Vanish | Charles Xavier [DISCONTINUED]

Chapter Twenty-Four | Apocalypse

"Somewhere over the rainbow way up high. There's a land that I heard of once in a lullaby. Somewhere over the rainbow skies are blue. And the dreams that you dare to dream really do come true." Rose sang to her eldest daughter.

She was putting her nine year old daughter get to sleep that night. She always went to her room to put her to sleep. She claimed she was too old to be put to sleep, but she always did love her goodnight song. This was the song of the first movie that she ever watched. The Wizard of Oz. Ever since then she loved all the songs, read the book, and watched the movie every once and a while. She knew the words and sang better than her mother. But she enjoyed her mother's calming voice than her own voice in the dark. And holding her hand.

She continued singing as she stroked her daughter's hair. "Someday I'll wish upon a star and wake up where the clouds are far behind me. Where troubles melt like lemon drops away above the chimney tops. That's where you'll find me."

Alice was mumbling the song the entire time before she started to sing on her own, Rose ceased her singing and just listened to her daughter sing the song. "Somewhere over the rainbow bluebirds fly. Birds fly over the rainbow.Why then, oh, why can't I?"

"If happy little bluebirds fly beyond the rainbow. Why, oh, why can't I?" They finished off together.

Alice was always better at holding her notes longer and softer with her gentle and beautiful voice. She was very sleepy as she laid on her back and held her mother's hand. She tried to keep her eyes open as she fought back sleep. Rosemary took her time as she had already finished giving David and Lily baths before putting them to bed in the room they shared together. She took time to put the restless Alice to bed. She yawned loudly before turning her head to rest on the pillow.

"Goodnight, Alice," Rose whispered before leaning down and kissing the top of her daughter's head. She stood up and prepared to leave her daughter's room to check on her husband before going to retire to her own room. Before she could make it to the door, she felt something strange happening.

The whole mansion was shaking again, this was not the first time it had happened. Jean Grey happened to do this sometimes when she had particularly horrifying dreams, the kind she didn't want to talk about. She felt the mansion shake a bit, which woke up the previously sleeping Alice. As some of the books from the shelf was about to fall on the girl, Rose moved a hand to catch them in a force field and place them onto the ground. Once the mansion stood still again, her daughter got out of bed and walked over to her mother and desperately held her hand.

"What was that, mom? Was it Jean?" Alice asked, curiously and a little scared about the slight rumble in the night. She rubbed her daughter's hair reassuringly.

"Maybe, I'll go check."

As she turned to leave, her daughter did not crawl back into bed and instead kept a hold of her mother's hand and followed her to the hallway where many students were speaking out of their rooms and looking around to see the room where it all happened from. Rose knew this was why it was hard for Jean as she heard what they said about the poor girl who couldn't control it.

"She's doing it again..." one of them whispered.

Rose and Alice stood by the door as Charles moved his wheelchair down the hallway after the incident. "Back to bed," he informed everyone crowding the hallways at this ungodly hour. He looked over at his wife and daughter who were standing there. His daughter moved her hand to home her father's in fear. "Back to bed, please, my darling."