jenscott: Yeah sorry about the wait, in the comics in NYX they showed X23 working the streets and then the X-Men stumbled across her and took her in. I took bits of NYX and the flashbacks she had been from what I know are in her mini-series about her life. No baby May sorry, and I plan on finishing this soon and then after a bit come back with a sequel that will have Jean.

Silver Warrior: I didn't think about TJ and how she would feel, thanks for that but then again she living with a younger alternate version of her father too. Yeah you're not the first to suggest the Parkers take her in and I thought of that too.

Sean Malloy-1: Not sure I may try a different route in this one and I have thought about doing that but not anytime soon I want to take a break from this and work on a few other things first.

BlazeStryker: Actually I had been thinking of that already, in case you haven't noticed I like to stand out and do things that haven't been done.

Danrilor: Yeah I decided to just focus on that since I got a lot of the other stuff out of the way now. I'm thinking in this fic MJ and Peter's baby did die I mean that Spider-Girl thing is just an AU future, and I'm glade you picked up on that surrogate mother part.

Lady Suneidesis: Originally she was created in Evo yes but they brought her over into the comics with a twist and I put my own little twist on things too.

Aaron: I liked those pairings too especially since when was the last time Dani ever had a love interests. Look for more X23 and Parkers bonding.

The Uncanny R-Man: Glad you liked X23 showing up and the few flashbacks to her mini-series. Yeah well I'm doing a better version of MJ plus I think she would see how messed up X23 is. I'll assume broddy was spelled right and is some kind of British slang, but MJ is just being kind and maybe a little motherly to the girl.

qwerty: That's actually a strange name to me, never heard of it before. If you haven't heard of X23 then I guess you wouldn't know her link to Logan.

Jeff: Yeah you're not the first to suggest that name but I had one in mind but thanks anyway.

Tony: Thanks and when I saw that Peter was teaching and that Xavier's was turned into a real school the idea just clicked and it was too good to pass up, as for MJ I wanted her more involved with his life and the people in it.

Thanks to: Doza, morring star, Capito Celcior, GothikStrawberry, nightbug08, El Varon, spyder616, LoganBlackisle, Proponent of EVO, Teri, KuragariK , Lvmj, ldypebsaby, dorklotus

AN: Since I can't remember her name in that stupid X-Men: Then End comic thing I'll be giving her a new name.

THE NEW TEACHER

CHAPTER 43: ONE HELL OF A HANDFUL

X-23 was slowly waking up. She felt something soft under her and something warm around her. She found herself in an unfamiliar place and in a decent bed. She sat up looking down to see a strange shirt she had on and could smell two different scents that sparked the memories of last night. She heard a door open to her left and saw the red head MJ step out in a robe and wet hair drying it off in a towel, she smiled seeing her and it was a kind one and she felt a bit more at ease.

"Morning, Peter's making breakfast but you can shower up if you want."

She nodded her head and decided to shower. She had no idea how long it had been since she had a decent one and went into the bathroom as MJ showed her a few things she could use. She looked around the small white tiled room that was still a bit warm from the hot water and slipped out of her nightshirt and turned on the water and after a moment stepped in. The warm water was a welcomed sensation on her and she still couldn't help but wonder if there was a catch to this all, she hoped not they had treated her better then anyone else had.

Mary Jane went into the other room seeing Peter just put down the phone as he was finishing up the cooking, "Xavier's?"

Peter nodded, "Yeah I just finished with Scott and he wants me to being her over as soon as we can."

MJ nodded and sat down, "Well she's taking a shower now and I hope they can help her…I have to wonder thought where she came from I mean Logan doesn't have children does he?"

Peter shrugged, "Don't know hell he might not even know but if she was then I have to wonder how she got the metal on her claws. I mean that's not a mutation." MJ didn't like the sound of that with her talks with the X-Women she had learned a lot and a few details of the Weapon-X program. That wasn't something she could forget hearing and the thought of that young girl going through it sickened her. She had to wonder how anyone could do that to a child.

A little time later as they were sitting down to eat X23 walked in silently and sat down, "Feel better?" MJ asked her and the girl nodded. She did feel better with a decent shower and feeling more refreshed then she had in a long time. Then Mary Jane noticed that she was still in that shirt she had given her and the only other clothing she had been what she had worn and she wished she had some spare clothing on her that would fit the girl.

