The Offer
Disc- I only own Rita, Shawn, Marie, and Gordon
A/N: hope you all like these new chapters, if anyone has any big comments feel free to email me at neo_q_serenity@yahoo.com
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Logan had to do something for Professor Xavier so that cold, cloudy Tuesday; Rita had to walk home with Gordon. There wasn't enough room in Scott's care for them and Gordon was staying at the institute for the rest of his time in New York.
They took a shortcut through an old ally because Rita was too tired to fly and carry Gordon at the same time. Gordon had said something that had made Rita laugh just as an old man with silver hair, and a brown trench coat stepped out of the shadows.
"Magneto! What do you want this time?" Rita questioned the old man rather rudely.
"Only to make you an offer my dear, nothing more, and please call me Erik, we are no enemies at this point and time." Erik said with a cute smile, the one he had passed down to his speed demon son, while pulling out a thick, manila folder from inside his coat. "Aren't you even the slightest bit curious about your three living siblings? On the other hand, would you like to know about your real parents? I can give you that information, plus that time you spent that cold, lonely night in jail on your birthday for getting upset and killing that police officer, well I can make that all go away. But, I need something from you in return."
"I don't know what your talking about, my family is dead, all five of them, and they have been ever since I was eight years old. Besides, what can I give you that you can't get from someone else?" Rita looked from the thick folder to Erik's unreadable face.
"But that's where you're wrong, your family is alive. The officer who told they were dead, lied. And you can do something for me that no other mutant could ever do, I'll give you this folder with your families whereabouts and $10,000 a month if you leave Charles and come fill the Alcolyte position that Remy Lebeau gave up for Rogue." Erik was so convincing that her family was indeed alive, but how could they?
"I…I can't. Logan's there and so are my kids and I wont let me children grow up to be like you or Mystique." Rita longed to know so badly what was in the folder, but the risk and price to get it was just too high.
"You're aware that this is a one time offer? This information will never come around again, no matter how hard you look, you can't find it, they all took on different names." Erik's cool, unemotional face seemed to look right through Rita.
"Then how did you get it?" Rita glared at him, hoping to call his bluff, but it never happened.
"DNA scan, I got it from you right before the X-Men rescued you and matched it with your family. It was very simple for me, but you will never be able to do it." Erik smiled again, hoping to win Rita over and get her on his side. "You don't even want to know about your two month old nephew?"
Rita's mouth fell open at the mention of a nephew, she wanted to meet him so badly. "Whose child is it?"
"The child belongs to Jake, or as you know him, Andrew." Erik took a step closer to Rita and Gordon, offering her the folder.
Rita eyed the folder, she wanted to know her nephew, and get closer to her family. She shook her head and mumbled a 'no' before taking Gordon's arm and running past Magneto in the direction of the institute. Rita stopped when Magneto pulled on the metal in her bracelet and dragged her back.
"It's not very polite to run away without giving me an answer for my offer. Now what do you say my dear?" Erik pulled her back towards him as Gordon froze his hands, letting Rita free. Rita picked Gordon up and flew the few miles back to the institute as fast as she could, landing a few seconds later and collapsing in Gordon's arms.
Scott was standing in the garage, the garage door open, washing and waxing his car. He looked at Rita and dropped the rag, running to Rita. "You ok Rita?"
"She's fine, she was tired after school today and flew both of us home, which kinda took the rest of her energy." Gordon put Rita on a bench and went inside for a glass of water.
When Gordon came back with the water, and gave it to Rita, Scott already looked pissed at them. "What?" Gordon had been well informed of what Scott was thinking with each different face, and if the girls were right Scott was incredibly pissed and disappointed in something.
"Somehow I don't believe your flying story." Scott turned to face Gordon as his eyes began to glow behind the ruby quartz powder of his glasses.
"Then what do you think happened?" Gordon challenged Scott, which no one ever did to the X-Men leader.
"Something that Logan really wouldn't like. Look at her bracelet, how did the latch break, and get ice on it? Last time I checked Rita didn't have the power of ice, plus her face is very flushed." Scott looked ready to kill Gordon if he admitted to doing what Scott suspected.
