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» CHAPTER SIX
❛ I want you by my side ❜
( part one. falling empires )
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“𝗘𝗟𝗘𝗡𝗢𝗥, 𝗜𝗦 𝗘𝗩𝗘𝗥𝗬𝗧𝗛𝗜𝗡𝗚 𝗢𝗞𝗔𝗬?”,
Raven asked her worried as the brunette and Alex helped Sean to get back to the Jet. “Yeah, everything is fine. We just had a little reunion with Angel, that's all.”
They could already see the wrecked Jet as suddenly their attention was drawn towards Erik, who slowly flew out of the Submarine as he let Shaw fly infront of him. Elenor's eyes grew wide as she watched him starring down at them.
“Today our fighting stops!”
He let Shaw fall down infront of the feets from Shaw's Mutants, who gasped as they watched the dead body of their leader.
Elenor gasped shocked as well when the dead man collided with the sand floor. Erik landed on the sand besides him, with Shaw's metal helmet on his head.
He turned and looked directly at Elenor and the others, “Take of your blinders, brothers and sisters! The real enemy is out there!” He pointed to the ocean where the ships' still approched each other.
“I feel their guns, moving in the water. Their Metall targeting us. Americans, Soviets, humans. United in their fear of the unknown.”
Charles slowly approprached the man as they both walked to the shore. “A Neederthal is running scared, my fellow Mutants!”
Erik looked at Charles as they both continued walking, “Go ahead, Charles. Tell me I'm wrong.”
Charles lifted his hand to his temple and it was completely silent for a moment. Charles gaze fell onto Moira as he noded at her which made the woman immediately run towards the jet.
The young mutants all looked at each other worried and scared as suddenly a couple of shots' could be heard.
In a second, hundreds of rocket launchers flew into the air and then turned, before they flew directly at the island.
“Oh no”, was all Elenor breathed out as she watched the rocket launchers approch them with big eyes.
They would hit them any second but then Erik suddenly raised his hand into the air and all of them stopped before they slowly turned back to where they came from.
“Erik, you said it yourself, we're the better men. This is the time to prove it.” Charles looked at his friend who stood besides him starring at the rocket launchers.
“There are thousands of men on this ships, getting orders, innocent men! They're just following orders!”
Erik didn't looked at Charles as he answered him, “I've been at the mercy of men just following orders.” He then turned his head towards Charles, “Never again.”
And with that he let the Rockets fly back towards the big ships. “Erik, release them!” But Erik ignored him and just continued to navigate them back to the ships.
Elenor immediately let go of Sean and the red mist started to twirel around her fingers. It slowly made it's way around a couple of rocket launchers, making them slowly fall down to the ocean as they exploded.
Elenor hardly inhaled as she lifted her hands up again. Meanwhile Charles had tackled Erik to the ground trying to get the helmet off of his head. “I don't want to hurt you! Don't make me!”, Erik exclaimed as he punched Charles making him fall off of him.
The other X-Men quickly approched Erik but he only threw them back as he shouted, “Stay back!”
Erik looked over to Elenor who already had the others rocket launchers surrounded with her red mist, but he tried to bring them back under his control.
Elenor head snapped towards him as she let out a scream, the brunette pushed herself further to her maximum. She just couldn't let Erik win this. But she got help, Charles interrupted Erik again, which gave Elenor the opportunity to destroy the Launchers.
She then immediately continued with the rest but Elenor suddenly felt a strong force that fought against her.
The young woman furrowed her eyebrows but as she looked to her side the brunette saw that Erik was back on his feet again.
The two battled for power as suddenly Moira shot at Erik's helmet, distracting him. Erik deflected the bullets but as he blocked the last one he hit Charles into his back.
Elenor had just destroyed the last Rockets as Charles let out a very loud scream. The brunette immediately clapped a hand over her mouth as she realized what had just happened. The young mutant quickly run over to Erik who already held Charles in his arms.
“I'm so sorry”, Erik told him as Charles grunted in pain. “I said back off!”, he then screamed at the others who wanted to approach Erik again. He then looked at Moira who seemed as shocked as everyone else.
“You, you did this!”
He lifted his hand up and Moria's necklace immediately tightened around her throat. The woman gasped for air as she grabbed onto the necklace in panic.
“Erik, stop it!” Elenor looked at the man shocked, but he didn't reacted. “Stop it, Erik!”
“Please— She didn't do this Erik. You did!”, Charles choked out as he still laid in Eriks arm, looking up at him.
Erik's gaze fell on Charles as he let his hand down. Elenor immediately checked if Moira was okay as she listened to the two men.
“Us turning on each other, it's what they want. I tried to warn you, Charles! We're brothers Charles, you and I”, Erik said as he looked at his friend.
