I don't own Marvel. Sony and Disney do. I however do own Lizzy and the storyline. This is a AU sequel to My World of Minds.
A Threatening Shadow: 2
2001
Chapter II
Marie's POV
I'm walking through the hallway, when I see Bobby with a suitcase. I speed up just a bit to catch up to him. "Bobby!" I shout.
He turns around. And instead of being met with a smile I'm met with a frown.
"Are you going with Lizzy and the professor?" I ask timidly.
"Oh, no, no I'm not," he says in more of a mumble.
"Bobby what's wrong?" I ask him in concern.
"Rogue...," he starts.
"What is it Bobby? You know you can tell me," I reassure him.
"Spider-Man asked me to be part of his team," he starts, his voice is excited. "Imagine him asking me," he says with a smile.
I feel my face and heart drop. "What did you reply?" I ask trying to hide the fact that I'm upset.
"I said I would love to," he replies with a huge smile.
"That's really great Bobby," I say trying to sound excited.
"You could come if you want," he says shyly.
"Bobby I belong here, with my friends, with the professor, they're my family," I reply.
I see his face drop. "Rogue can't you come?" he asks.
"Bobby...," I start.
"Fine, I guess I see now how important I am to you," he says bitterly.
"Bobby that's not it at all. I love you, you know I do, but you can't make me pick you over the X-Men," I reply as anger builds up inside of me.
"I just can't believe after all we've been through you don't want to come with me," he says, his voice raising with every word.
"It's not that simple," I reply shortly.
"Than explain, because I don't understand," he almost shouts.
"Because I'm not like you Bobby. You can be the hero, you've only ever hurt the bad guys, always saving the day. Well I put a kid in a coma, a coma Bobby," I explain.
"But you can control them now, can't you just come with me?" he asks, his voice softer.
"But what if I lose control? What then Bobby?" I ask pausing. "I won't have the professor to help me," I finish.
"So you're choosing the X-Men over me?" he asks in almost disbelief.
"Only cause you're making me," I reply.
Before I could say another word Bobby turns around and walks away, perhaps forever. I can't stop the tears forming in my eyes. I wipe a few tears off my face then run to my room.
Bobby's POV
I can't believe it she picked the X-Men over me? Why does she always have to be so stubborn? And I'm not making her choose, well maybe I am, but I didn't mean to. Why can't she just come with me?
As I step through the doors of the school, I step forward then turn around and say goodbye mentally to the place that for a long time I've thought as home.
I step into my car and start driving. Maybe I'll never come back, maybe it's goodbye forever. But at least for a little while it was my home. Now I'm starting on a whole new adventure and I can't wait to see where it leads. New York City, here I come.
Lizzy's POV
As I walk through the hallway I see Marie run past. From what I could see she looked like she had been crying. She doesn't slow down when I call to her, but keeps on running as if she can't hear me. I hear her slam the door behind me. I wait a few minutes, then head towards the door. The closer I get I hear sobbing, then I gently knock the door. "Oh, go away," I hear her say through the door.
I walk slowly away from the door. Trying not to feel hurt that she won't let me in, not that I don't blame her, sometimes you just need to be alone. I wish I could help her, hopefully Jean and/or Jubilee will look after her while I'm gone.
I head down the stairs into the professor's office.
"What was all that slamming?" Professor Xavier asks.
"Marie is upset about something," I reply.
"It probably has to do with Bobby going to New York City to be on Spider-Man's team," he replies.
"That jerk," I say and then quickly cover my mouth because I said it in front of Professor Xavier.
He just sort of smiles and replies, "I do not like name calling in my school."
"Sorry Professor," I reply looking down.
"So are you all packed?" he asks changing the subject.
"Yes I am, I just need to say goodbye to Rose then I'm ready when you are," I reply.
"Good," he says with a smile. "I'll have Peter bring down your bag. Then you can come down and we will leave."
I step into my room and am met with Rose watching another video of the Avengers fighting in the battle of New York, I shake my head. She goes crazy for the Avengers.
"Oh Hi Lizzy," she says in greeting. "Do you want to watch this video with me?" she asks.
"Sorry I can't, I have to help Professor Xavier with something out of state," I reply.
"Oh," she says with a sigh. "Don't be gone too long," she says, then hugs me tight.
"I won't," I reply. "Behave when I'm gone. Don't do anything crazy like try to bring Thor here or something stupid," I remark.
