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AN: I'm Slone and this is my first tip-toe into the X-Men world. I love feed back and so enjoy.
1962; Oxford, England
Sitting in a corner watching and waiting as the pub filled with patrons a rather average young woman sat nursing a beer, the only extraordinary physical thing about her was the fleck of hazel in her left eye. The rest of her was plain average from her mousey brown hair to her height to her fair skin.
"You have a Widow's Peak," A young man said standing in front of her.
"Outstanding observation," The young woman said with an eye roll.
"Did you know it had to come from one of your parents genetically?"
"That is fascinating," the young woman replied with a sarcastic tone.
"Charles Xavier," Charles said holding out his hand.
"Alexis Reed," Alexis said with a raised eyebrow and thought I know who you are, who you will be, and who you could be, Professor X.
"Who are you?" Charles asked stunned at the woman Alexis who sat there with a self satisfied smile.
"Alexis Reed," Alexis said getting up and leaving the pub while leaving Charles with a parting thought, we'll meet again professor.
2011; Oxford, England
Charles rolled through the door of The Eagle again after almost fifty years since calling it his pub as a student. Making his way to the back corner of the pub to see a face that he wouldn't say haunted him but had intrigued him for fifty years.
"You have a Widow's Peak," Charles said.
"In fifty years you are still using cheesy pick up lines typical," Alexis said with a sigh from behind a book on The Cuban Missile Crisis.
"Hello again Alexis," Charles said smiling.
"I told you we'd see each other again, so how has this life treated you?" Alexis asked setting down her book.
"This life," Charles questioned.
"Choices are like ripples in a pond after dropping a stone into it rippling through time a small choice could change everything," Alexis said before taking a sip of her beer.
"How has one so young become so wise?" Charles asked as a fresh beer was placed in front of Alexis and another in front of him by a red headed be freckled young woman who had her hair plaited down her back. She looked like Anne from Anne of Green Gables.
"Confucius," Alexis said with a smirk nodding her thanks to the barmaid, "I pose a question for you Professor."
"Yes,"
"If you could change one choice and only one choice, what choice would you change?" Alexis asked and studied her beer. The quiet of the mid-afternoon lull at the pub stretched between the two. Alexis flicked her eyes up as the bell on the door cried out making her quirk an eyebrow up at the tall commanding figure.
"Hello Magneto," Alexis said with a flick of a finger pushed out a chair, "Please will you join us we are talking about choices and choices we would change."
Magneto crossed the pub to take the offered seat.
"Hello old friend," Charles said holding his hand out to Magneto. Magneto shook the offered hand never hating Charles personally just what he stood for.
"Lucy will you bring my new guest that new Pilsner from Germany please." Alexis called out her eyes never leaving the newly arrived Magneto, "What do I owe this visit from the great Magneto?"
Charles smiled taking a sip of his own beer at the condensing tone in Alexis voice and the thought she directed at him, Was he always this arrogantly dramatic?
"I had heard of a mutant who could see the future and decided to seek her out," Magneto said his eyes going hard at the tone in the child's voice.
"You've got the wrong girl," Alexis said with a smile at Lucy who signed at Alexis, Would you tell the two of them to get a room! As she set Magneto's beer in front of him, making Charles choke on his drink and Alexis laugh out loud.
"Mind letting me in on the joke?" Magneto asked.
"Lucy is a mutant her power is best used in match making. She can tell the compatibility between two people or even groups. Let's just say the two of you have some serious unresolved sexual tension between the two of you." Alexis said making Magneto sputter into his beer and making Alexis laugh again.
"Do you always speak to your elders like this?" Magneto asked with a glare.
"Well I did change your dippers as a baby so yes." Alexis said with a condescending smile.
"You what that's impossible," Magneto said slamming his glass back on the table.
"Just as impossible as it is for someone to read an others mind or for someone to manipulate metal, is it so impossible for someone to have the power to go back in time?" Alexis asked and waited for an answer.
"No, not impossible," Charles said thoughtfully.
"I do not see into the future per say, I do see options about choices people make in certain context."
"Certain context, meaning," Magneto asked.
"Meaning Charles could be walking today if two different choices had been made fifty years ago, the human agent's choice to shoot at you, and your choice to use those missiles on men who were fallowing orders. I to have seen what men under order will do but remember this what would you do if you were starving? Would you go on starving or would you fallow orders to eat? You have to remember there were two sides to Germany the poor and the wealthy," Alexis asked and finished her beer in one gulp.
"I pose a question to you Magneto, if you could change one choice, what choice would that be?" Alexis asked before dissolving into thin air. Lucy came over and sat down in the seat Alexis had vacated. Staring at Charles and thought please translate for me.
You two will have an answer for her tomorrow; she'll be here at two in the afternoon. Now can I get the two of you fresh beers?
"Where did she go?" Magneto asked.
Lucy shrugged.