Disc- Don't own 'em, just Rita, Lynx, Marie, Shawn, Jason, Teresa, and Greg
Rita sat on her bed, drawing a picture of Lynx from memory as Logan leaned against the wall, drinking some beer and watching Rita draw. "Rogue teach you how to draw like that? it's good." Rita looked up when Logan spoke and nodded. "I'm sorry that she's gone." Again Rita nodded when Logan spoke, it had been a week since Lynx ran away and Rita hadn't said much of anything to anyone.
Logan looked up when he heard a faint noise coming from Rogue's room, she had been singing:
Mississippi in the middle of a dry spell
Jimmy Rogers on the Victrola up high
Mama's dancin' with baby on her shoulder
The sun is settin' like molasses in the sky
The boy could sing, knew how to move, everything
Always wanting more, he'd leave you longing for
Logan smirked when he heard the song and silently stepped out of the room, walking to Rogue's and opening the door silently. She was sitting at her dresser running a brush through her shoulder-length hair and singing along with the radio:
Black velvet and that little boy's smile
Black velvet with that slow southern style
A new religion that'll bring ya to your knees
Black velvet if you please
"What is that slow southern style?" Rogue jumped and dropped her brush when she heard Logan's voice, she had no idea that he was in the room, listening to her.
"Logan, ya scared meh." Rogue bent down and picked up her brush, putting it on the dresser while turning off the radio.
"That good or bad darlin'?" Logan grinned as Rogue turned red from anger and went back top brushing her hair, not paying any more attention to Logan. "Where's Tyler?"
"He's downstairs with Shawn and Marie." Logan nodded and walked downstairs, finding the three in front of the T.V, watching some stupid show.
"Tyler, come here." Logan walked outside as the other two watched a very scared Tyler followed Logan.
"Where's Lynx?" Logan didn't even turn around to look at Tyler.
"I don't know." Tyler looked down.
"Wrong answer." Logan turned around as his claws came out *SKNIT*.
Tyler gasped and back up against the wall as Marie screamed inside the house. Rogue and Rita ran downstairs, followed by Ororo, Scott, and Jean. "What Marie?" Rita walked to Marie as she pointed outside and screamed again. Everyone turned to looked outside and saw Logan with his claws out, facing Tyler.
Rita and Rogue ran outside, Rita grabbing Logan and Rogue hugging Tyler. "Logan! What is this all about?" Rita looked at Logan as he tried to push past her to get to Tyler, but he was inside by now. All the screaming had brought Charles downstairs and now outside to look at Logan.
"He knows where Lynx is." Logan was breathing hard as Charles came near Logan.
"I don't care, Lynx doesn't like being here, and it's no reason to scare Tyler to death." Rita glared at Logan when he wouldn't put his claws away. Rita walked back inside, leaving Charles and Logan alone, and sat next to Tyler. "I'm sorry Tyler, I really am." Rita put an arm around Tyler as Shawn and Marie jumped to their feet. "What?"
"It's, it's Lynx." Shawn looked toward the front yard as Rita stood up and walked to the window, Lynx was standing in the front yard, talking to someone that was hidden by pure shadows.
"Logan! It's Lynx." Logan ran to the front door and opened it, angry that Lynx waited a week to come back. "Lynx!" Rita ran out the front door and to Lynx, stopping dead in her tracks when she saw who the person, or people, in the shadows were, the Brotherhood.
"Hello mother." Lynx turned around to face Rita as her mother gasped; Lynx's beautiful black hair had been cut short and spiked, with lightning white tips. Tyler stepped out of the front door and walked towards Lynx as Piotr put a protective arm around her waist. Lynx smiled to Tyler as he turned and went back inside.
"Lynx, come here please." Rita watched Piotr put an arm around her and she wasn't happy, he was at least twice her age by now, but then again, Logan was more then twice Rita's age.
"Yes Lynx, listen to your parents." Logan looked at Lynx as she glared at him.
"Of course I will, daddy, what do you want me to do?" Sabretooth stepped out of the shadows and next to Lynx, putting a hand on her shoulder as Magneto, Mystique, and Pyro stood behind Lynx. Lynx had been given full command of this mission, Magneto had grown very found of her, she was like his daughter, she wouldn't take orders from anyone.
"Lynx, he is not a father, he just wants you on his side." Rita tried to persuade Lynx as Scott, Jean, Ororo, Bobby, and Remy came outside.
"The name's Lethal, not Lynx." Lynx looked at Logan as his claws came out again, and as he eyed Piotr.
Piotr saw Logan eye him and his armor appeared on his body, the scratch marks from Lynx gone. Colossus kept his arm around Lethal as Logan ran at him, trying to claw his armor as Lethal dropped to the ground, running her leg across the ground quickly, making Logan fall on his back.
