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Featured Article: Moment of Awesome - Scott Summers/Cyclops: After the X-Men's mission in Alabama, Nica approaches Scott to discuss her place on the team, when he shares he was once in a similar situation. Their destination was a corner of the graveyard, a small huddle of gravestones clumped together, their surface free of the weeds and moss that decorated their fellows. The X-Man knelt, fingers brushing across the stone to brush away those vines that did try to intrude, kneeling a moment longer before he stood, glancing down at the graves. Nica had followed him without saying a word, her confusion mounting. At last, watching Scott tend to the stone, she broke the stillness with a quiet question. "Did you... did you know them?" "No, I'd never met them before." Scott's voice was quiet as he squatted in front of a tombstone, one hand reaching out to brush over the rough stone fingers travelling a familiar path across the rough abraded surface. It was a path that his fingers could walk without him looking, one that he'd spent countless hours tracing out on every visit. The silence hung in the air for a moment before Scott began talking again. "It was a while ago, more than 15 years but we were on a mission in the city, dealing with a horseman again but things...things weren't going too well for the team. We had a few minutes, maybe less to stop a bomb and a crowd of innocents, just under someone's control trying to stop us. What could I do? There was a truck and the crowd and I used it as a battering ram, sent it flying into them. Most of the crowd made it out, went running in fear but some of them...they did what they could for the families but a truck's heavy and my optic blasts carry a lot of force." A hand rested on the top of the gravestone as Scott pushed himself to his feet, not looking at Nica, his voice slightly hoarser, more gravelly than before. "I understand more than you know, and there's not a day I don't remember what happened, I can't say it'll go away, that you'll stop thinking about it, wondering about it. But if I hadn't done what I did, if you didn't do what you did then more of your friends would have suffered, more innocents would have. Taking a life isn't an easy thing but, it can drive you to make sure no-one else ever has to suffer like that...if you want it to." He'd made that vow years ago but, sometimes the wheel of fate was inexorable. Nica walked slowly from one stone to the other, noting the date of death - October 28, 2008 - the same on each one. Each carefully tended and kept clear of weeds and dead flowers. Each a symbol of the cost of doing what they did, but worse, since at least the Marauder's actions had been voluntary. Each a life cut short, a father, a daughter, a partner. When she looked back at Scott, there were tears on her cheeks. "I'm sorry. I didn't know." "Not many people do, I'm not exactly the most...open when it comes to things like this, too much history and too much responsibility." A soft sad smile touched the edge of Scott's lips reflecting the sadness in his eyes, the rare revelation of the hurt and agony which were his constant companions. "When you're in charge, when you're the leader you don't get to show emotion where other people can see, can't fall apart when everyone else is, no matter how much you want to. They need to believe in you, believe you know what you're doing and that you can handle anything that gets thrown your way, get them out of trouble. There aren't many people I can talk to about it, Charles is about it, Jim knows a little I think." The man stood, finally looking across at Nica, his hand still resting on the gravestone, as if he could draw strength from the stone. "I'm telling you this cause you have a choice, you can give up your badge, no-one could blame you or you can keep it. We can never escape our ghosts but we can make peace with them, you can let it drive you on to become better as part of the team. Or you could let it carry you to the front of the team, take on that burden so no-one else needs to worry about it." A choice, unlike the one he'd been offered, he owed her that much. "I've seen what you've done, what you can do but...you need to go into it knowing there's a cost. You deserve to be here, to be one of us. If you want it the wings are there, if you want to keep them, if you want more, that's up to you." Today in XProject: May 20: Marie D'Ancato's Birthday PHASE 1 2003: Nathaniel Essex joins the staff. Rahne arrives. Lorna returns from California. 2004: Nathan finds himself in Angelo’s nightmare. Logan contacts the Hudsons about moving up to Canada and Marie makes the public announcement. Domino takes Amanda to New York City. Rahne stops by to visit Nathan. Piotr meets Theo. Kitty tells Angelo about her upcoming summer vacation. 2005: Jubilee blames herself for Paige’s departure, but Madelyn and Hank are able to calm her down. Terry talks with Alison about what to tell and not tell Jay about SOG. Scott opens Jay’s eyes to the reasons Paige may have left. Jay and Terry talk about SOG, home and the absence of love in their lives. Kyle apologizes to Jay for his negative reaction to Jay being gay. Hank talks with Madelyn about Manuel. Remy updates Charles on the status of the intel network since Pete’s departure; it’s a bleak picture. Madelyn checks to make sure Alison is aware of the cause of Haroun’s departure. Remy promises to drive Jubilee to Harvard if she hasn’t heard from Paige within a week. Things on the journals get heated between the students; Manuel issues threats. Since the mansion is not psi friendly at the moment, Scott takes Manuel, Dani and Jean into town. 2006: 2007: Angelo and Amanda go to the Elpis fundraiser and she sees him in 'working' mode. Doug realises he forgot his birthday as well. Nathan trains Jack, and there's some taunting about Nathan's lack of coping; later Haller emails various people about what was said. Jan emails Pietro about helping Tommy with his guitar lessons in Terry's absence. Garrison takes Marie out to celebrate her birthday. Yvette comes across Des the cat, out of Scott's suite, and returns the runaway to her owner; they talk about the X-Men and Yvette's interest in joining when old enough. New Renaissance Man: Jean meets Robert Haverford for lunch, and he backs off when she mentions a husband, inviting them both for dinner to discuss