It will be, but it sounds as if you two have no real choice about it.
[ Erik has promised to try and keep his feelings to appropriate ones when they're together, and Charles has promised to not flirt so much that changes. He's truly the problem of the two of them since he's a constant flirt, but it's for the best to protect Scott from their ridiculousness.
Charles doesn't know if he could do anything to stop it. Erik already has mental protections in place that he created, and that hasn't done anything to stop them from whatever is happening. If it upset them a great deal, he would at least try, but Erik seemed accepting of it. Perhaps he liked the idea of bonding with someone other than Charles.]
Thank you. I am quite happy about it. I've never stopped loving him.
[ The only hole in the situation is that he didn't get to talk to Raven about it, but that is impossible. As long as he manages to smooth this over with the rest, it'll be good enough for them. Charles loves Erik, truly and deeply. He can't stop the way his heart feels, and he's tired of trying to.]
I was hopeful after Erik said you two were doing better. Logan already knows, and I think Laura and Wade already guessed. Ororo and Rogue I'll have to tell eventually. It's a bit complicated with Rogue given their history, and she's been struggling in general with all of us.
[ He doesn't know if Scott is aware of that particular tension.]
[ It's nice to see Charles finally be open about this to him. No matter his personal feelings towards Erik, which he has admitted to be on the better side of things now, the Professor's happiness always takes priority.
The tension between Erik and Rogue, though, well. That can't be helped. Knowing that their own version of Magneto kidnapped her and tried to kill her is always going to be a source of contention. His own anger towards Magneto, in general, might not even compare to Rogue's own anger.
The thing is, though, he's not fully aware that Rogue's struggling with them. He has never been particularly close with her, and it's still a bit jarring seeing her all grown up like John, but with the events that happened to him personally, he wasn't able to check in on her like he wanted to. He should definitely fix that. ]
I'm sure they'll come around once you tell them. [ His brows furrow. ] Honestly, Professor, I didn't know Rogue's struggling with us. Which is my bad. [ Scott's jaw tightens a bit. ] I should've been more proactive.
I can definitely see why, though. Must've been like seeing a ghost the first time she saw me here.
[ Charles hesitates. He doesn't know how much he should tell of her story as it is personal to her. Perhaps he can move around the exact details so that she can fill that in later if she wants.]
She's from Logan's future when mutants were nearly exterminated. We thought she was dead, but she was held captive for many years. Not to put words in her mouth, but she was essentially abandoned to a bad fate.
[ That might be how she feels about it. None of them knew where she was, so it was not an intentional abandonment, but it could feel that way. He knows that she struggled with it, and she's only started to come around. She's felt disconnected, but how could she not be, after everything? And after being rescued only to be used for the cause? Charles has tried to reach out, and she's started opening up again. At least she has Logan and John now.]
I think it would be good if you were willing to speak with her. You weren't the only ghost. Most of the X-Men were dead by then.
[ So Charles doubts that is what held her back. He thinks it would be for the best if they all gently welcomed her back into the fold. Charles told her what he could about his future self's feelings and knowledge about her. Whether that healed anything in her or made it worse, he truly doesn't know, but at laest it was said. ]
She's agreed to make the food for our holiday, which I take as a good sign that she's interested in connecting again.
[ The more Scott listens on, the more Rogue's plight makes sense. At least, in his head. If that's what truly happened to her, then she has every right to feel abandoned by them. It hits a little too close to home for Scott, though, because he thinks this could've been avoided if he had just survived long enough into the future Logan and Rogue's from. Maybe if he didn't die, the team would've been so fractured.
That's another can of worms Scott isn't so inclined to open right now. It's just a shame he hasn't reached out that much, even here. After everything he had learned, everything that happened to him, everything else fell into the wayside. Checking up on his people. Making sure everyone's okay. Even now, out in the Scrapyard, Scott feels a bit detached from everyone. As if he found a bit of space he didn't know he was craving for.
So Scott understands her. But he's also not going to let her feel this way much longer. ] I'm gonna talk to her. Maybe the holiday gathering will give me an opportunity. [ Rogue volunteering to cook is a good sign, so he's hopeful in that regard. This also earns a smile from him. ]
Which you'd have to give me more details of, by the way, so I can prepare some decorations.
I think that would be good, if you can. When we found out she was alive, we went to rescue her, but the reality is it was only to use her on Logan's quest. She has some skepticism surrounding that, which I understand. It would be good for her to reconnect with all of us and feel like part of the family again.
[ Charles feels for her, he truly does. He did reassure her that he knows for a fact if older him knew she was alive and where she was, he would have immediately rescued her. It wasn't a question of whether they would, it was because they didn't know. But he can understand how her being needed at the same time as being rescued would make this feel complicated.
She's attempting to reach out now that she's reached more peace with him and Logan. Charles has hopes. But Scott was a leader. She surely looked up to him like with the other X-Men, and as she became one and grew up within the mansion. He hopes Ororo will do the same. Charles doesn't know if Scott's death led to the fracturing of the X-Men, but it probably didn't help. Their path was more about the mutant vs human problem at large. The point is they are here together now, and he wants to fix what he can.]
