ChicksDigTheFuzzyDude- This is the oneshot you requested! Hope you like it! It's alittle AU and slight Pietro/X-23(Laura) and a little Romy if you squint

Perfect

Hey Dad look at me

Think back and talk to me

Pietro looked at his father who refused to look at him. Pietro just wished Magneto would look at him and talk to him like he used to.

"Daddy!" 7 year old Pietro shouted to his father. "Daddy look! I'm riding it all by myself!"

"Very nice Pie," a young Erik said, smiling as he watched his only son ride the bike all by himself. Wanda laughed beside him.

"Go Pie!" she shrieked happily. Pietro smiled as his father looked at him lovingly.

Why couldn't he ever pay attention him? Why was everything different now?

Did I grow up according to plan

Do you think I'm wasting my time doing thinks I wanna do?

'Cuz it hurts when you disapprove all along

And now I try hard to make it

I just want to make you proud

Magneto always had a plan but Pietro never seemed to do anything right. Pietro was suppose to be part of the Acolytes and help his father rule the world but he didn't want that. He wanted to a part of the Brotherhood, with his friends. Pietro wanted to spend time with his girlfriend and go to school and get an education (so he could become a doctor but he never told his father that). Magneto never cared though. He never wanted Pietro to do any of these things. If he, Magneto, didn't need friends, the love of his life or and education, neither did Pietro. Or so Magneto thought.

I'm never going to be good enough for you

I can't pretend that

I'm alright

And you can't change me

No matter how much Pietro tried, Magneto was never proud of him. He was never good enough. He need to run fast, fight hard, worry less, more planning, less carelessness, and so on. Magneto tried to change him and he almost succeeded until Pietro realized what he was doing to his friends. No way was Pietro going to be forced into being like him, like his father, like Magneto. Alone, filled with hatred and his family hating him, the only person who cared for him was an old friend. Pietro didn't want to end up like him.

'Cuz we lost it all

Nothing lasts forever

I'm sorry

I can't be perfect

"No Pietro! Do again! This time get it right!" Magneto yelled at him. Pietro had been working for three hours straight. Even with his fast speed, not even he could keep up with this insane exercise. He knew he was never going to be good enough, never perfect enough.

Now it's just too late and

we can't go back

I'm sorry

I can't be perfect

Try not to think

About the pain I feel inside

Pietro felt nothing when he looked at his father. No love like when he was little, no pain or hurt like when Wanda left, when she was taken from him. Pietro felt nothing, nothing but coldness and emptiness. The love was gone, the pain had numbed and went away. Pietro guarded his heart from his father because he knew if he didn't the pain, the emotional pain, would be unbearable and would kill him.

Did you know you used to be my hero

All the days you spend with me

Now seem so far away

And it feels like you don't care anymore

When Pietro was little, his father used to tell him stories about what the world would be like when he was older. What his father would do to help him get the best he could out of life. Now it seemed so far away, the days where his dad loved him where Erik Lehnsherr was the hero of the world not Magneto. Now Magneto didn't seemed to care and was not the hero but the villain.

And now I try hard to make it

I just want to make you proud

I'm never going to be good enough for you

I can't stand another fight

And nothing's alright

"Pietro," Magneto said warningly but the speed demon didn't listen.

"No Magneto," Pietro spat the word with venom, "You're not the boss of me, I'm going to live at the brotherhood. I'm going to date Laura Howlett and I'm going to live my life my way not your's."

With that, the younger man stormed out of the room while the older stared in shock wondering where his plan went wrong.

'Cuz we lost it all

Nothing lasts forever

I'm sorry

I can't be perfect

Now it's just too late and

we can't go back

I'm sorry

I can't be perfect

Nothing's going to change the things you said

Nothing's going to make this right again

Nothing would ever change what Magneto had said when they saw each other again. Pietro had been working at a pizza place, trying to get by. Magneto and his Acolytes had walked in, the orange-haired one blabbing away while the one with the cards looked bored until he saw a certain untouchable Goth. The second Magneto saw his son, Pietro felt a cold-blooded glare. The hissed words still whisper in Pietro's ear during times of pity.

You worthless piece of shit. Working with humans as a mean to gain money. You were going to be famous and powerful but now you're a traitor, like your precious X-girl. You're weak, powerless and so son of mine.

Please don't turn your back

I can't believe it hard

Just to talk to you

But you don't understand

Magneto never understood why his son left him and his life. Pietro was trying to find his way in the world and not follow Magneto's mistakes.

'Cuz we lost it all

Nothing lasts forever

I'm sorry

I can't be perfect

Now it's just too late and

we can't go back

I'm sorry

I can't be perfect

Years later, Pietro saw his father again but his father didn't see him. The younger man was an intern at a hospital, his father had come in, dragging a crying, green-haired teenager.

"I'm sorry, I didn't mean to. I'm not perfect,"

She said that one faith full sentence, 'I'm not perfect'. It seemed like his father found another child to try to torture into following his path. Pietro felt a pain in his chest, for the girl, for the father he once had. But Pietro forced the angst down and thought back to his wife and their new son, James Erik Maximoff. His life was wonderful but it would be perfect if his father was there.

'Cuz we lost it all

Nothing lasts forever

I'm sorry

I can't be perfect

Now it's just too late and

we can't go back

I'm sorry

I can't be perfect

His life would be perfect if his father was there. His life was missing a piece and would never be perfect because he would never be perfect enough for Magneto not his father. Erik Lehnsherr was gone a long time ago, Magneto was just inhabiting his body. Pietro was sorry, sorry he couldn't be perfect.


Ok...so it started out ok and now i think it kinda stinks well at least that's what i think. And if anyone else wants to make a request...well review and tell me!

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