kids in the car seats.
"Like, can I like come to?" Kitty walked over to Logan and Rita and smiled down at Shawn and Marie.
"Not this time half pint." Logan looked at Kitty as she pressed her lips together and walked away.
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Amber was standing in the parking lot with her friends as Logan parked his car, as Scott parked next to them, Kitty phasing through his car to go see Shawn and Marie. Rita stepped out of the car and watched Kitty phase through the car to pick up Marie, making Amber and her friends step back and look for Principal Kelly.
"Ok Kitty, you can carry Marie for me, I'll get Shawn." Rita walked around the car and picked up her bag, shoving it in Logan's hand and picking up Shawn, giving him a kiss on the cheek.
"Thanks Rita." Kitty smiled and started playing a little with Marie.
Rita was about to say something to Kitty as Shawn started talking. "I wuv you mommy." Rita smiled and kissed him again, turning her attention to Logan just long enough to see Amber and her friends flirting with him. Rita sighed and walked over to Logan, putting her free arm around his arm, walking inside with Logan following.
"What was that about?" Rita took him into the empty halls and put him against the wall, looking into his eyes.
"Nothing, they came up to me."
"Well I know that, you could have at least tried to chop them up, they'll run away the second they see your claws." Rita put Shawn down and held his hand.
"And you'd get in trouble for bringing me here and me uses my claws, you don't need to be suspended again." Logan looked over to the door and saw Kitty come in with Marie.
"Not really, I'd get in trouble if you use your powers, but your claws aren't your powers." Rita smiled; she had a way to bend Principal Kelly's no power rule.
Logan shook his head. "Fine, now where's your teacher?"
"Oh yeah, come on." Rita walked with Shawn down the hall followed by Logan, Kitty holding Marie. They knocked on Ms. Collins's door and walked in.
"Aw Rita, Kitty, I'm glad to see you two this early, and I guess this must be your husband and kids?" Rita nodded and let go of Shawn's hand, letting him walk around the room as Kitty put Marie down. "Didn't you tell me yesterday that your daughter has wings?" Rita nodded again, called Marie over to her, and took off the coat, showing the black wings.
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Lance walked into Principal Kelly's office and closed the door behind him. "Mystique? The kids are here, and Logan came too." Kelly smiled, as Magneto walked out from the shadows.
"Thank you Avalanche, that's all we need from you." Magneto watched Lance leave the office. "Now Mystique, I want you to go find them and get the teacher out of the room, understand?" Kelly nodded as he walked out of the office and towards Ms. Collins's room, walking into the small room.
"Ms. Collins? May I talk with you in my office please?" Ms. Collins nodded and left the mutants alone, following Principal Kelly down the hall to his office. Kelly stood at his window as Ms. Collins sat down, she was watching Kelly walked away from the window and over to her chair.
Kelly turned into Mystique, and put her hands on Ms. Collins neck, snapping the spinal cord, killing her instantly. "Very good Mystique, now let us go get those kids." Magneto walked out the office followed by Mystique; they weren't worried about anyone seeing them since it was a half hour before the bell rang.
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Logan looked around, his body was getting stiff, it was hard for him to move. "Logan, is something wrong?" Logan looked at Rita and nodded.
Rita was about to go get Shawn and Marie as the door swung open. Magneto walked into the room followed by Mystique as Logan was thrown back against the wall, he couldn't move. Rita gasped and picked up Shawn and Marie, and backed away from the Brotherhood, Pietro had made sure she would bring her family to school for Magneto to take.
Rita sent a large black fireball at Magneto, hitting him as Mystique came up beside Rita, kicking her in the stomach and sending her back into the wall as she picked up Shawn and Marie. Marie started to cry and clawed at Mystique's face with her sharp claws.
"Oww, you little brat!" Mystique dropped Shawn and Marie and put a hand to her now bloody face. Magneto walked closer to Shawn and Marie, picked them both up while trying to hold Logan against the wall. Marie and Shawn began to cry as Rita stood up and ran at Magneto, only to be blocked by Mystique. Shawn continued to cry and put a small hand on Magneto's helmet, heating it up until it was bright red from his fire.
Magneto threw his helmet off, letting his hold on Logan go. Logan ran at Magneto as his claws came out, and thrust them into Magneto's shoulder while Magneto was dealing with the children. This took Magneto off guard as he stumbled backward, pushing Logan back towards the wall with his powers.
Rita flew into the air and came down, kicking Mystique in the head with combat-style boots, knocking her down. Marie flew up to her mother and hugged her while still crying as Rita landed on the ground and picked up Shawn. "Leave now Magneto." Magneto turned to look at Rita and then to Logan. He wrapped an arm around his cape and walked out of the room, followed by a nearly unconscious Mystique.
Logan walked away from the wall, breathing hard as Rita sat down with Shawn and Marie in her lap. "You two were so good." Rita kissed both Shawn and Marie and looked up at Logan who was standing above her as the bell rang and Kitty ran into the room. She had left right before Mystique and Magneto had come.
Kitty gasped when she saw Mystique's blood on the ground and Rita's wings out. "Like, what happened?"
"Magneto and Mystique came." Rita slowly stood up and fell right back down.
"Are you ok Rita? Mystique did kick you in the stomach." Logan sat down next to Rita and she put her head on his shoulder.
"I'm fine, and I'm pretty sure the baby is too, but I'll go see Hank later." Kitty watched as Scott and Jean walked into the room, wondering where Kitty and Rita had gone off to.
"What happened here?" Scott looked pissed when he saw that there had been a fight.
"The Brotherhood came ok?" Rita glared at Scott as he turned and walked away, Jean following him.
"Maybe you should like, go home Rita, and like, see Hank now." Rita nodded to Kitty and picked up Marie as Logan picked up Shawn. Rita smiled to Kitty and walked past her, out to the parking lot and to Logan's car.
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Hank was surprised to see Rita, Logan, Shawn, and Marie home so early, mainly Rita. "Why aren't you in school Rita?"
"The Brotherhood came for Shawn and Marie, Pietro set me up, he was here yesterday just to make sure that they would come to school." An extremely tired Rita sat down and closed her eyes.
"Maybe I should run some tests and see if the baby is ok." Hank gave Rita a hand as she took it and stood up, slowly walking to the med room and lying down on the freezing cold metal table.
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Hank was done with the tests and looking at the computer screen. "Rita, I have some good and bad news."
"What's the good news?" Rita sat up and looked at Hank, with Logan standing next to her. Rita was surprised that Logan would even come into the med table; ever since he had become 'The Wolverine', he hated and feared medical places.
"Well the good news, or semi-good news is that you were going to have twins again." Hank looked at Logan and Rita as they sighed.
"Were?" Rita looked to Hank; she had barely understood what he said.
"That's the bad news, when Mystique kicked your stomach; it seemed to have done a lot of damage. You lost one of the twins."
Rita closed her eyes and lay back down; she didn't like being pregnant with Creed's child, but there was nothing she could do about it now.
Hank walked over to Logan and Rita, "I'm sorry that this had to happen Rita." Hank put a large blue hand on her shoulder and smiled.
"It's ok Hank, everything will work out I'm sure." Rita stood up and let her wings out, walking out the door and flying up to her room.
When Rita lay down on the bed, she fell asleep instantly, with Logan sitting on the edge of the bed watching her.