Disc- I only own Rita, Shawn, Marie, Lynx and Becky.
Marie looked back at Shawn, a single tear rolling down her perfect cheek. She looked down at her shirt, a dull green and heavy camouflage pants, she never liked fatigues, they were ugly. But now looking back, she knew that she would need to get used to them. "Shawn, mom, where's dad?" Rita, Shawn and Marie looked around, Logan wasn't there and Marie had to go.
"I don't know sweetheart." Rita said, trying to hug Marie as Marie just pushed her away.
"Don't touch me, you let him send me away, and now he's not even here to see me go! He's not a father at all, he's just a science experiment and he always will be!" Marie wiped at the tears drying on her cheeks as she hugged Shawn, praying Tyler would be there to see her go.
"Marie! Don't talk about Logan like that, he's you father whether you like it or not." Rita looked down and shook her head. "Oh Logan, where are you?" Rita silently asked herself.
"Not liking him seems to work well for Lynx, maybe it will work for me." Tyler never told anyone about how Lynx was or why Magneto took him only days before, he didn't want to make Marie worry the whole time she was in military school.
Marie looked back at Shawn and watched a bus come around the corner for her as Tyler came running up to her, second before the bus got to her. "Sorry I'm late Marie, I had to get this, but don't look at it until you cant see us anymore ok?" Tyler said, giving Marie a wrapped box, hugging her goodbye.
"Thanks Ty, I promise I wont open it." Marie wiped away one last tear as she looked for Logan, but only saw Remy and Rogue standing behind Rita, waving goodbye.
"Remember Marie, don't use your powers or show your wings." Marie glared at her mother and stepped onto the bus holding a bag and her gift. "Don't look like that sweetheart, it's only a few months!" Rita yelled after Marie as the bus drove out of sight.
Shawn watched the bus leave his sight as he put two fingers to his temple. "She's so angry inside, so full of hate towards you two." Shawn looked at Rita, his twin telepathy was telling him Marie's every feeling at the moment. "How could you just let dad control you the way he does? This family would be so much better if you never got married to him, Marie is right mother, he's just a science experiment gone wrong." Shawn glared at Rita and walked over to the lake, sitting on the dock where he always did when both him and Marie had something bugging them.
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Marie looked around and saw the bus full of kids in fatigues, both guys and girls, taking a seat next to another girl in fatigues. "New to military school?"
"Huh?" Marie wasn't really paying attention to anything at the moment.
"I asked if you were new to military school." The girl was about 16, only a year older then Marie, maybe less, with long brown hair and green eyes.
"Yeah, sadly." Marie sighed.
"Well, it's not all that bad, I've been here for a few years because my step dad is a real jerk, I would give anything to be with my real dad though." The girl smiled to Marie.
"Well I wish I had a step dad, my real dad is so mean, I came here because I came home late two times this year and he freaked out, my half sister already moved away and hates him, and I think my brother is ready to leave him too."
"Just do what your told and everything is fine, as long as your not afraid of heights and can run the obstacle course is so easy, by the way, I'm Becky."
"Trust me, I'm not afraid of heights, I love to fly, and I'm Marie." Marie smiled slightly, maybe this wouldn't be too bad if she had a friend.
"So is that from a boyfriend or something?" Becky indicated the box in Marie's hands.
"Well, I guess you could kinda call him my boyfriend, he told me not to open it until I couldn't see them anymore." Marie smiled a little more thinking about Tyler.
"Well, you can't see them, open it." Becky pressed Marie to open it and Marie began pulling the red ribbon off, carefully taking the wrapping paper off and opening the box, there were a few framed photos. Maries gasped as she looked at the first one, it was a picture of Tyler with a long black wig on, trying to look Marie. She remember that day, it was two years ago on her birthday and everyone was just messing around with Marie, Tyler was doing everything he could to make her laugh and it worked. Marie giggled when she saw the picture and Becky started laughing. "Is that your boyfriend?"
