Disclaimers: The song Jubilee sings is from a poem written by UnchasteBittersweet called Anime and I thought it fit perfectly with it. Jubilee doesn't belong to me as well as the other Marvel characters…big surprise.

A/N: Dark…but feedback is loved so….

Dionysus' Dance

"As the anima I hide, with-in you, trapped inside, you said I wasn't there, you lied..." The eerily sing song voice echoed through the halls making everyone who heard it shiver.

Jean's face was pale as she nervously sipped her coffee, her hands shaking slightly as she ran a hand through her hair. "She was like this when we found her." Turning to the two other men in the room, she glanced quickly from Logan to Xavier. "Sean and Emma are on their way but I have no idea what to do."

"You lied you lied you lied you lied you lied you lied you lied you lied you lied you lied" the singing grew shrill and Logan sunk down into a chair. The three of them had retreated down the hall to get away from the singing but no matter where they went the voice followed them.

It hadn't always been that way, and when they later searched for when it had all started it was almost impossible to find it. So many things had happened in her life that could have tipped the scales; her parents' murders, living on the streets, leaving the X-men, Bastion kidnapping her, and Everett's death. In actuality it was when she was kidnapped by Bastion, a man sick enough to twist a young girl's mind, distorting it to the breaking point where if she had endured any more stress she would dissolve under the pressure.

When Jubilee had returned she had hid her shattered psyche well, after all she had done it most of her life how was it any different? Madness, like anything else can be hidden and for the most part she kept it under wraps. However it was little facts that kept on popping up that started chipping at what was left of her sanity. Little facts like her teammates had barely noticed her being gone. Little facts like Emma and Sean hadn't even known that Bastion had kidnapped her. Little facts like Logan wouldn't have even saved her if he hadn't smelt her scent in the air by pure and utter chance. Her once perfect X-men had deserted her and her friends barely noticed her. And then her Everett died. 

"Screaming for release, denying your spirit's peace, you can no longer cover me with your golden fleece."

Four days after his death they had found her at Xavier's mansion wandering the halls, crooning to herself, her brilliant blue eyes wide and childlike as she looked unseeing at the people she once knew. Nothing that Xavier, Jean or anyone else did was of any impact and made no difference. Logan had been away in France helping recruit some new students when he had been called back. Now, he stood in the doorway looking at his former partner.

"Uh..hello Darlin.."

Jubilee continued humming to herself, gently touching a geranium that had been placed on her nightstand. The pale yellow and orange blossoms seemed to please her and she plucked the flower from its pot.

"How are ya feeling? Everyone here is pretty worrie...." Logan's sentenced died in his throat as she slowly turned to look at him, her eyes piercing his heart with it's sadness and anger.

"Look me in the eye, My misery strikes the man in you to cry, Now you know my need to die die die die die die die die die die die..." Each word struck the older man like a physical blow as he watched her shove the now petal-less flower back into the pot. "Look me in the eye, look me in the eye."

Logan kneeled down and reached out to touch her, ignoring her flinch as he held her hand. "Darlin, what happened? Who did this to you?" He knew that her teammate had died a week earlier but this couldn't have caused her to break, the little girl that he knew was strong…stronger than this and he told her that.

Her eyes locked onto his and she was trembling violently, her blistered feet and hands tapping on the down quilt on the bed. It had been in the middle of winter and though she had been wondering the mansion she had obviously walked there. She had been soaking wet, lips tinged with blue and bare feet and hands. Hank had barely managed to save her hands and feet, and had wrapped them in a filmy gauze to protect them from any more damage.

"Eyes let you enter my soul, nothing left but an empty hole, once tender heart, now black as coal." Jubilee sang sadly, her head shaking softly to the music as she rocked back and forth, her eyes never leaving Logan's.

"You're in there somewhere Darlin and we'll find ya. We'll find ya." Stumbling to his feet Logan almost tripped in his haste to get out of the room. Once outside he took a shuddering breath, he never cried before in his life but at that moment he was nearer than he had ever been. Popping out his claws reflectively he looked at Jean and Xavier. "I'm going to find the bastard that did this to her and rip out his heart. Got any problems with that Chuck?"

Xavier was pale as he regarded Logan. "None at all."

-in-

Jubilee blinked, and wearily wiped a hand in front of her eyes. Hallucinations. Again. Carefully wrapping the quilt around her body she started to scream.

-in-

The lone sound of a wheelchair slightly squeaking was the only thing the broke the sound of her torment. Neither Xavier nor Jean had been able to find anything in Jubilee's mind, nothing but bit's of images and flashes of darkness. Hank was in the process of going over her medical files but still had found nothing. Emma and Sean had arrived just moments earlier and were listening to the disturbing shrieks coming from the room down the hall. After a few minutes Emma took off her coat and walked to the room, her face expressionless as she geared herself for the sight she was going to see. Not surprisingly, she wasn't even close to being prepared.

Jubilee stopped screaming the moment the woman had entered the room, and smiled softly. "What things do you dream, how true do they seem, what torments make you scream?" The verse was high and lilting, reminiscent of a lullaby.

"Good afternoon, Jubilation. How are you?"

"What makes you scream?" the girl sang in reply.

Not bothering with any more small talk Emma brutally tore into the girl's mind, her eyes filling with tears as she felt each and every horror that Bastion had made her endure. What made Emma sob was the utter loneliness Jubilee felt, her sense of belonging nowhere, of nothing loving her, of a yearning for death. Retching, Emma withdrew her mind, and emptied the contents of her stomach on the floor.

"You tremble with your tears, heart whispers secret fears, with loss of secret emotion each nerve sears." Jubilee got up from her bed and stroked the blond head, the popped blisters leaving trails of blood in the pristine gold. Turning from Emma, Jubilee slid into the bed under the covers, letting Emma tuck her in. Nestled in the sky blue quilt, she looked like the innocent child that she should have been. "Now my fair skin fades, soul returns to shades, after my vengeance of spirit raids, I am gone."

Unable to answer, Emma slipped out of the room her whole body shaking with anger and fear. "Bastion did this to her, and I can't do anything. She's in a shell that she's created and nothing can penetrate it unless she allows it. This is it."

"Maybe you can't but someone can. Anyone." Logan's face fell at the others' faces. "Nothing?"

"Nothing."

With a shocked silence the four people stood and looked down the hall, each wrapped in thoughts of the small firecracker they knew. As the sun began to cast it's long rays across the mansion, dipping into the horizon all anyone could hear as they walked around the house was the sad, sing song voice of a girl trapped in a nightmare she couldn't wake up from.

"I'm gone. I'm gone. I'm gone. I'm gone. I'm gone. I'm gone. I'm gone. I'm gone."

-fin-

A/N Disturbing…yes I totally agree. But feedback would be loved and appreciated. Let me know what you thought J