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Future's Kiss
The world had changed in the last fifteen years. She remembered when it was a good place to live and when mutants may have been hated but they hadn't been hunted to near extinction. Jubilee stood on the doorsteps of what was her institute now since the professor had died fifteen years ago. When he had died with most of the X-Men that day the world was thrown into chaos as the U.S. government teamed with anyone they could in order to bring about the destruction of mutantkind.
There had been so many deaths during the next ten years that the time after Xavier and the X-Men had come to be known as the cleansing. During those years mutants were hunted like animals and killed much like a animal was just for the sheer sport of it for most people. Some mutants had escaped and hidden their powers and others had survived because during that time their powers hadn't manifested.
Jubilee had survived those ten years and afterwards the government realized what it had become and had done away with most of it's senators and other government officials because they had been bloodthirsty people who had been no better than Hitler as many of them had seen it. Jubilee shook her head sadly as she walked into the school. It seemed that Magneto had been right all along and the war had come and mutants had lost.
Jubilee though had clung to the hope that mutants and humans could coexist it was what had made her rebuild the destroyed mansion. She had spent hundreds of thousands to rebuild the mansion money that she had won in Vegas when she had turned twenty-one and had went there to celebrate. There though she even saw mutants beat to death right out in the wide open on the streets and it had made her sick. She had taken the money that she had won and founded the school she now stood in. She founded it in remembrance to Xavier and the X-Men who had a dream that she hoped to one day see fulfilled.
She had a couple of teachers with her who had been old members of the team such as Storm, Beast, Kitty, and even Cannonball had come to help her out. He hadn't been a member for long but he had come anyway. There were just a few other members of the X-Men who were still alive and Jubilee was determined to find them with the help of Cerebra who was Cerebro's sister computer since he had been demolished along with the original mansion.
Jubilee had been out walking the woods that had been the haunt of Wolverine when she had gotten word from one of her students, Jenna the local telepath, that Cerebra had found Rogue. Jubilee had been excited since Rogue had been one of the toughest of the X-Men and she would be a great help in teaching the fighting arts to the students which they needed to know if they were ever going to be the heroes that the original team was.
Storm could teach but she was starting to get old and she was slowing down though her mastery of the elements was a great as ever if not more so. She was still beautiful though even to many of the younger male students who knew that they couldn't have Jubilee or Kitty. She smiled wondering if she had ever been like that with any of the X-Men when she had first arrived or if she had been like she thought that she was a hard worker and one who had wanted so bad to be a X-Man.
She had never dreamed that when she finally was a X-Man it would be because they were all dead. She missed them all so much because they were her family. She had went out to the graves where Cyclops, Jean, Xavier and Iceman were buried. She had been just sitting there when she had gotten the mental summons.
She now stood in the conference room and looked around at those gathered. There was Beast and Storm along with Kitty. Cannonball was away on business hoping to recruit another young mutant so the only others there were her own new team. There was Jenna and Jake along with Ashley and David. Two others weren't there but that was because they had studies that they were behind on and they needed to finish them. It was a school after all first and foremost.
"Well students it seems that we have found one more of the old group. I will be leaving shortly to see if she will return and join us. I hope that she does for all our sakes since we need her to help teach us fighting," Jubilee said. She knew it sounded like she was a general but she couldn't help it. They needed to know how to defend themselves because she wouldn't allow them to just be killed like so many were.
"Go child we can look after the school while you are gone. Beast and I may be getting old but we can still fight as can Kitty. Go and get Rogue it would be good to see her again," Storm said gently from her place at the table next to Beast who was looking more like his namesake than ever. He was still covered in blue fur but he had mutated again and now he looked even more feline in the face but had longer fangs that protruded from his mouth slightly.
"Miss Jubilee there is a intruder on the grounds," Jenna said just before the alarms went off in the room to say that indeed there was a intruder.
"On the screen please Cerebra," Jubilee said out loud and on the screen popped an image of the outside lawn. Standing there was a man dressed all in black with a gun held at his side. He wore a mask and the gun looked a little different like it was a new model or something.
"Who is that," David asked looking at the man.
"That would be one of the mutant hunters that are still active today I would guess. It would seem that he has yet to give up on his quest but he looks ill prepared to deal with us Jubilee," Beast said as he held one of his hands up and gestured at the man.
"It would seem so," Jubilee said as she started for the door to go deal with the man. She wouldn't let any of her students deal with him since none of them had any combat experience.
