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I wanted there to be a code all foster kids knew but there isn't one in real life so I'm using Cockney Rhyming Slang. All translations at the bottom. I've never been in the foster system so this is all made up from what I've heard. (It's also going to be street talk for when the police are nearby. That's what it was before.) Some is more modern than others.

Slight AU on Scott's backstory. And Lance's as well.

Warning: dark

Plot. Plot. Plot

Blinded:

Lance watched Scott wake and felt an odd sense of de ja vu.

As soon as Scott had his bearings lance asked, "Why?"

Scott looked up, "Life is hell."

That didn't satisfy, "Really. I didn't know. Don't give me life is hell. You grew up in a mansion. I grew up in torture. So I'm asking again, Why?"

Scott looked down, "My life is torture."

Lance snapped, "What would Scott 'perfect boy' Summers know about torture?"

Scott looked shocked, "Perfect boy? How am I perfect?"

Now Lance was shocked, "Seriously, you have straight A's and you live in a mansion. You never break the rules and you have a hot girlfriend. You have a perfect record. You probably came from a loving family who wanted you to learn control. You failed that by the way. You've been here longer than any of us and you still can't manage simple control. It's weak."

"You're so wrong. Trust me, you don't want to know how wrong you are."

"And like I said, 'what would you know about torture'?"

"For a start the only colour I know is red. I don't remember any of the other ones. The rest is worse."

"Tell me. I can handle it."

"My father, Christopher, was in the air force and my mother was called Kathrine. I have a little brother called Alex."

"Aww. So cute."

"Why am I telling you any of this."

"There's no one else to talk to."

Scott sighed, "When I was seven we went on holiday to Alaska. On the way home our plane caught fire. We only had two parachutes so my mother strapped them onto my brother and I before pushing us from the plane which exploded seconds after. A piece of debris caught my parachute and I fell. I hit my head and received permanent brain damage meaning I will never have control of my powers. That part of my brain is dead. It's also part of the reason I get migraines. The other reason is my power comes from my eyes."

Lance stared in shock, "Holy hell."

"I can stop if you want."

"There's more?"

"Lots."

"I'm fine, continue."

"Ok, I woke up in hospital after six months in a coma to find my entire family was dead. I went into the foster system."

"Single or group Cat?" (1)

"You were in the system?"

"Yup. You got single."

"Don't be so daffadowndilly. You think I'm that lucky."(2)

"I couldn't give a Kate. You get your own room?" (3)

"No, I was never on my Jack."(4)

"Was it a nice Mickey." (5)

"Not on your Nelly." (6)

"It's nice to have someone who understands. I might pipe my eye." (7)

"Like you would pipe your eye, Lance."

"I can't believe we used to read and write." (8)

"Me neither. We're allies. I feel like such a steamer." (9)

After what you did today I'd say you don't have eighteen pence." (10)

"ummm"

"So, why'd you take up the drum and fife?" (11)

"My mince pies."(12)

"I see. So, Xavier found you in a home?"

"Nope. I was in that first place for six months. I then moved around a lot. All those fosterers were abusive and needed someone to hit. That lasted a year but ended when I blasted the roof off of a group home. I then went to a lab. I was taken out of there a year and a half later in an ambulance. I ran away from the hospital. I spent three years on the fields of wheat, bacon rind.(13)(14) I was picked up by the police, the car was attacked, I was kidnapped by a tea leaf.(15) He made me steal with my powers. Then the professor found me."

"I don't Adam and Eve it." (16)

"I bet I've half-inched more than you."(17)

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The conversation continued for hours as the two talked about their pasts. Scott hadn't gone into any detail about the year and a half in Essex's lab. Scott didn't feel the pain he originally had and Lance was no longer angry at Scott. Both boys felt they knew each other so much more and because they had both been in the system they could, by foster theory, call each other brother. They weren't going to. The rest of the X-men came back from the failed mission to find the two as close as brothers.

"Hey Scott, Sorry about what I said on the apples."(18)

"It's Kalvin."(19)

"The others are going to be all sixes and sevens when we talk in Rabbit."(20)(21)

"Yes they are."

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1- house.

2- silly.

3- toss.

4-alone.

5-house.

6-life.

7-cry.

8-fight.

9-mug (fool).

10-sence.

11-knife.

12-eyes.

13-streets.

14-blind.

15-thief.

16-believe.

17-pinched (stolen).

18- stairs.

19- fine.

20-confused

21-slang