That Night

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Westchester, New York, 1944

Young [Y/N] and Raven were outside a huge stone mansion that [Y/N] scouted and insisted that lots of food were inside.

"Are you sure this will work?" A young Raven asked nervously.

"Yes, just find a picture of an adult and you will not get caught. I didn't heard any movement or sound inside." The young boy reassuringly said to the nervous blue girl. He was found by Raven not too long after he ran away from an orphanage, he accidentally threw someone hard enough to hurt them using his powers. He did not understand what happened and the children were shocked and scared of him causing him to run away.

After meeting Raven, she explained that they are different from others and later embraced his powers to better understand them, although he can't control it he noticed the enhanced hearing that he uses when him and Raven are breaking in different houses.

"Ok, let's enter through the window." [Y/N] nodded and followed Raven to a wall with a window low enough for them to climb to. Raven struggled to opened the latch. "[Y/N] a little help?" She quietly asked. He then closed his eyes and focused on the sound of the wind and he felt the sound of it's soft blow fuel him and he turned to focus on the locked window latch, and after a few moments the lock broke.[Y/N] panted in exhaustion as a result of this, he never really tried to open locked doors and windows that much and it always drains his energy.

Raven quickly and quietly climbed through the window and when she got in she gestured [Y/N] to come along, she reached her hand for support and [Y/N] grabbed it and climbed with her.

When they got in they scouted the empty kitchen for pictures of an adult, they always do this so that they will not get caught that easily. "Raven look." [Y/N] pointed a picture of a young boy and an older woman in a red dress, presumably his mother. Raven understood the signal and copied her look.

"What do I say if the son wakes up?" Raven asked in the form of the boy's mother. "Uhm, tell him go back to bed or you'll make him a hot chocolate, that always works."[Y/N] whispered. Raven nodded. And she quickly rummaged the fridge for foods. [Y/N] went through the cabinets to see if there are also foods to steal. But he was cut off when he heard soft steps on the hard wood floors.

He was going to warn Raven but he saw the boy already entering the kitchen and he quickly hide behind the kitchen island.

"Mother." The boy started he had a soft british accent and that made Raven stopped rummaging through the fridge and she closed it shut to fend away the awakend boy, while [Y/N] hides quietly. "I thought you were a burglar." The boy continued.

"I didn't meant to scare you darling, I was just getting a snack. Go back to bed." Raven softly spoke in a motherly tone.

The boy did not moved and continued staring at what he thought is his mother, his soft blue eyes study the woman as if she was foreign to him.

"What's the matter?" His mom spoke. "Go on, back to bed." She ushered the boy. [Y/N] hoping it works as usual so that they could carry on and not get caught.

The mom bent down and touching her knees to level with the little boy's height. "I'll make you a hot chocolate." The woman offered. In a heap of surprise that caught [Y/N] and Raven off, the boy asked, "Who are you?" The tone of the little kid was like he just found out that his mother turned out to be not her but someone else. And he was right to suspect it too.

"Who's that with you?" The boy continued to asked her looking at the direction of where [Y/N] was hiding. He then looked at his mother then a picture that is hanging on a wall on his right. The boy realized that outfit and look of his mother matched the woman's look. "And what have you done with my mother?" The question held a threatening tone to it, that made [Y/N] flinch, Raven must keep her cool though. But on the inside they are really afraid to be caught.

'My mother never set foot in this kitchen in her life.'

Raven and [Y/N] started to hear a voice in their head, it was the boy's voice. Raven was shocked and confused it made her slowly step backwards and held both of her hands to her head. [Y/N] tried to awaken his power but the voice can't let him concentrate.

'And she certainly never made me hot chocolate.'

'Unless you count ordering the maid to do it.'

The boy's voice continued to echo through both of their heads. The boy kept marching slowly towards Raven, [Y/N] quickly jumped out of his hiding spot to protect Raven from the strange kid. He held both of his hands to his side as if he was blocking her friend from a threat.

The boy's gaze soften when Raven slowly transformed back to her natural blue and scaly form, her height leveling the other two boys.

After she fully transformed back to her natural form, the boy let out a soft happy laugh. Like he just found something really precious.

A moment of silence were shared between the three of them, [Y/N] still looked skeptical of the boy, but he turned his eyes to the broken and bent locked of the window latch.

"Did.. you do that?" The boy asked Raven, she shook her head and pointed at [Y/N] and he looked at the boy's face for his reaction, expecting him to be horrified of the duo. But, his smile only grew wider and his eyes were full of innocent hope.

"You're not scared of us?" Young Raven asked innocently.

"I always believed I wasn't the only one in the world.. the only person that's.. different." Slowly [Y/N] started to let his guard down to the kid.

"And here you both are.. Charles Xavier." The boy introduced himself to the two kids and reach his hands out to Raven, who unsurely took it. "Raven." Then Charles turned to [Y/N] and did the same, "[Y/N]" he said introducing himself.

"You both are hungry.. and alone." They both nodded frantically. "Take whatever you want, we have lots of food you don't have to steal." Charles gestured to the whole kitchen which made [Y/N] and Raven really happy, they will get food without the worry of getting caught and running away.

"In fact, you never have to steal again." They both smiled at the notion. Kindness like this was never presented to either of them and now a boy that lives in a mansion that they attempted to rob offered them a life. They don't want to waste it.

Raven and [Y/N] shared a look and agreed to live with Charles. Abandoning their life on the streets and trading it with a life with Charles.

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