a/n: RIP cherik... you two would've loved raising Lyla together. too bad you got divorced and Charles got full custody.
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"Does it have to be yellow spandex?"
"Aww, you look adorable." Alex teased and pinched my cheeks. "Like a deadly and rabid chihuahua."
"Careful, Alex. She might bite." Sean smirked.
"Y'know... I have a little brother around your age, Ravager. He sure as hell has an attitude like yours... Come to think of it, I think you two would get along great."
"Alex playing matchmaker? That's suddenly even weirder than Lyla smiling at us." Raven chuckled and started to braid my hair.
"Nah, I just think she needs a friend her age."
"Not interested. I didn't come here to make friends." I spat, showing my claws and grabbed a file. "Tell your brother I'm not interested in friends."
"Doesn't that hurt? When they come out?"
"Excruciating pain since they're moving against bone to come out... And the fact that the adamantium is currently being stretched by my bones explains my growing pains or whatever Erik explained to me this morning." I shrugged and Alex winced. "Advanced healing factor, remember?"
"Which is why I managed to make the adamantium in your bones flexible enough for you to grow at a normal rate." Erik pointed out and escorted me to the plane. "You ready to take down Shaw?"
"I thought we didn't kill our own kind?"
"If needed be, we'll make an exception this one time and find a way to tell Charles afterwards... Sometimes it's better to beg forgiveness than ask permission."
。✯ ＼ ｜ ／✯ 。
"I hate flying."
"It's your first time on an airplane."
"And I almost died!" I defended as Raven helped me stand. "I never want to do that again!"
"Lyla, how good are you at hand to hand?" Charles asked and I smirked. "Do I want to know?"
"Daddy was a soldier and he taught me a few things. Spare time in the cage fighting and maiming the guards helped too." I grinned and ran outside to stand next to Alex. "Do I take out the other eye or a limb this time?"
"Depends on your mood." He hummed.
"Limb it is." I shrugged, grabbing the tail of the red mutant the moment he teleported behind us. "Nuh-uh. You're done."
He just smirked and teleported me and Alex to the sky above one of the ships.
"RAVAGER!" Alex screamed and I dug my claws into his forearm.
