[The camera clicks on to a screen half-covered by a couple fingers, and the faint click-click of some of the buttons on the phone being fiddled with. Raven can be seen, looking up at the ceiling as she listens to the porters 'Welcome to the City' greeting and toying with the phone it had told her to pick up. She's in 'blonde' mode, dressed in a
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So he did use that code name... Uh. He's a...friend. I was hoping he was here.
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Who are you?
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His son. Believe me when I say that my father has no friends, nor does he deserve them.
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Well, I don't...know about that. But he's my friend.
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And you're kind of an ass, but I'm trying not to hold it against you.
I just came from 1962. Whatever you're saying he did...will do...he's my friend then.
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[A sigh.]
If you know Charles Xavier as well as my father, I can only assume that you are a mutant. If my father took a particular interest in you, enough to convince you that he's a-- friend to you, your abilities must be very impressive. Xavier will try to convince you that humans are worth saving. That you should protect them. Magneto will tell you that we are the dominant species, that the Earth is ours for the taking. At the risk of revealing your future to you, neither of them are right. Humans and mutants, X-genes, reality itself... It is merely what we make of it. They will try to make you choose sides in a war in which everyone is fated to lose.
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[Raven frowns faintly.]
I know their...attitudes are different, but Charles and Erik are friends. They aren't going to go to war.
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[Frankly, Raven is a little jealous of how well the two seem to have clicked.]
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[That's a snap, and he immediately looks a little dismayed. What? You mean speedsters have poor impulse control?]
I'm sorry. My wife is instructing me to let this go for now.
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