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He ran for the hill to follow them, but as he reached the top of the hill he wasn’t there anymore. “God fucking..”, he cursed realizing he was no longer in that reality. “Whoever keeps changing the damn channel I’m gonna beat your ass.”, he shouted at the air. He heard a scream of anguish and raced for it. He was outside Sarael’s house. “NO… please no! Don’t do this to my brother!”, he shouted racing up to the porch. The door looked like it had been blown up. As he cautiously stepped inside there was his brother on the hall floor holding Sareal in his arms. The scream had come from John. Sarael’s eyes were cold and glazed over. Logan could see a deep wound in her stomach, the blood had stopped pouring out, she was already gone. He looked around hearing someone tearing at something. He looked and saw Aurelia, she was clawing apart a doorframe in anger. He heard a voice behind him “What happened?” Logan turned and there was Isis with Kurt running up behind her. She saw right through him and saw John on the ground holding her dead aunt. “NOOO!”, Isis screamed running through him and crumbling to the ground holding her Aunt’s cold hand. “Kurt get Mikali, get Kisa, get someone!”, she yelled. Kurt said nothing just disappeared.

Logan watched as Aurelia continued to take her anger out on the doorframe and his brother and Isis just wept over Sareal’s body. “Mikali and Kisa can’t heal the dead..”, he said shaking his head. “I don’t like this world. I don’t want to see this.”, he said punching a wall. Kurt reappeared with both Mikali and Kisa who raced to Sarael. Logan saw it on their faces; they both knew they couldn’t do anything. Kisa’s honey eyes told it all as she looked at Mikali. Mikali gulped and looked to John and Isis. “I’m.. I’m so sorry. We, well we can’t heal the dead. It’s too late.”, Mikali said his voice getting soft. Logan watched as John’s face went cold like stone. “Scarlet Witch is going to pay for this. I’m going to dice her into small pieces and ship her remains to her sister Polairs.”, John said his voice dark. “Oh god, John. You can’t become like me. You were the best of us. You were the one that maintained his humanity. Please don’t become the animal like I did.”, he tried to argue. John gently laid Sarael down and stood up. “Isis, I will make sure Scarlet Witch pays for this.”, John promised looking down at Isis. John then looked to Aurelia. “Aurelia, let’s go hunting.”, John said before both he and Aurelia walked out the door. “They are going to get themselves killed.”, Logan said running to follow them.

He waited for the world to shift as he turned the corner, but it didn’t he was still right behind his brother and Aurelia. “Let’s pay the Frost triplets a visit. They should be able to tell us where she went. If they can’t we’ll convince them but taking them apart that their fear should be in us not in her.”, John said. Aurelia nodded and shifted into her wolf form. “Don’t do this guys, please don’t become this.”, he pleaded following them. They found their way to the house the Acolytes had been living in. As they got closer Aurelia shifted back to human, like she knew something was wrong. Logan ran ahead of them confused as he could see the top of Crow’s head in the yard. “Don’t tell me the Haven went all postal too.”, he said stopping short when he realized why the Haven members were there.

Laying face down on the ground were Pretender, Crow’s cousin, and Christian Frost. They had been blasted in the back, the scortch marks could easily be seen on their clothes and the burnt skin that was exposed. Logan looked at Crow whose whole body was shaking. “I..I can’t believe Scarlet Witch did this to them. For what? Because they wanted to take the triplets and get away from here? I was mad at them for what they did and that they didn’t stop her or the others, but now I see why they didn’t. If this is how Scarlet Witch treats her allies when they disagree with her.”, Crow said. Demitri was holding a note in his hands and he looked as shaken as Crow did. “What’s going on here?”, John asked as he approached. “Where’s Scarlet…”, John’s words fell short as he saw the murdered couple on the lawn. Demitri looked up from the paper to John and then to Aurelia.

“If you two came here to kill my siblings’ mother and her fiancée you are too late. Wanda beat you to the punch.”, Demitri said holding up the note. “Bitch left us a note, toying with us.”, Demitri added his voice filled with anger. “What does the note say?”, John asked. “Dear Demitri and Crow. I know that it’s you who will find Kim and Christian. I know they called you for help, wanting forgiveness and you to help them get away from the X-Men seeking revenge. But I couldn’t just let them walk away. They know too much. Don’t worry about the triplets I take ‘good’ care of them. Raise them like they were mine. Sincerely Wanda Maximoff.”, Demitri read each word. Logan could see the last part was like a dagger being twisted in Demitri’s heart. If there was anything he knew about Demitri Shadow it was that he would do anything for his siblings. Without a word spoken from Aurelia she was back to wolf form and heading down the street. John watched her leave but chose to stay wanting more information from Crow and Demitri. Logan however followed Aurelia.

She ducked down an alley and there between a set of dumpster she transformed back to her human form and started to cry. Logan crouched down in front of her wishing for nothing more than her to see him. This would all end if she could just see him. “I can’t cry. I can’t cry yet. I need to find her. I need to kill her. Once she’s dead I can cry. Then I can cry for Logan.”, Aurelia muttered to herself. “We’ll get her.”, John’s voice echoed in the alley as he walked over and held his hand out. Aurelia reached right through Logan taking John’s hand as he helped her up. “They didn’t know anything more about where she’d have gone. But they gave me an idea of where to find the other Frost brothers. Apparently they were heading for Boston to the Frost family home.”, John said. “She took those little ones, they can’t be more than three years old.”, Aurelia growled. “To be exact they are two. Demitri told me the youngest, the one his dad had before the Acolytes killed him to take her back already has a mutation developed. She’s telekinetic.”, John explained. “Those children are more innocent than even the kids her team killed at the school. I can’t let her hurt those babies.”, she said changing back to her wolf form.

Logan sighed, there wasn’t going to be a way to stop this. And till whoever controlled the remote decided to change the channel he was going to have to watch as his brother and fiancé went on a killing spree to hunt down Scarlet Witch. So Logan followed as John walked alongside the dire wolf leading to a car. When John opened the door for Aurelia she jumped into the back seat, Logan took the chance and got into the front. It wasn’t a long drive, his brother breaking every motor vehicle law to get to Boston as quickly as possible. They did get pulled over once, but as the officer approached all he saw in the back window was a large red wolf baring its teeth, the officer went back to his car and left them alone. Under a different circumstance Logan would have laughed at this, but this wasn’t funny it was getting rather scary. He’d seen what they’d done to Pyro then what Scarlet Witch had done to two of her own. What was in store for Adien and Blake Frost when they got to Boston?

