IF YOU RECOGNIZE THE CHARACTERS FROM EITHER STAR TREK:TNG OR X-MEN, I DO NOT OWN THEM. MARVEL AND PARAMOUNT DO. IF YOU DO NOT RECOGNIZE A CHARACTER IN THIS STORY, I OWN THEM! (I LIKE TO OWN DATA BUT SOMEONE ALREADY BEAT ME TO IT)

Intervention and Spring Cleaning

One month, Kristy Jo Kyle thought. One whole month without Mercedes or Laura. I think I can do this. Kristy Jo's thoughts were suddenly interrupted by a sound of a baby crying. Frantically, Kristy Jo rushed to her daughter, Phoebe Juliana Drake's room. She went to the crib and found the three-month old baby girl fussing away.

"Aww, what's the matter, pumpkin?" Kristy Jo cooed. "Is my baby hungry? Does she need to be fed?" Phoebe looked at her mother and smiled a baby's smile. Kristy Jo went to a nearby cabinet and got the baby food. After she fed and burped Phoebe, Kristy Jo sat on the rocking chair.

"Maybe I should redecorate your room," She thought aloud. Phoebe's room was decorated with New England Patriots and Boston Red Sox paraphernalia. All Bobby Drake's doing.

"The next time we decorate your room, I ain't gonna let your daddy do it." Kristy Jo told her daughter. "We need some Texas flare, I'm gonna take out all this Patriots hogwash and put some Dallas Cowboys. Remember Patriots are bad, Cowboys are good."

"You are going to confuse that poor child."

Kristy Jo whirled her head around and saw Kurt Wagner standing by the doorway, smiling at her.

"Good Lord, Kurt." She said, relieved. "I thought you were Bobby."

"And what were you going to do if it was Bobby?" Kurt asked. "Deny what you said?"

Kristy scoffed. "Please, Bobby knows exactly how I feel when it comes to our favorite sports teams. He knows I hate them stankin' New England Patriots."

"What about the Red Sox?"

"I tolerate them. Why are you here, anyway?"

Kurt finally stepped into the nursery and showed Kristy Jo a manila folder with some files.

"I got the results of the Danger Room exercise for Black Wizard, Canvas, Firespark, and Flying Tiger."

"So who passed?"

"Overall, Maya did the best out of all of them," Kurt explained. "But surprisingly, Justin scored the highest in aggression and combat."

Kristy Jo got up from the rocking chair and took a look at the files. "Well, I'll be a horse's mama," She said. "These are some pretty high numbers for a mutant with just a defensive power."

"But Justin can use his skill to his advantage." Kurt pointed out.

"Yep. And there had been many X-Men and Untouchables before him that could use their defensive power in a combative way." Kristy Jo looked at the files again. "Dante did pretty well, too"

Kurt nodded. "So, do you think you can handle being headmistress for two months?" He asked.

Kristy Jo looked at her best friend. "I can't even handle being a mother yet. But if Mercedes trusts me, I gotta do it."

"Don't worry, Kristiana, I got your back." Kurt assured her. "Besides, the kids don't really ask for much. You should be fine."

Suddenly, Tanisha Harriet Jones aka Independence, leader of the Young Untouchable X-Men, stormed in the nursery with Julian Keller aka Hellion, Angela Rae Dawson aka Mermaid, and David Allenye aka Prodigy.

"Kristy Jo, you've got to do something about Midge." Tanisha announced.

"What about her?"

"She's the freaking walking dead!" Julian explained.

Before Kristy Jo could retort, Angie Rae cut her off.

"What Jules is trying to say," She told them. "Is that Midge's depressing mood is depressing everyone."

"In what way?" Kurt asked.

"Well you remember how Lindsey was depressed when James went missing?" David asked.

Kurt and Kristy Jo nodded. How could they forget? Lindsey was obsessed with finding James for months!

"Well, it's like that to the 10th degree."

"Guys, Midge's fiancé was killed, by her ex-boyfriend, no less." Kristy Jo explained.

"We know that." Tanisha said. "We were all there when Seth killed Chase, last year! She's still crying about it. It's not healthy."

