Mystique walked sadly through the park. She looked to her right and saw Professor X, Blob, and

Lance running off. Also. some crazy people were say listen. Whatever that meant. She sighed and

sat down on a rock.

Mystiqe:

Once upon a time there was a girl

In her early years she had to learn

How to grow up living in a war that she called home

Never know just where to turn for shelter from the storm

Hurt me to see the pain across my mother's face

Everytime my father's fist would put her in her place

Hearing all the yelling I would cry up in my room

Hoping it would be over soon

-Mystiqe morphs into herself as she looked like when she was a child-

Bruises fade father, but the pain remains the same

And I still remember how you kept me so afraid

Strength is my mother for all the love she gave

Every morning that I wake I look back to yesterday

And I'm OK

-She walks through the park but is not seeing it as the park. She sees it as her childhood home-

I often wonder why I carry all this guilt

When it's you that helped me put up all these walls I've built

Shadows stir at night through a crack in the door

The echo of a broken child screaming "please no more"

Daddy, don't you understand the damage you have done

To you it's just a memory, but for me it still lives on

-Mystiqe shivers in the cold and a tear falls from her eyes-

Bruises fade father, but the pain remains the same

And I still remember how you kept me so, so afraid

Strength is my mother for all the love she gave

Every morning that I wake I look back to yesterday

-Kurt who was hiding starts slowing following her but she does not see him-

It's not so easy to forget

All the lines you left along her neck

When I was thrown against cold stairs

And every day I'm afraid to come home

In fear of what I might see there

-Kurt starts crying-

Bruises fade father but the pain remains the same

And I still remember how you kept me so afraid

Strength is my mother for all the love she gave

Every morning that I wake I look back to yesterday

And I'm OK

I'm OK

-Kurt runs out to Mystiqe and the embrace and he lets her cry on him and says "I love you mommy!"