'Welcome to our family time
Welcome to our brotherly time
This is a festival
You know best of all,
we're here to share it all'
-Jump 5, "Welcome"
Before I start my story (and before I'm tarred and feathered for being late) I would just like to remind you all that this is indeed a separate universe than the comics though they are similar. The events of House of M and of Uncanny X-Men 466-468 don't take place at all. Everything changes because Jean survives.
…...Don'tkillme! (hides in bomb shelter)
"Scott, you better not be going what I think you're doing" Jean said with a small laugh.
He was sitting next to Jessica in her high chair and whispering something to her while he moved around cheerios on her tray. He looked up and smiled when he saw his wife.
"Well, you're never too young to learn"
Jean came up behind him and gave him a hug. "I think you should wait until she's older than twelve months to start teaching her strategic battle planning"
Scott scoffed playfully. "Nonsense!"
"Blue!" Jessica said happily, using one of the few word in her limited vocabulary as she pushed a cheerio off the tray.
"See?" Scott said turning to Jean. "She just pushed the Magneto cheerio off a cliff! Good girl!"
"Dada!" she exclaimed proudly as Scott lifted her out of her high chair and into his arms. Jean laughed and came around and leaned over to kiss her. Jessica grabbed onto a lock of her hair with her gloved hand and yanked it.
"Ow!" was the exclamation.
"Sorry" Scott apologized as he undid Jessica's little fist. Even after removing it, he gently rubbed the leather on her glove with his thumb. He glanced at Jean.
Jean sighed. "I thought we had this conversation"
"I know, I know, I was just wondering if we should tell my dad"
Jean blinked in surprise. "You're dad?"
Scott shifted his weight to hold Jessica on his him and returned his wife's puzzled glance. "Yeah, he's coming down tomorrow"
"Scott! My parents are coming tomorrow! I've been telling you for two weeks" Jean exclaimed.
Scott was going to respond when Logan walked in.
"Did you say tomorrow?" Logan asked with a worried tone. "I invited the Avengers over so they could see the triplets
Jean buried her head in her hands. Scott walked over to her and threw an arm around her. "Don't worry, Jean. It'll be all right"
Hank walked into the kitchen with a very worried look on his face. "Has anyone seen Ivan?"
"No we haven't" Logan said with concern. "Why?"
"Rahne's lost him. She's freaking out"
"We'll go look" Scott said handing Jessica to Jean and leaving with Logan and Hank.
Jean held Jessica close to her chest and kissed her forehead. "You're going to meet your grandparents this weekend, Jessie!"
"Yay!" she said in a cute baby voice. "At one of us is happy about it" Jean muttered under her breath.
"Rogue!" Remy whispered into his wife's ear. "Rogue, wake up!"
Rogue blinked her eyes open sleepily only to find herself staring back into Remy's red and black ones. "Huh?" she grumbled.
"It's Donna Jolie's changing time" he whispered to her indicating the white haired infant in her arms.
Rogue rubbed her sleepy eyes. "I'll do it" she said as she slowly started getting up. Remy put his hands on her shoulders and pushed her back down into the armchair. "Let me do it" he insisted.
"Uh-uh" she muttered and tried to get up again. Remy pushed her back down. Rogue was so tired she could barely resist him.
"Roguey, you've been doing everything for this baby since she was born. You've hardly slept for the past month"
"It doesn't bother me" she insisted even though the invulnerable woman looked like she was on the brink of collapse.
"Just because you can touch her doesn't mean that you're surgically attached to her" Remy said with a little chuckle.
"You don't know how much that means to me" she whispered with a smile as she ran her bare hand over Donna's forehead and hair.
"Yes I do" he responded as he took the infant from Rogue. She blew him a kiss as he turned the lights off and left the room.
"Where could he possible be?" Jamie exclaimed as he and his wife returned to the foyer.
"What happened?" Emma asked getting up from the couch. Emily was sitting on the floor playing with a little gray puppy. "Pooka!" she called with a wave of her hand and the puppy did a back flip.
"We can't find Ivan" Rahne said in an exhausted tone. "We've looked everywhere"
"Even the basement area?" Emma suggested.
"Its finger print locked. Why would we be stupid enough to look in the basement?"
Just then Hank, Logan and Scott came into the foyer. "He's not in the basement" Logan stated. Jamie snorted into his hand in a failed attempt to keep himself from laughing.
"Emma? You got Emily a puppy?" Hank asked his wife with confusion.
"Me? I thought you had gotten it for her" she responded equally confused.
The adults stared at each other then at the infant and dog. Emma went over to Emily and picked her up.
"Emily?" she asked looking her straight in the face. Emily wasn't paying attention to her mother, however, and was making the puppy spin around in circles. Emma touched her daughter's forehead and locked her powers. Immediately, the puppy stopped spinning sat down as it refocused itself. Then, it suddenly morphed into…
"IVAN!" Rahne shouted going over to pick up her son who had started crying. She bounced him up and down and glared threateningly at Emma.
