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Disclaimer: Most of my X-men knowledge is from the movies and what I can remember of both of the X-men cartoons. The rest I got from reading X-men fanfiction and what I read from their wikia pages. They might be out of character. So you know I can't be the one to own anything from the X-men besides their merchandise...if I ever buy any.

Oxford University, 1949

Charlotte was in a good mood as she walked across the campus to get to the flat she shared with her sister. She finished the last exam that she had to take for the school year and she has a date with the guy she met in a party last weekend. She was done with her first year of university and summer is rolling on in. She could not wait to take Raven to Paris and see the sights. Life was good.

Then it wasn't.

When Charlotte almost made it out of the campus she got an unpleasant surprise. Right in front of her a few feet away was her step-father Kurt in all his unholy glory. She was about to turn away and take the long way home when he spotted her.

"Charlotte," she heard him say as he walked towards her. Having no other option, she went to meet him half-way.

"Kurt," she tried to say his name with a smile but knew it probably looked more like a grimace. "What are you doing here?"

"There something important we need to talk about," her step-father said in a serious tone.

"What is it?" She inquired curiously. Ever since she left, and took Raven with her to get as far away as possible from her step-family after her mother died last year, they had little to no contact with each other. He did not even know where they lived which explains why he met her here and not at her flat.

"This conversation is best done in private." He motioned to the car and driver by the entrance. She knew it was not a good idea to go anywhere with her step-father but she was curious what he wanted to talk to her about. Cursing herself for her need to know everything, she nodded and let him lead her towards his car.

They got into the car in silence and when driver asked where he should take them she got a look from Kurt. "Well I certainly don't know where you and that sister of yours are living at."

Reluctantly she told the driver the address of her flat. Kurt made a face of disdain when they arrived at the building of where the flat was located at. She really just wanted go into his mind get the information she wanted and make him leave but she wouldn't. Damn her high morals on what to do and not do with telepathy. Besides her step-father's mind was a poisonous abyss that she didn't want delve in. She led him to her flat and like a 'good' hostess asked he wanted anything to drink. He said no and they went straight to business. She was lucky Raven wasn't home yet.

"Last month I got a phone call from one of your father's old lawyers," he started. Now her interest was really peaked. She doesn't remember much of her father, only flashes of kind smiles and that of a lab. And that of his death that Kurt kept projecting every time he would look at her after his funeral. "He said that your father had a contract that would come to affect when you turn 17, which you already have."

"Oh, and what is this contract that apparently involves me?" She asked in half sarcastic and half curious tone.

Kurt gave her look but did not call her out on it. "It was marriage contract between you and one of his business associates His name is..."

"Excuse me," she interrupted him. "Did you just say marriage contract?"

"Sebastian Shaw," he kept going like she didn't interrupt him. "And you are meeting him this weekend in Paris."

Paris, France, 1949

Here she was in the city of love in a fancy restaurant waiting to meet her betrothed. She was here to do one thing and one thing only. Meet the man she was to marry so she can erase everything to do with their betrothal and go on her merry way back home to Raven. She felt guilty for lying to her sister on the real reason she was going to Paris this weekend. She'll make it up to her when she comes back, but this was important. She knew that when she heard the name of her betrothed come out of Kurt's mouth she felt a sense of dread and fear coming from him. The telepath knew that if Kurt was actually worried about her up-and-coming marriage to this man, than this was something she shouldn't go through with. She read through the contract the only way to dissolve it is for an adult of the Xavier family to the reject to the match or for the other person involved to reject her. Since she was the last of the Xavier family and Kurt was not considered one, according to the specifics of the contract, she couldn't get help from that end. She didn't want to risk the chance that her betrothed was like Kurt and he wouldn't reject her because he wanted the Xavier money.

Sebastian Shaw was younger than she imagined which put her a little on edge. For someone who knew her father she would have expected him to be her father's age, maybe a bit older or younger than him. He was also charming and knew just what to say to her and when to compliment her. He was smart too. He was able to keep up with and understand what she was talking about, even contributing his own thoughts on certain topics. She honestly enjoyed her time with him and if they met in different circumstances she would not have objections to marrying him. Because of that she let her guard down and it proved to one of her biggest mistakes in her life.

It happened when Shaw escorted her back to hotel. They stopped in front of her room door and Shaw went in to lean into kiss her. Before he reached her lips she decided it was prefect time to delve into his mind and get her mission over with. What she found horrified her. All those experiments he has done on others (That poor boy, she thought horrified as the memory of Shaw shooting the boy's mother in front of him.) and what he plans for the future. She recoiled when she felt his lips on hers and whispered in shock, "Monster."

"I wouldn't call myself that, honey." Shaw chastised her. "More like the path to a new Era. Your powers are simply marvelous, even more powerful than I have been told. Your entry into my mind was not as unnoticed as you would have liked but given your condition it is to be expected, even if it only just started to kick in a few moments ago."

Charlotte started to feel dizzy and everything around her started to blur. "Wh-what…di-did…you do to-to…me?"

As she faded into unconscious, she heard Shaw say, "I'm going to have fun with you. Maybe you can replace Erik as my favorite."

Miami, Florida, 1962

Well he got the telepath that he's always wanted, Charlotte thought with a mental grimace after she told the others that she would not be much help as there was another telepath that was blocking her. He was the main reason she was here. After she saw him in Agent Mactaggert's mind she knew that she had to help stop him. She knows exactly what he is capable of after being in his mind that one time over a decade ago. She mentally scolded herself for not going over all the information she got from Shaw as soon as she gotten her memories back. If she had then she would have figure out that Shaw and Schmidt were the same person.

As they were heading back inside the ship, she felt him. He was filled anger and hate. Quickly going back up to the deck, she told the others that there someone else out by Shaw's yacht. Seeing his powers again brought her back to the good memories she had with him back in Poland. She was brought out of her reminiscing when she noticed that he was not letting go of Shaw's submarine. She shouted at him to let go (She knew that the others around her thought that she was mentally insane for shouting at somebody that could not hear her, well maybe not her sister.) and decided to dive into the water to stop him from dying.