All cats are gray in the dark
by ladymaja
First of all I'd like to tell you that english is not my mother-language. I only started to learn it in high school. So if I make some mistakes, spell wrong, or mix british english with american, please, just let it go. Thanks.
Summary: Kitty (22 yo) is spending her summer vacation in Canada at Logan's cottage when suddenly she gets attacked and captured. In order to escape she's gonna need to take a helping hand from an old enemy.
Chapter One: Vacation goes wrong
Kitty's watching the news on the small TV she brought from the institute. Logan doesn't have any TV at his cottage, he always comes here to get some solitude. Kitty doesn't need that much solitude so she borrowed Remy's TV. Though she's in the middle of nowhere somehow she managed to find a channel. The language is French, but she doesn't really mind that.
She's just lying on the sofa, doing nothing.
Kitty's a peoples' person but she spent the whole year in the crowded institute and as an only child she's not used to that. That's why Logan offered her his cottage. He wouldn't lend his precious temple of solitude to anyone, but Kitty has always been kind of his favorite. Like a little sister who somehow managed to quell the beasty side of him just by her nature. He even took her with him on his lonely trips once or twice.
She's more relaxed than ever. The air's fresh with no smog at all, and no annoying sounds of cars or alarms. Peace and quiet.
Probably that's why she didn't notice them silently surrounding the cottage.
They're wearing some kind of military uniform.
One of them crashes the door. Kitty's hearth almost jumps out. She hops up and phases immediately as she sees the gun in his hand. But it's too late. She feels a little pain in her shoulder. It takes several seconds till she notices the dart in it. She feels dizzy and collapses. The last thing she remembers is a male voice saying "It's a girl." Then everything turns black.
Suddenly a hit on her head wakes her. She doesn't open her eyes, and simulates sleep as Logan taught her. They're moving. She's lying on her back on a hard desk or something so it must be a van.
The fact that she's awake, means either her capturers messed it up by using expired sedative or she didn't phase completely late and only a part of the poison got in her system. Must be the latter cause the soldiers seemed to be pros. She's tied up.
Meaning: they don't know about her powers and they think she's still knocked out.
They are carrying her on a rolling desk. On her way in she counted three metal doors. Not a problem to someone who can go through walls. She could easily escape but she's curious. What if they've captured other innocent mutants? She decides to explore the place.
When they get through the forth door she hears electric buzzing.
"Put her in an electric cell until we identify her powers!" - she hears. This isn't funny anymore. She can't phase through an electric wall.
Her eyes pop up and she kicks the soldier carrying her unconscious. She quickly looks around. Two more soldier pointing guns at her and shoot. This time she phases in time, the darts hit the wall. She jumps off the rolling table and kicks the two men on the face with one kick. One of them passes out on the spot. The other one's so surprised he forgets to defend himself. She grabs his hair and hits his head to the wall.
She looks around again and smiles. Three beweaponed men knocked out in less then 10 seconds. . . Logan would be proud.
Her head gets pulled back in reality as the alarms start to ring. "Oh crap! Security cams!" - she didn't notice them before.
She decides she won't wait for the enemy to get here and starts to run. She sees some electric cells but they're all empty. No other mutant prisoners.
Suddenly the door in front of her opens and a bunch on soldiers appear. She turns around but they are behind her too now. They shoot at her. This time they're using real bullets.
Not a challenge for the Shadowcat! The bullets go through her and hit the ones standing behind her.
She decides to go sideways. She runs through the wall and finds more soldiers on the other side. They're everywhere! One of them is speaking on a walkie-talkie "She can go through walls!".
She keeps running phased looking at that guy. Not forward.
Suddenly she feels a hit in her head. Pain runs through her body and she falls on the ground. For a minute she doesn't know what's going on.
"She hit an electric cell wall! She can't go through it! Electrificate the walls!" - she hears the man with walkie-talkie.
"Oh shit!" - she mutters. More and more soldiers are coming. She takes the risk and jumps through the wall. She barely manages to get through before the wall gets charged.
She looks around. This room is filled with cages with magnetic locks and has only one exit. At first sight she doesn't sees anyone in them. The door opens and six soldiers enter the room pointing guns at her. There are probably more of them on the hallway.
"Game's over little girl!" - says one of them.
She's captured. The men are getting closer to her slowly and carefully. They still keep clear of her. She backs and reaches the wall when she hears a deep, growly chuckle. She turns her head and stifles a shriek.
In the very last cell she sees a familiar face. But this isn't the kind of familiar face that she's glad to see. This is one of the familiar faces that you never hope to see. The one that scares you more than the army right in front of you pointing guns at you. That's exactly how Kitty feels now starring at the huge, husky man behind the bars.
He smiles, what gives her a good look at his sharp fangs.
"Sabretooth." - she whispers. - Victor Creed his real name is. She only met him once when he attacked Logan in New Mexico. The fight ended with Logan throwing Sabretooth out of the window from the sixth floor. After that, Logan refused to take Kitty with him on his trips for more than a half year.
Kitty knows that Sabretooth's a dangerous murderer who kills for money. . . and fun.
"Don't move!" - yells a soldier, which wakes her from the shock. Sabretooth is not the problem right now. She's surrounded. They still can't shoot or touch her. For now. She can't stay phased forever and she's locked in the building. She's a pretty good fighter but she can't beat down a whole army. . . Not alone.
She freezes for a second, then suddenly a crazy idea comes into her mind. She takes a deep breath and looks into Creed's eyes. They are starring at each other for a second. None of them says a word or is a telepath but they are making a conversation. He nods and his grin gets wider.
Kitty suddenly steps to the cage and phases her hand into the magnetic lock. It sparks as it discharges before the soldiers can make a move. The bars disappear in the wall.
The soldiers freeze because of the sudden surprise and fear that hit them when Creed steps out of his cell with and ice cold grin on his face.