support the school; Jean tells Scott about her lunch and he gets overprotective. Nathan considers going back to Tel Aviv for a few days, but doesn't. Jennie and Crystal talk about Crystal moving back into the suite, and about the kidnapping jinx. 2008: Bedlam: Amanda and the remaining X-Force members come back to New York. Forge emails Paige about her old files on the X-Men's weaknesses. Clarice emails Kevin, telling him to stop being a recluse. Yvette and Cessily meet and bond over similar powers issues. Jay waylays Kevin and pushes him into freaking out by not taking 'no' as an answer; following the confrontation, Kevin goes to Nathan, trying to find a loophole in his parole that will let him leave the mansion; Kevin later emails Nathan, telling him he'll be gone for several days. 2009: Making her own early morning visit, Wanda finds Jean-Paul with Jake and is amused. Catseye uses Fred as a bed to sleep on. Rappaccini's Daughter: Cammie receives a parcel containing the fingers of her adoptive parents and instructions to go to an abandoned warehouse in her old home town; running into Kurt, Cammie refuses to wait and uses her powers on him to stop him from stalling her or getting the X-Men and steals Angelo's car; Angelo notices his car missing; in Vermont, Jake also gets a call, about his missing arm, and Wanda stops him from fleeing the country; Jean-Paul discovers Kurt suffering the effects of Cammie's powers and takes him to medlab; Cammie and Jake both arrive at their meeting point, only to find they are both wanted by New Son and its agent, George Tarleton; things go pear-shaped when George betrays the New Son agents and Cammie and Jake escape in the confusion; in the car, Jake discovers Cammie has his fingers, used to trick her into coming and a call is made to Kurt for backup; Wanda is collected, Cammie's parents called and it becomes clear George means business as he is at their house; Jake and Cammie go to her parents' house to confront George and Monica Rappaccini, Cammie's birth mother and it is revealed Cammie was designed as a biological weapon; the X-Men and Wanda come to the rescue, but George and Monica escape; Jake and Wanda talk about the New Son connection to his missing arm; Kurt and Cammie talk about choosing your family. Pas de Trois: Manuel suggests to Julian that he take Esme Stepford for the prom as a way to cheer her up. Monet texts Amanda to let her know about Kurt being sick. Marie announces drinks for her birthday; Callie makes her a cake and it's discovered Doreen needs a nutritional survey due to her powers. Callie hands her assignment to Nate and he offers her an internship with Elpis. 2010: Sam announces that he'll be going to Muir Island to help Jay's therapy during the summer vacation. 2011: Amara is hungover after the celebration of her being elected HeliX president of the ESU chapter and invites people to her and Callie's housewarming. Haller apologises for setting the bushes on fire whilst practicing his powers. 2012: An angry Kurt ponders showing the Genoshans who Magneto really is by contacting his mother; a number of people disagree with him, but understand his frustration and sentiment. Remy posts a reminder for people not to react blindly and get carried away by their anger; it would only play into the Genoshans' hands, and only get more people in trouble. He finishes by promising that there will be a plan, and that Xavier's will get their people back. The Unwritten Alliance: The senior players from the X-Men, X-Factor and X-Force all sit down with Professor X and discuss the merits of action against Genosha; in the end, they all decide that they will need every hand on deck in order to free their people from Genosha, so they prepare to make plans to do so; Remy makes contact with those at Snow Valley and asks Sarah to come back to the mansion temporarily, and Doug to start working on communications; Jean makes a roll call request to all those not easily accessible at the Mansion, or whom have not already checked in after the wake of what happened at the protest. 2013: 2014: Hope writes thank you notes to Matt, Sue, and everyone else thanking them for her gifts. Hope encounters Namor near the gardens and thanks him for his assistance in Avalon. PHASE 2 2015: Xavin posts an apology for tricking Illyana the day before. Wade texts Marie-Ange a question about if he should drink more milk to help his teeth goes back and decides that extra cheese on his tacos should do the trick. Allison asks if people have any thoughts about pop music she should listen to that she never got the chance to before. Laurie posts an article and complains about how people take medical professionals for granted. Roxy asks if anyone in Generation X wants to come to a concert in Norwich with her the coming weekend, there are a few takers. Felicia posts an instagram post complaining about her flight home. Hope A. asks Doug to tutor her on observational skills. Sue and Clint run into each other at the mansion; it's not pleasant. 2016: Marie-Ange wanders in on Warren in the sun room and decides he’s going to be her next model, Warren is very much okay with this. A sleepless Maya encounters a handless Julian trying to make coffee and is a jerk, but it ends in hot chocolate. 2017: 2018: Amanda has sunburn due to her connection to New York and last night’s fires. Warren and Lorna meet with XFI’s lawyer and discuss their options in dealing with Quentin’s mess; Lorna checks in with Bobbi to make sure she’s all right after a two-day silence. Logan wishes Rogue a happy birthday. Namor comes to Clint to find out why his trident wasn’t working properly the night before (in typical Namor fashion); afterwards, Clint tells Natasha he deserves four gold stars for dealing with the Atlantean; Clarice treats Logan and Wade for radiation poisoning and reflects on her own experience. 2019: 2020: 2021: 2022: April celebrates her graduation. Fourteen posts about hockey, and later texts Marie-Ange in amusement about the reactions. 2023: Gabriel lets the mansion know that there are some homemade enchiladas up for grabs in the main fridge. Haller emails Terry to ask if she’d be willing to help with ‘Star’s power training. Clint texts Scott to ask if he could go over upgrade specs with him in the Chapel. Darcy and Doug have a chat about why she's so on edge after the Boston trip.

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