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[dan-abernathy]

*ON HIATUS* (probably forever)

[dizzy-bat]

Charles just looked patiently, what more could he do? He could feel the bitter anger poisoning Daniel’s mind. Anyway he was trying to stay calm, even thought it wasn’t easy. Nobody even deigned to inform him about a mess that was happening in the school during his absence. “Maybe you should stop fighting?” a simply question about all his actions towards Alexandra and Charlie. “I know you really don’t like Charlie, there’s no need to be a telepath to notice. Don’t you see the harder you are fighting the more you are losing? It’s like sand in the clenched fist, the more ou clench the faster sand is running, that’s how it works with people as well.” Charles was still calm on the outside, no matter how bitter Dan was going to be. “I do understand your worries about your sister, but believe me, she is not stupid, not at all. You don’t have to protect her from her friends. Try to accept them.”

[dan-abernathy]

“No offense, Professor, but I am not one of your students, so you can stop with all these stupid metaphors. And you should also go to see a doctor, because I honestly think that you have to be blind or at least have a problem with eyes if you seriously can’t see that Charlie is not just her friend,” the boy still did not regret anything he said. Who else would be honest with this old man if not him? Certainly not Alexandra nor Charlie. But he had to admit that talking to somebody, talking to him was kind of... relaxing. Or it was just his energy trying its best to come back to his weak body.  Daniel rolled his eyes and sighed heavily. “The point is that I am not here and in her life to hurt anybody... okay? I just... I-I can’t get that vampire out of my head because I somehow still share some of Al’s thoughts... They’re stuck or something, I don’t really know, but it pisses me off,” Dan paused for a moment, “and don’t get me wrong, those thoughts are not negative or bad or anything like that which is... umm, it’s not okay. I am not okay with it.”

[dizzy-bat]

“The whole mansion was still a quite mess, although most of damages was already removed. Charles just felt it all in his bones, or rather mind. Some students’ minds were quite messed up at the moment as well, so he was trying his best to calm them down, to make them feel more comfortable. Xavier talked with most of the kidnapped kids, he couldn’t leave them themselves. All he wanted was this place to be safe for all these mutants and to make them feel safe. Charles had to fight off his own mental pain and kind of anger associated with the tragic event during his absence. He came back to the school as soon as he could when he got know what happened, it was obvious. Leaving Erik he said no word about the real reason, it was not a good time for sharing this information with his old friend. Now Charles was standing in his own room, he threw his coat over the chair and listened. The strange feeling intensified as Charles was getting closer to it’s source, barely seeing the corridors and details of the surrounding. Charles let himself to be blindly leader by it until he was standing in front of the door, door to Alexandra’s room. “Daniel, are you okay? What happened?” ”

[dan-abernathy]

The boy wanted to laugh so freakin’ hard after Charles asked him that question. This man seemed to be so naive sometimes, it was really difficult to believe that he could lead so many young people... “Do I fuckin’ look like I’m okay? Because, as you can see, it’s really fuckin’ hard to even move since your beloved Alexandra made a living corpse out of me. I swear to God, her power made her have fetish on dead people or something,” the true was that Daniel didn’t actually want to be so mad at her or say those things, but that Charles’ question just made him so angry at that exact moment, that for a second he didn’t even regret anything he said. 

[dan-abernathy]

The boy was lying on a bed and couldn’t move. Not even a little. He had no wounds, it was all like the worst mental pain he’d ever experienced in his whole life and this time, it felt more real than ever before.  Daniel went through a lot, but being defeated by his sister like this was too much. Not because he felt weaker than her, but simply because Alexandra chose a vampire instead of her brother. 

His head was an one big mess, his mind, his thoughts, they weren’t rational, his thinking, point of view weren’t rational and somewhere, in the corner of his mind, he knew. He knew that these feelings were based on everything that happened between him and Alexandra, but Daniel couldn’t help himself.  The power which his sister used on him didn’t let him to be more than a breathing body and it definitely didn’t help to his mental condition. 

But Daniel didn’t give up. No. After he found out that he has a real family, a real sister, someone who’s related to him by blood and not just some papers, at that moment he decided that he will fight. So the boy was doing exactly what his energy that left, allowed him to do. Just breathing. Simple breathing. Daniel closed his bright blue eyes and tried to calm himself down.  No mess, no thoughts about Charlie, no thoughts at all actually, just him, the darkness that he’s used to, breathing and tears. 

This was a telepath’s school and he had to know what was happening in here, right? 

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