Welcome to a very Alternative Universe! Ignore the movie-verse story line for the most part (aside from Victor and Logan being brothers and Logan undergoing Stryker's adamantium injection and bullet to the head). I used the movie category simply because I can't write Victor without picturing Liev... As for the comic-verse, I'm adapting it as I see fit. The characters are the same, the names, etc. But It'll be on my terms/timeline. For instance, Victor's time with the Marauders happened decades prior to this story. Lots of decades.

4 months after the final chapter of Creed's Pryde...

Sinister has been behind bars in the maximum security prison The Raft for over a year. In the time since his incarceration the X-Men have focused on returning mutants displaced by Sinister's experiments to their rightful homes, and keeping a close watch on Stryker, awaiting his next attack on the mutant population. As the X-Men bide their time, the Hellfire Club is facing internal war. Unable to reach an agreement over their stake in Sinister's freedom, Emma Frost and Sebastian Shaw tear the Club in two. In an effort to stop Shaw from releasing Sinister, Emma turns to Kitty Pryde and Victor Creed in uneasy alliance. Will Kitty accept Emma's offer, or will Shaw succeed in freeing Sinister and crowning him new King of the Hellfire Club? Not if British Intelligence Agency, MI-13 and Pete Wisdom have anything to say about it.

Present Day

New York

Emma Frost slipped a white-gold lock of hair behind her ear, eyes scanning again and again, the document spread out before her.

"Well?"

Sebastian Shaw, impressively tall draped in silk and velvet, eyes like smoking aces, was smirking at her from across the room. She loathed him, but for the first time in a long time, she feared he was quite possibly losing his mind.

Emma lifted her head, "You can't be serious."

Shaw's proposal, loosely outlined, involved orchestrating Sinister's prison break and crowning him ruler of the Hellfire Club. Eliminating the position and power of King and Queen, and turning the Club over, in full to Sinister.

"He's the most powerful mutant in the world," Shaw replied. "We'd be lucky to have him."

"We'd be dead," Emma corrected sharply, her memories of Stryker's facility and Sinister's play at doctor fresh in her mind. She shuddered, "My answer is no."

Shaw released a low laugh, "That's why there's two of us, Frost."

"There's nothing you can say to make me change my mind," Emma snapped, lifting herself to her full height and squaring her shoulders. "He's a monster. I won't help you release him."

"We'll vote," Shaw replied, immune to her icy stare.

"We just did."

"A draw," he said, a slow smile tipping the corners of his mouth. "Then we take it to the circle."

"They'll never agree to this."

"Then what are you worried about?"

Emma turned away from his smirking face, furious with herself for rising to the bait.

"A vote, then."

"A vote," Shaw repeated.

As she stalked out of the room, the door slamming shut in her wake Shaw settled into the chair at his hip. Eyes on his lengthy proposal, he extended a hand towards the phone by his desk, Stryker would be looking for a status report, and no better time to explain why they'd have to do away with Emma Frost.

Shaw's fingers tapped Stryker's designated number as he mused, mind already spinning endless possibilities.