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Ashes and Diamonds, Foe and Friend; -Cyclops-
Topic Started: Nov 19 2014, 05:43 PM (480 Views)
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Date: 9/30
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Emma didn't have very many friends in this world, She has had many acquiescence’s, business partners and colleagues. But friends have always been something that has alluded her. Which was made even more prevalent in her life when she was cast out of Magneto's mutant Sanctuary and found herself lost and alone with no direction. An offer from Doom to join the Illuminati gave her a place to go and a secret pact with Cyclops gave her life new purpose it all seemed so perfect at the time. But as the saying goes bad decisions don't always seem so bad when we make them.

That was a complicated time in the lives of many including Emma Frost and Scott Summers who was being kept artificially dead. But perhaps something came from this time that would give Emma something she never really had, a true friend. But was Scott Summers truly Emma's friend or was she so desperate to want him to be? He was willing to give Emma another chance at redemption and welcomed her back to the Xavier Mansion. But did he do this out of friendship and loyalty or did he think he owed her that much for what she did to help keep his mind sane while in the clutches of the Hand.

She would never really find out why he was so willing to put his already tainted reputation on the line for her as he was whisked away by SHIELD for an important mission. The search to find Magneto. Magneto had been MIA since Emma's time in the Sanctuary, She noticed then there was a change in Magneto and the powers that be were hiding a deep dark secret about the health and whereabouts of Magneto which in her investigation of the changes in the man lead to her being labeled a criminal of Sanctuary and consequently incarcerated until the Skrull invasion allowed for her to be freed and granted a release provided she never return.

However with the search for Magneto coming to an end and Scott and Jean returning to the mansion this gave Emma the opportunity once again to speak with Scott Summers who had been kept away for many months. She hoped he was feeling better and once again feeling more like himself. As Emma combed the halls of the mansion in hopes of finding him, She decided she would first start by heading to his office. Knowing Scott that was most likely where he'd be after a lengthy absence. He would feel the need to immediately check e-mails and reports left for him during his absence or at least she hoped so.
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Emma was right about Scott. She had assumed he would be in his office catching up, reading reports, getting himself back into the swing of things. While he was not yet prepared to resume his duties as headmaster, he was familiarizing himself with the new students that had arrived during his absences, both when he was lost and when he was finding himself again. The school had grown and continued to grow, his death not changing it anymore than the Professor's death. Now they were both back, both trying to regain themselves. It was hard.

But Scott had rebuilt himself before, hadn't he?

This reminded him of nothing less than waking up from the coma, as a child, body wasted and clumsy, brain scrambled in his skull like eggs in a shell. Instead of stumbling about on stick thin limbs, he had to grow strong and healthy. Instead of relearning how to read, he'd caught up on all he missed. Instead of coming to terms with having lost everyone and everything he knew, he had realized that he had a family and friends who had waited for him, even without knowing if and when he'd be back.

Thirty six year old Scott had not been destroyed like nine year old Scott had been.

Instead, he had come out of it, a year older and year stronger, thanks to those friends and family, thanks to the people who had loved him enough to kick his ass, and cared enough to not let him wallow in his natural tendency to withdraw. In the two weeks since his return from the sea, Scott had reunited with everyone who missed him, had seen the changes to the school, had become comfortable in what had happened and what would happen... well, at least, as comfortable as a man like Scott Summers ever was. He hadn't changed that much, after all.

So, when Emma came looking for him, he was indeed in his office, pouring over student files and, if the truth be told, he was rather enjoying it. He had some music on, a jazz station that he liked. He had a soda, he had his feet up, and he was as relaxed as a man like him was every able to be.

Then, he felt her at his door. There was a residual of a rapport there, not a firm link like with Jean or the Professor, but rather like a scar, not the most pleasant of analogies, but Scott had never been a poet, his speeches saved for inspiration on battle, not tender matters of friendship. However was best to describe it, Scott felt her before she lifted her hand and knocked on the door, and the itch in the back of his brain, what was not her invading his mind, just what was left of where she had held onto him when he was slipping away, caused him to sit up and turn off the music.