"Yeah, but he has short brown hair, he was trying to look like me that day so he threw on a wig." Marie smiled, giving the picture to Becky and picking up the next one, it was just a picture of Tyler leaning against a wall, being serious for the first time in his life most likely. "He's never that serious, I don't even know when this was taken."
"He's cute, how old is he?" Becky took the second photo from Marie and looked at it.
"He's two years younger then me, 13, but I don't get to see many guys where I live." Marie picked up the last one, it was a picture of them on the beach two years ago. Shawn had red trunks and his arms were crossed over his chest, Marie was wearing a black bikini with her hands on her hips, Tyler had blue and black trunks, smiling and Lynx was standing back a little with a pair of guy's black and green trunks and a big black shirt, not looking very amused about having her picture taken.
"Who are they?" Becky pointed to Shawn and Lynx.
"That's my twin brother Shawn, and that's my half sister Lynx, she about a year or so ago when my dad made her really mad." Marie handed the last photo to Becky, picking up a note from the bottom of the box:
Marie,
Hope you have a fairly good time at military school, surprise Logan by being perfect and coming back just the way you left. Shawn says he'll really miss you and you know I will, just glad that we got to spend some time together before you got sent away, but us being together was also the reason you got sent away so I'm sorry. You were right the other night, we should have gone home, but I still had a good time, what guy wouldn't want a girl sleeping against him? I wasn't going to tell you about this until you got home cause I didn't want you worrying, but I thought that you should know Lynx is temporarily blind because of the explosion, I saw her the other day when St. John and Piotr were sent to get me. Look forward to coming home soon ok? And I hope you find a friend for a bit, I'll be waiting for you, remember that.
~Tyler
XXX (I actually know a guy who ends his letters with xxx to girls.)
"Marie?"
"What?" Marie looking up from the note, she read it at least twice by now.
"We're here, quick, put this stuff in your bag, if they catch you with it, your dead." Becky said as Marie shoved the gifts into the bag as they both stood up and filed off the bus.
Marie sighed as she looked around, everyone was running laps around the school and running through the obstacle course. "Why do my parents hate me so much?" Marie groaned as Becky got in line with everyone else, a woman walking over to Marie, her name tag reading Frye.
"What was that cadet?" the woman looked down at Marie as Marie gulped.
"Nothing." Marie already hated the school as she balled her hands into fists, her sharp nails cutting through her skin as her healing factor fixed it.
"Nothing what?"
"Nothing ma'am." Marie watched as the woman stepped back to look at the girls.
"For the next few months you belong to me! You do what I want, when I want it, no questions asked, I am lieutenant Frye, do you understand?" lieutenant Frye shouted at them.
"Sir yes sir!" all the girls shouted as Marie just watched.
"Do you have a problem following orders cadet Cromwell?" Frye peered down at Marie.
"Maybe." Marie rolled her eyes, there was no way she was staying here, she was totally going a-wall.
"Excuse me cadet Cromwell?" Frye's face was inches away from Marie's.
"You heard me." Becky glanced over at Marie, keeping her mouth shut tight.
"Well we'll just have to beat vocabulary like that out of you." Lieutenant Frye leaned back, looking over the other girls, then back to Marie.
"If I can survive my father, I can survive this." Marie whispered when Frye wasn't looking.
"Would you care to say that louder cadet Cromwell?" Frye's head wiped around as she glared at Marie.
"Fuck this." Marie sighed, taking her shirt off, revealing a tube top as her wings came out and the other girls gasped. Marie grabbed her bag and waved goodbye to lieutenant Frye as she flew into the air, no idea where she was going to stay for a few months.
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Lieutenant Frye watched as Marie flew away, "she'll be back." Frye said to no one in particular "now I want you all to run the obstacle course now, then do four laps around the school courtesy of your friend cadet Cromwell." The girls sighed, if Marie was coming back she would be in trouble with everyone. "I believe I said now!" the girls ran towards the obstacle course, quickly going through it and starting their four laps.
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Marie sat high up in the air, watching as the girls did laps because of her, "I'm sorry Becky." Marie flew to the top of a building and sat down, thinking.
"Marie? Shouldn't you be with your parents?" Marie turned around to face Pietro.
