It was nice to be home. Wanda felt like she could relax. After the new year, school started up again and it was back to routine. She loved the time she spent with her daughter, but Talia was getting more and more independent. Her mind turned again to the night classes that had been offered when she'd first given birth. At the time, it seemed insane that she would leave her daughter ever, but now, with Talia at six months, she saw the value in it. Plus, Wanda wanted to give Kurt a chance to spend more time with her. She brought it up to him, and he talked to the Professor, who arranged for her to go to an 'introduction' GED class. Now, she sat in a classroom, for the first time in almost a year. Her phone was in her hands, watching it carefully, in case something happened at home and Kurt needed to call. The introduction was brief, only 20 minutes, describing how the class would go, and that by the end they would be able to take a GED test for the equivalent of a High School diploma. This didn't mean much to her, but she knew it would make Kurt happy.

She grabbed her bag at the end, moving to the front of the room to officially sign up. Once a week for the next six months was not horrible. Out of the corner of her eye, she saw a blonde watching her. The girl looked familiar, but she couldn't place it. She walked to the door, pulling her phone out to call for a ride.

"It's Wanda, right?"

She turned to the blonde with a raised brow. "I'm sorry?"

"You…you're Pietro's sister." She smiled. "I remember you. You started living at the house after I left." She held out a hand as Wanda still gave her a confused look. "Tabby."

Wanda just nodded, not taking her hand.

"I heard you were icy," she smirked. "Anyway, it's still nice to see a familiar face, even if we barely know each other." She leaned in a bit. "Though I didn't expect to see any of you here. I thought the Brotherhood was over school. Who thought they'd care about a GED?"

"I'm not Brotherhood," she told her, narrowing her eyes. "And my reasons for wanting this are my own."

She nodded, holding her hands up. "Didn't mean to offend," she told her. "I mean, there's no shame in it, you know? I dropped out over two years ago, and honestly, I wish I hadn't. I've been trying to get a job and it's no easy task without a diploma. And no way are you going to find me in school again. So, here I am."

Wanda took a breath, then nodded again. The girl seemed harmless, and clearly wanted someone to talk to. "There is no shame, no." She agreed. "I am here for the same reasons you are."

"I didn't know you'd dropped out," she said. "Just sick of the day to day? That's what got to me."

"No," she shook her head. It wasn't like there were any secrets. Basically everyone knew about her situation now. So there was no reason to not tell Tabby. "I had a baby."

The other girl's eyes widened in surprise. "A baby?" she replied. "When?"

"Last summer," she told her. "I haven't been back to school since then, but my boyfriend is insistent that I at least get a diploma."

"Who's the boyfriend?" she asked her. "Someone from Bayville?"

"Yes," she told her. It seemed a bit proddy.

"One of the boys from the brotherhood?" she asked. "Lance? Freddy?...Toad?"

"No," she scoffed. "No, none of them."

"One of the X-Men then?" she lifted a brow. "I doubt very much the daughter of Magneto hooked up with a human."

She was going to guess until she got it, Wanda could tell. "Kurt Wagner," she told her.

Tabby's eyebrows hit her hairline. "Blue?! You hooked up with blue?!"

Wanda did not like her reaction. "His name is Kurt," she glared at her.

Tabby waved a hand. "Yeah, yeah I know," she said. "So….he's then….the father?"

"Yes," Wanda told her. She was getting tired of talking to this girl. She pulled her phone out again and sent a text for a ride home.

"Wow," she said. "Impressive. I had a bit of a thing for him, you know. Way back when I was living at the mansion."

That made her turn back. "What kind of thing?"

Tabby smirked at her. "A thing," she repeated. "I think he had a thing for me too. We just never did anything about it."

This made her uncomfortable. "It's too bad," Tabby continued. "I always wondered…." Wanda couldn't help but lift a brow at her. "….if he was furry everywhere, you know?"

She glared. "That's none of your business," she told her.

"But it's all yours now, hmm?" Tabby smirked. "I'd think Blue would be good in bed. Probably work extra hard at it. Add in the tail and man."

Wanda looked away, hoping to see a car pull up. She was really tired of this conversation. It made her uncomfortable and she hated that this girl was calling him 'blue'. It seemed exploitative.

"So?" Tabby moved closer. "What's it like?"

Wanda turned to her finally. "What makes you think I would share that with you?" She glanced to her phone again, hoping to see a respond text.

Tabby glanced at the phone as well, smiling at the picture on it. "I take it that's the baby?" she said at the blue child in Wanda's background.

Wanda glared at her. "Can you mind your business? I barely know you and you're asking me about my private life. I don't want to talk to you."

The blonde girl shrugged. "Wow. I thought regular sex loosened you up, but clearly not," she smirked. "Anyway, maybe I'll drop in and see my old friend. I bet he'd be happy to see me again."

Wanda rolled her eyes. "I doubt that." Come on where was the car?!

"You don't know what we had," Tabby told her. "Anyway, my ride is here. Nice catching up with you." She gave Wanda a parting smile and headed off. A moment later, the car from the institute arrived. Wanda was seething. She was angry at this girl, but she also felt the need to talk to her boyfriend. He had never mentioned her. Why hadn't he?

As soon as she got back, she headed to their room. When the door opened, Kurt looked up, with Talia in his arms. "Mommy's home!" The baby squealed, seeing her mother.

"She should be in bed," she said, moving to take her and give her a kiss.

"She wanted to wait up and find out how Mommy's first day of class went," he said, following as Wanda brought the baby into the nursery.

"Did she?" she asked as she got her girl changed and ready for bed. Talia was sucking on her tail, a hand curled up by her neck. Both were signs that she was ready for bed. Wanda sighed. Fathers. If she had been here, their daughter wouldn't be over tired! She gave the girl another kiss, then put her in her crib. "Goodnight, my little princess."

"Wanda," Kurt lifted a brow, now following her back to their bedroom. "How did everything go?"

"Who is Tabby? Do you know her?" she asked, crossing her arms.

"Tabby?" he asked back. He paused, then a look of recognition came across his face. "Tabby! Ja, I know her. Why?"

"She knows you. Apparently well," Wanda replied. "She was in my class. She says you had things for each other."

"What?!" he looked at her incredulously. "She said this? We had things for each other?"

"Didn't I just say that?" she sighed. "She made it seem like there was something between you, and I was wondering why you never mentioned her."

"Because nothing happened," he told her. "Why would I mention her?"

"But you had a thing for her?" she lifted a brow.

He paused, with a quick sigh. "You can't even call it that," he said. "I was new to the institute. New to the country. She paid attention to me…different attention than I was used to. But nothing ever actually happened."

"Well she seems to think something should," Wanda told him. "When she found out we were together, she acted as if she had 'dibs' or something."

"She is out of luck," he told her, moving forward. "Because I am taken." He slowly pulled her into his arms.

She wrapped her arms around him. "Good," she responded. She was being a bit irrational, she knew, but the idea that someone might threaten her little family bothered her immensely.

"I love you too much," he said, kissing her briefly. "I will never let you go, I promise."