Chapter 10: Power and Betray

When Ethan wake up he found himself not alone in Emma's bedroom. He had almost expected to wake up alone, but there she was. Lying close to him. He could still not put his finger on it. Why did this feel so right? Being this close to her. With that happened the night. It was all good. Better than good. Maybe too good.

"Stop thinking so much." Ethan hear Emma whisper as she moved closer to him.

"You up?" he asks. "I plan on sneaking out and make breakfast, but now when you up that plan is destroyed." Emma smile and look up at him.

"We can pretend I'm not awake so you can go and make breakfast." Ethan laugh and kiss her forehead before leaving the bedroom and go to the kitchen. Surprisingly he heard his phone call and walk over to look at the scene. It was an anonymous call.

"Emma?" Ethan called. "I thought I didn't have any coverage from your house."

"They must be close if they can find your phone." Emma answer and came out to the living room. She had the blanket around her and look at the number. "Try to answer." she told him and he did. He answers the phone.

"Ethan?"

"Mom?" Ethan ask. "What do you want?"

"Tell you it would be smart to come with me home to Bayville." Emma look at him as she could hear the voice of his mother in the other line.

"Why would I?"

"You don't need to come with me, but it's smart to go back home before anything happens." Ethan was on his way to ask what she meant but she had already hang up before he got the chance to say anything.

"What?" Emma asked as he watch the phone.

"I will be back." Ethan told her and didn't stop to take a jacket before going out to get a better coverage. As he found the spot he uses to call from her hit the buttons fast and call. It too time before anyone answer. To long he thought and was on his way to hang up when someone eventually answer. "Hallo? Dad?"

"Nathan?" It was Scott.

"Cyke, where is my father?"

"He is with Kurt and Rogue. How are you man? Where are you?"

"No time to chat Scott, just tell me if everything is alright at the institute."

"Yes, why?"

"Nothing, tell my father I said hi." Ethan hang up and swear. He got back to the house there Emma was sitting in the couch, still only the blanket around her. She stood up as he came in and walk over to him.

"Hey, is everything okay?" she asks and Ethan nodded.

"Can we start with the two last doors now?" he asks and lay the phone on the dinner table. "I will have to get back, my mother seems to tell me something was happening. They were okay, but I'm afraid it might not be forever." He turns to meet her eyes. "I have to go back as fast as I can."

"I understand, but you know you need to train."

"So, I will come back when I know they are safe, I promise." Emma laugh and smile at him.

"You really start to sound like you have a heart."

"Emma…"

"I was joking, Ethan." She kisses him by his cheek. "I will help you, just let me change and try to relax so you are ready when I'm finish." He nodded and she walk to her room to change.

Ethan and Emma appeared in his memory when he was maybe eleven or something. He was in school and people was walking around him. The small Ethan look angry and dislike at everyone. The scene then change to the danger room and he was training with Scott and Jean. Ethan was not the best to work in team as he only run around and didn't try to help the others stay alive from the gun who shot color balls. After the training his father came in and they start to talk.

"Ethan, you must learn to work in a Team." he told him.

"I told you father, I'm not an X-Men. Why do you keep try to make me fight with them?"

"Coz you need to learn that you can't do everything on your own. You can't control everything." the scene change to the white endless room.

"That was fast." Emma stated.

"We have two doors, this must have been my door to illusion." Ethan said. Emma could feel he was stressed, but didn't say anything as she took away the door and then let the next memory come.

The room was black, but he saw his parents, Emma and Jean. They were all looking at him. Waiting for him to do something.

"You are a coward." Jean said.

"You are running from yourself." Scott appeared behind her.

"You right, you are not an X-Men." his father said. "X-Men doesn't give up."

"You not my son, you are too scared to be of my blood." his mother said.

"Ethan?" Emma ask him worried.

"It's just an illusion." he said, telling her he was okay. He had already had this once and he would not break down a second time. "The door must be my door for blood lust and my sympathetic."

"Why? If it wasn't your last door, why would you guess on that?" Emma ask him.

"Because they are all right. I'm a coward, I'm running from myself and I have already told you that I'm not my mother and not my father, an X-Men."

"Why do you run? What do you run from?"

"Lost," Ethan told her. "I run because I'm afraid and I need power to do what I want. I need to use my powers to control and make other's fear me. Power is the way to the top."

"And you say you not your mother?" Emma ask, hearing how he spoke.

"I don't kill, I don't believe humans never will accept us. Human, mutants. We are all the same." He answers, knowing she was doubting his words. "I don't believe for what my father think. I don't wish to become like my mother. But I know I need power to survive, and you do it too."

"I do, shall we take our leave. You must go home as you said-" Emma was cut off by the memory changing. They were back in the snow forest. Seeing small Ethan and Emma being together. Their younger self laying in the snow and watching the sky. They had become a little older and Ethan, that lived in the town close by, had start seeing her more often.