"No, Tanisha. Midge is not 'crying about it'," Julian imputed. "She's brooding."

"Look, kids. Midge is just going through a tough time," Kurt said. "We need to support her."

By that time, Phoebe fell asleep in Kristy Jo's arms.

"We are desperately trying," Angie Rae said. "But she keeps dragging us in to watch sappy chick flicks, love stories, sad love stories."

"She's in her room, in the dark," David adds. "And when we ask her if she's all right, she says: 'What is all right? I live my life by telling people, telling myself, I am all right, when I'm really going through hell.'"

"Okay." Kurt said. "That's pretty disturbing."

"And she keeps on playing Evanescence songs." Tanisha said. "Like they're the only songs in the universe!"

"And ya know, Kris, we ain't the only ones who feel this way." Angie Rae told her sister.

"Ya mean all the kids feel this way?" Kristy Jo asked.

"Let's just say, we speak for everyone when we say: If Midge don't lighten up, we'll jack her up!" Julian said, rather sarcastically.

"Santo's words, not ours." Angie Rae clarified.

"What do ya'll want me to do?"

David shrugged. "Stage an intervention?"

"I ain't gonna stage an intervention on my own sister." Kristy Jo said finally.

"But Kris-" Angie Rae began to say, but Kristy Jo cut her off.

"Look, I know Midge's behavior is too hard to bear right now, but ya'll need to consider that she's been through hell, literally, last year. So ya'll handle that, on your own. I'm gonna go start Phoebe's bath and get some Ben & Jerry's ice cream."

"It's all gone." Tanisha said.

Kristy Jo stopped dead in her tracks. "What?"

"Midge ate it all." David replied.

"Wait, you're trying to tell me, that Midge ate all of my Ben & Jerry's pint-sized ice cream?"

"Yep." The kids replied.

Kurt looked at Kristy Jo in worry. He knew how much his best friend loved her Ben & Jerry's. That was her healthy addiction. If anyone touched her pints, they would've dealt with her wrath. Kristy Jo looked from Kurt's direction to the kids. Then she smirked smugly.

"Oh, she got to go."

"Kristiana," Kurt said, calmly. "Don't get upset."

"I ain't upset Wags," Kristy Jo shouted. "I'm plain mad! Nobody eats my ice cream and gets away with it!" To Julian and Angie Rae, she said, "Jules, Angie Rae, get a bucket of cold water and dump it on Midge."

"How cold?" Angie Rae asked.

"I want it so freezing, the Titanic would feel like a freaking sauna!"

Julian jumped up for joy.

"WHOO-HOO!" He yelped. "Thanks Kristy Jo!" We'll get right on it."

After the kids left, Kurt looked at his best friend in utter disdain.

"What?" Kristy Jo asked, casually.

"You're going to dump freezing cold water on your little sister?" Kurt said in disbelief.

"Kurt, how long have we've been friends?"

"Twelve years."

"Right. Ya know me; long enough to know that when something is mine, HANDS OFF!" Kristy Jo smiled and handed Phoebe to Kurt. "Now, can ya be a gentleman and bathe PJ for me? I need to stage an intervention."

Kurt sighed as he took Phoebe from Kristy Jo's arms. "Mien Gott en Himmel." He muttered. "Give me strength to put up with you."

"Ya know ya love me." Kristy Jo smiled and kissed Kurt on the cheek.

* * *

Midge came downstairs a couple of hours later for breakfast; only to find Kristy Jo, Kurt, Angie Rae, Bobby, Tanisha, Julian, Logan Howlett (Wolverine), Lindsey Wyngarde(Solaris), Stefan Wyngarde, Jason and Sharon Windfox(Beast Tracker and Camouflage), Dante Lensherr(Black Wizard) and Alizia Windfox(Singing Dolphin) sitting at the kitchen table staring at her.

"Hey guys," Midge greeted, looking confused. "What's going on?"

"We're having a family meeting." Dante said.

"We are? Who died?" Midge asked. "Was it Uncle Jed? It was Uncle Jed, was it? Which one of his wives killed him? Was it his third or fifth wife?" Midge looked at Kristy Jo but she said nothing. "I believe it was his fourth wife," Midge continued. I always thought she acted like Kathy Bates in Misery."

