****Author's Note: I am so sorry for not updating sooner. I have not given up on this story or the prequels that I have planned. It's just that school has taken up a lot of time and I haven't even had time to read the comics I by every week let alone write, but I promise to do better now that school is winding down and to make up for it this is the first of two new chapters for this story.. So enjoy.***
***Disclaimer: Do you think I'd be busting my butt in a creative writing class if I owned the X-Men? Ok, so I would be, but I still don't own them. Alexandria and Logan Jr. and other OCs are mine thought.***
She watched him as he worked out in the danger room from the observation/control booth. It had surprised her that he would have created a program that made the terrain and opponents the same as they were in the other reality where they had spent the last ten years of their lives. She would have thought he'd want to put all of that behind him now that they were back. But maybe the memory of what was left behind was better then what he had come home to, after all it was hard on him seeing his wife with some else. It was hard to have his son hate him, and his daughter worried about where things were finally going to fall. She had watched him when Alexandria had joined them, he had such high hopes. He was so disappointed that things weren't as he had dreamed.
The program came to an end and Elizabeth stood looking at the shirtless sweating man in the room below her. She pressed the intercom and smiled down at him. "Nice moves, mate, how about I buy you a pint and you can tell me how you did that flip."
Logan looked up and saw Elizabeth standing in the booth and chuckled. "Sure Darlin' but if you want details it'll take more then just a pint." He picked up his towel and headed out of the danger room knowing full well that Elizabeth didn't wanna know jack about his fighting moves. She'd over heard the fight he and Ororo had had that morning and wanted to know what was up. "Give me ten to shower and change and I'll meet you by the front door."
Ten minutes later Elizabeth was waiting in front of the house. She blinked when she heard the sound of a motorcycle coming from the garage. "What is that?" She asked when Logan pulled up in front of her.
"It's a bike, Darlin'" He said with a smirk.
Elizabeth blinked. "You expect me to ride on that thing with you?"
Logan nodded. "I did promise you when we first got sucked into that other place that if we ever got back I'd take you for a ride. So get on, you promised me a beer."
Elizabeth smiled and nodded. She took the extra helmet and put it on after taking her long purple/black hair out of it's pony tail since it wouldn't go on over her hair clip. She wrapped her arms around Logan tightly and then Logan asked if she was ready. Before she could say yes she felt the bike jerk as it took off down the drive way.
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"What's so inserting outside, love?" Jean asked as she walked up behind Ororo.
Ororo watched as Logan's bike took off down the road and sighed. "Nothing." She said and then turned around. She still felt bad for blowing up at Logan that morning over letting Alexandria drive his motorcycle and went to talk to him only to catch site of him helping Elizabeth onto his bike.
"You know you had a right to be mad this morning. You've told Logan and Remy both not to teach her how to ride those things. She can't even drive a car yet." Jean said comfortingly as she took hold of Ororo's hand and lead her to the couch.
Jean sat on the end of the couch and put a pillow in her lap for Ororo to lie her head on. She was worried about the lack of sleep Ororo was getting and wanted to see if she could get her lover to take a nap.
Ororo smiled and sat on the couch and lied her head in Jean's lap and smiled. "I do enjoy spending time with you like this my love, but I am not going to take a nap."
"Now who said anything about napping?" Jean said with an innocent smile. "I just thought that since the children all went with Jubilee to spend the day with her before she and Emma went back to the Mass. Academy, and since we appear to have the house to ourselves for a while it would be nice to just relax for a bit."
"Umhmm." Ororo said as she reached up to run her fingers though Jean's hair. She lied there for a long time and just looked up at Jean. Then she sighed. "Things have really been a mess lately. I sorry for putting you though this my love."
Jean smiled down at Ororo. "It's not your fault, Ro. I understand, really, I do." She said as she softly traced the outline of Ororo's jaw.
"You do know that I still love you don't you? And that I always will?" Ororo asked as she pressed Jean's hand to her cheek, taking in the smell of her perfume.
"I do, and I love you too, Ororo." Jean smiled and then leaned down and kissed her lover full on the mouth.
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The mall wasn't as normally crowded as it should have been on a Saturday afternoon, but Alexandria didn't seem to mind, not that she really noticed. She tugged at a pair of black chinos three sizes to big and added them to the pile of clothes she was going to try on.
