Slash
All right, this is when it gets a little weird. We never knew we could ever write a slash…successfully. And we still can't. But that's okay because all that matters is that we tried our hardest, right?!From the moment Pietro gazed into his newborn child's eyes, he was transfixed. He had seen those eyes on an extremely attractive man that he had met once before. No one else had those entrancing eyes. Where the whites should be, it was filled with darkness and where the color should have been, a deep blood red shone back at him. He knew the name of the man with these eyes but did not know where he would find him. Pietro knew he had to search the world for the man. He had to search for Remy LeBeau.
Suddenly, a telepathic message came into his head. "Pietro," came the voice of Professor Xavier. "I heard about the loss of…well, Mrs. Jean Maximoff. I would just like to tell you that this has deeply scarred me as well."
"Has it scarred you as much as your vase scarred Jean?!" Pietro demanded telepathically.
"I know what I did was wrong." The Professor said truthfully. "And I would like to make up for it. I have already found the man you search for and he is here at the institute. If you come, you shall receive all your answers."
"Very well." Pietro replied. "But you better be telling the truth."
It didn't take Pietro very long to run back to the institute carrying young Kastarry carefully.
"Hang on." Said Beast. "Pietro's allowed to leave the hospital with his daughter that's only about a minute old? Especially after it was pointed out that it wasn't actually his daughter? Also, he's a minor. They wouldn't let him leave. Plus Jean just died. And how did YOU find Remy?!"
"Hank." Said Professor Xavier. "Let my creative mind flow."
Pietro stood hesitantly outside the institute. He remembered what had happened last time he had come to this place, and that had been months ago.
"Come in, Pietro." Said the Professor. "Do not be frightened."
Pietro took a deep breath and pushed the door open. He was greeted by many people with pink balloons and streamers. He looked around the institute to see in big letters, 'Congratulations! It's a Girl!'
"Welcome, Pietro." Said Professor Xavier as the crowd parted. "Please follow me into the other room where we may discuss your mission to find Kastarry's real father." Pietro followed Professor Xavier into the other room.
"What's this all about?!" Pietro demanded. "Why are you so accepting? What did it take? Jean's DEATH?!"
"Sadly, yes." Said Professor Xavier. "I never realized that I can't rule the life of my X-Men and from now on, I am accepting on who my X-Men love, when they love and how early they conceive children."
"It's a little late for that." Said Pietro.
"Well, I have an offer to make that might make your soul rest easier." Professor Xavier said as Remy walked around the corner. "This is Kastarry's father."
"I knew all along." Said Pietro. "But you are no father to her!"
Remy didn't say a word, he only approached Pietro, leaned over and planted a kiss right on his lips. Pietro was confused. His wife just died, and he was being kissed by another man, and yet… he was enjoying it. The moment he began to kiss back, the thought of Jean flashed into his mind and he pulled away.
"So you DID enjoy it, mon amour." Said Remy. "Let me look at my baby." He gazed down at the girl in Pietro's arms. "She has my eyes."
"Yes." Said Pietro. "She looks just like you. It's hard to love her because all I can see is you and I hate you."
"Why?" asked Remy.
"Because you had an affair with my wife!" Pietro yelled.
"She wasn't your wife at the time." Remy pointed out. "You only married her today. I had an affair with her one month before you even went out with her."
"Oh." Said Pietro. "She was ten months…?"
"Yes." Remy interrupted.
"Okay…" said Pietro. "But…you kissed me. And now I'm confused about my sexual preferences because I liked it."
"I know." Said Remy. "I did too."
"I would hate to think that Kastarry would grow up with only a single father like you." Pietro said. "And I'm too young to care for her properly. I hate to see her grow up troubled…I have already fallen in love with her."
"It doesn't have to be that way." Said Professor Xavier, wheeling forward and grabbing Remy and Pietro's hands. "You both may stay with me at the institute and care for the child together."
Just then, Scott and Lance walked in the door holding hands.
"You called for me, Professor?" Scott asked.
"Yes." Said Professor Xavier. "Pietro and Remy will be staying at the institute for a while. Will you show them to their room?"
"Room?!" Pietro demanded. "As in a singular room?! My wife just died… a half an hour ago!"
"I don't even think it was a half an hour ago." Said Professor Xavier, looking at his watch. "More like fifteen minutes."
"But I can't love men!" said Pietro. Then he turned around and looked Remy up and down. "Well…maybe I can…but still!! My wife!!"
"Pietro, you didn't have a wife!" said Professor Xavier. "You're fifteen! You don't have a daughter! Live your life for God's sake!"
"Come on." Said Lance, reaching his free hand out for either Pietro or Remy.
"Do you guys ever stop holding hands?" asked Pietro.
"No." said Lance. "I always hold hands with my lover, Scott."
"You see, after you punched me and you and Jean ran away, I was awfully upset." Scott explained as the four of them walked out of the room. "Then Lance comforted me and I discovered that HE was my true love. And we've been going out ever since."
