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The metal structure had fallen on Rose and Charles, but they weren't crushed by it. They got trapped side by side.

"God!" She exclaimed trying to move the thing off of him, but it was just to heavy. "Why is it that I always get myself out of the battle too quickly?"

Charles tried to push it off, too. And then they tried to do it at the same time. Finally they gave up.

"What should we do now?" Rose asked turning her head to Charles.

Charles looked at her.

"I'm trying to find Raven." He said putting a hand over his temple.

"This is all my fault" Rose said closing her eyes.

"What do you mean?"

"I told Raven that if we were going to kill Trask it had to been in an important event, that it had to be a big deal..." She was feeling so guilty.

Hank and Logan were fighting for their lives, Erik was destroying the White House, and Charles and her were trapped under a heavy metal structure.

"I told her it had to be live so people everywhere could see it. It is all my fault." She had started crying. "It is always my fault. It is my fault all that is happening, it is my fault because I ran away three years ago." She turned to the telepath "I am sorry. I am sorry!" She exclaimed and closed her eyes "You were right, that day, when we fought. I…I didn't wanted to be near you. Not if Alex wasn't near. I couldn't stop myself of thinking…"

"Rose..." He said totally forgetting about Raven and Erik and Logan and even Hank.

"I'm a stupid, immature, selfish, rotten brat stuck up in that day, 10 years ago, when you rejected me. God! You didn't even reject me! I am a distraction and a danger to all of you. I am a useless damsel in distress, all the time…"

She got interrupted by some screams, pain screams.

"You hear that?" She tried to push the metal over her again. "What is he doing to him? What is he doing to Logan?"

"Rose, calm down" Charles had heard it too. "Close your eyes and try to reach Erik's mind"

"I've tried" She exclaimed and cried at the same time. "Why can't I just calm myself? I'm not helping with my cries!"

But her reprimand to herself only made her cried more.

"I am sorry, Rose" Charles got into her mind, and as if he had turned off a knob, the crying stop.

"Thank you, Charles" She said and sighted. "I needed that"

"Your welcome…oh, can you go back to the part when you told me about our fight?" He said with certainty that it wasn't the best moment to ask, but he needed to hear what she had to say and he needed to have her head in somewhere else so she wouldn't break down again.

"Oh, I…I…" She sighted and turned to him. "I hope not, but I'll probably die today so, whatever… After Cuba when you woke up, I…I…Well, before that, when you were still sleeping I told myself that I couldn't permit to let go another friend without telling him how important he was for me. But the more and more I thought about you while I took care of you, I realized that what I felt was deeper than that." She said as quickly as she could as if a bomb could fall on them at any minute. "But then you asked for Moira and I saw you kissing her and… I sound like a teenager…"

"Continue" Charles said while he was trying to find Raven.

"So, yeah. That's it. I left because you were right all along. I couldn't be near you if Alex wasn't there. Even when I was with him and you passed by, I… you know what? Forget it! This is so ridiculous! We are trapped here and I am confessing my feelings? What's wrong with me?"

"The question is what's wrong with me, Rose" He had his fingers on his temple, still looking for Raven. "Somehow your voice helps me to concentrate and I'm strangely feeling motivated for your confession…"

"Then I'm a not talking about it anymore. Here I am, showing my true feeling after 10 years and you think is funny?"

"Never said it was funny, love, but I promise you that if we get out of this alive I'm so kissing you."

Rose was about to reply back but she was left without words. What was he trying to say?

"I have my secrets, too, Rose. I've wasted many years that I could have spent with you. Not anymore…"

Rose was shocked, she was looking at Charles, but he had his sight somewhere else in the sky.

"I know it is not the most romantic way, but…" He turned to her. "I love you."

She looked at his blue eyes and he looked at her black ones. Blue met black and it was like in all the novels she had read. The world had stopped. She had waited many years to hear him say that, and now he was saying it. Not even in her craziest dreams, she had dream that it would be like that.

"I…" She whispered. "I love you too."

