Aprilangel413: Ok this is the last chapter. I know it's sad but it must be done.
Disclaimer: I don't own X-Men Evolution
Three Days Later
Genie had gone into labor about two hours ago. Jean and the professor were trying to protect Cass and Lizzie from Genie's mental screams. And this only proved Hank's theory, when a female mutant goes into labor she loses about 50 to 75 control of her powers. This was not a good thing considering how powerful Genie was.
"What's going on in there?" Lizzie asked Jean.
Jean was busy concentrating so Cass answered the young girl's question.
"Aunt Genie is having her baby." Cass said looking down at the 7 year old.
"I know that but this is taking soo long." Lizzie whined.
Cass smirked. A seven year old could only be expected to stay interested in something she new almost nothing about for so long.
"How about you go up stairs and see who's home, I'll call you back down after the baby's born."
"Ok." Lizzie said then hopped off her seat and dragged Jean to the elevator, wanting her help to find everyone.
Once they were gone Cass turned to Xavier.
"How are you holding up?" She asked as she sat next to him in one of the seats.
"If she does not deliver the baby soon I will need the assistance of Cerebro." Xavier said with his hands on his temples.
"If it would help me and Lizzie could go for a drive, maybe get out of her range." Cass suggested.
"No I wouldn't want you to miss the birth of your new niece or nephew."
"If you insist." Cass said as she began to pace again.
Lizzie and Jean stepped off the elevator and started walking. Lizzie went on and on about how happy she was to finally get a cousin and Jean listened. Then they wandered into the kitchen and found Ororo.
"Didn't Dr. McCoy tell you to take it easy with the cooking?" Jean asked as she led Lizzie to the table.
"I'm making an ice cream Sunday. I don't think that qualifies as cooking." Ororo said as she put her third scoop of ice cream into the bowl.
"Can I have some?" Lizzie asked as she walked over to the island to look at the Sunday.
"Sure, just get yourself a bowl." Ororo smiled as she picked up the whipped cream in one hand and the chocolate syrup in the other.
Jean got herself a bowl and joined in the party. The three of them spent the next thirty minutes making and eating their frozen concoctions. Then Ororo glanced up at the clock.
"Jean didn't you take over my classes?" She asked.
"Yeah why?" Jean said as she put the last bit of melted ice cream into her mouth.
"Because I've got a class in three minutes." Ororo said pointing to the clock.
"Crud." Jean said as she jumped up from her seat and sprinted out of the room.
"Stay with Ororo till I'm back." She yelled from down the hall.
Lizzie looked to Ororo and Ororo looked to Lizzie.
"You wanna color?" the young girl asked with a smile on her face.
"Sure." Ororo said as Lizzie grabbed her hand and started pulling her out the door.
Ororo followed Lizzie up the stairs and into her room. Because she technically wasn't a student of the institute her room was on the same floor as the teachers. Lizzie ran into her room and was out in a matter of seconds with three coloring books and a large box of crayons. They then went into Ororo and Logan's room. It was actually her room first, Logan just moved his stuff into it when they got married. Ororo lay on the bed while Lizzie took the floor. Ororo opened the crayon box and looked at the Crayons.
"Lizzie." She said.
"Yes Miss Monroe."
"Why are all the Crayons broken?" She asked handing the girl the box.
"Oh I was coloring with Mr. Logan a couple days ago, he presses too hard. He promised me a new set for my birthday." Lizzie said as she took out half of the orange Crayon.
Ororo sighed and picked out a nice pink shaded Crayon when a flash of light appeared followed by Cass. She had bothher eyes closed and then opened one of them.
"Cool it worked." Then she looked down at Lizzie.
"Come on, Genie's having the baby." Cass said as she grabbed Lizzie's hand and another flash of light appeared, and then they were gone.
Lizzie opened her eyes to find her self in one of the lower levels. Then she turned to Cass.
"Hey you did it." She said cheerfully, as Cass opened her eyes.
Low and behold there was Xavierwaiting right outside Genie's room. That's when a buzzing made itself known in her ear.
"What's that noise?" Lizzie asked.
"It's the best the professor can do with out Jean." Cass said as she walked over to where thetelepath was seated.
"Is the baby here yet?" Lizzie asked, again not being very patient.
Then a sound barrier breaking cry sounded as if on queue. Xaviersighed in relief as Cass turned to look at Lizzie.
"Does that answer your question?" She smiled.
It was a few more minutes before Warren exited the room. He wore surgical scrubs and a smile on his face. In his arms he carried a small bundle wrapped in blue blankets.
"It's a boy." Warren smiled as he rocked his new son in his arms.
"How's Genie doing?" Cass asked as she looked at her new nephew.
"She's resting." Warren said still smiling.
"What's his name?" Lizzie asked as she stood up on one of the chairs to get a better view of the new baby.
"His name's David." Warren said with much pride.
Then Hank made an appearance.
"Warren, I think the new mother and son need sometime together." He said, and then Warren reluctantly handed David over to the blue doctor.
"He's perfect Warren." Cass said as she patted his back. "I gotta call Alex." She said as she ran off to the nearest phone.
Lizzie stood on the chair looking at Warren.
"I think his cute." She smiled.
"So do I." Warren smiled at the little girl whom he had come to love like a daughter.
