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. . . erik
ELEANOR wasn't a fan of the ocean. She liked having her feet on solid ground. It could have something to do with her mutation. But there she was beside Charles as they looked out in the ocean ━━ maybe I should have stayed inside with Raven ━━ and watched the ship they though Sebastian Shaw was on.
"I've lost Shaw." Charles said as he tried to read Shaw's mind from his place in the ship. "I've lo━ I've lost Shaw." He repeated as he tried to find him. "Th━There's something blocking me. This has only ever happened with Nellie, before." He informed the Agents around them. "I think there's someone like me on that ship."
"Like you?" Moira asked, not really understanding.
"They have a telepath?" Eleanor asked, surprised.
"Yes. This is incredible." Charles said, excitingly. "I can actually feel her inside my mind. I'm very sorry, but I don't think I'm gonna be much help to you tonight."
"Eleanor?" The two agents looked at her hopeful.
"I can't do much without plants, and sadly me and seaweed don't really get along." Eleanor informed them. "Looks like you guys are on your own." Eleanor added, sad that she couldn't help.
"Bloody hell." Eleanor said as she watched two cyclones take out the speed boats they had sent.
"Get inside." The head Agent told the three as they made their way to where Raven was.
"Stop, stop, stop, stop." Charles said as he seemed to be clutching his head in pain.
"Charles?" Eleanor said worryingly as she placed her hand on his arm, hoping to help him get through the pain.
It surprised the two of them when it worked.
"There's someone else out there." He informed the three before they made their way back onto the deck.
"There." Charles pointed to something that was floating in the air. As Eleanor looked closer, she saw that it was the anchor to Shaw's boat.
"Oh my god." Eleanor gasped as she watched as the anchor destroyed the boat. Eleanor tried to search the water for the unknown person, but she couldn't see anyone. It wasn't until she saw a submarine coming towards them did, she saw a man following behind it.
"Let go! You have to let go!" Charles called out to the man, knowing what he was trying to do by reading his mind.
"You have to help him. Someone has to get in the water to help him." Eleanor spoke to the agents while Charles called out the man.
But before anyone could react Charles jumped off the ship to help him.
"Charles!" Eleanor called out to the man as Moira held her back from going in after him. "Charles!" Eleanor called out as she tried to get out of Moira's grip. "Let go of me! Charles!"
"It's fine, Nellie. I'm fine. We're fine." She heard Charles' voice in her head that made her calm down a little. She calmed down a little more when she saw them up over the water, but she didn't fully calm down until Charles was back on the ship, with the unknown man.
Eleanor was quick to pull Charles into a hug once she reached him, not caring about getting wet. Charles was happy to hug the girl back as he wrapped his arms and towel around the two of them.
"I'm happy you're okay." Eleanor said as she hugged Charles a little tighter before she let go of him. "God, Charles if you ever do that again, I swear to god!" She said as she lightly hit him on his chest.
"I don't plan on it, Nellie." Charles couldn't help but let out a small chuckle at the girl. "But I would like to introduce you to our new friend." He added as he looked between Eleanor and the man he found in the ocean. "Eleanor, this is Erik." He introduced the two.
"Well, Erik. It's nice to meet you." Eleanor smiled at the new man. Erik just looked the girl up and down without speaking. "And my friends call me Nellie. Eleanor makes me sound old." Eleanor joked, trying to lighten the mood. Her smile only grew bigger as she saw the man smile for a second before it disappeared.
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"So, Erik. What's your mutation?" Raven asked Erik after a few minutes of him being in the same room as the two girls. Raven and Eleanor had decided to sit in the common room on the ship while they waited to be back on land ━━ Eleanor couldn't wait to be back on land again.
"Raven. You can't just ask people that." Eleanor scolded the blonde girl. She hated it when people asked her for hers, so she always assumed others didn't like to talk about theirs. "You don't have to tell us if you don't want to." She said as she shot Erik a small smile.
"It's alright." He shrugged as he poured himself a drink. Instead of telling them about his mutation, he showed them by holding out his hand and making one of Eleanor's many rings fly toward him.
"Cool." Eleanor heard Raven say from beside her.
"Pretty cool. Can I have my ring back now?" Eleanor teased as she smirked over at the older man.
"And you?" Erik asked as he handed Eleanor both her ring and a drink. "Your mutation?"
"You'll find out soon enough." Eleanor shrugged before she took a sip of the drink, he handed it to her. The two not breaking eye contact.
Raven suddenly felt like a third wheel as she watched the two interact.