"Wait Jubilee and watch someone else is coming into the screen," Kitty said to Jubilee.
"Cerebra enhance image twofold," Kitty said and the image enlarged and then Jubilee could see it. Walking up the road not too far behind the man came a woman dressed in a tight fitting dress that was red. Her red hair complimented the dress but what set her apart from other people was the white skunk streak down the center of her hair. The wind caught her hair and blew it back from her face and Jubilee smiled happily because it was Rogue.
Then as they watched Rogue changed shape into a small machine that looked more like a robot than a man or woman. It walked up to the man and said in a monotone voice, "They are here but my disguise didn't draw them out."
"That is all right I will just go in through the front door then," the man said as he started for the door. Kitty and Jubilee headed for the same door though it was going to take them a little while to get there. That was why they didn't see a familiar face show up on the screen.
Storm and Beast couldn't believe it but as they watched a man with red eyes and wearing a brown duster showed up with a metal staff in his hands. He walked right up to the two of them and said, "Excuse me but is dat de place where you are going."
The man turned and said, "Yeah why you want to help off some damn mutants."
"No I am here to stop you. I am Remy Lebeau and I don think that is a nice thing that you are doing," Gambit said as his staff whistled through the air and connected with the gun the man was holding. The gun flew from his hands and landed in the grass. The small robot rushed forward on it's wheeled legs and nearly ran into Gambit though he spun out of the way at the last second and just barely ducked a punch thrown by the man.
Remy brought his staff around as he stood up and brought it down with a loud crack on the robot. It's legs went out from underneath it and it just lay there as Gambit spun away from a kick from the man. Remy laughed at the man as he readied his staff.
The man charged and Remy thrust forward with his staff. The man was ready though and grabbed it as he swayed to the side. He pulled hard and Remy was pulled forward. The man brought his fist forward and it connected with Gambit's jaw which sent him reeling.
Gambit recovered himself just as the door opened and Kitty jumped out and attacked the man from behind. The man saw her at the last second and got out of the way of her slash. Gambit noticed that she still had Wolverine's old claw on her wrist and was still using it like the weapon it was.
"I will be back one day mutants," the man said as he turned to run but he didn't move.
"I don't think so," said a unfamiliar female voice from the door. When Gambit looked he saw a beautiful young woman standing framed by the doorway. She was tall standing six foot tall with long blonde hair and blue eyes that were the color of the ocean. He was impressed with her looks but more so by the command in her voice.
"What have you done to me," the man growled.
"I have taken away your ability to move yourself through your own will. You will stand there until I decided to let you go," the girl said.
"Let him go for a second now Jenna. There is no way he can get away now," Jubilee said and she saw him stumble forward as Jenna's hold on him was released.
"You are a fool girl I will kill all of you when I get the chance. I will not be your prisoner for long that I can promise you," he hissed at them.
"Don't worry you won't be our prisoner at all. Jenna find all the memories in his mind that pertain to this place and anything else about this place and remove them please," Jubilee said sweetly and smiled at the man.
He looked scared of that and turned to run but Remy tripped him with his staff. "Alright Jubilee," Jenna replied and her eyes got a glazed over look as she left her body.
"Why are you doing that to him," Kitty asked as the man stopped struggling when Jenna took over his body.
"Because I can't kill him and we can't keep him either. Remember what happened with Sabretooth all those years ago when we thought that we could change him. No this is the best and most humane way to make sure he doesn't return and doesn't tell anyone else that this is more than a special school for extremely bright kids," Jubilee said in answer to Kitty.
They all stood around for about five minutes when Jenna blinked her eyes and stepped down next to them. The man stood up slowly and looked around confusion evident in his eyes and movements. "Where am I and why am I here. You aren't mutants that much is certain. I must be at someone's house." The man reasoned with himself.
"Yes you stumbled here from the woods. I don't know where you live but we helped you and if you want you may stay here for awhile," Jubilee said.
"No I can't I must be going. There are mutants that need to be hunted down though now days there are fewer and fewer of them. If you will all excuse me I will leave you good people be," he said as he headed down the road and jumped into his car that he had parked a ways off from the mansion.
That was when Gambit laughed and looked around at them. "That was a good trick."
"Gambit it is good to see you again," Jubilee said as she threw her arms around him and gave him a hug as did Kitty. "Why are you here anyway."