Lizzie poked her head inside the kitchen and looked around. After the bus had dropped her off at the front gates she had gone all the way around to the back to check if the coast was clear. She tip toed through the kitchen and made it to the stairs before anyone saw her.
"Hey Lizzie what cha do'in?" Scott asked.
"Nothing, absolutely nothing." She said then rushed down the hall to the rec room.
Scott didn't need to have to be a mind reader to know that something was up. He found Cass in her room chatting with Alex over the phone.
"Hold on Alex, your brother's here." She said as she put her hand over the part of the phone you speak into.
"What is it Scott?" She said looking up at him.
"Lizzie just got back from school and is acting a bit strange." He stated.
She took her hand off the phone. "I'll call you back, bye." Then she hung up.
"I check it out." She said as she got off her bed and left her room
She found Lizzie still in the rec room watching a movie. But she didn't look very interested in it.
"What up Lizzie." Cass asked as she sat down.
"I just had a bad day." She said turned so Cass couldn't see her face.
"What happened?" Cass asked in a very motherly voice.
"I got an assignment back today and I got a 69 on it. That's barely passing." She said glumly.
"Can I see it?" Cass asked remembering all too well her math test from 5 years ago.
"Sure." Lizzie said as she bent over the side on the couch and pulled her folder out of her backpack.
She opened the folder and handed Cass a piece of paper. On the top it read POLITCAL ISSUES ESSAY. Then it was a checklist of requirements for the project. According to the check list the only things that Lizzie had done right was the length of the essay, spelling and grammar, and her presentation to the class.
"Lizzie what happened?" Cass asked not realizing how disappointed she sounded.
"I don't know, I picked a topic no one else did and I did a lot of research." Lizzie sounded like she was about to cry.
"Can I see the essay?" Cass asked trying to clam Lizzie down.
"Here." Lizzie said as she opened the folder and handed Cass a two-page report.
As Cass read the report she glanced at the checklist. Lizzie had done everything the teacher had told her to do. Cass sighed and looked over to Lizzie.
"Could I borrow this for a while?"
"Whatever." Lizzie said as she turned back to the movie.
Cass took the papers and ported to the professor's office.
"Sorry for not knocking but I think you should see this." Cass said as she handed the paper to Xavier.
He read it over and then placed it on his desk.
"Quite astonishing, and to think she did this all by her self."
"And she had to read it out loud to the class." Cass added.
"If you could go out to thegazebo I will get a hold of everyone." He said in his famous clam and collected voice.
"Thanks." Cass said as she disappeared into a flash of light.
She reappeared on the gazebo. Remy was already there flipping a diamond ring through his fingers.
"Good you're here already." Cass said as she looked at the ring again.
"Why what we be do'in?" The Cajun asked.
"Xavier wants to tell everyone something." She said as she walked up to him.
"You should put that away, everyone's gonna get here soon." Cass said pointing at the ring.
"You be right, Remy save dis foh later." Remy managed a smirk as he put the ring back in its case.
The members of the X-Men seem to arrive just after that moment. Xavier wheeled himself to the front of the crowd and looked at his team.
"Lizzie wrote a paper for school that I think we should all here. All she had to do was pick a political topic and write about it. She choose mutants. She fulfilled every requirement and did a great presentation. She received a 69. Then he picked up the report and started reading.
"Many people think that mutants are bad and dangerous, but that is only half true. Mutants are just as different as people, they can be good or bad, or even somewhere in between. I know this because I've lived with mutants my whole life. Both my parents were mutants and they sacrificed their lives to make sure I lived a normal human life.
Then I lived with my two aunts who were also mutants, they are the nicest people I know. They my aunt Genie married another mutant named Angel, if you looked back into the papers you'll see that he used his powers to help people. And for the past five years I've lived with them and the Xavier Institute for gifted youngsters. I am not a mutant but they all welcome me with open arms.
They have never once hurt me with their powers though they do use them regularly. They are just normal people with special gifts, that is all. They have become my family and I will always think of them that way. They put their lives on the line everyday to protect fellow mutants and other humans from danger. Even if the humans hate them.
Sure there are some bad guys out there but from what I can tell there are a lot more good guys. And lets face it mutants are the next step of human evolution, we can't deny it, or pretend it isn't happening. Because it is happening. So please listen to me, when you hear about all the things that the bad mutants are doing just remember that there are good mutants too." Xavier looked up at his team, they were all shocked to say the least.
"The rest is just some memories of fun times she's had here with us." He smiled reading about they time Bobby went sledding with her in July.
"Vow." Kurt said standing next to Kitty.
"And she got a 69 on that?" Piotr asked.
"That's just not rahte." Rogue drawled.
"But it's ok." Everyone turned to see Lizzie standing at the back of the crowd.
"I talked to my teacher, and she said that if she gave me the grade that I deserved then the school board wouldn't leave her alone. She said she would give me some extra credit stuff to make up for it." Lizzie said as everyone looked at her.
"So what do you think, any good?" She asked as Xavier handed her, her paper.
The End
Aprilangel413: Just a note Kelly is now head of the school board, that's why they would bother Lizzie's teacher to no end. And if everyone could review that would be great because this is the last chapter, and I don't think I'm making a sequel.
