HI! Ooooo! will she live will she die who knows? me of course! here's the next chapter for all of you wonderfully patient people who read this. no translations for this one. thank you all you wonderful readers and to Mirrorflower and Darkwind, sarahbluerose13, and AddysonMae for the reviews! Please...Enjoy!
He saw it, saw the huge piece of rock rushing with the water towards her, felt her presence leave his mind and knew he had less than a second to reach her. Kurt closed his eyes and forced himself to teleport to her side in time. He grabbed her around the waist before she fell as the water poured down on them and teleported back to the jet in a splash of water.
The shocked silence was soon replaced by the explosive sound of many people cheering and screaming for joy. Kurt untangled himself from Lily, who was very pale, as she weakly tried to hack up the water in her lungs. Erik and Logan both hurried forward to sit her up and hit her hard in the back forcing as much water from her body as possible. When she had finished retching up liquid and began to breathe normally Erik turned to Kurt who was sitting exhausted and soaking wet next to them.
"Thank you…" He said stiffly extending his hand to the blue mutant.
"Your velcome." Kurt replied taking the hand with slight relief. He'd half been expecting Erik to start hitting him.
"Lily are you ok?" Logan asked as she caught her breath. She looked up at him in slight annoyance.
"Do I look ok?" She snapped in a shaky but strong voice. Logan smiled in relief as she struggled to pull herself up to a seat on her own.
"No, you look like shit." He replied as Erik glared at him.
"Thank you, so do you." She replied finally managing to heave herself up.
"Vhat the fuck were you zhinking?" Kurt said glaring at her almost as much as she was glaring at him. "Do you haff a death vish or somezhing?"
"And if I do?" She replied still breathing heavily,
"I vill say zis once and once only! I von't be doing zhat again!"
"Oh, shut up, you'd do it again and you know it."
"No, I von't." Kurt insisted as he and Lily continued to glare at each other hostilely. Everyone was watching them, flicking their heads back and forth between the two like a pack of puppies watching a ball being tossed. Charles was the only one smiling slightly in amusement as he reached out a hand to Erik's shoulder.
"We need to get to Washington D.C. This has gone farther than I had previously thought." He said as Jean redirected the plane. Logan, Kurt, and Erik all got into seats and strapped themselves in as they screamed toward the nation's capital.
Fifteen minutes later, they were all standing in the oval office with the frozen press around them, rain lashing at the windows as thunder growled in the distance. Erik sat on the arm of Charles's wheelchair with one arm around Lily, who was leaning against him. Mystique was standing in the door frame nearer to Kurt who was up on the mantle waving with a wicked grin on his face. The other X-Men were scattered around with various looks of toughness and amusement as the President looked terrified at them all.
"No, please Mr. President, don't be alarmed…" Charles said in a comforting voice as the man stood up suddenly.
"Trust us, Sir, if we wanted you dead you would have been a long time ago." Lily said with a slow sultry smile that made everyone in the room shudder. Charles cleared his throat pointedly as she rolled her eyes but remained silent.
"What do you want?" The President asked looking from Lily to Charles in fear.
"To talk…please sit down." He said in calm kind voice as the other man sat reluctantly. Charles looked over to Rogue who stepped forward and placed a blue folder on the desk.
"Tensions between humans and mutants are at the worst they have been in a very long time, Mr. President. There are many who believe a war is coming, a war between the two that will encompass not just the globe but a race. In that file you'll find evidence of some who have already tried to start one…" Charles said looking over to Erik and Mystique before continuing. "And others who have tried to prevent it. And there have been casualties…on both sides."
"How did you get this information?" The president asked looking at the papers with a growing concern.
"Let's just say I know a little girl who can walk through walls." Charles said as Kurt snorted in the back.
"What do you want me to do?"
"Mr. President, what you are about to tell the world is true…this is an opportunity. An opportunity to move forward and into the future or…to repeat the mistakes of the past and become lost in a never ending cycle of hatred." Erik said looking more tired than anyone had ever seen him before.