"Come in, Emma," he said, rising to his feet. Scott was polite like that, and as she entered, he indicated the seat in front of his desk, with an extension of his hand, "Please, have a seat," he urged, "It's good to see you."
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Scott rose to his feet while inviting Emma into his office. She only smiled a he welcomed her in and after a few steps he asked her to have a seat and commented that it was good to see her again. “Like wise, Scott” Emma said in rebuttal as she took the seat opposite from him across his desk. She was unsure if Scott really was happy to see her but he was never much to wear his emotions on his sleeve. So without looking into his mind Emma was never really sure if Scott was entirely happy to see her or simply being polite.

Never the less, Emma didn't dwell on the sincerity of his welcome before saying. “It is good to have you back home. We have missed you.” Emma of course would not outright admit she had missed him using the collective we instead. “It really isn't the same around here without Mister and Mrs. Summers.” Emma continued as she looked at the the files and reports scattered on his desk. “I am not interrupting am I? I am sure you have a lot to take care of after such a lengthy sabbatical. I can come back at a later convenience if you wish?”

Even if Scott did want her to leave and come back at a later time there was something she needed to know first as she asked. “Did your mission...” Emma stopped herself and paused briefly trying think of a proper way to phrase her next question. “Was your mission successful?” She asked. The disappearance of Magneto was a big deal in the mutant community a mutant as influential and powerful as Magneto needed to be kept in check from time to time otherwise he had a way of making things spiral out of control for those who would wish to do good in the world.
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Emma took the seat and remarked on how they'd been missed and that the school wasn't the same without them, and Scott managed one of those rare small smiles of his, that was more than the polite up turn of lip that he had perfect as a nod to societal convention. "I think the school seemed to do just fine without us. It's still standing, after all." She asked if she was interrupting and he shook his head, "Not at all. I'm just doing busy work, trying to get back into the swing of things, I suppose. It's been about a year and half since my... since that March, and that's just an overwhelming backlog of things to catch up on. I welcome the reprieve."

Emma hesitated and his smile faded. What was she going to say? He hadn't reconciled in his head how to deal with Miss Frost. He wanted to help her and he wanted to hate her. He blamed her for everything that had happened to him, and he was eternally grateful that she had kept him together as long as she had. It was confusing, and headache inducing, and Scott Summers, even after this time of soul searching, was still not able to understand a lot about his own emotional quotient. Emma would always be complicated and Scott would always be complicated in a different way. A strange relationship. Less than lovers, more than friends, occasional enemies, indebted to each other, resentful that they owed.

But, instead of delving into personal matters, Emma asked about the mission and it was a safe topic, as safe as any other, he supposed, and safer than most. "Ah," he said, and the relief did not show in his voice, because he was more controlled than that. "Well, that's sort of hard to say. We didn't find Erik, no, but we found enough, I think, to know that we're not in danger from him, and his imposter is gone. It's hard to explain, and by no means are we done looking for him, but for now... we can rest as easy as people like us ever can, I suppose."

There was definitely more to the story than Scott was willing to say, things that still weighed heavily on his mind, and he lapsed into silence for a moment, before expelling a long stressed out sigh, and saying, "Emma, do you have any hope for our future? Not just the school, not even necessarily the X-Men, or Mutants as a whole. But just the future, yours, mine, the world's... Your honest opinion. Are we going to be able to make it or is our path already decided?"
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Scott had commented that the school seemed just fine without them. “I am fairly confident the school will continue to stand no matter whom is here to run it. The mansion did not fold when Charles went missing. The foundation is too strong to crumble under a single loss, A fact I am sure you are very proud of. But that doesn't change the fact things are much different when someone of the integrity and honor of Scott Summers is around. Someone who would always be willing to sacrifice for any student or X-Man in this mansion. That is something that can never be replaced or replicated by anyone.”