John rammed his car through the gates to the Frost estate, not bothering to slow down. Logan watched as the security guards raced after the car. They were too late anyways. By the time the caught up John had already skidded the car to a stop and was getting out. The guards pointed their guns at John and said “This is private property. You need to leave.” John actually laughed before opening the back door. “I think my friend here says otherwise.”, John said as Aurelia jumped out in her wolf form growling and snarling at the security guards. They both dropped their weapons and took off running. Aurelia moved to follow but John called to her. “No. They aren’t our targets. Let’s go break the news to Adien and Blake that their brother is dead.”. John said heading for the grand door of the mansion. Aurelia snorted and then turned to follow John. “Let’s see if anyone is home?”, John said about to knock before just rolling his sleeve up. “Bubbles blast the door please.”, John instructed.

Logan could only stand back and watch as Bubbles pulled from John’s arm and with a solid blast of water knocked the large doors of their hinges. “You can stay out for this.”, John instructed so Bubbles just rested on his shoulder. Logan could hear screams inside the house. Emma’s mother was the one screaming. “GET OUT OF MY HOUSE!”, Hazel yelled. “Not till we speak with your grandsons.”, John said walking in with Aurelia at his side. John looked into the parlor where Hazel was but didn’t see anyone else. “So where are Adien and Blake?”, John asked. “They…they aren’t here.”, Hazel stuttered. “I don’t believe you. Aurelia sniff them out please.”, John said looking to Aurelia. Hazel just watched in paralyzed fear as the large wolf sniffed the air and started moved around the foyer before racing up the stairs. “Not here huh? You certainly are Emma’s mother, did you teach her how to lie because bravo madam”, John said sarcastically as he gave a small clap. “Sarcasim really John? How much like me are you under that gentlemen exterior you’ve shed?”, Logan questioned as he followed John and Aurelia up the stairs.

Aurelia had stopped outside a door and was pressing her body against it trying to open it. “Locked..”, John said tugging at the door. “Bubbles, open.”, John instructed. Aurelia scrambled out fo the way as Bubbles blasted the door open. Inside lying on beds were Adien and Blake. Cordelia Frost. She didn’t look like what one would expect from a Frost, she had dark hair but still the cold blue eyes of her sister. “Leave my nephews alone!”, Cordelia shouted standing to protect them. “They just lost Christian and are in a lot of pain.”, Corelia added. “Oh they are in a lot of pain because their leader killed their brother. Well guess they know what I’m going through then. Because their bitch of a leader took my brother from me too. So I want to talk to them. They tell me where to find her, my friends here.”, John said pointing to Bubbles and Aurelia. “Won’t fight over which one gets to tear them to pieces. Now step aside. I’m not really up for hurting someone who doesn’t need to be hurt.”, John instructed. Logan could see the fear playing in Cordelia’s eyes as she looked from the dragon to the wolf.

She could have just stepped aside, but instead she hit John with a physic blast which sent him flying into a wall. Bubbles didn’t take well to this and doubled in size and send a powerful blast at Cordelia sending her out a window. John pulled himself to a standing position shaking his head. “Well that took care of that obstacle. Thank you Bubbles.”, John said walking over. He walked over to the first bed which had one of the brothers on it. John could see the outline of a burn mark on his back. He looked across to the other bed and saw the same mark. “Looks like the brothers feel each other’s pain in a more literal way.”, John aid before pressing a boot on the mark on Adien’s back. Adien and Blake both yelled in pain. “So you know your brother is dead, so is Kim and it was Wanda that did it. You probably also know she took Kim’s children, children who were going to be your nephew and nieces.”, John said twisting the heel of his boot a little into Adien’s bare back. Logan watched in complete horror, not that the Frost boys didn’t deserve to be in pain, but just to see his brother like this. “So you two are going to tell us where we can find Wanda. Aurelia and I have something we need to finish that didn’t get finished on the roof of the Cage.”, John said. “Don’t say anything Adien. Wanda will kill us both.”, Blake yelled across from his bed. “Aurelia, entertain the other Frost. He talks too much and not with anything I want to hear.”, John said looking to Aurelia.

Aurelia snarled as she walked slowly for the bed Blake was on. “Stay away from me.”, Blake yelled. But his pleads were falling on deaf ears, this much Logan knew. Aurelia quickly clamped her teeth on Blake’s left arm. Blake and Adien both screamed in pain. Aurelia seemed to enjoy that sound as she continued to apply pressure. John looked back to Adien. “So where is Wanda. She’s who we want. Tell us and your brother doesn’t have to lose that arm and you feel it while you watch it happen.”, John asked. “No I can’t tell you. I can’t.”, Adien pleaded. “Can’t? See I’m not a fan of that word. You are talking, so you can physical talk. This isn’t about can’t Adien. This is you saying you ‘won’t’. You are saying to save your brother’s life you won’t tell us where to find Wanda. You have lost one brother today and that you only had to feel, you didn’t have to watch. This time you’ll see it happen.”, John said nodding to Aurelia. Aurelia put the full pressure of her massive jaws and broke Blake’s arm in one chomp. Both brothers screamed. Adien tried to close his eyes to no look as Aurelia pulled Blake’s forearm away from the rest of his arm. “Oh no, you didn’t get to look away. I didn’t get to look away when my brother disappeared when Wanda blasted him.”, John said shaking his head.

Hazel had run up the stairs as she heard her grandsons screaming. “Leave them alone. Please leave my boys alone. I’ve lost their mother, I’ve lost Christian. I can’t lose them too.”, Hazel pleased on her knees. John stopped to look at Hazel. “You want to play devil’s advocate for these two despicable creatures?”, John asked. “I know they haven’t behaved the best. And they made wrong choices. But please. As their grandmother I can’t stand by and let you kill them.”, Hazel again pleaded tears in her eyes. Logan looked at John and then at Aurelia. Aurelia didn’t seem phased by Hazel’s heartfelt plea. Instead Aurelia was just gnawing away at Blake’s removed forearm. “All they have to do is tell us where Wanda Maximoff went, the woman that took my brother from me, caused a dozen young mutants to die at a school, and killed their own brother. If they tell us where to find her we’ll leave. But they are the ones who’d rather we torture them like they tortured our friends and the way Wanda tortured my brother.”, John said unmoving. “Please tell them. Tell them where that woman went. If you don’t tell them I will.”, Hazel said standing.

