He always considered himself one of the lucky ones. One of the few at the school who had never encountered the violent prejudice that most humans seemed to feel against mutants. He had always been able to pass as human, even with his parents. But all that illusion had come crashing down when he taken Rogue, John and Logan to his house in Boston...

He knew that things were going wrong almost as soon as he got home. When he broke the news to his parents that he was a mutant they didn't seem to understand. His mother kept asking if he had ever considered not being a mutant. Like he had had a choice. His father had always been so proud that he was going to a school for the gifted, now he realized that the only way his son was gifted was in a way that to him was a monstrosity. And Ronnie. His reaction had been the one that Bobby had feared the most, and after the way that Ronnie had looked at him made him realize there would be no reprieve.

It only got worse afterwards, Bobby knew the moment after everything went quiet.  There had been a dead silence and Bobby knew exactly when the cops burst in, who had ratted them out. Ronnie. He didn't want to believe it but his parents had still been in the living room and Bobby had seen the fear and disgust in Ronnie's eyes when he revealed his 'power'.

At the end of it, when the jet had come down to save them, Bobby had looked back once, to see his parents. They were standing in Ronnie's room on the second floor, arms around Ronnie as if protecting him from the big, bad, mutants of whom Bobby was now apparently one. He wasn't part of  that family anymore , as his father had made so abundantly clear when he had phoned home earlier this day…

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