Scott admitted they had unfortunately not found Magneto which most certainly was not neato, But divulged that they had found sufficient evidence Magneto was no longer a viable threat to human and mutant kind and his imposter was gone as well. However Emma still could only think about the state of the Brotherhood and while Magneto could be as evil and maniacal as they come without him at the helm of the Brotherhood and Emma's former Illuminati partner Exodus was still in control of the organization and in many ways that could be so much worse.

“Rest easy?” Emma asked rhetorically. “In this world can we ever?” Emma continued as Scott then asked a question much heavier and much deeper than she had expected in their first conversation in months as Scott asked what Emma thought of the future of herself, the X-Men and the world in general. “With as much chaos and devastation as we've seen I find it hard to imagine the path from point A to point B was written up by omnipotent being as his or her very own version of fan fiction.” Emma chuckled briefly but the matter at hand was far too serious to chuckle at. “We are always one mad man away from annihilation, one alien invasion away from being wiped off the face of the earth. One plaque or virus away from being erased from existence.”

“But I do know one thing about our future. Something that has proven true time and time again there will always be someone there to fight for that future. There will always be someone to fight against the mad men. Someone to fight off the aliens. Someone to cure the disease. And everyone in this building our friends and allies even some of our deadliest enemies have shown through as beacons fighting for the future and the group of people we know today and have fought along side. And the future X-Men we have seen come through. I think the odds will be in our favor for the foreseeable future.”
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Leaning back in his chair, Scott listened to Emma and, when she was done, he was smiling a small but satisfied smile, "That's why you're here, Emma. For all your denials that you are a good person, for all your falling back on selfishness and self serving decisions, you have hope of something more, maybe not for you, but for the kids under this roof, for the world. If you ever question why I want you here, why I believe you need to be here, remember what you just told me and trust that I heard you."

He was quiet for a moment, and said, "Emma, I didn't leave the school to find Magneto. I left because I needed to know if I was still capable of doing the right thing, or if I was so broken by what had happened to me that I would question myself to the point of ineffectiveness, stalled by indecision, self doubt... I left to find myself, and that's not something I'm incredibly... adept at doing, especially considering my past."

If Emma could see his eyes, she would have seen that they took on a moment of distance, then Scott continued, "We met a man out there, Nathanienl Essex... Sinister, he called himself... we found each other, I suppose, and I learned that everything I thought I was, everything that I have been turned into... it's all been manipulated... I've been manipulated, since I was nine years old, my body and brain poked and experimented on, my mind twisted and filled with ideals and thoughts not my own. If it was just me, it would be a hard pill to swallow, but it was Jean too, and Hank, and all of us. We've been targeted, and God knows how many others have been as well."

Scott shook his head and then he said, "I think he revealed himself to take advantage of my weakness, to influence me the way he had when I was a kid, but I'm not a kid anymore. Essex, Jack, the Professor... I lived my life thinking I had to do with these men said, because they were the only role models I had... trying to be something worth the sacrifice my parents made, even though that turned out to be a lie too. The Professor gave me purpose, Jack taught me control... and Essex made me a survivor. I can't deny that, and I can't deny that it's helped me in my... choice of job. What this whole adventure showed me though is that I'm able to choose my own path, and I think it's time that you do as well. Can we come to an arrangement, Emma? Can we work together to give you a direction?"
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Emma just stayed quiet and quietly accepted Scott's compliment if thats what you'd call it. She just smiled and let the conversation move on to the next subject leaving it in her back pocket that Scott gave her a get out of jail free card should he ever question her motives and desire to be a member of the Xavier Family as Scott moved on to talk about the real reasoning behind why he left on the Search for Magneto. “And did you?” Emma asked in retort to Scott finding himself. Scott then went on to talk about meeting up with an old nemesis Sinister.

