Eli Paravich (blinkandmissme) wrote,
@ 2010-10-27 21:06:00

Pick Two
For this meme, choose one character of yours and one character of mine-- and then I will write out how they hook up, settle into a long term relationship and/or marriage, and describe their firstborn child/children, if any. Crack pairings and old characters are acceptable.

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	wild_rose 2010-10-28 02:45 am UTC (link)
	Cat/Rex Wendi/Jai Mina/Cassidy (Reply to this)(Thread)

Forgiveness (Cassidy/Mina)

blinkandmissme
2010-10-29 12:35 am UTC (link)

Cassidy kneels at the altar, saying a prayer as he has every year on this day, for the last two years, for the souls of good people who were taken long before their time. He tries to do this early enough so that no one will catch him here, because even now, he feels that he has no right ask God for any favors after all he's done.

"Heavenly Father, please watch over and keep Jake as well. He didn't deserve what happened to him and I swear that I'm trying to be a better man ever single day. I don't know how well I'm doing, but...I'm trying." he says quietly, sighing.

"I think you're doing the best you can, Cassidy, but you're not going to do any better until you learn to let go of the past." Mina Wagner says, walking up silently behind him.

Cassidy's entire body tenses both inside and out. It never gets any easier to look at her, no matter how many years go by. Not because she isn't beautiful; she is. But because she's the sister of the person he killed two years ago. Even if he didn't mean to do it, he was already responsible for the deaths of 3,101 prior to Jake's passing. Even if he could forgive himself for Jake, he could never forgive himself for the rest of them.

"That's not going to happen, Mina. Some people aren't deserving of forgiveness." Cassidy says, standing up and turning to go.

"Cassidy, if the world was really like that, a lot of us wouldn't be here right now." Mina says quietly.

"Why do you even /care/, Mina? You're the /last/ person who should forgive me, so why does it matter to you?" he asks.

Mina's about to answer when their comms go off. The X-Men are needed. Cassidy considers the conversation over at this point.

"Duty calls." he says, and heads toward the locker room, followed by the Blackbird.

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Re: Forgiveness (Cassidy/Mina) Part II

blinkandmissme
2010-10-29 01:31 am UTC (link)

The young boy they've been sent to find is only eleven, but he's already hurt so many people, including his best friend. James Donson didn't know he was a mutant, or that he could absorb the oxygen from a room, suffocating everyone inside except himself, like he'd done to his classmates. He was terrified of being near people and all he wanted to do was find a place where he couldn't hurt anyone again.

Cassidy and Mina find him less than an hour after they arrive in Wilmington, South Carolina.

When they find James, he reiterates his desire to be left alone. Mina tries to talk him down, but it only upsets him more. He screams at them that they don't understand what it's like and how he hurts people no matter what he does.

"I know what that's like, James. It...happened to me, too. But you have to understand that those people you hurt...they're going to get better. They don't hate you for what you did because you didn't do it on purpose. You were scared because you're going through a lot of changes, man. No one will hold that against you, James. They'll forgive you." he says.

"But there's a place for people like and me, people who can't control what they can do. You can come and learn how from the people who helped me. Everyone there is a mutant, just like us, man." Cassidy says, hoping that he's not freaking this poor kid out.

James eventually agrees to return to the school with them, sticking close to Cassidy and Mina the whole time. He likes being around the two of them, which forces them to spend more time together trying to help him.

One evening, two months later, Cassidy sits out on a bench on the lawn, looking up at the sky.

"You're really good with James, Cassidy." Mina says, once again appearing almost from nowhere.

"He's a good kid. He just had a bad run of luck. He'll get better." Cassidy says, still looking up at the sky.

"You'll believe the best about a complete stranger, but not about yourself. What is it with you?" she asks, moving around the bench to look him in the eyes.

"I'm pretty sure he wasn't made by a madman to be used against his family."

"What was Jake doing the day he died?" she asks.

