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Re: A Match Made In Hellfire (Part II)
Oh, was Lyta sorry, but not in the way she expected.

Julian brought her into the Hellfire Club as his Black Rook and showed her just how far his reach extended and how much power he could bring to bear. In time, he trusted her enough to share his true plan for what he intended to ask her father. Lyta wasn’t sure Warren would go for it, but she got him the meeting.

Nineteen months later, President Warren Worthington III was sworn into office as the 45th President of the United States and the country’s first mutant president. Diplomatic relations open up with Wakanda and, surprisingly, Genosha as well. Julian’s hand remains invisible, but his relationship with the President’s daughter does not. Julian and Lyta become the JFK Jr and Caroline Kennedy. They go to dinners, functions and they become a focus of just about anyone who wants to speak to the President.

In time, people start digging into Julian’s past and find little items that don’t match up. They find discrepancies in timelines that only the sharpest would pick up. One night, Julian receives a phone call from someone who knows his secret. Rather than lie again, Julian tells Lyta everything. He tells her of his upbringing, his mother and father, and how he only wants to make sure that mutants everywhere receive a fair chance.

He expects anger form her, or hatred. He even expects her to throw him out and join the people who will hate him for being Magneto’s son.

“Julian, I love you. You’ve never let anyone push you around or tell you what can and can’t be done before, so why start now? You’re the Gray King; you win by any means necessary because in life you either win or die, like you told me. So do what you have to do protect the three of us.” Lyta says with a smile.

Even as he hears the words, it takes him a full minute to comprehend what she just said to him. His resolve solidified at Lyta’s encouragement, but now it hardens into iron at her announcement

“I no longer want you as my Rook, Lyta. I want you to be my queen, now and forever.” Julian states. When Lyta kisses him, her wings enveloping their little family, he doesn’t even have to hear her in his mind to know her answer.