He spoke about Sinisters manipulation, Jack's manipulations and even the Professor and how he learned to grow and accept that he can now decide his own future and choose his own path in life. Before posing the question to Emma asking if they could work together to give her a new lifes direction. “Are you asking me to promise I'll never let you down again? Are you asking if I'll never make the wrong decision again. Are you asking if I'll never choose the path of easiest survival for my own interest?” Emma posed his question with more questions.

“I can't. I can make no promises. Fight or Flight, For as much of a hero as I can be I can also be an even bigger coward. Do you know why I chose to leave with Magneto that September day? It was easy, It was safe... at the time.” One could argue what happened to Emma while in Sanctuary was a punishment much worse than living in a dinosaur infested jungle or living in a city full of Anti-Mutant Terrorists whos only objective was to maim and destroy mutants. Her successor in the Hellfire Club was a victim, Her then assistant was a victim those close to her all fell pray to the Purifiers.

“But I want to. I want to sit here and promise I have changed and promise I will do good and follow the same code of ethics you adhere to. But they would be hollow words coming from me. I want to though I really do but should I not be able to live up to your standards and disappoint again I do not also want to be a liar. You were manipulated as a child you were a product of your environment growing up and you turned yourself around. We all have scars from our childhood we all have past mistakes to make up for. Some are just better at it than others.”
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Scott nodded at her words and then said, frankly, "You're not a coward. You're selfish and you mistake self preservation for fear. When the Dark Beast poisoned me, when I knew that there was no chance for me to fight to save myself, I ran for my life. It wasn't fear. It was the only chance at survival. I'm more likely to throw myself on the grenade than not, but I understand that not everyone will. There was no reason whatsoever, Emma, for you to try and hold me together against the Hand's sway, none. There was nothing for you to gain, except the risk of being found out. Say what you will, but that wasn't a coward's act of selfish survival."

Folding his hands on his desk, "I'm not asking you not to let me down. I am a notoriously demanding man, and I'm hard to please, much harder to impress. I'm asking for you to try your best, and to work towards not letting yourself down. Yes, some of us are better at coping and recovering from the scars of our past, but no one is completely lost. Some of us are just afraid of a little hard work."

Leaning forward, he said, "We're on a path to war, Emma, humans and mutants, and every Apocalypse, every Magneto, every Illuminati, drives us faster down that road. It's going to take every one of us who wants to keep that from happening, or what's going to come is going destroy more than we can say. I don't need you on the front lines, if you aren't willing to fight to save the world, but I need to be able to trust you not to betray us. If you can't be honest with me, if you can't put the children of this school ahead of yourself, we don't need you here to be a threat. This is supposed to be a safe place for our children, and we've failed spectacularly at providing that. We're not going to fail anymore, and if you aren't going to be able to put their needs ahead of yours first, then there's no place for you here."
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“Wasn't there though?.” Emma added bluntly. “Wasn't there something to gain for me in keeping you and the others as sane and rational as possible?” Emma asked rhetorically as she continued. “I am no fool. I live in a world of no illusion I knew exactly who and what Victor Von Doom was and I knew exactly what he had planned for his so called Illuminati once his plans came to fruition. He would cease the power of the Phoenix all too himself and rule over the entire earth uncontested. There was no throne for any of the others to sit on as long as Von Doom was running the show.”

Emma could play the Devils Advocate with the best of them and while she may not have had these exact intentions in mind when she was doing what she was. “I knew the time would come when I needed to make my own play and when that time came and it was 10 on 1, or whatever the odds while trying to save Namor and Valerie. I would much rather have you and the others on my side rather than theres. But fortunately for all concerned you were all freed before those events unfolded.”

