Years had passed since Kurt left the lighthouse. During that time,
members of the X-men and Excalibur came and went, and Johanna became Phaser
of Excalibur when she turned twenty.
The others had tried to make her pick a better name, but she insisted that she wanted to be called Phaser so the codename stuck.
Kurt stayed in New York City, getting a license finally to run his own private school for fencing lessons. He was doing very well for himself, and he was able to rent a better apartment in a part of the city where he was harassed less by the young bigots of tomorrow.
He was twenty-five, and not once did he ever send word or make any contact with the lighthouse or his parents, and they didn't either. ***
Johanna was getting tired of the silence between her parents and Kurt. She just couldn't believe that he wouldn't want any word from his family asking how he was. When she pointed this out to her parents, they said that they didn't want to bother him in the life he had chosen.
But they really did want him to come back to them. Or at least send a letter or something to show he still remembered them.
The problem was that both sides were worried about angering the other by making some kind of contact with them.
That changed when Johanna found that her father couldn't risk waiting until it was too late. ***
Everyone gave Pete Wisdom and SkyElf lighthearted jabs that their smoking habits would give them lung cancer one day, and that they wouldn't be able to fight with them properly anymore.
That was until SkyElf started to get really bad coughs, hacking up phlegm and blood sometimes.
While looking over some routine yearly x-rays, Moira discovered something that she had missed for quite some time.
A black spot at the bottom of SkyElf's right lung that had been slowly getting bigger and spreading along the edges of his lungs.
The others had tried to make her pick a better name, but she insisted that she wanted to be called Phaser so the codename stuck.
Kurt stayed in New York City, getting a license finally to run his own private school for fencing lessons. He was doing very well for himself, and he was able to rent a better apartment in a part of the city where he was harassed less by the young bigots of tomorrow.
He was twenty-five, and not once did he ever send word or make any contact with the lighthouse or his parents, and they didn't either. ***
Johanna was getting tired of the silence between her parents and Kurt. She just couldn't believe that he wouldn't want any word from his family asking how he was. When she pointed this out to her parents, they said that they didn't want to bother him in the life he had chosen.
But they really did want him to come back to them. Or at least send a letter or something to show he still remembered them.
The problem was that both sides were worried about angering the other by making some kind of contact with them.
That changed when Johanna found that her father couldn't risk waiting until it was too late. ***
Everyone gave Pete Wisdom and SkyElf lighthearted jabs that their smoking habits would give them lung cancer one day, and that they wouldn't be able to fight with them properly anymore.
That was until SkyElf started to get really bad coughs, hacking up phlegm and blood sometimes.
While looking over some routine yearly x-rays, Moira discovered something that she had missed for quite some time.
A black spot at the bottom of SkyElf's right lung that had been slowly getting bigger and spreading along the edges of his lungs.