Who You Pretend To Be

Chapter 15: Exposure.

Rating: PG-13

Disclaimer: If I said I owned them, I lied.

Author's Note: Okay, so now I'm not really sure what I'm gonna write next. I need help! Please, leave suggestions:)

-X-

Alec starred at her blankly. "By the way," Shannon asked, "Does the Government know that you're a mutant?" Alec was silent for a moment, then shook his head. Shannon smiled.

"I didn't think so. Now, you leave my son alone, you won't have a problem. You repeat his name in this room, or to anybody else, and I will shout your secret form the roof tops."

"Where are the rest of the students?" Alec finally asked.

"I can't tell you that." Alec was getting frustrated.

"Tell me about this Scott Summers that we also have in custody." Shannon sighed.

"Scott's just a teacher."

"So he can..." He looked at another file. "Shoot lasers from his eyes?"

"And I can blow things up. What's it to ya?" She snapped.

"Are you two... I mean, your son has his name..." Alec didn't finish. Shannon shot her mouth open, "Oh come on!" Alec moved from his spot in front of the table, and closer to the door. "That is none of your business, Alec."

"Don't play that with me, Shannon. You seem to forget, that I know who you really are. You're a good person, but you also have a darker side. You can get ruthless, mean, and I think we both know you hide that side."

"Because it's not who I am anymore."

"Bull shit! It's exactly who you are. You never get rid of crap like that."

"I've changed, Alec. I have my temper under control, I don't bring people down anymore, I don't seek them out. I keep to my self. But I'm not the only one who's changed. Look at what you've become. A prick. Are you really happy, Alec? Or are you happy like this?"

"Maybe I miss you!" He yelled. "Maybe I regret everything I did when we were together. Maybe I hate my self for leaving the way I did." Shannon stood up in such furry, that she sent the chair to the floor.

"Well, guess what? You made your decisions. You don't get to take them back. You hurt me, and I hated you for it. I turned into a spiteful, angry person. Worse then I already was. But, I found an okay kinda job, and then I had a baby! And, I finally found a great job, and a fantastic guy. I'm happy. It's not my fault you're not."

She picked the chair back up and sat down. "So, what happens now?" Alec took a breath.

"We take you to get registered."

-X-

The woman slid a thin black wrist band around Shannon's left wrist, and a brown one around her right. "You can go." Shannon stood up and walked out of the building and into the daylight. Scott and the rest of the kids were waiting. Shannon ran to him and jumped into his arms.

"Are you okay?" He asked, holding her tight.

"Yah, I'm fine. You?" She finally pulled away.

"We're all fine. They know about Griffon, don't they?"

"Don't worry. They won't be bringing him into this."

"How do you know?"

"Lets just say that I used to know the guy in charge of my case. He owes me one."

"So, what happens now?" One of the kids asked. Shannon looked at Scott.

"We can't go to the Professor. They'll fallow us."

"Then, we'll go back to the mansion and wait until we here from them."

"And until then?" Shannon asked. Scott smiled.

"We go get our son."

TBC