And sometimes Emma didn't know when to stay quiet, she liked to talk and there were so few people she could talk to as freely in the mansion. “It also behooved me to keep your mind intact you were the only one besides myself who knew what I was doing in the employ of Von Doom. It was hard enough to convince those who be of my intent with your help can you imagine me trying to navigate that situation with you mentally compromised or worse?” Emma smiled. “Or perhaps I did it because it was the right thing to do and despite what you or the others may have thought or think of me I hold some affection for you all and didn't want to see any of you taken down that dark road.”

As Emma concluded one train of thought and began another when Scott asked if she could be trusted to never turn against Earths mightiest heroes. “But even so, Have I ever fought against you? Have I ever given the X-Men cause to think of me as an enemy? Or a traitor? When I left with Magneto and the Brotherhood it was told no one would pass judgment on those who crossed the line but apparently that rule did not apply to me and my checkered past. I went to recruit students for Magneto's school to bring Xavier's message to Sanctuary to try and show them a better way where Humans and Mutants can get along and co-exist. And when your brothers team of Mutant Hunters showed up and the Brotherhooders accompany me got a little over overzealous I did not show a single amount of offense force aimed at them.”

Despite many seeing Emma at multiple times as a villain and in moral ambiguity she never once helped anyone who meant to do serious harm to the world without very good justification on her side. When it counted Emma was always there to fight for the good of the world and the good of mutant kind. “When the final offensive was focused on the Purifiers I was there on the frontlines while many of your own X-Men stood tight at home. I am no saint, But I am no sinner either. I would like to think that I have never given anyone cause to question which side of the big fight I was on despite my checkered past in choosing where I hang my hat.”
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"Enough," Scott said, and though his voice never raised, because Scott rarely raised his voice when he was not in battle, "Enough of this delusional bullshit, Emma." The harshness of his language clashed with that calm almost monotone. He extended a hand, indicating the door, "You're so selfish, and self serving that no one will ever trust you despite all your good deeds, and this school is only a stepping stone to keeping your pretty diamond heart inside your chest, then the door is wide open. No one is holding you here, no one ever has."

He dropped his hand into an accusatorily pointing finger, "But no one kicked you out either. If, indeed, everyone hates you and will never accept you, except for me because I owe you for keeping my mind mine, well, then it stands to reason that the moment I fled this school on that desperate quest for my lost nerve, they would have had your bags packed before my car left the driveway. That didn't happen. No, they aren't going to open their arms to you. You've given them no reason to. But, no one wants you gone, either... except for Jean, and she has a damn good reason."

Shaking his head, realizing that she wasn't capable of understanding without an example, he said, "When Alex returned to my life, left the Brotherhood and came to the school to be with me, Jean hated him. He didn't understand why she refused to forgive him for leading me into the trap that nearly led to Mystique killing me. After all, he was tricked, himself. He was manipulated, right? It wasn't his fault. It wasn't until he realized that he let himself do the cruel and violent things that he did, that he admitted he had done something wrong, that she was able to forgive him. You can talk all the double talk you want about why you did what you did to me, for me, whatever, but all Jean is ever going to see is the woman who was responsible for letting her believe she was a widow, for months, and who did nothing to prevent the corruption of her husband. Everyone else in this school, Hank, Warren, the students, hell even Logan, don't hate you, they just don't like you very much and that's not the same thing."

All this time, all this damn speech, which just felt like he was saying the same thing over and over, Scott had not raised his voice or changed his tone, not one decibel, not one octave. He just spoke and whether or not Emma actually listened he didn't care. "You're playing a script out in your head, Emma, and you have been forever. People hate me because I do bad things but they don't know I do them for good reasons, and when they decide maybe that I do have a good reason I do my damnedest to prove them wrong by doing bad things but they don't know I do them for good reasons, over and over and over again."

Spreading his hands in a gesture not of surrender but one of throwing the topic to the wind, Scott said, "I'm not interested in continuing to do this dance with you. Every pain Emma, you've brought to yourself. Every sideways look, you've learned. Every negative thought and every ounce of distrust, is the direct result of the face you show the world, and it is never going to change until you choose a different one. I'm here to help you, I want to help you, but I'll be damned if I am going to bang my head on a brick wall...or maybe I should say a diamond one. At any rate, I have enough brain damage, and I don't need anymore."

