Love's lost hope
Prologue
September 4th 2016
She appeared out of nowhere in a flash of yellow light which surrounded her and suddenly faded. No one saw her. She was back. Back in her own time. Home. But the question was does she really want to be here? Or somewhere else. With someone else.
Valentina was her name. Not really a common name was it? And a bit of a mouthful. The meaning of her name is strong, but she's never felt strong. Not ever. Most people she had met have calls her Val but there was only one who calls her by her real name. How much she misses him, but she was back here now away from him. With only her memories of their time together.
A couple of days later Valentina was sat on her bed in her room with her long legs crossed trying to work out what she was going to do next and she was struggling. Tears were dripping down her face as she wondered how she got herself into such a mess. She had a few things she needed to face up like the strange sickness she was feeling in her stomach, not too long ago she had been throwing up into the toilet. For now, though she was going to ignore that as she has something else just as important to face. But the thing she had to face up to wasn't really a thing but more of a who. She just wanted to avoid him and not have to deal with the awkward conversation they were due to have. But she the building she is in is his own school. That school being Charles Xavier's School For Gifted Youngsters. She had been here for years and never once has she been afraid of talking to the professor. But now she was, and she couldn't help wondering if he remembered what happened back then. Half of her hoped he did so she would have someone to talk to. The other half of her didn't as it would only make things extremely awkward between them, which she really didn't want.
Valentina sighed and moved her long chestnut hair away from her sky-blue eyes which if you looked closely into you could see specks of gold within them. She could sense him trying to reach her mind, trying to poke his nose in where he currently was not wanted. However, she was very good at blocking him out when she didn't want him there. And it annoys him. Very much.
Professor Charles Xavier was getting rather old but that did not stop him from doing something he loved, teaching. Not too long ago he had been trying to help one of his pupils out, Valentina. Valentina's mutation was a mutation he had never seen till he met her. Her power was time travel and Valentina had great trouble controlling it so as he did with every other student the professor offered to help. Which Valentina had gratefully accepted. Unfortunately, it went very wrong and Valentina had ended up stuck in the past, his past in fact and she had only recently got back. There was a conversation they both needed to have, and both knew it. But only one seemed to want that conversation to happen and that was the Professor. He was currently at his desk where he had been trying to contact Valentina with his mind, but she was blocking him, which did not really surprise him. So that only left him with one option. To go and talk to her in person.
So, the Professor rolls out of his office and out into the corridor where there were a few pupils walking trying to get to and from their next class. As he went past the Professor smiled at everyone he saw and even said a few hello's here and there. After a while he reached the end of a corridor where Valentina's room is located. Once he got to the door he knocked and waited. There was no reply.
"Valentina? I'm coming in okay?" the Professor said just before opening up her door. And there she was sat on her bed legs crossed with her back to him and her beautiful brown curly hair running down her back.
"Valentina" he said knowing this time she would hear him. But again, there was no reply. So, he moved further round the room so he could see her face. Which is when he saw tear tracks running down her face. He wanted to wipe them away but knew that he could not. Not like he used to. But for him that was such a long time ago. But for her it was probably days ago. One thing he wasn't expecting at that moment was for Valentina to speak.
"Please… I don't want to talk to you." He could tell she was trying not to cry anymore. Even though she'd cried in front of him plenty of times before. Just not in front of this him. He sighed and said
"We have to talk we cannot pretend that nothing happened between us back in the past" in a stern voice not wanting to upset her further but wanting to show he was serious about what he was saying to her. He'd been waiting to have this conversation for years. The situation was ages ago for him but for her it was just days ago. So, he gave her time to answer. After what felt like years, she finally built up the courage to reply.
"We don't have to talk. Just know that what I said before back then I didn't mean any of it. I was just being silly, stupid. I don't- "Valentina pauses trying to get the words out "I do not love you." There she said it. It wasn't true but she still said it. The professor also knew it wasn't true and he didn't even need to read her mind to know that, but there wasn't much he could do about it. But he needed to say something to her. So, he did.
"We both know that is not true Valentina and you must know that now you're back here it will not work out for the both of us. You need to try to forget about us like I have." He looks towards her to see her eyes staring right back. He could tell straight away that she was angry. He knew that face way too well. He knew now that talking to her wasn't going to be as easy as he thought it was going to be.
"You want me to forget everything that happened? If that's what you want me to do, then Charles then fine I will!" She then storms past him out of her room. The professor sits there was a while then sighs, turns his wheelchair around and leaves her room but not following her. It is better to leave her to calm down. He too was lying to her.
He hadn't forgotten her. How could he when he has spent such a long time loving her. She had once told him and Erik where and when to find her in the future. She had made them both promise to come save her; guide her with her powers. And of course, both had remembered their promise. For the first time in a while Charles and Erik has worked together. To help her. It was always her. They both cared for her very much but for different reasons. When he had first brought her to his school it was a very strange moment, she was just a child then and that was the first time she had met him. She had no clue who he was which was an extremely had thing. It made his heart hurt just thinking of it. Whereas his first meeting with her was when she was a young adult and he had no clue who she was, but she knew him. But now he knew her so very well. There was one thing he didn't know. Something Valentina was hiding from him. She was pregnant. Little did anyone know but this would have a huge impact on all their lives.