My husband and my best friend

My Husband And My Best Friend


The Professor mentally summoned Scott, whilst Alex was at the medical bay with Hank. Ten minutes later Scott Summer AKA ‘Cyclops’ knocked on Charles’s door. Charles called out for him to enter. Scott opened the door and entered, closing it behind him.

He immediately spotted Sampson. He asked “Jack, how come you’re here? I’ve not seen you since after my parents were killed.” Sampson replied “Hello Scott. It is great to see you again. Although I wish it could’ve been on decidedly more pleasant terms.” He added “I and Alex are here today to discuss something important with you and Miss D’Ancanto.”

Scott raised an eye brow, confusion evident in his bright blue eyes. He asked “Alex is here, where is he then?” He added “And why does this involve Marie, why wasn’t she summoned when I had been?”

Charles replied “Alex has gone with Hank to the medical bay, and before you start worrying, then I assure you he is absolutely fine. He will tell you everything when he returns.”

He added “And as for Rogue. Well, I wanted to discuss the situation with you first, as I believe she will need you to help her to remain calm as soon as she had been enlightened to the current situation.”

He finished “What you and Rogue are about to be told, it will change your lives permanently.” He added more then a little worriedly to himself ‘Yes, and complete and irreversible in its unchangeable nature’

A few minutes after Scott had taken a seat in front of Charles, Alex returned. He was wearing red quartz glasses, exactly like the ones Scott needed to wear whilst out in the sun.

He eyed his older brother without his usual glasses on. It was kind of shocking to see his brothers face completely bared, displaying eyes exactly like the ones he encounters in the mirror every morning.

He sighed, as he took a seat next to Scott. Scott eyed his brother, who flushed slightly under his older brothers questioning gaze. It was worse then when he had the glasses on. With his eyes completely revealed for all to see, you could see the suspicion. Whereas with the glasses, you could sense it was there, but could not see it.

He held up a hand, gesturing to his new glasses. He commented “Look Scott, I never mentioned that I have optic blasts like you, because I could control them, and you couldn’t until recently, as I’ve been informed by the Professor.”

He added “I didn’t want to rub in the fact I could control my mutation, whilst you couldn’t. Recently I have been having a few problems, headaches namely, whilst I’ve been out in the sun. Hence the new glasses, especially for use in the sun” he gestured to the red quartz lenses.

Scott nodded and said “Look, you should have told me. I would have never held it against you. Surely you know me better then that. Why is it everyone sees me as this big daunting leader of the X-Men?”

Alex replied “Maybe because you can be daunting when you look straight at someone with these things on” he tapped the side of his glasses. He added “But in this case, your eyes are completely bared.”

He cringed, as he added “I can see the suspicion you’re currently feeling, from eyes identical to my own, eyes once belonging to our mother. It’s more then a little daunting. It’s in fact worse then with the glasses on. At least with the glasses on, I couldn’t see the suspicion in your eyes, boring right into me.”

He continued “And of course naturally you are that great leader of the X-Men.” He smirked, as he concluded “I don’t think there is anyone in New York City who hasn’t at least heard the name Cyclops. Or better yet, recently the unstoppable duo of Cyclops and Rogue.”

He added at Scott’s raised eye brow “Yeah, I can definitely see you and Rogue are gonna get along just fine. In fact better then I and Rini did at first.” He eyed his brother, whose eyes had narrowed slightly.

This caused him to mentally add ‘Yeah and one can always hope a marriage between the famous duo of Cyclops and Rogue actually works. Or they’re in for one hell of a marriage, and I’m in for one hell of a pissed of older brother, and a future sister in law to be’

Scott asked “What do you mean you can just see me and Rogue at getting along just fine? Of course we get along just fine she and I are best friends. She’s my partner during missions.”

He squinted at his brother even more suspiciously, as he asked “What aren’t you saying here Alex? Your holding something back, I just know it. You only cringe and fidget when you hiding something you know is going to test my patients.”