"What are you looking at me for?" she countered. "I didn't know!"
The sound of the doorbell saved the men from having to pry the women off each other. Logan went to get it. He opened the door and found himself face to face with Captain America and the New Avengers.
"Hey, Logan!" Spiderman greeted him.
"What are you guys doing here? I thought you were coming tomorrow!" he exclaimed.
"Toldja he doesn't read his e-mails" Spiderwoman muttered to Luke Cage.
"Who is it?" Hank asked coming to the door with Emily.
"Henry! We didn't know you had a baby too!" the Captain exclaimed.
"Didn't you hear? We've been having a mutant baby boom" Jean said sarcastically joining him with Jessica.
"She's so cute!" She-Hulk said as he reached out to take Jessica.
"Well, you're here all ready. Come on in" Logan said as he opened the door wider while Jean called Ororo downstairs telepathically.
"You had a baby too?" Tony Stark commented as he saw Rahne and the wailing Ivan. Rahne nodded exasperatedly and Tony took Ivan from her and gently bounced him up down in an attempt to calm him.
In the meantime, Ororo had come downstairs with Jubilee with the triplets. She handed Kiara to Luke while the others gathered around to see.
"Aw…" Luke cooed as Kiara gurgled, "she's too cute"
"Bub!" she called out happily.
The Avengers started hollering with laughter.
"That's Logan's kid, all right" Carol commented when she had caught her breath. Suddenly there was another knock at the door.
"I'll get it" Scott called getting up from his position on the couch and went to the door to get a big surprise.
"John! Elaine!" he exclaimed as he saw his in-laws.
"Hello, Scott" John greeted him with a smile and a hand shake. Elaine just glared at him.
"Com in. It's kind of crowded in here, though. I, um, thought you guys were coming tomorrow" he said nervously.
"Toldja he doesn't read his e-mails" Elaine muttered to her husband. John ignored her comment.
"So where's our new grand-daughter?" he asked happily scanning the crowd for his daughter. Spotting her, he went over leaving Scott in a very awkward situation with Elaine.
"Um…" he started but she cut him off.
"I'm watching you, playboy" she said icily, pinning him with her glare. She then turned and pasted a smile on her face as she went to see her daughter.
Emma came up behind him. "So it's agreed not to bring up 'The Subject', right?' she whispered.
"Too late" Scott sighed as he headed over to his wife and Jessica.
"Oh, Jean, it's a beautiful baby girl. If only she didn't look so much like Steven"
"Scott" he corrected.
"Whatever"
"Mother!" scolded Jean.
John Grey rolled his eyes and took his grand-daughter from Elaine. "Hello there!" he grinned tickling her. She laughed and reached up to touch his mustache with her gloved hand.
"Hey, what's this?" he asked taking her small hand into his big gruff one.
"Her powers haven't already manifested, have they?" Elaine asked with fear in her voice.
"Just a little" Scott said shyly and a bit fearfully as he gave his in-laws a half smile.
"Hey, how come you have a house party and don't invite me?" Gambit asking with a playful grin as he came down the stairs with Donna Jolie.
"Jean wasn't kidding when she said you guys were having a mutant baby boom" Spiderwoman commented as the Avengers now assembled around Gambit.
There was suddenly yet another rapid knocking at the door.
"Great! Now just watch your father show up!" Jean exclaimed.
"Don't worry. He's coming tomorrow for sure" Scott assured her as he went to get the door yet again.
"Yeah, he sent me and e-mail" Hank explained. Scott stopped on his trek to the door and turned to Hank.
"Why did he send you an e-mail?"
Hank shrugged. "You never check yours"
"True" Scott said with a smile. There was more knocking and it was more rapid than before.
"Coming!" Scott called as he pushed past Captain America to get to the door. The second he unlocked it, his father accompanied by his team of Starjammers, burst in and quickly shut the door behind them.
"Dad? What are you doing here? I thought--"
"We're short on time" Corsair explained. The gathered X-Men and Avengers stopped whatever they were doing and paid close attention to the space pirate.
"What's going on?" Ororo asked him worriedly.
"Lilandra intercepted you're transmission about Jessica" Christopher Summers explained. "She knows there's a new Phoenix in town and she wants to pay her a visit"
"Is that good or bad?" Spiderman asked.
"We're not sure" Ch'od said as he glanced back at the door.
"We're about to find out" Jubilee commented as the ground started rumbling.
"We should go meet them outside" Jamie suggested. "The last thing we need is to rebuild the mansion again"
The superheroes nodded and went outside leaving Jubilee inside with Jean's parents. They knew they were more than a match for any Shi'ar army Lilandra might have brought along. As the star cruiser touched down, Ivan, Kata and Emily started crying their mothers took them inside. The hatch opened and Lilandra came down with Gladiator and her personal advisor.
