Chapter 6

Lorna told me her story. When she was a baby her parents died in a plane crash. She was raised by adopted parents who didn't tell her till she was 14. She then came to Genosha to help out Magneto. That's when she found out he was her biological father. She was too overwhelmed, so she ran away. Finally she came back but Magneto had also realised that she was his daughter. When she returned she was greeted like a princess, and I realised that she was in many ways similar to me. Our fathers had both abandoned us but her father came back for her. Talking with her was good, but in ways it also made me sad, knowing that my father could never be there for me. I lost myself in my thoughts.

"Elwyn! Elwyn!" I heard Lorna calling out to me.

I snapped out of my thoughts, and stared at her.

"Elwyn, you've got to stop doing that." She said softly.

"I know," I replied on the verge of tears. "I just can't stop thinking about him."

She put her hand around my shoulder, "I know Elwyn."

"I mean if he really cared about me then why didn't he find me?" I asked in vain, tears starting to flow down my face.

"I don't know Elwyn. Nobody knows." she said soothingly, calming me down.

I don't know how long I cried for, all I knew was that Lorna sat with me through it all.

I ran down to Cerebro. Kitty was behind me. We arrived at the entrance, walking wearily and out of breath. I approached the helmet that lied on the table just looking at it brought back memories. Before I knew it, I had picked it up and put it on. Seven years without practice had paid its toll. I was out of practice and Cerebro was harder to control but still I pushed through. I heard a jet in the distance and vaguely heard Kitty run off saying "Don't worry professor I'll deal with it."

I concentrated hard; all of a sudden I felt a great surge of emotion. It nearly knocked me out. It was Elwyn and she was crying, but more importantly I found her she was in Genosha just as I had suspected. I was so caught up in finding Elwyn, I didn't hear Storm and the others come in. I took the helmet off and turned around and I was engulfed in a swarm of hugs. Storm walked towards me curious and unsure, I thought she was going to break down when she slapped me across the face.

"That's for not telling us." She said bitterly, but then her bitterness dissolved and she wrapped her arms around me and started to cry. Storm wiped away her tears and detached herself from me. Logan came up and slapped my back.

"Nice to have you back, Chuck." said Logan.

"It's good to be back, Logan." I replied.

I stared at my old team. They were staring at me also in shock. "X-men," I said barely getting the words out of my lips, "I need your help to find my daughter."

The team looked even more shocked than before.

"I'm sorry professor, but do you have a daughter?" inquired Rogue.

"Yes, Rogue, and you all have met her before." I said.

"You mean Elwyn, Professor?" asked Bobby, still in shock. "But that's impossible!"

"Yes, Bobby its Elwyn, and it's not impossible." I replied half-heartedly, "It's my fault that I never knew in the first place."

"No it's not your fault." A familiar voice spoke. "It's mine."

Moira walked towards us. Surprisingly, I didn't expect Moira to help. I couldn't face the look on her face, so I turned to Storm.

"Storm, tell me everything you know about her." I asked hastily.

"She was frozen by the MRD in 1986. She's a brilliant telepath, but that's about all we know. It's probably more than she knows about herself." She said this with tears glistening in her eyes.

It was just as I had suspected. My son David was a brilliant telepath and that's how I lost him. But I was surprised that the MRD picked her up in 1986. The thing that worried me the most was why they froze her. Was she really that powerful? These questions bugged me, and I hoped my face didn't show it.

"Well, let's go get my daughter, X-men." I said.

And with that we left the mansion and headed towards Genosha.