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A Harbor in the Tempest
[by victoria p.]

Summary: About seven years after the movie. The US government is persecuting mutants. The X-Men are scattered. Somehow, they manage to find each other again, in a little dive bar in a little town south of the border.

Rating: R - language, violence, sex

Notes: Thanks to Dot, Meg, Jen, and Pete.

Dedication: JenN - this was your challenge. I hope you like what I've done.

Prologue

Magneto had been right. A war did come. A war that was still raging across the United States, pitting brother against brother, mother against child. A war that led to what Professor Xavier had hoped would never happen, and Erik Lehnsherr had always feared -- mutants made to register with the government, and carry papers at all times. Mutants herded off to internment camps for "re-education." Mutants hunted down and killed, simply for being different.

No one believed it would ever go that far; not until the day the troops arrived at the mansion on Greymalkin Lane. They attacked with unprecedented ferocity against citizens of the United States of America for these so-called enlightened times. So many were lost or killed. The X-Men were no more.

But some survived. This is their story.

Act I

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Disclaimer: All X-Men characters belong to Marvel and/or Fox. I do not own them and do not intend any infringement on their copyright. Casablanca belongs to Warner Brothers; most of the dialogue in this is lifted straight from the script by Julius Epstein, Philip Epstein and Howard Koch. I've changed some of it, but some of it is word for word -- yeah, not real creative, right? Anyhow, let me know what you think...