OCxCyclops: "She doesn't love you!" I screamed, my blood boiling, as I glared at the stubborn man in front of me. The muscle in his jaw kept fluttering incessantly like a bird struggling to escape a cage. "She's just using you to get to Logan. Why don't you see that?" My voice broke on the last word.

He saw her, and he thought, 'She could be crafted, sculpted, the tableau of his own design.' She thought it would be beautiful, some natural and elegant metamorphosis. But this becoming felt of pain, of some beast that prowled around in the depths of her heart. . . He was going to tear her apart and make her anew. Her ruin would be his creation. This was her becoming.

"Who are you?" "My name is Charlotte Xavier." "You're not alone. Erik, you're not alone." Charlotte and Erik didn't know it then, but their lives were bound together forever. As friends. As enemies. As lovers. No matter what.

Arya Jacobs is recruited by the telepath Charles Xavier, so that she may play her part in the mutant war with Sebastian Shaw. Her past she soon reveals to them, but when their team is disbanded and betrayed, her newfound confidence will be tested for the years to come. She becomes a source of strength for the ones who stayed behind, but who will be the one to return the favor?