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Pieces of This Life I've Led

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Scott finds himself looking at Jean, but also at Lorna.

 

They turn off the TV and assure the younger kids that the professor will protect them.

 

Emma Frost was not, in fact, dead.

 

Pietro thinks that silver is the most soothing color.

 

The picture was washed out, but the birthday cake with Alex smiling behind it was clear enough.

 

The hospital and its treatments left Wanda jumpy and nervous, unsure of what she had seen and heard.

 

He had lived in the mansion for eleven years, just as long as he had lived at home.

 

Pietro got Lorna into Xavier’s school as soon as he could.

 

Jean thinks that the girl with green hair and the boy with red glasses are both very pretty.

 

Aunt Tina spent her childhood in the caravan, being called Tiena.

 

Sean really rued the day he went out for a late night burrito and got captured by the military.

 

Scott starts walking the day he finds out Alex is alive.

 

Lorna really gets her powers the day Aunt Tina calls her Laura and the phone crumples in her aunt’s hands.

 

Hank calls his parents every Sunday at 6 O’clock.

 

Pietro considers dying Lorna’s hair back to brown when she’s six and there are licks of green working their way down.

 

Wanda makes one friend in the hospital, a boy with red hair and freckles, who tells her that when they get out he’ll take her to the school he taught in.

 

They got Emma a month before Kennedy, but kept her alive for experiments.

 

The coin and its pain broke some of Charles’s shields.

 

Star Trek got Hank through the worst years of the nightmare.

 

It turns out that a mutant terrorist levitating a stadium, dropping it on the white house and attempting to kill the president causes significantly more fear than a blue girl killing a scientist.

 

Sean isn’t stupid, he knows that Charles isn’t what he used to be, but Hank has to realize, right?

 

Logan keeps tabs on Rogue, but he still has to rescue her because she still has to run away.

 

In the other world, Charles starts to pull himself together when his sister kills for the first time.

 

In the years where they are alone Hank can go days without seeing Charles.

 

Raven held on to Charles as long as she could.

 

Pietro and his sisters were the sole survivors of the fire.

 

Jean needs them younger than she did in the other world.

 

Alex sees Erik on the TV in a motel and hurries home.

 

Hank realizes with a start that he hasn’t been further than 50 miles from the mansion in nine years.

 

Aunt Tina is happy to get Lorna all the princess dresses and Barbies she wants, glad to have one normal nibling, even if her hair is green.

 

Charles never meant to get children involved in a war.

 

Raven loves her brother, she really does, but he acts like she is still nine and frightened on the first day of boarding school.

 

His Mama buys him a nice pair of size 12 shoes when he leaves for Harvard and tells him to write home when he needs more.

 

Erik’s mama used to admire the maroon dress in the tailor’s window.

 

Lorna finds herself very distracted by Jean and Scott on most days.