This is a songfic dedicated to Mystique. I thought up this while listening to Christina Aguilera's song 'Reflections' After watching the episode when she finds out that Nightcrawler is her son, I saw her in a new light. Also this fic starts after she sees that girl saying goodbye to her mother. And now as Palmon would say 'Cut the lights and cue the music!'
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Slowly Raven Darkholme turned away from the window then sat at her desk. Slowly she opened her desk and took out a year book and flipped through the pages until she came to a photo of a cute young boy with blue hair who was brightly grinning. The boy who had haunted her nightmares for the last 15 years. This boy.....her son. [Who could have thought that someone who looked so innocent could have been related to a monster like me?] Raven thought bitterly. [Curse you Magneto. Why did you take him from me?] she thought as tears began to fall from her eyes. [Charles is no fool, I am. For letting Magneto steal the one feeling the only thing that I truly desired. Love.]
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Music Stars
Look at me
You may think that you see who I really am
But you'll never know me
Every day
It's as if I play a part
Now I see
If I wear a mask
I can fool the world
But I cannot fool my heart
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Then Raven puts the picture down and shifts back into Mystique. Then she reaches into her desk again and takes out a small mirror. Then she stares into it and sees a young woman with blue skin who's eyes show that she has had too much grief in her life. "Who am I really? Am I truly Raven Darkholme? An innocent woman or am I truly 'Mystique' the loyal servant doomed to a life of misery and deception?" she asked softly.
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Who is that girl I see?
Staring straight back at me?
When will my reflection show
Who I am inside?
I am now in a world where I have to hide my heart
And what I Bellevue in
But somehow I will show the world
What's inside my heart
And be loved by who I am
Who is that girl I see?
Staring straight back at me?
Why is my reflection so alone (I don't know)
Must I pretend that I'm someone else for all time
When will my reflection show who I am inside
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[So far it seems that I will always play the part of the decepter. Deception, it describes me too well. All that I've know was deception, it was what kept me alive but it also cost me dearly. Was it worth the lost of love? No it wasn't.] she thought bitterly as she put the mirror down and stared at the picture again. [I never noticed but he looks so much like me, aside from the blue coloring and white tinted eyes. Was I ever so innocent? If so then I no longer am. Magneto has stolen nearly every thing from me but has he stolen my heart and love for this boy?] No. He shall never take that from me. But why did he have to take him from me?]
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There's a heart that must be free to fly
That burns with the need to know the reason why
Why must we all conceal
What we think
Must there be a secret me
I'm forced to hide?
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[One day Magneto, I shall take back all that you have taken from me. I swear it! One day I shall tell my son everything and be united with him until my dying days or die trying!]
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I won't pretend that I'm
Someone else for all time
When will my reflection show
Who I am inside?
When will my refection show
Who I am inside?
Music ends and fades out
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[Only then will I truly know who I am inside.] thought Mystique as she put the mirror and the picture back in the draw the changed back to Raven. [Some day my son, some day. When I won't have to live in this life of deceptions and lies. Only then can I truly call myself your mother.] thought Raven as she took a clenex and dried her tears but inside she still cried.
The End
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Slowly Raven Darkholme turned away from the window then sat at her desk. Slowly she opened her desk and took out a year book and flipped through the pages until she came to a photo of a cute young boy with blue hair who was brightly grinning. The boy who had haunted her nightmares for the last 15 years. This boy.....her son. [Who could have thought that someone who looked so innocent could have been related to a monster like me?] Raven thought bitterly. [Curse you Magneto. Why did you take him from me?] she thought as tears began to fall from her eyes. [Charles is no fool, I am. For letting Magneto steal the one feeling the only thing that I truly desired. Love.]
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Music Stars
Look at me
You may think that you see who I really am
But you'll never know me
Every day
It's as if I play a part
Now I see
If I wear a mask
I can fool the world
But I cannot fool my heart
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Then Raven puts the picture down and shifts back into Mystique. Then she reaches into her desk again and takes out a small mirror. Then she stares into it and sees a young woman with blue skin who's eyes show that she has had too much grief in her life. "Who am I really? Am I truly Raven Darkholme? An innocent woman or am I truly 'Mystique' the loyal servant doomed to a life of misery and deception?" she asked softly.
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Who is that girl I see?
Staring straight back at me?
When will my reflection show
Who I am inside?
I am now in a world where I have to hide my heart
And what I Bellevue in
But somehow I will show the world
What's inside my heart
And be loved by who I am
Who is that girl I see?
Staring straight back at me?
Why is my reflection so alone (I don't know)
Must I pretend that I'm someone else for all time
When will my reflection show who I am inside
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[So far it seems that I will always play the part of the decepter. Deception, it describes me too well. All that I've know was deception, it was what kept me alive but it also cost me dearly. Was it worth the lost of love? No it wasn't.] she thought bitterly as she put the mirror down and stared at the picture again. [I never noticed but he looks so much like me, aside from the blue coloring and white tinted eyes. Was I ever so innocent? If so then I no longer am. Magneto has stolen nearly every thing from me but has he stolen my heart and love for this boy?] No. He shall never take that from me. But why did he have to take him from me?]
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There's a heart that must be free to fly
That burns with the need to know the reason why
Why must we all conceal
What we think
Must there be a secret me
I'm forced to hide?
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[One day Magneto, I shall take back all that you have taken from me. I swear it! One day I shall tell my son everything and be united with him until my dying days or die trying!]
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I won't pretend that I'm
Someone else for all time
When will my reflection show
Who I am inside?
When will my refection show
Who I am inside?
Music ends and fades out
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[Only then will I truly know who I am inside.] thought Mystique as she put the mirror and the picture back in the draw the changed back to Raven. [Some day my son, some day. When I won't have to live in this life of deceptions and lies. Only then can I truly call myself your mother.] thought Raven as she took a clenex and dried her tears but inside she still cried.
The End