"You sent me a letter asking me here chere. Even though Gambit no longer have his powers I can still help you out I tink," Gambit said as his eyes danced with mischief like they always had.
"I am glad that you are here and since you are let me introduce you to our new students. This is Jenna the one that you noticed right away since your eye is so keen for beauty," Kitty said smiling at Gambit's grin her direction. "David is standing there in the doorway yet and he is one of our newer additions."
"Nice to meet both of you," Gambit said as he headed to the door. "Let's go in since there is no more fun out here. I need something to eat."
Kitty rolled her eyes and Jubilee smiled as they followed him inside with Jenna and David in front of them. Jubilee followed Gambit while Kitty took Jenna and David with her so that she could fill Storm and Beast in on what happened and let them know that Remy was here.
* * * * *
"The new group of X-Men knows that we exist now thanks to that plundering fool. At least they don't know that we will kill them all shortly," Said one man with a face covering. They were created by the government and were nothing but killers plain and simple. They had been created to root out the mutant race and exterminate them. They had done a good job until the plug had been pulled.
They had been faster and stronger than the average mutant and some of them even had powers as well. They were human though with a bit of mutant blood thrown in for good measure so as to give them the powers needed to wipe out mutantkind. They had a Sentinel with them that had been their greatest weapon. He had wiped out the X-Men thanks to his adamantium laced outer body. It was great since he was nearly unstoppable. He had went rogue though and now that damn Jubilee knew about him and about other things that were happening and the conclave didn't like it. They were down to only four now with the Sentinel and that just wasn't the numbers that they liked though shortly they would make their move on the new X-Men.
* * * * *
Gambit had been introduced to the rest of the team and had found out that they were all nothing more than children the oldest only being twenty. Jubilee was working to turn them into a new team of heroes that the world needed whether it knew it or not. Gambit was impressed with Jubilee and he was glad that he had come back from his past yet again to once again be an X-Man.
He was sitting in a room with Jubilee and Kitty and they were explaining to him why they needed to find Rogue. She was one of the only ones left from the original team besides himself and Psylocke. They wanted to find Betsy as well since she knew how to fight so well hand to hand.
"I am going to California and I am hoping to convince Rogue to join us again Gambit and I think that if you came with me then I would have a better chance," Jubilee explained to him but he was shaking his head before she even finished.
"If I went she would likely tell you that she wouldn't join because I was here chere. Rogue and I had a falling out a long time ago and I don't think that she has ever forgiven me," Gambit said as he took a drink from the ice cold water that was in front of him. He remembered when Iceman would always keep everyone's drink cold with no amount of effort but he was gone now and the X-Men had suffered so much in the last years.
"Then what you are saying is that I will have to do this on my own," Jubilee stated as a matter of fact and not a question.
"That's right chere I am sorry," Gambit replied with a sad look on his face as he batted his eyes at her.
Jubilee threw up her hands but smiled at Gambit as she said, "I guess I might as well take off. At least I didn't have to buy a new Blackbird. I will take that and if any of the students want to come with me then I shall let them. I have to pack and then I am on my way," Jubilee said as she stood up and left the table.
Gambit waited until she was gone and then he turned to Kitty and said, "She is the leader now. How did that happen."
"She rebuilt everything that was the X-Men. She said that she owed it to the man who had taken her in and made her part of a family. Jubilee said that we all owed it to the professor to keep his dream alive as well as owing it to all of the other X-Men and I believe her. We still have something to offer the world even if they still hate us. One day that may change but who knows. All I know is that the world is in serious need of heroes now that most of them were killed off. Too many powerful evil people have sprung up Gambit and there is no one right now that is out there to oppose them," Kitty said as she left the room.
Gambit actually believed her and he wanted to be a part of the team again. His life had little meaning after the X-Men had all been killed. He had never been there when they had needed him and it was something that he had to live with. He wanted more than anything to be able to help this new team so that they didn't fall like his old family had. He wished even now that he had been with the X-Men when they had fallen so that he didn't have to live with the pain of not having them around.
He stood up and left the room as well. He had to unpack what few things he had brought with him. He loved Jubilee and Kitty like sisters and he owed it to them to help teach these new mutants even though he had lost his powers. That was something that he had learned to live without though.
