DISCLAIMER: Still don't own the X-Men, okay? No need to rub it in.

Josh stretched and yawned. Looking at his clock, he realized that he probably missed a training session, something that his dad would definitely not be happy about it. He slid on a pair of sandals and left his room, pausing to knock on Marie's door.

"Hey, you up yet?"

There was no answer, and he smiled. She usually slept in longer than he did. Turning the knob, he got ready to pounce on her. Instead, he found her room empty, the bed still made.

"What?"

"She's down in the med lab." Jubilee's voice was irregularly gentle.

"What? What happened?"

"You mean it wasn't from the mission?"

"What wasn't from the mission!" He grabbed her shoulders and she literally exploded, nearly setting his shirt on fire.

"Whoa! Step off, little man! Why don't you just go down and see for yourself?"

"I think I will."

"Okay. So let go of me."

"Fine!" He let go, pushing her away. She stumbled slightly, but didn't fall.

"And you might want to look into some anger management classes too!" She shouted at his back as he ran down the hall.

"What was it?" Josh was sitting next to the hospital bed where Marie was laying, unconscious but responding to external stimuli.

"I cannot be sure, but I'm fairly certain that it is a time displacement device."

"A time machine? That's crazy."

"Actually, Josh... it ain't that crazy." Rogue had been pacing since before Josh arrived in the med lab, but she stopped, brushing the hair out of her daughter's eyes.

"She's gonna travel in time, we just don't know if this is it." Remy walked back into the room. He had left to smoke a cigarette, since Beast would not let him do it anywhere near the med lab.

"We never thought about how it would look from this side... Anna just said she would wake up and it would happen."

"Anna? What does Anna have to do with all of this?"

Rogue, Gambit, and Beast all exchanged looks, and Hank was the first to speak. "Anna is Marie."

Josh looked at their faces, before laughing. "You're all nuts. What a horrible time to make jokes like that."

When no one's faces changed, he stood up. "You're not joking?"

All three of them shook their heads, and he walked over to the phone. "I'm gong to call Anna."

"Don't bother." Everyone looked to the bed, where Marie had opened her eyes and was staring at the ceiling. "She won't be there."

"Marie!" Josh rushed back to the side of the bed. "Are you alright?"

"I'm fine, Josh... just a little tired... someone needs to call the lab, tell them I won't be in today."

"What lab? Marie, you probably just need more rest."

Rogue stepped up next to the bed. "Anna's lab?"

Marie nodded. "And tell Gina I can't meet her for lunch."

"Gina?"

Remy was already on the phone. "Oui. Of course. Monday, first t'ing. We be dere. Okay." He hung up the phone. "Marie, your boss wants t' talk wit' you. We're gonna go meet wit' him."

Marie nodded and sat up, slinging her feet over the edge of her bed. Josh tried to make her lie back down but she refused and, since she was stronger than him, there wasn't much that he could do about it.

"I'm fine, Joshy."

Still skeptical, Josh sat down again. "So wait... Anna is you?"

Marie nodded. "I don't know how to explain it... that thing is a time machine. It sent me back to before I was born."

"Okay..."

"And when I was born, they started calling me Anna so it wasn't as confusing, since that's Rogue's name."

"It is?"

"Yeah. Anna Marie."

"I never knew that."

"She'll probably just say dat it's y' own fault, 'cause y' di'nt ask."

Remy got slapped on the back of his head, and shut up, letting Marie finish the story.

"Anyways, it was weird, but I got to watch myself grow up. You, too. But it got harder, so that's when I moved."

"So you knew that stuff was going to happen?"

"Well, Anna did. I didn't...if that makes sense."

"No, not really."

"Anna-me moved because she didn't like knowing what was going to happen and not being able to do anything about it."

"So she knew ahead of time that Mom was going to die last year."

"Sugar, we all knew ahead of time that your momma was due for a dying," Rogue pointed out.

Josh rolled his eyes. "It's not the same."

"Ah'll give you that."

Marie smiled. "Yeah, she knew. And now I know. But I knew anyway, because now I've been there."

"So it's like two people living in your head?" Josh was still having trouble understanding.

She shook her head and looked at Rogue. "No, it's nothing like that... it's one person, but two sets of memories. I remember failing a test in third grade and thinking that I'd flunk out of school, but I also remember telling myself not to worry about it because I know for a fact that I won't."

"Hm..."

"I know it's a lot to swallow, but it's true."

"No, I believe you... but it's just... odd. Although, it does make sense..."

"Sense? It's never made sense."

"No, I mean... That's how your dad knew to bet on the Red Sox."

"Merde..." Remy muttered and tried to leave the room, but Rogue grabbed his arm and pulled him back in just as Josh turned to him.

"I want my money back."

"Non! Really! Remy is a big Sox fan!"

"Sure you are."

