Psycix- Thanks for the reviews and you cant hate Xavier (even if he is a jerk) he's the hero of this story. 1, he wanted to save that guy in the bar when Magnus wanted to leave him 2, he wants to save humanity while Magnus wants to destroy it and 3, he suffers premature male paten baldness so he has our sympathy.

Return to Auschwitz

-1989-

Auschwitz hadn't changed over the years since last he was here but it had changed so much, the smell was gone but it hung in the back of his throat and his mind still. The colours of the world were slowly returning the green of the grass, the yellow of dandelions and daisies as they poked through the ground to sunlight. The colours were not there when he was young he remembered that even the sky was not the same tranquil blue it was now he remembered it being grey and the bright yellow sun didn't shine down on the ground. When he thought about it he suddenly realised he couldn't remember colour in all the time he stayed there only black white and grey, yes many things had changed…some more then others.

"And that concludes our tour please stop at the gift shop down the road as you leave" beamed the woman who had bright red lips and dark hair twisted into a bun behind her head, she wore a Dark blue blazer with a white skirt, she carried a clipboard and spoke English with a bad accent.

He shook his head as he walked away from the woman in disgust, several groups of people still wandered around, first came the tour and then free time if you wish to take a closer look at things, of course certain areas were still out of bounds like hut ten (which still sent a chill down his spine as he walked by it.) He strode across the main square staring towards the gate, he had a irrational fear that if he looked away from the gate, if he glanced to the side that he would see them, the Nazi's coming for him and he would be back there without his powers trapped again.

He stopped as he came up to a smaller man who looked at the white haired man with a smile, he was bald and had a wise face "Good day Magnus" said Xavier with a curt nod, it had been many years since the two had last met and despite their less then happy parting both men's hearts fluttered and felt alive at the sight of their best friend.

"I haven't used that name in a long time Charles…now if you wish to address me you can call me Magneto" said Magneto without a quiver of fear in his voice.

"Magneto?" asked Charles with concern in his voice and a raised eyebrow.

"Yes Charles, I have cast off the shackles of humanity we are Mutants Charles and we should have our own names" said Magneto with an air of pride around him.

"Magnus…Magneto I just want to say I'm still sorry about the way Gabrielle and I…" began Charles as he looked down at his mud covered feet.

"Charles all is forgiven I understand now what it must have been like for you to try and hide it" said Magneto as he laid a hand on his shoulder.

"So what have you been up to?" asked Charles as he tried to strike up a real conversation with a man his intellectual equal which is something he had missed for many years.

"Charles if you wish to speak to me at least let us do it as I give you the real tour of Auschwitz" said Magneto with a courteous nod as he motioned.

The two friends strolled through the yard towards some buildings as they continued to talk.

"How is Gabrielle?" asked Magneto with a slightly curious glance over at Charles, Charles sensed the extreme interest by Magneto and chose his words carefully as he spoke.

"Gabrielle and I parted ways a quite while ago…going on five years now" said Charles with great sadness in his voice.

"I'm sorry to hear that Charles" said Magneto as he placed his hand on Charles's shoulder, it was a comforting motion but perhaps Magneto squeezed a little too hard which put both men on edge. "May I ask why?" asked Magneto carefully as he looked at the face of the smaller man which was twisted between a grimace and a smile.

"When Gabrielle discovered my gifts…" began Charles until he was cut off by Charles.

"She cast you out didn't she? She was terrified of you" said Magneto with a slight gloating I-told-you-so tone in his voice.

"No Magnu…eto she was fine with it, we broke up because I spent more and more time helping other mutants trying to control their powers and because of that I spent less and less time with her, I didn't realise how bad it was until she left me a note. I cried Magneto…I cried to think even with all that I preach I too had placed Mutants above a human I cared for, I would have went after her but I realised the love was gone" said Xavier as he sniffed slightly. "What of you? Are you in a relationship?" asked Charles as he looked at Magnus with a raised eyebrow.

"No…once but not now…"

…

Magneto sat at the bedside of a woman as she screamed in pain, he held her hand tightly as he wiped sweat from her forehead.

"Please Marie let me take you to a hospital" begged Magneto as he held her hand to his lips and kissed it.

"No Erik you promised me I could do it anyway I pleased and I want a natural home birth" said the woman with a smile before she screamed in agony.

"At least let me numb the pain with my powers" said Magneto as he closed his eyes to concentrate.

"NO…I don't want any help, people have been doing this for millennia and despite all the technology we are no different" smiled the woman as she pushed again.

An hour passed before the twins were finally born, Marie died with a smile on her face "Well done" said Magneto as he kissed her forehead and closed her eyes.

…

"Any children?" asked Charles as Magneto seemed to have drifted off into his own thoughts.

"Two, twins actually…a boy and a girl" said Magneto as he paused in front of a building, This is the building where I first realised that man was evil, I would lie on my bunk and think of all the evil man can do…that's back when I thought I was on of them" said Magnus as he stared at hut twelve for a few more seconds before walking away.

