Disclaimer: I don't own X-Men:Evolution or it's characters. Just my OC, Molly Callum/Creature and any original characters/background characters that may pop up from time to time.
The mood was somber, as with most funerals. Remy and Molly wore a black suit and dress respectively. It was held at a funeral home in Bayville. There was a closed casket up front. The man had been fairly young, in his forties, leaving behind his parents, a wife and two sons. The family, who was sitting up front, and a lot of people around, were crying. Remy half expected Molly to, but she didn't. That said, her mood was an unexpected kind of sadness, with some underlying guilt. Remy couldn't blame her. It really wasn't their fault directly, but if Forge hadn't created an alternate universe device and they hadn't tested it, there would never have been that hole in space to bridge the two realities together, causing alternate Remy to escape and kill the poor, innocent man.
"Hey," Remy hugged Molly afterwards, "Don't blame yourself. We couldn't have known all this was going to happen back when it started. It was never our fault. It was Evil Remy's choice. He didn't have to do this, but he did it anyway."
Molly considered it.
"I guess," She said, "It's just going to take me a while to deal with it. Convince myself everything was more his fault then ours."
She left Remy and made her way over to the family to give condolences. Molly quickly came back. They got in the car and drove home, sitting in the garage for a little while.
"I wish there was something more we could do for the family," Molly admitted.
"Yeah, I was thinking about that too," Remy said, "Maybe have the Professor set up an anonymous trust fund for the kids college. Check in on them every so often and make sure they're getting along alright. We wouldn't have have to do anything big, but I'm sure it would help. Word has it they had to scrape money for the funeral together, so it couldn't hurt."
"All that for people we don't even know, but I don't think the guilt is ever going to go away," Molly said, "We're going to have to live with this, Remy. Your evil twin killed him, but our actions set everything into motion. We were the catalyst."
"Just because we were the catalyst doesn't mean we're evil ourselves," Remy said, "Like I said, we couldn't have known.
But you're right. It's true we played a hand in it, even if we didn't mean to. Just because we have to live with the guilt doesn't mean we won't get past it and have happy times again. For now...we'll feel bad...but that feeling won't last forever."
He squeezed her hand.
Molly didn't seem to have the courage to smile, but Remy's words looked to put her at ease again. She put her head on his shoulder in the quiet, holding on tight to his hand. They were going to sit there, reflecting, for a long time.