Disclaimer: I am not the owner of the X-Men I am just borrowing them so
don't sue me. I am not making any money off of them. I will return them I
promise. This is a work of fiction and not real. Rowan and Megan are my
original characters. This story is my Lynx series.
Chapter 6
Remy was running down the hall headed straight for the med lab. He came around the last curve in the dark wood paneled hallway just before the elevator when his spatial sense kicked in. He tried to stop on the highly polished wood floors, but his boots simply could not get any traction. The next thing he knew, he was falling over Rogue and a lot of packages.
"What the hell!?" Shouted Rogue as Remy plowed right into her and the shopping.
"Chere! Are you all right?" Asked a flustered Remy out from under a side table surrounded by Rogue's shopping bags.
"What are ya doin' Swamp Rat trying to kill me?" Rogue asked as she assessed the damage to herself and the packages.
"Remy sorry Chere. What is all dis?" He asked with a careful shrug of his shoulders under the table.
"Rowan asked me to get her and the little one some thangs at the store. I was just taken 'em down to her." She said with her southern drawl even thicker that usual. "Now, answer my question Cajun what were you runnin from like that?"
"Everyone mad dat I try to help Rowan like she asked. They don't believe dat she my sister. Logan he plannin' to take Megan away from de girl. I can't let him do dat, it would kill her!" Gambit alleged.
"Hold on, hold on Remy, Logan can't just take the baby away from her mother like that." Rogue argued.
"He goin' to try Chere. He all but said so." Remy said with his fear for Rowan and Megan clear on his face.
"The others wont let him Remy so calm down. I won't let them hurt Rowan or the little one." She said with conviction.
"No one intends to hurt anyone Rogue my dear." Said Hank. "Least of all Logan. He just has to come to terms with this situation first before committing to any actions. I believe Storm is seeing to that as we speak. Now Remy, my fine Cajun friend, you were not about to steal way our to new guests were you?" He asked as he put out his hand for Remy to take.
"Remy will do what needs doin' to keep de kids together and safe, even from de X-Men."
"Good," replied Hank. "Then you will come down stairs with me after we first help this beautiful young lady with her packages which happen to be lying all over because of your exuberant flight down the hall." Hank said with a gallant wave of his hand and a huge smile on his face.
Rogue blushed. "Thanks Suga." She said.
"Where would you like these things put Rogue my dear?"
"They are for Rowan and the baby. She asked for some things for herself and the baby. I was on my way down to see her and give her the stuff."
"I see. She asked for these things after we left?"
"Yes." Rogue replied. "She hates the gown ya got her in and she wants a pair of undies something fierce."
Hank and Remy broke into hysterical laughter breaking some of the tension both had been under.
"That aint funny, a girl needs proper underwear and sleep things especially if she's sick. It makes ya feel better bein clean and having clothes ya like on." She huffed. Taking the bags closest to her she stomped over to the elevator and pushed the button for the door to open. Hank and Remy followed her with the rest of the bags still laughing.
Storm walked up to Logan before he could follow Gambit out the door. "Logan may I speak with you for a moment?"
"Ro, I got to follow that crazy kid before he does somethin' stupid." He said trying to get past Storm.
"No, I think you should stop before you do something stupid." She retorted.
Logan looked at Storm and saw a great deal of concern reflected in her beautiful blue eyes. "Ro I."
Ororo placed her fingertips against his lips.
"Rowan is hurt and Megan is a new born. Even if he tried to leave with them tonight he could not do it as fast as you think he could. I will go with you to the lab. But, I don't want you to fight with Remy or Rowan when we get down there. Do I have your word on this Logan?" Storm said with a look that told him that she would not brook dissent from him.
"Logan my friend you are not in this alone. You do not have to take care of them alone or protect them alone. The whole team is your family and we will help. Besides I don't think it is Remy you have to worry about when it comes to Megan."
"Who?" Logan asked.