“No grandmother. Wanda will kill us all if we tell them.”, Adien pleaded. Blake had already passed out from blood loss. “Look at Blake, he needs medical attention. I don’t care about that vial girl. If these people want to find her let them. If they are able to kill her we have nothing to worry about for her seeking retribution.”, Hazel countered. Adien looked over at Blake and then back to his grandmother. He lowered his head. “Fine. Fine I’ll tell you. Just don’t hurt my family any further.”, Adien said caving. “I’m listening boy.”, John said raising an eyebrow. “She went to DC. She’s hiding out with her sister so that the secret service will protect her for you guys.”, Adien said before blacking out from the pain. “Alright. You have your answer. Now please leave. You said you would leave.”, Hazel said pointing to the door. John nodded and lifted his boot from Adien’s back. “Bubbles, Aurelia let’s go. We need to drive to the capitol.”, John said before walking out. Logan was a little relieved that nothing further had to transpire. But Aurelia still kept Blake’s arm, carrying it in her mouth like a dog would with its new bone. Logan continued to follow them back to the car. “How much more of this spree do I have to watch? When can I go back to where everyone is alive just sad?”, he questioned the air.

There was really just silence as they drove from Boston to Washington DC. The only sound was Aurelia gnawing on Blake’s arm. Logan dared to look back once and looked forward quickly. “Seriously, Aurelia? I disappear and your humanity switch just goes into the off position? I’m not even sure if the woman I love is still in that wolf.”, he said shaking his head. The drive wasn’t as fast passed as the one to Boston. Logan found himself looking at his brother and he could tell by the look in his eyes that John was thinking. What he was thinking he didn’t know, but if he had to guess it was a plan on how to take down Wanda. Logan feared what was going to happen when they did come face to face with Wanda. Would she use Pretender’s children as a shield? Would John and Aurelia even be phased by the presence of three toddlers? There were just too many variables. The last time they’d faced Wanda she’s hurt Aurelia and John pretty bad. John could at least heal, but Aurelia didn’t have that luxury. It felt like suicide to be going after her as just a team of two without any back up or a healer on board. But he didn’t bother voicing his concerns, they wouldn’t have heard him.

Aurelia looked up from what was left of Blake’s arm as they approached the White House. John stopped at the gate, two security guards approaching. Logan just had to sit there as his brother revved the engine and drove straight through the gate. “Great John, no you are declaring war on the United States basically. You had this whole drive to think up a plan and your decision was to ‘ram the gate’? Really?”, Logan said shaking his head. The guards shot out the tires but it didn’t seem to phase John. When the car could go no further John and Aurelia both got out of the car. John looked at the guards and shook his head. “Look guys, we aren’t here for you. We want Wanda Maximoff. That’s it. We get her and we leave no one else gets hurt.”, John explained. “The President’s sister? You aren’t walking out of here with her.”, a guard responded shooting John in the shoulder. John went back falling into the car from the force. John grimaced for a moment as he stood back up and his shoulder healed. “That stung. I’m not sure I was clear enough. I’ll rephrase. We are getting Wanda Maximoff.”, John said. Aurelia moved to his side and started snarling at the guards baring her teeth. “Aurelia, no. We aren’t going to hurt someone who’s innocent.”, John said.

Logan sighed in relief maybe his brother wasn’t completely lost. “Bubbles please take care of these two.”, John instructed. The small dragon flew out from the car and blasted each guard with a solid burst of water which sent them to the ground. As the guards scrambled to their feet they looked from John to the wolf then to the dragon. “I’m not paid enough or this.”, they agreed and ran off. “Alright, let’s find Wanda.”, John said turning to walk into the White House. Aurelia followed alongside him while Bubbles flew so he seemed to just hover over John’s right shoulder. “OH POLARIS!”, John shouted kicking open the doors. Logan was sure there would be a whole group of secret service there to stop them. But Logan was surprised, perhaps not as much as John and Aurelia to see Lorna standing there alone. “There is no reason to shout John.”, Lorna said raising her hands. “I knew you were coming. Hazel Frost called me.”, Lorna explained.

“Then you know why we are here. Look I don’t want to have to hurt you Lorna. You used to be an X-Men. You used to fight alongside my brother. But you need to understand that none of that will matter to me or to my friend here if you choose to stand between us and your sister.”, John said tilting his head to Aurelia. It never sat well with Logan when Lorna decided to side with her siblings. She was never the villain type. He knew she had a heart of gold, she was just letting the dark influence of her siblings affect her. Logan really hoped that Lorna wasn’t going to fight his brother and Aurelia. He wasn’t sure he could stomach them killing someone he’d know for so many years. Lorna shook her head. “I’m not here to stop you. I know better than anyone that my sister is, well insane. I had hoped that I could influence her and take her away from the path she was so set upon. But that’s not what ended up happening. I know she’s gone too far this time. I only stood here so that you would know where I stand on this subject. And also so you would see this.”, Lorna said motioning for someone to come out.

Logan leaned slightly to see who or what Lorna was calling for, the thought of a double cross in the back of his mind. But to probably everyone’s surprise out walked three secret service agents, each carrying a child in their arms. “Are those…Pretender’s children?”, John questioned. Lorna nodded. “Yes. I had told my sister I would hide them somewhere. I’m not doing that. I’m taking them to the only family they have, Demitri Shadow of the Haven. He’ll take care of them.”, Lorna explained. “So why did you want us to see this?”, John questioned his eyes not moving from the triplets. It was easy to see they were very upset all of them were crying. Their cries were actually upsetting Aurelia and Bubbles, Logan noticed how they cringed with each wail of the triplets. “Because when you go down into the lower levels of the White House and find my sister, I want you to know she doesn’t hold these children’s lives in her hands. I know that even at his most vicious Logan would have held back knowing someone so young and defenseless’ life was on the line. So I don’t want you to hold back when you face my sister. Which if you go down the stairs over there, it’ll lead you to her.”, Lorna explained pointing to a door.

John looked to the door and nodded. “Thank you. Demitri will appreciate you returning his siblings.”, John said before headed for the door. Aurelia and Bubbles followed behind him. Logan paused looking at the faces of Pretender’s children. Their situation made him think of his Amiko. She was of course much older when her parents were taken from her. Logan just paused as he watched Lorna take one of the wailing girls from her secret service and calmed the little red haired tot. Logan found himself smiling a little as Lorna walked out with her agents to return the children. “Hear of gold still intact.”, he said before turning to catch up with John and Aurelia. By the time he’d found them they’d already taken down a dozen armed guards who weren’t smart enough to get out of the way of the two mutants and dragon on the war path. He ran to a stop behind them as they stood outside a door.