"This ain't about Uncle Jed, Midge." Kristy Jo told her.

"Oh." Midge replied. "Then what's the problem?"

All of a sudden, a gust of wind came bursting through the backdoor and Jean-Paul Beaubier appeared in the kitchen.

"Bonjour, mon ami." He greeted.

"Jean-Paul?" Sharon asked. "What are you-?"

She was interrupted by Emma Frost strutting, through the backdoor, the only way Emma Frost knows how: in style.

"Hello, everyone." She said. "Is Jean-Paul and I late for the intervention?"

"Wait, hold up." Kristy Jo interjected. "How did you two know about our intervention?"

"Because they're the TMZ of the Untouchable X-Men, Kris!" Stefan exclaimed. "There ain't nothing that hasn't happened to either one of us that these two don't know already."

"Yep." Logan muttered. "Especially, that one." He pointed to Emma.

"Oh come off it, Logan." Emma said. "Mr. Beaubier is the gossip king."

"You mean 'queen'?" Kurt and Stefan snickered at Logan's comment.

Jean-Paul rolled his eyes. "Haters." He muttered.

"Emma, JP, this really ain't a good time right now," Kristy Jo said. "We're in the middle of something."

"And we need to get some Spring Cleaning done around the Manor." Bobby added.

"That's okay," Emma replied. "We need a favor from Jason and Sharon, if they don't mind."

"Sure, what is it?" Sharon asked.

"Jean-Paul and I are doing some Spring Cleaning in our condo and we were wondering if your children could help us."

"Yeah," Jean-Paul added, as he was eating some waffles. "Cyke is out of town and my sister is just too lazy."

"What about you and Emma?" Stefan said.

"Emma's going on a mission and I got things to do."

"That's gay for: 'I'm getting my hair did!" Stefan and Logan teased.

"You know, Logan, if you'd spent more time on your appearance than you do on gay jokes, your love life wouldn't be crappy." Jean-Paul sneered.

Tanisha, Julian, and Dante laughing but stopped when they saw Logan staring at them.

"Anyway," Emma imputed. "Is it all right if Armando, Alizia, Dante, and Selena come over to help us?"

"Yeah, they can come." Sharon replied.

Dante and Alizia looked at Jason and Sharon in disbelief.

"Wait, what?" Alizia said, shocked.

"Don't we get a say in this?" Dante added.

"Yeah, you do." Jason answered. "And we said, you can go and help them."

Alizia sighed and got up from her chair. "This is so child labor." She murmured.

"Wait, Ali." Dante said. He turned to Emma. "How much is it gonna pay?"

"Why do you wanna know?" Jean-Paul asked.

"Well, if we're going to clean your house, we might as well get paid for it." Alizia replied. "You know America has laws against child labor."

"How much do you want?"

Alizia thought for a moment. "$20."

"$20?" Emma scoffed. "Please, darling. Hannah and Paras run a harder bargain than you. They asked for $30 and a trip to Disneyland."

"That's my girl." Stefan called out.

"All right," Alizia tried again. "$50."

"Fifty?" Jean-Paul nearly choked on his breakfast. "$25."

"$45." Dante imputed.

"$10." Emma said.

"You can't even get a full tank of gas for $10." Alizia said. "$100."

"Now you guys are just pushing it." Jean-Paul said. "$40, and that's our final offer."

Alizia and Dante looked at each other for a moment. "Deal." They said finally. With that, Alizia, Dante, and Emma left.

"Hey, Speedstick," Logan said, after a moment. "Ain't you supposed to go with them?"

"In a moment," Jean-Paul answered. He sped out of the kitchen. Two seconds later, he came back with Armando Windfox (Hunting Nighthawk), Alizia's twin brother, who was still asleep.

"I couldn't leave without him."

"Gracias, Jean-Paul." Sharon laughed.

"Anytime, Sharon." Jean-Paul said. To everybody, he bowed his head in courtesy. "Au Revoir, everyone." With that, Jean-Paul, picked up Armando and sped out.

"Okay," Logan said. "That was weird."

