The Traitor, The Avenger, And The Killer

Back At The Bunker

Jubilee had been practically climbing the walls since Tony had relayed the message that they'd found the three captured heroes and were coming back — with a few extra people as well. Not that the extras were as important as seeing her Wolvie again — and seeing him happy and with his wife and not totally believing in his stupid curse. Not to mention a certain Kree idiot who had been gone for way too long.

Kate kept half an eye on her friend the whole time. "Jubes, you're making me tired just watching you," she said at last from her spot laid out on the couch.

"Yeah, well, it's been weeks," Jubilee muttered, not really slowing down.

"They're not going to get here any faster just because you're speeding up," Lorna said with a quiet smile. She and Alex had arrived in Tony's bunker a few hours earlier, and as soon as she did, Tyler had hardly left her side.

Because the truth was, Loran was very pregnant. She looked like she was ready to pop any second, and in fact, she was actually a day past her due date, so Tyler and Elin were both watching her — though Elin's gaze was far more curious than anything else.

Of course, having a newcomer had been great for the kids, who were getting sick of being cooped up. But Chance and Charlie knew Aunt Lorna from pictures and seemed pretty comfortable around her — and once she started doing funny tricks with anything metal in the room, the rest of the kids decided they liked her too.

Which really just freed up space for Jubilee to pace some more without worrying about running into little Summers kids who wanted her to "look not sad."

"You gon' wear yo'self out before your sweetheart gets here," Remy pointed out with a smirk.

"Yeah, I thought you wanted to save your energy for the big talk," Jessica Drew said with a little teasing smirk.

"And what would you know about that talk, Jess?" Kate teased. "You chickened out on that one pretty epicly."

Jess pulled a face at Kate and then rolled her eyes. "Come on, Jubilee. You can take the loveseat. I'm going to check on Gerry. He'll want to say hi to his dad when they get here." She slid out of the chair and headed to the back room, where the little boy was taking a nap — or at least pretending to. He was already awake and quietly playing with his plastic bow, which he had been pretty much attached to when he'd figured out that his dad was not visiting for a reason, even if he didn't know why. And since he'd heard people saying Clint was coming, he couldn't sleep. Not even a little bit.

When the group or rescuers and former prisoners finally walked in a short time later, K and Logan were quick to make their way to Elin, who on seeing the two of them turned into a teeny tiny monster for Tyler, who was holding her.

She wriggled and squirmed, half squeaking and squealing until her mother got to her and picked her up. She snuggled right into her and very clearly made it known that she was exactly where she wanted to be, though she kept picking her head up from K's shoulder and grinning at her for a few moments before she'd snuggle right back in. She giggled when K nuzzled her and looked as if she was positively in heaven when the three of them settled into a loveseat with Logan wrapped around his girls.

Gerry was also over the moon when Clint walked in the door, shouting "Daddy!" at the top of his lungs as he tackled the side of Clint's leg. Clint grinned and picked him up with his good arm, and Gerry hugged his neck and gave him several kisses, launching into a half-babbled version of everything he'd been up to while his dad was gone.

As for Noh, his initial greeting was a little less cuddly and a lot more along the lines of an attack when Jubilee ran right to him and smacked him hard. "Don't do that to me!" she nearly shouted at him.