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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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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