Time After Time - Peter Maximoff x Reader - Part 4
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You stood outside of the medical bay, waiting for Hank to run his tests. How could you have been right? Did you have another gift the professor never picked up on? Premonition? Was it all a coincidence?
You heard the distinctive sound of the Professor’s wheel chair approach you pulling you from your thoughts. He let out a deep sigh and studied you
“It seems my dear Y/n that I own you an apology” you frown in confusion “You were indeed right about Peter after all”
“How is this possible Professor, how would I know this?”
“Well you were always one of my brightest students” you tried to smile but it came out half- heartedly.
“Did he say anything to you before I arrived?”
“He said ‘it’s you’, as if he knew me; which is impossible as I wasn’t even born. I never got to answer” the Professor nodded as if he understood why Peter said it.
You frowned at him, if it was one thing about Charles Xavier you couldn’t stand it was his ability to frustrate you without saying a word. You see a twinkle appear in the older man’s eyes.
“What would you say if I told you that when Jean was younger she foresaw the explosion all those years ago?”
“Jean can see the future?” you asked genuinely shocked
“She had glimpses and feelings of future events on occasion. Mostly in her dreams but since she gained more control of her powers they are now extremely rare” he answered folding his hands in his lap and for the first time you notice he has a file of some kind under his hands
“But she saw the explosion?”
“Yes, she didn’t know when it would occur but yes she saw it. She saw Peter being the one that stopped it and then she saw the glimpse of a face in the darkness. But sadly she never saw the outcome of the event. We had no way of knowing Peter would vanish as he did.”
“The face she saw, it was the mutant that caused the explosion?”
“No Y/n.” He pulled the A4 file from his lap and opened it and looked at its contents.
“It haunted Jean for weeks, she felt as if the dream was trying to tell her something. Any spare moment she had she’d have a piece of paper and a pencil in her hand. Drawing it over and over until she was finally happy she had it right.” He smiled down at the paper as though he was reliving old memories
“We searched files of known mutants and she even begged me to search with Cerebro, she was so sure the person as important to what was going to happen; she could feel it. It was all redundant as no sign of the face anywhere. After the incident Jean was distraught, maybe if we’d have found them we could have saved Peter.” He let out a heavy sigh and finally looked you in the eye.
“It wasn’t until years later when a young girl who was brought to my school began to grow up into a beautiful young woman that the subject was brought up again when Jean came knocking on my door with this in her hand.” He hand you the folder, you took it hesitantly and looked within and gasped at the face looking back.
Jean had captured the features perfectly; it was as if you were looking into a mirror. You looked up at the Professor in shock.
“Then you began taking such interest in what happened to Peter, it was troubling. At first we thought you might have been a relative but a simple blood test ruled that out. Jean thought you may have had a connection of some kind but as far as we knew he had died that day and you weren’t even born. You would never meet.” Your chest was heaving as you tried to take in the new information.
“I can’t give you answers Y/n; I don’t know why Jean saw you in that dream. I don’t know why you were so sure Peter didn’t die that day and I don’t know why he recognised you in that hallway. All I know is this was clearly meant to happen.” He reached out and gave your hand a fatherly squeeze
“It’s for you to work out why”
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