Blair falls asleep on the rest of the flight. After a small heart to heart from Charles and Erik, they start playing chess. A small spoon starts to levitate towards Blair, and as she moves her head to the other side; the spoon hits Erik on the back of his neck
He hisses in pain and looks over his shoulder at the sleeping teenager, who unconsciously lifted a glass of water with her mind
"She has an amazing gift" Erik stated looking at the glass. Charles looked up and followed Erik's gaze, silently watching the peaceful movements of the glass "Such talent inside a small girl" he turned to Charles "Where do you found her?"
Charles didn't answer. His gaze on the sleepy girl, her attitude was something refreshing, her eyes held neither judgment nor disappointment towards him after hearing he rejected his powers to walk. She didn't see Erik or Logan with fear of disgust towards their mutations. At the contrary she looked proud and her eyes held the excitement he once had. If nothing, the girl reminded him of his days as a professor and before he was one, when he used to help young mutants to control their abilities. He could see even without his powers that the girl still had a lot to learn.
There was the issue of her seeing the past. Logan mentioned her ability to do so, but it was secondary, first the future and if she concentrated enough the past, but it took her too much energy. And the other thing was her telekinesis; She may had it under control, but her powers were still limited, if she had trained her power more, she could had neutralized Erik's, but it was weak. The power she had with more skill was her ability to see the future and her humanly excitement and non-judging personality
"She was hiding between humans, only using her abilities when necessary"
Erik hummed "She could have stop me; her ability implies more than just metal, is everything, isn't it?"
"Yes, but she hasn't train it. Only a little and I think when no one could see her. She thought she was the only one like her"
"Well, she certainly isn't alone anymore"
"No, she isn't" Charles looked at the girl and allowed himself to smile a little, suddenly wanting to get inside her head to glance at her dreams to know what was making her look so peaceful
~8~
Paris
On the day of the summit there's a reporter outside the hotel where a crowd have gathered
Blair, Charles, Hank, Logan and Erik drive up to the motel hotel building to stop Raven. Erik uses his power to take down the security guards and they drive past through the gates
The five of them ran up all the way up to enter the room where the meeting its taking place, stopping at the entrance where a blue scales skinned mutant with short red hair and yellow eyes has taken down every man in the room and now is aiming a at a small gnome like man with glasses
Raven AKA Mystique and Bolivar Trask.
"Raven!" Charles shouts at her hoping to stop when suddenly a soldier using her distraction shoots his taser gun at her and she falls on the table convulsing in pain "Raven! Raven!" Charles calls this time with concern
Erik using his powers, pulls the tasers off of Raven and throws it onto the soldier
Charles goes to comfort Raven as recovers from the taser shot "Raven?" he calls softly
"Charles?" Raven murmurs, his name laced with surprise
"We've come for you, Erik and I, together" he says to her with softness he hadn't use for a while, a kindness only for her.
"I never thought I...I'd see you again" She says weakly, her words sounding dreamy.
Logan looks down at the solider, who's convulsing from the taser shot, and has a vision where the solider, now revealing to be an important part of his future, William Stryker is the one injecting the adamantium into his body.
Blair looks between Charles and Raven to Logan in concern
"I'm going to keep you safe; I'm going to keep you out of their hands" Charles promises her.
Erik seems to realize something as he stands up using his powers to grab a gun and aims it at her. Blair looks surprised, Raven in shock
"Erik?"
"Erik, what are you doing?" Charles asked eying the gun warily.
"Securing our future. Forgive me, Mystique. As long as you're out there we'll never be safe" He answered without hesitation. Blair looked torn, wanting to use her abilities to stop him, but remembering what happened on the plane, she knew she couldn't stop him even if she want it. He was too strong for her untrained abilities
"Erik?" Hank from behind Erik, next to Blair questioned hurt. Raven looked at Charles desperately
"Use your powers, Charles, stop him"
"He can't" Erik smirked, for once since escaping from the Pentagon being pleased of Charles not having his telepathy.
Just as Erik is about to shoot the gun, Raven jumps out the window and Hank throws himself at Erik, causing the gun to fall but Erik still manages to fire, Blair even knowing it wouldn't be useful raises her hand to deflect the bullet towards the wall. Erik under Hank's weight senses the girl's metal watch and tightens its grip on her wrist, making her groan in pain cradling her hand to her chest, both hands occupied, incapable of using her powers. Erik controls the bullet and redirects it to follow Raven now that Blair isn't interfering.
