I just realized I didn't really base this on and official timeline. So just to clear things up a little I will explain.

James (Logan), Victor and Kelly were recruited for Team X in 1975, just after the Vietnam war. James (Logan) left that same year. From 1975 - 1981 Kelly worked for Stryker. 1979 - 1981 Kelly dated Wade. In '81 Wade 'died'. From '81 - '83 she was in Japan training with Hiroshi. In '83 she was reunited with Wade. She married Wade in '84.

They have five children (this will be explained in the story):

Collin Winston Wilson - 18 - Born in '88 (May 6)

James Chris Wilson - 18 - Born in '88 (May 6)

Casey Carter Wilson - 15 - Born in '91 (July 7)

Kay Emily Wilson - 14 - Born in '92 (November 11)

Tanya Logan Wilson - 3 - Born in '03 (October 8)

Kelly was born in 1958.

A lot, I know. But Enjoy!

Kelly sighed and stretched herself out under the blankets. She smiled happily to herself as she stretched her hands out in front of her. Her silver and amethyst wedding band glittered in the sun blinking through the open window. She studied the ring for a moment. She smiled. She still, very often in the mornings when she's just woken up, couldn't believe she actually married the insane bastard.

But there she was, in their bed listening for the sounds of her family. Wade was Wade. When Collin, the eldest of the brood had been born it took her two years just to get him to go near the boy. And every time he did, Collin would scream as if he was being murdered. James would follow Wade everywhere. Wade avoided going near the boy, she had believed that he was afraid of something, eventually James got what he wanted. As a child he loved to spend his time with Wade, until he grew older, then he became a loner. When Casey had been born, he spent every one of Wade's waking moments in Wade's arms. The poor boy had nearly been surgically attached to his father's hip up until the age of six. Kay was given some freedom. But seeing as she was Wade's first daughter, she spent nearly as much time in his arms. By the age of three she threw a tantrum about it though, so Wade stopped carrying her everywhere. Tanya was the first in the family that spent most of her time with Kelly.

Collin was the spitting image of his father. He was tall, large and the exact opposite of his father. He was polite, patient and tolerant. For a boy his age he had more respect for the people around him than she had expected him to have. And not unlike the rest of the family he was a mutant. Kelly figured it'd have been odd if he didn't turn out as one. He has the ability of animation. And a serious competitive streak with his brothers and sister.

James also looked exactly like Wade. He's Collin's identical twin and so different from the older boy you'd almost think they weren't family. James is the silent and brooding type. Kelly was sometimes afraid of him. The boy was dark. But she loved him none the less. She knew he wouldn't do anything bad. And he was about as temperamental and a goldfish. But she worried about him. Unlike the rest of his siblings James knew exactly what he wanted out of life. And he wants the position Hank McCoy sits in now. He has the ability to create various plasma attacks. And he enjoys throwing those into his father's face. It's a phase. She's sure.

Casey had black hair and his grandfather's bright blue eyes. He had a smallish built and was nearly exactly like his father. Casey seemed to always be in the one or the other phase. He was always going on and on about this or that, and he always seemed to have a new girlfriend. Neither Kelly nor Wade has ever met any of his girlfriends. And he had a reply on that as well. "I don't want the parentals screwing up my chances of getting laid!" Wade found this hilarious. Kelly didn't. Casey could create and manipulate fire. Storm had nicknamed him Blaze, mostly because when his temper flared up, so did his mutation.

Kay was a lot like her. Or at least like her before Carter had died. She enjoyed going out and loved a good party. Kay was somewhere between a mix. She would sit down and read a book if it interested her and be sassy mouthed about something when someone made her angry. She had Wade's mother's green eyes. Kelly didn't know this for sure, but Wade swore his life on it. She also had dark brown hair, like Wade. She has the ability of Mimicry. She loves copy combative powers.

Kelly's half worried that all her children will have a combative streak in them.

Tanya was the youngest. She was barely three years old. And has yet to show any powers. She looks like a younger version of Kelly. Black hair and brown eyes. And she loves nothing more than playing with her dollies with her mommy. Wade was terribly excited about finding out what she'd be able to do.

Kelly frowned slight at the silence in the house. She usually woke up to a jumping Tanya, Wade trying to burn the house down, Collin and Casey arguing about the one or the other thing and James threatening Kay who then vows to tell her.

She quickly got up when she remembered which day it was. Magneto and his bunch of over excited morons were going to that Island with the kid. Jam…Logan had asked her if she wanted to go along, but she had declined. She had decided that she'd much rather stay with her daughters. She didn't like the idea of her boys going out there, she didn't like the idea of any of her boys going out there, but she knew that all of them would rather die than stay out of a fight. Even Collin who was so polite.