"Emma, where are we?"

"One of your memories. But I don't understand, we have close the doors. You should be fine and we should get back." she tried to take them out, but nothing happened. Ethan keep looking at the kids and try to remember the memory, there was only one problem.

"We got a problem." Ethan said and look around.

"What?" Emma ask, not very interested.

"I don't remember this…" Ethan walk closer to the kids and watch as they pointed at different clouds.

"There is a rabbit!" Emma said.

"No, it's a dragon!" Ethan told her.

"You are blind!"

"And you have to little imagine." they both suddenly start to laugh and the grown-up Ethan smile. It was a nice moment they had, but he couldn't remember this.

"Ethan, we should go." Emma said behind him, but he didn't listen and walk a little closer. The kids were laughing and look at each other.

"Promise we always be friends?" Ethan ask Emma.

"Just friends?" Emma ask him. "You are my best friend now." she said and hit him nice on the shoulder.

"Always and forever." Ethan whisper and Emma repeated his words with her own. The scene change and the snow weather had changed to a bit warmer forest. It was the same forest just the snow was gone. The grown-up Ethan look around and found his smaller him chasing his new best friend. He might had been seven to ten years. They both laugh and had fun. It was however still something Ethan didn't remember.

"Ethan," Emma said as he had catch her and fell them both so she lay over him. "I love you." she whispered.

"What do you mean?" Ethan ask.

"Ethan, we are leaving now!" Emma took his hand but he didn't move.

"I mean that you are everything for me." the smaller Emma whisper to Ethan. "You have change my world, Ethan. I want to always be there for you, and always see the smile of yours. Would you like to have a life with me forever? As friends, siblings and everything you can be between two friends?" the small Ethan, seem to understand her words bend up and kiss her lips. He didn't know that the kiss meant, but he had learn a kiss meant a lot.

"You are my everything too, Emma."

"Ethan?" the grown-up Emma ask as the scene change.

"Why does I not remember this?"

"We have to go, we have close the doors." Emma told him.

"No, I want to know why I don't remember this. We might have been kids but this is just weird. I look like ten or something in this, but I don't remember being here. I left when I was three four years. Why am I here at the age of ten?" Ethan turn and look around. They were on a beach, one he recognized from Bayville.

"Ethan, it's complicated, can we leave now?" Ethan ignore her and watch himself, in the age of eleven it looks like coming walking. From school on his way home as he had the school bag with him. But he didn't see Scott. He didn't remember this at all. But he just watches as his Eleven-Ethan walk down to the beach and sat beside a girl. It was Emma.

"Hi, how was school?" she asks him.

"The same as usually. I can't stay long; my father will wonder where I am."

"Ethan, I need to tell you something." Emma stop him in his movement. "I have to go back." she said. "I have to go home."

"Why? Don't you have it good there you live now?"

"I do, but my parents want to leave and I can't give them a reason to stay as we are a secret."

"Okay, but you will come back, won't you? Always and Forever?"

"No, Ethan. I don't think so." Emma told him and kiss his cheek. "I'm sorry but I will have to take your memory of us too." he didn't get the chance to fight as she had already start to make the memories fade. "I promise, we will meet again. You are going to find me, but I'm afraid you won't be much for a like of me. But you will find me, and we will be friends again. Until then; live, be happy and don't lose more than you need to get what you want." she whispered in his ear and then she walks away and left him. The small Ethan got his consciousness back and look around like in wonder of that he did there, before he starts to walk away.

Ethan opened his eye and didn't turn to look at Emma. She had meant a lot for him, but… she had taken that away. What was he supposed to do? The memories, they were there. He could just not get any feelings forward. He couldn't put a finger on them.

"Ethan?" he stood up and walk out. Emma run after him. "Ethan, I'm sorry I didn't tell you. It wasn't meant to happen!"

"Did you plan on telling me?" Ethan turn around to face her, being inches from her. "Did you plan on keeping that promise that we will be friends again, or more? I don't know what to say!"

"When don't say anything!" Emma said and place her hand on his cheeks. "Let me know what you feel, let me read-"

"No!" Ethan yelled. "I need to know why! I need to know what this is!"

"It's love, Ethan!" Emma said. "I love you…" she whispered. "I have always loved you and will always do. You are my everything, always and forever."

"You have no right to say those words. First off, I can barely look at you. Second, I may have my memory of those moment we saw. But it's still empty."

"No, you love me to or else we would not have spent the night together. I know you Ethan, I know how you really feel."

"Then you know more than I do. I need to go." he said and left her. He didn't plan on turning around to get his stuff. He just got away from her, from the forest.

A/N: I hope the gramma was better, and that you guys like this story. Just for those who wonder and to explain my bad english. English isn't my first language. Anyway, I am trying and I will go back when I have reach Ch. 13 (The final Chapter of This Story)

I give you my love