Serena Xavier leaned out and glanced up at the big mansion displayed in front of her, she never thought that she would ever come back to this place. It honestly looked just as the same as she left it, whether that was supposed to be good or bad, she couldn't really tell. In her mind, Serena wondered how many times was the mansion destroyed and rebuilt, it's happened more times than she could count living there. Her heart pounded out of her chest as she reminded herself not to squeeze too tight on the steering wheel. She turned to grab her purse from the backseat which was nestled between her twins.

A lot has changed since she moved out of the house, the peer pressure of being the daughter of the great Charles Xavier was more than she could bear, especially living in a boarding school with teenagers just waiting to whisper in each other's ears. On her 18th birthday, she had enough, she couldn't stand it any longer and didn't care about how many children were watching in the halls as her parents raced after her to her room to find her packing and leaving. That was the only time she didn't care about the eyes of others or even what they were planning on saying once she left. The only thing that she cared about was Jax.

Jax was a rebellious boy that belonged to the Brotherhood and being the daughter of the founder of the X-Men, that entice her. At first, she thought it was going to be just a little bit of fun but the fun quickly turned intense and then settled into a forbidden relationship. Only he truly understood what she was feeling and going through, which was why they both volunteered to leave their respective alliances together.

That changed when Serena became pregnant with twins but, still in a way, stayed the same. Charles and Rebecca were allowed to see their grandchildren, but Serena was to never go to the X- Mansion with the twins.

Until now.

"Wake up, sleepyheads!" Serena said in a light voice, "Time to see grandma and grandpa!"

Anthony slowly opened his eyes and rubbed them, "Already?"

Aria became wide awake in an instant when she looked up, "Look at how big it is! Did you used to live here, mommy?!"

"Yes" Serena glanced up, "Yes, I did"

"Wow, you were lucky" Aria continued, "You probably had a bunch of servants to give you things and treated you like a princess! How come we never used to come here until now? Was it because of daddy?"

A pang slammed into her chest, "Sort of, sweetness… let's start taking out the bags, shall we?"

Together, the little family got out of the car and finally stretched their exhausting muscles as the cool breeze embraced them, letting them know it was cooler there than where they were used to. Serena never thought a five hour drive would be too much until she brought her kids along with the never ending "Are we there yet?" questions. Serena was glad they reached their destination but then nervous for her own part, she silently wished her parents were out scouting for new students. She went over countless scenarios that she preferred rather than coming home and giving her parents an "I told you so" speech.

Serena heard her children screaming, making her turn around to see a man bounding down the stairs, running at them. Serena smiled as her little brother, David, gave the twins a big hug and held them in his arms as he asked them how was their trip. The look on the kids faces as they detailed the trip as ridiculously boring seemed almost comical to her.

David placed them down on the ground before he walked over to the car and set eyes on Serena. She suddenly felt nervous of how he was going to take her sudden homecoming.

Whether he read her mind or not, David smiled and tapped her arm.

"Is this it?" David nodded to the trunk.

Serena nodded, "It's all we own"

"Seriously?" David asked, "There's barely anything in here"

"I'm sure mother will buy them a whole new wardrobe" Serena turned to him, "Where are they?"

"On their way down" David answered, "I was just finishing with my classes when I saw you pull up"

Serena wasn't surprised, David's always been their golden boy, no wonder he chose to stay and teach as well, "What do you teach?"

"English" he answered.

Serena glanced up to the mansion, "I was expecting them to lock up the facility"

David only gave her a look before she saw more movement from the corner of her eye. Slowly walking forward was her mother, Rebecca Xavier, as she wheeled her father, Charles to the top of the stairs. Her children did the rest as they ran up the stairs and into their grandparents arms, Serena looked away from the transaction as she busied herself with her little belongings. Abel made sure to kick out Serena with only a little under an hour to pack, she would have fought more, but she knew her children would be awake soon. She couldn't bear to think of what her twins would try to understand with their mutant parents battling it out.

As much as she wanted to avoid it, Serena didn't want to drive home to her parents as her first resort, but then her mother called explaining that she called the home in order to talk to the children, Jax filled her in. Serena didn't want to get the scolding that she did over the phone at a Motel 6 but it almost felt refreshing to know her mother knew and was inviting them back to the home. At first, she thought that she would just take the kids and leave but that wasn't like her parents at all, they were perfect. It was Serena who ended up being the black sheep of the family.

Rebecca laid eyes on her daughter as Serena smiled shyly and looked away. Her mother came up to her and kissed her on the cheek like she always did when they went to meet at a mutual spot for them to see the kids. Over her mom's shoulder, she could see her father looking on.

"I'm glad you made it, dear" Rebecca said.

"Yeah, me too"

Rebecca glanced over to the bags, "I could get those for you"

"No, no, they're not heavy at all" Serena objected.

"This is all they own, mom" David said.

"David" Serena let out in a hushed tone.

Rebecca turned back to the bags with a different look before she said, "Well, we'll make due with what we have"

She turned to Serena, "You should go say hi to your father"

"Sure" Serena mumbled before glancing over to David.

Serena shoved her hands into her pockets as she made her way to the top of the stairs, her children were still going on and on about what they did and how excited they were to sleep in this "big castle". She could tell that even though Charles was listening to his grandchildren, his eyes were set on their mother. With each step up the stairs, she remembered them shouting at one another on her last night in this house, how everything was on display for all of the students to see. She vowed to herself to never come back under any circumstances, little did her mind knew what she was getting into. Now, Serena didn't know what could possibly be going through her father's head.

She reached the stairs and looked around at the windows, expecting to see children in each one, whispering to one another about the black sheep returning to the farm, but no one was watching, and that's when she remembered that these children weren't the same students as when she was there. She was grateful because she knew if she saw any of them again, she might punch them in the face if they even looked at her twins in the wrong way. Serena glanced down to her twins and ordered them to go and get their toys from the car. They obeyed, leaving Serena alone with Charles.

"Hi, dad" Serena said.

"Hello, Serena" Charles greeted, "You've been very busy, haven't you?"

Serena nodded, "You can say that"

"Forgive me, but your mom gave us quite a fright when she heard about your… situation" Charles mentioned.

"Believe me, I wanted to avoid coming back here" Serena blurted out.

"I see" Charles nodded, "Still have ill feelings towards this place?"

"There was a lot of things you weren't aware of" Serena said, "Being your child and student does have it's restrictions, does it not?"

"Indeed" Charles admitted, "Shall we go inside to discuss more?"

"We can decide what is to be my future here" Serena said, "But not the past… what's done is done"

Charles seemed almost surprised but then nodded and turned his wheelchair back into the house. Anthony ran past Serena as he flew his airplane up and down, Aria stopped by her mom and held her hand. David walked by with their mother in tow, not surprised that they both were holding the heaviest items first. Serena glanced up to the mansion, towering over her as if it were waiting to crush her. She gave a defeated sigh before she glanced down to her daughter and they both walked in.