Charles Xavier x child!reader
Pairing: parent/child relationship, Charles x reader
Summary: Charles meets you, a rather powerful young mutant who can’t fully control her powers and is afraid to use them. Naturally, Charles wants to help and immediately falls in love with your adorable self.
You hated your life. All those stupid kids thought you were a freak because of how you were born. It wasn’t like it was your fault. You just happened to be able to control water. Your mother had always told you that it was an amazing gift and that it was incredibly cool what you could do. And until you were five you loved your powers. But then she’d been involved in a car crash and she was gone. Forever. First you’d been put in an orphanage till your father had decided whether or not to take you in after his ex-wife’s death. But you’d known he wouldn’t want you. Because your powers had been the reason he’d left. Sometimes you’d felt incredibly guilty about that, but then your mom - your amazing mom - had convinced you that he wasn’t worth it. That if the reason he left was that you were much more beautiful and powerful than him, than she didn’t want to live with him. So you’d been rather glad when he had decided against taking you in. Then you’d gone from one orphanage to the next, never being adopted. After a while of living at the new one you were sent to, the other kids noticed that you were different, that you could do things they couldn’t, and then you were sent off to the next orphanage in the area. All that just because they didn’t understand that you weren’t dangerous. Because you were different, and that scared them.
So here you were, sitting in the back corner of your small room and hugging your legs tightly. Tears were running down your cheeks as you thought about what the other kids had said to you earlier.
No wonder your parents abandoned you.
That’s not normal! Just get out of here! Go on, get out you weirdo!
It wasn’t like it was anything new. All the kids said hurtful stuff to you when they saw you use your powers. You’d rather keep them a secret, but you couldn’t fully control them. Sometimes water just suddenly froze, started boiling or floating around when you were upset or excited. But just because you were used to it, didn’t mean the insults hurt any less. Yes, you were still pretty young - you were just seven years old - but you very much knew how cruel others could be and that they would never accept you.
There was frost covering the walls around where you sat huddled up in your room. The tears on your face had already frozen and you could feel the entire floor starting to freeze over too. You just cried harder. Why was your life such a mess? Why did your mommy have to die? Why did everyone hate you so much? Why-
“Hello?”, a voice asked from outside the door. You didn’t recognise who it was. It definitely was no other kid, it sounded more like a grown man’s voice, but you didn’t know many adult men. Just the few that ran this or that orphanage you’d lived in. Maybe a teacher, but not whoever this was. His voice was way too…gentle. That probably meant that he didn’t know you had powers, otherwise he wouldn’t talk with such a nice tone.
“(Y/n)? Can I come in?”, the man asked again. You forced yourself to stop crying and took a shaky breath.
“Y-yeah”, you replied quietly and quickly wiped away all the liquid and frozen tears from your face with your sleeve. The door opened and a young man in a wheelchair entered the room. He stopped riding forward as soon as he saw the ice on the floor, which had almost reached the door. You expected him to shout something mean like everyone else did, but instead he just smiled.
“Hello, (Y/n). I’m Charles Xavier. From what I can see, you have some difficulties controlling your gift”, he said with a kind voice, that smile never leaving his face. When he used the word ‘gift’, you immediately thought about your mother and how she’d said that you were an amazing little girl, not a monster. And because that man used the very same word your mom had always used to describe your powers, you decided to trust him.
“Mhm”, you mumbled and nodded, letting out a shaky breath.
“You’re not…m-mad?”, you asked him, hoping he really was as kind and accepting as your mom.
“Do I have a reason to be?”, he asked, that same smile still on his face.
“I-I used my p-powers. They all s-say I’m a freak a-and t-that I shouldn’t be able to…to do t-that”, you explained and half expected this Charles guy to agree with you.
“(Y/n), I want you to listen to me very carefully”, Charles said. His tone wasn’t threatening or demanding, it rather had a comforting edge to it. He slowly rode closer to you with his chair, careful not to slip on the ice. He stopped a few feet away from you and leaned forward a bit, staring directly into your (e/c) eyes with his piercing blue ones.
“What you have is not a curse. Nor should it be suppressed or hated. It’s a beautiful gift that you simply haven’t learned to fully control yet. It most certainly is not something to be ashamed of.” His kind words made a warmth spread through your body despite the low temperature of your room. It was a feeling you hadn’t felt since your mother had died.
“But how c-could you know? You c-can’t do the stuff that I can do”, you whispered back as you lowered your head and placed your head back on your knees.
“No, I can’t”, he said. But I can do this, his voice said inside your head. You gasped and looked back up at him. His smile was much bigger now and there was a slight twinkle in his eyes.
“Do that again!”, you demanded with a small laugh. Charles just chuckled.
I run a school for children with special abilities. A school for gifted youngsters. If you want, you can come live there, he said, his lips never moving.
“Really?”, you asked incredulously.
“Really really”, he replied. You squealed, jumping up from your fetal position and hugging the man (as well as that worked out with him sitting in a wheelchair and all). He froze for a second but hugged back with a slight chuckle. You jumped back with a smile even bigger than his on your face.
“When can I leave?”, you asked eagerly.
“Right now, if you want. I’ve already arranged everything with CPS”, he said. You gasped and started running around your room, collecting the little belongings you had and stuffing them all into your trusty backpack. While you ran about, the ice and frost covering the floor and walls started to sublime until no traces of it were left.
“Incredible”, you heard Charles mumble as the ice disappeared. You blushed slightly and went to stand in front of him with your packed backpack over your shoulder.
“Are you ready?”, he asked gently, making you nod eagerly.