A/N: Hello there. I've been working hard on everything but the things that need to be worked on here. But I decided to come back with a chapter update. I hope you enjoy it.

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Scarlet sat at the end of the table, not beside either Alpha male, and twisted her glass between her hands. Logan had been silent far too long and she hated it. She almost hated that she had fallen for Victor and the older man had fallen for her too – in the sense that he just wanted to keep fucking her.

How must this seem? Scarlet wondered, chancing a glance at Logan. He thought that he was the only one…he thought I would have waited for him this long without changing…I didn't want to change, it was forced upon me. I just wish…

Scarlet lowered her gaze again when his turned towards her. She swallowed and fought against the urge to squirm in her seat. Awkward.

"What is going on with you?" Logan asked, his voice soft.

"The powers are coming too fast," Scarlet told him with a small shake of the head. "I am putting them in places and they keep growing stronger…it's evolving. The powers inside of me are growing and shaping me into something that I'm not sure I want to be."

"It's unavoidable, sweetheart," Victor pointed out, drinking from his glass.

Scarlet rolled her eyes. "You're as bad as my father."

Victor shook his head and said nothing to that.

"My accidents when we first met and before that," Scarlet continued, looking back at Logan. "Were just babies compared to what's been going on now. Only this time, I can sense them coming and I try to get the hell out of the local area before it hits." She sighed. "I've made that lake that we go to cursed."

"How?"

"If you didn't notice, there were no fish or anything in that lake." Her eyes saddened. "I killed it all."

Logan frowned. "But…"

"Didn't they try to put something back in that lake? Yeah and I boiled that load too plus the one after that until they gave up." Scarlet shook her head. "I am hurting the ecosystem like I hurt the children in the past."

"And there's nothing left to feed anything," Victor said almost as if he approved and disapproved at the same time. "Nothing good to fry up and eat after the bout of fun we have."

Scarlet glared at him and kicked him under the table. "Shut it!"

Victor didn't look ashamed and merely smirked at her.

"How did you find out that sex eases the fit down?" Logan demanded, his eyes fixed on Scarlet.

"It's not simple sex with anyone, Logan," Victor said before Scarlet could speak. "She has to have someone that can handle her – an Alpha. Her body calls for the nearest Alpha to come and help release an extreme amount of energy." He shifted, uncomfortable for the first time. "I had to fight off some idiots for a bit before I completely figured it out."

Scarlet's red eyes seemed to glow. "I push off a certain pheromone when I go into these fits that calls to the Alpha nearest to me to engage in sex. And no, it's not something that leads to pregnancy…apparently, I can't get pregnant."

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Logan looked at her with a frown on his face. "Do you want to be pregnant, Maria?"

The girl shook her head. "I never want to pass this curse onto another person…or multiples. It's bad enough that I exist. That I pulled both you and Victor into this problem of mine. I couldn't do it to an innocent child."

Victor cleared his throat. "Speaking of innocent…"

Scarlet's eyes lowered as if she knew what he was going to say. Logan's eyes turned towards his once friend.

"They're talking about her causing natural disasters," Victor continued, holding Logan's gaze. "Well, Scooter does. Every time she disappears to have her energy fit, something happens in the world, according to him. Floods, powerful storms, earthquakes. He says that they all match up with the times that she vanishes."

"Scooter is an idiot," Logan told him. "He doesn't know what he's talking about."

"Actually he does," Scarlet whispered. "Every incident matches up to the time I go off. I hurt people, but so far, no one's died."

"What does he intend to do about it?" Logan asked, feeling a twinge of concern because he was sure that Scott couldn't do a damn thing.

"Power dampener mixed with the Cure," Victor said because it appeared that Scarlet couldn't speak. "He's been throwing that idea out for the past several meetings that I've overheard."

Scarlet pushed herself away from the table and rose to her feet. Logan watched her walk out of the restaurant and then looked back at Victor. His fellow Alpha shrugged a shoulder and kept tapping his fingers against his cup. Logan rolled his eyes and rose to his feet, heading out after Scarlet.