"Hank has completely lost his heart to those to girls. I have seen him take to children before but never like this. I found him this morning hanging from the ceiling fan reading his notes to the baby." She laughed whole heartily.
Logan stood very still watching her like an animal that was unsure of the situation it found itself in. He defiantly was not sure wither he should be jealous or not about what he just learned.
Storm held out her hand to Logan. "Please come with me. Let us see if everything is under control in the lab."
Realizing that he was not getting out of the room unless Storm had his word, he agreed.
Logan did as she asked and took her hand. "I won't do anything to hurt the kids," was all he said in a way of a promise to Storm.
She smiled and led him down the hall.
Rowan was still curled up asleep in Hank's comfy desk chair when Hank, Rogue and Remy came in.
"What on earth is she doing in my chair much less out of the bed and unhooked from my monitors?" Hank demanded with concern evident in his voice. He immediately rushed over to the girls.
Rowan's head shot up as she looked around in fear. Hank immediately regretted his out burst because of that look. He did not want her afraid of him. All he wanted was for her to be all right.
"I was uncomfortable on the bed and I could not hold the baby and sleep there at the same time." She said in a way that almost sounded like an apology.
"It's all right Hank. I helped her move and made sure that she would be ok before I left to go to the store." Rogue told him. "How ya feelin Suga?"
"I am very tired and extremely hungry. When can I have some real food instead of this stuff in these IV drips?" She begged looking at Hank with a pleading beaten expression on her face.
That one statement broke all of their hearts with Hank's sigh being the loudest.
"I'm going to get you something, Chere." Remy said as he left before anyone could tell him no.
Remy could not believe that one question could make him so angry that he was seeing red. But when his sister felt that she had to beg to get food that did it. 'I don't never want to hear her say dat ever again, NOT IN MY HOUSE!' He swore to himself. In the kitchen, he made her a sandwich and got her a glass of milk. Bishop walked in.
"Hi Pup, what you been doing while de rest of us have been havin' our lives turned upside down, non?" Remy asked Bishop with fained friendliness.
"I am digging the graves needed to bury all of the bodies that we recovered from Sinister's lab," Bishop stated.
"Dieu!" Gambit said looking sick. "Gambit forgot about dem."
"Who is the food for?" Bishop inquired.
"It's for Rowan, she's hungry and Hank not let her eat any real food yet. Gambit better go and get dis to her." Gambit left quickly and headed straight for the lab.
'Who were all dose kids?' Remy thought to himself. 'How we going to tell der parents if we find out who de are?' Now Remy was even more scared about the situation. What if Sinister was not dead but the one that Lynx killed was a clone just like Sabre?
Back in the lab, Rogue started to bring all the packages she had acquired over to Rowan. "Hey Suga, look what I got you and the little one. I hope you like all this." Rogue said with a hopeful smile on her face.
"Oh! This is wonderful Rogue. Can you help me get dressed and pick out something pretty for Megan to wear?" Rowan said with eyes shining brighter than anyone had ever seen them.
"Excuse me ladies.' Hank interrupted with a cough. "I think it would be best that we move Rowan to a bed and secondly that she remain there and get some rest. It is late and everyone is beyond tired and concerned over issues that still need to be addressed."
"I would like a shower and to get into some decent clothes. I hate this hospital thing." She said tugging on the gown. "After that, I will go to bed. But the bed has to big enough for me to sleep with Megan." Lynx stated her demands with conviction.
"I don't think that is a good idea." Growls Logan.
Rowan looked at Logan and then at Hank. "You will not take her from me." She stated. "I will do what ever it takes to keep her with me. I will share her with you because you are her father and she will need you too. But under no circumstance will I allow you to take her away. I am an empath and we are bonded like I was to my own Mother. Have I made myself perfectly clear Logan?" She asked as she lowered her voice to make her threat a promise.
Logan growled back. "You are a child no older than Jubilee. Besides considering who raised you, we can't trust you."
