Charles Xavier was not a man to make his deepest thoughts known, although he could do the same to another person in an instant. His students knew him as almost a grandfather figure, someone who looked out for them in their time of need. He tried to be that to his students, his family. Talk to them about their hopes, dreams, and fears. Mutants had to put on a united front in the world they lived in. There was one space in the schoolyard that was off limits. Very few knew why exactly.
Scott had been there, as well as Storm. Hank would always ask to go there on his went there from time to time to visit, but it still hurt, even after all these years. The simple gravestone that stood alone in a corner of the yard, away from the everyday hustle. He held a rose in his and gently placed it against the stone monument that simply read "Elle."
"Hello, my darling. I've come to visit.," He said softly, and he remembered all those years ago. He remembered her. Her name was Elliot Rosseau. Working with the CIA and Cerebro made it possible to meet felt her presence as he found her cousin, a girl name Lilith whose gift was to hypnotize anyone who heard her sing. He and Eric went to Elliot to recruit her for the government. He walked up to her front door with Eric and Elliot answered. "Oh, he's cute.," Elliot thought to her herself,unbeknownst to her Charles heard every word. He chuckled a bit to himself before asking for Lilith. Elliot excused herself to the second floor of the house while Chalrles and Eric sat down.
"What was that all about?," Eric asked with a sly smile.
"She was checking me out.," Charles answered
"Human.," Eric scoffed.
"Oh,come off it.," Charles said half joking, half serious. The conversation couldn't go any further as Elliot came down with Lilith. Charles noticed the family resemblance. They both were blonde and a bit on the short side, but Elliot's eyes were a shade of Hazel while Lilith's were bright, unnaturally green.
"What's your talent?," Eric asked Lilith. He had his doubts about this girl. She was a teenager fourteen, fifteen years old tops, but he still was willing to give her a chance. Elliot put her hands to her ears as Lillith started to sing. Eric and Charles both drifted off into a trance like state with every note the girl sang. Elliot stood unaffected by her cousin's powers and Lilith stopped,snapping Eric and Charles back into reality.
"How would you like to come with us?," Charles asked.
"She wouldn't., " Elliot spoke up in a protective tone. "Not without me."
Charles scanned Elliot's mind. All she and Lilith had were each other. Lilith's parents were dead, killed in a car crash. Elliot had begun raising her when she was practically a child herself. Charles felt sympathy for the young woman and human or not she was coming along, his mind was made up.
"You can come along with us. We want to help Lilith. That's why we're here.,"Charles said.
Ellliot smiled and Charles felt her relief knowing Lilith was going to be in good hands and among others like her.
So it was settled and Elliot came along. She even came with the "X Men on their first mission. Even now Charles could remember that fateful day. The day he stopped walking, and the day Elliot went into a coma. Eric hadn't mean to hurt her, but in the melee of bullets and chunks of metal, she had been knocked in the head. Hard.
Her body fell lifelessly on the sand of the beach. "ELLIOT!," Charles cried out turning to her direction. That's when the bullet hit him, and the surge of pain went through his back and lower body before he felt nothing. Moira ran to Charles, apologizing for firing the bullet. All he wanted to know in that moment is if Elliot was all right. He could her Lilith crying. "She won't get up!," Lilith cried out. Charles tried to move his leg to go to her. He couldn't get up either. He never would again.