Interlude with the Team

by Starsinger

Let's see what the team is up to. Don't own them.

Scott sat on a rock and watched as Emma discussed terms with Danger. His fingers rubbed at his eyes. The hand jerked away from his eyes. This was a move he had not been able to make in, well, years. He was bone weary. Emma's offer to sacrifice herself in place of him didn't help any.

Emma and Danger turned away from each other, Emma stalked back to where Scott sat. "Well?" Scott asked.

"Danger will help us," she sighed, gracelessly plopping on the rock beside him. "I'll do what I can to give her Xavier."

"She won't kill him," Scott murmured. "The inhibition is as much about him as the rest of us." He sighed, "Any idea why Blindfold…"

Emma shook her head, "We just have to trust her. She's never been wrong. Although, I don't understand how Kitty's going to stop whatever Kruun's plans are from Earth…" Scott shook his head. Then they both got up and walked toward Danger's ship. They had a rendezvous to make.

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Hank and Brand emerged from their shelter. The snowy landscape was eerily silent. If anybody had known it at that moment, they were all thinking about the same thing, or people, two to be exact, "So, you're going on the word of a blind girl," Abigail muttered.

"We might not have if she had been wrong at least once," Hank replied. "But, she hasn't. I just wish we knew what we are up against. All this death and destruction," Hank sighed.

"After seeing the society, are you honestly surprised that Kruun would sacrifice a few people to kill us?" Brand scoffed after climbing another snowy hill that turned out to be a few Breakworlders.

Hank joined her and looked over the landscape, seeing a ship a few feet away, "No, not really, but we have a rendezvous to make," he finished as he vaulted to the top of the ship.

Brand sighed as he turned to look at her. Dare she tell him about her feelings? She still wasn't sure. She just hoped leaving Pryde behind was a good idea.

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Peter lay in bed staring at the canopied ceiling. The room Aghanne had given them was almost sumptuous compared to what they'd seen so far. He rolled over onto his side and looked at his sleeping companion. He remembered the night before when Kitty's warm body submitted to his passionate plea even though he put her through the floor. Tonight, though, his sleeping companion wasn't nearly as pliant. Lockheed peeled back an eyelid as he watched Peter watching him. "Remember why we left her behind," he grumped at the big man before resuming his nap.

Abigail Brand used the aircraft to crash into the mansion, and take them with her. Peter had turned around to dash back up the stairs and wake Kitty when he was stopped by Blindfold, "If you take her with you, she won't be coming back." Her simple statement stopped him cold. "If she remains, she will be able to save Earth without putting herself in more jeopardy."

More jeapordy? He thought. As sleep finally claimed him, his thoughts went to the woman who remained on Earth, and he was sure she thought he had abandoned her. Lockheed watched him sleep, knowing when he returned to Earth, he had some hard choices to make himself.

On Earth, a young woman rolled over in another person's bed, and murmured his name.