Wanda and Fuzzy

Chapter 18: Goodbye

By

The Uncanny R-Man

Disclaimer- All familiar characters belong to Marvel.

Shout Outs-

Sean Malloy-1- Don't worry, I have a sequel planned after I finish this story.

Ruby631- Oh yes, Wanda got pregnant so Pie has to get a kid of his own. Hee-hee. More Rahne/Dani for you soon. I've never read the Harry Potter books, I've only seen the movies.

KsimonT-X- The X-Men were pretty lucky that the X-Mansion didn't go boom a la 'Avengers Disassembled.' Let's not forget that Pie is gonna be a father too. As for growed up TJ leaving with the Exiles, it would kinda spoil the sequel I have planned…

Slickboy444- A new favourite? Aww, shucks. Thanks, man. Don't fret, I'm planning a sequel as we speak.

Xavier's-

Everything had settled down more or less to normal at Xavier's after Wanda gave birth. All of the breakables had been safely unpacked and put back in their correct places. Unfortunately for the male population of the mansion, their other halves were starting to get broody. Normally, they would have been perfectly happy to spend most of their free time making babies, but enough is enough! Five times in one night? You have got to be kidding!

There was so much baby-making going on, there was a betting pool floating about as to who would be the next couple to have a child. Presently, Scott and Jean were the favourites.

Kurt had taken Wanda for a nice, relaxing day out to get back some semblance of a normal social life. TJ was perfectly happy to look after her younger counterpart for the night. If she did need help however, Raven, Magnus, Irene and Rogue were on hand should the need arise.

TJ had just slumped back into her seat after singing the baby to sleep. Not many people knew this but TJ had quite an amazing voice. Back in her home reality she had her own band called 'The Butt-Monkeys.' Okay, her band was more of a rock-type thing but TJ had a great singing voice regardless. TJ was quite an eclectic singer. She could sing anything from rock to classical. Okay, opera was a bit of a problem, but TJ gave it her best try.

Paige and X-23 smiled at their older friend.

'The baby already missing her mommie?' Paige grinned.

'I guess so.' TJ groaned as she stretched her back, wincing at the popping sound it made. 'I'm surprised I'm keeping it all together, actually. Witnessing your own birth would make anybody have a psychotic episode.'

'Oh, I wouldn't know about that.' X-23 replied innocently. 'Nope. No psychotic episodes here…'

'Y'know, for an allegedly emotionless clone, you sure seen to be developing a caustic sense of humour.' TJ sniffed. 'I would say that you got that from Logan, but we all know he doesn't have a sense of humour.'

'He does too.' Paige countered. 'I heard Mister Logan laugh the other day.'

'Was Miss Monroe tickling his feet?' TJ wondered.

'Yes…' Paige answered suspiciously. 'Why, what would that have to do with anything?'

'I'll tell you when you're older.' TJ smiled coyly.

Paige just pouted and turned back to the show on the TV set in front of them.

X-23 on the other hand, turned away as her heightened senses detected something outside.

'I could have sworn that there was somebody out there.' X-23 blinked. 'There was a flash of light… then… nothing.'

'It's most probably Ray and Roberto showing off to Piotr's sister.' TJ commented. 'Y'know, for a girl that could hardly speak any English the first time she came here, that girl sure seems to garner a lot of male attention.'

'Most probably something to do with the fact she has a nice ass.' X-23 shrugged. 'Or so I heard Roberto say…'

'That boy had better not let Piotr hear him say anything like that.' TJ winced. 'You know how protective Piotr is of Illyana.'

'I almost pity them, really.' Paige sighed. 'Almost…'

X-23's sensitive hearing detected footsteps approaching the front door and she got up to answer it.

'It's a bit early for Kurt and Wanda to be back, don't you think?' The clone asked. 'They said that they wouldn't be back until half-ten at the most. It's only quarter-past eight now.'

'I'll get it.' TJ insisted as she got up off her seat. 'You sit down. I was gonna get up anyway.'

X-23 did as she was told and sat back down to enjoy the TV. TJ meanwhile, went to answer the door.

'Looks like somebody missed their baby…' TJ chuckled as she opened the door.

The people at the other side of the door weren't Kurt and Wanda. However, they were some familiar faces that TJ thought that she would never see again.

'Long time no see, stranger.' The pink-skinned teleporter and leader of the Exiles known as Blink smiled at her former teammate.

'What? No hug for the Silly Putty Man?' The wisecracking shapeshifter known as Morph sniffed. 'Geez, talk about out of sight, out of mind…'

TJ let out a piercing squeal as she grabbed the two Exiles in a huge hug.

'Omigod! It's-fricking-wonderful-to-see-you-guys! Why-are-you-here? Where-are-Cal-and-the-others?'

Blink frowned a little as she tried to decipher TJ's rapid-fire babble.

'TJ… we're here to take you home.'

TJ's jaw dropped at the news. They were here for her. But what about the life she had established here? TJ had just gotten used to life as part of this reality's X-Men. The Professor had even offered her a position on the teaching staff.

'Perhaps you guys had better meet the Prof…' TJ finally managed to say, her mind awhirl with the bombshell her friends had just dropped.

Xavier's office-

Blink and Morph were sitting in Xavier's office while Xavier, Ororo and the other adults listened to their story.

