Chapter 1 Memories

Professor Charles Xavier sat in his study in the large mansion he had just purchased. His parents were very wealthy and as their only son Charles had inherited all their possessions after they had died almost a decade ago. Of course Charles didn't have much use for the money they had left during his time in the army, where he had lost the ability to walk after a retrieval operation went wrong. Charles had no regrets, obviously he missed being able to walk but if he hadn't joined the army he wouldn't have met his friend Erik Lensherr.

As Charles sat back in his wheelchair behind his desk his mind travelled back a year ago when Erik and he had parted ways on good terms, Charles hoped. Erik and Charles had conflicting ideas on the way they believed they should deal with their situation, a unique one at that. Charles and Erik were mutants, a normal human being who just happened to be born with a mutated genome that allowed him to read and influence the minds of others. In fact it was this very ability that caused all of Charles' hair to fall out three years ago. He remembered that day vividly. He had been working closely with Erik and his other friend Forge, a mutant with the ability create any machine or weapon his mind could think of. It was Forge who had created a machine called Cerebro which allowed Charles to link his mind with every other mutant on the planet. When Charles had first used Cerebro the searing pain that he felt causing a mind-blowing headache that not only affected him but also everyone his mind was linked to. When he had taken Cerebro off his hair fell down in clumps and tufts. After getting over the initial pain Charles learned to focus his mental ability, to really concentrate whenever he had to use Cerebro regardless of the pain.

Erik had the ability to manipulate metal he was, in effect, a human magnet although he did exercise better control over his abilities than Charles did during that time. Both Charles and Erik wanted the world to find out about mutants but for very different reasons. Charles wanted humans and mutants to co-exist in harmony. Erik on the other hand wanted mutants to be viewed as superior to humans. Charles originally ignored the notion as he thought it was Erik's bad background creeping out. When humans did find out about mutants they did not react in way Charles or Erik envisaged. They hated mutants attacked them at points and both Charles and Erik took it upon themselves to protect the mutants that were maltreated. It was one of the reasons why they built Cerebro, to find those that needed help and to provide that help.

Cerebro had led to the discovery of the Phoenix Force a dual personality in one of Xavier's two residing students. The phoenix was suppressed before it realised its full potential, or so Charles thought. Charles remembered meeting this student for the first time. Her name was Jean Grey and both Charles and Eric had gone to her house to persuade her reluctant parents to allow her to come stay at the Mansion, at the time Charles had many lodgers all mutants who had come to seek asylum from their isolated, lonely lives. The world did not know about mutants during that period but their lives were bad regardless. Charles and Eric were able to convince Jean's parents to join the growing community at Xavier's Institute.
"Professor?" A young red headed girl in her late teens walked into his office. "Professor are you alright?" she asked.
"Yes, Jean" he replied, "Just deep in thought. Why have you come?"
"The guest that you told me and Scott about," she said. "He's arrived."

I've righted most of the wrongs and fixed some plot holes. I will be doing this to all chapters before the next one is added.

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