On December 1st, Jubilee and let me tell you, kid, aha! here we go. hey, that’s illyana’s found the perfect present... I’m glad you’re not old feels like 23 years old doll. didn’t even enough to be embarrassed since I put this realize I tossed it by your mom, because I thing on. out here. am gonna be doing some serious sunbathing. I just shogo, you wish we had don’t know how time to do some you miss that lucky you are. proper christmas kinda thing when shopping before gbxl! you’re a vampire, seriously, a we caught our y’know?* full month in hawaii? flight, but-- an actual christmas vacation? that never happens for an x-man. *long story. you really like that old thing, huh, kiddo? guess that’s your present sorted out, then. c’mon. our ride’s here and I wanna see if santa comes to the beach on a surfboard. maybe we can put a star on top of a palm tree, or-- barach “blessed are you, *translated atah adonai lord our god, who from the hebrew. elohenu has sancti fied us with your commandments --jordan and commanded us to kindle the chanukah light.”* twelve million people lived here in genosha. a mega-sentinel wiped them out, without hesitation, without mercy-- simply because they were mutants. one of them was my dad. all that’s left of these people are ghosts, spirits embodied through the person of a kid who calls herself wicked. their lives, their dreams, their futures, were stolen from them by hate. never again. this I I’m kate pryde, promise, leader of and the best dad: before the x-men. I’m way to do I’m done, done dancing that, I figure, in the --I’m going from these on the sidelines no matter how name of to save the ashes will of history, saving long it takes or those who world-- rise a better, our planet from how hard the died here-- --in defiance brighter, the shadows. journey, is of those --the --and truly the time’s come to run for who ordered right win! joyous to make a real president- - them killed-- way! future! difference. oh, honey, how will you shovel out the car in time? the stores close in an hour, we don't have anything for dinner and my parents are coming over! I can do this, janet! I can do this! what the heck? holy crow! who was looked like they do ...those hot that? wolverine... now, kiddo. but wolverine's they do now. claws just saved claws don't get and if you HANUKKAH! all hot like that, ask me... do they? #hotclaws …and it’s winston! wait…. for a moment, why are we together?! then what is this?! I almost all what what nothing was said, hahaha! different did I did I just worse than “caroling? that’s that letters! just say? that carol bit, my middle hilarious! oh, jean. say? but this sweater sounds like because name is fun-ny! is a tight a question carol!” it’s not! second in for mutton every way. chops knife hands. what. is. this?! oh, this… super-cheap poly wool blend. {sniff} do you smell eggnog? what-- no, wade! snap not the choco! ‘kay. noice. where hon, this isn’t out of and oh my god I did you if you yes. are we remember real! it! would never go to throw can shut I’m now? when we went flip-flops resorts!!! that stuff up for a trying to flip-flops with your second, I’m to-- resorts for mind? trying to christmas? figure out how to get us out of here. unlimited piña coladas are real as hell! ‘member when I slayed someone limbo or something is night creating these fake and-- christmas memories! do we have to? what are jean…. do you think you talking jeeeean. magneto has about? jean! already a hard time decorating sure, it’s on- regretting his tree? brand crazy, but when this. was your last nice christmas? is this a cozy alternate-reality {sigh} death trap? mayb e. but really, merry mk mcdeathy? kinda just a christmas, tuesday for you. maybe I wade. just don’t feel like being alone. {siiiiiiiiigh} I… I hate I this time of Christmas. always year, we always have. focus on how it brings people together. everyone talks about feeling they tell me they don’t like the plastic warmth despite the chilly air. ones. that they don’t feel “authentic.” funny. to me, everything the unavoidable spirit of giving. else about this holiday is plastic. nobody nobody likes to cares to think about what listen. they take away. about a different kind of chill. about a different kind of giving. about families being torn apart. but if you do, nature will tell you a different story about the holidays. so yeah. I have reason to christmas. hate because all I hear are the screams of slowly dying trees..