Who You Pretend To Be
Chapter 16: Who You Pretend to Be
Rating: PG-13
Disclaimer: If I said I owned them, I lied.
Author's Note: I have decided to turn this story into a two parter. In the Second story, I'm going to have Jean come back. So, here's the last chapter! PLEASE review! Enjoy!
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The security unit tore through Alec Decovnie's office, looking for something, anything. Then, they found her file. They took it to the head of office, who read through it.
And found that the information in Alec Decovnie's on Shannon Hayden did not match that of their own.
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Someone had found files on the school, and the safe house had been found. The children, Storm, Logen, and the Professor now had to return to the United States and register. They felt defeated. And it wasn't a nice feeling. Shannon was in the kitchen getting Griffon some juice when Scott came in. "Phone for you. An Alec Decovine." When she didn't answer, Scott asked, "Shannon?"
"Just hang up." Shannon ordered.
"What?"
"Just hang up." She repeated, sounding more angry.
"Shannon, what-" He was cut off when Shannon blew up the phone. He winced in pain as it burned his hand. Griffon started to cry at the noise, so Shannon carried him out of the room, leaving a confused Scott to run his hand under the faucet over the sink.
When Scott came into their room that night, he found Shannon sitting on the bed, grading papers. "Wheres Griffon?" He asked. "With Rouge." She answered coldly.
"You wanna tell me what happened this afternoon?" He sat down across from her.
"No." She said, not looking at him.
"Please."
"DAMN IT, SCOTT!" She shouted, catching herself before her hand's flew forward. She got up, her breathing heavy. "I said no."
"Who is Alec Decovnie?" She stayed silent, but shot him a nasty glare, a fire in her eye's that he had never seen before. "Who is he!" Scott demanded. She sighed heavily.
"Alec Decovnie is my ex-boyfriend. He's also the Government Official in charge of my mutant case." That was all she was prepared to tell him. "There's something else," he said, convinced that that wasn't the whole story. She sighed again, then decided that if he was insisting on hearing the deep dark secrets of her past, then she was just going to have to tell him.
"I consider myself to be a good person. But, I have a lot of... deep seeded anger problems." And that was the light way of putting things. "When I was younger, if someone screwed me over, I made it my life's work to make their lives a living hell. I would seek out my enemies, I brought conflict everywhere I went. I was self destructive, the worst kind." This wasn't exactly how she wanted him to find out how she had once been, but she was too far in to stop now.
"And then I met Alec Decovnie, the cop that arrested me for fighting on the side walk outside some bar. We hit it off real fast. He was the same way I was, if not worse. When we would fight,which was a not small portion of the time, we would destroy each other, and ourselves in the process. When he got promoted to Detective, it got worse. More stress, I guess. Then, he got a job offer somewhere else, and we would have to move if he took the job. I decided to be a bitch, and told him either he stayed with me, or left without me. He chose the latter."
Even though she was happy now, it still stung. He had hurt her so much. Now it was time to tell him the truth about her father.
"Then, one day, I went to visit my dad." Scott looked confused, so she explained.
"The man you know as my dad, is not my Biological father. He's my mom's second husband and is the man who raised me. My birth dad lives in Boston. Anyway, I went to see him, and I would watch the way he made his girlfriend feel when he would do things just to be a jack ass. I saw what I was turning into. Then, one day, he got drunk at a wedding, and got in a car, and hit a kid. He went to jail. And i knew that that was where I was headed. So, I cleaned up my act, got help for my anger problems. But sometimes, I slip. And, when that happends, which i very rarely, the person I show people isn't always who I am."
"But why? Why don't you show people who you are all the time?" Scott asked.
"Because, Scott. I learned a long time ago, that what you show people, it's not who you are. It's who you pretend to be."
"You don't have to pretend around me." Scott told her. She smiled.
"I know." She said, kissing him. Rouge knocked on the door and let herself in. "An Alec Decovnie is on the phone for you. He sound's upset." She said. Shannon looked at Scott how nodded. Shannon took Griffon from her friend and balanced him on her hip, then took the phone. "Hello?"
"Shannon, It's Alec, thank god I finally got a hold of you. Shannon, there's something you gotta know. Young kids, kids of mutants, the governments been taking them, using them for research."
She suddenly felt very scared. "Alec, what are you saying?"
"They found the file. They know about Griffon... and they're coming for him." Shannon stopped breathing. She dropped the phone. Scott came up beside her. "What?"
"They've been doing 'research' with children of mutants."
"Research? What kind of research?"
"I dunno. But I'm guessing it's not fun." She stopped and turned to him. "They know about Griffon. They're coming here." She looked down at Griffon, then back up at Scott. "For him."
Scott thought for a few minuets, then said, "We have to get out of here."
"And go where?"
"Anywhere. But we can't stay here. I think you know that." She slowly nodded. Scott looked at Rouge, who was still standing in the door way.
"Go get the Professor." And she ran off.
Twenty minuets, they were packed and loading up Scott's car. "We'll have to stop and get another car before we leave the state."
"At eleven thirty at night?" Shannon asked, strapping a sleeping Griffon into his car seat.
"I"m pretty sure they'll be fine with a trade in," He said, and she could have sworn she saw him smirk in the darkness. They said goodbye to everyone, and when she got to the professor, Shannon said, "thank you, for everything." They got in the car, and just before they reached the gate, Scott used his lazer's to detach their bracelets. They tossed them into the bushes, then drove through the Iron gate.
End
2nd story coming soon!