He had been captured by a group of scientists and they had thought they had figured out how to remove the powers of a mutant and make them human again. Well they had found out and they had done it to Gambit first. They had stolen his power and had put it into one of them. The fool though didn't have Gambit's knowledge and had killed himself and all of his colleges when he had charged a rather large desk with enough energy to kill a small army. Gambit had been in his cell and had been alright even thought he blast had knocked a hole in the wall and allowed him to escape. There had always been an emptiness inside him since that day and he knew that it would never be filled though he hoped that he would one day find a woman who would love him and he hoped that would fill part of the void left in him from the loss of his power.
* * * * *
Jubilee had her bags and was standing outside the blackbird when Jenna, Jake, and Ashely showed up with their bags. They were the three students who had been with her the longest. That and they were the three that were the farthest along in their studies. Jubilee knew that they had been wanting to meet the remaining X-Men because for some reason they looked up to them like they were heroes or something and at first Jubilee had had a hard time understanding that. They had never been considered heroes and yet these kids treated them like heroes and looked up to them. It was a good feeling and Jubilee was glad that they had decided to come with her so that they could meet Rogue who was a major member of the team or at least Jubilee had always thought that she was.
"All aboard who getting aboard. We head out right now," Jubilee called as she headed up into the blackbird and took her seat at the controls. She heard the others follow her and she had to smile. It was the first time that any of them had been in the blackbird and they would be looking around.
"Hey Jubilee how about letting me drive this thing," Jake said as he sat down in the copilot seat.
Jubilee gave him a sidelong glance that said volumes about what she thought of that and he just grinned at her. Jubilee rolled her eyes and thought there were so few times that the X-Men had ever had cause for humor. Most of their time was taken up with saving the world and other such things.
"I'll think about it Jake how about that," Jubilee said and then she looked over her shoulder. "Get strapped in or else you might regret it. This ain't no car."
Jubilee then opened the hanger doors and off they went. She pushed the blackbird hard since she wanted to make to LA shortly. They flew for only about five hours before they made it there. Jubilee landed the Blackbird outside the city in a grove of trees where no one would look for it. She then put on the cloaking device and it looked like just a large mound of dirt as she and her companions disembarked from the Blackbird.
"Well that is handy isn't it," Ashley commented as she saw the mound of dirt that was their ride home.
"Hey wouldn't it be great to fly that thing while it looked like that. People would freak out," Jake said smiling broadly and Ashley and Jenna rolled their eyes at him and he shrugged his shoulders at them. "What?"
"You can be such a child at times," Jenna said with a small smile.
"You are one to talk mind havoc wench. Who was the one who started the pillow fight not all that long ago huh," Jake said and then took a step back at the alarming shade of red that Jenna had turned.
"Call me wench will you. You can't even light a fire with your power you pathetic peon of a man," Jenna hissed at him. Jake just stuck his tongue out at her and cocked his head to the side.
"Calm down both of you. We are here for a reason not for your little argument. You can do that later for all I care," Jubilee said to them but smiled to lessen the hurt of what she said.
"All right let's go," Ashley said as she hiked her backpack a little higher on her shoulder.
* * * * *
Rogue was coming out of the courthouse where she had just won another case. She smiled to herself thinking that it was nice being able to be out in public without anyone knowing that she was a mutant. She was wearing a knee-length skirt of dark blue with a matching top that had a white shirt underneath. It was more of a suit but that was besides the point. Rogue no longer had to worry about touching someone.
Rogue could touch people now it had taken a long while but eventually her power had mutated a third time and that last mutation had been the ability to control her power. It was great she thought since she could now know the touch of a man and of anyone else that she loved. She could hug people and kiss them if she wanted without having to worry about absorbing their lives into her.
When the rest of the X-Men team had disbanded more than eight years ago she had left and because a lawyer. She had become in that time on eof the top lawyers in LA. She was happy with her life but she truly missed the rest of her friends and family the X-Men.
Rogue wanted nothing more than to meet them for old times sake and talk about old times and find out what they had been up to in the years since she had been gone. Rogue wanted to know about them all and mostly she wanted to join the team again. She missed it because it had been the only stable thing in her life. She wanted to be a part of something good again because she was tired of trying to do the good thing and put criminals away using the law.
She started down the stairs to her car when she looked down there and saw four people standing near her car. She loved her car since it was a 1967 Shelby Mustang GT 500. It was her baby and she had paid a pretty price for it and she wouldn't be having any kids messing around by it.