He rose to his feet, indicating that this meeting was done, as far as he was concerned and he said, "You decide, Miss Frost, if you want to be an X-Man or not, because I already believe you can be. Doesn't manner what I believe though because I sure as hell don't want to have this same conversation with you, every time we talk, if you are just going to sit there and deflect with your psychological babble. The Professor dragged the angry self preserving boy I was into thinking about the world before myself, but he has far more patience than I ever will. I can't do it for you. I have the school to think about and I have a world that hates and fears us to protect. I don't have time for the Emma Frost power pity hour... and I have too much to do to sit through another grand performance."
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Scott was growing upset with the conversation not that he would let it show by his tone of voice. “Then why must I constantly be reminded of it? Do you know what its like in nearly every conversation to constantly be reminded of your past choices? You like analogies, Imagine if you will how your dear brother Alex would feel if every conversation he ever had turned back to his time in the brotherhood and his time as a Horseman of Apocalypse. It wears thin... very thin and does nothing to help the healing process does it?”

No one likes constantly being reminded of every wrong choice they have made every day and Emma is no different while Scott my not show emotion and not wear his heart on his sleeve, Neither does Emma just because she doesn't show it hurts to have the constant reminders doesn't make it hurt any less. “And you didn't answer my question, Have I ever given anyone cause ever to doubt my loyalties to the Human/Mutant cause? My only caveat being in the first few week of joining the Illuminati to impress upon Doom that my loyalties laid with him. Because yet again and even by the worst of the worst the scum of the earth. My past indiscretions and my every choice was put on display and I had to confront them and over come them to gain his trust. Not only with Doom but nearly every member of the Illuminati questioned me.”

Emma sighed refocusing her gaze in the red tinted glasses of Scott Summers. “Honestly Scott its tiresome at this point and you just proved you are just as tired of it as I am. Do you think I enjoy constantly defending my position? Constantly explaining my every action? I would love nothing more than to move on and leave my past in the past. I have never raised a hand against an X-Man or a Student in anger. I never raised a violent action against hero of earth with the exception of Alix who interfered with my New Years Plans and wouldn't take the hint and leave. I tried to run from her but she persisted. When she was neutralized and the job was done Madrox came after me and did I do anything to him? No I fled.”

Emma felt horrible about what happened to Alix but sending a get well soon card from Doom's Latverian palace wouldn't have gone over very well with the Illuminati just like Emma consorting with the Widow of Scott Summers would have raised more unwanted questions with Doom than she was ready to deal with. “I am not proud of everything I've done but if I am so willing to be burned at the stake for my every poor choice in choosing the company I keep. It should also be noted the motives behind those decisions but I am tired of them. I am tired of explaining myself. I've spent the last year in this mansion keeping as low of a profile as possible. Attempting to let times heal the wounds and let people get over the animosity they hold for me. But if what you say is true and with the exception of Jean no one holds anything against me, Why am I constantly reminded of it every day and judged based on those decisions?
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"Who's reminding you of it, Emma, honestly?" Scott shot back at her as she lost her temper and snapped at him, "Who is coming up to you and saying, 'Oh, it's you, traitor of the mutant race?' I haven't been at the school in months, so if someone is leaving nasty little notes on your door, then let me know who it is and I'll put a stop to it. It's what I do, after all. As for Alex, he was publicly put on trial for his time as the Horseman of War, saved from a death sentence only by almost literally sacrificing himself to stop the Nimrod Sentinel from destroying New York City. He's been reminded, and he atones, everyday of his life, he atones."

