Little Bird
"Someone help!" a voice yelled from the main door.
The rec. room was empty in seconds, everyone filled into the main foyer instantly. Sam stood in the door way holding a beaten and bloody Rahne in his arms, the boy was also sporting some injuries of his own, but the younger girls were obviously more serious.
"What happened?" Scott asked as he moved towards the bloodied couple.
"We were out walking in the part, and then Rahne got all scared and started growling and said she smelled someone bad coming. Then this mob of people yelling down with mutants were attacking us," Sam spouted off quickly tightening his grip on the girl in his arms "we were separated and by the time I fought my way to her, she was on the ground and they were kicking her!" Sam cried in distress, his eyes were wild with fear and adrenaline.
"I'll go tell Hank," Jean whispered to Scott, quickly running towards the elevator.
"We have to get her to the med bay and quickly, Sam do you think you can carry her there? Or should I?" Scott asked the younger boy gripping his shoulder.
"I'll take her," the boy said gravely. Scott and Sam moved in the direction of the elevator following Jean .
"This world is messed up," Siren muttered glaring at the puddle of blood that was left behind by Rahne and Sam.
"Is Rahne gonna be ok?" Jamie asked kitty with tears in his eyes, glancing frantically in the direction his best friend had just been takin in.
"Hank will do everything he can Jamie, but Rahne looked like she was in pretty rough shape," The girl admitted looking down at the boy miserably.
"No, Rahne," the boy whimpered, sniffling loudly.
"Don't worry Jamie, if hank can't do anything then I will!" Siren told the boy with a determined look in her eye.
"What can ya do 'bout it Siren?" Rogue asked catching the girl by the arm.
"I will just powerfully suggest to Rahne's body that it's gonna heal itself," She grinned and tugged out of the girls grip, springing towards the elevator.
"Remy is going to get Soundwave chère, you keep the petits here," He whispered to the girl before dashing in the direction of the boy's wing.
"She's in critical condition, there is some very bad internal bleeding, many broken bones, not to mention the amount of blood she has lost. I don't know if she'll make it through surgery," Hank sighed looking down at the girl with tears forming in his eyes.
"No you have to try!" Sam yelled grabbing onto the blue man's hairy chest "you have to save her!"
"I don't know if I can Sam, it's just too dangerous to risk surgery and I don't think a blood transfusion will help if we can't do surgery to stop the internal bleeding," Hank explained placing a sympathetic hand on the boys shoulder.
"Surly there is something that can be done," the Professor prompted.
"Yes Charles, we can pray that her passing will be quick and as painless as possible," the man replied tears trickling down his face.
"Never send a beast to do a Siren's job," came a familiar voice, the four males and Jean turned to the door to see Siren holding a small stereo in her hands a small smile on her face.
"Siren, what do you mean?" the Professor asked as the girl plugged in the stereo.
"I have the power of suggestion right? Well I'll just suggest that Rahne's internal bleeding stop while Hank gives her a blood transfusion, and I'll suggest that her body cooperate while Hank does surgery on her so there will be no complications," the girl shrugged ginning a small smirk.
"That's to dangerous, we don't know if that will work and we don't know if you'll be able to contol your powers fo such a long period of time," the Professor looked conflicted about his words.
"Professor let her try," Scott told his mentor, Jean nodded from beside him.
"Please, if it can save Rahne," Sam begged moving over to the girl holding her hand. She looked so small to him, and pale, it was scary, the girl was always so passionate and firry that it lit her entire face, she looked nothing like that now.
"Alright Siren, but Jason should be here just as a precaution," the door opened to the med bay and Soundwave and Remy walked in.
"What about me?" Soundwave asked glancing over at the Professor confused.
"I'm gonna sing Rahne better so help me out," Siren said shortly, moving back over to the stereo and looking over at Hank, then at Soundwave.
"Ready?" She asked, the two males nodded, the Professor ushered Sam, Scott and Remy out of the room leaving himself when he heard the sound of music.
"My sacrifice…" the song faded from her lips as she collapsed into a waiting chair behind her.
"Almost done," Hank muttered, carefully securing the last stitch.
"So how is she?" Siren panted, whipping sweat from her face, Soundwave quickly handed her a glass of water and she thanked him.
"Well she's stable, she'll need to stay here and recover for a few weeks, but she'll going to be fine. If you hadn't been here Siren, I'm afraid to think of how this night could have ended," Hank grimaced as he removed the latex gloves from his fury hands.
"I'm just glad I've been getting the hang of my powers, if Soundwave wasn't here I would've screwed up a lot of times," Siren admitted waving away the blue mans praise.
"I'll go inform everyone," hank said as he left the room.