"I'm telling you... she's a mutant." Rob was standing in his boss' office, having been called in moments earlier.

"The man on the phone introduced himself as one of the X-Men."

"Yes, that would be her father."

"Her father is a X-Man?"

"So is her mother, and so is she."

"How could I not know this?"

"She's a reserve member. She doesn't live with them at the headquarters, but she goes in when they need her."

"She's been working here for how many years?"

"Mr. Polesky... with all due respect, you never asked."

"Excuse me?"

"You never asked. Not once did you say 'By the way, you wouldn't happen to be a mutant yourself?' Not that it's a bad thing that you didn't, but given the general public opinion, being a mutant is not information that most people offer up voluntarily."

"Good point... say, you aren't..."

"No, sir I am not."

"Alright. Well, tomorrow, Anna's parents are coming in to talk to me. They're bringing along a girl named Marie."

"Did they explain to you who exactly Marie is?"

"He said something about a time machine..." Mr. Polesky shrugged, making it obvious that he hadn't followed a single word of Remy's explanation.

Rob chuckled and sat down. "You might want to clear your schedule, sir. This explanation could take some time."

The door swung open and Marie stepped in after replacing the key where it was hidden above the doorframe, out of reach of anyone who wasn't able to fly. Remy, Rogue, and Josh stepped through the door after her, and Rogue whistled.

"Wow, you live like a slob." Marie shot her a glare and waded through the mess on the floor. She wasn't really into cleaning up, except on laundry day, when the mess on the floor dissipated slightly.

"I don't have time to clean. I spend most of my day at the lab, or over with Rob and Gina."

As if on cue, the pair walked into the apartment, and Gina ran over to Marie. "Oh my God... Anna?"

Marie smiled apologetically. "More or less."

"Wow... when you said that you might look a little younger next time we saw you, I figured you just meant that you were having some work done..."

Marie laughed. "No, G... that's your thing, not mine."

Gina's jaw dropped, and her eyes got wide. "It is you!"

Within two hours, they had packed up all of the things that Marie wanted to take back with her to the Institute, and loaded them into one of the SUV's that they had brought with them.

"Next stop-Genetech." Marie was carrying the last box, and she pulled the door closed on the now empty apartment, ready to face her boss as a different person altogether.

"I told him the story, A-Bomb. He knows what happened."

"Thanks, Rob. I'm getting sick of telling it."

Rob laughed. "Yeah, I can imagine."

When they reached Genetech, the normally quiet hallways were littered with scientists and researchers, all trying to catch a glimpse of some of the X-Men. The story had somehow spread throughout the facility, and they all watched Marie closely, amazed at how similar to Anna she was, but still reluctant to believe what they didn't have proof of. One of the researchers stepped up and pointed at Josh.

"Ohmygod! You're the one with the pink eye thing! Blindside!"

Marie laughed. Josh always hated it when people pointed out that his optic blasts were pink instead of red, like his dad's.

"Yeah..."

"Can I have your autograph? You're my favorite!"

Josh smiled at Marie and turned back to the researcher, winking. "Sure thing."

Remy leaned in-between Rogue and Marie, whispering. "Don' it bot'er you dat he's flirting wit' dat femme?"

Both Rogue and Marie looked at him with identical looks of disbelief, and Rogue spoke for both of them. "Of all the people t' be askin' that question you, Sugar, are the least qualified."

"You wound me, Chere!" He grabbed his chest before smiling and putting on his charm, as another female researcher approached him for an autograph.

"It's odd walking down here like this... with people knowing who you 'really' are..." Marie paused to sign something for one of her co-workers, and Rogue noticed that she now signed things as "Anna Marie."

"Ah see how it is..." She, too, was being hit up for autographs, but chose to sign with only her codename, as that was all that she had ever really known herself as. "Ya think that ya can just take mah name now?"

Marie hit her mother on the arm. "You gave it to me, it was a gift."

She looked over at Josh, who was having his picture taken with a group of female doctors. Rolling her eyes, she walked over to him and put her hand on his shoulder, addressing the women. "Blindside can't come to the phone right now. He's too busy thinking up a better codename."

"At least my name is original, Coquin." He smiled at the women again and explained. "My little lady here just took her mom's codename in French. Not able to think of anything of her own, you see."

Marie hit him, and he grinned and put his arm around her. "It's okay, though, we'll get over it."

"Ms. Darkhölme?" Marie's eyes shot to the end of the hall, where Mr. Polesky stood, looking stern.

"Does this remind you at all of that time in middle school that Storm caught you flying down the hall, toilet papering the plants and statues?" Josh whispered to her, making her laugh.

"That was the last time I ever took a dare from you." She slid out of his hold and walked up the hall.

"LeBeau, actually." She corrected him as she approached.

A/N: Sorry it took so long... BUT coming soon- the last chapter! So review.