Days Of Future Past: Haven't Forgotten You

Our Ideal Future

Kate groaned as she tried to open up her eyes. Her body felt sore, as if she had gone through numerous Danger Room training regimes without any rest. Numbness filled her heart as she started to see the identical place that she was in, and not a changed future. It had been her worst fears, to have done everything correctly and not have accomplished anything in the end.

"Damn it…" Kate whispered, alone in the room that she had first been located in before her consciousness had been sent to the past. She had dreamed of a time where she would wake up besides her husband, to be able to teach her daughter how to control the mutant powers that she probably had thanks to her. Everything crumbled into dust, being washed through the wind like a broken dream. "Why… Why, damn it?!"

Kate cried alone. She couldn't hold it in any longer. It had been her only reason to keep on living. She wanted to be with Peter once more, to be able to hear his voice like before. She still couldn't believe the effect he had on her. He always managed to calm her down with just a couple of words.

"Hey Kate…" Kate snorted. She was already missing him enough that she had started to hear his voice. It had been some time since she last heard his voice, her mind projecting her of what he would have said if he was alive. "We're alright"

"Dad, why is mom crying?" Kate let out a sob. The voice of her daughter had been perfect in her ears, though a bit less childish. She would always try and guess just how the voice of her child would sound, since she never had the chance to even hear her first words nor even her first wails. Samantha had been snatched immediately after she had given birth to her baby by the Sentinels, who killed her off the very second they had her in hand.

"Kitty…" Kate widened her eyes as she felt a strong but gentle hand on her shoulder. Tears suddenly stopped escaping from her eyes, before she started crying even stronger than before. She didn't want to look back, she feared that he would not be there and it would be disastrous if she couldn't see him once again. But she moved either way, a glimmer of hope shining through her heart and into her mind. What she saw made her choke a bit. Her family was back… "What have I told you about crying?"

"That you prefer to see my smile instead of my tears…" Kate choked back some sobs that were threatening to escape her throat. He was there! Not as a fiction of her imagination, not an illusion made by someone else but really there with her! She had done it! She had managed to save her future, her life!

"Then why cry, my love?" Kate cracked a bit, before making a teary smile. She didn't even know just how exhilarating joy was. She had forgotten that feeling a long time ago, but it was back and attacking her with its full might. "Sam, why don't you make mommy laugh a bit?"

"Really, dad?" Kate gasped in happiness as she could see her daughter, already grown up. She was not the baby she had remembered years ago, but a young lady who was probably in her twenties or near them. She could see how the dark brown locks fell down up to her shoulders, a cute but femenine bob-cut design to her hair. "Mom is probably very over-whoa!" Kitty had pulled Samantha into a hug, crying and staining the red blouse that Samantha currently was wearing. Her heart was very happy, beatings of pure joy making their way through her entire body. She couldn't even stop crying, not even if she wanted to. She had everything she wished for, and she was sure that she would not make the same mistake ever again. "Mom?"

"My baby…" Kate whispered. She had missed almost twenty years of the life of her daughter. It was something that she would forever regret, and that no amount of apology would be able to fix. But she knew that she had to be there from this moment onwards, enjoying every second that she had with not only Samantha, but with Peter as well.

She pulled Peter into the hug as well, transforming the previous hug into a family hug. She clutched them for dear life, the remaining fear telling her that they may disappear the second that she separates from her. But hope had always helped her through, so she believed. Believed that this was what everyone was counting on her for.