Sorry its' been a while but I've been busy lately.
The next day, Charles drove David to the day-care centre, leaving Raven to walk in with her new friends. David hadn't been overly happy about going to the day-care centre, having never spent more than a few hours out of the company of either Charles or Raven. Thankfully, when they got there David's friend Scott dragged the younger boy into a game he was playing with a young red-head named Jean and a white-haired girl named Ororo. Charles noted from their minds they were all mutants. When Charles brushed his mind against Jean, he was a little surprised to find the young girl was a telepath but thankfully she didn't seem to notice him.
Before they'd moved here, Charles had made sure to carefully explain to David not to talk about him being a mutant. Luckily, Charles had had the forward thinking of putting Penbroke on David's birth-certificate so there was nothing linking his son to Charles Xavier, something which Charles knew might get his son killed. "Bye Daddy." David ran up to Charles' wheelchair, jumping up to give his Father a hug.
"Behave." Charles said, knowing how much of a menace David could be when the 4 year old wanted to be. As he wheeled himself out of the day-centre to the car he'd rented the other day, his minds went unbid to Erik.
He still wasn't sure if it was a good idea to go out with the other man, especially considering he was both a mutant and had nearly impeccable mental shields. Minus the odd feeling, Charles couldn't get a lot out of Erik's mind without further digging. Something which he refused to do on moral principle. Raven, when he'd told her, however had been thrilled and Charles knew would throw him out of the door tonight. In the meantime, however, he was very nearly going to be late for his first day at work.
Pushing aside all thoughts of Erik, Charles concentrated on getting into the school on time. By some amazing luck, Charles wasn't too late into the school and was able to explain it away by using his son, something he hated to do but found useful. At times, Charles had used his telepathy to mentally nudge people into ignoring the fact he was late but he resisted on this occasion, not wanting to attract attention to himself. And there was something in the head teacher's mind that told Charles he wouldn't be able to mentally nudge the man. A possible mutation Charles thought, secretly curious.
The head's name was Logan Howlett and from what Charles could gather he couldn't quite understand how Logan had managed to get a teaching position, let alone be a head teacher. "So you're a Professor?" Logan stated, glaring at Charles, who wasn't breaking eye contact. Something the other ma was obviously pleased about as Charles could read that Logan's opinion of him had gone up a little. Well by a little Charles meant from 'someone who was going to run away in the first few seconds' to 'someone who might not get eaten by the gaggle of teenagers'.
"A Professor in genetics." Charles confirmed.
"What are you doing teaching teenagers bub?" Logan asked, well more growled. He was looking at Charles accusingly and Charles could easily tell that Logan, while refusing to show it, actually cared about the students under his care. Or most of them anyway.
"I wanted a fresh start." Charles replied, seeing that Logan would have noticed a lie if he'd told one. Seemingly pleased with his answer, Logan continued to explain what would happen. The usual rules and so forth that Charles thought were all common sense.
Eventually Logan led Charles to the science labs and left him alone ready for his first class. It was at this moment that Charles started to feel panic coming upon him. He was in a wheelchair, running from his previous life, a mutant and he was about to start teaching rowdy teenagers. As the first lot of students came piling in all Charles could think was 'what the hell had Raven signed him up for?'
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"We've got that new science teacher next." Alex stated as they walked out of their second to last class of the day.
"What do you think he's like?" Darwin asked as Sean and Angel joined the group on their way to the class.
"Someone said he's in a wheelchair and he's dead bad tempered." Raven resisted the urge to laugh at this. The thought of Charles as bad-tempered was just too funny. The only time she'd seen her brother even close to losing his temper was the time she'd lost David in the grounds of their old house.
"Someone else said he's hot as hell." Angel purred, linking her arm with Raven. Her first day at the school had been interesting. While Raven could safely say that all high schools were the same when it came to boring lessons, she had found the people in this school were a lot more interesting and fun than the ones from her old one. It helped that all her new friends where mutants.
"Well as long as he's better than the last teacher." Hank stated, getting a laugh from the boys. When Alex had introduced her to Hank, she'd been a little surprised to find he was friends with this group, being so shy and academic. However, as the day got on she'd started to find he was one of the more interesting to be around, quite possibly because he was just cute.
At that moment they entered the room and Raven sent a smile at Charles who was at the front of the class. Charles smiled back, sending her a mental reassurance. Up until then Raven hadn't realised she'd been worried about Charles but knowing he was fine made her relax a little. Once all of the class was in, Charles started talking and Raven was surprised to find that the students all listened. Even Sean, Alex and Darwin, who usually spent the class talking in the back of the room, stayed silent. It wasn't unexpected though as Raven knew how good a teacher Charles actually was. Having sat in one of his university lectures one time, Raven had seen how passionate Charles could be when he started to talking about certain scientific subjects. And somehow he managed to make science lessons fun.
"He's brilliant." Sean said at the end of the lesson while the friends where packing up.
"He's hot." Angel replied, glancing over at Charles who was sitting at the teacher's desk. Most of the class had gone and Raven could see the blush creep over Charles, telling them that he'd heard Angels comment. "What do you think Raven?"
"Girls." Darwin muttered as they grabbed their bags and headed for the door.
"Wonder if he's got a girlfriend?" Angel said and Raven paused for a moment, remembering her conversation with Charles the night before. She'd been thrilled to find out her brother was going on a date but knowing Charles like she did, Raven knew her brother would be hesitant to go to it. As it was, Raven was almost positive Charles would find some excuse to cancel. Something which she wasn't about to do.
"Are you coming out tonight?" Alex asked, turning to Raven.
"Sorry, just a minute." Raven said and to the utter shock of her friends, she went up to the teacher's desk and sat on it. Charles looked up at her with a frown on his face but Raven could see he knew perfectly well why she was sat there. "I'll pick up David tonight."
"Raven…"
"No, you have a date and you're not cancelling." Charles opened his mouth to say something else when Raven's friends appeared at the desk with identical looks of confusion on their faces.
"Err Raven what are you…" Hank started before Raven cut him up.
"Sorry, guys. This is my big brother. Charles these are my friends."
"A pleasure to meet you." Charles stated, as formal as ever.
"Your lesson was brilliant Professor." Sean replied, getting nods of agreements from the rest of the group.
"Erm thank you. You're welcome to go out with your friends Raven…" Charles started but Raven interrupted him with a glare.
"You are not getting out it that easily." Raven replied, even as her friends looked at the two siblings in confusion.
"Anyway, we better get going Professor." Sean stated as Angel hooked her arm around Raven's.
"I'll pick up David and see you at home later." Raven shouted back to Charles, secretly telling her brother that he had better not even think about being home when she got back with David.
Next chapter will be focused on Charles and Erik's date Hope you enjoyed and please review