Disc- don't own them

Rita walked through crowded streets of New York City, shopping for birthday gifts for Lynx. She couldn't believe how quickly time had passed and that in two days Lynx would be 4. over the past 3 years, Lynx had begun more intense training and everyone began to realize how sweet Lynx really could be, and that the evil was only her front. Along with the Cromwell children, there was Rogue's 2-year-old son, Tyler. Tyler had his mother's stunning emerald eyes and brown hair along with his father's power to convert things into kinetic energy.

Rita and Rogue went into one of the many toy stores, ironically, Tyler and Lynx shared the same birthday, and he would be 3 in two days. Rogue had suggested yesterday that the two go to New York City. They had left early in the morning, and had taken Logan's Porsche, with his permission, and left, but not before taking Logan's money and Remy's credit card without their knowledge.

Now, in the afternoon, Rogue had almost maxed out Remy's card, that had started out with 1 million dollars on it, and now had only 4 thousand. Rita as well had spent a lot; she had used about 3 thousand dollars, though a lot of it were gifts from other people that couldn't get away to go shopping for the children.

"Come on Rogue, let's go…" Rita's sentence ended as Pietro stood in front of them. "What are you doing here Pietro?"

"Well, as you know, my father isn't always very fond of me, so he told me to just go away today, then I ran into you two. Now, what are you two doing here?" Pietro raised an eyebrow when he saw the 7 or so bags in each girl's hand.

"Well, in two days it's Lynx's and Tyler's birthday. So were out shopping a bit, wanna come have lunch with us?" Rita asked Pietro as he nodded and walked with the two girls to one of the fancier restaurants in the city, though, they did get a lot of looks from well-dressed people when a silver-haired boy, girl with a trench coat, and a goth girl walked into a place like that and actually had money to pay. The three were seated in a booth as Rita and Rogue put down the bags they had been carrying, Pietro trying to slip an arm around Rogue's waist as she hit it.

"Come on Roguey, don't be like that." Rogue glared at Pietro as he slid away from her and hid his face behind the menu. Rita laughed during this whole thing until Pietro glared at her while looking over the top of the menu. "So tell me Ri, are you inviting Victor to Lynx's party?" Pietro grinned, knowing that Rita wouldn't dare make a scene in a place like this.

"Pietro, don't even bring something like that up again, understand?" Rita's eyes filled with black flames, needless to say, Pietro got the message.

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After lunch, the girls put every bag they had into Pietro's arms and continued to shop. Finally, Rogue looked around and dragged Rita into a pet shop, because it wasn't bad enough that they had three toddlers in the mansion, they now needed a puppy. They looked around and decided that Charles wouldn't really like a puppy in the mansion, so they walked back to Pietro, who was left on the street outside the pet shop.

A few minutes later Pietro had put down the bags and ran off, coming back with a handful of pixie sticks. Rita and Rogue gasped, Pietro and pixie sticks never were a good combination, and it was really bad if he had too much. Pietro ate two before the girls could stop him and was now running laps around the Empire State Building.

Rita and Rogue looked at each other before picking up the bags and heading back to where they left Logan's car. They filled the trunk up with the bags and still had some left, which they put in the back seat.

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Two days later, it was Lynx and Tyler's birthday. Lynx was in the middle of fighting Logan when Pietro came to the mansion, looking for Rita.

"Maximoff, what the hell are you doing here?" Evan stood up, spikes emerging from his skin.

"Where's Rita? I need to talk to her." Pietro looked around as Logan stopped fighting Lynx and looked up.

"No, last time you needed to talk to her, you set us up at Bayville High." Logan walked over to the two younger boys.

"This time it's really important."

"What is it?" Logan glared at Pietro as he turned around just in time to catch a 4 year-old Lynx that was jumping at him.

"Well, um, I think that Sabretooth's a little mad that he wasn't invited, and he's decided to crash the party." Pietro ran to the other side of the yard right before Logan's claws came out and sliced through the air, right where Pietro was standing. "I'm sensing some hostility, I'll just leave now." Then he was gone.

"What was that all about?" Rita walked outside, putting some presents on one of the two still growing piles.

"Sabretooth is coming." Logan growled as Rita sighed and sat down as Lynx walked over to her mother and climbed into her lap. Rita put an arm around Lynx and looked around, hoping that he wasn't coming anytime soon.

Rita smiled as Lynx jumped off her lap and over to the presents, trying to figure out what was in them, then she caught Remy moving around out of the corner of her eye. It seemed that he had just gotten back from doing  a favor for Charles for the last 3 days, coming close to missing his son's birthday party. "Did I miss much chere?" Remy smiled at Rita, as he bent down and kissed her cheek.

"Well, your son just said his first cuss word yesterday." This made Remy smile as he sat down to talk with Rita.

"What did he say?"

"Bastard, in French." All color drained from Remy's face, knowing that Tyler learned it from his father.

"Merde, Rogue's gonna kill me." Remy ran a hand through his hair as Rogue walked outside with Tyler, quickly seeing Remy before he could run off.

"Remy Lebeau!" Rogue walked over to Remy as Jean used her powers to stop Remy from moving.

"Hello chere." Remy gave Rogue one of his heart-melting grins.

"So, ah'm guessing that since your running, yah heard about Tyler's little 'incident'?" Rogue kept a straight face, trying not to notice his perfect grin.

"Um, no chere, I just… wanted to go for a nice little run." Remy kept his grin up, trying to get her to give in, and Jean to let him go.

