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Chapter 5 – Grief
One Month later…
Xavier finished listening to Logan, who was nursing a massive burn which was closing on the left side of his face, and grimaced, opening his laptop and typing an email to his favorite enemy.
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To: Nathaniel Essex
How is Liz?
Hopefully, she is coping well. Remy is impossible to live with! He is moodier than Jubilee with premenstrual syndrome and keeps blowing things up for no apparent reason. One assumes his arrogant, womanizing personality would allow him to cope well, but this has not proven to be the case. He's also lost about fifteen pounds and never smiles.
Was breaking them up truly the right thing to do?
-Charles
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Sinister's Lab
Sinister walked into Liz's room and pried a box of chocolates out of her hand. He sighed and sat down, watching her while she slept. Popping one of the chocolates into his mouth, he quickly spit it out in the trashcan next to her desk. "Raspberry, vile fruit," Essex muttered as he walked toward his room in the living area of his main lab. "I should create a pestilence that kills all raspberries. That would keep them from hiding in decadent chocolate shells and tricking the unsuspecting!"
Sinister sat down in front of his computer and checked his email, typing a quick reply to Xavier:
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To: Charles Xavier
He lost fifteen pounds? I found it. Tell Remy he can find his excess body fat on Liz's thighs, where all of her newly gained weight managed to distribute itself. I couldn't be more pleased because the more weight she gains, the less sexually attractive she will be.
Liz, like Remy, has also proven a storm to be weathered. It breaks my heart to see her weep non-stop and binge eat, it really does. It has been over a month and I am beginning to fear that we made a blunder in breaking them up, especially in the manner we did it. The fight they had that night was somewhat remarkable, and I am unsure as to whether or not they could salvage a relationship from the wreckage, even if we attempted to put them back together. I just do not know how much longer I can stand my Lizzy being like this.
-Nathaniel
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He clicked 'send' and got up when he saw Liz standing in front of him. "Hello, Darling. Are you feeling better?" Tears ran down her puffy face as she shook her head. Mr. Sinister himself was defenseless against her bawling eyes as she looked up at him. "Honey, you are going to be alright. Just…tell me what we need to do to make you feel better."
Essex wrapped his arms around her as she cried into his chest. "I don't know, I just don't know. I love Remy so much! I didn't mean to say all those mean things to him or fight or ruin everything!" There was an element of guilt that Sinister had not fathomed; he had assumed that breaking up Liz and Remy would mean thing would return to the way things had been before. But they didn't. Liz was miserable and lonely, missing Remy constantly, and he felt guilty for playing a role in breaking them up, even if she didn't know it. She sniffled as Essex attempted to comfort her.
"Darling, you have to let him go. He left you, it was for the best. He knew he could not care for you." He said to his daughter, who simply sobbed.
"This is your fault!" She said between breaths. "You broke him, you ruined his life, and now he thinks he can't be there for me because of what you did to him!" Liz wiped her eyes and walked backwards, tottering between intense sadness and anger. Finally settling on anger, she turned and stomped away to her room, pulled out a bag, and started haphazardly throwing things in.
"Where are you going?" Sinister said, confusedly.
"Back to Oxford. Maybe I'll get a degree in American Literature, or Physics, or anything that requires me to be on a different continent than you!" She said. "You hurt my ex-fiancé, and because of you, he thinks he'll never…"
"Darling, please!" Sinister said.
"No!" She said, tears still falling from her eyes as she disappeared through a tesseract. "Goodbye, Father. I need to get away from you!"
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At the Mansion…
BOOM!
"GODDAMIT REMY!" Scott yelled, hitting the ground when a charged card landed on the ground in front of he and Jean as they were leaving the mansion. Remy slid down the roof and peeked over the edge.
"Désolé, mon ami!" He yelled.
"Sorry? You're sitting on the roof throwing explosives in random directions! The mansion diameter looks like a mine field!" Scott barked.
"Professor, I fear Remy is not coping well with his breakup. Have you spoken to him?" Jean said to the Professor telepathically.
"Yes, Jean, I have. I did not anticipate this type of grief to accompany their breakup…he'll become more tolerable as time passes." The Professor replied, before checking his email for a response from Sinister.
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To: Nathaniel Essex
Nathaniel, were you suffering from empty nest syndrome? It makes a lot of sense, but you do need to respect the fact that Elizabeth will leave you for a man someday. And, I honestly think that Remy and Liz could be a good thing. Well, better than Remy brooding and blowing things up. All I know is that it's been a month and Remy is empathically forcing us all to feel the edge of his loneliness and angst.
After growing up as your daughter, I do believe that Liz COULD forgive Remy, but she'd have to want it. And after the fight they broke up on…I'm not entirely sure if we could make either of them see how miserable they are making everyone around them by being apart.
-Charles
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Back at the lab…
Essex laid on his daughter's bed and conversed with Snowball.
"Well, Snowball, this is a fine mess." He reached out to pet the rabbit, only to have his left index finger nearly bitten off. "I probably deserve that. She will be back, she has to come back, right?" The rabbit hopped across the bed and landed on the pillow next to Essex's head. "Without her, I end up moping around and talking to a mutant rabbit like a pathetic fool." He got up and walked back to the computer.
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To: Charles Xavier
Empty nest? Perhaps. I have considered that.
However, none of that matters, because Lizzy became extremely angry with me earlier and left. She feels that it is my fault Remy is in the position to feel incapable of truly taking care of her. There is only one solution to avoid my being estranged and her being unhappy for the foreseeable future.
We must find a way to get them back together.
-Nathaniel
Coming Up: Sinister and Xavier team up to get Remy and Liz back together, hoping that the damage they caused in breaking them up won't keep them apart. Xavier gets caught playing dirty with the young ex-lovers.
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