Genosha: Time Stopped Having Meaning So Long Ago

In retrospect, one or the other of them should have cried at some point. There had been sounds of pain from them both, if not equally so, yes, but tears? Only the sort that your body forces out, rather than the kind you let fall.




Then again, they're X-Men. So the pain of the escape not bringing tears is not a shocker after all, is it?




The loss of the child makes both of them shed more than enough tears--of grief, of rage, of pain that's beyond physical--to make up for every embryo they had to leave behind.




And they do what they're trained to do: they go on the run and go low to ground.



(If they could have handled it differently--if there were police for things like this--then maybe it wouldn't shatter them so. The problem is that they are some of the police for things like this. And so--and so. Something that was almost finally woven into a beautiful thing develops a fray, and time takes a different turn.)