"You planning on trying to out eat Hank in Twinkies or something, Lex?" Jubilee asked as she held up the pants.
"Huh?" Alexandria asked she turned to look at the older girl. "Oh, no, I wasn't.. Sorry."
Jubilee put the pants back on the rack and got an indicial pair in Alexandria's size. "What's on your mind, squirt?" Alexandria just shrugged. She didn't even protest against being called squirt, which normally got the same reaction that calling her mother Stormy got. "Ok, kid, I get it, lets go" Jubilee said as she took hold of Alexandria's hand and lead her out of the American Eagle store.
They walked over to the nearest coffee place in the mall, which at this end would be Star Bucks, Jubilee preferred Caribou but this was an emergency. She sat her 'little sister' down at a table and then went to the counter. A few minutes later she came back and placed a white mocha latte in front of Alexandria and then sat across from her with her own double mocha espresso.
"Ok squirt, out with it."
Alexandria sipped all the whipped cream from her drink and then looked up at her 'older sister.' "I wish you weren't going back already." She said softly.
"I know, kid, and I'd love to stick around but me and Frosty gotta get back, we have students of our own ya know."
"Yeah, I know, but everything's still all screwed up here."
Jubilee sighed. She had hoped that her Stormy and her Wolive would have worked this all out by now. "It's not something that can be rushed, Lex."
"I know." Alexandria said before taking a long sip of her drink.
There was a long pause in the conversation as the two just sat there looking around. Jubilee loved that Alexandria and Rachel came to her like this, she felt it was a way to give back for all the times she'd gone to Ororo, but she couldn't help but wish that Pride had been around. She was always good at filling the long pauses. Finally, as she wiped at some over flowed whipped cream on the side of her cup as she asked.
"If you had to choose someone for your mom to be with to end all this who would you pick?" Alexandria looked up at Jubilee with a look on her face that made Jubilee nearly laugh. "Well see, it's not as easy as we think it should be. Your mom will pick who she loves more I guess when she's ready."
Alexandria shook her head. "I don't think it's a matter of who she loves more. She loves them differently."
Jubilee nodded. "Yeah guess your right."
"I think it's us."
It was Jubilee's turn to make an odd face. "What do you mean?"
"I think she's worried about me and Logie. I think," Alexandria sighed. "I think she hasn't admitted what she wants cause she's afraid of how it will effect us."
Again Jubilee nodded. "Maybe you should talk to her about what you think."
Alexandria just shrugged. "Maybe."
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The four horsemen tavern was crowed but neither Logan nor Elizabeth minded. They sat at a table in the back, away from the juke box, with two empty and one full pitchers of beer between them. After an hour or so they'd finally managed to run out of small talk and Elizabeth had asked Logan about the fight.
"Remy promised her he'd teach her so she could ride my scoot herself on her sixteenth birthday, so since Remy and Rouge are out of town and I am her father." There was a flare of passion in Logan's eyes that sparked something in Elizabeth every time she saw it. "I knew what I was doin', I wasn't gong to let her get hurt."
"I know that, and so does Ororo." Elizabeth said carefully.
"So what was the big freakin' deal?"
Elizabeth had to think about her answer. "Maybe it's cause you seem to be trying to hard?" She added a shrug to further make her statement seem more like a question.
Logan growled.
"I mean it's not the first time you've tried to prove your placement as the father by stepping over 'Ro's and Jean's place as the mothers. Right?"
Logan growled and nodded.
"I know it's hard Logan, you deserve better then this, but maybe you should try blending in and working with Jean instead of against her. All of you were so close before, you really need to draw from that right now. Well to a point anyway."
Logan was quite for a while. He finished two more beers before he said a word. "I have to get my head straight."
Elizabeth nodded. "And what's stopping you from doing that?"
"I can't leave." Logan growled.
"Ahh." Elizabeth nodded. Logan always took off when he needed to think. He could be gone for days, weeks, even months until he'd worked it all out in his head. "I need to go to the city to take care of some bossiness. I'll be gone for a week or so, your welcome to "tag along"."
Logan looked up at her. Was she offering him a way to be alone for awhile without it looking like he'd spilt. "Thanks Darlin' but I promised I'd stick around."
