The Change

By: drthmik

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All Marvel characters are © Marvel, I make no money off of them, please don't sue, I have no money.

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Part: 2 Awakenings

Jubilee's eyes slowly blinked open. Sunlight was streaming in the window and right on her face. "God Damnit. Who opened my curtains?" Jubilee muttered as she tried to roll over and cover her head with the sheet.

There was no sheet

She wasn't in bed.

Her eyes snapped open and again she was fully awake. Gasping in horror as she remembered the night before, she scrambled out of the huge pool of her own sticky drying blood.

"Oh god, oh god, oh god." She gasped starting to hyperventilate. "Get control of yourself Lee! Those SHIELD Doctors said no excitement or stress for the next month." She touched the bandage under her blood soaked shirt.

No pain

Tearing off the soiled garment she pulled off the bandage and looked at where her still healing chest should have been.

Unmarred skin

Just a week ago a three inch diameter metal spike had been driven into her chest just over her right breast. It had taken shield's best doctors a week to put her back together again. They had cloned some of her ribs and her right lung and had rebuilt her crushed chest using the latest technology that had probably cost them millions to use on her. But even with their very best work it would have still taken another month to heal completely.

And there would be a scar. A big one.

Now she looked like nothing had happened to her. Every wound was gone as if it had never been. Here eyes snapped to her wrists where the nail scars were still there. A look at her bare stomach revealed the Electrical burn scars from Bastion's tender ministrations. 'So' she thought, 'old scars are too late for whatever it was to heal.' This meant that the scars criss-crossing her back from the beating they had given her before her crucifixion and the ones on her feet would still be there too.

She sighed.

"Gotta find out what's going on."

She looked for her phone.

"Of course, it's in the big pool of blood on the floor. Where else would it be?"

She reached out and grabbed the phone and cleaned off the blood and looked at the display.

One message

She called her voice mail

"Jubilee, we got your message and we'll pass it on to Logan next time we speak with him. Also, remember that the emergency line is for emergencies only and is NOT to be used as a messenger service."

Jubilee blinked at the phone in her hands before hitting the key to delete the message.

"Scott is such an ASS!" she said as she entered the number for the main line.

Not the End