"You?" asked Magneto as he glanced at Xavier.

"I beg your pardon" said Xavier as he glanced back at Magneto, he had been looking around the camp as the thoughts of the tourists filtered into his mind, fear, Wonderment, hate, boredom "Oh Children? No I have no children."

"I hate them you know?" said Magneto as he looked at the floor.

"You can't hate people for just being there Magnus…Magneto" said Xavier.

"I didn't mean people Charles, I don't hate people well no more then a man hates a amoeba, they are below us Charles I understand they cannot be blamed totally for their actions they are just too far down the evolutionary ladder to realise what they're doing" said Magneto as he shook his head.

"Then who did you mean?" asked Charles as he glanced around at the buildings they passed.

"My children…I love them too Charles don't get me wrong, but I hate the fact that they are a constant reminder of my weakness, when I lowered myself to reproduce with a lower species…it almost borders on bestiality" sighed Magneto.

"You loved that woman Magneto, you cant hide it so why do you say such things?" asked Charles with a distained head shake.

"Charles let me tell you something, Mankind loves dogs but it does not mean they are ready to have puppies" said Magneto with a smile which sent shivers down Xavier's spine when he thought about the comparison. "The thing that scares me the most is what if they're throwbacks…what if little Pietro and Wanda are human. I don't know what I would do."

"There is nothing you can do" said Xavier "if they have an active X-gene they will be mutants, if they do not they aren't but you will still love them just the same, you cant fool me my friend" smiled Xavier at his friend who blushed slightly.

"What if there was a way Charles, what if I could test them for the X-gene and if they test negative what if I could make them positive" smiled Magneto as he strolled past hut ten with a shudder, he remembered the things that went on their and thought about mentioning it too Charles but the thought was even too terrible for him.

"What do you mean Magneto, that would be playing god" said Charles with a terrified look at Magneto which he then stopped as he saw how scared Magneto was of the building they were passing.

"I'm not playing god, I'm just watching over his shoulder…A mutant I know named Mystique is expecting, I'm just doing a few experiments to see what I can find about mutant pregnancies…blood tests mainly of course, the life of the child is the most important thing" said Magneto with true sincerity which put Xavier's mind at rest.

"Something you said earlier" began Xavier "about not hating humans…is it true?" asked Xavier.

"Yes" nodded Magneto as he walked, his eyes fixed a head of him not wanting to give away any of his thoughts to Xavier.

"Then maybe there is hope for us yet" smiled Xavier "I think it best that this is where we part company."

"No! Charles come with me, I have a place where the mutants I know are living" said Magnus "You can come and we can make it a haven for mutants, they can hide from persecution until we are ready."

"It sounds ideal" smiled Xavier, he too had been thinking of a place where mutants can live in peace without fear, he had recently moved back into his old family home and bought up a lot of the land around it for him and his too young protégés to live in.

"Then be ready in a week and I shall come for you" smiled Magneto as he rose into the air "Goodbye my friend we shall meet again very soon" and with that he was gone.

…

A week passed in which Xavier flipped between going and not going over and over again, his protégé's agreed to follow whatever he wanted to do.

"What's the worst that can happen?" thought Charles as he strolled through the gardens one morning, he knew that if Magneto tried anything he could simply stop his mind till he could escape, he didn't like using his powers on others but if he was in danger he would and the possibility of danger was miniscule compared to the good the two of them could do together.

So it came to pass that Xavier stood in the doorway to his mansion, it had been boarded up and declared vacant, a trainee teacher stood next to him, the boy had a thick muscular body, he corrected his glasses as he coughed.

"Maybe he isn't coming professor" said Henry McCoy the teenage genius.

"No he will come" said Xavier as he looked over at the young woman who stood on his other side. Once she had been a goddess, her father had taken her to Africa as part of his missionary work while her mother had stayed in America because she was pregnant, unfortunately her father died and she was taken in by a local tribe. Her mutant powers manifested and she was hailed as a goddess, Charles found her and reunited her with her sister who had been placed into an orphanage when their mother died, she was called Storm.

In the distance three giant silver balls shot towards the group, they seemed to come from no where as they stopped in mid air and lowered to the ground. Three holes opened in the balls, Charles looked at the others and smiled reassuringly as he climbed into the ball, the others followed and they became sealed off from the outside world.

Hours passed till the balls came to an abrupt stop, the holes in the tops opened to reveal a lush jungle and Magneto hovering just above them.

"Welcome my friends…" began Magneto as the balls rotated round to show a giant iron rock hovering above the jungle, a complex sat on top of the iron mass of land which seemed to hover of its own accord "…to Asteroid M!"

To Be Continued…

Well that was it for this week (not the most exciting chapter I know but think of it as the calm before the storm) please give me lots and lots of reviews.

Next time- You know that the two can't stay friends but why? What will happen? Plus Magneto gives humanity one last chance or will he?

(by the way the next chapter is the last one set before X-men evolution and after that there will be only one more chapter…please don't cry, which will be set after the whole Apocalypse thing so be prepared.