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uc_xmenTitle: The Unquiet Affair of Rachel Grey and Nathaniel Essex, Chapter 1.
Author: Sionnain
'Verse: 616, though occurs before current Uncanny arc and will obviously be AU.
Pairing: Rachel Grey/Nathaniel Essex (Rachel/Sinister)
Rating: Eventual M, though this chapter is not.
Summary: In order to save her family and friends from Sinister's machinations, Rachel Grey decides to do something daring and agrees to stay with him for a month's time, in the hopes he'll finally leave her and her family alone for good.
AN: Many thanks to![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
resolute for going above and beyond and beta'ing this for me, which included a lot of my confusing emails, fixing all my unnecessary words and helping me out with canon and backstory. ::mwah:: you're the best, babe! Also thanks to willowaus for cheerleading me through :)
The story is in ten parts. Each chapter starts with a quote from The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, from whence the inspiration came for the title. It's a play on those old Victorian horror stories in the genre with Stevenson's classic. There are ten chapters in that story, so there are ten in mine, though that is really the only similarity. The fic is completely finished.
You do not need to know much backstory to follow this, but if you like, you can read Sinister's Wikipedia Entry and Rachel Grey's Wikipedia Entry.
A brief history of both characters is beneath the cut, in case you'd like to read but are unfamiliar with the characters:
Rachel Grey is the daughter of Cyclops and Jean Grey from an alternate future. She returns to 616-reality after hers is destroyed, and is a current member of the X-Men. In her reality, mutants were herded into camps. Rachel was a "Hound" and was forced by her human captors to hunt and kill mutants--hence the "Hound Markings" on her face. She is also one of the last remaining in her family after they were all killed by the Shi'ar, an alien race, who placed a deathmark tattoo on her back so they could always find her. Rachel is currently the Host to the Phoenix entity, and has telepathic and telekinetic powers like her mother.
Nathaniel Essex, Mr. Sinister, is a former Victorian geneticist who made a deal with Apocalypse that granted him immortality and other powers. He has long been obsessed with the Summers/Grey line, and is the one who cloned Jean Grey so that the child Cable could be born. It was said a child of that line would be strong enough to overthrow Apocalypse, whom Sinister hated and wished to destroy. Sinister's powers are sometimes shown inconsistently, but he has telepathy, telekinesis, superhuman strength, is immortal, highly intelligent, and can manipulate force fields and teleport.
Chatper 1: In Which Rachel Grey Makes a Decision about Sinister that No One Else Seems to Think is a Good Idea
Author: Sionnain
'Verse: 616, though occurs before current Uncanny arc and will obviously be AU.
Pairing: Rachel Grey/Nathaniel Essex (Rachel/Sinister)
Rating: Eventual M, though this chapter is not.
Summary: In order to save her family and friends from Sinister's machinations, Rachel Grey decides to do something daring and agrees to stay with him for a month's time, in the hopes he'll finally leave her and her family alone for good.
AN: Many thanks to
resolute for going above and beyond and beta'ing this for me, which included a lot of my confusing emails, fixing all my unnecessary words and helping me out with canon and backstory. ::mwah:: you're the best, babe! Also thanks to willowaus for cheerleading me through :)The story is in ten parts. Each chapter starts with a quote from The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, from whence the inspiration came for the title. It's a play on those old Victorian horror stories in the genre with Stevenson's classic. There are ten chapters in that story, so there are ten in mine, though that is really the only similarity. The fic is completely finished.
You do not need to know much backstory to follow this, but if you like, you can read Sinister's Wikipedia Entry and Rachel Grey's Wikipedia Entry.
A brief history of both characters is beneath the cut, in case you'd like to read but are unfamiliar with the characters:
Rachel Grey is the daughter of Cyclops and Jean Grey from an alternate future. She returns to 616-reality after hers is destroyed, and is a current member of the X-Men. In her reality, mutants were herded into camps. Rachel was a "Hound" and was forced by her human captors to hunt and kill mutants--hence the "Hound Markings" on her face. She is also one of the last remaining in her family after they were all killed by the Shi'ar, an alien race, who placed a deathmark tattoo on her back so they could always find her. Rachel is currently the Host to the Phoenix entity, and has telepathic and telekinetic powers like her mother.
Nathaniel Essex, Mr. Sinister, is a former Victorian geneticist who made a deal with Apocalypse that granted him immortality and other powers. He has long been obsessed with the Summers/Grey line, and is the one who cloned Jean Grey so that the child Cable could be born. It was said a child of that line would be strong enough to overthrow Apocalypse, whom Sinister hated and wished to destroy. Sinister's powers are sometimes shown inconsistently, but he has telepathy, telekinesis, superhuman strength, is immortal, highly intelligent, and can manipulate force fields and teleport.
Chatper 1: In Which Rachel Grey Makes a Decision about Sinister that No One Else Seems to Think is a Good Idea