John looked down to Aurelia. “She’s behind this door. Are you ready for this? We don’t leave till she’s either brought Logan back or is dead, agreed?”, John asked. Aurelia simply nodded and bared her teeth as her claws dug into the floor as she seemed eager to jump upon Wanda. Logan was probably the only one not ready for this battle. He wasn’t sure what was going to happen. Maybe Wanda could bring him out of this nothing he was trapped in. That was the one good possible outcome. If she couldn’t or wouldn’t the only outcomes left where she killed John and Aurelia or they killed her. Logan couldn’t bear the thought of John or Aurelia dying and certainly not at Wanda’s hands. Hell that’s how he got into this situation, he had jumped between Wanda and them to protect them. The flip side of this was they did it, they kill Wanda. But then what? He wouldn’t be back and killing her wouldn’t stop the pain he saw in their eyes. All it would do is destroy the good people he had known them to be.

“Here goes nothing.”, John said before kicking open the door. Inside seated in a chair with a grin on her face was Wanda. She didn’t look exactly the way Logan remembered seeing her last. Something was different, off about her. Even during the sessions of her torturing him at the Cage she still had a look and air of control around her. But that wasn’t here. This Wanda was far from controlled as he knew her. There was a wildness in her brown eyes. “So either you killed my sister, which I doubt since I didn’t hear anything till you were in the hall fighting the guards. Or my sister has betrayed me, which seems more likely. She never had the spine for this. After I take care of you and the wolf I’ll deal with my sister.”, Wanda said her voice sounding just as off as her presence. She stood up holding a dagger in each hand. “So let’s just skip the pleasantries and get on with this. You think I killed your brother or at least put him somewhere. I have as much of a clue as you do in regards to what happened to him. I just know I’m glad he’s gone. Maybe your wife is with him, depending on if you believe in an afterlife.”, Wanda said making a jab at John about Sarael.

Bubbles didn’t take kindly to that and tripled in his side before roaring at Wanda blasting her into a wall with water. Logan didn’t bother to get out of the way, they’d just run right through him anyways. Aurelia did just that, she leapt straight through him to attack Wanda. Logan watched as Aurelia started biting and clawing at Wanda, tearing at her flesh. But it wasn’t enough to stop Wanda. Wanda made sure to hit back with her knives just as much as Auelia hit with her claws. It was like the roof battle was being replayed. John moved in with his claws drawn as Wanda had Aurelia pinned to the ground. “Off her..”, John shouted as he sank his claws into Wanda’s back pulling her away from Aurelia. But it wasn’t in enough time. Wanda had already gotten one of her knives into Aurelia’s abdomen. The shock and pain from the wound caused Aurelia to shift back to her human form. “NOOO!”, Logan shouted as he rushed to Aurelia’s side. He tried to hold her, but his arms just passed through her. “John, John forget Wanda. Do something! Call for help. I can’t watch her die.”, Logan pleaded even if they fell to deaf ears.

John pulled his claws out of Wanda tossing her aside. “Looks like I win..”, Wanda said pulling herself up laughing. John went to Aurelia’s side. “Come on. You’ve got to hold on.”, John said searching for his cell phone. As he found his phone Wanda started to laugh again. “You have a choice then. You either kill me or save the wolf.”, Wanda teased as she reached for a book, the pages turning on their own. John looked from his phone to Wanda. “We’ll get you another time.”, John said before dialing Kurt’s cell. Wanda cackled as she spoke a phrase in Latin from her book, “Nunc mihi longe”. In a cloud of purple smoke she was gone. “Kurt, I need you. You need to bring Mikali to me. Aurelia’s been hurt and it’s bad.”, John said while he held the phone between his ear and shoulder so he could apply pressure to the wound to try and stop the bleeding.

In a cloud of blue smoke Kurt appeared with Mikali. Mikali quickly moved John out of his way. “What the hell were you two thinking? Taking Wanda on alone? Are you stupid? Seriously!? I thought you were the level headed Howlett. I get it Logan’s missing and Sarael is gone. But damn it..”, Mikali cursed as he moved his hands to heal Aurelia. “Stay with me Aurelia. Just listen to my voice. You are going to be alright.”, Mikali assured. John sat on the floor bringing his legs up to his chest. “You’re right. I don’t know what I’m doing anymore. When James disappeared I just lost it. He’s my only family it took me so long to find him before. I can’t handle not know where he is. And then...Sarael, how am I supposed to live without James or Sarael?”, John said mostly talking to himself. Bubbles shrank in size and landed on John’s shoulder nuzzling his snout against John’s face trying to assure him in his own way that he wasn’t alone.

As the wound started to close Mikali pulled his hands back a puzzled look on his face. “What’s wrong Mikali?”, Kurt asked. “Umm nothing, I think.”, Mikali said before finishing healing Aurelia. Once Mikali was done Logan noticed he looked pale and just kept looking at where Aurelia had been stabbed. Aurelia slowly came to. “What? Where’s Wanda?”, she asked immediately. “I’m sorry Aurelia. I failed you. I failed Sarael and I have failed James. I let her get away. Calling Kurt to have Mikali heal you was more important. I can’t stand to lose anyone else.”, John apologized. Aurelia sat up and looked around. “So we’ll hunt her down. We’ll find her again John.”, Aurelia assured him. Then Aurelia looked to Mikali who was still looking pale. “Was I that close to death that you need to look so pale Mikali?”, Aurelia questioned. Mikali took a deep break. “I don’t know. I don’t know how to tell you this. To tell either of you this.”, Mikali stammered. Aurelia narrowed her eyes on Miakli. “You spit it out.”, Aurelia growled. “I’m sorry. I doubt you knew, but when I was healing you I felt it. I was too late to save it.”, Mikali said just shaking his head. “Save what?”, Logan and Aurelia both asked, but of course Mikali only heard Aurelia. “Your… your baby.”, Mikali managed to say.

Logan felt his heart sink to his feet. “Baby? She was pregnant? We were going to be parents?”, Logan said short of breath. “What do you mean my baby?”, Aurelia growled. Miakli quickly got up so he was out of her reach. “Wanda stabbed you in your abdomen. The knife caused a lot of hemorrhaging and apparently it also pierced your womb killing the baby. It was too underdeveloped, just over a month, and was already gone when I got here. I couldn’t save it.”, Mikali explained. Aurelia howled in despair and shifted back to wolf form before racing out of the room. “If she was pregnant here she is pregnant in the other world. I need to know she and the baby are ok. How the hell can I get out of this pit of despair and make sure that at least somewhere our baby is alive?”, Logan said looking around trying to figure out how to escape this place.

