Less Than a Confidant
Summary: June needs to know more Xavier and can think of only one person.
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Dinner with Peter and Elizabeth was as pleasant as expected. April would have preferred if June had picked Neal and didn't understand the choice. The teen was slowly warming up to the lawman and his wife. Together, the four of them wrote out a list of questions concerning the school. Elle, with her elegant handwriting, copied it so that they'll be able to refer back to it when they returned from their campus tour. For now, both copies of the list of questions were put into a safe of which Neal was unaware. Elle started telling stories of her time at college. Then Peter told a story of Neal that had them all laughing as the man in question walked in the door. It made for a beautiful excuse with Neal pouting about being excluded.
The timing was too good to be a coincidence. Peter had known.
Peter was some sort of mutant, completely under the radar and perhaps uniquely qualified for the task ahead. Suddenly, the inexplicable childlessness was explained. Oh, a New York working couple had many reasons to delay or abstain from children, but the x-gene had to be a contributing factor.
June caught Peter's eye and raised her glass in a discrete toast. Peter inclined his head in wry amusement. He hadn't volunteered the information, but rather had chosen to expose it to June than risk Neal hearing April's secret. He wasn't worried about June knowing, not that she could prove her suspicions.
Yes, June had picked the perfect lawman for the task.
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