Lost Children
"Why did you do that?" Mystique asked Magneto, who was hiding in the shadows of an unknown room.
"It is and was never part of your concern. Do not concern yourself with the past!" Magneto told her.
"But it is! He is my concern! You cannot keep him from me!"
"I can! I have! He is lost to you! He will never see you as his mother, he hates you!" Magneto yelled at her, "he could never love you as his mother! You were never there for him, he can't love you now!"
"How could he? You destroyed my life long ago, changing my son and then letting me think he was dead. Now, he hates me and lives with our enemy!"
"He might as well be dead! You'll never get him back, so just forget him!"
"No you're wrong!"
"Am I?"
***
"Gosh, ve're going to be late, again!" Kurt said and disapeared in a puff of smoke.
"Well, at least he'll be on time!" Kitty said aloud frustrated at their tardiness.
"Scott!" Jean called as she, Kitty, Evan, and Rogue got into Scott's red car. "Let's go!"
"I'm coming!" Scott yelled as he fumbled with his books running to the car. He quickly got in and started the car. "Where's Kurt?" he asked as he started to leave the mansion.
"He left for school," Jean told him.
"That's great," Scott said frustrated.
"Well, at least one of us will be on time to school," Kitty told Scott.
"Darkholme's going to be so mad at us!" Rogue told them.
"Maybe she won't notice us coming in late?" Evan asked hopefully.
"Good luck with that!" Scott told him.
***
I wish I could have my son back," Principal Darkholme said to herself staring out her window. There were kids running into Bayville trying to get to their classes on time. Then, she saw the X-Men. Scott Summers. Jean Grey. Kitty Pryde. Evan Daniels. Rogue. Kurt Wagner, her son, the son she lost so many years ago. The one that Magneto had changed, and she had dropped in the river. The son she thought had drowned and died, What was it like to have a child? She didn't even know what is was to be a mother to a child, watching her child grow up into an adult. Why did Magneto have to destry her life?
***
After school, Scott drove everyone back to the mansion. Professor Xavier had asked them to come home right after school, so they did. Xavier hadn't told them why they were to return right after school, but they knew that there was either something wrong or he had something for them.
When they entered the mansion, they only found Ororo Munroe waiting for them. Usually the professor, Logan, and Ororo were waiting for them at the front door. They wondered where the professor and Logan were. "Hello," Ororo greeted them as they walked in the door. "How was school everyone? Where you on time?"
"We're good Auntie O," Evan told her.
"We were late, again," Kitty told Ororo.
"I vasn't!" Kurt said happily.
"School was okay," Jean told her.
"You don't sound very happy today, well, except Kurt," Ororo told them.
"Vell, my day vasn't that great really," Kurt told her.
"Oh, well what's wrong at school?"
"Tests and projects and presentations and all kinds of stuff is being thrown at us!" Rogue told her.
"Yeah, we just had finals and we're already being bombarded by all this homework. We need a break!" Scott told Ororo, who was listening to all of them.
"Well, don't worry you all will do fine in your classes with your projects. I'm sure of it! Okay, let's go get some snacks and go to the library to do homework."
"Alright, let's get going then!" Kurt said happily walking towards the kitchen. The rest soon followed after Kurt, and piled into the massive kitchen to get snacks and sodas. Then, they all entered the library and seperated into study groups to do their homework. Jean, Scott, and Kitty sat together, Kurt and Evan sat together, and Rogue sat alone. Ororo Munroe sat among the children and began reading one of her books.
***
"What if I could give you what you want?" Magneto asked.
"I want my son back," Mystique told him.
"Yes, but you want more than that, don't you?"
"Yes. I want a normal life to raise children."
"And in return?"
"What do you want?" Mystique asked angerly.
"I want you not to go against me like you tried when you found out that Kurt was your long lost son. Promise your alliegence to me and me only!"
"I promise. Please! Please help me!" Mystique pleaded.
"You will have it soon. Start picking out names..."
"Names? For what?"
"For your children and yourself."
"How many?"
"I will deliever to you Scott Summers, Jean Grey, Evan Daniels, Kitty Pryde, Kurt Wagner, and Rogue."
"The X-Men? Why them? I don't want them all! Xavier and Wolverine will track me down and take them away!"
"They won't trust me."