Alex visibly cringed and fidgeted in his seat. He refused to meet his older brother’s gaze. Not that Scott would have been able to see what his eyes were currently like from behind the red quartz lenses. But Alex could sure as hell see his brother’s.

Scott narrowed his eyes to almost slits, as he said “Do me a favour baby bro, and open your eyes, and remove those glasses and look me in the eye, instead of avoiding my gaze like a chicken shit. When I know for a fact you’ve got a set of bigger balls then that.”

Alex frowned and asked “How the hell did you know my eyes weren’t even open?” Scott sighed exasperated, as he replied in a bored tone of voice. “Because I am guessing Hank told you to allow your optic blasts to be active as soon as you put the glasses on, in order to run down some of the energy, at least until you went back out into the sun, and then later recharged it up again.”

Alex nodded, as Scott concluded “And seeing as when your eyes are open, your optic blasts are active. meaning you can clearly see the glow of the laser reflecting against the material of none melting quartz lenses.”

He continued “And when you close your eyes, then the optic blasts are no longer active, meaning the red glow against the lenses cease. So there that is how I know your eyes were closed.” Scott concluded in a stern tone “And quit trying to change the subject Alex. Just tell me what is going on.”

Alex almost growled in annoyance. His brother was baiting him. He knew if he poked and prodded enough, and in a certain way, he knew Alex would crack. Only Scott could do that to him, if anyone else had been able, then he was certain he would have been one hell of shit business man, instead of the tough and successful business man that he in fact is.

Alex huffed and said “Fine, you asked for it then.” Jack spoke up quickly before Alex threw the whole situation in Scott’s face out of annoyance, instead of breaking it to him slowly and bit by bit, and not all in one overwhelming go. “Now Alex, don’t be foolhardy son. Take it easy and just cool off those heels of yours.”

Alex sighed, as he leaned back in his chair, and replied “Fine, why don’t you tell him. Then he can kick off at you, seeing as this has got nothing to do with me, seeing as I after all was just as much a victim as he is going to be.”

Jack sighed exasperated, before to took out a copy of the signed document from his brief case. He then handed it to Scott. Scott frowned as he accepted the important and official looking document. He had bad feeling about this, a very bad feeling.

Scott scanned the document. All were more then aware when he had gotten the idea of what was happening, and why his brother and his father’s lawyer were now sitting in Charles’s office, and Alex was looking shifty.

They all cringed when they saw the look of hardly concealed rage streak across his face. Scott clenched his hands into fist around the document, making it crinkle around the edges from the force of his grip.

He asked in cool tone of voice, his voice was also calm, far too calm for Alex’s liking. His brother was about to blow something, he just knew it. Alex cringed for the umpteenth time since seeing his brother that morning.

“Tell me Jack, since when did my father and James D’Ancanto decided who I married and conceived a child with? Since when have those choices been taken out of my control? And most importantly of all, why and how long has this document been legal and valid for, why was I never informed of this documents existence, until now?”

Jack sighed and revealed all. “Taylor and James D’Ancanto, they agreed after Alex was born, and you were six years old, that the two of you had to marry. You had to marry James’s granddaughters, Marie D’Ancanto, who is the oldest, and Serenity D’Ancanto, who is two years younger then Marie.”

Scott interrupted “Wait a minute, you mean to tell me Marie has a younger sister? Does she even know she has a younger sister?” Jack nodded and said “Yes, she knows. But I don’t think she’d be very quick or happy to speak of her sister.”

Scott frowned and asked “But why? Why wouldn’t she want to talk about her sister? She’s never mentioned her to me before. I don’t understand why she wouldn’t; we never keep any secrets from each other.”

Jack said “Not long before their parents died, Marie’s mutation finally woke from being dormant. Their parents were fine with this, but Serenity wasn’t. She feared Marie, considering the nature of Marie’s powers, and the not so little detail of her not being able to control the powers in question back then.”

Jack went on “Well, after their parents died, Serenity refused to be around Marie, especially after what happen to that boy Marie had put in a coma. Serenity found her grandfather and went and lived with him, lived with him until she was eighteen and could go off to college.”