X23 just sat down and ate, she had to admit that these people could cook, she ate eggs and bacon and it was really good. She wasn't sure if this was all some dream or if they had some kind of ulterior motivation for helping her and being so kind to her. She couldn't smell them lying to her or anything or hear their heart beats pick up or any other sign that they were lying to her. Maybe she just wasn't used to people being nice and treating her…well…like a person.

She sat and watched the two talk and they tried to get to into the conversation but she just shrugged or said a simple answer. She knew they were just trying to get to her talk but she didn't know what to say honestly. But she had to admit they did seem honestly nice people and Peter was pleasant enough and was a bit funny as well. She saw his wife smiled and laugh a bit too and saw how they looked at each other, they looked at each other in ways that she had never seen before.

After breakfast she changed back into her clothing that MJ had cleaned for her and went to the door with Peter and surprisingly MJ. She had thought only he would be taking her but then again she liked her anyway. They got in a taxi that really smelled but she tried to ignore it as the scenery slowly changed from a busy city to that of a more residential area. After and hour they come to a gated mansion as she saw children all over the place playing and having fun. Some she could see here defiantly mutants, and she heard a few of them call out to Peter calling him 'Mr. Parker', he seemed well liked to everyone here.

She looked through the place and felt a bit uncomfortable with all the people in this place. She was on edge and didn't like to be surrounded by so many strange smells, she was told to wait outside some doors with MJ while Peter had to talk with Scott and Emma. Peter got the impression that Emma didn't really like him that much. Either because of him lying about who he was or the fact the she still couldn't get in his or Ben's minds to see if there was anything else that they were hiding…Then again it might be both.

"So you really think she has some kind of link to Logan?" Scott asked him after hearing the entire story.

"Well she fights like him, heals like him and has metal claws…kind of 'family' resemblance there."

"And she's just waiting outside?" Emma asked him with her arms crossed. "You're sure she's stable?"

Peter fixed her with a look, "If I didn't I wouldn't trust her to be with my wife."

While outside X23 was sitting quietly taking in the place but she was strangely comforted by MJ's presence next to her. "So…I think you'll need some new clothing after this is settled I mean you only got the one pair of clothing and all. Plus I have nothing that you can wear that fits."

The girl merely nodded her head, she did need new clothing and she was starting to really trust MJ and Peter. Then she heard a few people walking towards them. They were Logan, Nightcrawler, Rachel, and Storm. They had just returned from a mission to deal with a small situation that needed Strom's X.S.E. team to handle.

They had also been joined up with TJ, Kurt's daughter from an alternative future since she didn't want to be on the X-Men team and she wasn't a teacher so she had asked Scott if she could join up with Storm's team for a bit to see if she fit in on it. Scott had told her as long as Storm was okay with it and she had been. Although it was really nice being with her 'dad' again even if he really wasn't. But the fact that she had noticed how close he and Rachel were was a bit off. She still remembered how her mom had been Wanda Maximoff but it seemed they wouldn't hook up in this reality. It was a bit depressing that her 'parents' wouldn't be together but then it wouldn't be weird for her either. Being around to see your own birth would be too freaky and this was a girl that was blue and had elf ears.

"Hey MJ!" Rachel shouted out seeing the other red head sitting with a young girl outside Scott and Emma's office. "What's with the kid?"

Logan locked eyes onto the kid and she just stared at him. X23 looked at him and something sparked, images of him flashed in her minds and a man's voice kept going over and over in her head.

'This is your target you will terminate him. This is your target you will kill him. This is your target you will let no one stop you from destroying him. Kill. Destroy. ATTACK!'

X23 let out a roar and charged Logan with her hand claws drawn out, everyone was shocked and surprised by her move. Her eyes were wild and feral and he only just managed to get his own claws out and interlock them with hers but then before he could ask her what the hell she was doing, a foot claw came out of her right foot and with a kick to his ribs stabbed him there.

He managed to throw her off of him, MJ tried to yell out to her to stop as the other were taking up a stance to attack her. She was quick and jumped up and kicked Kurt in the chest causing her to kick off him with another flying kick to Logan. Peter, Scott and Emma came running out of the room hearing all of this going on outside their room.

"What the hell is going on out here?" Scott demanded seeing the fight going on.