Then they passed Rogue and Storm in the hall as the two held hands and gazed lovingly into each other's eyes. They momentarily stopped to wave to the four and then continued.
"You see, with Professor Xavier's new declaration of free love, everyone's coming out of the closet." Said Lance as they passed by Evan and Beast who were sharing a milkshake and playing footsie under the table.
"No," said Beast immediately as he erased his name.
"What are you doing?!" demanded Professor Xavier. "Free love!"
"But not me." Beast said. "I don't even want to be in this story anymore. Just make it someone else."
"Fine." Said Professor Xavier.
"You see, with Professor Xavier's new declaration of free love, everyone's coming out of the closet." Said Lance as they passed by Evan and Fred who were sharing a milkshake and playing footsie under the table.
"Has everyone here decided that they like other people of the same gender out of nowhere?" asked Pietro as he felt Remy reach down and grab the hand that wasn't carrying the slumbering Kastarry. Pietro did not try to break free, he only squeezed harder. Something about the older man's hand comforted him during this hard time.
"As it turns out…" started Scott. "The mutant gene also affects one's sexual preference."
"So everyone's…" started Pietro but he stopped himself as Kitty and St. John walked by hand-in-hand.
"Don't stare!" said Lance as he gave Pietro a smack in the shoulder. Then he rolled his eyes and sighed. "Whatever makes them happy, I guess."
"Oh Charles, I'm loving the creativity!" said Beast. "I would NEVER have suspected you to be creative enough to create an alternate universe where the mutant gene affects one's desires!"
"I had actually been planning to put that in a story previous to this one." Said Professor Xavier. "I just never used it."
"So what should happen after this?" asked Beast.
"I think that they should go to their new bedroom, talk a little and end up getting it on." suggested Professor Xavier.
"No Charles." Said Beast. "That just isn't the sort of thing I'm going to want to read."
"Fine." Said Professor Xavier. "They can talk, get close and at the MOST maybe they can share a kiss."
"A PG-13 kiss." Said Beast.
"Yes, Hank." Sighed Professor Xavier. "A PG-13 kiss."
"Here is your room." Said Lance as he motioned at the door with the hand that wasn't wrapped within Scott's. "And there is your bed."
He pointed to a singular double bed in the middle of the room with a floral comforter spread across it.
"And where's the other bed?" asked Pietro. "I only see one…"
Pietro was cut short because Remy had leaned forward and kissed him deeply on the lips. Remy pulled back and smiled at Pietro.
"You got nothing to worry 'bout, mon amour." He said with a wink. "Remy ain't a blanket hog."
"Uh…" stuttered Pietro. "Um…uh…where will the baby sleep?"
"We'll just leave you two alone." Said Scott as he and Lance left hand-in-hand and closed the door behind.
"Let Remy see her." Said Remy as he reached out for the baby. Pietro hesitantly handed Kastarry to Remy. "She really is a beautiful baby."
"Yes." Said Pietro as he averted his eyes. "I know."
"Remy's never had a family before." Said Remy as he playfully stroked the baby's face with his finger.
"We're NOT a family." Said Pietro. "I think we should share custody. Kastarry could grow up with two parents but in separated houses."
"No daughter of Remy's is going to grow up in a broken home." Said Remy.
"I know but until we figure this out…" started Pietro.
"You can't say that you didn't enjoy my kiss." Said Remy. Pietro's mouth hung open, at a loss for anything to say.
"That's besides the point." Said Pietro.
"Maybe it is…" said Remy. "But if we raised Kastarry together in one house, she wouldn't have to feel the pain of a separated house."
"But…but…" whined Pietro. "This just won't work, Remy!"
"It's the mutant gene in you talking, amour." Said Remy as he lied the sleeping baby on the bed. "You can't help your feelings."
"I'm so confused right now!" said Pietro.
"It's all right." Said Remy. "Just talk to Remy and everything…"
But it was Remy's turn to be interrupted. Pietro had spontaneously sprung forward, wrapped his arms around Remy's neck and for the first time, he purposefully interlocked his lips with another man.
"Is this really going anywhere, Hank?" asked Professor Xavier as he opened up another box of tissues and handed it to Beast.
"Not really." Said Beast as he took two tissues and wiped his eyes that were starting to turn red because of the overwhelming mixture of happy tears and sad tears and then happy tears again. "But I'm getting warm and fuzzy feelings all over!"
"Me too but I am just wondering where to go from here." Said Professor Xavier.
"Well…" said Beast. "Perhaps we could jump forward a couple of years to when Kastarry is older and things are less awkward and new."
"Yes!" said Professor Xavier excitedly. "And it can be told from HER point of view!"
"No." said Best firmly. "I'll say it again but it's bad enough she's in it."
"Fine, fine." Said Professor Xavier as he cracked his knuckles again.
