AN: First X-Men fanfic, I'd love to know what you think about it. It's just basically Senator Kelly's thoughts right before he dies in the first movie.
Ironical Deaths
By Cat
I took one last breath; everything in my life seemed to draw itself to my sight in that one moment. It's ironic; during my child hood I had been sad most of the time. I rarely had someone to call a friend; everyone was generally teasing me because I had a less than pleasant appearance. In short terms: I was ugly. The most- if possible- unpopular boy at school. So unpopular that in a way; I was known by a many a person. Most of my life had been based around discrimination; I had never been properly accepted during life- by friends, I had a rough time with my parents and I was never the sharpest tool on the shelf. When I became a senator; I became wrapped and so involved in my job that I got myself so obsessed with going against the mutants.
In the few minutes he had free; Professor Xavier explained about the school and X-men, I think he knew I wouldn't survive what that 'Magneto' person had done to me. He told me of how that had stopped a few other people of succeeding their quest to destroy mankind. He even somehow transmitted some fragments into my mind to make me see clearly. He showed me some of my speeches and showed me what they- the school- had turned into. From the little images he showed me, I can see that they weren't as evil as I had made them out to be. The inhabitants of the school were mostly children, young adults to be exact, but they were still children in a manner.
The images he showed me of my speeches were the worst part; after seeing images of the school it gave me something to think about. The school had been calm and quiet- far from wrong-doings and plotting against the human race. I had told the world that the mutants were evil and against us. But now I realize that they're just different from us; everyone is different and unique as I had found out in my youth. But I think that I was the main bad guy in the world; discriminating against people who couldn't help being different. In a sense, I now realize that I'm no different than someone like Hitler; a race for a perfect world; a perfect world.
I think that the war ahead is my fault, perhaps if I had just taught people to accept the mutants, rather than discriminating against them. We fear them, but having just asked that mutant if she hated us, I realize that they are just as fearful of us. I was the one to cause that fear: I told everyone of the bad things they could do with their powers, but now I realize that their powers saved us multiple times before.
It's ironic, but I think that without all their powers and special abilities: they're still the better side. Forgiveness: with all I had said and done, Xavier still managed to forgive me. I only wish I had had a chance to live with a strength as valuable as forgiveness.
Peace, I had always made out to myself that it was what I was fighting for: peace and eternal happiness within the great nation of America. I was such an idiot, I was causing a war and now there's a war coming and my only wish is to take back everything wrong I said about the mutants. Perhaps we could have lived in harmony with them.
I was the one to cause my own death, I don't doubt it. I caused mankind to hate something that I knew nothing about and thus, probably killing us all.
The End
