Cassidy Summers (sound_and_fury) wrote in marvel_nextgen,
@ 2010-10-29 21:42:00

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Revelations (after the drone attack)
Cassidy got the call to come to Mr. Summers' office and wondered what it could be about. Yes, he'd gotten a little banged up during the attack on the school, but he was all right. He didn't think he'd done anything to warrant being called in, but he'd try to keep an open mind before he freaked out.

He knocked on the door to the office and waited to be admitted.

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sound_and_fury
2010-10-30 02:57 am UTC (link)

Cassidy couldn't imagine what Mr. Summers was talking about. Doctor McCoy did a full physical upon him when he arrived, as well as testing his powers. Was he going to get worse or better?

And what did he mean about his family.

"With all due respect, sir, my parents gave me away to Doctor Millbury for money. I...thought about asking you to use Cerebro to find them, but I don't know if I want to know them now. They gave me away when I was a baby." Cassidy says sadly.

"I'm sorry, sir. Please go on." he says.

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	nextgen_parent 2010-10-30 03:06 am UTC (link)
	"I'm afraid... it's much more complicated that than, son," Scott told him. He gathered his thoughts before going on. "According to Doctor McCoy's tests, your parents are my brother, Alex, and Theresa Cassidy, a longtime associate of this school." (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

sound_and_fury
2010-10-30 03:21 am UTC (link)

Cassidy heard the words, but they didn't quite register. He ran them over in his head several times, trying to make sure he didn't misunderstand.

"So...that means that /you're/ my uncle? And, if Anastasia is your daughter, she's my cousin? And Rachel, too?" Cassidy asks, the shock setting in.

He took several deep breaths as he tried to process this information.

"Your brother is my dad? You said that you two don't talk much. Did you tell him about me? Or Miss Cassidy?" Cassidy asks.

Suddenly, he realizes something. Cassidy. Summers.

It was there in his name all along. Dr. Millbury simply referred to him by his parents' surnames.

The young man sat in the chair, shell-shocked, as he tried to think of something to say.

After several minutes, he looks up at Scott again.

"Do I have any other family members I don't know about? I want to know everything." he says.

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nextgen_parent
2010-10-30 03:33 am UTC (link)

Truthfully, Scott was still trying to wrap his mind around the situation himself. But there was little he would not put past Sinister. Protecting Rachel from that madman has always been one of his highest priorities.

"I am, and they are," he agreed.

"A few," he tells Cassidy. "Your grandfather, mine and Alex's father, Christopher Summers, is still alive, though he lives out in space. And Theresa's father, Sean, is still alive as well.

Alex and his wife, Lorna, have a son, your half-brother, Andrew. You have other cousins too, my son, Nathan, my... other daughter, Rachel. And Nathan has a daughter of his own, Beatrice, as well as an adopted daughter named Hope. The Summers side of the family is rather complicated, I'm afraid."

He left out his own particular thoughts on Andrew. A good kid, but ultimately following a path Scott didn't approve of.

"There's a great uncle, Tom Cassidy, but the less said of him, the better."

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sound_and_fury
2010-10-30 03:49 am UTC (link)

"I have...a brother?" Cassidy asks, stunned. He'd always wanted a brother or a sister, and now he really had one. He wondered what Andrew was like and if they could be friends. Was he older or younger?

He also had grandfathers, one of who lived in /space/. That was cool beyond words. And his other grandfather was still alive, too.

His father wasn't married to his mother anymore, which bothered Cassidy for reasons he couldn't say. Did they break up because of him? Other cousins, too? Another Rachel, Beatrice and Hope. Sure, it was a lot of family, but that didn't bother Cassidy at all. Every member of his family that he gains is one more than he didn't have ten minutes ago.

He commits these names to memory for later.

Cassidy finds himself most curious about this Uncle Tom Cassidy, but he doesn't say anything about it just now. Uncle Scott (wow, that was going to take some getting used to) didn't seem to like talking about him.

"Do we have family reunions or gatherings?" he asks.

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nextgen_parent
2010-10-30 03:59 am UTC (link)

In spite of himself, Scott smiled a little. "Rachel, the other Rachel, comes to visit sometimes, but we mostly live our separate lives."

He certainly regrets losing touch with Alex and his side of the family, but both of them were far too stubborn to back down on their takes on the respective issues.

"Now..." he went on, carefully, "while I'm more than happy to welcome you into the family--us Summers are used to this--the problem with all this is, I'm not entirely sure Alex and Theresa have spent more than a half hour together in the entire time I've known her."

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sound_and_fury
2010-10-30 04:03 am UTC (link)

Cassidy stares at Scott with utter incomprehension.

"Are you saying they don't know each other at all? Or that they just don't like each other?" Cassidy asks.

An unsettling thought occurs to him: what if he's the product of a one-night stand that neither of them talks about? Maybe /that's/ why they both seemed so uncomfortable in the tape that Doctor Millbury showed him.

Was he that much of a shame that they had to sell him to a crazy person?

"So...they were ashamed of me." he says quietly.

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nextgen_parent
2010-10-30 04:10 am UTC (link)

Scott shook his head. "My brother is many things, but he's not the type who would be ashamed of his son, no matter the circumstances."

"The lab where X-Force found you was also occupied by a... man named Mister Sinister. He's an extremely skilled geneticist who's been interesting in mutant bloodlines, ours--the Summers bloodline--in particular. He's created clones and done all kinds of experiments in breeding."

He frowned, hating to tell the boy all of this. "I think you may be the result of some of his experimentation."

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sound_and_fury
2010-10-30 04:18 am UTC (link)

At that, Cassidy's heart broke.

Just a moment ago, he'd been told that he had a real family with a brother, cousins, grandparents and uncles. Now...he was learning that he might not be anything more than an experiment in genetics.

He wasn't even a real person. Just something that Dr. Millbury, or Mister Sinister or whatever his name is, cooked up in a lab because he was bored.

Tears well up in Cassidy's eyes as he tries to wrap his mind around this, to process it, but the idea of being a clone or worse hurts more than the idea of just being unwanted.

"So, I'm basically just a science project that escaped captivity, then?" Cassidy asks, pain coloring his tone as he holds his head in his hands.

How would anyone ever accept him if they knew what he was? How would he ever accept himself?

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nextgen_parent
2010-10-30 04:21 am UTC (link)

One of these days, Scott was really going to have to work on his people skills. Because they were still rather terrible.

Instead, he followed his gut, and pulled the boy--his nephew--into a hug. "Trust me, Cassidy, in this family, that's almost normal. Whatever happens, you have family. Who will accept you, no matter where you come from. Whatever your origins, you are still Cassidy, still a person. And no one can take that away from you."

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sound_and_fury
2010-10-30 04:33 am UTC (link)

Cassidy reaches out to Scott and hugs him tightly. His uncle cared about, no matter how he came to be. His parents either didn't know about him or didn't care after all these years; whichever one it was, Cassidy couldn't tell. He only knows how much it hurts to have and lose everything he ever wanted in the same breath.

The pain fills up his heart and finally escapes through his eyes.

He cries on his uncle's shoulder.

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	nextgen_parent 2010-10-30 04:48 pm UTC (link)
	Every so often, Scott sort of got the dealing with people thing right. His wife and daughter might suggest it was more frequently than that, but he was a realist. But right now, Cassidy needed him, and he would be here for him for as long as he needed it. (Reply to this)(Parent)

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