As she neared the group of people she saw that one of them wore a very familiar yellow long coat with sunglasses on her head. She was still short standing five foot six inches tall with her long dark hair. Her asian features had made her look even more beautiful as she had gotten older and now she was a true beauty and Rogue wondered if she was married. Rogue couldn't believe who was standing next to her car. She had been hoping to see the old team and here was one of them right now. Here was Jubilee the kid that had joined the X-Men at such a young age.
Rogue walked right up to her and gave her a hug and a kiss on the cheek. When she kissed Jubilee on the cheek she felt her stiffen because Rogue knew she had been expecting her powers to be taken and her memories but they weren't and Rogue could tell by the look on Jubilee's face that it had surprised her.
"Jubilee I can't believe it is you. What are you doing out here and what have you been up to," Rouge exclaimed happily as she looked at Jubilee more closely.
"It is nice to see you too Rogue and I can see that you have learned a few things since the last time that we met," Jubilee said. That wasn't the only thing that Jubilee noted though about her old friend who she had considered an older more wiser sister. She had first noticed that Rogue hadn't aged a bit in the ten years since she had seen her last. That was a product of Wolverine's healing factor Jubilee guessed.
Rogue shrugged her shoulders and smiled. "Ah sugah I have learned how to control mah powers if that is what ya are getting at," Roge said still smiling.
"Well that and I can see that you haven't aged a bit. But you asked what I was doing out here and in order to answer that I need to introduce you to these people with me. The girl with the blonde hair on my left is Jenna. Next to her is Ashley and that there is Jake." Here Jubilee paused and looked around to make sure no one was around before she continued, "They are mutants just like you and me."
"Oh," Rogue said raising an eyebrow. "Hop on in mah car here and we can go someplace to talk without so many people around."
They all hoped in the car and Rogue jumped into the driver's side and off they raced. They drove to a house on the outskirts of town and while they drove Jubilee filled Rogue in on what was going on. "I am trying to find all of the old members because I need them to help me train the new students. You see I feel that the world needs heroes because there are starting to be too many supervillians again Rogue. They are all over again and there is no one out there to oppose them. I have been getting letters from the mutants slayers that they have targeted me and my students and I can't let them get us. I need the old team back and that is why I have come here asking you to join me again and once again be a part of the X-Men."
"Ya are saying that the world needs us again but they will just hate us like they always have sugah. I don't know if ah can take that again," Rogue said to Jubilee who looked at Rogue with pleading in her eyes.
"Rogue we need you. I already have Kitty, Storm, Beast, and Gambit but I need you and Betsy and that will be everyone that is still alive I think," Jubilee said hoping that would get her to join.
"Ya already have the others. Even Gambit that selfish Cajun has joined up with ya again. Well I think that perhaps I may have to join with ya after all sugah," Rogue said. She hadn't been going to until she had been told that Gambit and the others were already there. What had changed her mind was that the world truly needed heroes and since they had killed all of the others that left it up to the X-Men to be ressurected and to take on the mantle that they had once worn. It would be great to wear the team colors again Rogue thought as they pulled up outside her house.
"Will you really miss Rogue," Ashley exclaimed.
"Ok if ah am going to join up there will be some ground rules. Don't call me miss Rogue for one sugah and another is that Jake needs to stop drooling all over mah car," Rogue said with a smile as Jake shut his mouth with an audible snap. He had been drooling and it was from the way Rogue looked. He had never seen a woman so beautiful in his life except for Kitty and Jubilee. Well maybe Jenna but she was so mean that she didn't count on his list.
"Rogue thank you so much. I thought that it would be hard to convince you. I was ready with a big whole speech of why you should join us and here I didn't need it. Thank you truly," Jubilee said with a huge smile on her face. She had them all now except for Besty and she would get her in time unless Kitty already found her while she was out here.
"Ya all will need to stay for a couple of days while I quit mah job ok. I need to gather a few things and make it look like I am going on a permanent vacation. Then I will be ready to go," Rogue said.
They all went into the house that was more of a mansion than a house and the first thing that Jake and the other two girls did was look for the kitchen since they were hungry. After that they each had a sandwich and Rogue couldn't help but smile as they sat down on the couch in front of the T.V.
"What do you think is on," Jake asked just before he took a bite of his ham sandwich with chips on it that he had crushed to make a layer of them. He had also added some cheese and mayo.
"I don't know this is LA not Westchester," Ashley said.
"Well how about we find out if it is all right with Rogue," Jenna said as she looked at Rogue inquiringly.