Scott added “And Marie went her own way; she decided to go to Alaska. That is where she met Logan, before she and Logan came to live at the mansion. But that doesn’t explain why the two haven’t been in contact with each other.”

Jack explained “Recently Serenity discovered not only Marie had a dormant mutation just waiting to be woken. Serenity discovered she also has the same mutation, and has only recently learnt how to control her mutation without killing or seriously harming someone.”

He added “She was far too ashamed of herself to get in contact with her sister, after all that had been said between them concerning Marie’s mutation. She felt hypocritical after her own mutation finally ceased to be dormant.”

Jack concluded “Anyway, back to the subject of that contract you’re currently holding.” He went on “As I said it was decided that you would marry Marie and produce and heir, and Alex would marry Serenity and also produce and heir. This in return would unite the summers and D’Ancanto’s after James and Taylor’s deaths.”

Alex spoke up “I guess dad and James D’Ancanto want the company to always be run by a future generation of Summer’s Or D’Ancanto’s. They didn’t want anyone outside the two families running the company. D’Ancanto and Summer’s enterprises have always been run by a member of the D’Ancanto or Summer’s family or both. The company has been going strong for close to twenty five years.”

Scott asked “So did you actually agree to this and marry Serenity?” Alex sighed and nodded “Yeah, we were married last month. I only recently came back from my honeymoon. I would have invited you, but Rini wanted it to be a small and quick wedding, so we eloped.”

Jack quickly added, knowing Scott was going to hit the roof. “Scott, I’m afraid you and Marie only have so long before you have to marry. The contract stated you had three weeks to marry after you and Marie have seen the contract stating the agreement. And you have to conceive with two years of marrying. They were your father’s and James’s rules.”

As if right on cue, Scott growl “Since when as it been considered normal for there to be a time limit on when one is supposed to get married and start a family damn it?”

He added “Normally people get to choose who they marry and when they want to have children and start a family. This is not decided by a damn contract. It is cold and impersonal.”

He concluded in a icy tone “I don’t care, my father could have disinherited me if he had been alive to have done so in the first place. I am not his puppet to pull the strings of, and do as he pleases, I was under the impression I was his first born son.”

Alex quickly added, trying to clam his older brother “Scott, I’m not happy about this either, nor is Rini. But the fact of the matter is that I and Rini need you, we can’t run the company on our own.”

He continued reasonably “Even if you and Marie were to take a silent and not overly actively role towards the company, seeing as I realise you and Marie are X-men and are need at a moments notice”

He added pleadingly “But it would still be great deal of help to me and Rini. Please Scott this our family company, dad would have wanted you to have taken part even if it wasn’t on a every day major scale like I and Rini do.”

He concluded “Please Scott, I have never ever asked you for anything until now, please I need you. The company needs you, it is a part of our family, and you’re the only true family I have left, Scott. Or at least of blood, that is.”

Scott silently swore. He knew his brother was right, that he and the company was all Scott had left as far as his family was concerned. His parents were dead, it was up to him, Alex and the D’Ancanto sister’s to take over. Only he and Marie would more then likely not be taking such a large role compared to Alex and Rini, he and Marie would be silent partners.

Besides they couldn’t exactly leave the manor and become hot shot executives. They still needed to deal with the growing threat of Magneto and the Brother Hood, and the new drug that had been created by the government to supposedly cure all mutants.

Scott thought it was an insult, and mockery to all mutants. It was disgusting and degrading in his opinion. He knew Rogue whole heartedly agreed with him.

Charles cleared his throat, breaking Scott out of his thoughts. He spoke “I think it best if I send for Rogue, as it is time she heard what is going on. She is just as much a part of this as are you Scott. I only hope her reaction is not too drastic.”

Scott nodded and cringed. He knew Marie would not take this well. She was just like he was, she hated to have her life controlled and dictated. He knew if anything could raise Marie’s hackles, then this would definitely be it.

Boy was the shit going to hit the proverbial fan. He just hopped he was able to calm her down, if possible, seeing as he wasn’t feeling all that calm either.