"Really? And what do you want for that piece of advice? A presidential pardon?" The president laughed as he looked at the metal bender in disbelief. Erik narrowed his eyes at the man as Lily squeezed his shoulder.
"You would be wise to listen to them." She said looking down at the man with a cold indifference.
"Why?"
"Because if you try to declare open war against mutants, every human on the planet would be wiped out." She replied quietly.
"Is that a threat?" He asked finally, looking thoughtful instead of fearful or angry.
"Oh no." She replied with a faint smile. "It's a reminder. We are more powerful and more in number then you think, Sir."
The president looked back at the papers in front of him with an expression of deep concern and thought on his face. Suddenly he opened a drawer in his desk and pulled out two sheets of paper.
"What are those?" Lily asked mildly.
"Pardons…for Magneto and that man over there." The President said as he filled in the information and signed them before handing them to Lily.
"Keep them in line or I'll have to rethink these." The man said with smile as she inclined her head in thanks.
"Thank you, Mr. President. But remember…" Lily said.
"We aren't going anywhere, Mr. President, we're here to stay." Charles finished as lightning flashed in the sky illuminating the room.
"We'll be watching." Logan said from the side of the room before lightning flashed again and they all disappeared from the room leaving Lily, who stood in front of him and gently closed the folder on his desk.
"Closely…" She said before disappearing before his eyes.
The next day, Lily sat with her arms curled around her legs looking out the window of Charles study as both her parents lectured her about her risk-taking behavior. She simply sighed heavily and rolled her eyes as she watched Logan and Scott walking together on the lawn talking intently about something.
"…What I'd really like to know why you did it. You didn't need to take down that damn thing." Erik said as he leaned against Charles desk. Lily whipped her head around to look around at her parents and untangled herself from her legs to stand up.
"I didn't need to? The technology in there would have been enough of a reason for me to bring it down! They took stuff from here and built another Cerebro! They had information from sick experiments on mutants and if I hadn't destroyed it, someone else would have found it and used that information against us and others, not just mutants." Lily said furiously her eyes flashing dangerously before holding her head in pain.
"So you didn't destroy the dam for revenge?" Charles asked quietly before Erik could open his mouth.
"I didn't say that…" She replied with a wickedly nasty grin as he shook his head in exasperation. Erik simply smiled at his young daughter before looking back at Charles.
"Well, what's done is done…we can't change it now." He said as the other man glared at him in annoyance.
"We are not encouraging this behavior!" Charles said heatedly.
"I'm not! I'm just saying…"
"Lily, you can go."
"Fine…" She said walking to the door and pausing a moment. "By the way, I was thinking that the X-Men could go out sometime for a bit of fun…would you mind?"
"Why ask me?" Charles asked raising an eyebrow at her.
"I thought I should run it by you first, in case you needed to have us babysit or something…"
"Why would we need you all to babysit?" Erik asked confused.
"I dunno…" She said shrugging her shoulders. "Maybe you two wanted to go on a date…"
"Get out of here!" Charles said as his face flushed as Lily scampered away, laughing her head off as the door slammed behind her.
"The nerve on that kid…" He muttered to himself as he looked up at Erik. "It's your fault, she gets it from you."
"Me? I don't think so…" Erik replied with an appraising look at Charles. "Although I was thinking about a date…"
"Dinner together?"
"Or we could skip dinner…"
"And go straight to dessert?" Charles said as the lock clicked on his door and his chair wheeled out from behind his desk of its own accord. Erik walked towards him with a mischievous gleam in his eye.
"I have a class in thirty minutes, Erik…" The telepath said in a husky voice.
"They can wait…"
Forty minutes later, if any of Charles's students noticed that all the metal in his room looked as though someone had hastily crumpled it into a ball and then smoothed it out. They wisely didn't say anything.