"Oh, you know I wouldn't do that," she pauses. "Unless you were here," she finishes with a huge smile.
"Very funny," I say flicking her shoulder.
It's a habit that we started when we were kids, if one of us thought the other was being completely silly or goofy we would flick them. Probably not the most mature thing to do, but hey she is like a sister to me, at least I've never pulled her hair, yet.
"Have fun," she exclaims. "If you see Thor, please bring him home with you. To visit of course, I mean I would love to meet him," she says with a fan girl scream.
"I know," I say shaking my head. "I'll keep that in mind, if on the rare occasion that happened I'll have the Professor invite him to come over, okay?" I ask playing along.
She fan girl screams again. "You better," she says jokingly.
I hug her tight then Peter comes in and takes my suitcase. "Thank you Peter," I say to him.
"No problem, Lizzy," he replies in his usual Russian accent.
As we sit silent in the car I feel myself drop into a dreamless sleep. Then I wake up to pitch black outside. "What time is it?" I ask Peter who is driving.
It's weird not having Jean and Scott here, but they're too busy looking after the school and with Jean being pregnant, she easily gets sick in the car.
"Almost midnight," he replies.
"How much farther?" I ask.
"Only two hours, I think you should get more sleep if you can," Peter remarks.
"Okay, wake me up when we get there," I reply, getting back into a comfortable position.
"I will," he says softly.
Those are the last words I hear before I go back to sleep.
Two hours later I'm woken up. We are at a nice looking hotel, nicer then the place we stayed at in Japan, the Professor had called in earlier in the day.
So we go in they share one room while I get one to myself, being the woman. Of course doing most of my sleeping already it takes awhile till I fall asleep again. At last I do and I have strange dreams.
At 9:00, Peter knocks at my door and tells me that they have free breakfast. So I shower, get dress and head down stairs. I sit with Peter and Professor Xavier, who were kind enough to wait for me. We eat and talk about the general plan for today.
"You see Andrew is an reenactment civil war solider and Ashley is a tour guide so we have to wait until they are done. Whatever happens we don't want to alarm them," Professor Xavier explains.
"What do we plan to do before we make contact?" I ask.
"We try to enjoy ourselves," he says with a smile. "We'll go do the tour and maybe watch a reenactment," Professor Xavier explains.
"Alright, I did always like history," I reply.
"See it won't be so bad," he says with that knowing smile again.
Why does he keep looking at me like that? What does he know that I don't? I could always read his mind, but I always feel uncomfortable doing that without someone's permission. So I don't normally read other people's minds, unless it's for a mission.
We are at Gettysburg, in front of us is Ashley Scott. She is medium height, slim, pretty, with Red hair, freckles and dark green eyes.
After the tour we see someone who must be Andrew Scott because he looks just like his sister, just no freckles and tanner. The reenactment was very good.
When their break comes we head towards them. "Can we help you?" Andrew asks.
Then I see Professor Xavier look intensely at them, he most be using telepathy. They both look in shock.
"And are these other mutant too?" Ashley asks, pointing to me and Peter.
Then I use my telepathy.
{"That's right Ashley, we are both mutants just like you,"} I reply.
{"How do you do that?"} Andrew asks.
{"It's one one of my gifts that Professor Xavier has helped me with,"} I reply, with a smile.
"So let me get this straight," Andrew says as we sit at a table with no one around. "You'll help us with our powers, give us a place to stay, and to eat, for free?" he asks. "What's the catch?" he adds.
"We train you to be better mutants, that's the only catch," Professor Xavier replies.
He then tells them how the school works and that they will be safe there.
"Oh can't we Andrew, since mom and dad died we haven't really had anywhere to call our own," Ashley pleads, pulling puppy dog eyes and a pout to her brother.
"I don't know Ashley," he replies, sounding uncertain.
"Please," she pouts again.
"Okay fine," he says at last. "But if we want to leave we can right?" he asks Professor Xavier.
"Of course, it's a place to call home, not a prison," Professor Xavier explains.
"In fact one of our students just left yesterday, to go to New York," I add.
"Okay, then we'll give it a try," Andrew answers. His sister hugs him and smiles all big.
I look over at a tree a few feet away, when I see him. His broad shoulders and dark hair I would notice anywhere. I see him get closer and I step closer to him.
"Logan!" I exclaim in surprise.
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