"Ya telling me." Kristy Jo added. To Midge, she said: "Midge, sit down, we need to talk."

Midge sat down at the table, more confused. "Wait, is this intervention for me?"

"What gave it away?" Jason asked.

"Midge, I know last year's been really hard for you," Kristy Jo began. "Given to what happened to Chase and all."

"But you really need to get over it." Angie Rae added.

"Get over it?" Midge repeated. Then she looked at Angie Rae as if she realized something. "Wait a minute, you dumped that cold water all over me?!"

"Ya darn skippy we did!" Julian declared. "And we do it again too!"

"Nothing personal, Midge." Angie Rae added. "Kristy Jo told us to do it."

Midge looked at her older half-sister in disbelief. Kristy Jo just shrugged.

"Well, you needed it," She said casually. "And you did eat all my Ben & Jerry's ice cream."

"I'm sorry." Midge apologized. "But I'm going through something very traumatic right now."

"It's been one year," Sharon said. "Get over it."

"You can't get over something like your fiancé being murdered by your ex-lover." Kurt said.

"Whose side are you on, Kurt?" Stefan asked.

"I'm not taking sides! I just think you all should consider how traumatic this is for Midge."

"That's a chick flick compared to what I've been through." Logan said.

"We know." Everyone replied.

"The point is, Midge," Kristy Jo explained. "You can grieve but don't drag everybody down to your depression."

"I not dragging everyone to my depression!" Midge objected.

"Yeah, you is." Tanisha contradicted. "Everybody here either wants to shake you silly or kill you altogether."

Midge was suddenly getting angry. "Look, you all can't tell me how or when I'm supposed to grieve for Chase," She said. "I'm a grown woman!"

"A grown woman," Lindsey emphasized. "Crying over her dead fiancé and her psychotic ex-boyfriend!"

"Do you really want to go there, Lindsey?"

"Why not?"

"Baby, don't go there," Stefan warned his wife.

"You really don't want to, Lindsey." Kurt told her.

"Ya shouldn't." Kristy Jo added.

"Putting yourself out there," Logan sang.

"Oh, yeah you're right," Lindsey said, rather embarrassed. "Sorry."

"Thank you." Midge said. To the others, she asked: "So what do you want me to do, get therapy?"

"Actually, that's not a bad idea." Jason suggested.

"You're serious? You want me to see a shrink?"

"We think that's the best thing for you." Kristy Jo said.

"I am not seeing some stuffy shrink just because you guys are sick of me crying!" Midge shouted, standing up.

"It's either that or I'm kickin' ya out of the Institute!"

"Kristy!" Kurt interjected.

"You wouldn't," Midge sneered.

"I would." Kristy Jo said.

Midge looked from her siblings to everybody else and sighed. "Fine, I'll go see Professor Xavier tomorrow," She said finally. "Is there anything else you all want me to do?"

"I got something," Julian said. "If you want to blast some suicide music, do it in your room.

"And no Evanescence music." Tanisha added.

"Anything else?" Midge asked, sarcastically.

"Yeah!" Lindsey imputed. "Stop borrowing my Titanic movie!"

"I thought you didn't mind?"

"I lied! Titanic was my sad love movie. Get your own!"

"Fine, I will!" Midge turned to the others. "Anybody else?"

"I got one." Logan said. "Do your laundry, I ain't ya mama."

"And?"

"I'm your brother." Jason said. "And I'm telling you to do your laundry."

"Okay, I'll do everything you want me to do." Midge got her backpack and stormed past the crowd. "Now if you'll excuse me, I have a date with depression."

"What about my ice cream?!" Kristy Jo called out.

"I'll buy you some more!" Midge called back. Then the door slammed shut.

Kristy Jo, Jason and Angie Rae looked at each other.

"I don't like that girl." Kristy Jo remarked.

"I give her one week." Jason challenged.

"Please," Angie Rae said. "She won't even last one day."

THAT'S CHAPTER ONE! I GRAUNTEE YOU, CHAPTER TWO WILL BE MUCH BETTER! IT EVEN FEATURES A CERTIAN MERC-WITH-A-MOUTH! HMM! PLEASE REVIEW AND COMMENT!