Hello my readers! sorry it took so long but i'm having a lot of idea's for a certain blue german mutant in the future of my little universe. so this is it! the epilogue. and just to be honest with you i hate how it ended too, but! i needed it to end like that so i could write my ideas for a sequel! can you blame a girl? rhetorical question...now! on to the ending, Lily is a very resiliant girl not to mention a super genius (that's why she talks like she's a lot older)...ok translations are as follows :Grandfather, ass, I miss you so much, I know, and Grandfather. Thank you all for following me on this very odd, sometimes perplexing, but always interesting journey. Thank you to all my readers and all the reviews! You have all made my summer a little brighter. Auf Wiedersehen, Au revoir, Adieu, and goodbye!...for now ;)

WHACK!

"OW! Shit!" Hank said stumbling out of the jet, rubbing his head. He stopped and stared around as he tried to remember what day it was before yawning widely and walking over to the coffee pot he had secreted down to the lab. He tossed the day old coffee as he realized that he had, once again, fallen asleep while working. The professor wasn't going to be happy with him.

'Then again,' Hank thought as he set the machine to percolate. 'Happiness is relative these days…'

After taking Charles to the hospital and prying Lily away from the injured man, Hank and Sean had returned to the mansion to find an unconscious soldier down next to Cerebro. Lily had not said anything about him but had silently wiped his memory before letting Hank take him to the emergency room. After that she hadn't spoken a word to anyone but the Professor in the six months since Erik had left.

"Lily, are you ok?" Charles had asked after coming home from the hospital.

"No." She had replied before walking away from the rest of them. She had locked herself away in the music room after that, not coming out for anything or one. Sometimes Hank would walk past and hear soft music coming from the piano and sometimes he would just hear soft weeping. It broke his heart and made him angry that Erik would have left all this behind, Lily was worth more then that.

Hank sighed as the coffee started to waft up into his nostrils giving him a slight pick up as he reached for a stack of papers. He'd been trying to design a new wheelchair for the Professor, something that would allow him to move around better in the house and on the grounds, but he wasn't having much success. The Professor…No one called him Mom anymore, except in their minds. He was holding up better then anyone could have expected but Hank could still see the pain and hurt in his eyes when he thought no one was looking.

It hurt him that Alex and Sean had to go out and retrieve the two new mutants he had found using Cerebro. A white-haired seven year-old African girl with goddess-like powers over the weather, and a young thirteen year-old boy who could shoot red power beams from his eyes. The Professor had welcomed them into the mansion warmly and both seemed more then happy to know that they weren't alone in the world.

BANG! BANG! The outside door rattled as someone, 'Probably Alex' Hank thought tiredly, knocked on it demanding access. Hank went over, still a little groggy, and opened the door wide.

"And you are dead, Beast." Erik said shouldering his way into the lab along with what looked like ten tons of floating metal. "You shoulder really check before you open doors, especially large metal ones."

Hank staggered back as he processed who had just walked inside. He stared at Erik before sitting heavily down on the floor and grabbing the back of his head.

"Beast?" Erik asked raising an eyebrow. Hank started laughing as he looked back up at the metal bender.

"Get out." He said with a smile on his face.

"No."

"Yes." Hank said standing up and holding the door open for him. "You need to leave now before I kill you…You broke their hearts. Lily hasn't spoken since you left, the Professor can't go a day without crying even though he'll never admit it. The rest of us are just barely holding on and you think you can just come back here and…do what exactly?"

Hank looked confused as Erik coolly waited for him to finish his rant. The old man leaned against a table and heaved a huge sigh before pulling out a handful for blueprints and tossing them to Hank.

"These are…incredible." He said looking at them with increasing interest. "But…how would it run?"

"The wheels would generate electricity when he moved. No batteries, no generator, he'd be able to go anywhere with the right set of tires." Erik said as Hank closed the door and walked towards a relatively clear table.

"This…this is going to take months of work, I'd have to get the plastic and the tires special and I wouldn't be able to…hang on, these measurements look like they were done for…" The blue mutant said looking closely at the papers.

"Metal." Erik said gesturing the large mass of metal forward. "A new type of metal called Adamantium, it won't rust, break down, or wear out. It's also frustratingly impossible for me to manipulate alone. It's too dense and I can't force it to form into the shape I want."

"Metal? But…Erik…" Hank said shaking his head.

"I wouldn't…you know I wouldn't Hank…" Erik said softly, staring at the ground.

"But you could."

"And without that damn helmet, Charles could kill me. I don't really see the difference." Erik said looking up at Hank angrily.

Hank looked back at the blue prints and sighed.

"Alright, I help…not for you. But for the Professor, he needs this. And…"

"And?" Erik asked with a raised eyebrow.

"And I've been dying to test the new rocket boosters…"

Several hours later, the lab had grown wickedly hot and both men had stripped down to their waists as they worked to try and relieve the heat.

"Can we open a window or something?" Erik asked wiping sweat from his forehead as Hank powered down the jet's rockets and jumped down from the top of one.

"Hell yes…" He said opening the large metal door to reveal the light of a sunset. "We've been working for almost eight hours…"

"And we aren't about to take a break now. Come help me over here." Erik said taking some of the molten metal and forming it into a wheel with an X in the middle of it.

"So…you said we would be different…" Charles said looking at the red-headed women over his tea cup.

"I did, didn't I?" She replied with a small smile. "You look just like I remember you…"

"What?"

