Ethan stepped into the living room dressed in a towel. He moved to the kitchen as he heard his phone ringing. He answered it as he stood there dripping in water.
"Hello, this is Ethan." He answered as he spotted Felicia reading a textbook on the couch.
"This is Victor Von Doom, would you mind joining me for a game of chess at the Latverian embassy tomorrow?" Ethan frowned as he thought about the man's request. It should not be in his nature so he must be up to something.
"I suppose if I leave work an hour early I might have time before my class in the evening." Ethan answered. "Will I just be led in or…"
"I will send a vehicle to pick you up." Doom answered before hanging up.
Ethan shrugged and set his phone down. He then walked over and hopped on the couch next to him Felicia was reading. As he wrapped his arm around her she smiled.
"I suppose you had a good day?" Ethan asked.
Felicia smiled for a moment before she lost her smile. "Actually," She moved forward and set down her textbook on the coffee table. "I was wondering what you thought of our current relationship."
Ethan frowned as he shrugged, "I am good with our relationship but if you want it to be more private then we can do that."
Felicia smiled sadly at that, "actually I wanted to do the opposite." Which caused Ethan to frown even more.
"You mean you want more people to be involved?"
"No haha," Felicia looked nervous. "Not that opposite. I am thinking of a completely open relationship. Where we can freely see other people without each other's consent."
Ethan sat back and started thinking. He honestly was okay with having an exclusive relationship. But Felicia was the one that wanted to include other women. He was okay with that, it gave both him and her satisfaction with various sexual kinks. But completely opening up a relationship?
It would mean he could go around sleeping with whoever he wanted again. But it also meant that so could Felicia and whoever else wanted to be included could do that as well. Ethan looked at Felicia's nervous expression and realized something.
He would love her and whoever else he included no matter what. So what did it matter that they slept around with other people. At the end of the day they were satisfying their sexual cravings. He and them would still love each other even if they went to other people to satisfy themselves.
So Ethan smiled and brought her closer to his chest, "okay." He then thought of something. "But if you or any of my other women get pregnant with another man's child I will not be taking care of it."
"Hahahaha! That is fair." She snuggled in closer.
"Was there someone in particular you wanted to sleep with?" Ethan asked as he turned on the television.
"ummm… I just thought that if I found a hot guy or babe while as an exchange student it would be nice." Fel answered, looking away while blushing.
"Exchange student?" Ethan frowned, "I suppose that makes sense. ESU does not have the pinnacle of programs for chemistry or teaching. Where are you thinking?"
"There are programs in England, France, Germany, Japan, and a few others stateside. But I was thinking of the one in England first." Felicia answered with a tone of mischief.
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He moved along the rooftops as he followed his target. Watching him closely to see if he could find a pattern. But this person operated like a machine and had a sixth sense that was almost supernatural, especially since every time he got too close the guy started looking around.
Fortunately for him he just had to watch him from afar to find a pattern or a break in the pattern. Something to give away what kind of double life this guy lived. Unfortunately it was more difficult than he thought.
In the mornings he would either go to his class or his internship. Then in the afternoon he went to a class as well or to the gym, which seemed to be relatively new but top of the line. At night he would either go out with one of two women, stay home, or he would disappear.
Each time he disappeared it was clear he was trying to lose a tail. But he was clearly going somewhere, it was just too difficult to follow the man without giving away his own presence.
Today however would hopefully be different, he decided as he followed the man to his internship at the Baxter Building.
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"So these are the volunteers for the new class elective?" Jean asked as she looked over the list. She was in a meeting room with Professor Xavier, Storm, Colossus, and Havok. Beast was originally supposed to help them as well but he has been making steady progress in erasing the brainwashing from the victims after their raid of Hydra.
"Yes, initially there were going to be a lot more students volunteering. But we told them that the class was only a test version so they understood when we cut it down to a single class of students." Storm explained as she looked at several stacks of files, the initial volunteers.
Professor X on the other hand looked nervous, "Jean are you sure about this? I know the reasons you gave but-"
"But nothing. Professor, we need to be constantly looking forward to the future and to the next generation. That means we need to be ready to train them. Besides, even if we do not train them, many of them likely already want to do this." Jean nodded at the stacks of files. "It is better that we at least train them to survive any experience."
"I am all for it. Honestly all these initiatives of Jean's are probably a step in the right direction." Havok pointed out.
Charles raised an eyebrow and glared at the man, "are you saying my work was not in the right direction?"
"Nyet," Colossus responded in russian. "He is just saying that for this new generation this feels like the right direction. Especially since mutants have become more of an integral part of the world. Now that we are no longer a folktale, people need to see them as people as well."
"And publicising that we are training our students to fight is the way to do that?" Charles asked in response.
"Training our students to use their powers to help people is us showing the world that we are thinking of the future. Like the initial explanation the class would teach all sorts of situations, combat would only be a small part of it." Jean further explained with a sigh. "Now that we have an actual class I can give Agent Duncan an update."
"Do you want the list of students as well for him?" Storm asked with a mischievous smile while handing her a file.
Jean rolled her eyes, "I am just fine with Ethan thank you very much. But I would like to see the list of students." She accepted the file and started reading through them. "Katherine 'Kitty' Pryde has Phasing Abilities. Anna 'Rogue' Marie has temporary ability absorption still uncontrollable." Jean looked up at Storm.
Storm shrugged, "Charles recommended her, she is new to the school but not to her abilities. She missed sophomore and junior year because she was a runaway."
Jean took a deep breath before she continued, "David Alleyne has the ability to telepathically absorb knowledge and skills from people nearby. Jubilation 'Jubilee' Lee has the ability to generate pyrotechnic energy blasts." Jean took a second after reading that before she continued once she saw the next name, "Illyana Rasputina, a demonic mutant sorceress with teleportation abilities." Jean looked at Colossus, "are you sure?"
Colossus seemed a bit nervous but after a moment he nodded, "even if she is not ready she needs it. She thinks she is bad luck, she needs something to remind her that life is more than going through the motions." His sister had a nasty experience when she was kidnapped by a demon and forced to learn all sorts of magic stuff. Eventually it resulted in her secondary mutation of teleportation. The overall experience had left her scared permanently with the belief that she was bad luck and should live without using her powers.
"Okay," Jean then looked at the last two names on the list. "Samuel Guthrie has the ability to release Thermo-Chemical Energy from his skin. Robert Drake has the ability to generate ice and manipulate his constructs." Jean nodded as she looked at the list.
"What do you think?" Storm asked, hiding her nervousness.
"Honestly?" Jean frowned, "they sound so out of place. They likely have an abundance of personal problems. It seems like they will have a learning curve to working together." Storm frowned when Jean spoke but she became confused when Jean looked at her with a smile, "it sounds like the X-Men."
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