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He ran for the hill to follow them, but as he reached the top of the hill he wasn’t there anymore. “God fucking..”, he cursed realizing he was no longer in that reality. “Whoever keeps changing the damn channel I’m gonna beat your ass.”, he shouted at the air. He heard a scream of anguish and raced for it. He was outside Sarael’s house. “NO… please no! Don’t do this to my brother!”, he shouted racing up to the porch. The door looked like it had been blown up. As he cautiously stepped inside there was his brother on the hall floor holding Sareal in his arms. The scream had come from John. Sarael’s eyes were cold and glazed over. Logan could see a deep wound in her stomach, the blood had stopped pouring out, she was already gone. He looked around hearing someone tearing at something. He looked and saw Aurelia, she was clawing apart a doorframe in anger. He heard a voice behind him “What happened?” Logan turned and there was Isis with Kurt running up behind her. She saw right through him and saw John on the ground holding her dead aunt. “NOOO!”, Isis screamed running through him and crumbling to the ground holding her Aunt’s cold hand. “Kurt get Mikali, get Kisa, get someone!”, she yelled. Kurt said nothing just disappeared.

Logan watched as Aurelia continued to take her anger out on the doorframe and his brother and Isis just wept over Sareal’s body. “Mikali and Kisa can’t heal the dead..”, he said shaking his head. “I don’t like this world. I don’t want to see this.”, he said punching a wall. Kurt reappeared with both Mikali and Kisa who raced to Sarael. Logan saw it on their faces; they both knew they couldn’t do anything. Kisa’s honey eyes told it all as she looked at Mikali. Mikali gulped and looked to John and Isis. “I’m.. I’m so sorry. We, well we can’t heal the dead. It’s too late.”, Mikali said his voice getting soft. Logan watched as John’s face went cold like stone. “Scarlet Witch is going to pay for this. I’m going to dice her into small pieces and ship her remains to her sister Polairs.”, John said his voice dark. “Oh god, John. You can’t become like me. You were the best of us. You were the one that maintained his humanity. Please don’t become the animal like I did.”, he tried to argue. John gently laid Sarael down and stood up. “Isis, I will make sure Scarlet Witch pays for this.”, John promised looking down at Isis. John then looked to Aurelia. “Aurelia, let’s go hunting.”, John said before both he and Aurelia walked out the door. “They are going to get themselves killed.”, Logan said running to follow them.

He waited for the world to shift as he turned the corner, but it didn’t he was still right behind his brother and Aurelia. “Let’s pay the Frost triplets a visit. They should be able to tell us where she went. If they can’t we’ll convince them but taking them apart that their fear should be in us not in her.”, John said. Aurelia nodded and shifted into her wolf form. “Don’t do this guys, please don’t become this.”, he pleaded following them. They found their way to the house the Acolytes had been living in. As they got closer Aurelia shifted back to human, like she knew something was wrong. Logan ran ahead of them confused as he could see the top of Crow’s head in the yard. “Don’t tell me the Haven went all postal too.”, he said stopping short when he realized why the Haven members were there.

Laying face down on the ground were Pretender, Crow’s cousin, and Christian Frost. They had been blasted in the back, the scortch marks could easily be seen on their clothes and the burnt skin that was exposed. Logan looked at Crow whose whole body was shaking. “I..I can’t believe Scarlet Witch did this to them. For what? Because they wanted to take the triplets and get away from here? I was mad at them for what they did and that they didn’t stop her or the others, but now I see why they didn’t. If this is how Scarlet Witch treats her allies when they disagree with her.”, Crow said. Demitri was holding a note in his hands and he looked as shaken as Crow did. “What’s going on here?”, John asked as he approached. “Where’s Scarlet…”, John’s words fell short as he saw the murdered couple on the lawn. Demitri looked up from the paper to John and then to Aurelia.

“If you two came here to kill my siblings’ mother and her fiancée you are too late. Wanda beat you to the punch.”, Demitri said holding up the note. “Bitch left us a note, toying with us.”, Demitri added his voice filled with anger. “What does the note say?”, John asked. “Dear Demitri and Crow. I know that it’s you who will find Kim and Christian. I know they called you for help, wanting forgiveness and you to help them get away from the X-Men seeking revenge. But I couldn’t just let them walk away. They know too much. Don’t worry about the triplets I take ‘good’ care of them. Raise them like they were mine. Sincerely Wanda Maximoff.”, Demitri read each word. Logan could see the last part was like a dagger being twisted in Demitri’s heart. If there was anything he knew about Demitri Shadow it was that he would do anything for his siblings. Without a word spoken from Aurelia she was back to wolf form and heading down the street. John watched her leave but chose to stay wanting more information from Crow and Demitri. Logan however followed Aurelia.

She ducked down an alley and there between a set of dumpster she transformed back to her human form and started to cry. Logan crouched down in front of her wishing for nothing more than her to see him. This would all end if she could just see him. “I can’t cry. I can’t cry yet. I need to find her. I need to kill her. Once she’s dead I can cry. Then I can cry for Logan.”, Aurelia muttered to herself. “We’ll get her.”, John’s voice echoed in the alley as he walked over and held his hand out. Aurelia reached right through Logan taking John’s hand as he helped her up. “They didn’t know anything more about where she’d have gone. But they gave me an idea of where to find the other Frost brothers. Apparently they were heading for Boston to the Frost family home.”, John said. “She took those little ones, they can’t be more than three years old.”, Aurelia growled. “To be exact they are two. Demitri told me the youngest, the one his dad had before the Acolytes killed him to take her back already has a mutation developed. She’s telekinetic.”, John explained. “Those children are more innocent than even the kids her team killed at the school. I can’t let her hurt those babies.”, she said changing back to her wolf form.

Logan sighed, there wasn’t going to be a way to stop this. And till whoever controlled the remote decided to change the channel he was going to have to watch as his brother and fiancé went on a killing spree to hunt down Scarlet Witch. So Logan followed as John walked alongside the dire wolf leading to a car. When John opened the door for Aurelia she jumped into the back seat, Logan took the chance and got into the front. It wasn’t a long drive, his brother breaking every motor vehicle law to get to Boston as quickly as possible. They did get pulled over once, but as the officer approached all he saw in the back window was a large red wolf baring its teeth, the officer went back to his car and left them alone. Under a different circumstance Logan would have laughed at this, but this wasn’t funny it was getting rather scary. He’d seen what they’d done to Pyro then what Scarlet Witch had done to two of her own. What was in store for Adien and Blake Frost when they got to Boston?