"I was given all of my Mother's memories upon coming out of the clone tank. She had a 10 year old daughter and a 5 year old son before they were murdered. So, I believe that I know a little bit more than you about taking care of a baby." She reasoned. "Furthermore, if I was a threat to you, you would be dead already. I don't play slap and tickle with my enemies like you and my father do!" She shouted.
'I have to calm down and think reasonably in order to convince the others to take care of Megan and my needs. If I don't they will side with Logan and I will be screwed. Please Remy hurry back I need you here. I am too tired to face them alone.'
"Logan you will leave here now and not come anywhere near Rowan or Megan until I say you can. If you will not follow my orders on this I will have Storm lock you up until you can behave like an adult and not fight with a sick child! Have I made myself clear Logan?" Growled Hank at his wits end.
"Yes." Logan said as he stomped off making the baby cry.
Rowan began to shake and then started to cry herself. "Where is Remy?" She begged.
Rogue bent over and hugged Rowan. "Shhh." She said.
"I will find out for you." Hank answered as he walked to the intercom.
"Remy please return to the lab at once." Hank stated.
Before Logan and Remy could run into each other, Ororo ran for Logan and steared him the quickest way back to Scott's office. Then as soon as the door closed she electrocuted him. "I will never have you disobey a direct order like that again. These children need you and everyone here in order to just survive. But you are pushing this as hard as you can to make her break so you can justify taking Megan away with you. Aren't you?" She shouted her eyes still white in rage.
"I don't trust Creed's daughter with that innocent baby. God only knows what he did to her or what Sinister did." He replied. When he looked into Storms eye he realized that he had over stepped himself and he could loose his daughter because of this fiasco.
"Tomorrow we will have Jean scan Rowan to find out what happened to her. We will also ask Rowan to give a detailed account in her own words. But until then, I suggest that you go to your room and talk to no one, especially Remy. Am I understood?" Storm demanded.
"Yea, I goin'. Staring at the floor he said, "I want to protect them 'Ro. I really do. I even brought Jubilee back with me." He could not finish what he was saying because he could not explain his reactions to himself much less anyone else. He looked at Storm with pleading eyes, then turned and walked away jamming his hands into his pockets.
Remy ran back to the lab. He did not like the sound of Henri's voice. Something in it said that there was trouble with the kids.
"What wrong Henri?!" Shouted Remy as he came in.
He scared Rowan and Megan and they both started to cry again. Rogue immediately tried to calm down the girls. "It's alright kids. It's alright. I wont let anyone hurt you or separate you. Shhhhhh now hush." She said as she stroked Rowan's head and Megan's face with her gloved hands.
"Please no more yelling under any circumstance in this med lab. Have I made myself clear?" Sternly demanded Hank.
"What happen Henri?" Remy asked again. Remy looked around the lab to try to find out what or who had upset everyone.
"Logan began a fight with Rowan and I threw his obstinate disagreeable ass out." Hank reported.
Gambit and Rogue both stared at Hank in shock as if he had turned into Sinister.
"Rowan do you think that you can stand well enough to take a shower and get dressed for bed?" He asked and smiled as he tried to calm himself as well as the others down.
"Yes if Rogue will help me. Are you going to move us to a room? I don't want to be in the lab any more." Rowan replied.
"Yes, we will move you to the room right next to Rogue. And Remy's room is on the other side of Rogue's. Is that sufficient?" Hank entreated.
"Dat will be fine." Remy affirmed as Rowan nodded her head.
"Splendid, I will get your chariot to carry you, my Dear. Can the two of you get all of these parcels while I transport the children to their new accommodations?"
Rowan looked at Hank and then at Remy with a puzzled look on her face.
Rogue laughed, "He means a wheel chair to take you both up stairs in so ya don't have to tire yourself out by walking Suga'."
"Oh," replied Rowan. She looked at Hank with a raised eyebrow.
"Hank can I have the food that Remy brought me?" She said as she turned to stare intently at the food on the plate that Remy had put down on the bed. Her body was so tense she was almost quivering.
