✅She's Human or Weapon

He's Targeting Us

He catches me bridal style putting me back in the truck not sure what to do. "God dang. Where the hell are you Charles Xavier!"

Erik's POV
Entering a bar Raven stayed with the jet with Hank just in case we needed to get out of here quickly. Charles rolled in first with Hope following after him as the bartender came back from around the corner with a smile on his face. "What can I get you all to drink?" Charles reached into his pocket laying a photo of Aurora on the bar countertop sliding it towards him. "Have you seen this woman recently?" The man picked up the picture eyeing it for a few seconds then walking over to two chairs that we pulled out unlike the others around them. I saw a tooth pick laying with blood on the tip. "Yeah she was sitting here with a guy smoking a cigarette about a few hours ago. Why do you ask?" Hope stepped up pointing towards the door. "Did she say where she was going by any chance?" The bartender shakes his head no sitting the photo down. "Nah the guy left and he chased after him. That's all I know. I'm sorry." Charles nodded as I bend down seeing something scribbled into the wood clearly down in a rush with the almost broken tooth pick. Brushing my fingers over the words I couldn't believe what she had written. "Stryker has Shaw's files. He knows about us, E..." Charles rests a hand on my arm before I spun on my heels fear running through my body. "We have to go, Charles. Now!"

Sitting on the couch in our small apartment I use my powers moving the coin that got my mother killed in between my fingers until I heard Aurora suddenly start crying out from her bedroom from another nightmare. It wasn't the first time or uncommon for her to wake in the middle of the night dreaming that we were back in the labs being tested. "Aurora, wake up. Aurora hey. Rora wake up I'm here-" She jumped awake clutching my wrist in her hands making me wince as her energy ran through my veins until she realized it was me. "Erik...God I'm sorry. I'm sorry-" Moving my other hand through her hair I kiss her forehead so she would calm down. "Hey it's fine. I know you didn't mean to.." Suddenly someone knocked on the door where we both went to the door but I answered seeing a file laying at my feet.

"What is that, Erik?" Aurora asked standing behind me as I picked it up opening it to see two pictures one of each of us alongside a bunch of papers on us. "It's our files...from the experiments. We need to go immediately and burn these. Pack your stuff." She grabbed my arm as I dig around for a lighter in the kitchen cabinet. If he had sent these then that means he close. It means we have a chance to kill him. "We can't keep chasing him, E. We should be able to have a life after we escaped. I mean once you've killed him what will you have left to live for?" She takes the files and lighter from my hands flipping it opened about to burn her file. "If we burn them now. We get a second chance. Take it with me, Erik." Dropping my eyes to the floor I waved my hand drawing the metal lighter from her hands before she could. "Sorry Rora, revenge is all I'll ever know. There will always be someone against us. Someone targeting us. This will be a reminder to fight." I only wish I had listened to her then and destroyed them then none of this would be happening.

"Erik, what are you talking about. Erik!" Charles shouted exiting the bar right before I clutched my hands into fists at my side lifting everything metal around us into the air throwing it around aggressively ignoring his command to stop until he enters my mind. "Be calm my friend. Tell me what has you upset." Slumping my shoulders I run my fingers through my hair throwing my head back feeling snow lightly falling down on the three of us. Hope crossed her arms over her chest concern on her face for her mother and for me no doubt. "Uncle Erik, this is about my mother isn't it. Are you doubting yourself again. She told me in her stories that you shouldn't because she owes you her life." Sniffing through tears I throw my hands up in the air scoffing. "It's my fault, Hope. If I had destroyed those folders when she asked - then Stryker wouldn't know anything about us - about you and your little sibling. I couldn't see past my revenge...It's my fault!" Charles shifted in his wheelchair wiping away a tear that had fallen. "You're wrong my friend. A man who only cared about revenge wouldn't be out here risking his life for someone who left him. Aurora is a piece of the good in you."

He rolled up to me grabbing my hand in his making me look down into my friends eyes that shined with hope in them. Just as they always did even when he's seen inside my head and seen so much pain. "I've failed her, Charles. I made a promise to protect her and now she's in danger because of me." Hope stomped up taking my other hand in hers squeezing it tightly so I'd look her in the eye. "You didn't fail her uncle. You won't ever. We're gonna find her-" Foosteps approached where Hope and I spun on our feet ready to fight until we recognize Raven running up to us trying to catch her breath. "Raven, what's going on?" Charles questioned his sister concern in his tone. Shs rests her hands on her knees in a pant. "Peter he called Hank...he says people in suits are at the school. He recognized Stryker..." Hope gasped covering her mouth looking at me. "How - why would he go after my mother to do all this?" Staring down at her I clutched my hands into fists in anger. "So the strongest mutants would be away from the school. He's going to capture them all unless we get back in enough time...He did this so we wouldn't be there to protect the others."

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