The brunette slowly made her way over to the two, “All of us, together. Protecting each other.” He looked up at Elenor who now sat besides them before his gaze fell onto the man who still laid on the ground, “We want the same thing.”
“Oh my friend”, Charles chuckled at him sadly, “I'm sorry, but we do not.”
Erik looked from Charles to Elenor, “Elenor, what about you?”, the brunette gave him a unsure look which made him speak up again, “I want you by my side.” He had an begging look on his face as his eyes were filled with tears.
Elenor eyes teared up as well as she let out a whisper, “I can't.”
Erik's eyelids fluttered before he broke the eye contact. The man looked at the ground for a moment, Elenor wanted to grab him by the arm but he stood up quickly and waved Moira towards him and the other two.
Moira quickly run towards them and sat down where Erik has sat a couple of seconds ago, “I'm sorry! I'm so sorry, Charles!”
“It's all right. It's all right.”
Elenor still watched Erik as he turned to look at the others. “His society won't except us!” He pointed at Charles, “We form our own. The humans have played their hand. Now we get ready to play ours!”
“Who's with me?”
Erik looked at Raven as he streched out his hand, “No more hiding.”
Raven hesitated but then she slowly approprached him, but before the blue woman reached Erik she walked over to Charles and sat down next him and Elenor.
Charles immediately grabbed her hand tightly before he whispered, “You should go with him. It's what you want.”
Raven eyed him closely, “You promised me you would never read my mind.” She softly strocked his head.
“I know. I promised you great many things, I'm afraid.” Charles watched Raven witch tears in his ice blue eyes. “I'm sorry.”
He kissed her hand before she kissed his forehead. The blue skinned woman then looked at Elenor and Moira who watched the two.
“Take care”, she whispered to Elenor before she slowly stood up and took Eriks hand, as did the other three mutants that had followed Shaw.
Raven looked at the other X-Men witch a smile, “And Beast, never forget Mutant and proud!”, and with that they had disappeared.
The others immediately jogged over to Charles, Moira and Elenor. “Help me get him to a hospital!”, Moria instructed the team as they tried to lift him up.
“Charles, don't move!”, Hank told him as the man grunted in pain. “All right, actually, I ca— I — I can't feel my legs. I can't feel my legs!”, the young man exclaimed as a tear rolled down his cheek.
Elenor grabbed his hand and squeezed it tightly as he repeated his words over and over again. “Charles, everything is going to be all right!”
It was the next week as Elenor pushed Charles carefully through the Garden. The birds chirpied happyly and the sun shone through the thick leaves of the trees. Elenor had a small smile on her lips as she remembered the time where Erik and her had sat under the big tree, talking about what was about to happen.
To this time they didn't knew what was about to happen. Elenor hadn't expect that she could change him, but she had expected that he would be the bigger man. But he wasn't, he had decided to be just like Shaw.
The brunette let out a deep sighed as she continued to push Charles wheelchair forward. “You have feeling for him, don't you?”
Charles question let Elenor snap out of her thoughts. “What?!”
The young man looked up at her as he repeated his words this time completely sure, “You have feeling for him.” Elenor scoffed at him a smile playing on her lips, “No, I don't.”
“Yes, you do!”
Elenor stopped the wheelchair besides a bench and sat down besides Charles. She let out a deep breath as she laid her hands into her lap, “You really want to whipe out her entired memory?”
“Yes, it's the best for her”, Charles answered her honestly as he nodded his head slowly. “And is it the best for you?”, the brunette questioned him as she raised an eyebrow.
He looked ahead as he slowly answered her, “No, but— I can't allowed myself to think about what's good for me.”
Elenor deeply inhaled as she spotted Moira who quickly approched them. “Bummer, she would've been a good friend”, the brunette said as she stood up from the bench and waved at Moira before she made her way over to Alex, Sean and Hank, who stood by the entrance.
“So, boys. What are we going to do?”, she asked them as they all looked at her.
“Loot the fridge?”, Sean asked them smirking as he held up his thumbs. “The fridge it is”, Elenor agreed with him as Hank followed after Sean into the kitchen.
Elenor looked at Moira and Charles who now made their way through the big and beautiful Garden.
“Hey, it's better this way”, Alex assured her as he laid a hand onto her shoulder and smiled. Elenor still looked at the two as she slowly answered him, “Yeah, I guess.”
The two turned around and quickly followed after the others as they laughed about something Sean shouted at Hank in the kitchen.
Elenor let out a chuckle as she entered the kitchen and saw Sean who fought with Hank over the last sandwich that stood on the counter.
The brunette couldn't think of a better family.
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