Chapter Two- Hear Me Out
Author's Note- Hey! I thought I'd make another playlist for this story =D So the song for the first chapter is My Immortal by Evanescence and the song for this chapter is Ignorance by Paramore…I know it's a bit off lol but it's the closest I could get.
Charles took a deep breath before he entered the office with Erik and secretly hoped he wouldn't do or say anything offensive. There always seemed to be a fight when that happened, Students walked around them busily trying to get to class while talking and practising their powers.
"Ready?" Charles asked his friend.
Erik's mouth curled up into a momentary smile before turning back to a frown, "what do you think?"
He smiled and then he reached his arm out to the door handle twisting it slightly until the wooden door could move freely. Charles entered the room first, Erik followed behind.
Rosalina was sat in the chair and she had removed her cream hat, it was resting on her lap. She heard the door click softly, she turned her head to see her brother's friend enter before him. She could see that Erik didn't believe her, it hurt her that he still couldn't take a leap of faith and trust someone who he knew in his heart was his only relative. Rosalina turned her head back so she was facing the desk and stopped the tears from falling.
Charles walked around his desk and sat down on the other side of it, facing the woman claiming to be Rosalina Lensherr. Erik on the other hand chose to stand near the window.
Easier to run? He asked his friend mentally.
You really should stop doing that… Erik replied while sending him a knowing look.
The woman's eyes shifted between the two men and knew they were communicating in someway…someway where she couldn't understand either side of the conversation, she cleared her throat and their heads whipped round to her.
"Ah, yes…Now Miss Lensherr as you understand we need to prove that you are indeed Erik's sister…" Charles told her.
"I should've known he would never believe me," her fluent English told them, "Who are you anyway?"
"Hmm? I am Charles Xavier…" he said.
"Xavier? I know that name…you are a voice on mutant rights, correct?" Rosalina asked him.
"Yes, aside from that I am the headmaster of this school…" Charles said and he had temporally forgotten what he was really meant to be speaking to her about.
"And this is a school for mutants" she stated.
"Yes…" he said while Erik cast him a 'get on with being civil' look, "anyway, tell us about how you came here…"
"Which part? After I was shot or just how did I find out where you were…" She looked at Erik and sighed.
Before Charles could instruct her on where to start Erik started talking, "How can you possibly be her? She died…I heard her screams when they lined her up against that wall and fired!"
Rosalina had to control herself, she knew what she was capable of when she was angry, "Who do you think pulled the strings so you could enter America?"
"Nobody pulled any strings for me! She was sweet and kind…you have the cruel look of a killer!" he said coldly to her.
She scoffed, "And you don't?"
"She would never have been capable of killing…" Erik said.
"Considering I was five years old…" she said while refusing to look at him.
"You can't be her! You wouldn't look like you're only thirty five!" he refused to give up the onslaught.
"You are not the only one with powers Erik!" Rosalina finally unleashed all her rage, kicking back the chair and pulled a knife from her waistbelt.
This shocked him into silence and Charles could only watch the scene from behind the desk, he was ready to throw her backwards if it was needed. Instead of attacking either of them, she raised the five inch blade to her forearm. She pulled it across the skin as if it was a well practised act. For a short time of only a few seconds blood poured freely from the wound then it began to heal over, not quickly but at a steady pace.
"See…this is how I survived five rounds of bullets entering my chest…and it also causes a delayed aging process which is why I look this young…" Rosalina explained to them.
She sighed and sat back down and replaced the knife to the inside of her belt gently clicking it into place.
"Why don't we start from the beginning?" Charles asked as he looked at an exasperated Erik and an emotional looking Rosalina.
"What do you class as the beginning?" She asked.
"From when you were separated from me…" Erik said quietly.
"Well when we were separated from our parents you ran towards the gate and they moved, you mangled the gates…I continued to shuffle along in the line with the other children. Over the next month we saw each other through the chain link fence and a polish solider, Karl Landunski took pity on me, I remember from the looks you gave him you didn't like him" she laughed remembering, "then I was dragged into the mess hall along with Anna, Eleanor, Olga and Ivy…when we were in the building a few of the other guards along with Karl lined us up against the wall…"
Rosalina's voice drifted off as she remembered the feeling of pure fear that ran though her and her friends when they were forced against the wall, they faced six soliders…
Charles saw everything as she remembered it.
"then they pulled out their rifles…they knelt down to fire at us…I remember Olga crying and she clutched on to my arm…then the older ones realised what was happening" She told them her voice still far away, "they screamed and they shot at us…I remember being slumped against the wall blood dripping from my mouth…Karl walked up to me, I was the only one alive, he whispered something in my ear and then shot me in the heart…"
The last few words still held anger and tears welled up in her eyes, "then everything went blank, then I woke up in the woods, it was night time and they were getting ready to put our bodies in the mass grave…my clothes were covered in blood but I was alive, I didn't understand at the time but Karl went to put my body in the grave then he noticed I was alive..." Rosalina smiled, "he got me to Leningrad, now Saint Petersburg…I lived with a high ranking family in the USSR, I even met Stalin on a few occasions…"
Erik could only stand there and look at his supposed sister, "what happened then"
She looked at him, "I have tried to suppress those memories and now you have made me bring them back up…I need a while to regain my composure" she wiped away the tears that had fallen from her eyes.
Her brother looked ready to argue but Charles stopped him, "I understand, I'll have a room made up so you can stay here for a few days. Maybe tomorrow night you'll feel ready to continue?"
"Thank you…and I should be able too, thank you" Rosalina told him in her trademark accent.
"It's no problem..." he said as he looked into her deep eyes.
Erik coughed subtly and Charles looked away just as Ororo opened the door, "professor?"
"Yes Ororo?" he asked her and Rosalina turned around in her seat.
"We think the Blackbird is ready" she said quickly.
"We'll be down in a moment" Erik said and gave Rosalina a sideways glance, "could you get a room ready for Miss Rosalina?"
"Oh of course" she said before leaving.
"you can walk around the grounds until your room is ready" Erik said and left the room.
"nice to know he has a lot of faith…" Rosalina said to no one in particular.
"He has faith and trust, he is just worried about where to place it" Charles told her as he made he was out of the room.
She sighed as she put her hair back on and went for a walk.
