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“Cyclops! You ok on your own?” Lorna glanced over her shoulder at the other X-Man, who was currently in the middle of trying—and failing—to hit Toad with his eye beams.“Yeah, don’t worry about me, just keep moving!” Scott yelled over his shoulder while narrowly avoiding being grabbed by Toad’s tongue.Lorna turned and unlocked the next door with a wave of her hand. She moved through the next room, finding no other members of the Brotherhood, and having to explain that no, she was not a terrorist, yes really, please put the gun down.She made it to the control room and stopped. “Father? Why are you here?”The man standing next to the desk glanced up, “Oh hello Lorna. Didn’t the government tell you? I’m hijacking a few nuclear missiles,” and went back to supervising Mystique as she typed something into the computer.“You’re supposed to be in jail. The professor visited you a week ago.”“No don’t launch them, just open the hangars,” Magneto said to Mystique, “What Lorna? Oh, prison. Yes, I escaped. It wasn’t like I had anything better to do.”Just then, Ice-Man ran into the room and Lorna remembered that she was supposed be stopping the Brotherhood from stealing nuclear missiles.The X-Men made quick work of the Brotherhood and Beast was able to fix whatever Mystique had attempted to do.Lorna was left guarding a captured Magneto while the other cleared up some logistics with the government.“Your birthday’s coming up, isn’t it?” Lorna turned to her father, confused.“Yes. It’s Thursday, why?” She was surprised he even knew when her birthday was.“I’m sure you have something planned for the actual day, but would you be opposed to celebrating with me on Tuesday?” Magneto asked, looking like he would rather be anywhere else.“Oh, I mean sure? I’m not opposed, but you’re going to prison. Again. So maybe we shouldn’t make any concrete plans right now,” Lorna replied, trying to remember if her father had hit his head in the fight.“Don’t worry about that, I’ll be free by Sunday. Mystique and I have this down to a science by now,” Magneto shrugged, “I could meet you at the mansion and then you could come to my house for dinner?”“Yeah ok. You don’t have to come get me though. Do you want to go to the house in Maine or the one in London?” Lorna caught her father’s look of surprise, “Please, you think I’m not keeping tabs on you?”Magneto stared at his daughter for a moment, “The Maine house. Do you have any requests for dinner?”“No, whatever you want to make is fine,” glancing up, Lorna saw the rest of her time gesturing her over, “Oh I think your ride back to prison is here, so I’ll see you on Tuesday then!”Lorna waved as her father was escorted into an armored vehicle and driven off to the high-security prison.