It had been two days since the 'Knife incident' and Colossus was helping Xander carefully walk into his room arguing the entire way.
"You heard what John said, the mayors going to 'EAT' my friends at graduation and Buffy's doing nothing to stop it" Xander said with a lisp as he tried to talk through the missing teeth as Mystique followed patiently.
"Alexander you were stabbed two days ago and you have yet to heal" She said as he slowly lowered himself to sit on the bed.
She cut him off before he could Continue "Alexander you are not leaving this room and that is final, John and Dominic are more then capable of dealing with Mayor Wilkins" she said before holding up her hand to stop more protests "And IF by some chance they fail Victor is on his way there now, your friends will be fine I'm sure"
So long as they don't make the mistake of thinking Victor is a demon she thought with a smile
"But there probably worried about me... can I at least call them and tell them I'm okay?" he asked even as Mystique shook her head.
"Alexander we have a lot of enemies, if they where to find out you where Mine or Victors son they would hurt you" She said as Xander just sighed
"I'm not afraid of being hurt mom, I've been fighting demons and vampires for three years now" he argued again as his mother just looked at him.
"Alexander when I say they will hurt you" She paused and took a breath "Alexander they will hurt or kill your friends just because they are the friends of my son"
Xander thought about that for a while before he looked back up.
"Mom I've been wondering and" he paused and considered how to ask something that had been bothering him since Magneto had told him about his History.
Seeing him pause Colossus decided it was time to make his excuses "Pardon me Raven, but I have a painting to finish and Erik wished to see me in an hour" he said before leaving them alone
With a Sigh Xander decided to be as blunt as he could.
"Can you tell me about Graydon?" he whispered softly.
With a sigh Mystique sat beside him and thought back on the years she had spent raising the man she would have to kill.
"Graydon always seemed bitter, as a baby he would never come to me unless I was Human" she said sadly
"As he grew he would spend more time away from me" she said as she remembered one of the more painful memories "He would tell people his real mother died... that I was an evil monster that had stolen him" she said as Xander sat silently.
"In his early teens he seemed to gain even more venom against mutants, myself especially. It seemed every day we would have an argument that started or ended with 'If you weren't a freak'" she said before she sighed again.
"I didn't make it easy for him I'm sure Alexander but... I had people cursing me for how I was born whenever I went out, I could not take it from my own son as well" she said before she collected herself again.
"When he started the 'Friends of Humanity' they where little more then a gang that would harass mutants whenever they found them... he would leave the pamphlets and flyers around the house for me to find"
"When I saw him in a riot that ended in four mutants being beaten to death I... I knew I had to leave... I stayed until his seventeenth birthday before I signed everything over to his name and walked out. The next time I saw him he was speaking for the friends of humanity about the evils of Mutants"
With a sigh she stood and smiled at her son "I Am sorry Alexander, but I must speak with Erik before Piotr" she said before leaving.
Xander watched her go before dropping his head onto the bed "my best friend is a witch who's dating a werewolf, the girl of my dreams is dating a corpse, I've just been stabbed by a green guy who 'Must' be the French kisser from hell, my mom is blue, my dad can bench press a Buick and my brother is an asshole who tried to kill them both" he sighed before closing his eyes "my life. Complicated? Never" he muttered sarcastically before drifting off to sleep.
