The office of the President is crammed full of Commission members. The higher ups called this meeting hours after they had called Hawks to Nabu island. The screen before was displaying a few picutres taken of their number 2 hero in a park with some of the X-Men.
"This is all you managed to get?" The commission leader booms. "You've been there over a month!"
"Madam, with all due respect, Hawks is always moving. Just finding him was damn near impossible. He's never in the same spot for long, and he can transport so quickly-"
"I'm done with your excuses. Our number 2 hero is slipping away from our hold. It's as if he thinks he can come and go as he pleases without repercussions." The Commission leader says.
"That has to stop. If we must we will recondition him, he needs to know his place." The president says as many nod their heads in agreement.
"I'd be more than happy to do so. As his former handler, I know him the best." Says one of the men there. "I can have him back under our thumb in no time."
"Please do. In the meantime, we need leverage. Something to get him back to us with little to no hassle."
"Maybe this can help." One of the men clicks a button as pictures of Hawks and Jean on their date appear on the screen.
The Commission leader's eyes narrow on the picture of Hawks and Jean, sitting hand-in-hand at the restaurant, with a radiance in Hawks' smile they have never seen.
"She's our target, if we want Hawks we must get rid of her first." The Commission leader says.
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Logan waits by the X-Jet in the same place he had dropped the X-Men a week earlier, though it was almost unrecognizable from all the damage from the fight. What happen here?
Hawks, holding Jean's hand, follows Rouge and the others towards the X-Jet after bidding the students of class 1-A goodbye. Will they welcome me back? What do I tell them? What do I say to them, to my dad? A tight squeeze from Jean's hand draws him out of his thought.
"Calm down Kei, you're tensing. Everything is going be fine." Jean says.
"Hope so, it wasn't a soothe departure for me and Tokoyami that night." Hawks tells her and looks ahead to see Logan leaning on the X-Jet. He intertwine fingers with Jean's own more unsure and wary of how the oldest member of the team going to react to seeing him.
"Heeeey, Silver Claws. How you been? Life been good?"
"Feathers." Logan walks up to him as the others move back to give him space. Jean, however, doesn't leave Hawks' side.
"I'm sorry-"
"No, don't apologize. You had every right to be upset and disconnect. I'm just relived your okay."
"Thanks and, well, I'm coming back with you guys. I need to talk with the others and my dad."
"I understand. Come on, let's head home everyone." Logan says, "and keep PDA PG on the way back you two."
Hawks' Wings puff as he looks over to Jean, who seems equally as embarrassed, cheeks heat and redden along with Jean's own, earning snickers from Kurt and Kitty.
"They're in looove." Kurt teased
Hawks settles into a seat next to Jean as the X-Jet takes off back to Bayville, New York. His head rests on Jean's shoulder as her hand combs through her now sleeping boyfriend's hair. Astonishment how quickly he managed to knock out, once they were airborne and even more so as her hand feels something familiar. Feathers? He has feathers in his hair? As Jean rubs the feathers in Hawks' hark, Hawks gently chirps. Jean smiles, "You're full of surprises, aren't you Kei."
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Flying Free: My Hero Evolution Wings of Change (X-Men/My hero crossover)
Ficção GeralWhile out on patrol Hawks comes across group of strangers to himself. As he takes time to talk with them, little did they all know that their lives were now forever changed from that one fateful encounter.
