Disclaimer:

All characters recognizable belong to Marvel.

All characters unrecognizable belong to me, and are for sale if Marvel is interested.

This is the first fanfic I've ever written. I love feedback but I won't kid you---generally I hate fanfic and I am forever locked in bitter neverending battles with my own internal Mary Sues, who plead to be let out onto paper but I loathe too much to usually oblige.

I would be utterly mortified if anyone I know in RL ever discovered that I published an X-Men fanfic here. I am rather mortified myself.