John rammed his car through the gates to the Frost estate, not bothering to slow down. Logan watched as the security guards raced after the car. They were too late anyways. By the time the caught up John had already skidded the car to a stop and was getting out. The guards pointed their guns at John and said “This is private property. You need to leave.” John actually laughed before opening the back door. “I think my friend here says otherwise.”, John said as Aurelia jumped out in her wolf form growling and snarling at the security guards. They both dropped their weapons and took off running. Aurelia moved to follow but John called to her. “No. They aren’t our targets. Let’s go break the news to Adien and Blake that their brother is dead.”. John said heading for the grand door of the mansion. Aurelia snorted and then turned to follow John. “Let’s see if anyone is home?”, John said about to knock before just rolling his sleeve up. “Bubbles blast the door please.”, John instructed.

Logan could only stand back and watch as Bubbles pulled from John’s arm and with a solid blast of water knocked the large doors of their hinges. “You can stay out for this.”, John instructed so Bubbles just rested on his shoulder. Logan could hear screams inside the house. Emma’s mother was the one screaming. “GET OUT OF MY HOUSE!”, Hazel yelled. “Not till we speak with your grandsons.”, John said walking in with Aurelia at his side. John looked into the parlor where Hazel was but didn’t see anyone else. “So where are Adien and Blake?”, John asked. “They…they aren’t here.”, Hazel stuttered. “I don’t believe you. Aurelia sniff them out please.”, John said looking to Aurelia. Hazel just watched in paralyzed fear as the large wolf sniffed the air and started moved around the foyer before racing up the stairs. “Not here huh? You certainly are Emma’s mother, did you teach her how to lie because bravo madam”, John said sarcastically as he gave a small clap. “Sarcasim really John? How much like me are you under that gentlemen exterior you’ve shed?”, Logan questioned as he followed John and Aurelia up the stairs.

Aurelia had stopped outside a door and was pressing her body against it trying to open it. “Locked..”, John said tugging at the door. “Bubbles, open.”, John instructed. Aurelia scrambled out fo the way as Bubbles blasted the door open. Inside lying on beds were Adien and Blake. Cordelia Frost. She didn’t look like what one would expect from a Frost, she had dark hair but still the cold blue eyes of her sister. “Leave my nephews alone!”, Cordelia shouted standing to protect them. “They just lost Christian and are in a lot of pain.”, Corelia added. “Oh they are in a lot of pain because their leader killed their brother. Well guess they know what I’m going through then. Because their bitch of a leader took my brother from me too. So I want to talk to them. They tell me where to find her, my friends here.”, John said pointing to Bubbles and Aurelia. “Won’t fight over which one gets to tear them to pieces. Now step aside. I’m not really up for hurting someone who doesn’t need to be hurt.”, John instructed. Logan could see the fear playing in Cordelia’s eyes as she looked from the dragon to the wolf.

She could have just stepped aside, but instead she hit John with a physic blast which sent him flying into a wall. Bubbles didn’t take well to this and doubled in size and send a powerful blast at Cordelia sending her out a window. John pulled himself to a standing position shaking his head. “Well that took care of that obstacle. Thank you Bubbles.”, John said walking over. He walked over to the first bed which had one of the brothers on it. John could see the outline of a burn mark on his back. He looked across to the other bed and saw the same mark. “Looks like the brothers feel each other’s pain in a more literal way.”, John aid before pressing a boot on the mark on Adien’s back. Adien and Blake both yelled in pain. “So you know your brother is dead, so is Kim and it was Wanda that did it. You probably also know she took Kim’s children, children who were going to be your nephew and nieces.”, John said twisting the heel of his boot a little into Adien’s bare back. Logan watched in complete horror, not that the Frost boys didn’t deserve to be in pain, but just to see his brother like this. “So you two are going to tell us where we can find Wanda. Aurelia and I have something we need to finish that didn’t get finished on the roof of the Cage.”, John said. “Don’t say anything Adien. Wanda will kill us both.”, Blake yelled across from his bed. “Aurelia, entertain the other Frost. He talks too much and not with anything I want to hear.”, John said looking to Aurelia.

Aurelia snarled as she walked slowly for the bed Blake was on. “Stay away from me.”, Blake yelled. But his pleads were falling on deaf ears, this much Logan knew. Aurelia quickly clamped her teeth on Blake’s left arm. Blake and Adien both screamed in pain. Aurelia seemed to enjoy that sound as she continued to apply pressure. John looked back to Adien. “So where is Wanda. She’s who we want. Tell us and your brother doesn’t have to lose that arm and you feel it while you watch it happen.”, John asked. “No I can’t tell you. I can’t.”, Adien pleaded. “Can’t? See I’m not a fan of that word. You are talking, so you can physical talk. This isn’t about can’t Adien. This is you saying you ‘won’t’. You are saying to save your brother’s life you won’t tell us where to find Wanda. You have lost one brother today and that you only had to feel, you didn’t have to watch. This time you’ll see it happen.”, John said nodding to Aurelia. Aurelia put the full pressure of her massive jaws and broke Blake’s arm in one chomp. Both brothers screamed. Adien tried to close his eyes to no look as Aurelia pulled Blake’s forearm away from the rest of his arm. “Oh no, you didn’t get to look away. I didn’t get to look away when my brother disappeared when Wanda blasted him.”, John said shaking his head.

Hazel had run up the stairs as she heard her grandsons screaming. “Leave them alone. Please leave my boys alone. I’ve lost their mother, I’ve lost Christian. I can’t lose them too.”, Hazel pleased on her knees. John stopped to look at Hazel. “You want to play devil’s advocate for these two despicable creatures?”, John asked. “I know they haven’t behaved the best. And they made wrong choices. But please. As their grandmother I can’t stand by and let you kill them.”, Hazel again pleaded tears in her eyes. Logan looked at John and then at Aurelia. Aurelia didn’t seem phased by Hazel’s heartfelt plea. Instead Aurelia was just gnawing away at Blake’s removed forearm. “All they have to do is tell us where Wanda Maximoff went, the woman that took my brother from me, caused a dozen young mutants to die at a school, and killed their own brother. If they tell us where to find her we’ll leave. But they are the ones who’d rather we torture them like they tortured our friends and the way Wanda tortured my brother.”, John said unmoving. “Please tell them. Tell them where that woman went. If you don’t tell them I will.”, Hazel said standing.

