"Don't forget to tell me." Camron whispered into as she hugged him Logan's ear, she was leaving for her own time. "Remember, you'll find me on the side of the road." She hugged each of them, her stomach still hiding her five month old unborn child. As she bent to hug her father she whispered, "Don't forget me."
Camron had sharpened her skills the whole month she was with them. In a shower of shimmering blue lights...she was gone. "Weren't they green lights before?" Bobby asked.
"How long?" Logan inquired.
"A week. She mustn't know she was here. She doesn't know anything of time travel." Xavier told them all.
They took the week to erase all evidence of her existence in the mansion. When the week was up, Logan came in cradling young Camron in his arms. She was looking up at him with careful eyes. She didn't look much different from the first time Logan had met her. She was covered in dirt, her brown eyes were untrusting, her black hair had no shine, No blood, No lights, and a few less worry lines. She was ten years younger.
Just as Camron said, Logan brought her to Xavier, Who was in his office. Logan placed her in a chair and stood at the large window. "A friend of ours told us that you where here." Xavier began. "She said that you would be dumped on our door-step by your mother. I'm sorry Camron." Her eyes, which had been traveling the room, snapped to the old men in the wheel-chair at the sound of her name.
"No one...NO ONE...calls me by my true name! How do you know it?!?!" Camron crouched out of the chair, ready to fight if need be.
"Our friend told us." Xavier told her.
"NO one knows my name!" Camron growled. "No one has used it since...I am the 'Curse'!" Her hunters crouch was getting lower, more threatening. "And it's all my mutant father's fault!" She lunged at her final word, but before she could reach the mutant on the other side of the desk, Logan caught and held her. Clawing, biting, kicking, she wasn't going to stop.
"I'm sure you know who I am." Xavier said as he rounded his desk. "I myself didn't know until now. If you stay, Camron, You will be you. Powers and all." Camron showed no signs of quitting. "I know it hurts you and I know she told you not to, but I think it's the only way." Slowly Logan's claws slid out and stopped Camron with fright. When she was calm, he drew his claws in and released her. She sat without a word. Camron was terrified and enraged by mutants, just as her thirty year old self said she would be. Silent and shaking from fear and cold, Camron sat.
Logan didn't know if she even heard Xavier speaking. He was back at his window, listening and watching. Slowly she stopped shaking. She took tea with a lot of sugar from Jean, who came in with food; all Camron's favorites. She ate silently and half listened for two hours. Finally it came to a head. She was being put in school to learn the basics and to control her powers. If she needed anything she was to ask it of Jean or Logan.
Logan showed her to the room that had waited for her return. "You'll like it here, kid. Everyone else does." He started to walk out, but stopped. "I was told to tell you to protect your family." "What the HELL is that supposed to mean??"
"You'll know the meaning before I do." He told her falsely. He pulled a cigar from his jacket and left her alone in her room.
Confused, upset, and exhausted, Camron fell into the bed that smelled of lilies; her favorite flower.
"She should be sleeping now." Jean said to Scott. "She won't wake for one whole day. That will give us time to tell everyone that she's here.
The next day Camron awoke to the smell of fresh banana nut bread. Opening her eyes, she saw the loaf on her night stand, still steaming. She ate the whole thing while looking out her window at the fountain. She watched the mutant students show off their curses. One boy, as she watched, became fully metallic, another, a girl, walked right through him laughing. Then the fountain froze, then melted.
The mutants were happy here. But how did she know that? She turned back into her dark room. There was a note on the dresser. It said that only Logan was at the school. Xavier and Scott went to see an old friend. Jean and Storm were going to find a new friend. When ever she decided to leave her room, Logan would be waiting in the kitchen for her.
She found Logan drinking a soda in the kitchen talking to a student. The mutant who froze the fountain. She sat furthest from both of them.
"Want anything?" Camron flinched at Logan's voice. She shook her head. She stared at the table even as a glass of chocolate milk came into view. She found herself sipping it. The kitchen was quite. Then it came, the sound of a breaking.
I know I fucked up the time line. So sue me. You won't get anything cause I'm poor. I do not own X-men. I do own Caron.
R&R please