Slowly, Charles tried to get near her, but it wasn't possible. Then he heard Erik's voice.

"If we ever get free of this one, we really need to talk." He said.

"Totally agree" She nodded with a frown.

They watched at each other and then slowly, they smiled. Because of x or y reason they had lost already 10 years. They wouldn't anymore. Of course, there was that part of her reminding her of Alex, but she want forgetting about him. Oh, no. She would never forget him. He was always going to be her first boyfriend, after all. But she was feeling her heart pumping so violently, because of the danger and the confessions that her adrenaline levels had her head everywhere and nowhere.

She paid attention to Erik's voice and moved as near as she could to Charles.

"Can I tell you a secret?" She asked and Charles nodded at her, with that gleam in his eyes that only men in love have, as if he could hear her talk about nonsense all day, but he had to remind himself many times that he wasn't in the best position to have those thoughts. "I've always hated these speeches he makes." She looked at the sky as if she could see Erik from where they were. "So pretentious…"

Charles laughed and rolled his eyes. Probably if he had been alone at that moment he would be dying of desperation, but he had her there and it was all better. Even if they died, it would still be better.

"Raven!" Rose remembered "Look for her!"

Charles closed his eyes and put his fingers on his temple.

"I'm looking."

"And I'm looking for Logan. I can't feel him…you think he…?"

But she never finished because they both heard the voice of their President.

"I've found her/" Charles said with a suddenly serious voice. "It's her. She's changed into the President." He had his eyes closed and Rose decided to keep it quiet. "I have to let her act…only then…"

"I can feel Hank!" Rose whispered more to herself, since Charles was busy.

Even in the distance, Rose heard the guns about to be shot, then she heard a Sentinel moving, as if he was being destroyed and lastly a bullet through the air. Rose held her breath and turned to Charles, he was nodding. They kept silence for a minute and that's when Charles froze the men in the bunker and projected himself in front of Raven.

"Get out of my head, Charles!" Raven yelled holding her plastic gun towards Trask.

"Raven." He said with a serious and pleading voice. "Please, do not make us the enemy today."

"Look around you. We already are." She exclaimed.

"Not all of us." Rose heard him talking and saw when Hank arrived with them, to help them get out of the metal structure. "All you've done so far... is save the lives of these men. You can show them a better path.

"Shut her down, Charles." Hank told him, but he shook his head.

"I've been trying to control you ever since the day we met...and look where that's got us." Charles continued

"Everything that happens now... is in your hands. I have faith in you, Raven."

Charles unfreezed the man and disappeared from Raven's head. She had a clear view of Trask again. She kept pointing at the man, and he was watching her with a serious expression. She stood there, pointing at him for minutes.

Rose didn't hear a shot, but she heard Raven's voice:

"He's all yours, Charles."

And then both, Rose and Charles, were free. Charles had controlled Erik to make him move the metal over them. Hank helped Charles to stand up, and Rose quickly stood up. Erik saw his helmet lying on the floor, but he couldn't take it, now due to Rose's ability. He turned to the mutant trio.

"If you let them have me, I'm as good as dead." Erik said out loud. "You know that."

"We know." Charles replied and turned to Rose, who immediately let go Erik.

"Goodbye, old friend." Magneto said.

"Goodbye, Erik."

Erik raised his hands and left as he had arrived, levitating. Only then, Rose ran to Charles and hugged him by a side, also helping Hank in supporting him. The trio turned to Raven, she was watching them. She looked at Hank, and then at Rose. Raven saw the way Rose was grabbed from Charles, and how he was laying his head over hers. She smiled and turned around limping away. She could've told Rose the true about Alex, but…

"One day, they'll thank me…" Raven thought with a fresh image of her best friends, even if Rose would hate her someday.

"Are you sure you should let them go?" Hank asked Charles.

"Yes. I have hope for them." He said as he saw Rose's lost gaze in Trask "There's going to be a time, Hank, when we are all together."

Rose turned to him and rested her head on his chest, closing her eyes to restrain any thought of revenge.

"What about Logan?" Hank thought.