It was a quiet evening in the Xavier Mansion. Illyana walking the walls by her lonesome. A sigh escaping her lips as she carried her bag through the hallways. It was a Saturday so classes were done for the weekend, and then she had Monday off since Ororo and Logan were taking a group of students to Wakanda for the week (a rarity for Americans in this day and age). Magik sighed as she stood there in the hallway and reached her hand out. Opening a large portal in front of her. That was when she heard a voice in her head.
“You really think your going to do this without us?”
Magik let out a weak laugh as she turned to look to her lovers. Kitty Pryde stood there in her full X-Men outfit, the gold and black making her look lovely in Magik’s eyes.
Then there was Rachel Summers, clad in a red leather jacket and jeans. She looked at Magik with a loving yet clearly worried gaze.
“My loves, I can’t ask you to come with me again-“
Kitty walked over to hold her girlfriends hands. “Yana, please don’t be anxious about this okay? We come with you every year. This won’t be different kay?”
Magik nodded weakly as she turned to Rachel, who walked forward and pressed a kiss to Illyana’s cheek.
“We are here for you. Don’t worry bout a thing okay?”
Magik smiled as she pressed a kiss to each of her girlfriends. Before slowly walking through the portal she had made.
In an instant they were on the other side of the world on a farm long abandoned. It was a cold morning in February and Magik walked over to the gravesite with her lovers. There sat three graves. Two for her parents, and one for her brother. There was a small X on the grave, to mark him as a hero for their kind. He died defending the school after all. Magik sighed as she looked at the graves.
“Brother, Mother, Father. I’m here for you. It’s like this every year. I try to come on my own and my damn…damn amazing lovers just come with me. They are the best thing in my life and…I wish you could’ve met them. Even before you left I had always…loved them! And I’m sure I tell you this every year I come but…they make the pain easier! Everyone at the mansion does. Scott’s leadership, Logan’s drinking games that I never win because that bastard has a healing factor. Jean’s compassion, Emma’s odd form of love. Kurt’s fun, Ororo’s more conventional form of love, Remy and Anna welcoming us into their room for dinner. Everyone of the old New Mutants who will never not throw a party for any occasion. It’s the best place I have spent time in…and I love it so. I hope you are telling them all the stories brother. I…I am happy to be here, even without you.”
She stopped and took a longer breath. Kitty and Rachel held her hands. Kitty smiling.
“You did great hon! Honestly, you did so good!”
“Thank you Katra…”
Rachel smiled at the same time.
“Come on, let’s head home. We don’t wanna miss Logan’s BBQ do we?”
Kitty laughed loudly. “Oh my god yes!”
Illyana smiled before opening her portal again. Looking through, and back towards her family.
”We’ll see you next year. I love you all.”
With that, they walked through the portal with smiles on their faces. Hands in hands. Love between them.