"Go ahead but no Playboy channel all right," Rogue said looking at Jake with a hard look. He about choked on his sandwich when he heard Playboy channel. That would be great he thought but then he thought about it a bit more. There were too many women there and he was seriously outnumbered. If he wanted to stay a man perhaps it would be better to let them see what was on.
"I wasn't thinking about no Playboy channel. I was thinking more along the lines of the Romance channel," Jake said with a small smile.
"Yeah right you don't like a movie unless there is more blood in it than you can shake a stick at," Ashley said sweetly.
"Shut up I like other movies," Jake said defensively.
"No you don't. We know that you are down watching TV late. In particular the channel Cinemax springs up in your mind quite a bit," Jenna said with a wink.
"What," he exclaimed.
"That's right. I think that your hand gets quite the work out doesn't it little man," Jenna said innocently.
"Why that is just wrong to say something like that. I swear there is nothing ladylike about you," Jake said unable to come up with a better comeback.
"Oh that hurt I think that it took me in the heart. No wait that went a little wide you need better aim," Jenna said clutching at her heart as if he had shot her there.
"Bite me bitch," Jake growled.
"Stop it children," Jubilee said sternly though she was having a hard time keeping a straight face.
"Are they always like this," Rogue asked raising an eyebrow.
"Most times yeah," Jubilee said a smile now on her face at the look Rogue gave her. It was a look that said You want me to train these whelps. They are nothing more than children. Why we wouldn't have even made it to the X-Men had we acted like that.
"Give me the mote damnit," Ashley said as she snatched it away from Jake who just looked at his hand like he had lost a great prize. He got a forlorn look on his face and he sat back in the chair and crossed his arms with a pout. Rogue rolled her eyes as they turned the TV on.
"Jubilee what you failed to mention one of the old team when you were naming those off that you are trying to get to join with you," Rogue said as they sat engrossed in some horror movie about aliens named the Brood that came to earth hoping to take it over by infecting human people. Little did they know but the Brood was real and Rogue along with Jubilee had fought them before.
"Who is that Rogue," Jubilee asked as she looked from the TV screen memories plain on her face of fighting those creatures.
"Logan you know Wolverine," Rogue said and she could see the tears glisten in Jubilee's eyes. She knew that Logan had been more to Jubilee than just a friend and father figure to her. He had been a whole lot of other things to her as well not the least of which was her protector.
"I don't think he is alive. I haven't heard anything from him," Jubilee said as the tears fell silently down her cheeks.
Rogue moved closer to Jubilee and put an arm around her. "He is alive that I can tell you. I saw him once here in LA and he was the bodyguard of some singer woman who was also a model. I have never seen him like that though Jubilee I think that he wishes that he was dead."
"Really you saw him. He is alive. If that is true then I must find him and talk to him at least," Jubilee said as the kids flipped through the channels as a commercial came on. They came to the news channel and saw that there had been a fire downtown and a small girl had been saved by a man wearing a yellow skin tight suit. As they watched they saw a very familiar man walk into the camera range and then out again. He was short with a muscular figure and hair that was spikey on two sides as it curved upward. He had a cigar in his mouth as well. Jubilee inhaled deeply and whispered, "Wolvie."
* * * * *
Standing on the rooftop of the hotel was a small man who tossed his cigar over the side. He decided at that moment that he would quit since it had never killed him like he had at one time hoped that it would. He rubbed the backs of his hands and thought to himself that he was tired of living. How he wished that death would come and claim him so that he could be with the family that he had failed. How he wished that he had been able to protect them like he had wanted to.
Logan looked up at the stars and a single tear slid down his face. "I miss you all," he whispered to the night hoping that his words would be heard by them and knowing that they wouldn't.
He wondered if there was an afterlife and he hoped that there was for his friends and family's sake. They had been the greatest of people and they deserved a happy afterlife no matter what the humans said about them. Logan knew the truth more than anyone and he knew that they had died for no other reason than that they were different.
Logan was a tortured soul just waiting for the time to come when he would die. His life was nothing but a shadow of what it used to be. He had taken to being a bodyguard for a girl who had no need for one. She was a famous singer and he had saved her life on two occasions though he would have rather let her die. It would have been just he thought since his family had been murdered by humans.
"One day I will know peace or not. It depends on how I am judged," the man known to his friends and enemies alike as Wolverine said as he turned his back on the stars and moon and walked back into the hotel to once again take on the mantle of being a bodyguard for a girl that he hated to admit he was starting to care for like he had once cared for Jubilee in another life and another time.
