Chapter 4
*Athena's POV*
Hank took off his shoes and socks, then jumped and latched onto one of the lights. I just laughed and shook my head. Our talk to get to know each other had turned into a party. Raven was dancing on one of the couches. Angel was dancing in the air with her wings. Alex and Sean were trying to crack Darwin's armor with some of the chairs.
I was on the side watching everyone. It's not like I wasn't having a good time, because I was. I just didn't want to participate in the destructive party. More than once Angel or Raven tried to get me to dance with them, but I just shook my head.
After taking another sip of the cola in my hands, I looked at everyone and smiled. But that smile quickly faded when I saw Agent MacTaggert walk into the courtyard with Erik and Charles on either side of her; and she did not look happy.
"What are you doing?" she yelled over the music, and everyone stopped what they were doing. Alex and Sean lowered their broken chairs, Darwin's armor retreated, Hank got off the light, Raven stepped off the couch, Angel folded her wings in, and I stood up from my chair. No one made a sound; the only thing that did was the music in the background.
"Who destroyed the statue?" she demanded. Her eyes drifted to me, and I could tell that Charles had told her about me.
Hank must have thought the female agent thought I did it, because he spoke up. "It was Alex."
Raven and Angel giggled a little at this. "No, Havok. We have to call him Havok, that's his name now," Raven said stepping forward and points at Charles then Erik while addressing them. "And we were thinking, you should be Professor X and you should be Magneto."
Agent MacTaggert's mouth was open in disbelief, while Erik didn't look impressed and Charles just looked angry.
"Exceptional." I heard Erik mutter under his breath before he looked at me. "Athena, come with us." He turned to walk away, and I walked up to the window and was about to follow further, but was stopped by Charles' voice.
"No, Athena, I want you to stay here," he commanded. He looked directly at me and continued in my mind. 'Shaw might be there and I don't want him to find you yet. But I want you to think about how you will tell everyone.'
I jerked my head to look at him in surprise. 'I've known them less than a day!' I shouted in his mind.
He looked at me with a serious expression. 'I wouldn't ask you to if I didn't feel that you should. If you don't tell them, Shaw will.' My breath caught in my throat and I slowly nodded in understanding.
Erik had stopped at the door when Charles spoke, and held the door open when Agent MacTaggert went inside. Charles turned to Raven with the same angry look. "I expect more from you," he said then turned around to follow Erik inside the building.
There were a couple moments of uncomfortable silence around us. I wasn't sure what to say, but the silence was getting to me. "We should probably clean up," I suggested.
That seemed to jog everyone out of their daze and start cleaning up. I helped here and there with rearranging things. It didn't take us long to straighten everything up, so we all said good night and went to bed.
A/N: Yeah, I know. It's a short chapter. But the next chapter will be longer! I also wish to apologize for the late update. I've been busy and having writer's block too. But anyway, I hope to get the next one up soon, so stay tuned.
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