Siren had spent two hours singing while Rahne was given a blood transfusion and while Hank did surgery, to say she was tired would be an understatement, her voice was raw and she felt like she had just pulled five all nighters in a row. Sam entered the room silently and walked over to the girl lying in the hospital bed, he took her hand in his and bent to lightly kiss it.
"Siren?" he asked softly, not turning away from the girl.
"Yah Sam?" she answered just as quietly.
"Thank-you," the boy's voice was barely a whispered but it was filled with raw emotion, his shoulders started to shake as he tried to hold in the sobs of relief. She didn't answer, she just stood and grabbed Soundwave by the arm dragging the boy out of the room, leaving Sam to watch over Rahne.
"So on my second day in the mansion I learned how my powers work, spilled my guts in girl talk, was a main leader in an all girls pillow fight, froze everyone in the mansion, then unfroze them, blew up a bunch of machines in the danger room and saved someone's life…. Are things always this eventful?" Siren asked as she sat at the breakfast table the next morning.
"No," Rogue answered spooning some more cereal into her mouth "it was all to empress you," the girl grinned.
"Ah it was all a conspires to keep me here eh?" Siren laughed taking another large drink of her orange juice.
"Like you better believe it," Kitty laughed taking a large bite of her toast.
Rogue had been right, after that day, life at the mansion took on a monotone like pace. Siren would wake up, go down to the kitchen and have breakfast with Logan –whom didn't mind making breakfast for the girl- then the rest of the mansion would wake up and she would retreat to a quiet corner and wait for Soundwave. Once all the students had left she and Soundwave would head down to Hank's lab and Siren would practise control of her powers, using more complicated thoughts to accomplish a task. After that the two would head to the danger room for an hour session with Logan. After lunch –normally made by Remy- the three would do any odd jobs around the mansion to pass time, sometimes Siren would go and visit Rahne –whom was still in the med bay-, if there was nothing for them to do –and they had already visited Rahne- then they'd play some kind of video game or watch a movie –either a musical or an action movie depending on who got the remote first. As Siren's control on her powers grew she started to feel more and more restless about her day to day schedule at the mansion.
"I can't take it anymore!" Remy and Soundwave jumped, cards rained down on them due to the boys throwing them in the air at the sound of Siren's voice.
"What seems ta be da matta' petit Oiseau?" Remy asked, joining Soundwave in the game of 52 pickup.
"I can't do this anymore! If I have to do this same day over again I'm gonna scream!" she yelled in frustration. Logan ran into the room, claws at the ready, a snarl on his face preparing to fight off whatever was causing the girl to shout in distress. He looked around for the attacker but only saw Remy and Soundwave on the floor with playing cards in their hands staring at a ranting Siren.
"What's going on here?" the elder man asked with a gruff tone in his voice.
"I'm stuck in a time loop, that's what!" Siren groaned holding her head in her hands while she fell back onto one of the rec. room's couches.
"Come again?" the man asked confused, sheathing his claws and walking further into the room.
"She's got mansion fever," Soundwave explained picking himself up from the floor and sitting back down in his chair.
"It's the same thing every day, over and over again! I haven't left the mansion in a month, I hardly get the chance to hang out with the other girls because of my evening and weekend training times. I'm only allowed to sing when I'm training, you won't even let me have my music up to a volume where I can have any type of musical therapy! I feel like I'm suffocating!" she ranted jumping to her feet and pacing back and forth angrily "I already have good enough control over my powers that Soundwave only watches my meetings with Hank, I could be … I could…" she faltered and her bottom lip quivered, she hugged herself and sat back down on the couch
I could have gone back and saved them by now… I should have," She whispered.
"You know what you need kid?" Logan said abruptly walking over to face the girl.
"What?" she asked miserably.
"A night out, and a strong drink," the older man laughed.
"No change of getting a good drink here, this American stuff is all watered down, not like the stuff back home," the girl pulled a sour face.
"You've drank before little bird?" Logan asked in disbelief, Remy and Soundwave had returned to their game of black jack.
"I worked in the bar in my hometown, the jut box broke when I was 15 and I had a full time job from then on," the girl shrugged her shoulders "my brother was the sheriff of the town and the bartender was my high school principal, so needless to say the rules were bent for me, I got a drink every night."
"Well I think I know what you really need," Logan grinned, smirking over in Remy's direction as the younger man caught on to what the feral man was implying.
"What?" she asked again a little more curious.
"You need to get yourself a job at a bar or a club, it'll make you feel more at home here ,and it'll give you something to do," Logan explained, Soundwave chocked on his drink.
"Logan the girls like 19m she can't work at a bar!" Soundwave coughed, looking at the older male in horror.
"Actually… as of today I'm 21," Siren mussed looking over at the wall calendar and examining the date.
"Joyeux anniversaire petit Oiseau!" Remy grinned at the girl.
