Shado→Peter Maximoff

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Stryker demands.

"It's not him you should be worried about. There's someone else.
Someone more powerful."

Moira tells him.

"If you let us out of here, we can help you."

Mystique tells him.

"Do you really expect me to believe that? You can put on any face that you want, but I know who you are. What you are."

Then he disappears.

"Seeing that guy is like getting fruitcake for Christmas."

Nyx mutters, sinking into the shadows.

She feels the immediate need to pace as Raven watches the window intently.

"So, whats up with the curly hair, less boho look?"

Nyx asks attempting to stop herself from getting twitchy.

Raven shrugs.

"It was time to grow up."

Nyx nods.

Silence.

"Someone say something before I start pacing on the ceiling."

Nyx says.

More uncomfortable silence.

"Okay."

She says, standing.

She turns and places a foot on the shadowed gap between lasers.

And she begins to walk, up the wall.

Her entire body jolts in pain and she falls, landing with a thud, her body slightly shaking from an electric shock.

"This just isn't my week."

She groans attempting to ignore the pain, as Hank crouched next to her to ensure she was still breathing.

Peter snorts.

"Oh shut up. I can't feel my limbs."

Nyx says, lying there as Peter drops to his knees.

"Need help Shadow Queen?"

He asks.

She simply glares at his use of the name.

"No? Okay."

"W-wa-wait.. Fine."

She replies.

"Fine what? I'm fine? Why thank you I got a hair cut recently-"

"Oh just help me sit up! Please..."

She says spitting out the last word.

He chuckles and grabs her shoulders, lifting her gently so she was laying in his lap.

"You know you've changed a lot since I last saw you."

He tells her, studying her face in a way that made her fight a blush.

"And the only thing that's changed about you is your hair."

She replies sassily.

"Hey I've changed too, just.. Slowerly?"

"That's so not a word."

"It is in my book.. Oh who am I kidding, why would I have a book I hate books."

Nyx rolls her eyes.

"I'm gonna take a look around the room, see if there positively isn't a way out."

He says, swallowing in a slightly embarrased manner.

He props her against one of the gaps in the lasers.

There's a whipping breeze for three seconds, then he's standing next to Raven

"You know him? Magneto."

He says, as Nyx manages to pull herself cross legged.

"I used to. I'm not so sure anymore."

Raven mutters.

"What was he like? Was he... like they say he was? Was he a... ... bad guy?"

Nyx frowns.

That's not how she remembered him... Though she'd only known him a week before he tried to kill the president with the sentinels.

"No. I mean, yeah. He was... Why do you care so much? Did you see his speech on TV or something?"

Raven asks, continuing to stare at the glass window.

"Yeah, but... He's my father."

"What?"

Plot twist.

Nyx thinks, winding a lock of hair around her pointer finger so tightly it started to throb.

"He and my mom, they..."

"Yeah, I know."

Raven says, cutting off Peter's awkward attempt to say they had sex without saying it.

"But... Are you sure?"

Raven asks.

"Yeah. He left my mom before I was born. I met him 7 years back, but I didn't know it was him. By the time I figured it out, it was too late, you know."

He says swallowing back the crack in his voice.

"Then, this week I saw him on TV again. And, I came to their house looking for him. But, by the time I got there... Late again.
You know, for a guy who moves as fast as me, I always seem to be too late."

He finishes, making Nyx have to push back a lump of pity.

"Let's hope not this time."

Raven says, before turning back to the window.

"Yeah, seriously."

He replies, crossing his arms.

Nyx places her hand on the darkest shadow near her.

Absorbing the cool, energizing feeling.

It immediately clicked in her head that she hadn't tried shadow traveling yet.

As she took a deep breath a try it, a voice popped into her head.

Hear me, inhabitants of this world.