'Alternate realities actually exist?' Hank asked, his eyes wide in childlike delight. 'Stars and garters, that is fascinating!'

'Oh yeah, it's a regular barrel of laughs.' Morph snorted sarcastically. 'All because of those piddling little bug guys, the Time Breakers.'

'Piddling little bug guys controlling the Multiverse sounds kind anticlimactic to me.' TJ sniffed. 'I was expecting some kind of omnipotent being, not some overgrown cockroaches.'

'Yeah, we kind felt that way too.' Blink nodded. 'Well, that was before we had to fight Hyperion. Again.'

'Jerk set me on fire.' Morph groused. 'Some people have no appreciation for fine humour.'

'And your mission is to take Talia back home, correct?' Xavier asked.

'Indeed it is, sir.' Blink nodded. 'The Multiverse won't collapse on itself if we don't complete our task, we just thought that TJ would want a heads up first. Y'know, a chance to choose.'

'I woulda never got that with the Timebroker.' TJ sighed. 'Even so, it's kinda sudden. I've just got myself settled. I'm part of the X-Men now. Got a spiffy teaching job too, with my own students. You guys haven't met X and Paige yet, have you?'

'I'm sorry to be so blunt…' Blink sighed sympathetically. 'But… we have to know your answer. Are you going to come with us? You can go home to your home reality now.'

TJ bit her lip as she thought it through. On one hand, she had built herself a life in this reality, new friends and a job. But on the other, this reality wasn't her home and she did get awfully homesick sometimes…

'Sorry guys, but I'd really like to stay.' TJ sighed heavily. 'As much as I'd like to go home, my real home, I just can't up and leave without any warning. I've got other responsibilities.'

'Ha!' Morph grinned. 'I knew you'd say that! Didn't I say that?'

'We thought you would say that.' Blink smiled as she fished something out of a pouch. 'That was why we had the Time Breakers whip this up for you. It's a recall device. If you should ever feel homesick, just activate it and one of us will be back to take you home for as long as you want. How does that feel?'

'That sounds great.' TJ smiled as she gave her friend a hug. 'Keep my job and go home whenever I want? What's not to like?'

'Well, with that over with… I guess we'd better go.' Blink sighed sadly. 'See you again some time?'

'Not so fast, Clarice.' TJ grinned as she took the teleporter by the hand. 'You haven't seen the baby yet.'

'The baby?' Blink asked, her curiosity piqued. 'Whose is it?'

'Kurt and Wanda's.' TJ replied simply.

'Whoa-who-whoa.' Morph said, holding his hands up. 'You mean to say that you were here to see yourself get born?'

'Yup.' TJ nodded. 'Hex powers rocking the mansion and all.'

'Man, this reality is fudged up.' Morph sighed. 'TJ saw herself get born, your version of Mystique is one of the white hands. Oh, and gay! Rogue is a Goth. Kitty Pryde is a Valley Girl. What's up with that? This is just sooo fudged up!'

'Does he talk like this a lot?' Raven blinked.

'Oh yeah.' Blink nodded. 'We can hardly ever get him to shut up.'

'Then how do ya get the kid to shut up?' Logan wondered.

'Simple…' TJ and Blink both replied at once. 'Morph look, boobies!'

Morph stopped babbling and looked about for the imaginary mammaries.

'Boobies? Where? Show me! I wanna see the boobies! Show me the puppies! Oh. There aren't any… Crud.'

'Exploitative yet… rather affective.' Ororo nodded. 'Perhaps we should try that when young Robert gets too unruly.'

'And turn the Ice Cube into a steamin' letch?' Logan snorted. 'I don't think so, 'Ro. He's worse enough as he is.'

'You haven't seen Morph normally.' TJ chuckled. 'If I didn't love the guy so much, I woulda possessed him and thrown him off a cliff by now.'

'Aww, I knew you loved me.' Morph grinned as he gave TJ a big hug.

'Hands!' TJ hissed. 'Hands in unwanted places.'

'A-heh-heh.' Morph chuckled nervously as he removed his hands from TJ's person. 'My bad.'

'Well, as messed up as it may seem, we really have to get going.' Blink sighed. 'But first, let's see this little baby TJ.'

'Yeah.' Morph grinned. 'I wanna see if the baby TJ's as hot as the adult one. If so, whoof!'

'You never stop do you, kid?' Raven sighed.

'I'm a regular Energizer Bunny, Mysti.' Morph replied as he transformed into said bunny and hopped down the corridor.

'All of a sudden I am grateful that we don't have a Morph in the mansion.' Raven sighed.

'God, just think what it would be like if we did.' TJ winced. 'Morph and Iceman together. It would be Hell!'

'Talia Josephine Wagner, don't you even joke about it!' Hank winced. 'Oh my stars and garters, I will be having nightmares for a month now.'

'You don't have to live with him.' Blink sighed. 'Can I come and join you guys?'

'I'm sure one more person wouldn't hurt.' Xavier chuckled.

END

I hope you all liked this fic as much as I liked writing it. I made some rather controversial decisions but you guys have mostly stayed loyal and for that I am thankful. Also, look out for a sequel coming soon staring everyone's favourite Exile. That's 'Wanda and Fuzzy II: Nocturne.' Coming to a website near you soon!