Cassidy looks at her as if she just slapped him. Why would she bring that up? He's not going to have any part of it.

"This conversation is over." Cassidy says, getting up to leave again. This time, Mina reaches out and grabs his arm.

"No. I'm tired of you walking away from me, avoiding me and treating me like I don't exist just because it's hard for /you/." Mina yells.

"Jake told me that you were the loneliest person he'd ever seen, which was saying something coming from him. He died trying to be your friend and how do you repay him? You avoid everyone who cares about you and then tell him and God that you're 'trying to be a better man'!

Tina was your friend until you stopped talking to her. Ana and Rachel tried to bond with you as family and you pushed them both away. You barely speak to your mother and father and you treat Uncle Scott like he's your boss!

You avoid Andrew's calls and you let Izzy leave rather than ask her to stay." she asks.

"I would give /anything/ to spend another minute with my brother. You have one and you don't even /care/!"

Cassidy simply glares at her, trying to keep his anger in check. The last thing he needed was to hurt someone, even Mina, by losing control of his power.

"You don't know anything about me, Mina, so keep your opinions to yourself." Cassidy says through gritted teeth.

"I know you're the most ungrateful person I've ever met." she says. This time, it's her turn to walk away.

The following morning, Cassidy Summers packs his things and leaves Xavier's.

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Re: Forgiveness (Cassidy/Mina) Part III

blinkandmissme
2010-10-29 02:04 am UTC (link)

Cassidy is gone for six months.

In that time, he goes to Ireland to see his mother and grandfather, to Genosha to visit his father and step-mother and he makes it to the Embassy to see his older brother and Giovanna. He also makes up with and apologizes to Tina for the way he treated her.

He goes to visit Izzy in Kentucky and apologize for not appreciating how much she was there for him when they were together.

The entire time, he feels that something is left undone, unsaid, and though he knows what he needs to do, he fears taking that step. He returns to Fargo, Georgia and walks the streets of the rebuilt city, now a bustling town home to over ten-thousand people.

The town's motto: "If we can rebuild, so can you."

Cassidy stares at that sign for hours, feeling the weight of the last two years slowly but surely lift from his shoulders. When he returns to Xavier's he makes a stop at Jake's grave and makes a very solemn vow to the person who'd died trying to save him from the man he'd become.

He also makes up with his cousins and Uncle Scott, before going to see the last person on his list. He knocks on Mina's door and waits.

The moment she answers, she starts apologizing for what she said the day before he left. Rather than let her speak, he simply kisses her.

When he pulls back she just stares at him. Did he gamble wrong? Was he way out of line for what he'd just done?

Possibly.

But when Mina kissed him back, Cassidy knew he'd found the missing piece of the puzzle and the answer to his life.

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Re: Forgiveness (Cassidy/Mina) Part IV

blinkandmissme
2010-10-29 02:11 am UTC (link)

(Several years later)

Cassidy Summers is not a perfect man, but each day he does his best to be worthy of Mina's love and forgiveness. They were married seven years ago and their son, Jacob Kurt Alexander Summers came the following summer.

The dark-haired, blue-skinned boy had ten fingers and ten toes, but he also had yellow eyes and mischievous streak ten miles wide. Mina and Cassidy still debate on where he got it from, though it doesn't matter: both sides of Jake's family spoil him rotten, including his "Uncle" James.

Today, the little family stands at the grave of Little Jake's namesake, looking down at the person who'd reached across the years to bring them together.

"I promised him I'd take care of you the day I came back to Xavier's." Cassidy tells his wife, kissing her on the cheek.

"Funny. I promised him I'd wait one more month and go find you if you didn't come back. Then I'd take care of you for the rest of your life." Mina tells him, holding Little Jake in her arms.

"To err is human, to forgive divine." Cassiday says, repeating the old maxim.

He knew he was human, finally, but standing next to his wife and son was the closest to heaven he'd ever felt.

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