"Well I guess that solves that problem," Logan chuckled "though I'd suggest you wait on applying anywhere until Chuck can get all your papers straight," he warned, giving the girl a pointed look.
"I'll need my birth certificate my, wow, my expired drivers licence, and my medical care, my sin card… all that stuffs at home…" the girl spoke, clearly thinking out loud.
"Why don' you go talk to de Professor 'bout all dat petit Oiseau?" Remy prompted, getting a too innocent to be Remy look in his black and red eyes.
"Yeah," the girl muttered leaving the room, whispering under her breathe. In one fluid monition Remy pulled out a red and black cell phone and place it to his ear.
"'allo, mon chéri, non notin' da matta'" he said answering her question "Remy was just thinkin' you and de girls could take Siren out once you got home," he paused listening to the girl on the other end "well cher it be Siren's birthday, and Remy was thinkin' while you girls were out we could decorate de house and make a cake," he paused a chuckled "Remy promises he will make the cake Cherie, just make sure you girls manage to buy a god gift for the petit Oiseau," he smiled as he listened to his girlfriend talk "alright chère Remy will see you when he picks you up," he chuckled as she said her fair well "Je t'aime ma Cherie," he said quickly closing the phone before the girl cold respond.
"I hope you don't expect me to help decorate Gumbo," Logan growled from his place on the couch, carelessly flipping through channels.
"Mon dieu!" the boy yelled in distress "you monsieur Claws will be supervisor, so no unfortunate accident's occur," the Cajun male responded quickly, Soundwave snorted. Logan gave him a curious look but shrugged it off.
"I see well I can understand your need for outside activity, and you do need your legal papers in order as well," the Professor looked up from the papers on his desk taking in Siren's frazzled appearance "But I think it would be better if we were to wait till the weekend before we go to retrieve your possessions," a smile slipped onto Siren's lips.
"You mean I can go back?" She asked a hopeful look in her eyes.
"Yes but I think it would be best that if you were to wait a while longer before you go and visit your family, you're not quite ready yet to wake them all up, and it would be best if you didn't have that kind of temptation," her smile fell and she gave a solemn nod.
"Alright professor, thanks," she mumbled walking out of the man's office.
"Siren!" the girl jumped looking around franticly for some kind of attack, she noticed Kitty and Rogue running towards her and relaxed.
"Where's the fire?" she asked grinning at them.
"So like, what the hell!" Kitty said angrily, crossing her arms over her chest, Siren gave her a blank look, looking over at Rogue for an answer.
"Wah didn' ya tell us it was ya birthday girl?" Rogue asked an annoyed tone in her voice.
"I uh, kinda forgot myself," she gave them a sheepish look, a small blush appearing on her cheeks.
"Like how do you forget about your own birthday?" Kitty asked in disbelief her anger quickly dissipating.
"Um the last two years of my life were spent in the wilderness remember? No calendars out there," Siren shrugged, the girls nodded before their eyes lit up again.
"Ok so come on!" Kitty yelled grabbing the girls arm and dragging her down he hall.
"Where are you taking me?" Siren laughed looking over at Rogue for an explanation.
"Simple, birthday shopping!" Siren turned to see Jean and the other girls standing at the foot of the stairs.
"Rahne? Siren exclaimed seeing the girl for the first time in a month out of the med. bay "you're ok to be doing this?" she asked looking at the girl concerned.
"Dena worry 'bout me, I'm perfectly fine," the Scottish girl grinned "Ana not about to miss my friend's birthday!" she stated firmly, Siren smiled at the girl appreciatively.
"So what kinda shopping we doing?" Siren asked, grinning as she descended the stairs with Kitty and Rogue in tow.
"Oh the usual, dresses, hair, makeovers," Jubilee grinned winking at the older girl.
"Oh hair!" Siren cried "I've been wanting to get my hair cut for, forever!" the other girls laughed and started heading for the doors.
"To the X-van, away!" Tabitha yelled as the other girls followed her.
"Chère," Rogue turned to see her boyfriend standing in the shadows of the stairway.
"Rems? What are ya doin' over there?" the girl asked walking over to the boy.
"Stayin out of sight, Chère keep petit Oiseau out of the mansion until seven bien?" he told the girl pulling her into his arms.
"Ah can do that," she said softly as she inhaled the man's sent "Ah gatta go Rem's, see ya latta sugah," She whispered pulling out of his arms and racing out the doors to the waiting –and honking- X-van.
"The girls are back!"
Yah I'm ending it there ha ha ha!
Just so you know the song Siren was singing was
My sacrifice- By creed
so next up... the Birthday party.. and let me tell you... the music in these next few chapters is good stuff... well in my opinion!
like all parties there will be some drama, and there will be some couples getting together, and a sweet slow song... but I'm giving away all the good stuff so... you'll just have to Review in order to find out ;)
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