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Chapter Nine

"Raven we need to talk about this!" Eric shouted as Raven walked away from him down the hall. She continued to ignore him and sated to walk faster to her room wiping away the water that started to emerge from the corner of her eyes. "Raven!" he shouted as she reached her door. Eric used his mutation to lock the door just as she reached it.

"What?" She snapped as Eric came to her and took hold of her arms.

"What's the matter? We just stopped the man who is the lead funder in weapon X, without him there will be no funding and no way of doing all the experiments. It will close soon because of what we did."

"What we did? We killed two people! One of them was an innocent just doing his job and I killed him."

"You where looking out for me. He might have killed me if you didn't stop him."

She tried to pull away from his grip but he held onto her trying to get her to stay with him. "Let me go!" She commanded but did not get her request. "Eric...please..." He pulled her into his chest and as she started to cry. He felt horrible as if he had somehow forced her to kill the police man. He opened the door and moved her into her room and cradled her on the bed until she fell asleep.

There was black and red smoke as Azazel appeared once more at his leader's request. They spoke for a few moments and then when the demon like mutant understood what he had to do fully he disappeared again.

A few hours later Raven woke up to the sound of Emma in her head.

Magneto wants to see you right away. It seems pretty urgent.

She walked to the next room and quietly announced herself as she entered the room. "You wanted to see me?"

He sighed before turning around from gazing outside his bedroom window. "I've asked Azazel to send you to your brothers for a while."

Great she thought. He wants me gone.

"So you want me to leave?" She asked holding back the tears that she could feel forming in the back of her eyes.

"No, I want you to say but since the JFK incident you have been different so going to visit Charles will be good for you."

"When shall I come back?" She asked wiping away the water that trailed down her cheeks.

"When you are ready. I want you to be happy with yourself."

She nodded and then Azazel was summoned and carried with him a small suitcase filled with items from her room. Raven took his arm as he teleported her to her brothers home in Westchester, New York.

- Charles's House -

"Raven?" He asked surprised as his sister entered his study. "What's wrong?"

She didn't say anything and just sat down opposite her brother at his desk staring at his wheelchair and knowing that she was not there to help him. "I'm sorry I wasn't here to help with your...erm...condition."

"Please Raven, I'm fine with my disability. Now, I don't even have to read your mind to know that this visit wasn't due to that fact that you 'missed me.'"

"I did something and I'm not proud of it. I hate myself for it and Eric said coming back to you for a while would help me."

"What did you do?" He asked his sister.

"I protected Eric but that meant..." She paused for a moment and stared straight at Charles. He wasn't judging her and never would. There was a surge of confidence and comfort that always filled her when she was talking to Charles about anything which is why she loved him so much. "...I killed someone." She looked down at her hands unable to look Charles in the eye.

He was speechless for a short while but then looked at his sister sitting across the desk looking down at her hands ashamed of herself and he could not feel disappointed or angry. "I will not judge you Raven. You protected your friend."

"He's not my friend..."

"Have you two had a disagreement?"

"Not really..." Raven said while starting to pull nervously at her clothes.

"What is it then?"

"Me and Eric are kind of a couple."

"Oh..." Charles said stunned.

Author Note:

This isn't my favourite chapter but I hope you all liked it
It's mostly a filler chapter and I really wanted to bring Charles into it as the point in the story has Raven dealing with something quite dark.

I will be brining Azazel into this story a lot more soon as he and Mystique have an interesting storyline so I' going to try and work that in. Don't forget to review!