I'm Your Son!

The Fight

After the crazy events in Cairo with Apocalypse we all came back victorious, most of us injured including me, to the Xavier School for Gifted Youngsters. Jean and Erik (Magneto) were fixing up the destroyed school building while everyone else was watching. Erik was in the sky moving metal, like usual, while Jean was moving around everything else and constructing the building. Everyone was relived. I stared up at Erik... my dad. It's weird when I say dad. I never needed one when I grew up. I had my mom and my sister and that's all I needed, but if I needed a dad growing up I wished Erik was there. I was happy, even though my leg was fully broken. I had a goofy grin on.

"Mystique told me he is your father," Ororo (Storm) said looking at Erik, "are you gonna tell him?" My smile faded a bit. Did I need to tell him? What if he doesn't believe me. What if he doesn't want a loser son like me?

"I might, one day." I answered, "For now I'm just gonna stick around here for a while."

Ororo smiled and added, "Me too."

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"Woah woah, Peter, slow down," Erik said, "no running in the hallways." He put his arm out to stop me, and I jerked to a stop. I could've just sped right past him and he probably wouldn't have noticed or even cared, but something made me stop. Maybe it was the FaThErLy PoWerrRrr.

I stuttered, "Oh, uh, yeah, um, sorry." Damnit, why am I so awkward around him.

"It's fine," said Erik, "don't be so nervous, I'm not gonna hurt you, I know I did some bad stuff I regret, but-"

I interrupted, "-NO no, I'm not afraid of you, I, I just, you're my... I'm just having a hard time getting used to this school, heh, I usually don't fit in."

"This is one place where you don't have to 'fit in' to belong, you belong just by being here. You belong, Peter." Erik replied as he put his hand on my shoulder in a comforting way.

"Yeah yeah, blah blah, thanks" I said, jokingly. Then I speed walked away. I could've ran and used my speed, but something stopped me.

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I finally got to the library to hang out with my friends: Jubilee, Scott, Kurt, Ororo, and Jean.

"Heyyyyyy, friendos" I said. I shot finger guns at them. Jubilee and Kurt giggled and Scott and Jean sighed. Ororo just smiled.

"You're late, man." Said Scott.

"For a speedster, you always seem to be late." Ororo added.

"Stop attacking Peter, guys!" Jubilee said.

"Thank you very much, Jubilee. You guys should be more like her. I have a very good explanation! My da- aaaaa-Erik stopped me in the hallway for running, and so I had to walk all the way here." I explained.

"Your daaaaa?" Kurt asked, confused, "Is that more slang I should know?" Ororo gave me a look, I panicked.

"No, no, I just slipped up." I said, defensively.

"You almost called Erik 'dad'?!" Jean almost screamed.

"SHHHHHHHH" I responded.

Scott asked, "What's the big deal? You just see Erik as your father figure."

"There's this big secret I have... Ororo knows..." I said.

"What is it?" Scott asked.

"You got this, Peter." Ororo said.