“No grandmother. Wanda will kill us all if we tell them.”, Adien pleaded. Blake had already passed out from blood loss. “Look at Blake, he needs medical attention. I don’t care about that vial girl. If these people want to find her let them. If they are able to kill her we have nothing to worry about for her seeking retribution.”, Hazel countered. Adien looked over at Blake and then back to his grandmother. He lowered his head. “Fine. Fine I’ll tell you. Just don’t hurt my family any further.”, Adien said caving. “I’m listening boy.”, John said raising an eyebrow. “She went to DC. She’s hiding out with her sister so that the secret service will protect her for you guys.”, Adien said before blacking out from the pain. “Alright. You have your answer. Now please leave. You said you would leave.”, Hazel said pointing to the door. John nodded and lifted his boot from Adien’s back. “Bubbles, Aurelia let’s go. We need to drive to the capitol.”, John said before walking out. Logan was a little relieved that nothing further had to transpire. But Aurelia still kept Blake’s arm, carrying it in her mouth like a dog would with its new bone. Logan continued to follow them back to the car. “How much more of this spree do I have to watch? When can I go back to where everyone is alive just sad?”, he questioned the air.

There was really just silence as they drove from Boston to Washington DC. The only sound was Aurelia gnawing on Blake’s arm. Logan dared to look back once and looked forward quickly. “Seriously, Aurelia? I disappear and your humanity switch just goes into the off position? I’m not even sure if the woman I love is still in that wolf.”, he said shaking his head. The drive wasn’t as fast passed as the one to Boston. Logan found himself looking at his brother and he could tell by the look in his eyes that John was thinking. What he was thinking he didn’t know, but if he had to guess it was a plan on how to take down Wanda. Logan feared what was going to happen when they did come face to face with Wanda. Would she use Pretender’s children as a shield? Would John and Aurelia even be phased by the presence of three toddlers? There were just too many variables. The last time they’d faced Wanda she’s hurt Aurelia and John pretty bad. John could at least heal, but Aurelia didn’t have that luxury. It felt like suicide to be going after her as just a team of two without any back up or a healer on board. But he didn’t bother voicing his concerns, they wouldn’t have heard him.

Aurelia looked up from what was left of Blake’s arm as they approached the White House. John stopped at the gate, two security guards approaching. Logan just had to sit there as his brother revved the engine and drove straight through the gate. “Great John, no you are declaring war on the United States basically. You had this whole drive to think up a plan and your decision was to ‘ram the gate’? Really?”, Logan said shaking his head. The guards shot out the tires but it didn’t seem to phase John. When the car could go no further John and Aurelia both got out of the car. John looked at the guards and shook his head. “Look guys, we aren’t here for you. We want Wanda Maximoff. That’s it. We get her and we leave no one else gets hurt.”, John explained. “The President’s sister? You aren’t walking out of here with her.”, a guard responded shooting John in the shoulder. John went back falling into the car from the force. John grimaced for a moment as he stood back up and his shoulder healed. “That stung. I’m not sure I was clear enough. I’ll rephrase. We are getting Wanda Maximoff.”, John said. Aurelia moved to his side and started snarling at the guards baring her teeth. “Aurelia, no. We aren’t going to hurt someone who’s innocent.”, John said.

Logan sighed in relief maybe his brother wasn’t completely lost. “Bubbles please take care of these two.”, John instructed. The small dragon flew out from the car and blasted each guard with a solid burst of water which sent them to the ground. As the guards scrambled to their feet they looked from John to the wolf then to the dragon. “I’m not paid enough or this.”, they agreed and ran off. “Alright, let’s find Wanda.”, John said turning to walk into the White House. Aurelia followed alongside him while Bubbles flew so he seemed to just hover over John’s right shoulder. “OH POLARIS!”, John shouted kicking open the doors. Logan was sure there would be a whole group of secret service there to stop them. But Logan was surprised, perhaps not as much as John and Aurelia to see Lorna standing there alone. “There is no reason to shout John.”, Lorna said raising her hands. “I knew you were coming. Hazel Frost called me.”, Lorna explained.

“Then you know why we are here. Look I don’t want to have to hurt you Lorna. You used to be an X-Men. You used to fight alongside my brother. But you need to understand that none of that will matter to me or to my friend here if you choose to stand between us and your sister.”, John said tilting his head to Aurelia. It never sat well with Logan when Lorna decided to side with her siblings. She was never the villain type. He knew she had a heart of gold, she was just letting the dark influence of her siblings affect her. Logan really hoped that Lorna wasn’t going to fight his brother and Aurelia. He wasn’t sure he could stomach them killing someone he’d know for so many years. Lorna shook her head. “I’m not here to stop you. I know better than anyone that my sister is, well insane. I had hoped that I could influence her and take her away from the path she was so set upon. But that’s not what ended up happening. I know she’s gone too far this time. I only stood here so that you would know where I stand on this subject. And also so you would see this.”, Lorna said motioning for someone to come out.

Logan leaned slightly to see who or what Lorna was calling for, the thought of a double cross in the back of his mind. But to probably everyone’s surprise out walked three secret service agents, each carrying a child in their arms. “Are those…Pretender’s children?”, John questioned. Lorna nodded. “Yes. I had told my sister I would hide them somewhere. I’m not doing that. I’m taking them to the only family they have, Demitri Shadow of the Haven. He’ll take care of them.”, Lorna explained. “So why did you want us to see this?”, John questioned his eyes not moving from the triplets. It was easy to see they were very upset all of them were crying. Their cries were actually upsetting Aurelia and Bubbles, Logan noticed how they cringed with each wail of the triplets. “Because when you go down into the lower levels of the White House and find my sister, I want you to know she doesn’t hold these children’s lives in her hands. I know that even at his most vicious Logan would have held back knowing someone so young and defenseless’ life was on the line. So I don’t want you to hold back when you face my sister. Which if you go down the stairs over there, it’ll lead you to her.”, Lorna explained pointing to a door.

John looked to the door and nodded. “Thank you. Demitri will appreciate you returning his siblings.”, John said before headed for the door. Aurelia and Bubbles followed behind him. Logan paused looking at the faces of Pretender’s children. Their situation made him think of his Amiko. She was of course much older when her parents were taken from her. Logan just paused as he watched Lorna take one of the wailing girls from her secret service and calmed the little red haired tot. Logan found himself smiling a little as Lorna walked out with her agents to return the children. “Hear of gold still intact.”, he said before turning to catch up with John and Aurelia. By the time he’d found them they’d already taken down a dozen armed guards who weren’t smart enough to get out of the way of the two mutants and dragon on the war path. He ran to a stop behind them as they stood outside a door.