Elizabeth took a gulp from her glass and nodded as she reached out and covered Logan's hand with her own. "It's an open door offer, Logan."
Logan smiled. "I'll keep that in mind, Darlin'"
***Disclaimer: Do you think I'd be busting my butt in a creative writing class if I owned the X-Men? Ok, so I would be, but I still don't own them. Alexandria and Logan Jr. and other OCs are mine thought.***
She watched him as he worked out in the danger room from the observation/control booth. It had surprised her that he would have created a program that made the terrain and opponents the same as they were in the other reality where they had spent the last ten years of their lives. She would have thought he'd want to put all of that behind him now that they were back. But maybe the memory of what was left behind was better then what he had come home to, after all it was hard on him seeing his wife with some else. It was hard to have his son hate him, and his daughter worried about where things were finally going to fall. She had watched him when Alexandria had joined them, he had such high hopes. He was so disappointed that things weren't as he had dreamed.
The program came to an end and Elizabeth stood looking at the shirtless sweating man in the room below her. She pressed the intercom and smiled down at him. "Nice moves, mate, how about I buy you a pint and you can tell me how you did that flip."
Logan looked up and saw Elizabeth standing in the booth and chuckled. "Sure Darlin' but if you want details it'll take more then just a pint." He picked up his towel and headed out of the danger room knowing full well that Elizabeth didn't wanna know jack about his fighting moves. She'd over heard the fight he and Ororo had had that morning and wanted to know what was up. "Give me ten to shower and change and I'll meet you by the front door."
Ten minutes later Elizabeth was waiting in front of the house. She blinked when she heard the sound of a motorcycle coming from the garage. "What is that?" She asked when Logan pulled up in front of her.
"It's a bike, Darlin'" He said with a smirk.
Elizabeth blinked. "You expect me to ride on that thing with you?"
Logan nodded. "I did promise you when we first got sucked into that other place that if we ever got back I'd take you for a ride. So get on, you promised me a beer."
Elizabeth smiled and nodded. She took the extra helmet and put it on after taking her long purple/black hair out of it's pony tail since it wouldn't go on over her hair clip. She wrapped her arms around Logan tightly and then Logan asked if she was ready. Before she could say yes she felt the bike jerk as it took off down the drive way.
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"What's so inserting outside, love?" Jean asked as she walked up behind Ororo.
Ororo watched as Logan's bike took off down the road and sighed. "Nothing." She said and then turned around. She still felt bad for blowing up at Logan that morning over letting Alexandria drive his motorcycle and went to talk to him only to catch site of him helping Elizabeth onto his bike.
"You know you had a right to be mad this morning. You've told Logan and Remy both not to teach her how to ride those things. She can't even drive a car yet." Jean said comfortingly as she took hold of Ororo's hand and lead her to the couch.
Jean sat on the end of the couch and put a pillow in her lap for Ororo to lie her head on. She was worried about the lack of sleep Ororo was getting and wanted to see if she could get her lover to take a nap.
Ororo smiled and sat on the couch and lied her head in Jean's lap and smiled. "I do enjoy spending time with you like this my love, but I am not going to take a nap."
"Now who said anything about napping?" Jean said with an innocent smile. "I just thought that since the children all went with Jubilee to spend the day with her before she and Emma went back to the Mass. Academy, and since we appear to have the house to ourselves for a while it would be nice to just relax for a bit."
"Umhmm." Ororo said as she reached up to run her fingers though Jean's hair. She lied there for a long time and just looked up at Jean. Then she sighed. "Things have really been a mess lately. I sorry for putting you though this my love."
Jean smiled down at Ororo. "It's not your fault, Ro. I understand, really, I do." She said as she softly traced the outline of Ororo's jaw.
"You do know that I still love you don't you? And that I always will?" Ororo asked as she pressed Jean's hand to her cheek, taking in the smell of her perfume.
"I do, and I love you too, Ororo." Jean smiled and then leaned down and kissed her lover full on the mouth.
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The mall wasn't as normally crowded as it should have been on a Saturday afternoon, but Alexandria didn't seem to mind, not that she really noticed. She tugged at a pair of black chinos three sizes to big and added them to the pile of clothes she was going to try on.
"You planning on trying to out eat Hank in Twinkies or something, Lex?" Jubilee asked as she held up the pants.