Lynx stood up again and looked down at Logan as he jumped to his feet and tried to get around Lethal without hurting her. Lethal smiled and kicked him in the stomach as Scott shot one of his optic beams towards Colossus, doing no damage. Lethal began rising into the air as she growled at Jean, Lethal couldn't move.
"Mystique! Take care of Jean, now." Lethal shouted as the blue women took up a fight with Jean, making Jean drop Lethal onto the ground. Lethal turned back to Logan and jump kicked him, sending him flying backwards into Scott and Ororo, knocking all of them done. "Magneto, hold Logan." Magneto nodded to Lethal and raised his hand, bringing Logan into the air and holding him there.
Ororo's eyes turned white as the sky began to darken as Lethal nodded to Colossus. Colossus walked to Ororo and picked her up, throwing her hard against a wall as Sabretooth lunged for Logan. "Stop, he's mine." Lethal yelled as her father stopped walking and picked a fight with Scott. "Let him down Magneto." Magneto let Logan drop.
Logan quickly stood and picked Lethal up, throwing her into the side of the institute as Rita gasped. Rita had been too stunned to even think of fighting. "Logan, how could you?" Rita's eyes filled with tears as she watched Lynx hit the institute.
"It's her or us Rita." Logan walked towards Lethal as Pyro jumped into the fight, scorching Logan's back.
"Don't hurt the Sheila."
Logan growled as he turned to fight Pyro. X-Men, get back inside, your not strong enough to beat the Brotherhood this time. All the X-Men heard Charles's voice inside their heads as they all turned to run away from the fight, the Brotherhood standing back and smiling, first battle they ever won.
Piotr's armor left his body as he walked over to Lynx, bending down to see if she was in serious pain. Lynx slowly sat up as she coughed up blood, wiping it from her mouth with her arm. "You ok?" Lynx looked up at Piotr and nodded, standing up.
"Not many mutants can take on the incredible Wolverine, how do you do it?" Lynx turned to see Tyler standing there.
"I don't hesitate to fight, he does." Lynx turned away from her best friend and walked with Piotr, back to Magneto. "Would do you think about me now Erik?" Lynx wasn't at all afraid to use Magneto's and Mystique's real names.
"That went well Lynx, you know how to give out orders that make you win, unlike my son." Erik smiled to Lynx as they walked to the 6 transport orbs. Each Brotherhood member got into a separate orb as they rose into the air, going back to Asteroid M.
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Rita sat on the couch, crying, Victor finally got what he wanted, he got Lynx. "Don't worry Rita, Lynx will be fine, she's a fighter, even though she is with Erik." Charles wheeled over to Rita and handed her a glass of water.
"Thank you Charles." Rita took a sip of the water and wiped at the dry tears on her cheeks.
"Charles is raght Rita, it'll be ok, Lynx will come around sooner or later, her best frihend is here." Rogue sat next to Rita and hugged her.
"No mom, Lynx is living with her best friend now." Tyler walked in the front door, he had been sitting out on the dock for a bit, just thinking.
"Boyfriend's more like it." Logan's gruff voice came from the hallway as everyone looked up at him. Tyler looked at Logan and left the room.
"That's not helping Logan." Ororo put a hand on Logan's shoulder as she went to stand next to Charles.
"Maybe it's for the best." Everyone gasped as they looked at Rita, her head lowered. "If she's happy, that's good."
"She'll kill us all, she's stronger then anyone every thought she would be, even stronger then me." Logan growled.
"Logan's right Rita, if we don't try to get Lynx back, all of us and humanity will suffer." Ororo said as Jean and Scott walked into the room as well, joining the talk of Lynx.
"No Ororo, Rita is right, what really matters is Lynx's happiness, and if that means that she lives with her father, then so be it." Charles told the X-Men.
"But Chuck, if she does stay with them, then Erik's vision of mutants will come true, the human race will cease to exist." Logan said as Marie walked into the room.
"Is Lynx coming home?" the second she said the name, she knew the answer, Lynx wanted nothing to do with us anymore.
"No sweetheart, she's not." Marie looked down, she didn't want to believe what her mother had just told her.
Marie turned away and walked out to the garage, she had to go somewhere, just to get away. Everyone heard the garage door open and Marie's SUV leave the institute.
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"Wasn't that your best friend back there?" Lynx and Piotr sat in the kitchen, Piotr eating some chips and Lynx drinking a coke.
"Was my best friend, I don't need him anymore." Lynx took a drink of her soda and eyed Piotr's chips for a second.
"Let me guess, you don't need anyone right?" Lynx nodded to Piotr. "Not even me?"
"I don't know Piotr, I'm not the kind of girl who gets a boyfriend every chance I can." Lynx leaned over the table and grabbed some chips and ate them.