Right now, we have space cleared out at Ororo's temple, and I was hoping to decorate it a little bit to be festive. Rogue offered for the food, and Logan is going to get what tree is possible.
[ Charles hasn't seen any mega Christmas tree offerings around here, so it may require some finagling, but he trusts that Logan can handle it. He likes having missions.]
I never had an official mansion Christmas, I must admit. My first class was small, and we never really got kicked off the way it was later. You'd know more than I about the X-Men celebrations.
[ A nod and a silent promise are what Charles receives from Scott pertaining to Rogue. There's a lot of complicated feelings there, for sure, not helped by how they're scattered timeline-wise. Normally, if they're back home, he'd schedule a one-on-one. Walk through the halls of the school while he talks to Rogue.
But as it is, Scott's somehow at a loss where to start. How can he fix her issues when he's also in the process of fixing his own? They're all a mess right now, but it doesn't mean they have to stay this way forever. He'll talk to her. He just hopes it yields good results.
Speaking of good results, though, Scott's face slowly lights up at the mention of the things planned for the gathering. All good things. So good, in fact, that he wishes he's not too engrossed in his work at the Scrapyard and came up with some of these things. ]
Those sound like good preparations already. I can help you with the decorations. Many things at the Scrapyard can be turned into some. Been to the temple a couple of times so I'd know the lay of the land.
[ He can also tell them where certain things should go, etc. ] Do you already have a guest list?
[ Scott and Ororo always prove themselves the perfect team leader to him by their unfailing speed at trying to help. He loves that dearly about both of them. The two of them have such constant competency about everything that they do. He has faith that this celebration will go well, and maybe Scott will get that chance to speak with Rogue at some point. It would be good for her to talk to more than Charles and Logan, who both have their own reasons to feel guilty about her particular future.]
I invited the same people as the diner. All of us and Wade and Cable.
[ Technically he considers Laura and John automatically as 'all of us,' because in his eyes they are still X-Men. And all of us includes Erik. Perhaps it's the mutants he means in a general way, but Cable is one too. He's still somewhat outside of them though. He's guarded about his future, outside of telling Charles that it is yet another bad timeline. And Wade is something mutant-adjacent. It's close enough.]
Perhaps someday we'll have people here we consider family enough to make this larger, but for now, it felt better for it to be us.
[ Charles isn't against people bringing anyone they've become close to later on, or at other gatherings of the group. It's only for the time being that he feels they should really stay close to one another.]
[ That it feels better that the gathering's for them only first. It's their first Christmas in this place, only having been here for six months, so it feels appropriate they keep this a bit more private.
The mention of Cable, though, visibly piques Scott's interest. His jaw tightens a little, as if in contemplation. It takes him a few seconds to follow-up on his earlier words. ]
Did Cable ever tell you about who his parents are, Professor?
[ That honestly seems highly unlikely knowing Cable's allergy to say more than one sentence but Scott only wants to make sure they'd be on the same page here before dropping the proverbial bomb on Charles. ]
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[ Erik has promised to try and keep his feelings to appropriate ones when they're together, and Charles has promised to not flirt so much that changes. He's truly the problem of the two of them since he's a constant flirt, but it's for the best to protect Scott from their ridiculousness.
Charles doesn't know if he could do anything to stop it. Erik already has mental protections in place that he created, and that hasn't done anything to stop them from whatever is happening. If it upset them a great deal, he would at least try, but Erik seemed accepting of it. Perhaps he liked the idea of bonding with someone other than Charles.]
Thank you. I am quite happy about it. I've never stopped loving him.
[ The only hole in the situation is that he didn't get to talk to Raven about it, but that is impossible. As long as he manages to smooth this over with the rest, it'll be good enough for them. Charles loves Erik, truly and deeply. He can't stop the way his heart feels, and he's tired of trying to.]
I was hopeful after Erik said you two were doing better. Logan already knows, and I think Laura and Wade already guessed. Ororo and Rogue I'll have to tell eventually. It's a bit complicated with Rogue given their history, and she's been struggling in general with all of us.
[ He doesn't know if Scott is aware of that particular tension.]
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The tension between Erik and Rogue, though, well. That can't be helped. Knowing that their own version of Magneto kidnapped her and tried to kill her is always going to be a source of contention. His own anger towards Magneto, in general, might not even compare to Rogue's own anger.
The thing is, though, he's not fully aware that Rogue's struggling with them. He has never been particularly close with her, and it's still a bit jarring seeing her all grown up like John, but with the events that happened to him personally, he wasn't able to check in on her like he wanted to. He should definitely fix that. ]
I'm sure they'll come around once you tell them. [ His brows furrow. ] Honestly, Professor, I didn't know Rogue's struggling with us. Which is my bad. [ Scott's jaw tightens a bit. ] I should've been more proactive.