Bringing his hand up under his glasses, Scott closed his eyes tightly and pinched the bridge of his nose in exasperated exhaustion. "Do you want to know why people don't trust you? Because you spend every waking moment afraid to come clean, because you, as you said, have been keeping a low profile, and not talking to anyone. You keep secrets, and that's your right to do so, but when so many of your secrets turn out to be betrayals, both for and against us, you can't stand here and play the wounded lamb when you've proven you're a wolf in sheep's clothing. Yes, Emma, we do have cause to doubt you, and yes, you've given it to us. In just this conversation alone, I tried to explain to you why I am grateful for your help when I was the slave of the Hand, I tried to explain to you why I am trusting you to be here in this school with our children, and you countered every compliment, every show of faith with 'I am doing this for myself and I will turn on you when it suits me.' Tell me, Emma, tell me honestly, what am I to think when I'm told that to my face. All I know is what I see before me. All I know is what I'm shown."

Dropping his hand, and retaking his seat, Scott said, "This school is filled with broken people being rebuilt into productive members of society. We are taking baby monsters and teaching them how to be people again, men and women of substance and strength. The majority of our staff and student body come here from destroyed lives, often with blood on their hands. Logan alone has a kill sheet longer than he is tall, but we work together to prevent whatever caused those circumstances, not just the incidents but the mentality and manipulations that caused them. No one is judging you, Emma, but no one has reached out to you because when someone does, you bite the hand that feeds you."

He looked at her, his eyes, as always, hidden behind his dark red glasses, and he said, "No one cares to be around a dog that bites, no matter what the reason is. You want them to stop thinking bad about you, start doing some good. No one is going to do it for you. You have to make these steps on your own."
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Poor Alex his ears must be burning with home much Emma and Scott have been using him to both prove their points. “Is Alex's stopping of Nimrod more spectacular than I helping stop Doom from taking over the world? Is Alex destroying the Nimrod more impressive than when I used my Phoenix Fragment to fight off 6 or 7 other Super powered villains to save Namor and Valeria? Or is it simply because he is more honorable than me?”

Scott's frustration was growing equal with Emma's as the heated discussion intensified. “And what cause have I ever given for you to distrust me? When I went to work with Doom I reported at great risk everything back to you. Which we were able to cover up with an illicit affair. Something I would not be able to convince Doom of with Jean had I come back to ease her mind and let her know of your current state. Tony Stark the Iron Man had no successful missions in carrying out Dooms desires because I fed you every bit of intel needed to stop him. When you were captured I offered Stark up to Captain America and SHIELD on a silver platter.”

Emma then stood up from the chair and took a small lap around the office moving at a low pace with a lightened tone before looking back at Scott. “I never rose a single hand to you or an X-Man. I never crossed you in battle my greatest sins are simply walking out when things got tough, my sin is being afraid. When I was granted amnesty to leave with Magneto. When I was told there would be no judgment passed. Only to find that did not apply to me. I started with the Hellfire Club, Sebastian Shaw was my Jack. He showed me a way out of my early predicaments and when I realized the direction the Club was headed in I left I joined the good fight instead of working against it.”

Emma then retraced her alliances with is not as vast as people tend to believe they are she had only ever joined 3 factions in her life one in conjunction with helping the X-Men. “Then I stayed with the X-Men until that September day. I left with Magneto, Not the Brotherhood I never joined the Brotherhood as a matter of fact I continued to fight against them in Sanctuary I saved the life of Mystique who is now a member of your brothers Team. And then I joined the Illuminati but not before speaking to you about it first, Before ultimately coming back here. How does all of this make me a traitor? A coward yes, a Traitor never.”

