Raven looked around as Clara and Hank walked into the room, "Wow"

Hank stared up at the plane, "Hypersonic, blast resistant, stealth technology"

"That's impressive" Raven grinned, "How are you ever going to get it out of here?"

Hank sighed as he bowed down his head as if he forgot that small little detail. Clara walked over to the table on the side and leaned onto it as she crossed her arms over her chest. She couldn't help but smile to herself at the two being back in the same room together. She could practically feel the magnetic pull of attraction toward one another. Just seeing these two together almost made her wish that she could've been around to see how flirtatious they acted toward one another when they were younger.

Hank turned to her, "Well, that's okay! I built a retractable roof into the basketball court"

Raven looked over to him, "Hank, you're building a warplane down here"

"After what happened in Washington, I thought we were going to come back and start the X-Men, like we used to talk about" Hank explained, "But…"

Raven finished his sentence, "Charles wants students, not soldiers"

Hank cut in, "And he thinks the best of people. He has hope"

"And you?" Raven asked.

Hank thought for a moment before he said, "You know, I think we should hope for the best and prepare for the worst. I think the world needs the X- Men and maybe now that you're back, you could help me and Clara convince him. We could start it together-"

"Hank, I'm here about Erik" Raven cut in, making Clara sit up.

Hank smiled a dark smile as he nodded, "Right, Erik. Yeah, of course. Of course!"

"I think he might be in some kind of trouble" Raven told him, "Real trouble"

"Well, isn't he always?" Hank turned back to her.

Raven seemed surprised to see this side of Hank, but not Clara. She's seen it over the years and knew better to not bring up Erik around Hank. He turned and glanced over to Clara as she quickly dropped down her gaze to her feet. She felt that if Hank looked into her eyes, he would see that she too was worried about her past flame.

The tension in the room was almost so dense that it could make the warplane explode just by sheer force. Clara knew she should've warned Raven to not tell Hank about Erik. Now she couldn't help but wish that she had chosen to show Kurt around the Mansion.

"This time it's serious" Raven finally said, "Even Clara had a-"

"Theory!" Clara shouted out, her words echoing in the vast room as they both turned to her, "Theory that… we should use cerebro to check up on him. Just to play it on the safe side and not intervene"

Raven looked to Clara, confused at how she lied to Hank but she refused to look at the shapeshifter. Hank scoffed as he shook his head and ran a hand through his hair.

Hank turned to Clara, "Of course you would think that. You've loved him for a very long time. He's like a drug to you, Clara, a disease that lies dormant inside of you. Do you remember the time you told me how he would bring you close to you but then leave and give you the cold shoulder? You said you would be better off without him and now Raven brings up his name and you want to help him? After all he's done to you?"

"I told you, I don't want to be in the same room with him"

"Hank, I was tipped that he is in a downward spiral" Raven cut in, "He needs his friends"

Hank scoffed, "Friends? I haven't once thought of him as a friend since the day he first put on that helmet and backstabbed us all"

Hank then turned and walked out of the room and left the two alone.

Raven shook her head, "I've never seen him like this. I've never known Hank to harbor such emotions like that. It's almost strange to see him angry"

Clara sighed and nodded as she glanced down the hallway. Hank had marched so fast out of the room that she couldn't even see him down the hall. She knew to give him space to recuperate, also it must be hard on him to know the girl he loved was here for another man, not to come back. Clara placed her thumbs in the back loop of her pants as she joined Raven.

"Between Charles, you, and me he's felt that Erik leaves nothing but pain in the end" Clara told her, "He's just trying to protect the ones he cares about. He'll come around when he knows it's inevitable"

Raven nodded almost as if she had forgotten Hank's point of view with that man. She then turned her attention back to Clara and folded her arms over her chest.

Raven asked, "You never told Hank about your vision of Erik, did you? Why are you hiding it from him?"

Clara nodded over to the hallway, "Because I know how he would react"

Raven sighed, "You know it's only going to get worse if you keep this from him. You should've just told him now while you had the chance. Either way, Hank will be upset about hearing about Erik but he's got to move on"

Clara formed a tight line, "That's why I want to nip this in the butt before it gets worse"

Raven looked back down the hallway, "Hopefully we won't be too late"

"So… Kurt" Clara looked at Raven who looked over in surprise, "Oh, come on, Raven, don't act like I wasn't born yesterday. I was there when you and Azazel were in a relationship, remember? You are blue in your original form, Azazel has a tail and Kurt seems to have both. What power does he have? Shapeshifting? Teleporting? Both?"

Raven was quiet for a few moments before she sighed, "Alright, he's my son. I've been trying to locate him for the longest time after Azazel was murdered. After I saw confirmation files in Trask's office, I just felt like a part of me was missing. That I missed him. But Kurt was in the circus before he eventually was captured for a fighting rink"

"Are you going to tell him?" Clara asked.

"I was planning to" Raven sighed, "But now being next to him, I can't even look into his eyes without thinking of the night I gave him up"

Clara leaned in and rubbed Raven's back, "I'm sure you had your reasons then and you have your reasons to be with him now"

Raven rubbed her lips together before she turned to Clara and hugged her tightly. Clara wrapped her arms around her friend and held her close as Raven tried her best to fight back tears. She knew how much she missed Azazel and even now it was difficult to know that he was no longer with them. It was moments like this where she missed Raven, comforting each other when they needed it the most, she couldn't help but feel like being at Charles' mansion was fate knowing that Raven still harbored grief over her first love. Raven broke the hug as she wiped her cheeks and sniffed.

Raven shook her head, "I don't know what to tell him"

Clara didn't say anything as she led Raven out of the room and slowly to the elevator. She wanted to tell her friend that she didn't have to tell him right away, she still had time. But in her heart, she knew that Raven already knew that. Still, now that she finally had her son back, maybe there was a part of her that actually wanted to be with someone as close to her as family.

"It must've been hard for you too" Raven sniffed, "Seeing Erik with a wife and child, knowing that was what you wanted. Kind of ironic, isn't it?"

Clara nodded, "Pissed me off for the most part"

"Why's that?"

Clara pressed on the button for the elevator as she sighed. She didn't want to harbor any negative feelings for the dead but she couldn't help it. She envied Erik's wife for so long that she couldn't help but still feel dread when she thought about her.

Clara confessed, "I kept checking in on him after he found me in Poland so I practically saw their relationship blossom and grow"

Raven looked over to her, "Wow, you actually wanted to see that? I don't think I would be able to stomach it"

Clara gave a small smile as the doors opened before the pair went inside. She leaned into the wall as Raven stood next to her.

"My powers went out of control for a little bit, Charles said that my mind was so used to thinking about Erik in a vision that whenever I had one it would show a piece of his future whether I wanted to see it or not" Clara confessed.

Raven remarked, "That sucks"

"Tell me about it" Clara sighed.

"Must've been difficult for you" Raven watched her friend.

"You know, that was the first time I truly hated my powers. I actually wished that I couldn't do the things I can do" Clara sighed, "For the first time in my life, I wanted to be a normal woman wondering what the future was like instead of gazing into the fire and actually seeing it happen. Mainly because of the pull he has on me"

"Even after all these years?" Raven asked.

Clara was silent before she said, "Even after all these years"

Clara and Raven looked to each other as the door slid open and they both walked out into the mansion.

Raven asked, "So what now? Don't you have a class to teach? I can't believe Charles is actually letting you teach a class on fitness"

Clara shrugged, "He has to put a yes on the activities we do"

"There's the catch!"

"You know, I still haven't heard back from him on the bungee jumping"