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Raven snorted, pushing his head down so the people in the waiting room wouldn’t see his face. “Yeah, poor innocent Charles, who couldn’t harm a fly. Why would the government be after you, why I don’t know, maybe because he’s a human sympathizer and one of the most powerful telepaths ever born, oh wait. The Empire doesn’t know that!” She said sarcastically.
“Well no reason to be rude about it.” Charles huffed.
The buzz around the hospital picked up, almost to the door Raven quickly twirled his chair around, “Not that way then!” Raven looked towards the back exit, where a large military vehicle was unloading soldiers. The soldiers posted at the front exit already in formation blocking people from leaving.
Charles listened to the minds around him, filtering out the patients and listening to the orderlies. There was a lot of grumbling and excitement, “Head to the cafeteria, there’s a side door out the kitchens.”
“This seems a bit extreme for one telepath.” Raven said.
Charles nodded but he continued to listen in on the orderlies minds, he didn’t want their exit to be compromised.
The alarm went up, scaring the patients into full blown terror. Charles clenched his teeth as he tried to block their panicked minds. A headache was already growing at the back of his head, throbbing in time with the wails of the sirens. It seemed Doctor H had been discovered.
“My dear, we’ve been found. Time to change.” Raven morphed into an intern who ran past. Charles concentrated on projecting the image of a pregnant woman, knowing the soldiers would still see him as he was but the doctors and patients around them would see what he wanted. The miscommunication might help.
Walking strait into the empty cafeteria, Raven left Charles alone for a moment to check in the window to see if things were clear in the alley outside. Nodding she walked back and knelt in front of Charles. “Whatever you have done, as my brother, I will not allow them to take you.”
Charles placed a kiss on her knuckle. “You worry too much.” Smiling softly he dropped his illusion; he would need all the power he could to get away once they were outside.
The sudden presence of another in the room startled both siblings. The smell of cinnamon and the red smoke meant it could only be a teleporter.
Both brother and sister stared at the red devilish man before them. For a minute no one moved. Then the man lunged at Raven.
Raven blocked the swing of a blade with the metal tongs from the salad bar. Morphing seamlessly into her natural blue form as she kicked out, the blade sliding between the handles before Raven clamped down, twisting the tongs as the blade fell to floor.
The teleporter phased away, suddenly he was on Charles’s other side, reaching for his arm before Raven threw a bucket of forks at him, following that with a roundhouse kick over Charles’s head. Raven’s kick landed, the red man phasing away before he hit the ground. He suddenly appeared beside Raven throwing a punch at her that she blocked, she slapped him with the tongs across the temple.
Raven gave Charles’s wheelchair a kick, sending him rolling into the kitchen, Charles barely had time to stop before he crashed into a pile of buckets.
He could hear Raven and the Teleporter still fighting, a grunt of pain and the sound of metal striking metal.
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‘Run! There is more than one General!’ She shouted back at him.
Grabbing the wheels, he tried to make it to the door. If he escaped now he could always come back to get Raven, but fighting two Generals singlehanded would be taxing- even for him. His fingers just brushing against the handle before he was yanked back. His whole chair rolling back on its own as his escape quickly faded away. Grunting he was thrown back into the chair, the blanket getting tangled up around his legs.
He was pulled backwards out the swinging doors of the kitchen and back into the cafeteria.
The scene before him had him worried for Raven. Soldiers lined the walls, the Red man -a general from what he could gleam from Raven- and another man in a scarlet outfit and helmet, held her prisoner. Raven was spread eagle against the opposite wall, metal around her limbs and neck holding her immobile. The teleporter, was panting, using the sleeve of his black uniform to whip away the blood from his brow.
“Really Azazel, you let this little female get the best of you.” The General with the helmet asked, ignore Charles completely as he came to a stop beside him.
“I was trying not to injure her. She made it quiet hard to be nice about it,” Azazel said, spitting.
Raven growled, trying to wiggle out of her confines. The man in the helmet raised his hand, his finger spread as Raven gave a chocked cry.
The metal around her neck tightening and making her face turn purple.
“Stop it,” Charles cried. “You’re hurting her!”
It was a tense standoff, the tears in Raven’s eye’s spurring Charles into action.
Azazel sword came up, slashing at the man in the helmet. The general stumbled back, releasing Raven enough she could breathe. Azazel twirled, slashing at the other man until the helmeted man raised his arm and the red teleporter was sent flying into the ceiling.
All during this Charles’s was stumbling up onto his feet to reach his sister, the blanket twisting around him. His sore ankle, a screaming agony, he would ignore as long as Raven was okay. He yanked at metal holding Raven’s left wrist to the wall, he vaguely noted it was the tongs she’d used to fight Azazel, twisted into crude cuffs to hold her still.
“Enough!”
The metal tongs came off, twisting in Charles’s hand and twirling around his wrist, they snapped to the floor, sending Charles to his knees. He cried out in pain as his ankle bent at a painful angle, collapsing to the floor in a heap of cloth.
“This is ridiculous. Calm yourself sisters, we mean you no harm.” The man in the helmet said towards Charles and Raven. “Azazel, pull yourself together.”
“Sorry Magneto, the telepath had control.”
“I know.” Magneto said, moving to stand over Charles. His towering crimson form casting a shadow over Charles where he lay buckled to the floor. Charles clutched the blanket around him, staring resolutely at the floor. “Be at peace, the Empire does not condone the government attacking our own kind.”
Raven growled, “Lies. Your dog there came after me with a blade.”
“I thought she was an agent trying to steal the mother.”
“We were just trying to leave before things got out of hand. You Empire dogs are always-”
“Quiet both of you.” Magneto cut off Raven. Her anger pulsed throughout the room, causing Charles to shiver. “Sister,” He said to Charles. “Is what she says true? Are you here against your will?”
Oh God, Charles thought absurdly, he thinks I’m a woman. In any other circumstance this wouldn’t be the first thing on Charles’s mind once being detained by the government. Two War Generals, here in Westchester, far from any battle ground and invading the high class neighborhood of suburbia in order to capture little Charles Xavier.
“Sister?” A hand gently tugged at the cloth covering his face, slowly pealing it away. Charles could feel the fingers brush against the curls around his ear, unable to he couldn’t hold back the gasp.
Suddenly Charles was staring up into piercing blue eyes.
It was like being sucked into a black hole. Charles could almost feel himself shaking apart, scattering into piece of himself.
The man known to everyone as Magneto was Erik Lehnsherr.
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your fic is taking my breath away, please continue to write???? XD!!!!!
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