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Moment of Awesome - Sarah Rushman/Marrow: With the help of X-Force, Sarah finally confronts her aunt. Sarah smiled sadly. "Believe what you like about me, but do you really misunderstand your brother so much that you honestly believe he is acting against you? Traditional, family-first, Frank Rushman? Who sent his sister a Christmas card with the deed to a townhouse outside the city because he worried about her? Wanted her to be safe? Wanted her and his nephew to have a place to land? No, Dad was never involved in this and I think you know that." Margaret's shoulders sagged, and the end of the rifle bobbed slightly. Sarah took the opportunity and lunged at her aunt, bringing a bony knee into her midsection and twisting the rifle out of her trembling hands. This time her smile wasn't sad. "Me though, you might have been right about." Margaret went down hard, but came up hard with a slim knife, opening up Sarah's knee. "I fucking knew it!" She hissed. Sarah put the rifle down out of reach and reached a hand down to tentatively check out the cut on her knee. It stung like a bitch, but it would heal. She looked back at Margaret with all the pride of a young mother seeing her baby walk for the first time. She grabbed onto a sharp protrusion on her hip and the sound of tearing fabric and flesh cut through the heavy sound of pained breathing. "You have knives too! What a spectacular fucking surprise." "You freak! I told my brother he should have put you down like the animal you are the second those- those fucking bones started coming out. Our father would have drowned you in the river that day, but not weak little Frank. Well, fuck you." She spat. She moved surprisingly adeptly with the knife in her hand, a difference from her awkwardness with the rifle. It had been a long time since words like that from her Aunt could hurt Sarah. It had been the reason Margaret was pushed out of the Family, and Sarah was a long way away from the angry tween who just wanted to be normal. She dodged out of the way, and used the bone in her hand to swipe at the knife in Margaret's. Her boxing skills didn't quite translate over to a knife fight. She took a step back. "Aunt Marge, how do you think this is going to end? You kill me and everything goes back to normal? The Karnelli's pass over all their own Family to make you the boss?"