Finding Family - Part 1 ~ Chapter 9
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"I need to speak to you about one of your students, Leopold Pietro Fitz."
"What do you want with him?" Said Charles nervously.
"Do you know whether he has a sibling?"
This question threw Charles completely of guard, "a sibling?"
"Yes around his age."
"I don't think so," he watched Erik's face fall, "why the sudden interest in one of my students?"
Erik thought of all the ways he could lie to avoid Charles finding out their connection, but the more he thought about it the more he knew the truth would come out soon and he wanted Charles on his side.
"Because I've recently found out Leo is my son," there was a pair of gasps from the bookcase.
"Katherine, Skye," said Charles dangerously. There was no response so Charles assumed they'd gone. "You're sure of this?"
"Yes we're certain."
Charles picked up on the we're, "who else knows."
"Only you, me, Raven and Moira, oh and I'm guessing Skye and Katherine. I've told Leo too, he had a right to know."
"That's not too bad, wait did you say Moira?"
"Yes Moira McTaggart, she's the one who performed the test," Erik could see the cogs whirring in Charles' enormous brain.
"You mean that Moira don't you?"
"Yes, you've made quite an impression on her she's even come here to speak to you."
Erik had to say he enjoyed Charles' look of guilt as he thought of Moira, "don't worry she doesn't hold too much of a grudge against you."
"She can't hold a grudge, she doesn't know me," said a stunned Charles.
"Oh trust me she knows you," grinned Erik.
As soon as Skye and Kitty heard Magneto ask for a private meeting they knew they wanted in, it had to be about Leo. When the pair made it into Charles' office, Kitty dragged Skye into the wall of the room next door.
"Come on," Kitty dragged Skye towards the wall adjoining Xavier's office. They pressed their ears against the wall an could faintly hear the conversation going on inside the office.
"Do you know whether he has a sibling?" They didn't recognise the voice so it must have been Magneto.
There was a pause before Charles said, "a sibling?"
"Yes, around his age."
"I don't think so, why the sudden interest in one of my students?"
The girls pushed their ears as close to the wall as possible, knowing this was the big reveal.
"Because I've recently found out Leo is my son," the girls gasped. Neither had been expecting that and fell back from the wall.
"Oh Leo," gasped Skye. "Come on he'll need us," said Skye dragging Kitty in the direction of the exit.
"Do you ever think of that day?" Asked Erik shuffling further forwards, closer to Charles.
"I have been thinking of that day for countless years, and it always comes back to the same thing. I shouldn't have done a vast number of things the way I did."
"Mistakes are the key to learning," said Erik trying to comfort Charles.
"We wanted to save mutants, together."
Leaning forwards Erik said, "we still can. I came back to make amends, to join you in your dream. I don't want my lasting legacy to be a trail of lives and wreckage stretching across the 50 states."
"You have a son now too," smiled Charles.
"Yes," Erik leant back in his chair, fully realising the change of having a son.
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