"Sure thang sugah, so wah don't weh go for a nice little walk together, then weh cahn talk." Rogue smiled as Jean let go of her hold on Remy, and as Rogue took Remy's wrist to walk off into the woods to talk to him about Tyler's new vocabulary.

Rita and Jean laughed as they turned back to watching Lynx and Logan fighting. Logan stepped out of the way as she lunged at him, then turned around just as Lynx jumped into the air, towards him, knocking him down on his back. Logan growled as he hit the ground hard, pushing Lynx off him to stand up.

Rita and Jean continued to laugh as they left Lynx with Logan, to go help Ororo in the kitchen, she was baking the cakes.

"How's it coming 'Ro?" Jean put a spare apron on as Rita grabbed a bowl, putting powered sugar in it, to make the frosting.

"Fine child, there almost done." Ororo reached into the cabinet and took out some plates for the cakes as Jean levitated some food coloring toward Rita.

"Thanks Jean." Rita put half the frosting into another bowl and colored it black for Lynx, while coloring the other bowl a dark green for Tyler. Jean and Ororo each put on a pair of oven mitts as the timer went off, letting them know the cakes were cooked. They pulled the cakes out and set them aside to cool as Marie came flying into the room, trying to get some of the cake.

"Out Marie, whatever plan you and your brother have come up with isn't going to work, now out." Marie frowned as her mother ruined her whole plan of stealing cake for her and Shawn. She looked at her mother again before going out back to play with Shawn. "Leave those two alone together for even a minute and they've made a plan to get some kind of sugar." Rita shook her head as she put the frosting up until the cakes cooled and leaned against the counter, talking with Jean and Ororo.

"Yeah, but they're so cute together." Jean smiled as she picked up the phone and ordered about 20 pizzas to be delivered. "They'll be here in a half hour."

Rita nodded and busied herself with making sugar cookies. "Right Rita, just what a bunch of kids need, more sugar." Jean said as Ororo began to frost Tyler's cake, and Jean began to frost Lynx's cake.

"Oh, of course they need more sugar, that's what kids live on." Rita said as she preheated the oven.

Rita took over Jean's job and finished Lynx's cake as Jean used her powers to write 'happy birthday Tyler' and 'happy birthday Lynx' on each child's cake. "Nice penmanship Jean." Rita smiled as Jean finished the writing.

"Thank you Rita."

Rita looked up as the doorbell rang. "I'll be right back." Rita wiped her flour-covered hands on Jean's apron and walked to the front door, opening it, as Jean put Rita's cookies in the oven.

"You know Rita, I'm rather sad that you never invited me to my own daughter's birthday for the 4th year in a row." Rita took a step back as she came face to face with Sabretooth.

"Go away Sabretooth, she's not your daughter, she's Logan's daughter now. But about the invitation, sorry, I guess it must have gotten lost in the mail, I mean, it's hard to get things to a fake asteroid." Rita smiled as she began to close the door, until Sabretooth kicked it open and out of her hands, making Ororo and Jean come running.

"She's very much my daughter, and if you wont tell her, then I will." Sabretooth grinned.

"You wont see her to tell her." Rita flew back as Sabretooth tried to hit her. She looked at Jean and nodded as Jean held Sabretooth in place while Rita kicked him in the chest, knocking him backwards, landing hard on a rock.

The sky began to darken as a lightning bolt came down and hit Sabretooth, causing Rogue, Remy, and Logan to come running to the front door, seeing Sabretooth.

Remy glared at Sabretooth as he withdrew the ace of spades and charged it up, throwing it at Sabretooth's feet once he stood up. Rita watched as Sabretooth was thrown high into the sky by the explosion of Remy's card.

"Good going swamp rat." Rogue looked at Remy as Sabretooth growled, standing up again, only to be on the end of Logan's claws.

Rita watched Logan, until Sabretooth finally gave up the fight and left. Rita smiled to Logan and ran back to the kitchen, just barely getting the cookies from the oven before they burnt.

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Finally after the pizzas arrived and the sweets were baked, Lynx and Tyler were sitting n the middle of a huge circle of students, tearing open presents. They didn't even wait to take turns, Tyler was biting the wrapping paper off and Lynx was cutting it into small pieces with her nails.

The whole school was laughing as Lynx picked up some clothes and threw them over her shoulder, behind her, without even looking at them more then just one glance. In the end there was a pile of clothes behind Lynx, and a pile of toys in front of her, along with a punching bag from Logan.

And with Tyler, he was lost somewhere in the mountain of wrapping paper, toys, and clothes. Everyone figured he was under it, but Remy had his doubts that his son had survived being in the middle of it. "Does anyone besides me have any doubts of Tyler being alive in there?" Remy joked.

"Ah do, ah think he's run out of air bah now." Rogue smiled, watching Tyler's pile begin to shift, then Tyler popped out of it, holding a toy fire truck.

Everyone laughed as they watched the kids play with Tyler's and Lynx's toys. Marie would fly into the air and hold the chain for Lynx's punching bag as Lynx used it, almost knocking it out of Marie's small hands a lot. "Give it to me Marie." Logan took the bag from Marie and hung it up on the porch, letting Lynx use it without hurting Marie.

For the rest of the day the kids ate the cookies and cakes, just putting their hands in it and eating it off their hands when the adults refused to cut them any more cake. The kids also played with all the new toys.