"Nothing…I'm sorry I wasn't able to help…"

"It's alright…I'm getting used to not being able to walk. I certainly miss it but…" He said with a sigh as he put his cup and saucer down. "There are more important things to do then morn my lost limbs."

"There it is…the reason I came." Memoria said smiling wide and relaxing.

"I don't follow…" Charles said looking confused.

"That…optimism? No, perseverance…that perseverance that I learned from you, I was waiting for it to come out." She said. "You're going to be fine…I don't know why I doubted…"

"O-k?" he said looking even more confused.

"Don't mind me, I'm just blathering. Please, continue your work, you are one of the most important men in the world. You and Magneto." She said with a knowing smile.

"What about Lily?" Charles asked with a concerned look. "She hasn't come out of the music room for three days straight…I'm worried about her."

Memoria sighed and moved to kneel in front of Charles, taking his hands in hers.

"I'm not going to lie…she's hurting badly right now. But she won't hurt forever, she's going to be just fine and even smile and laugh again…probably today." She said looking deep into his eyes.

"What makes you say that?"

Memoria nodded her head behind Charles and smiled. Lily was standing at the door looking at them with her head cocked to one side.

"Lily…"

"Mummy…you should come down to Hank's Lab with me." She said watching Memoria closely.

"Why?"

"We have a surprise for you." She said walking over to the older women.

"I'll be down as soon as I'm finished here, Lily-bear." Charles said watching the two females.

Lily reached out a hand and softly touched the women's cheek, Memoria leaning into the touch as she closed her eyes and sighed contently. The little girl smiled widely and leaned in to whisper something to the women before skipping off.

"What was that?" Charles asked as the red-head stood up.

"I don't know, Grand-père, you tell me." Memoria said her eyes turning an amber color as she walked around Charles' wheelchair.

"Well it looked…wait, what?" Charles said whipping his head around to see she had disappeared into thin air leaving behind a faint smell of sulpher. "What?"

"What is it?" Erik asked Lily as he looked at the small embroidered pillow. Lily exhaled a breath of agitation and jumped up to snatch the pillow away from the man.

"It's a cushion…So he can sit more comfortably." She said brushing it off and setting it on the, now complete, wheelchair. "He's always saying how his arsch goes numb after a while."

"Does he know how much you swear?" Erik asked watching the little girl from his spot on one of the cleared tables.

"No, and I rather keep it that way." She said glaring at him. There was a few minutes of awkward silence as she dropped her glare and looked at him sadly.

"You could stay…" She began.

"No, you know I can't. I believe in my cause just as much as Charles believes in his." Erik said harshly causing Lily to flinch a little.

"But…"

"No but's…I'm sorry Lily, this is the way it's going to have to be."

"I know. It was always going to end this way…at least we get to say good-bye now." She said looking at him with clear eyes and holding out her hand. Erik jumped down from the table, walked over to the young girl, and took her hand, pulling her up into a tight hug. After a moment she hugged him back as though the world was going to end.

"Ich vermisse dich so sehr, Vati." She said into his neck.

"Ich weiss, meine Kleine." He replied as a tear slid down his cheek.

"Hey! Opa!"

Erik turned in surprise to see Memoria standing at the door watching. She smiled a little then looked at Erik seriously.

"Take the offer." She said sternly.

"I hope that's a suggestion, young lady." He said with a raised eyebrow.

"No, it's an order. Take the offer. The war will still be there tomorrow…tonight can be for peace." She said turning to leave. Erik and Lily looked at each other in confusion as Hank walked back into the room.

"Well I finally calibrated the…Lily? When did you get here?" He asked looking around in confusion. "And why does it smell like sulpher?"

"That's a good question, Hank, but the one I have is, why is Erik here in the mansion?" Charles said from the doorway. All three mutants jumped in surprise at the sound of his voice. Hank and Erik looked uncomfortable as Lily shrugged her shoulders and smiled.

"He came to say good-bye, Mummy. That's all." She said. "It's going to be a long time before he comes back."

"I guess so…" Charles said wheeling himself into the room. "What is that?"

"Something that I think you'll like." Hank said jumping to show him the new wheelchair. "It's a wheelchair."

"I can see that, Hank. What's so special about it?"

"It's made of an indestructible metal and…it has front-wheel drive." Hank said with a smile.

"Metal?" Charles said with a raised eyebrow at Erik.

"You could kill me at anytime, if I'm not wearing my helmet." Erik replied with a straight face.

"Is that why you're not wearing it right now?"

Erik just looked at him, Charles shook his head and picked up the cushion on the seat.

"What's this?" He asked turning it over to see the X embroidered on the other side.

"A cushion. You keep saying your butt goes numb after a few hours." Lily piped up from Erik's arms.

"I am a little confused about that…" Erik asked with a look questioning look on his face.

"I can't feel my legs, Erik. Everything else works just fine." Charles replied putting the cushion back and levering himself up to sit in the new chair. Erik moved to help him but Lily stopped him with a hand. Charles sat heavily into the chair and moved it back and forth, and turning in circles before looking up at Hank.

"I like it. Can it go faster?"

"If you want…there's a speed control on the side." Hank said showing him where. Erik simply watched the man for a moment before setting Lily on the ground and grabbing his coat.

"I guess I should go now." He said pulling on the long leather jacket. He made it halfway to the door when Charles voice stopped him.

"Stay…just for the night. You can put Lily to bed and your room hasn't been changed…" He said quietly. Erik turned to look at him a moment before hesitantly nodding.

"The war will still be there tomorrow…" He said as Lily ran over to him. "Tonight can be for peace."