She grabbed a pair of clean jeans and a t-shirt and ran across the expanse of the backyard of Xavier's school and into the building. She knew where they'd be anyway. She hit the underground metal looking hall and smirked when she saw Wade's back to her. Storm had Tanya in her arms. Collin was talking in hushed tones to James. Logan was preaching to Casey and Kitty was smiling at her. Kelly sprinted as quietly as possible down the hall and jumped onto Wade's back. "Morning." She chirped cheerily.

His hands automatically hooked under her legs. Collin and James looked up at her and smiled their identical smiles at her. She waved to them from Wade's back. Storm always complained that for a forty-eight year old woman she looked and acted far too young. Kelly knew it had something to do with that age suppressant Stryker had given them. She didn't look one bit over thirty-five. Most people were shocked to find out how old she really was.

"Mommy! Mommy! Daddy and Big brothers are going to that island thingy and saving that boy from crazy metal man." Tanya said squirming out of Storm's hands. She dropped to the ground and caught her baby girl.

"Hey Angel." She said with a laugh. Wade turned around and kissed her.

"Oi! Hey! Come on! Dad! Stop it! I do not need to see my parents making out!" Casey's words echoed around the room. Kelly smiled against Wade's mouth and pulled back. "Morning mom." He greeted when he pulled his hands away from his face.

She set the girl in her arms down and smiled at him. "So…did you finish that assignment? We had a deal remember?"

Wade cleared his throat and stepped out of reaching distance. "I told him he could go." He said.

Kay smirked smugly. "So that means he stays right?" She asked. Kelly sighed. The girl was as competitive as her damn brothers.

She shrugged. "You're father is the man of the house, isn't he?" She asked and casually walked over to the twins. "Take care of Casey, got it?"

Collin nodded and hugged her with his one arm. James crossed his arms. "If I don't kill him first. Or Uncle Logan." He muttered.

She smiled at him. "Just bring him back. I want my boys to come home." She kissed him on the cheek before he could run off. He glowered at her as she walked back to Wade.

She squirmed her into his side and held on. She was as much in love with him as the first time. And she'll always be that in love with him. She smiled when he kissed the top of her head. "Mom! I want to go!" Kay informed her with a foot stamp.

She nodded slowly. "Ask your father." She said.

She felt rather than heard the rumbling chuckle coming from Wade. "Dad? Please. I'll stick close to James or Uncle Logan or you. Please. I swear. I'll do my homework for six months. I'll take Tanya with me when she asks and I'll do all my chores." She said. "And Kitty can go." She added as an after thought.

Kelly watched as Storm shifted uncomfortably. The fact that all these kids went, didn't sit right with the dark skinned woman. It didn't sit right with Kelly. But they had enough strength going with them. Wade was going to enjoy this fight far too much; she knew that, he hadn't had a decent fight in over twenty years.

Wade seemed to actually think about it. He studied Kitty to the point where she shifted uncomfortably. "Did you know…that I'm not Kitty's father?" He asked Kay.

She stared at him like he was some alien and then stomped in the direction of the stairs. Wade sighed. "Time to go." Logan said suddenly.

She held onto Wade tightly. "Bring my boys back, ok?" She asked softly. She stood on her toes. "All of my boys." She kissed him, wrapping her arms around his neck and almost laughing when he lifted her to wrap her legs around his waist.

He grinned seductively against her mouth. "You know, if they don't come back we can always make new ones."

She whacked him across the head. "Hey dad, if you ever say that again, I will tell Tanya where babies come from and what you did to mom." Collin threatened casually as he walked by them.

Tanya heard only one part. Daddy did something to her Mommy. She glared at Wade and crossed her arms in a manner she's seen Kelly do. Kelly laughed softly. Kissed Wade again and dropped down onto the ground to pick up her little Angel. "I'll talk to Kay."

He sighed and glanced at the door, nodded and then followed the others to the plane. She watched them go and felt something clench in her. Wade would keep her boys alive. She knew that. She also knew that her boys would keep each other alive. But it was still a scary feeling watching her children walk off to the war of a mad man.

She tightened her grip on her baby girl. They'll come back. They always do. Wherever they go, they always come back. She smiled at her baby girl and started walking towards the stairs.

Talking to a teenage girl who didn't get her way didn't always go down so well. But at least Kay was an understanding kid. The two girls both slept on the bed with her when night time finally came. The only feeling she had was and empty and cold fear building up in her. Her boys weren't in the house, like they normally were. Eventually she fell asleep with the picture of her boys in her head.

Wade shifted the weight of the sleeping boy in his arms. He ignored the weird looks some of the kids sent them as they walked through the front doors. Ten seconds away from the whole fight and Casey passes out. Deep in him Wade knew the kid should've stayed home. He was a strong fighter, but he was still a kid.