Blair cradling her now sore and pained wrist looks down at Logan in distress. She flinches widening her eyes, suddenly thrown into the man's future…
~ 8 ~
Logan has been on the past for a couple of hours now; the Sentinels are a little closer now, but not too much to worry about our safety.
I sighed massaging my temples, suddenly having a small headache. It takes me by surprise and I almost jump three feet to the air when Kitty suddenly yells panicked
"He's slipping! He's slipping back! I'm losing him!"
I jump from where I was sited since Logan traveled to the past and ran towards Kitty who is trying too hard to maintain Logan back. I squinted my eyes hard on Logan to see what the problem, suddenly thrown into the past …
~ 8 ~
Blair blinks back to the present confused at the sound of a growl. She turns her head to the sound and sees Hank turning into a big blue fluffy bear like man, she widens her eyes in awe as he jumps towards the window. A slashing skin sound makes Blair to turn to Logan, who extended his bone claws as he suffers, suddenly feeling herself again thrust into the man's future, both futures, once currently happening and the other who will pass…...
~ 8 ~
I'm thrown back to my present roughly by Logan slashing his now extended claws through the air. Magneto being the one who pulled me away from him. Logan accidentally slashes Kitty on her arm. Magneto turns to Bobby, still standing next to me.
"Restrain him" he orders. I looked at Bobby worriedly and holding up my hand towards Logan, I easily restrain him without breaking a sweat.
~ 8 ~
Blair returns back to her present shaken up by the pain the man has suffered. It wasn't a lot to see, only seeing what currently was happening on his future and would happen to the young man he's currently 'possessing'.
She didn't even want to know what would be of the future if they don't change it. Knowing what would happen and not being able to stop it would be the death of her.
So, she simply shook her head and looked away from Logan before returning back to the future and watched as Erik floated down from the window. Logan stands up slowly and looks around in confusion.
"Where am I?" his voice pulls the attention of Hank, Charles and Blair
"Huh?" Charles hums questionably exchanging a look with Hank and Blair who refused to look at Logan, in confusion
"How the hell did I get here?" Logan or – who Blair realized the Logan from their own present – asked still looking around in confusion.
"What? You came to us" Charles frowned in confusion, Blair touched his shoulder, he looked at her questionably, she eyed Logan
"No, he didn't" at the questionable look from Charles she explained further "Logan comes from the future and to come here he had to merge with his younger self, something" she glanced at the unconscious soldier, who still had the the teaser on him and then looked back at Charles "Or someone must have triggered something on him that disturbed the connection, something about his past changing… Or whatever" She ended with a blush for how Charles was looking at her, she suddenly turned defensive "What? Not because I don't train properly my powers doesn't mean I don't have knowledge of what I can do" she snapped, for once since meeting her she didn't look like the cheerful innocent girl excited to meet new mutants. Charles shook his head at her smiling a small warm smile the first one in a while.
"Who are you?" The confused Young Logan's voice interrupted Blair and Charles' conversation. The sudden warm Charles felt that was lost since the school closed, the warm of being a professor disappeared. He didn't know what the Seeress girl was doing. Maybe her presence could change something.
Charles looked at Logan, trying to figure a way to bring the Logan they knew back to them, to the past again. "Charles" He said cautiously, suddenly Logan grabs him, frightened Charles tells him his name desperately "Charles Xavier!"
Young Logan knits his eyebrows in confusion. "I don't know you"
"Huh?" Charles looks at Blair who squints her eyes at him, not seeing anything back from the future. She sighs shaking her head at Charles. Logan then notices Hank rising up from the floor, turned now fully into his mutant form. Young Logan's eyes widened
"What the hell is that?" He asked in something like fear. Hank hearing him looks at him with angry calm, but he takes a step forward alarming Charles, knowing Hank took offense to words like that because he was self-conscious about his mutant form, looked at Hank
"Woh, woh, woh, woh, woh. I can deal with this, just go. Stop Erik!"
Hank reluctantly backs away with a growl and then jumps the window. Charles turns to Logan
"You're Logan, that's Hank McCoy and she's Blair James, I'm Charles Xavier. You spent the last couple of days with us" Charles pauses as he looks at a still confused Logan for a moment, he exchanges a sigh with Blair and then looks back at Logan "Are you on acid? Somebody gave you really bad acid. Yeah?" Blair shrugs not knowing what to do when Charles looks at her for help "Just hold on tight, we'll get through this together"
Blair silently wished for the same