"So I've noticed, thought I might be the one to break you." Piotr grabbed Lynx's hand when she tried to get more chips.
"Too bad big guy, no one has been able to break me, what makes you special?" Lynx stood up and pulled her hand out of his.
"I'm special because you like me and you know you do, it is ok to let down your guard once in a while and let someone in." Piotr stood up and looked down at Lynx, he was easily a foot taller then her, maybe more.
"I don't know what your talking about, now I've gotta go train." Lynx walked towards her room, Piotr following closely behind.
"Yes you do." Piotr stood behind Lynx as she kicked the bag in the corner of her room.
"So what if I do like you? Your twice my age." Lynx continued with her bag as Piotr put his arms around her.
"So what if I am? It's not unheard of, Logan is at least two, or three times Rita's age, maybe more, no one knows." Piotr leaned closer to Lynx.
"That's different."
"Why?"
"It just is."
"You don't want to end up like your mother do you? 19 with three kids?" Lynx nodded, more to herself then to Piotr's question. "I thought so, but you've been here for a week, don't you trust me by now?"
"I don't trust anyone, no matter who they are." Lynx tried to get out of his arms, but all her efforts were lost, he was too strong for her.
"Just give me a chance, maybe you'll end up with a real friend, one you trust." Piotr loosened his grip on her and let her turn around in his arms, facing him. "What do you say? Everyone needs someone they can trust." Lynx stood on the tip of her toes and kissed Piotr, full on the lips, as response to his question, until her door was kicked open.
"I told you, they're in here alone." Greg crossed his arms over his chest with a smug grin on his face as Victor walked in the room, glaring hard at Piotr.
"This isn't why you're here Lynx, I could just as easily send you back to your mother." Lynx looked at her father.
"You can't, Erik wouldn't let you." Lynx challenged her father.
"He wont know, now out Piotr." Piotr stepped away from Lynx and out the door, followed by Victor, leaving Greg and Lynx alone.
"You know Lynx, it's not very good to hide guys in here, I mean, you don't want to end up getting pregnant by mistake." Greg smiled as Lynx lunged at him, trying to kill him. "I wouldn't, not unless you want to lose your precious Piotr."
"Get out now!" Lynx opened her door as Greg walked by, leaning in close to her ear.
"If I cant have you, I'll make sure no one does." Greg smiled and walked to his room as Lynx slammed her door shut, walking to her bed and sitting on it. Lynx laid back and closed her eyes, she was ready to kill her father. After a while, Lynx fell into a light sleep.
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Lynx awoke when she felt someone moving a finger along the side of her face. She opened her eyes to find Piotr sitting on the edge of her bed. "What are you doing in here, doesn't my dad hate you by now?"
"Yeah he does, but I stopped caring what Sabretooth thought a long time ago." Piotr bent down and kissed Lynx as she slowly sat up. "Besides, you have more power then Sabretooth now that Erik has seen you beat the X-Men."
"Then if I have all the power, I get whatever I want, right?" Lynx looked around the dark room as Piotr turned on a light.
"Yeah, that's about it, you get everything you want."
"Good, then I want Greg off the good Brotherhood team, he can be with Pietro and all them, but I really don't like him."
"Then he's gone my dear." Piotr and Lynx looked to the door where Magneto was now standing. "I'll the boys back to Mystique's house tomorrow morning."
"Thank you Erik." Lynx stood up and walked past Piotr and Erik, to the kitchen and getting a bag of Piotr's chips, sitting on the counter.
Lynx, do you honestly believe that running away to Victor will give you everything you want? That being with him and Piotr will bring you a friend that you trust? Lynx's face reddened as she heard Charles in her mind, she wanted nothing to do with anyone from her past anymore, nothing.
"Lynx? You awake there?" Lynx snapped back into reality and saw Piotr waving a hand in front of her face.
"Huh? Yeah, yeah I'm awake." She opened the bag of chips and started to eat them, over the last week she had become very addicted to the junk food that she only got if she snuck out at night and got a burger without Jean knowing.
"Eating my chips again?" Piotr grabbed the bag from Lynx's hands. "No more for you."
Lynx leaned forward and deeply kissed Piotr, taking the chips back when he dropped his guard. "Thank you."
Piotr turned around to see a hysterical John. "And you think that's so funny?"
"Yeah I do mate, that Sheila is smart Piotr, you should watch out for her." John said, barely able to get the words out before he continued on with his laughter.
"Cut it out." Piotr elbowed John in the stomach and sent him flying back into the wall as Piotr started laughing himself.
"Ok boys, fight nicely, I'm going back to sleep." Lynx left Piotr's half eaten bag of chips on the counter and walked to her room, lying on her bed until she fell asleep.