I can definitely see why, though. Must've been like seeing a ghost the first time she saw me here.
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[ Charles hesitates. He doesn't know how much he should tell of her story as it is personal to her. Perhaps he can move around the exact details so that she can fill that in later if she wants.]
She's from Logan's future when mutants were nearly exterminated. We thought she was dead, but she was held captive for many years. Not to put words in her mouth, but she was essentially abandoned to a bad fate.
[ That might be how she feels about it. None of them knew where she was, so it was not an intentional abandonment, but it could feel that way. He knows that she struggled with it, and she's only started to come around. She's felt disconnected, but how could she not be, after everything? And after being rescued only to be used for the cause? Charles has tried to reach out, and she's started opening up again. At least she has Logan and John now.]
I think it would be good if you were willing to speak with her. You weren't the only ghost. Most of the X-Men were dead by then.
[ So Charles doubts that is what held her back. He thinks it would be for the best if they all gently welcomed her back into the fold. Charles told her what he could about his future self's feelings and knowledge about her. Whether that healed anything in her or made it worse, he truly doesn't know, but at laest it was said. ]
She's agreed to make the food for our holiday, which I take as a good sign that she's interested in connecting again.
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That's another can of worms Scott isn't so inclined to open right now. It's just a shame he hasn't reached out that much, even here. After everything he had learned, everything that happened to him, everything else fell into the wayside. Checking up on his people. Making sure everyone's okay. Even now, out in the Scrapyard, Scott feels a bit detached from everyone. As if he found a bit of space he didn't know he was craving for.
So Scott understands her. But he's also not going to let her feel this way much longer. ] I'm gonna talk to her. Maybe the holiday gathering will give me an opportunity. [ Rogue volunteering to cook is a good sign, so he's hopeful in that regard. This also earns a smile from him. ]
Which you'd have to give me more details of, by the way, so I can prepare some decorations.
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[ Charles feels for her, he truly does. He did reassure her that he knows for a fact if older him knew she was alive and where she was, he would have immediately rescued her. It wasn't a question of whether they would, it was because they didn't know. But he can understand how her being needed at the same time as being rescued would make this feel complicated.
She's attempting to reach out now that she's reached more peace with him and Logan. Charles has hopes. But Scott was a leader. She surely looked up to him like with the other X-Men, and as she became one and grew up within the mansion. He hopes Ororo will do the same. Charles doesn't know if Scott's death led to the fracturing of the X-Men, but it probably didn't help. Their path was more about the mutant vs human problem at large. The point is they are here together now, and he wants to fix what he can.]
Right now, we have space cleared out at Ororo's temple, and I was hoping to decorate it a little bit to be festive. Rogue offered for the food, and Logan is going to get what tree is possible.
[ Charles hasn't seen any mega Christmas tree offerings around here, so it may require some finagling, but he trusts that Logan can handle it. He likes having missions.]
I never had an official mansion Christmas, I must admit. My first class was small, and we never really got kicked off the way it was later. You'd know more than I about the X-Men celebrations.
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But as it is, Scott's somehow at a loss where to start. How can he fix her issues when he's also in the process of fixing his own? They're all a mess right now, but it doesn't mean they have to stay this way forever. He'll talk to her. He just hopes it yields good results.
Speaking of good results, though, Scott's face slowly lights up at the mention of the things planned for the gathering. All good things. So good, in fact, that he wishes he's not too engrossed in his work at the Scrapyard and came up with some of these things. ]
Those sound like good preparations already. I can help you with the decorations. Many things at the Scrapyard can be turned into some. Been to the temple a couple of times so I'd know the lay of the land.
[ He can also tell them where certain things should go, etc. ] Do you already have a guest list?
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I invited the same people as the diner. All of us and Wade and Cable.
[ Technically he considers Laura and John automatically as 'all of us,' because in his eyes they are still X-Men. And all of us includes Erik. Perhaps it's the mutants he means in a general way, but Cable is one too. He's still somewhat outside of them though. He's guarded about his future, outside of telling Charles that it is yet another bad timeline. And Wade is something mutant-adjacent. It's close enough.]
Perhaps someday we'll have people here we consider family enough to make this larger, but for now, it felt better for it to be us.
[ Charles isn't against people bringing anyone they've become close to later on, or at other gatherings of the group. It's only for the time being that he feels they should really stay close to one another.]
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[ That it feels better that the gathering's for them only first. It's their first Christmas in this place, only having been here for six months, so it feels appropriate they keep this a bit more private.
The mention of Cable, though, visibly piques Scott's interest. His jaw tightens a little, as if in contemplation. It takes him a few seconds to follow-up on his earlier words. ]
Did Cable ever tell you about who his parents are, Professor?
[ That honestly seems highly unlikely knowing Cable's allergy to say more than one sentence but Scott only wants to make sure they'd be on the same page here before dropping the proverbial bomb on Charles. ]