"We don't know the girl just attacked Logan for no reason!" TJ said dodging another claw that was swiped at her.

"X stop this please!" Mary Jane begged her and did something rash she rushed out in front of the girl as she charged forward. MJ closed her eyes as Peter jumped out he wasn't sure if he would get there in time or not.

For the girl she saw MJ and yet didn't see her at the same time, at the last possible moments as she was sending two claws towards her but then she got other flashes this time of Peter and MJ. Of how they had helped her, how they had treated her and she found the strength to stop herself. She blinked to see her claws so close to MJ's chest and her hand shaking.

"I…I…" She tried to say something anything as to why she was doing this, she didn't even remember doing anything other then sitting down next to her. She had nearly done it again she had nearly killed someone that had been nice to her. She remembered the elderly old Japanese man that taught her how to fight. How one day she met him and then the next thing she knew she found herself over his dead body his blood on her hands. Her eyes filled with tears thinking that she nearly did it again.

She felt a pair of hands gently place themselves on her shoulders and flinched away and saw Peter was behind her, "I didn't mean to I…I don't know why I…" She couldn't find the words she looked at MJ with pain filled eyes and saw only confusion in the green eyes of the red head.

Rachel had had enough of this and used her Phoenix powers. She got that glowing yellow symbol on her face, as did a copy on X23's face. The girl just froze as Rachel went into her mind to see what was going on and the things she saw were horrible. She saw what triggered her reaction and pulled it out of there. The girl fell to the ground and Peter caught her as everyone looked at Rachel who didn't look so well.

"My god…that poor girl…" She said in a whisper, the images of being raised in a facility, the training the abuse and the horrors were like echoes of her own childhood where in the possible future she came from. She had been ripped from her parents and by a group who had beaten her, abused her and even had scarred her face once and turned her into a someone who hunted down mutants. Her life and that of X23 were so similar it brought back all those horrible memories of her own past that she had tried to forget.

"Rachel." A voice said and saw it was Kurt, he had been trying to get through to her, "Vhat happened?"

"She…she was trained to kill and especially to kill Logan. She was trained to take him out as well as assassinations…they had her kill when she was a child, they forced her to do…" She couldn't go on as the images of her child's life and her own were overlapping in her mind.

"Will she attack again?" Emma asked looking as now Peter and even MJ were looking after her.

Rachel shook her head, "No I…I took it out…I have to go," She ran out of the room as she was close to breaking down and she didn't want to others to see her.

Kurt wanted to go to her but wasn't sure what to do, he looked over and saw Ororo fussing over Logan and then felt a hand on his shoulder and looked to see TJ, "Go to her, she needs someone and I think she would prefer you." He thought about that and nodded his thanks to her and ported off.

Kurt found her in the room she shared with Kitty crying her eyes out on her bed curled up into a ball. He gently walked over to her, seeing her like this broke his heart he remembered how she had been when they first met and lately she had been better. More peaceful and calm and happy as she had been getting over her past but he knew that you never really got over some things and he sat down on her bed startling her. Rachel looked at him with red puffy eyes, tears on her face in those golden eyes of his that weren't filled with pity but with concern for her.

There were no words between the two of them words couldn't say the things that needed to be said so she just threw herself into him hugging him tight as he held her as she cried her heart out. All the pain of her own life came back as that old wound was reopened and that of seeing another little girl go through horrors that mirrored her own in so many ways. Kurt gently stroked her short red hair rocking her back and forth and not leaving her side. He was there for her just like he had been in their Excalibur days and she felt better in his arms she felt safe and comforted by him. She just didn't want to let go she just wanted him to hold her forever.

Meanwhile X23 was still asleep in the infirmary as they gave her a medical exam from Beast as Peter and the rest were outside. They were also with a very pissed off Logan who was getting in Peter's face. "So ya found her on the damn street with abilities close to mine and you bring her here so she can kick my ass…Is this some kind of payback from all those years we've known each other?"

"Logan I didn't know she would do that…Although I got to admit if she is some kind of relative then she definitely takes after your side of the family," He said and saw the glare Logan was gaving him.

MJ however was worried about that girl. She knew that she could have been killed or hurt earlier but she had to do something her mind was racing with what could have happened to make her go off like that and the way Rachel reacted she guessed it hadn't been nice. She had heard of how Rachel had grown up and wondered if seeing X's life had reminded her of it all.