And what made it even more a fact, he was Wade's kid. Logan walked next to him. He had the blonde haired Pyro thrown over his shoulder and looked like he had just been to the grave of his dead mother. In reality he guessed it worse. The poor man just didn't have any luck with woman. They either get shot because he needs to find revenge or he has to kill him.

Casey shifted in his arms, pressing his face deeper into Wade's neck. Wade almost laughed; the kid wouldn't live this down. Not from the grin on Collin's face. "You leave him alone." He ordered as the four of them walked back to the cottage. Casey was Kelly's baby boy. Casey could get away with murder on the woman's watch. There wasn't one child that got more attention or love than the other. But Wade always figured that Casey would forever be special to Kelly.

It wasn't because of anything unnatural or so. It just took her a while to get pregnant with him. Four miscarriages and a near accident before the boy actually made his way into the world. Kelly didn't know it, but the guy who had caused her to nearly have a fifth miscarriage was still missing. Or at least to the rest of the world. Wade wasn't sure, but he was quite certain that if they found him now, he'd be nothing but decomposing human flesh.

Collin grinned. "Would I ever do anything to make his life hell?" He asked. Wade didn't answer. He knew his kids better than they thought he did. Sometimes he didn't think he was that great a dad. But his kids did grow up good. There was nothing wrong with them. But their constant arguing. He assumed it was the age differences.

James opened the door and stepped aside so he could walk through. James was carrying both his katana swords; it was rather difficult having the kid in his arms and the swords on his back. He was an old man. Age suppressant and instant healing be damned.

Casey's room was always immaculately clean. For a kid who went through a series of variously dangerous phases he did do his chores. He listened to authority and he did his homework. He pulled the blankets back and sat the kid down, pulled off the leather jacket and boots and pants. Leather was not all that fun to sleep in. Casey snuggled up to his pillow almost immediately. Wade smiled as he pulled the covers over him and kissed the top of his head.

He nearly had a heart attack when he saw James watching him. He had his arms crossed and was leaning into the door frame. Wade sometimes found it odd to look into the teenage version of him. He literally saw three different versions of himself daily. "You ok?" He asked.

James nodded. "Just thinking. I put Kay and Tanya in their own beds, by the way." He said. Wade knew the boy better than he knew the other two. He knew that James scared Kelly sometimes. But he also knew that James didn't mean to scare his mother. He didn't do it on purpose; it was just the way he was. He was a lot like the man he was named after.

"What are you thinking about? I don't imagine your brother often occupying your thoughts." James shot him a nasty glare. He lifted his hands in the universal sign of defence as Collin joined them.

Collin grinned as he studied his younger brother. "I don't assume the idiot knows mom will kill him for that shiner he's got?" He asked. "God, I'm gonna enjoy rubbing his passing out into his face."

James whacked him against the head. "Leave him alone, asshole." He snapped.

Collin smirked and pressed his hands over his heart and looked mock shocked. "Shit! Who the hell are you and what have you done with my twin?" He asked.

"Be nice." Wade chided as he ushered them out of the room and went to Kay's room. She had already messed up the blankets, somehow wrapped them around her legs and found herself horizontally across her bed. Wade remembered a time when each of these kids went through the 'sleep with mom and dad' phase. It was hell sleeping in the same bed as Kay.

He walked in and laid her out right again. He knew she'd just find her way across the bed again. "I was thinking about how I'd like to be like you when I grow up." James said as Wade dropped a kiss onto Kay's head.

Collin nodded in agreement. "Yeah, I want a wife like mom. I want someone who'd go to the ends of the world for me." He said. "Who I'd want to go the ends of the world for." Wade didn't say anything. He knew better than anyone to keep a girl like Kelly at your side was work. It was hard work, but it was something that they would have to learn on their own. He couldn't tell them. They'd have to feel it to understand it. And telling two eighteen year old boys that they would need to work on a relationship would be like talking to a wall.

Wade left for Tanya's room. This was their baby. All of them. The boys would often pretend that a three year old sister annoyed them; that their fourteen year old sister angered them, but the girls in this family were well protected. Better than any girl on the planet. He kissed the little one's forehead and walked out to the kitchen. Tanya was a well planned accident. Not a really bad accident or anything, but Wade hadn't exactly expected Kelly to get pregnant again.

For all intents and purposes his twins were far too much like him. All three of them knew they weren't going to sleep now. They'd lay in bed, but won't sleep. Wade didn't mind, he liked watching Kelly sleep. "I've never told you the story about how I met your mother, have I?" He asked as he put the kettle on.

The two boys studied him for a moment. It was that studying only these two could do at the exact same time. They could instil a feeling of utter stupidity by just looking at a person. "No." James said. "But mom has." He continued. And then they would give you this subtle hint of why you are stupid.

