Final chapter so thank you for everyone who reviewed, favourited, followed and read my story. I hope you enjoyed it :)

Epilogue – 6 months later

Charles was sat on the terrace, watching the sun rise over the gardens at the Westchester mansion as he had done every day since returning home. It had been a long 6 months since the incident with Mark Warren but Charles had never felt so happy in far too long. The court case that allowed him to get control of his estate once more lasted a little over 4 months but Charles had managed to get everything back. His friends had come to the court cases and given evidence of Charles' competency so as to allow him to gain control of his estate. Suffice to say, Charles wouldn't be sitting here if not for them.

Mark Warren's funeral had been an interesting affair and one Charles could have easily missed. There had been an enquiry as to his death but the police had been unable to find any concrete evidence, possibly because Charles had made the overlook said evidence. After everything Erik had done for Charles, it seemed only fair to the telepath that he should return the favour.

Christopher, Mark's son, had been livid to find out his Father was dead and naturally blamed Charles. However, the man was still in prison so Charles didn't need to worry about him for a while at least.

Once Charles had returned to the manor, he had set to work disbanding the labs Mark Warren had been using to experiment on mutants. Between his own influence on said labs, which he found where mostly in buildings owned by his late Father, and the other mutants experience at destroying the labs, they had been able to free all the mutants trapped there.

After that, Charles had had to make a decision as to what to do with the estate. He had always wanted to open a school in the mansion and after explaining the idea to Erik, over one of their many games of chess, the other members of the apartment building had found out. Of course, Sean and Alex had jumped at the chance for Charles to start a school and had particularly forced him to.

It took another moth for him to fill in all of the relevant paperwork but finally the mansion was made into a school for mutants. Hank had mentioned a design for something called Cerebro at this time and between the two of them, they had managed to build it in the lower parts of the mansion. Once that was done, Charles was able to start finding mutants all over the world. There were so many of them and Charles had been amazed at it. Of course not all of those he went to wanted to come to the school but a large number had.

When they started to come, Charles realised that he had no one but himself to teach him until Raven picked up on his distress and moved into the mansion with Hank in tow. The other mutants soon followed, even Logan and Azazel. The last to come had been Erik. Charles hadn't been overly surprised at Erik's reluctance, seeing as the older mutant hated to be tied down anywhere, preferring to make his own way in life. But eventually, Erik had turned up at the mansion's front steps and soon it was as if he'd always been there.

There first student had been Scott, Alex's younger brother, and soon after came Jean and Ororo and then more mutants. Charles enjoyed teaching them, something which didn't surprise him. He'd spent some time teaching the other older mutants how best to control their powers, with the help of Hank's scientific knowledge.

The old lab had been ripped down by Erik, possibly in the other mutants' temper but Charles didn't mind. He didn't want anything of Mark Warren marring their new home, because it wasn't just his home now. It was all of theirs home. Hank now had a new lab and Raven and Alex insisted on making a gym. While the mutant was large, a lot of the children did have to share rooms however there was still enough for the older ones' to have their own rooms. Something Erik, Logan and Azazel were pleased about.

"What are you doing out here?" Erik's voice carried out into the terrace, interrupting Charles' daydream. The sun had risen fully now and when he looked at his watch, Charles realized the children would be waking soon.

"I lost track of time." Erik didn't answer, coming to lean on the terrace next to Charles.

"You do this every morning." Erik finally asked, disturbing the silence. Charles nodded in answer. "Why?"

It took a moment for Charles to think of an appropriate answer but finally he spoke. "I always did this when I was younger and its' something I've missed after not being here when I was younger." Erik nodded, accepting the answer. Charles felt the buzzes of waking minds not 5 minutes later, causing him to laugh quietly as the mutants within the household slowly woke up. "I believe it's time we went inside."

Erik glowered, making Charles laugh louder. "As long as they behave themselves and clean up after themselves."

"They're children my friend I don't think they can help themselves." Charles replied, remembering the morning before when Erik had come into the kitchen after waking to find it a complete mess, thanks to the children.

Erik looked at Charles before turning to walk back into the house and saying, "You're the professor here not me."

Thanks for everyone who read this story and please review also I'm considering a sequel to this so that may come up sooner or later, depending on how motivated I am to write it :)