"Rita got into a little trouble so I helped her out, I just happened to hit her bracelet when I was helping her. Besides Scott, you may not know me that well but I'm not the guy you think I am. Sure I thought Rita was cute and would be nice to go out with when I first saw her yesterday in class but I backed out when I found out about her and Logan." Gordon glared at Scott, pushing past him when he was sure that Rita would be ok and Scott would stop playing 20 questions with him.
Rita smiled, the sun on her face until she felt something cold on her wrist, she had tried to ignore the boys but couldn't ignore everything. Rita looked at her wrist and saw ice melting on the broken latch. "God dam you Erik." Rita mumbled under her breath.
"What was that Rita? Who's Erik?" the wonderful leader had the face of 'I'm gonna make you talk or ask Jean to read your mind.'
"It was nothing Scott. Now could you stop with the questions please? My personal life has nothing to do with you." Rita stood up and was about to jump on Logan's bike and leave since Logan didn't take his bike for whatever he had to do, until Scott grabbed her arm and turned her to face him as Logan was walking up from the gate.
"Two things, one: that's Logan's bike and no one can touch it, two: your right, your life has nothing to do with me but it has everything to do with Logan, now do you really want me to tell Logan what I'm thinking? We all know Logan would like what's on my mind, so tell me." Scott let go of Rita's arm when he realized that Logan was coming closer.
"I wouldn't like what shades?" Logan stood behind Rita and put an arm around her waist, pulling her away from his bike as Rita stuck her tongue out at Logan.
"Well the fact that Rita came home with Gordon, and collapsed in his arms, her face very flushed. Then when he brought her a glass of water I noticed her bracelet latch was broken and iced-over." Scott gasped as Logan grabbed his throat and pointed his claws at Scott's stomach.
"So what are you trying to tell me here shades? That I shouldn't trust Rita?" Logan growled at Scott as Rita put a hand on Logan's arm and pushed it down, lowering his claws.
"Don't Logan, let him go please." Logan sighed and pushed Scott back, making him stumble backwards and fall as Rita's words made him let Scott go.
Logan turned and picked up Rita's arm, looking at the latch on her bracelet. Scott was right, it was broken and wet and cold, ice had just melted off it. "What happened to your bracelet Rita?"
"I got into some trouble with someone and that person broke the latch while Gordon froze his hands and got the latch by mistake so I picked Gordon up and flew back here, which was why I was flushed and tired enough to collapse into Gordon because school had tired me earlier." Rita's eyes told Logan she was telling the truth as she took the bracelet. "Now I have to get it fixed by a jeweler, I was going to go to the one downtown when you came by and took me away from your bike."
"Well tell me then, who was the person you got in trouble with?" Logan questioned as Rita got on his bike, normally if anyone touched Logan's bike they were usually asking for a death wish which is why almost all color drained from Scott's face when Logan let Rita sit on it.
"No one you would know." And with that Rita took off on Logan's bike, heading downtown.
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It had been about an hour and Rita was still not home. Logan figured that the jeweler had time to fix it right then and Rita was just waiting while he worked at the latch. Logan had been sitting in the living room sipping some coffee when the doorbell rang, when he answered the door it was Pietro.
"What are you doing here? Rita's not home right now." Logan told Pietro as the boy ran into the house and laid down the couch.
"Then I'll wait here for her, but I wont leave until I ask her what she was doing with my dad today." Pietro said with that cocky attitude of his.
"What do you mean? When was she with Magneto?" Logan asked, grabbing Pietro's shirt and shoving him against the wall. Logan thought for a second and before Pietro could say anything Logan looked up the stairs and called Gordon, bringing him out of the room he was given for his stay.
"What?" Gordon asked before looking down to see Logan holding a silver-haired boy that he had seen his first day at Bayville High, and who looked just like the man he and Rita had run into earlier.
"Who was the person you saw today? What was his name" Logan glared at Gordon, scaring the crap out of him.
"Um, I think I remember Rita calling him mango-something, and he told her not to call him that, to call him Eric." Gordon said, running back into his room.