Her laugh was both immediate and incredulous. "Back in his arms? I was barely there to begin with." Not that she hadn't imagined during those first few years what might have been if he hadn't been arrested. But out of any of her boys, the one she felt she might end up back with was Hank. And there'd be a long road to go before they could get there.

"From what I heard, they received some kind of message in the future. Where you're from, maybe. Later. They use my blood to create something that will apparently destroy the world. And they figured that I'd be more receptive to both Charles and Erik."

Her face twisted in a sour expression. "I suppose older-Erik didn't expect that his younger self would try to kill me." There was a brief pause. "Or maybe he did. He just didn't imagine that trying to kill me would leave blood on the scene that they could use."

It had worked out in the end, but she'd still left on her own.