Chapter 2
Alex was being attacked by the men he loved he rolled around underneath them trying to escape the tickling when the door opened to present the professor “Boys can I have a word please” all the laughing stopped quickly as the young men jumped up “yes of course Professor” “sure thing Charles” “yes sir” the 3 men spoke at once with a looked of fear on their faces “my study please I’ll meet you there in a moment” and the three men headed to the study.
EARLIER THAT DAY
Charles was sitting in his office when the door opened “em Charles can we talk to you please” Raven said as she and Sean walked into the room “Ah Sean just the boy we do need to talk about your little escapade earlier in Hanks lab” he said with the disappointment in his voice “yeah I figured you would proff but em can we talk to you first it’s about Hank we are worried about him” Sean said and Charles just looked at him “Hank, oh my please sit down what’s the matter” he asked and the pair did “I think Alex is cheating on him” Sean began “I know he is” Raven added “wait what” the pair went on to explain there earlier sights of Alex and Darwin and Sean hearing two people ‘going at it’ before he went to the lab Charles soon excused Raven and spoke to Sean for what felt like the hundredth time this month about his recreational drug use and the damage is was doing to his body before also excusing him and sending his mind out to the mansion to locate the other three boys in his care finding them all in what has recently became known as Alex and Hanks room with feelings of joy coming from the room, Charles feeling confused by all of this went to fetch the boys to speak with them
PRESENT TIME
The three boys sat there in Charles office, Alex sat in one of the chairs opposite Charles’ desk while Hank and Darwin sat on opposite sides of the 3 person couch, the door opened and Charles wheeled himself beside his desk and looked at Alex then the boys on the couch, “ok I want some answers from you three about some, let’s call them rumours for now that I have heard about some indiscretions going on with you three” the boys all looked at the floor before Darwin spoke “it’s not true you know proffers Alex isn’t cheating on Hank he would never do that he loves him” Charles looked at him and Hank just rolled his eye “how do you know that’s what I was talking about then Armando” the boy tried to answer but nothing ever came out but Alex spoke up “Hank told us that raven said she saw us kissing so we figured that she came to you her trusty big brother to gossip and you wanted to make sure nothing was going on” Charles sighed “alright fair point so what did Raven see then” the pair froze he was a telepath and you can’t lie to a telepath but at the same time they had a deal Hank still had doubts about wither or not this is right so they had promised to keep it a secret but they need not have fretted as Hank spoke up “em ok Charles if we tell you what happened please promise me two things” Hank began and the mentor looked at the boy, he cared deeply about all the children in the house but he and Hank where particularly close he had cared for him when he 1st came home from the hospital and helped him adjust to his new life, he looked at him and nodded “I promise my boy what is it” “you can’t judge us for it and you can’t tell anyone and I mean anyone else not even Erik” “I promise you there will be no judgment, and I will keep it to myself” Hank smiled “’ok this is hard to explain and I don’t know how much sense it will make but here we go, well you know Alex and I started dating after Cuba” Charles nodded “Well a few months ago Darwin got drunk and admitted to Alex he was jealous of me as he also had a crush on him and then a few weeks later we decide we would compromise so we could all be happy, Alex is my boyfriend but he is also Darwin’s boyfriend we share him” Charles just looked at them and Darwin and Alex froze as Hank made it sound almost like a business deal of some kind, “ah alright that isn’t that difficult to understand Hank, I mean your intelligent surely you’ve heard of the idea of polygamy before” hank nodded “’of course that’s why I suggested it, it is an old and outdated practise though Charles” Charles shock his head “not at all my boy it is still practised in many counties around the world” “not really” he began with Alex and Darwin feeling like they were watching tense watching these two have a conversion about such an odd topic “it is only really practised in middle east countries” Hank finished “no no Hank it is practised all over the world I can assure you I had a friend at oxford that had two girlfriends and three boyfriends, he was a bit eccentric as you might guess but there was nothing wrong with it a lot of people were confused by it of course even I was to start with but he loved them all equally and they all loved him, so you see it is still a thing in the eastern world after all” “indeed I suppose you may be right Charles but it still doesn’t negate the point that this still all feels so awkward for me and I’m not sure I want it getting out yet I mean just cause you get it Charles doesn’t mean that everyone else will so please can we still keep this between us 4” the older man nodded at the request with a smile “of course Hank but Mando and Alex you two might need to be more careful in future you know what Raven is like” the nodded “good now on you go you two and Hank may I have a word please” Hank froze “em sure Charles but can you give me a few moments please I need to run to my lab to get something” Charles nodded and used the opportunity to check up on the rest of the household
The girls were out in the garden doing some gardening going by Angel’s mind - he never enters Ravens not without her express permission, Sean was sleeping off another hit something low key nothing out of Hanks office so he had no idea where the young man got it, and Erik his darling Erik was, he was packing a bag ‘LENSHER WHAT ARE YOU DOING’ he asked in the man’s mind ‘AH HELLO DEAR NOT WHAT YOU THINK I’M NOT LEAVING JUST EM MOVING’ ‘WHAT MOVING WHERE’ ‘I WAS HOPPING INTO YOUR ROOM MY DARLING LOVE’ Charles just sent a wave of affection to the man ‘YES, YES, YES, OH YES PLEASE ERIK I WOULD LOVE TO WAKE UP WITH YOU EVERYDAY MY DARLING, BUT ARE YOU SURE WE ARE READY’ ‘YES LIBEING I’M SURE’ Hank walked back in big blue and furry ‘I NEED TO GO DARLING WE CAN TALK LATER OK’ “hello Hank come in” Hank just huffed “I forgot I was making more of my serum earlier when Sean came in looking for drugs I’m out I’ll make some more later, so what’s up Charles” “