"Maria," Logan said, seeing her leaning back against the wall of the building with her arms wrapped around herself. "Are you okay, darling?"

Scarlet shook her head. "This wasn't how it was supposed to be. I saw my future at one point and it had you and me being together, off in the countryside, away from the world and it's troubles. Making love under the stars and chasing dreams that changed and evolved." She sniffed. "And now, I have to deal with a body that's changing and evolving and needs the company of two Alphas to stay whole. I must be some kind of maneater or bullshit."

Logan pulled her into his arms as she started shaking and pink tears fell from her eyes. "You're not going to lose that dream, if that's what you're thinking, darling. I'm back. I'm not leaving you, even if you're with that bastard back there. You and I, we'll figure this out and if it means we have to get the hell out of the mansion and go far away from the X-Men…"

"Don't you think that they'll try to find us?" Scarlet's eyes turned towards him and then lowered to look at his dog tags. "You know that Scooter will stop at nothing to get the powers I have under control, or negate them completely."

"Fat chance he can get through me."

"You think highly of yourself…"

"No, I've just beaten him around the mansion a few times." Logan squeezed her around the middle. "You're not going to lose me and I'm not going to lose you…even with the random addition that you chose to screw around with."

Scarlet smacked him on the chest. "I didn't choose him. The Powers did. If I had my way, there would be one man and one woman in this relationship. Me and you…but I need him."

"And he needs an easy screw."

The girl's red eyes blazed. "You're asking for something to happen to you, Logan."

Logan smirked. "Maybe. Or maybe I still like making you mad, so I can do something to change it around…"

"Like what?"

Logan pressed a kiss to her lips and felt her respond almost instantly. Her hands went to the nape of his neck and her fingers tangled in his hair, pulling him to her. Logan groaned deep in his chest as she opened her lips to him and let him in, tasting her.

I want you…

Scarlet's voice entered his head with soft promises and flashes of what she wanted to do with him. Logan felt a hard-on coming and knew that he couldn't do anything about it in public.

I want you too, princess, but we gotta wait till we're behind safe doors…

Scarlet rolled her hips into his and he put his hand on her hip, holding her still. She pouted when he placed a last kiss to her lips and broke away.

"In a bit," Logan promised, his voice slightly husky from desire. What has she become?

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Scarlet rode back to the mansion with Logan and Victor and as soon as she stepped out into the garage, she knew that something was wrong. Aqua came running towards her, her hair streaming out behind her like a white beacon.

"Aqua, what's wrong?" Scarlet asked, stiffening when her older sister put her hands tightly on her shoulders.

"You have to go," Aqua said, her voice panicky and her eyes swimming with tears. "You have to go far, far from here, Maria!"

"Why?" Scarlet asked, even as Victor pulled her backwards with Logan. "What's going on?"

"Scott won," Aqua told her, those tears spilling over. "This was the last time that he'd let you go off…the X-Men is coming for you!"

Scarlet's heart dropped in her chest. "What about the Professor?"

"He's vanished. He's gone, Maria. And now you have to go!"

Scarlet's ears picked up the sounds of approaching feet. "Aqua, I -!"

"Go, sis! I'll hold them off to give you time to go." Her eyes turned towards Logan and Victor. "Please, keep her safe. Love her. Protect her and keep her from coming back here."

Scarlet protested as she was pulled back towards the truck that she had helped Victor build. "Addison! Wait!"

Logan hoisted her into the truck and slammed the door on her before going to his motorcycle. Scarlet looked out the window as Victor put it in reverse and saw the X-Men that followed Scott's orders come bursting through the garage door.

Aqua's hair rippled as water collected around her and she created a wall of water that barreled toward the advancing group. The last image of her sister that Scarlet had burned in her brain was the water manipulator bursting into droplets of water as the X-Men broke through.

"Aqua!" Scarlet screamed as she was ripped away from the world that she knew.

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A/N: I hate to say it, but after all this time, I see the end in the future. I'm not going to end it as abruptly as I did with another project, but I see the end coming. I hope you can understand that. -Scarlet