"Yes my Dear after we get you situated in your new accommodations." Hank reassured her.
Chapter 6
Remy was running down the hall headed straight for the med lab. He came around the last curve in the dark wood paneled hallway just before the elevator when his spatial sense kicked in. He tried to stop on the highly polished wood floors, but his boots simply could not get any traction. The next thing he knew, he was falling over Rogue and a lot of packages.
"What the hell!?" Shouted Rogue as Remy plowed right into her and the shopping.
"Chere! Are you all right?" Asked a flustered Remy out from under a side table surrounded by Rogue's shopping bags.
"What are ya doin' Swamp Rat trying to kill me?" Rogue asked as she assessed the damage to herself and the packages.
"Remy sorry Chere. What is all dis?" He asked with a careful shrug of his shoulders under the table.
"Rowan asked me to get her and the little one some thangs at the store. I was just taken 'em down to her." She said with her southern drawl even thicker that usual. "Now, answer my question Cajun what were you runnin from like that?"
"Everyone mad dat I try to help Rowan like she asked. They don't believe dat she my sister. Logan he plannin' to take Megan away from de girl. I can't let him do dat, it would kill her!" Gambit alleged.
"Hold on, hold on Remy, Logan can't just take the baby away from her mother like that." Rogue argued.
"He goin' to try Chere. He all but said so." Remy said with his fear for Rowan and Megan clear on his face.
"The others wont let him Remy so calm down. I won't let them hurt Rowan or the little one." She said with conviction.
"No one intends to hurt anyone Rogue my dear." Said Hank. "Least of all Logan. He just has to come to terms with this situation first before committing to any actions. I believe Storm is seeing to that as we speak. Now Remy, my fine Cajun friend, you were not about to steal way our to new guests were you?" He asked as he put out his hand for Remy to take.
"Remy will do what needs doin' to keep de kids together and safe, even from de X-Men."
"Good," replied Hank. "Then you will come down stairs with me after we first help this beautiful young lady with her packages which happen to be lying all over because of your exuberant flight down the hall." Hank said with a gallant wave of his hand and a huge smile on his face.
Rogue blushed. "Thanks Suga." She said.
"Where would you like these things put Rogue my dear?"
"They are for Rowan and the baby. She asked for some things for herself and the baby. I was on my way down to see her and give her the stuff."
"I see. She asked for these things after we left?"
"Yes." Rogue replied. "She hates the gown ya got her in and she wants a pair of undies something fierce."
Hank and Remy broke into hysterical laughter breaking some of the tension both had been under.
"That aint funny, a girl needs proper underwear and sleep things especially if she's sick. It makes ya feel better bein clean and having clothes ya like on." She huffed. Taking the bags closest to her she stomped over to the elevator and pushed the button for the door to open. Hank and Remy followed her with the rest of the bags still laughing.
Storm walked up to Logan before he could follow Gambit out the door. "Logan may I speak with you for a moment?"
"Ro, I got to follow that crazy kid before he does somethin' stupid." He said trying to get past Storm.
"No, I think you should stop before you do something stupid." She retorted.
Logan looked at Storm and saw a great deal of concern reflected in her beautiful blue eyes. "Ro I."
Ororo placed her fingertips against his lips.
"Rowan is hurt and Megan is a new born. Even if he tried to leave with them tonight he could not do it as fast as you think he could. I will go with you to the lab. But, I don't want you to fight with Remy or Rowan when we get down there. Do I have your word on this Logan?" Storm said with a look that told him that she would not brook dissent from him.
"Logan my friend you are not in this alone. You do not have to take care of them alone or protect them alone. The whole team is your family and we will help. Besides I don't think it is Remy you have to worry about when it comes to Megan."
"Who?" Logan asked.
"Hank has completely lost his heart to those to girls. I have seen him take to children before but never like this. I found him this morning hanging from the ceiling fan reading his notes to the baby." She laughed whole heartily.