Wade couldn't help but be surprised for a second. "She did?" He asked. It was a stupid question. James didn't lie often. He found it time wasting. Something about not wanting to waste his time with thinking up a lie and then having to tell the truth later.

Collin glanced at James. "Some of it. She just told us about how she married you. You should know this. It was James's favourite bed time story for like years." He said. Wade couldn't help but doubt that. James wasn't always the brooding dark kid he was now, but it was still hard to see him as kid now. Even if Wade had been their for all of it.

James glared at the boy and Wade smirked at them. "You should appreciate her." He said after a moment. "All of them." He continued. He turned his back to them stared out the window. "Sometimes you don't realize what you've got until it's gone."

They stayed silent for a moment. "How'd it feel loosing her?" James was smarter than he looked.

Wade stayed quiet for a long time. A very long time. The day he woke up and found nothing but an empty base, he felt like he was dying. Truly honestly dying. It wasn't the cancer killing him. It wasn't the blood mixing. It was the idea that Kelly might never come back. That Kelly would move on from him that killed him.

He loved her far too much to allow that.

Kelly always did more, for him, than she needed to do. She gave him five beautiful children. She gave him a home. She gave him her heart.

"Daddy?" He looked at the door leading to the hall and smiled at Kay. The girl looked like a bird tried to make a nest in her hair. "I'm glad you guys are back." She said and walked to the fridge.

"Good morning." He said smiling.

"Hey Half-pint." Collin greeted taking the coffee Wade offered him.

She studied the silent James for a moment as she took a sip from her juice, then went around the island and hugged him. "Morning." He muttered. Wade just shook his head. It was half funny to see his eldest boys and eldest girl standing in various stages of dress and undress.

James still stood in his all black leather outfit for this fight. Collin had on a t-shirt of his and the leather pants. And Kay stood in what she called pyjamas. A spaghetti shirt and her bright blue girl boxers.

"Go to bed." He told them. Collin lifted his coffee in salute and Kay nodded before they both disappeared down the hall.

"Are you going to answer me?" James asked.

"About your mother?" Wade asked in return. He nodded. "Pure, blistering hell. That's how it felt."

James smirked. "You deserved it." He stated.

Wade huffed. "You'd know that how?" He asked.

"Because only a stupid guy would leave mom. Goodnight…sleep well dad." James left as well, coffee in hand.

Wade went back to looking as the sun came up. When he found out he was sick he had promised to tell Kelly immediately. He had first gone to a doctor in town. But as he walking down to the jeep he had borrowed from the base, he walked past a flower shop. There was a bunch of red roses in the window and he, spontaneously, decided to get one for her.

It had been fake, but that was sort of the point. He had wanted to make her understand. He had needed to make her understand that he was scared. He didn't want to leave her. But the doctor had told him the cancer was spreading at a ridiculously fast pace. That he didn't have very long. A year or two max.

It had taken him nine months to realize that the doctors at base already knew about the cancer. It hadn't been until the cages that he knew Kelly knew. He had suspected, but never really knew. And then she started with the blankets and the DNA thing. At first he had just wanted her to stop. To stop give him some sort of hope. But then he realized she was doing it because she needed him to have hope.

That had been the hardest part. He was a merciless killer. He wasn't afraid of anything in the world. He installed the fear in others. He made them wish, beg for mercy. But he knew when something was a lost cause. When there was no hope left to spend.

He had never thought that one woman would do so much just to make someone believe. To make someone hope and expect the best.

The day she had injected the blood in him, he had been able to feel it burn it's way through him. And he was half aware of everything around him. He had heard her scream. But then the silence.

At first he had thought someone had shot her. That was the reason for the sudden silence. That thought had destroyed him. He had wanted to open his eyes but it had felt liked they'd been stapled shut and he couldn't think of anything other than how he needed to save her no matter what.

Wade took a sip of the coffee and relished in the warmth spreading inside him.

He didn't know for how long believed nothing could bring him to his knees. But he had learned there was something that could. Any man could bring him to his knees. Maybe had been untouchable before. But Kelly changed that. She gave him a reason to truly live. And the kids gave him an even bigger reason to be everything he could.

"A thinking Wade Wilson is a bad Wade Wilson." He looked down at the voice literally just under him. Kelly grinned up at him. "Welcome home." She whispered softly.

She ran her hands across his chest. The rising sun glinted off the ring he had put on her finger more than twenty years ago. "I missed you." He said leaning down and kissing her.

He smirked against her mouth. No matter how old they got, they'd always love each other. And he was sure there was no man on the planet that could excite her like he could.

"I love you." He just kissed her in answer.

Wade Wilson would forever be more interesting than a book. Would forever more love his wife. And have five children will somehow accomplish to give him grey hair.

But to hell with it all.

He loved them more than anything in the world.