Erik had a hard time rushing after Clara, especially when a class was recently dismissed. It was almost like some sick mind game where she was close enough but also out of reach. He didn't know if he had heard Clara correctly but from the look in her eyes, he knew what she said. It wasn't that he was surprised to hear that she suggested the Brotherhood methods, it was how she wanted to use them. Erik finally pushed through the hall, jogged up a couple of stairs, and caught up to Clara as he reached out and grabbed onto her arm.

"You don't mean that"

"Yes, I do" Clara said firmly, "We're never going to get anything done by playing by the rules"

"Hank and Mystique are out there looking for our daughter right now" Erik pointed down the hall, "Your friends are looking for your daughter, trust in them"

"Exactly!" Clara screamed out, "It should be us looking for her! You and me! Father and mother looking for their daughter! Instead we have to wait until we hear news from other people about her!"

"Keep your voice down" Erik warned.

"Why?"

"Because there are students around us and you're causing attention to us" Erik said, "You don't want them to talk"

Clara made a face at him, "I don't care if they talk or not, they could tell the goddamn professor for all I care! I meant every single fucking word I said"

"Damn it, Clara…" Erik said in his dark tone.

Erik grabbed onto Clara's arm and dragged her over to his room which was a few doors down from where they were standing. He practically threw her into the room and gave a strained smile to the passing, curious teens walking by in the hallway. When he closed the door, he turned to scold Clara some more but then stopped at what he saw. Clara was sitting on his bed, elbows on her knees and hands through her hair.

Clara whispered in defeat, "How could I have let this happen?"

"You weren't aware" Erik slowly made his way over to her, "You wanted a normal life and forgot about the dangers you inflicted on others. You didn't know it back then but that made you a target for unwanted eyes"

"Seems like you know the feeling" Clara said.

Erik comforted, "I do, and that's why I'm trying with everything in my power to prevent you from making the same bad decision I made four years ago"

Clara closed her eyes as she tried to not cry in front of Erik, she could barely sleep knowing that her daughter was probably doing the same thing as she was. She felt a pair of hands gently touch her legs as she felt Erik kneel down in front of her. A tear dropped down onto the wooden floor as she sniffed, she felt the verge of sobbing just around the corner.

"I know what it's like to have your family members taken from you" Erik commented, "I had to watch my own wife and child being killed in front of me. I know that dark path, that tunnel vision you are experiencing right now. All you want is for the man to pay and you don't care how you get it done, you just do. But killing the people in charge will not be enough, it never is. You will start to feel rage on everyone and want to unleash your power upon anything"

"I stayed with him" Clara shook her head, "For two years, I stayed with him, I went on dates with him, I kissed him, I-"

Clara stopped herself and rubbed her lips together, "I told him everything except for me being a mutant and my past that involves being a mutant and he played me like a fool"

"We will get our revenge on him" Erik said firmly.

"When?" Clara shrugged, "How come we haven't heard from Charles yet? I'm telling you, Nathan upped his security and that's the last time we'll here about a short fuse giving off a location"

Erik let out a sigh, "You're right and staying here isn't going to help her with anything"

"What are you saying?" Clara asked.

"That we do bend the rules a little bit" Erik told her, "But on my terms, I decide when we've gone too far, not you. Understood?"

The corner of Clara's lips slightly turned out as she said, "Has there ever been a time when it was never on your terms?"

Erik gave a little side nod of agreement as he cracked a smile for her. Clara stared at him for a second before she gave a faint smile as well.

"Do you want to kill Nathaniel?" Clara asked.

"Of course, I do" Erik told her, "For how he's making you feel helpless, how he took our daughter… he's not getting away alive for what he's done"

"I guess all that matters now is who gets to him first" Clara said, "Because I want to burn him alive so slowly that when he passes out, I'll wait for him to wake up"

Erik blinked in surprise, "That doesn't sound like you at all"

"That's because you've never met me after I had my daughter" Clara told him.

Erik slightly hesitated before he gave her a small nod in agreement but even he had to admit that he didn't like this dark side of Clara.


A woman let out an agonizing scream as Clara hovered over her. Erik stood guard as he tried to keep his eyes on the road, sensing for any metal coming down their way. He thought that Clara was just going to go through a blind path of picking and choosing a random scientist but it appeared that Clara already had a plan. She had confiscated a list of the scientist that were on the premises during the time that Erica was in the facility and was going to start with that. What he didn't expect, was for her to go and find the first female on the list and make her pay.

"Please, please stop!" the woman pleaded, "I have a husband and two daughters waiting for me at home"

Clara moved her head closer, "I have a daughter also and you took her away from me. You knew I was a mutant, superior to your own kind, and I'm sure in the back of your mind, you knew I was going to come for you the second you saw my baby girl in your office"

"He said that the mother consented" she shook, "I didn't know-"

"Consented to my daughter to be experimented on!" Clara shouted, "What kind of sick mother do you think I am?!"

"Ember!" Erik turned to her, "Get to the point"

Clara turned to Erik before she slowly turned back around, "Where is my daughter?"

"I don't know"

"You're lying"

"No, I'm not" the woman said through tears, "When the building had a blackout, he grabbed your daughter and dragged her off to another room and I didn't see him throughout the rest of the day"

A scream came from behind Erik as he turned and noticed that Clara set the woman on fire as she slowly got up and walked out nonchalantly, "The next one on the list is Dr. Jack Silver"