Logan stood very still watching her like an animal that was unsure of the situation it found itself in. He defiantly was not sure wither he should be jealous or not about what he just learned.
Storm held out her hand to Logan. "Please come with me. Let us see if everything is under control in the lab."
Realizing that he was not getting out of the room unless Storm had his word, he agreed.
Logan did as she asked and took her hand. "I won't do anything to hurt the kids," was all he said in a way of a promise to Storm.
She smiled and led him down the hall.
Rowan was still curled up asleep in Hank's comfy desk chair when Hank, Rogue and Remy came in.
"What on earth is she doing in my chair much less out of the bed and unhooked from my monitors?" Hank demanded with concern evident in his voice. He immediately rushed over to the girls.
Rowan's head shot up as she looked around in fear. Hank immediately regretted his out burst because of that look. He did not want her afraid of him. All he wanted was for her to be all right.
"I was uncomfortable on the bed and I could not hold the baby and sleep there at the same time." She said in a way that almost sounded like an apology.
"It's all right Hank. I helped her move and made sure that she would be ok before I left to go to the store." Rogue told him. "How ya feelin Suga?"
"I am very tired and extremely hungry. When can I have some real food instead of this stuff in these IV drips?" She begged looking at Hank with a pleading beaten expression on her face.
That one statement broke all of their hearts with Hank's sigh being the loudest.
"I'm going to get you something, Chere." Remy said as he left before anyone could tell him no.
Remy could not believe that one question could make him so angry that he was seeing red. But when his sister felt that she had to beg to get food that did it. 'I don't never want to hear her say dat ever again, NOT IN MY HOUSE!' He swore to himself. In the kitchen, he made her a sandwich and got her a glass of milk. Bishop walked in.
"Hi Pup, what you been doing while de rest of us have been havin' our lives turned upside down, non?" Remy asked Bishop with fained friendliness.
"I am digging the graves needed to bury all of the bodies that we recovered from Sinister's lab," Bishop stated.
"Dieu!" Gambit said looking sick. "Gambit forgot about dem."
"Who is the food for?" Bishop inquired.
"It's for Rowan, she's hungry and Hank not let her eat any real food yet. Gambit better go and get dis to her." Gambit left quickly and headed straight for the lab.
'Who were all dose kids?' Remy thought to himself. 'How we going to tell der parents if we find out who de are?' Now Remy was even more scared about the situation. What if Sinister was not dead but the one that Lynx killed was a clone just like Sabre?
Back in the lab, Rogue started to bring all the packages she had acquired over to Rowan. "Hey Suga, look what I got you and the little one. I hope you like all this." Rogue said with a hopeful smile on her face.
"Oh! This is wonderful Rogue. Can you help me get dressed and pick out something pretty for Megan to wear?" Rowan said with eyes shining brighter than anyone had ever seen them.
"Excuse me ladies.' Hank interrupted with a cough. "I think it would be best that we move Rowan to a bed and secondly that she remain there and get some rest. It is late and everyone is beyond tired and concerned over issues that still need to be addressed."
"I would like a shower and to get into some decent clothes. I hate this hospital thing." She said tugging on the gown. "After that, I will go to bed. But the bed has to big enough for me to sleep with Megan." Lynx stated her demands with conviction.
"I don't think that is a good idea." Growls Logan.
Rowan looked at Logan and then at Hank. "You will not take her from me." She stated. "I will do what ever it takes to keep her with me. I will share her with you because you are her father and she will need you too. But under no circumstance will I allow you to take her away. I am an empath and we are bonded like I was to my own Mother. Have I made myself perfectly clear Logan?" She asked as she lowered her voice to make her threat a promise.
Logan growled back. "You are a child no older than Jubilee. Besides considering who raised you, we can't trust you."
"I was given all of my Mother's memories upon coming out of the clone tank. She had a 10 year old daughter and a 5 year old son before they were murdered. So, I believe that I know a little bit more than you about taking care of a baby." She reasoned. "Furthermore, if I was a threat to you, you would be dead already. I don't play slap and tickle with my enemies like you and my father do!" She shouted.