"Huh?" Alexandria asked she turned to look at the older girl. "Oh, no, I wasn't.. Sorry."
Jubilee put the pants back on the rack and got an indicial pair in Alexandria's size. "What's on your mind, squirt?" Alexandria just shrugged. She didn't even protest against being called squirt, which normally got the same reaction that calling her mother Stormy got. "Ok, kid, I get it, lets go" Jubilee said as she took hold of Alexandria's hand and lead her out of the American Eagle store.
They walked over to the nearest coffee place in the mall, which at this end would be Star Bucks, Jubilee preferred Caribou but this was an emergency. She sat her 'little sister' down at a table and then went to the counter. A few minutes later she came back and placed a white mocha latte in front of Alexandria and then sat across from her with her own double mocha espresso.
"Ok squirt, out with it."
Alexandria sipped all the whipped cream from her drink and then looked up at her 'older sister.' "I wish you weren't going back already." She said softly.
"I know, kid, and I'd love to stick around but me and Frosty gotta get back, we have students of our own ya know."
"Yeah, I know, but everything's still all screwed up here."
Jubilee sighed. She had hoped that her Stormy and her Wolive would have worked this all out by now. "It's not something that can be rushed, Lex."
"I know." Alexandria said before taking a long sip of her drink.
There was a long pause in the conversation as the two just sat there looking around. Jubilee loved that Alexandria and Rachel came to her like this, she felt it was a way to give back for all the times she'd gone to Ororo, but she couldn't help but wish that Pride had been around. She was always good at filling the long pauses. Finally, as she wiped at some over flowed whipped cream on the side of her cup as she asked.
"If you had to choose someone for your mom to be with to end all this who would you pick?" Alexandria looked up at Jubilee with a look on her face that made Jubilee nearly laugh. "Well see, it's not as easy as we think it should be. Your mom will pick who she loves more I guess when she's ready."
Alexandria shook her head. "I don't think it's a matter of who she loves more. She loves them differently."
Jubilee nodded. "Yeah guess your right."
"I think it's us."
It was Jubilee's turn to make an odd face. "What do you mean?"
"I think she's worried about me and Logie. I think," Alexandria sighed. "I think she hasn't admitted what she wants cause she's afraid of how it will effect us."
Again Jubilee nodded. "Maybe you should talk to her about what you think."
Alexandria just shrugged. "Maybe."
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The four horsemen tavern was crowed but neither Logan nor Elizabeth minded. They sat at a table in the back, away from the juke box, with two empty and one full pitchers of beer between them. After an hour or so they'd finally managed to run out of small talk and Elizabeth had asked Logan about the fight.
"Remy promised her he'd teach her so she could ride my scoot herself on her sixteenth birthday, so since Remy and Rouge are out of town and I am her father." There was a flare of passion in Logan's eyes that sparked something in Elizabeth every time she saw it. "I knew what I was doin', I wasn't gong to let her get hurt."
"I know that, and so does Ororo." Elizabeth said carefully.
"So what was the big freakin' deal?"
Elizabeth had to think about her answer. "Maybe it's cause you seem to be trying to hard?" She added a shrug to further make her statement seem more like a question.
Logan growled.
"I mean it's not the first time you've tried to prove your placement as the father by stepping over 'Ro's and Jean's place as the mothers. Right?"
Logan growled and nodded.
"I know it's hard Logan, you deserve better then this, but maybe you should try blending in and working with Jean instead of against her. All of you were so close before, you really need to draw from that right now. Well to a point anyway."
Logan was quite for a while. He finished two more beers before he said a word. "I have to get my head straight."
Elizabeth nodded. "And what's stopping you from doing that?"
"I can't leave." Logan growled.
"Ahh." Elizabeth nodded. Logan always took off when he needed to think. He could be gone for days, weeks, even months until he'd worked it all out in his head. "I need to go to the city to take care of some bossiness. I'll be gone for a week or so, your welcome to "tag along"."
Logan looked up at her. Was she offering him a way to be alone for awhile without it looking like he'd spilt. "Thanks Darlin' but I promised I'd stick around."
Elizabeth took a gulp from her glass and nodded as she reached out and covered Logan's hand with her own. "It's an open door offer, Logan."
Logan smiled. "I'll keep that in mind, Darlin'"