"Hello, X-Men. Avengers. Starjammers" she said politely.
"What's up, Lilly?" Logan said with a playful grin. She ignored his comment.
"I've recently been informed that Cyclops and Phoenix have born a child. Am I correct?"
"What's it to you?" Jean asked as she clutched her child closer to her chest. She still slightly resented the Shi'ar for all they had put her through regarding the Phoenix.
Lilandra was silent for a moment. Then she smiled kindly. "Congratulations"
"Um, thanks" Scott said, a bit surprised.
"May I hold her?" she asked. Scott glanced at his wife and his child, his father, at his in-laws who were watching through the window, and then at his wife again. Jean nodded and stepped foreword. Lilandra was alone and apparently didn't want to do anything to Jessica. Apparently.
Lilandra took the baby in her arms and gently brushed back some of her hair. The other superheroes were a bit tense and unsure about the situation. Jessica helped lighten the mood.
"Birdie!" she exclaimed indicating to Lilandra. They all laughed, including Lilandra, Gladiator and her advisor. Then Lilandra noticed Jessica's gloved hand. She gently tugged at the leather.
"Wait! Don't—" Jean started but Lilandra had taken it off before Jean could finish. As the sunlight hit it, it glowed fiery red and the baby's short brown hair streaked itself orange-red and caught on fire.
Worry crossed over Lilandra's face. Jean took Jessica back and put her glove back on. The fire went out and her hair returned to normal hair color.
"We've got it under control" Scott stated firmly before Lilandra said anything.
"The Shi'ar can't help but worry, Cyclops, you must understand that" Gladiator said to him earnestly.
"She poses no danger to anyone" Jean said defiantly.
Lilandra was silent. Her advisor spoke up, however, saying "You do know that we'll have to come check on her every once in a while, just to be sure"
Jean was about to protest but Scott interrupted.
"Of course. We understand"
"It was nice seeing you all" Lilandra stated and then turned around. She signaled for Gladiator and her advisor and they followed her. Before going all the way up the ramp, though, she turned around and addressed the parents.
"One more thing. I must ask you not to tell the girl of her power when she grows up. Understood?"
Scott nodded his head, a little bit unwillingly.
"Farewell, then. And send my regards to Charles" she added. She finally entered her ship and it lifted off the ground and took off.
"Well!" Spiderman commented as the superheroes headed back inside "that was officially the most awkward encounter of my life!"
"What, you've never met your in-laws?" Scott asked playfully. Jean 'accidentally' stepped on his toe while she was walking next to him carrying the baby. The Avengers and X-Men were shaken out of their funk and started laughing.
"Who's up for gumbo?" Gambit called. There was a collective cry of 'yeah!' from the X-Men and Avengers as they stood in the foyer with the babies. Hepzibah, Ch'od, and Raza, not having any idea what 'gumbo' was were questioning Corsair and Jean's parents looked hungry as they came over to ask their daughter about what had happened.
"Mom!" came a cry from upstairs. Everyone turned to see that Rachel was walking towards the top of the stairs. Her eyes were focused on adjusting the short towel she was wearing as her only clothing. Her hair was dripping wet.
"It's that bastard time of the month again and I'm completely out of tampons. Where do you keep yours because--"
At this point she stopped talking because she had just looked up and noticed the Avengers, Starjammers, and Jean's parents standing in the foyer staring at her. She blushed furiously and opened her mouth to speak but no words came out. She tried again.
"Oh, um, hi! I'm, uh, going back to my room. Like, um, now! Bye!"
And with that she turned on her heels and ran back in the direction she came. Some of the people snorted but most of them just bit their lips.
"Gumbo?" Remy proposed again. Everyone started talking about how hungry they were at once and the crowd somehow made its way into the kitchen.
"Bumbo!" Ivan repeated as his mother carried him into the kitchen.
The X-Men, Avengers, Shi'ar and Starjammersaren't mine (you probably already know this) but The Grandchildren of the Atomare(you probably already know this too).
Next time, the X-Men need to send an S.O.S. (Save Our Sanity) again as the grandchildren reach the terrible twos and threes!
"Uncle Logan! Emily broke my car!" Jessica shouted.
"You're car was broken before I stepped on it" Emily said smugly.
"It was not!" Jessica countered.
"Was too!"
"Was not!"
"Was too!"
"Was not!"
"Girls…" Logan tried to intervene.
"Daddy" Kata asked in a small voice as she tugged at his pant leg. "Daddy, I can't find Cupid, my pet fishie"
"That was your pet? You mean I wasn't supposed to eat that?" Ivan asked shyly.
"Ewwww!" the three girls exclaimed