Riley walked down to the small lake that she & her friends had played on only a week ago. She sat down in the grass, while silently wishing Remy would have let her explain. She missed her mother so badly; her mother had always made things so much better.

Tears silently began to fall. Tears that she had refused to shed for so long.

"Rye?" Sam asked.

Riley looked up at him as he sat down next to her, taking her into his arms.

"He wouldn't even listen. Ah wish my mom was here." She cried, her southern accent becoming thick.

"Shh. I know Riles. Look don't cry every things gonna work out. You'll see." He whispered.

"Yah don't understand. Ah'm tired of always loosing. Ah loose my mother, and Remy." Riley said as she wiped her tears. "Even my childhood." She whispered.

Sam frowned but remained silent. He hated seeing Riley hurt. He just wished he could make everything alright. "You'll never loose Remy. He's just…having a hard time. He'll adjust. It's just taking longer than it took you did Rye. There's always gonna be kinks. That's just how things are." He told her.

Riley sighed. "Ah though my whole life was over when my mère died. Ah'd never been away from home or had even seen Remy in 4 years. My father wanted me to meet some guy Ah'd only met once and Ah didn't know a soul here." She said. "But how's everything going to work out? Remy said that at first but Sam, this whole Pietro problem just got a whole lot worse. My father knows where Ah am. Now staying here would only put ya all in danger, so Ah guess ah'm just going to have to go through with my destiny." She said standing up.

Sam listened to Riley's problems. He wished she hadn't had to go through all this alone. He knew she wasn't thinking clearly now, she was just thinking with her emotions. "Riley you cant. We'll work this out. I can protect you." He argued.

Riley shook her head. "It's too late. My Father will be her in the morning and Ah…"

A shadow approached them. "Oh but Ah'm Already here Riley-Anne." Jean-Luc said.

"Father." Riley said coolly.

"Riley-Anne." Jean-Luc replied, while looking Sam over. "I suppose your brother's here somewhere." He asked.

"Yeah, he is." Sam said, putting his arm around Riley protectively. While trying to get a message to the professor.

Logan growled as he caught an unfamiliar scent. He pulled out his COM link and paged Jean. "We may have trouble, gather the team." He growled at her. He then hung up before she could answer, only to have professor Xavier pop into his head to tell him there was trouble down by the lake.

He began to head down there. As he was about 30 yards out he could make out Riley, Sam, and an unknown man. He growled angrily as he contacted the others once more and ordered them to get down there that instant.

Riley looked at Sam and then her father. "Whys it so important to you that I marry Prince whats his face?" she asked.

"First off young lady it's King Whats his face to you and I'm not doing whats best for me it's whats best for the guild as should you, or has your mother and brother brainwashed you so badly that family tradition and honor doesn't matter to you any longer." He said angrily, yanking her by the arm and shaking her roughly.

Sam could see the fear in Riley's eyes. "Let her go." He ordered.

Jean-Luc began to laugh. "You aren't in any of this boy, now shoo." He said beginning to laugh. "Non let me guess your going to make me?"

"If I have to." Sam said, while trying to figure out how to get Riley away without harming her.

"She's non of your concern Boy. Riley-Anne belongs to me and now that I've retrieved her we'll be leaving now." He told Sam.

Remy where are you?" Riley wondered desperately, she needed her brother.

"We'll see about that Bub." Logan growled. "Now let the girl go.

"Logan!" Riley said in surprise. She hoped that this wouldn't get out of hand, but had a bad feeling that it would. The X-Men would die to protect her and she couldn't allow that to happen.

Riley's father pulled her closer. "Tell them to get back." He hissed.

Riley struggled. "I don't want to go." She said urgently, not that he'd listen. She whimpered as he tightened his grip around her neck.

"You'll do as I say! Now make them get back he ordered.

"Please I don't want to hurt you. Just do as he says." She begged.

She looked up, in the distance the others we're coming towards them. "REMY!" she screamed. Fear seizing her fiercly.

"Remy Here Cheri." He said walking up to Logan and Sam. "Let her go Jean-Luc." He ordered

Jean-Luc glared at his son. "No hello?" he asked. He knew they we're trying to distract him. Once again he ordered Riley to make them get back.

Riley remained silent. She knew that she didn't have much time left.

"You'd better get back!" he ordered once more. A smile came onto his face. "Or would you rather be the cause of their demise?" he asked as a group came out of the shadows and into the light of the moon.

Riley struggled to get away but Jean-Lucs grip tightened making her gasp for air. She knew what she had to do. It was the only way or else others would die.

"Don't hurt them….I go, Just don't hurt them." She pleaded.

"Good girl." Her father praised her in a sinisterly voice as he began to pull her back into the shadows.

"Wait!" she said. "May I at least say good bye?" she begged softly.

Her father let her go. "If you try anything I'll make sure you regret it." He threatened.

Riley nodded, looking at her friends she then proceeded to say her good byes to everyone.

These people had become her family over the past months she'd been here. She wished she'd see them again one day.

She finally got to Remy, hugging him tightly. "Don't forget me." She said softly beginning to cry.

"Remy never forget Cheri." He told her. "You wont be there long Riley. Remy promise." He whispered.

Riley nodded. "I don't want to be a princess. Why cant he just accept that?" she cried softly.

"Remy know." He said holding her tight, never wanting to let go.

"RILEY-ANNE!" Jean-Luc snapped. "Lets go."

Riley took a deep breath. She forced herself to remember Remy's scent. His spicy, clean scent, which had always comforted her while growing up.

She then walked over to her father. He yanked her forward but Riley stayed put.

Jean-Luc glared at her.

"I can walk on my own." She said angrily, yanking her arm away. She then proceeded to gracefully follow the others into the darkness, her head held high. Acting every bit of the princess she was.