John looked down to Aurelia. “She’s behind this door. Are you ready for this? We don’t leave till she’s either brought Logan back or is dead, agreed?”, John asked. Aurelia simply nodded and bared her teeth as her claws dug into the floor as she seemed eager to jump upon Wanda. Logan was probably the only one not ready for this battle. He wasn’t sure what was going to happen. Maybe Wanda could bring him out of this nothing he was trapped in. That was the one good possible outcome. If she couldn’t or wouldn’t the only outcomes left where she killed John and Aurelia or they killed her. Logan couldn’t bear the thought of John or Aurelia dying and certainly not at Wanda’s hands. Hell that’s how he got into this situation, he had jumped between Wanda and them to protect them. The flip side of this was they did it, they kill Wanda. But then what? He wouldn’t be back and killing her wouldn’t stop the pain he saw in their eyes. All it would do is destroy the good people he had known them to be.

“Here goes nothing.”, John said before kicking open the door. Inside seated in a chair with a grin on her face was Wanda. She didn’t look exactly the way Logan remembered seeing her last. Something was different, off about her. Even during the sessions of her torturing him at the Cage she still had a look and air of control around her. But that wasn’t here. This Wanda was far from controlled as he knew her. There was a wildness in her brown eyes. “So either you killed my sister, which I doubt since I didn’t hear anything till you were in the hall fighting the guards. Or my sister has betrayed me, which seems more likely. She never had the spine for this. After I take care of you and the wolf I’ll deal with my sister.”, Wanda said her voice sounding just as off as her presence. She stood up holding a dagger in each hand. “So let’s just skip the pleasantries and get on with this. You think I killed your brother or at least put him somewhere. I have as much of a clue as you do in regards to what happened to him. I just know I’m glad he’s gone. Maybe your wife is with him, depending on if you believe in an afterlife.”, Wanda said making a jab at John about Sarael.

Bubbles didn’t take kindly to that and tripled in his side before roaring at Wanda blasting her into a wall with water. Logan didn’t bother to get out of the way, they’d just run right through him anyways. Aurelia did just that, she leapt straight through him to attack Wanda. Logan watched as Aurelia started biting and clawing at Wanda, tearing at her flesh. But it wasn’t enough to stop Wanda. Wanda made sure to hit back with her knives just as much as Auelia hit with her claws. It was like the roof battle was being replayed. John moved in with his claws drawn as Wanda had Aurelia pinned to the ground. “Off her..”, John shouted as he sank his claws into Wanda’s back pulling her away from Aurelia. But it wasn’t in enough time. Wanda had already gotten one of her knives into Aurelia’s abdomen. The shock and pain from the wound caused Aurelia to shift back to her human form. “NOOO!”, Logan shouted as he rushed to Aurelia’s side. He tried to hold her, but his arms just passed through her. “John, John forget Wanda. Do something! Call for help. I can’t watch her die.”, Logan pleaded even if they fell to deaf ears.

John pulled his claws out of Wanda tossing her aside. “Looks like I win..”, Wanda said pulling herself up laughing. John went to Aurelia’s side. “Come on. You’ve got to hold on.”, John said searching for his cell phone. As he found his phone Wanda started to laugh again. “You have a choice then. You either kill me or save the wolf.”, Wanda teased as she reached for a book, the pages turning on their own. John looked from his phone to Wanda. “We’ll get you another time.”, John said before dialing Kurt’s cell. Wanda cackled as she spoke a phrase in Latin from her book, “Nunc mihi longe”. In a cloud of purple smoke she was gone. “Kurt, I need you. You need to bring Mikali to me. Aurelia’s been hurt and it’s bad.”, John said while he held the phone between his ear and shoulder so he could apply pressure to the wound to try and stop the bleeding.

In a cloud of blue smoke Kurt appeared with Mikali. Mikali quickly moved John out of his way. “What the hell were you two thinking? Taking Wanda on alone? Are you stupid? Seriously!? I thought you were the level headed Howlett. I get it Logan’s missing and Sarael is gone. But damn it..”, Mikali cursed as he moved his hands to heal Aurelia. “Stay with me Aurelia. Just listen to my voice. You are going to be alright.”, Mikali assured. John sat on the floor bringing his legs up to his chest. “You’re right. I don’t know what I’m doing anymore. When James disappeared I just lost it. He’s my only family it took me so long to find him before. I can’t handle not know where he is. And then...Sarael, how am I supposed to live without James or Sarael?”, John said mostly talking to himself. Bubbles shrank in size and landed on John’s shoulder nuzzling his snout against John’s face trying to assure him in his own way that he wasn’t alone.

As the wound started to close Mikali pulled his hands back a puzzled look on his face. “What’s wrong Mikali?”, Kurt asked. “Umm nothing, I think.”, Mikali said before finishing healing Aurelia. Once Mikali was done Logan noticed he looked pale and just kept looking at where Aurelia had been stabbed. Aurelia slowly came to. “What? Where’s Wanda?”, she asked immediately. “I’m sorry Aurelia. I failed you. I failed Sarael and I have failed James. I let her get away. Calling Kurt to have Mikali heal you was more important. I can’t stand to lose anyone else.”, John apologized. Aurelia sat up and looked around. “So we’ll hunt her down. We’ll find her again John.”, Aurelia assured him. Then Aurelia looked to Mikali who was still looking pale. “Was I that close to death that you need to look so pale Mikali?”, Aurelia questioned. Mikali took a deep break. “I don’t know. I don’t know how to tell you this. To tell either of you this.”, Mikali stammered. Aurelia narrowed her eyes on Miakli. “You spit it out.”, Aurelia growled. “I’m sorry. I doubt you knew, but when I was healing you I felt it. I was too late to save it.”, Mikali said just shaking his head. “Save what?”, Logan and Aurelia both asked, but of course Mikali only heard Aurelia. “Your… your baby.”, Mikali managed to say.

Logan felt his heart sink to his feet. “Baby? She was pregnant? We were going to be parents?”, Logan said short of breath. “What do you mean my baby?”, Aurelia growled. Miakli quickly got up so he was out of her reach. “Wanda stabbed you in your abdomen. The knife caused a lot of hemorrhaging and apparently it also pierced your womb killing the baby. It was too underdeveloped, just over a month, and was already gone when I got here. I couldn’t save it.”, Mikali explained. Aurelia howled in despair and shifted back to wolf form before racing out of the room. “If she was pregnant here she is pregnant in the other world. I need to know she and the baby are ok. How the hell can I get out of this pit of despair and make sure that at least somewhere our baby is alive?”, Logan said looking around trying to figure out how to escape this place.