Victoria sat on the plush carpet in her living room, watching the news on the wide-screen TV.
"Senator Kelly continues to push for the mutant equal-employment amendment," said the reporter.
"Guaranteeing mutants the right to vote is a great step forward towards equal rights," the famed Edward Kelly said from behind a podium. "Now, we must ensure that no mutant in control of their powers can be denied a job on the basis of their possessing an X-gene."
"About time," her father, sitting on the couch, grumbled. "Oh!" he mocked. "But you *could* be dangerous!"
"So could any idiot with a pointy object," Mrs. Gabi Daniels finished the oft-heard argument.
The phone rang. Victoria leaned over to grab it from the low table. "Hello?"
"Hey Victoria, Susan. I had the weirdest dream last night."
"Mm-hmm," she settled back against her mother's legs.
"You and me, and our parents, but they were younger. Senator Kelly was there too."
"I think I dreamed something like that also," Victoria said thoughtfully, almost-forgotten images flashing through her mind. "We were fighting someone ... it seemed very important."
"Weird," said Susan. "Well, I'll see you later, okay?"
"Sure. Bye."
Across town, a new life began in Bayville General Hospital.
"It's a girl!" the attending doctor called out.
"Rachel," panted the mother. "Rachel Summers."
"I have a sister," Ricky breathed.
"I have a daughter!" the father said joyously.
Bright flames danced in the baby's blue
eyes. It was a good day to be born a mutant.
EPILOGUE II : Whatever happened to...
Wanda and David went back to being friends-through-the-wall at the asylum. Years later, a pro-mutant group 'liberated' them and sent them to a mutant training camp. There, real psychiatrists helped them work through underlying psychological problems and gain control of their abilities. Soon after graduation, they eloped. They have not been heard from since.
Kevin instantly returned to the Muir Island Research Centre. There was never any pressing need for him to control his powers, no one had the guts or will to try to help him, and the safeguards in his room gave him little chance to practice on his own. His existence continued to be a jealously guarded secret, and he spent his life alone and lonely.
Betsy disappeared back to her flat in time to get some shut-eye before having to get up and take care of her mother, like every day.
Forge and Jubilee did eventually get together, bought a house down the street from Evan, who had found and married Gabi as per LWTMS [Listen What The Man Said, another interfic by the Nutgang. Posted by InterNutter on FFN], and had a lovely daughter who was close friends with the younger, though exceptionally mature, Victoria.
Margretha, Smash, Nicole, and Josh were not born.
Kelly did pursue that second degree in politics, held some local offices, and then became a well-known and influential senator working for mutant rights. One day while sorting through some old papers from his desk at Bayville High (they'd been in a box for who-knows how many years) he discovered some anti-mutant booklets. He had a good laugh about how much he'd changed, then threw them in the fireplace.
The Brotherhood boys woke up in their own house, and continued being bitter rivals with the X-Men.
And Kurt, discovering that Amanda's birthday
was coming up and he was flat broke, challenged Scott to a game in the
Danger Room.