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“Magneto is the bad guy in X-Men.” Eli rolls his eyes and turns toward Luke, his face expressing “how does she not know this.” Luke smiles, a chuckle breaking free as he leans back too, watching our conversation.
“The X-Men?” I ask, completely enthralled with all of this new information that is being thrown at me.
“That’s another conversation,” he
says, holding his hand up and then swiping it through the air. “Back to Scarlet Witch. So...” He clears his throat. “She’s Magneto’s daughter—he controls metal.” He smirks, raising a brow. “Now that is freaking cool.”
“Eli!” Kay shouts from the kitchen. “I hope you didn’t just curse.”
He rolls his eyes, letting his head fall back before he shouts back, “No, Mom! I said freaking.”
I lean to the side, catching Luke’s gaze before I whisper, “Do I need to know all of this?”
“Yeah,” he says, his face a mask of seriousness. “There’ll be a test before you leave.”
My eyes widen and then I see his lips quirk. My hand lifts and I push him before he holds his arm, portraying that I really hurt him.
“That—”
“Uncle Luke.” We both turn back toward Eli. “Can’t you see I’m teaching Lexi important stuff here?” He throws his hands up in the air, shaking his head before he looks back at me. “Where were we?”
“Magneto controls metal,” I supply, proud that I remembered.
“Right.” He nods. “So Scarlet Witch is his daughter so she has powers too.”
“She has powers?” I ask, clutching my hands on my knees as I watch him intently.
“Yep.” He nods his head, opening his mouth before Kay shouts that dinner is ready. None of us move as Eli continues explaining who she is.
“She can make things all of a sudden turn to flames or rust.” He jumps up and down on the spot. “She also studied witchcraft, so she can do… witchy things too.” He gasps all of a sudden, his eyes swinging between the both of us before he runs off.
“What—”
Luke chuckles and shakes his head before he stands up, tilting his head at me to signal for me to follow him. My eyes wander over the walls, seeing photographs of men in uniform and also of Eli and Kay. There’s one of the three of them—Ty, Kay, and Eli—huge smiles on their faces, but I can’t help see that Eli looks nothing like Ty.
I step inside the room behind Luke, and when he moves to the side, I see the table is full of people. Ty sits at the head with Kay next to him, Kitty and Dean sitting to the left and Evan to the right with two seats empty next to him.
Luke sits in the chair at the opposite head and my gaze turns to Eli as he stands there, all attention focused on him. “Lexi is Scarlet Witch,” he says, pointing at me and then turning to Evan. “Which makes Evan the Vision!”
There’s a beat of silence before Luke says, “Holy shit!”
“Luke!” Kay scolds.
“Sorry.” He widens his eyes before he holds his hand up to Eli. “That was a perfect choice in her being Scarlet Witch.”
“I’m a genius!” Eli shouts.
“Does that mean I get to wear the green suit that Vision wears?” Evan asks, holding his arm in the air and flexing his muscles. “I’d totally wear it all the time.”
Eli sits down next to Evan before turning toward me and pointing at the empty chair between him and Luke.
I sit down, looking around. “Hey, everyone.”
I get “heys” back before Eli blurts out, “Mom can make you one, she’s making Uncle Luke a Thor cape.”
“I am?” she asks, her brows raised.
“Yeah.” He nods, scooping a spoonful of potatoes onto his plate. “I asked you last week.”