"What do you want?" Marie scowled at him.
"Nothing, I just want to know why you aren't with your parents."
"Because they sent me to military school ok?"
"They did? Then I'll have to help Rita out, she is my friend." Pietro grabbed Marie and picked her up in his arms, standing in the middle of the military school in seconds, right next to lieutenant Frye. "Miss her?" Pietro dropped Marie and ran off as Marie clawed at the air where he was, missing him.
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"So you decided to come back, I hope you have a better attitude, because if you leave again I'll tell your parents, your father seemed very interested in what would happen if you ran away." Frye watched as Marie's face soften, she didn't want Logan to know she left. "That's better, now go run those four laps!"
"Yes ma'am." Marie turned and ran away, starting her first lap and wishing she had Shawn's speed on the ground.
"You better cover that tube top up when your done, they shun things like that." Becky came up beside Marie on her second lap.
"Your still talking to me?" Marie glanced at Becky quickly.
"Everyone tries to go a-wall while they're here. Frye is the worst platoon leader of all, so don't worry too much, no one likes being here. So you're a mutant huh?" Becky started her third lap as Marie started her second.
"What gave it away?" Marie smiled, trying to keep pace with everyone.
"Well for one, the wings, but mutants are cool, I'm one too, that's the other reason I'm here."
"What can you do?"
"I can turn into water and I can also control water, it's kinda weird, do you have any other 'gifts'?" Becky gulped hen she saw lieutenant Frye watching them.
"Yeah I do, my nails are super sharp and I have a healing factor thanks to my father, but your step dad doesn't like mutants?" Marie ran a little faster as Becky matched her pace.
"Nope, neither does my mom, she wont even look at me, she's so embarrassed of me, I'd do again to stay here forever and not go home to my parents." Becky sighed, she couldn't stand the looks her parents gave her at home.
"You should come home with me in a few months, I live at this place that helps mutants with their gifts, if it wasn't the place my parents lived it would be cool but I can't go home for like two or three months." Becky stopped as she finished her fourth lap and Marie kept on.
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Silently the girls walked to their barracks at the end of the day, Marie and Becky taking top bunks next to each other. "So what's with this place you were talking about? Why cant you go home?" Becky laid down on her bed as Marie climbed up to her bunk and lay down too.
"I cant go home because Lynx, the other girl in the picture you saw, got Tyler and his father to blow it up." Becky gasped when she heard that.
"So they're all mutants too?"
"Yeah, the place is Xavier's School For Gifted Youngsters." Marie sighed as the lights turned out at 9 PM, it was bedtime.
"Sounds better then my house, my parents would do anything to get rid of me, I'll have to tell them about it some time." Becky turned on her side and went to sleep as Marie did the same.
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"I really wish you were there, she is your daughter." Rita walked into the danger room finding Logan in a chair, his back to her, as she walked up behind him and put her hands on his shoulders, she looked for him all day and after five hours she found him.
"I don't care right now Rita." Logan looked up at Rita as she walked around the chair and sat on his lap. "Rita, you smell nervous, scared, what's wrong?"
"Nothing Logan, it's nothing, honest." Rita smiled and kissed Logan on the cheek, standing up. "I'm gonna go talk to Rogue." Rita left the room and walked to the dock where Kurt and Rogue were sitting, Kurt thinking about Kitty no doubt. "Kurt? Can I talk to Rogue please?" Rita said from a few feet back in case they were talking about something private.
"Ja, go ahead." Kurt stood up and walked back to mansion as Rita sat next to Rogue.
"Waht is it Rita?" Rita looked down and picked up a rock and threw it in the water like everyone did when they were worried about something at the institute.
"Rogue, I'm scared, there's something I haven't told Logan, and I don't know how he'll react." Rita looked up at Rogue.
"Waht is it sugah? Ah've nevah knahwn ya ta keep something from Logan." Rogue at Rita, something was really wrong.
"I'm pregnant again, but all this stuff with Marie, I don't know how to tell him."
"Thaht's great Rita, there is no way Logan can't be happy, how far?" Rogue looked back as she saw Logan out walking through the woods.