Emma disliked being called a traitor by Scott. She was indeed a traitor but a traitor to the Illuminati and Von Doom. She felt in her heart she had never betrayed the X-Men. Walked out on them after the fighting was done yes. But she never actively worked against them. “What would you have me do Scott? Call an open assembly to the School. Plead my case at their feet. Explain my every action that has lead me to this point in my life? I am not perfect none of us are. But I have never ever fought against you. And quite honestly I am insulted you of all people would sit there and call me a traitor.”
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"I didn't call you a traitor, Emma, not once. I asked who did and you haven't told me a single name, or pointed out a single instance that this is happening anywhere but inside your head," Scott said, his patience just about exhausted here. "What makes what Alex did different is that it was not done with a 'I am doing this to save my own skin' attitude. You sat here in my office for fifteen minutes explaining to me how everything you've ever done is a selfish act. I know that's not true, because I had you in my head for months, holding my sanity and myself together, but you insist it is, with cleverly evasive waving of the hands and turning of the phrases. You can't have it both ways. You can't claim you are a selfish coward and then pout that no one recognizes you as a hero."

Shaking his head, Scott said, "I don't need you to call an assembly, though god knows, I have when I've made a mistake. What I need you to do is make an effort, and that is something you most definitely have not done. I died alone on the back porch of my home because I was keeping secrets and not trusting that my friends and family would have my back. But when I needed them most, when I was the farthest from them as I have ever been, they didn't stop trying to help me. They didn't give up. My hands were around my wife's throat and she was still telling me she loved me, because, Emma, she knew that what I was at that moment is not what I am in reality. "

He reached across the table and caught her hand, "Emma, we don't know what you are in reality. We don't know that we can trust you. We don't know who you are. You haven't let us. I'm not a psychologist, I can barely figure out my own mind, much less anyone elses. You want us to respect you, respect us. You want us to trust you, trust us. No matter what your motives, all the school is going to think is that you abandoned us in our greatest hour of need. The Brotherhood showed up to offer aid, Magneto saved Jean's life, but Emma Frost left us. That's what they remember and that's what you have to make amends for. There's no arguing about it. You have to work to earn the trust of the school and sitting here in my office and telling me that you are a coward and a horrible person then getting offended that people think you are a coward and a horrible person is counterproductive."

Letting go of her, Scott said, "I'm trying to help you, but you have to work with me, here."
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“I am not going to tattle tail, Scott it is beneath me. The last thing I need is you fighting petty battles for me I highly doubt that would endear me to anyone.” Emma was allowing her emotions to get the better of her and because of this the conversation was spiraling out of control. “I am sorry Scott, Lets start over... The things that I have done could I have done things a different way? A better way? Perhaps. Could I have done things a different way? A worse way? Absolutely. I did things I needed to do that served my best interests. I did things that served the best interest in my mind of the world in which we live. Because without the world we live in today. I have nothing, My wealth, my status, My teaching. It all means nothing if there is no world to have it in.”

For all Emma's imagined misgivings and slights she did enjoy the lavishes this world has afforded her and anyone who want to jeopardize the stability of the world had no place in it as far as Emma was concerned human or mutant alike. “Allowing mad men like Doom or Apocalypse, Magneto or an alien race from god knows where its imperative they be stopped any time they threaten the stability of the world. I know that, you know that everyone in this mansion knows that and I hope they share the same sentiment. I have always been on board with saving the world whether I've worn an X on my persons or not.”

Emma then took a deep breathe as she looked away from Scott momentarily. “And that Scott is the best I can offer you. Can I promise to never disappoint you, No. Can I promise your wife and I will have a girls night out and be happy about it, Most certainly not. But I can promise you teaching these children how to survive in this world, how to co-exist in this world with people who hate and despise them because of a mutant X-Gene they carry. And making sure they have a future to grow up in is something I will always fight for.”

“If you don't know me and cant trust me on that. Than this conversation is mute. My motives on those 2 stances have never wavered. I have always fought for my students and for the stability of my world as well as serving my interests. It's not as if I walked out on the students when the School was bombed I stayed and fought the Purifiers until there was no one left standing despite Hank insisting I stay out of the fight due to my injuries I fought through it to make sure no one else suffered because of them. and I dare say I killed more than my own fair share of them both on these grounds and on Winter Island to put an end to their tyranny once and for all.”
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