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Exactly, a week later Charles woke up.
Rose and Moira had been taking turns. Rose was with Charles during the day and Moira at night. Even when Moira was with Charles, Rose never walked out of the mansion, since she wanted to be near if she felt any change in Charles.
The day he woke up, Sean and Alex had just left. Sometimes they hanged around to make her company, and they made her laugh so she wouldn't feel so lonely with Charles and when she remembered Raven.
Rose saw them close the door and she turned to Charles. As ever, she was sitting in a sofa by his bed. She had had a lot of time to think about some matters that had been bothering her. She had decided that once Charles woke up she would tell him how... how she felt about him.
She had saw him as a stranger, then as a mentor, then as someone she could trust, and even though she never had gotten the chance to admit it she saw him as her friend. She couldn't bear to lose another friend without telling him that he was important for her, with Raven was enough.
But it was more than that.
Rose had felt weird around him many times before, but she didn't pay attention to it since she had had more important things to worry about. But as she spended more time taking care of him in his rest, she started to miss the sweet and polite voice he used when he talked to her. She had been missing him calling her "Rosie". She missed the way his blue eyes looked directly at her without fear of being "controlled". And she missed his smile. Maybe it was wrong to just tell him, but she was hopeful that maybe, just maybe someday he could feel the way she was feeling. She could wait.
She had been sitting by his bed during all that week and finally she let herself take his hand.
As soon as her skin touched his, he moved over the bed. She let go of him, worried that maybe she had woken him up. But she felt how he felt and he was rested. He had had enough rest and wanted to wake up.
Slowly he opened his eyes and the first thing he saw and said was:
"Rosie. It's enchanting to wake up and watch your face" He murmured.
Oh, how she had missed that! She felt a knot in her throat and nodded.
"How are you?" She whispered.
He straight up and smiled at her.
"I...I..." He stuttered. It wasn't a normal thing to hear him doing it, but waking up and finding Rose with him was an stunningly surprise. " What happened?"
"What's the last thing you remember?" She asked him.
Then, a hundred flashbacks came back at him. Cuba, Erik...Raven. Unconsciously he touched his right leg. Rose saw him doing it and the knot intensified in her throat.
"I am sorry." She whispered lowering her head. " I wish I could have done something"
Charles reached for her chin and slowly raised her face.
"Don't blame yourself" He said shaking his head. "Please. I am okay."
His gaze moved to the cured wound near her temple. Slowly, he traced it with his fingers and she closed her eyes as she felt this. When she opened them, he was sweetly smiling at her.
"I am so happy you are finally awake" She told him. " I... Moira and I have been waiting for you to wake up. I...I've been waiting to... To talk with you."
This last thing dragged Charles out of his fantasy. He remembered who she was and what he had talked with Erik. Erik... He was gone, and he had done terrible things, but he was right. He stopped himself of touching Rose's face.
She felt the absence of his touch and felt the urge to feel it again. She wasn't experienced at all in the romantic territory. She knew as much as a young teenager about it, even though her 20th birthday was near. If she had known more, maybe she would'd stayed quiet…
"I wanted to talk to you. I've...I said to myself that I would tell you once you woke up" She said quickly and with a hint of excitement.
Charles was petrified. It was happening and all he could hear was Erik's voice in his head. He had too much to do, he couldn't get distracted. He had to take care of her... of his students. And it felt...wrong.
" I've been feeling like..."
"Rose, wait..."
" But, I have to tell you..."
"Rose..."
"Charles, I think I..."
"Rose!" He exclaimed making her shut up.
She saw at him confused. She was trying to tell the man how she felt... But she saw it in his eyes, and she felt it. Her mutation felt it. He didn't want to hear anything else. He tried to talk many times but he couldn't. Finally he said:
"Where is Moira?"
Rose felt like if she had been trying to give him a letter and he had thrown it at her. She didn't get to say it and already felt rejected. Charles saw the hurt in her eyes and turned his gaze away from her. He was being like he had acted in the plane of Cuba, she noticed. Slowly, she stood up, lowered her head once again and murmured:
"I'll…tell her you want to see her"
Then, even slowlier she walked out of the room without looking at him.
Charles said to himself many times that the only reason why he felt so bad was because he had just turned down a young girl with no experience at all, while he had already lived too much, only that. Not that he was regretting what he had just done. No, of course not! He didn't, did he?
Hours later, Rose was sitting in a couch of the main hall reading a book. Alex was laying in the same couch, with his head on Rose's lap while he launched a little ball to the air just to catch it again. Sean was wandering around the room, asking Rose senseless things when he exclaimed:
"Omg! What are those two doing?"
Then he ran towards one of the windows. Rose and Alex saw at each other and ran behind him. Charles and Moira where in the gardens, Charles in his new wheelchair and Moira had been pushing him. They were talking about Charles' mansion's future. It was when Moira leaned towards Charles when Sean saw them through the window. The three young mutants where spying them.
"What are you doing?" Hank asked as he walked inside the main hall.
Sean shushed him and signaled him to go with them. Now, there were four mutants watching through the windows.
Rose's heart was pumping inside her chest and lightly shook her head.
"Please, no" She thought.
And it happened. She saw Charles and Moira kissing and she felt suddenly sick. She had known that she felt something for Charles, but until that moment she realized the truthfulness of it. Sean was about to cheer for the oldest members of the family, when they saw Charles putting his fingers on his temple. Then, Moira robotically and slowly pulled apart from Charles and walked away from him.
Charles stood there, looking at nothing. The four mutants inside the house didn't make a sound until they heard Moira's car driving away. Only then, the young men started to asked:
"What happened?"
"What's wrong with Charles?"
"Is mother never coming back?"
They walked away from the window, but Rose stood there. Then, Charles turned to the window and saw her. She looked heartbroken. He knew she had saw them, it was part of his plan.
"I am so terribly sorry, Rose" He thought. "It's for everyone's good."
But his gaze didn't say that. He was watching blankly at her, and it only made Rose feel worse. She walked away from the window confused.
Since that day, she changed. Changed for worse. She didn't talked too much, she didn't eat to much. She tried to look emotionally good in front of the men in the house, but she knew she felt some emptiness. She acted like that for days, weeks. When more mutants arrived she was more closed, except maybe with the youngest ones. Now she only had Havok and sometimes Banshee and Beast. Professor X was too busy running his new school for mutants. She closed herself to everyone. She couldn't became a teacher, because she started to lose control of her powers again…
Then Alex came around.
END OF FIRST CLASS
(A/N: Yep, that's it...for First class. Now it is time for Days of the future past! Tbh I wrote first class a long time ago and now I see many mistakes I did while writing it(specially with my OC Rose), but yeah I definitely prefer what I wrote of DOFP over FC. I didn't know if I should make another entry for DOFP but I decided to post the three parts(because I already have Apocalypsis written down) right here. So, yeah. Reviews, favs and follows are welcomed ;) )