Chapter 7 Meeting Chuck
By the time Saturday rolled around, they had a set routine. They knew that Harry being so young it was best to hold off on there training for a year or two but they had bought some specially designed toys that toddlers could use there accidental magic to operate. This would start the groundwork for Harry's needed control. Therefore, a pleasantly happy group met with Logan and his boss, "Chuck" as he called him to hear about why Logan aged differently then most. They just figured it was a spell or potion that went wrong. Boy, were they in for a surprise.
The doorbell rang and Leila got up from her seat playing chess with Moony to answer, while Sirius tried to teach Harry the hair color change spell. His reasoning being that if you start young with a potential prankster then they can grow up to out shine their predecessor. Moony just snorts and accuses him of infant corruption.
She opened the door and smiled cheerfully. "Hello Uncle Logan welcome back." She beamed moved back so the man and his boss could get threw seeing as Chuck was in a wheel chair she opened the other door as well with a quick muttered spell. "And you must be Chuck." She smiled standing in font of them once they had made it in and shook his hand.
"Yes that is what Logan calls me, my name is Professor Charles Xavier, and it is a pleasure to meet you young lady." He smiled genially, he was a bit surprised he hadn't known that Logan's grand-niece was telekinetic. Perhaps she could help Jean in developing better control of her powers, because this women seemed to be able to use her's so casually and with minimal effort.
She smiled. "Ah and it is a pleasure to meet you Professor Xavier. Please fallow me into the family room where you can meet the rest of the family and then I think some nice tea will be in order." She smiled and led them back to the family room.
"That would be lovely my dear." Charles smiled pleasantly.
Once back to the room the two men stood, Harry safely held in Sirius' arms. "Professor Charles Xavier meet Sirius Black, Remus Lupin, and my son Harry Evans." She beamed. "Guys meet Professor Charles Xavier.
Remus and Sirius came forward and shook his hand. "Nice to meet you sir." Was the chorus heard from both Remus and Sirius.
"Nice to meet you fine gentlemen as well." He smiled warmly.
"Good now that intro's are taken care of." She smiled and pulled out her wand and conjured a tea service on the coffee table. "How do you take your tea?" She asked the two visiting men.
"I like mine black thanks darlin'" Logan chuckled at the flabbergasted look on Charles face. "I did tell you Chuck that most of my family is quite special." He teased the other man.
"Yes well… I suppose it is one thing hearing it and quite another to see It." He chuckled. "You'll have to forgive me but I had a bit of a hard time believing what Logan had told me about this wizarding world you are from." He said still a bit shocked.
Leila blinked. "Oh dear so you are a muggle. Um I must ask you not to tell anyone about us. I could get into a lot of trouble performing magic in front of a muggle who isn't family you see. Though I must confess I thought you were a wizard it never crossed my mind that you were a muggle as you seem to have a rather large amount of magic with in you." She admitted with a shrug as she passed out the tea.
Charles blinked a bit taken aback. "Really? How is it that you know this?" He enquired intrigued by this new facet of himself that until now had been undiscovered.
Leila looked thoughtful. "Well as I am studying to be a potions Mistress I'm a bit more sensitive to the magic around me. I can sense those who posses it and usually the level to witch they posses it." She stated simply and sipped her tea.
"Don't worry about the secret Darlin' we know how to keep secrets." Logan winked. "We're mutants ourselves and in the muggle world that's not exactly something you wanna go advertising. That's what we come here to tell you about." He said a bit surprised that the Professor was actually a wizard as well. He knew that he was but that Chuck was as well sort of said a lot for the turmoil that WWII caused if some one magical could be missed out for receiving a letter of invitation to one of the worlds magical school.
Leila blinked. "Mutants? What's a mutant?" She asked tilting her head curiously at the odd term. She being a muggle born herself knew of the concept of mutation but didn't quite understand to what context they were using it.
"I think it is best you all get comfortable." Charles said switching over to professor mode. "You see a mutant is a human who happens to have an extra chromosome in their gene sequence causing many different variations on powers and abilities to manifest them selves." He said as an opening and then launched into the history and politics that were going on now in the muggle world concerning mutants.
Moony was the first to speak up. "Wow… that sounds a lot like what the wizarding world is doing to magical creatures. What with the registration, tracking, and all that they want to do." He said solemnly able to connect with all this due to his own status as being a Were-wolf.
Leila snorted. "Bloody hatred is everywhere. What is wrong with people." She muttered darkly but shook it off as not being anything she could magically fix.
"Unfortunately it is a large part of human nature to fear what they do not understand." Professor Xavier said solemnly. "And now that you know our story perhaps you would care to share why you have seemingly broken from the rest of your family." He asked. "Unless it is to personal." He amended.
"No it's fine we moved here to get away from my older sister and her husband. Both of which apparently went insane. Harry here is actually my nephew. He was their oldest son in a set of twins. One night not to long ago we were attacked in there home where they were hiding from a mad man. He came to kill the children but something odd happened. The curse that he used that is supposed to be unstoppable rebounded and hit him. Well after that, the headmaster of our old school and leader of the light proclaimed that Harry's brother Robert was the one that vanquished the man. So now, Lily and James have gone fame crazy. It was horrible they just completely put Harry out of their minds completely. So, the three of us decided to get the hell away from those wankers and raise Harry our selves. I adopted him and now here we are." She finished furiously.
Logan was stunned and just a little pissed off. How could something like this happen how could any one in his family act so heartless? Oh if he ever saw Lily he would be giving her a proper talking to on the importance of family and quite possibly beating the shit out of her husband since he wasn't supposed to hit girls and all.
"That is deplorable." Charles stated with a steely glint in his eye if there was anything, he detested more then parents abandoning their children he hadn't found it yet.
"Yes well what's done is done. I'm just thankful that we got him and they didn't try passing him off to my dear sister Petunia that is a fate I would not wish on anyone. She absolutely hates anything and everything having to do with magic in general and anything having to do with Lily in particular. Though she didn't seem to hate me to much at least until I stuck up for Lily that last time. Perhaps I should write her and try to mend the fence a bit." She said thoughtfully. Remus and Sirius made sounds of agreement but didn't put much merit in talking to Petunia.
"I'm sorry Logan but of the family you have in Britain I think Leila and Harry are probably the only ones worth knowing." Sirius said seriously.
"I can see that." He said shaking his head. "But unfortunately the only thing I could do about it would be to disinherit the little air heads from the Howlett family line and as much as I dislike their actions I don't think I could do that to family. The good genes are still in there some where for makin' kids like you Leila and I don't wanna lose that potential just because of a few bad seeds." He said helplessly.
"That's ok Uncle Logan I understand completely no worries." She smiled lightly. After all perhaps idiocy and blind hatred was just a recessive gene in the family.
"Well I think it's about time for the two of us to be on our way. Don't you think Logan?" Charles asked he wanted to talk to Logan about the Magical world a bit more it sounded fascinating and the fact that there was an entire world hidden among the muggle gave him an idea. Perhaps they could do the same with Mutants? Not to mention they had another mission to pick up a few more manifesting mutants.
"Oh don't be in such a hurry why don't you two stay for dinner?" Moony asked warmly he wanted to ask more about mutants thinking that must be responsible for the strange smell coming from Logan.
"We would love to bub but unfortunately on top of teaching rugrats we have missions and such to attend to." Logan shrugged.
"Oh well ok then but don't be strangers! We're always happy to have company, or help if you ever require a bit of magic." Leila grinned sweetly as the two men left.
After they left Sirius snorted. "Mutants. Well our new home will defiantly be interesting that's for sure." He chuckled. The other just shook there heads in agreement.