Chapter Two: Introductions...
"What's your name?" Jean asks the young woman whom is glaring venom at Logan at the moment.
"My name is Panther Logan Lee," Panther says never taking her eyes off of Logan. Her loving father.
Everyone stares at the girl in shock at her name. Who would give their daughter a mans name. The first to recover is Logan and starts to say,
"I'm..."
"Logan, my father I know," Panther says with venom dripping off of her every word. "I know who you are and that you abandon my mother when you found out she was going to have your child. I know that it is your fault she is dead. Your fault she was murdered."
"What! No I'm..." Logan is cut off by having a small but very strong hand wrap around his throat.
"I know not why the Fates have placed me here nor do I care to find out. Maybe to let me know they have not sent death to you. I hope the Fates favor me enough to send death to you during your most painful moment," Panther says as she lets go of his throat and he falls to the ground gasping for air. Panther walks around him and out of the room and starts down the hall.
Jean and Rogue kneel down beside Logan and ask at the same time,
"Logan are you alright?"
"Yeah. Just fine," Logan whispers hoarsely as he rubs his throat. When Jean sees he is alright she stands up and starts toward the door to find Panther. When she enters the hall she sees Panther walking down the hall looking like a lost child.
Panther hears someone walk out of the medical room and she can feel their eyes on her back. She turns around to find Jean standing in the hallway looking at her.
"How can I get out of here?" Panther asks not moving from her spot.
"There's an elevator. But I want you to stay," Jean says as she starts walking toward Panther.
"You want me to stay when that...that...worthless man is in the same building. What is wrong with you. I will not stay. I can not," Panther feels tears come to her eyes remembering her mother's death. 'Stop this Panther. You are a soldier and a General!' Panther thinks to herself as she forces the tears away.
"Please stay. Just a week. I want to make sure you're okay. I would feel horrible if I read or heard on the news that they found you dead somewhere from something I could've prevent. Please," Jean says begging the young girl. She can tell that she is thinking it over then she looks into her eyes and this is the first time she notices her eyes. They are like a cat's eyes. A panther no less. 'That's how she got her name.' Jean thinks to herself.
"Alright. I'll stay. But I can not be held accountable for my actions if Logan tries playing daddy dearest," Panther says with hatred in her voice then looks around. "So how do you get out of here?"
Jean stares at the girl in disbelief. She shakes her head and says,
"Here. The elevator is part of the wall to hide it."
"Odd," Panther says as she walks into the elevator.
Prof. X's Office twenty minutes later
Panther sits in the office with the X-Men sitting or standing around the room.
"Well Ms. Lee since you already know your father and Jean," Xavier says as he motions toward Logan leaning against the wall by the door and Jean standing beside Scott, "I am Professor Charles Xavier. I would like to introduce Scott Summers a.k.a. Cyclops, Ororo Munroe a.k.a. Storm, Kurt Wagner a.k.a. Nightcrawler, Marie a.k.a. Rouge, Bobby Drake a.k.a. Iceman, Kitty Pryde a.k.a. Shadow Cat, and Jubilation Lee a.k.a. Jubilee."
After all the introductions Panther stands up and turns so she can face them all. She places her hands just below her ribcage then bows at the hips.
"I am very pleased to meet you all and I would like to thank you for allowing me to stay in your home and school," Panther says out of old habit. "Also I ask your forgiveness for my earlier actions Dr. Gray-Summers. Of course this does not extend to you Logan."
"Ms. Lee..." Professor Xavier starts but Panther cuts him off.
"Pardon my interruption I would like to make two things perfectly clear," Panther says in a calm quite voice that demands that she be listened to. No one in the room can talk they can only stare at the small young woman before them that has the presents of a queen addressing her court or a general addressing her troops. When she is sure that everyone is listening she looks at Logan, with such venom and hatred that it would have made Satan run in fear, then back to Professor Xavier then she begins to talk again, "One, please call me Panther that is my given name. Two, I have a very good reason for hating Logan, not only did he abandon my mother which in doing so caused her death but also was the cause of my brother and I not having a childhood."
"Brother? I have a son too?" Logan asks as he takes a step toward Panther.
"Damn," Panther says as she closes her eyes *You stupid little shit! You let your emotions get the better of you and look at what happened!* Panther thinks then opens her eyes and nods her head and says, "Yes. My twin brother. Younger by three minutes. Congratulations daddy. He looks just like you. Well he's taller, he has fire red hair, also he has a dark tan, and he didn't abandon his wife and children."
"Panther! I understand that you have some problems with your father but you have not right to talk to Logan that way!" Rouge says as she stands in front of Panther and looks down at her.
Panther bites the inside of her mouth as she thinks about how she is going to get though this with her sanity still intact and without destroying the alliances she has worked so hard to get for her people.
"I'm sorry. I'm allowing my emotions to rule me," Panther says then she turns to the professor and asks, "Professor I would like to know if it would be alright if I call the people I traveled with here to New York and tell them where I am so they do not worry to much?"
"Why yes of course," Professor Xavier says though he is getting a little curious about who raised this girl. To be a leader, a diplomat, and so much more from what he has seen of this girls attitude.
"Don't worry. None of them are those anti-mutant idiots so your students will be very safe."
"Thank you for clarifying that Panther," Professor Xavier says with a smile. *Who would raise a child like this. Not allow them a childhood? Fill them with hate? How could someone do these things to a child?* He thinks to himself then he looks at Storm and asks, " Ororo would you mind showing Panther to a phone then the room she'll be sharing?"
"Of course professor," Storm says as she walks up to Panther and puts a hand on her forearm and asks, "Panther would you please follow me?"
"Lead the way," Panther says kindly. Storm smiles at her and leads her out of the room.
Logan starts toward Professor Xavier then stops.
"I have grandchildren," Logan says in a state of shock as what Panther said earlier sets in. His son at the age of sixteen has a wife and children. "Oh shit,"