After some time they heard a crashing sound and ran in to see X23 behind some equipment yelling at Hank, "Hank what's going on?" Peter asked him.

"I had no idea, she just awoke from her sleep and she looked panicked and then screamed out and I'm afraid she doesn't like the atmosphere of my lab." Hank told him dodging a bedpan that was thrown, "Perhaps you can be of assistance?"

"Uh…sure…" Peter had no clue how to handle her, evil villains yeah, a classroom okay but a child so was trained, as a killing machine who was freaking out was a new one on him. "Hey kid, calm down I'm here it's me Peter remember?"

She looked at him with a glare, "You said they would help me but they just want to hurt me!"

"What are you talking about?"

"Places like this only cause pain, they only give people pain!" She screamed at him.

Peter slowly made his way towards her, "They won't hurt you, these are my friends and places like this don't always give pain. Hank here was just looking you over to see if you were alright." She took a few steps back and unleashed her right claws. "Okay look have I ever hurt you or lied to you so far?"

She took a moment to think that over, so far he hadn't done that to her.

Peter slowly got closer to her, "Look you don't have to stay in this room if you don't want to," He put out his hand for her to take it. She looked at it and she really wanted out of this room so she put her claws back in and slowly too his hand. Peter kept his word and led her out of the room as she held onto his arm as they walked out. Mary Jane placed an arm over her shoulder as well seeing the look in her eyes darting about the lab. She oddly felt better with them here like this.

MJ took X23 on a tour of the place with as Peter worked with Hank on the DNA analysis. He was impressed with the equipment that Hank had for this and it didn't take long for them to process it and they were both surprised by the results. Both of them got together with Scott and Emma in the main office with Logan who had been wondering ever since that girl got here what she was to him. He had thoughts of if she was a kid or distance relative all going through his head but he wasn't prepared for what Hank told him.

"She's my what?" Logan roared out.

"She's your clone," Hank repeated fixing his glasses on his face.

"In case ya haven't notice I'm a guy and she isn't." Logan snapped back at him.

Peter took this question, "Well technically she's you genetically altered clone but all she's missing is one Y chromosome and that could have been an accident with how she was cloned."

"Great…more clones," Logan threw his hands up in frustration. "First Jean, Magneto hell our newest teacher is your clone, so why not a student here!"

"Logan calm down." Scott said to him with authority, then looked at the two of them. "Okay so someone cloned Logan and decided to make the whole Weapon-X thing over again?"

"Pretty much looks that way," Peter sighed and nodded his head.

"Then I guess she'll have to be living here now," Emma spoke up, "She needs supervision and training with her emotions. She's even worse then Logan when she's blows up in anger." There was a low growl from Logan but she ignored it.

Peter nodded again and got up but felt a bit…disappointed? He wasn't sure why, maybe because the kid was growing on him or something but that was crazy. She wasn't some puppy that he found in the street this was a kid, hell a teenager for crying out loud.

When they found X23 and the others they were outside and she seemed to be standing by MJ all the time as they walked over to them. Emma came up to the girl and spoke to her, "Well then this may have been an interesting day so far but I believe that you can learn a great deal here X23 I believe you are called."

"So we can assign you a room for you to live in while you adjust."

X23 looked at the tall blond woman with eh emotionless face and she didn't like her. She was too much like a few of the people back at the lab all cold to her. She moved closer to MJ a bit and Mary Jane noticed the look in her eyes. Mary Jane could see that she was scarred in some way and wanted to help her out then X23 took hold her of her hand and squeezed it. MJ felt like she was trying to saw something with the gesture and she knew what it was. Don't leave me.

She looked over to Peter with sad eyes and gave him a silent question, he had a feeling he knew what she wanted and nodded his head and they quickly walked a bit off to the distance to talk. They all watched as the Parkers went off and talked about something, they couldn't tell what it was but Peter touched her arm and looked like he was asking her something, she was looking into his eyes and then looked at X23 and back at Peter and nodded. They walked back to the group and Peter looked a bit nervous Logan heard it all and frankly he was fine with this, the idea of a mini-me walking around was strange enough as it was.

"Scott," Peter said to him, "We'd like to see if she will want to stay with us for a bit."

NEXT UP CHAPTER 44: EVIL RISES