"Two months." Rogue hugged Rita and forced her to stand up, pushing her towards the woods. "Go tell him."
Rita smiled slightly as she headed for the woods, catching up with Logan and wrapping an arm around his. "What?"
"What do you mean what Logan? I cant come out here and walk with you?" Rita looked at Logan's face and smiled.
"No you cant, now what do you have to tell me?"
"Umm…I'm two months pregnant." Rita quickly looked down as Logan stopped walking.
"How long have you known?" Logan put a hand under Rita's chin and made her look up at him.
"One and half months now."
"Why didn't you ever tell me?"
"Because I was scared, everything that happened with Lynx and Marie, I didn't know what would happen after that."
"Rita, you don't need to be scared of me, you know that, but you've also known from the start that I was never going to be the greatest father around." Logan sat on the ground, against a tree as Rita sat down his lap.
"I was never scared of you, I was more scared of when it gets older, I don't want to have to lose another baby, both Marie and Lynx are gone and all I have left is Shawn and he hates me right now."
"He cant hate you forever." Logan told her, kissing her on the cheek.
"Sure seems like he can." Rita sighed as she stood up, the sky was getting darker and she wanted to make sure that Shawn was still home.
"Don't worry, you'll be fine, I promise, and you wont lose another baby." Logan said, standing up and putting his arms around her stomach.
"I hope not." Rita turned in his arms and kissed him, slowly walking back to the mansion when Logan let her go.
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Shawn laid in the bed of his truck most of the day, throwing fireballs up and catching them as if they were baseballs. He slowly became aware of the fact that night was coming and the glow from his fireballs was the only light besides the last few rays of the sun that leisurely gave into the darkness.
"Shawn, can we talk?" Rita walked up to the truck, catching the fireball and closing her fist so it disappeared.
"Now that you've taken everything from my life, sure." He wouldn't even look at her.
"Don't do that Shawn, I never meant to hurt you, but I didn't know what to do with Marie, neither did Logan, he did the best he could."
"Sure, make him sound like the good guy here, that sending away your daughter is fine." Shawn had been getting hurt feelings from Marie all day and he hated it so much.
"That's not what I was trying to do Shawn, and people send children to military school all the time."
"You didn't even talk to her! You just assumed that she did something wrong and that's why she didn't come home!" Shawn sat up and looked at his mother.
"I'm sorry Shawn, but she knew that she should have come home."
"Mom, she liked Lynx too, don't you think it hurt her that Lynx would do something like that? Don't you think Marie needed time to herself? To think?"
"Yes I did, but that's not the point, the point is she should have said something, and she should have brought Tyler home first."
"No, that's not the point either, the point is that you don't want her making the same mistake you made. Is that what we are to you mom? A mistake? Is that what Lynx is too?"
"Shawn! You know how much I love you all, what is it that's making you so mad?"
"You don't have a clue, you don't have Marie's thoughts of hurt and abandonment in your head do you?"
"We didn't abandon her, in a few month's she'll be back here with us."
"Until she messes up again? Tell me mom, was this your idea? Or did dad talk you into it?"
"It was a mutual agreement Shawn."
"Then bring her back, I don't want to spend a few months away from her, knowing how hurt she is, I can't take it." Shawn looked up as Logan walked out of the woods.
"Believe me Shawn, if I could I would, but right now this is what's best for her, she needs to learn respect."
"Then do it, I don't want her to run away, that's what she wants, she told me."
"I'm sorry Shawn." Rita looked down as she turned away from Shawn and walked to the mansion, going down to the danger room to talk to Ororo. "Ororo, do you think what Logan and I did was the right thing to do?"
"I cant tell you that Rita, it was a hard choice to make, but maybe you should listen to your son, Shawn is very intelligent, he takes after you." Ororo looked up at Rita as Rita nodded and thanked her.
"Thanks 'Ro, and I'm very sorry about Evan, he was a good kid" Rita put a hand on Ororo's shoulder and walked back to Shawn's truck. "Ok Shawn, we'll get her in the morning."