This is my first fanfic, so any feedback would be appreciated. Disclaimer: I do not own Xmen, only my OC Charlie. Italics are thoughts.
Chapter One
Charles p.o.v
Erik and I were walking down the street looking for the bar that held a mutant we were hoping to recruit to fight against Shaw. We walked into the bar and immediately spotted the man sitting by himself smoking a cigar.
"Excuse me, I'm Erik Lensherr"
"Charles Xavier" we introduced ourselves.
"Go fuck yourselves" the mysterious stranger spat back at us in return. I turned to Erik and saw my own exasperation reflected in his eyes. I turned to leave and Erik followed close behind, leaving the gruff man to brew at his seat at his seat.
As I stepped out the front door to the bar, the feeling of fear hit me so immensely it took all of my strength not to collapse onto the concrete sidewalk. I saw Erik look at me with concerned eyes. "Charles, is everything alright? What's wrong?" He asked with such a concerned voice I didn't know he possessed.
I couldn't answer him I was trying to locate the source of fear.
Please don't touch me. Please don't touch me. I heard a feminine voice whisper to herself in her head only a few blocks away from us.
"Someones in trouble." Is all I said to Erik before I ran in the direction of the thoughts, completely forgetting the reason we were originally here. I turned around the corner into an alley to see two men, one with a small knife, standing in front of a young woman who was slightly hidden behind a dumpster.
"C'mon you little freak" The man with a knife sneered at the woman. After a quick peak inside his mind I realized what he and his partner wanted to do with her.
The man stepped closer to the woman extending the hand with the knife towards her, but before he could touch her I called out "Excuse me!" All of their attention was on me now, I heard Erik turn the corner a few feet behind me, but I was already walking further into the alley. Adrenaline, fueled by the feel of her fear, pumping through my veins.
"It appears she doesn't want to go anywhere with you." I said to the men.
"It's not really up to you, is it?" He said to me. I saw him glance at Erik.
Shit, there are two of them now. He thought.
"If you don't leave her now, we will force you too." I said, surprising myself and Erik, judging by the surprised look he was giving me, with the amount of malice in my voice. "And exactly how are you going to do that?" He sarcastically asked while turning the knife towards us , and waving it around.
"Like this." Erik said before using his powers and conjuring the knife to his hands with such speed that almost gave people whiplash trying to follow it. The men looked at Erik and the knife in his hands and backed away from the woman directly into a fence with their hands up.
Erik grabbed a metal pipe lying on the ground with his powers and knocked the two across the head and and watched as they slumped to the ground. I quickly turned towards the woman to make sure they didn't harm her.
The first thing I see is her dark indigo eyes, which almost seem to be getting lighters that deeply contrast against her pale skin . Then her ears, which were those of a feline, slightly higher on her head than human ears. Next was her hair, black as the night sky, matching the fur on her ears. Finally her clothes, they were too big on her small frame, and dirty as well. I could tell she's been on the streets for a while. As I took her in, I realized she was quite beautiful.
"Are you alright?" I cautiously asked, afraid she would run at any moment.
"You're like me" She said to Erik in a hesitant and soft voice.
"Yes, I suppose I am" He said as he took in her features as well.