'I have to calm down and think reasonably in order to convince the others to take care of Megan and my needs. If I don't they will side with Logan and I will be screwed. Please Remy hurry back I need you here. I am too tired to face them alone.'
"Logan you will leave here now and not come anywhere near Rowan or Megan until I say you can. If you will not follow my orders on this I will have Storm lock you up until you can behave like an adult and not fight with a sick child! Have I made myself clear Logan?" Growled Hank at his wits end.
"Yes." Logan said as he stomped off making the baby cry.
Rowan began to shake and then started to cry herself. "Where is Remy?" She begged.
Rogue bent over and hugged Rowan. "Shhh." She said.
"I will find out for you." Hank answered as he walked to the intercom.
"Remy please return to the lab at once." Hank stated.
Before Logan and Remy could run into each other, Ororo ran for Logan and steared him the quickest way back to Scott's office. Then as soon as the door closed she electrocuted him. "I will never have you disobey a direct order like that again. These children need you and everyone here in order to just survive. But you are pushing this as hard as you can to make her break so you can justify taking Megan away with you. Aren't you?" She shouted her eyes still white in rage.
"I don't trust Creed's daughter with that innocent baby. God only knows what he did to her or what Sinister did." He replied. When he looked into Storms eye he realized that he had over stepped himself and he could loose his daughter because of this fiasco.
"Tomorrow we will have Jean scan Rowan to find out what happened to her. We will also ask Rowan to give a detailed account in her own words. But until then, I suggest that you go to your room and talk to no one, especially Remy. Am I understood?" Storm demanded.
"Yea, I goin'. Staring at the floor he said, "I want to protect them 'Ro. I really do. I even brought Jubilee back with me." He could not finish what he was saying because he could not explain his reactions to himself much less anyone else. He looked at Storm with pleading eyes, then turned and walked away jamming his hands into his pockets.
Remy ran back to the lab. He did not like the sound of Henri's voice. Something in it said that there was trouble with the kids.
"What wrong Henri?!" Shouted Remy as he came in.
He scared Rowan and Megan and they both started to cry again. Rogue immediately tried to calm down the girls. "It's alright kids. It's alright. I wont let anyone hurt you or separate you. Shhhhhh now hush." She said as she stroked Rowan's head and Megan's face with her gloved hands.
"Please no more yelling under any circumstance in this med lab. Have I made myself clear?" Sternly demanded Hank.
"What happen Henri?" Remy asked again. Remy looked around the lab to try to find out what or who had upset everyone.
"Logan began a fight with Rowan and I threw his obstinate disagreeable ass out." Hank reported.
Gambit and Rogue both stared at Hank in shock as if he had turned into Sinister.
"Rowan do you think that you can stand well enough to take a shower and get dressed for bed?" He asked and smiled as he tried to calm himself as well as the others down.
"Yes if Rogue will help me. Are you going to move us to a room? I don't want to be in the lab any more." Rowan replied.
"Yes, we will move you to the room right next to Rogue. And Remy's room is on the other side of Rogue's. Is that sufficient?" Hank entreated.
"Dat will be fine." Remy affirmed as Rowan nodded her head.
"Splendid, I will get your chariot to carry you, my Dear. Can the two of you get all of these parcels while I transport the children to their new accommodations?"
Rowan looked at Hank and then at Remy with a puzzled look on her face.
Rogue laughed, "He means a wheel chair to take you both up stairs in so ya don't have to tire yourself out by walking Suga'."
"Oh," replied Rowan. She looked at Hank with a raised eyebrow.
"Hank can I have the food that Remy brought me?" She said as she turned to stare intently at the food on the plate that Remy had put down on the bed. Her body was so tense she was almost quivering.
"Yes my Dear after we get you situated in your new accommodations." Hank reassured her.