Title: Preparations
Fandom: X-Men Universe comics / movies
Pairing: Jean G./Emma F.
Rating: PG-13 / R
Notes: This chapter was a challenge for me as I'm anxious for the training sessions to start, and the building of the Danger Room is a story within itself. Its super condensed, but I didn't want it to take up too many chapters. Maybe I'll write another chapter to fill in the gaps. I've read of few fictions out here that are 100s of chapters long, and while my story can TBC til the end of time, I'm taking it one day at a time.
Feel free to let me know your thoughts. I'm still new to all of this and won't frown on seasoned advice.
Disclaimer: I don't own these characters, but I do love them.
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After the meeting, everyone goes off on their own to prepare for the upcoming training and battle.
Institute Lake
Logan and Ororo sit at the lake, looking at the reflection of the trees in the water. Logan is nervous, but given the information they all just received a little while ago, it's now or never. He looks at Storms beautiful profile as she looks out onto the lake. He opens his mouth to speak, then closes it looking down at his boots.
"Speak your heart, Logan." Ororo's gentle voice soothing his quickly beating heart as he looks up from his boots, into her soft azure blue eyes. She places her hand on top of his and smiles. He looks down at their hands and takes a deep breath before looking back up into her eyes.
"Yeah, uuh, so you're a beautiful woman and uhh, I really admire how strong ya are. You uuh, do really good with the kids too. And well when I was having a hard time a couple years ago, you ya know, you really saved me. I mean you're always there to help me, and uuh you're really beautiful and uh…"
Storm interrupts him smiling softly. "You said that already."
He's looking down at his boots again. "Huh, what, yeah uum…" He looks back up and into her eyes. He leans forward and kisses her. She places her hand on his chest as he pulls back from the kiss. "So yeah uuh, I was wonderin, if we survive all this, I mean, I'm a stand-up guy, I know how to take care of home and uhh, I'd like to be there for you."
Ororo smiles and giggles a bit. "Logan, are you asking me out on a date?" She smiles at him as he puts his head down shyly.
He looks up practically mirror the image of a small whimpering puppy. "Yeah, would you be ok with that? I know I'm not the nicest looking guy and I got a bit of temper on me. And I -"
She smiles. "It would be an honor, Logan." She lifts her hand to his cheek and lifts his chin so she can look him in the eye. "Thank you." She leans in and kisses him on the lips. She pulls back to see him smiling from ear to ear. They sit by the lake for the rest of the day, smiling and holding hands, talking about their lives, deciding to leave their impending doom off the table for now.
The Garage
Rogue, tightens up the screws on the carburetor of the car she's been overhauling. She thinks about her upcoming fight. She finds solace in the fact that she'll be fighting not just for the world, but to keep the man she loves alive. She knows that she's not fighting alone that's he's out there fighting too.
The southerner is removing the camshaft and accidentally breaks it in half, as her mind flashes back to seeing Jean and Emma in the medical lab making love. She begins to cry then sits on the couch and lays her head back as the memory of her first kiss flashes in her mind. She still remembers how it felt. She leans forward and puts her head in hands. "What are ya doin this to yourself for girl." She says aloud to herself. "Well the good news is if I die in training, I won't have ta worry bout this shit no more." She laughs to herself. "And why is my fuckin training the longest anyway. Fuckin Emma has to train for 1 day. I'm way stronger than she is."
"You're not actually." A voice from the corner of the garage says.
"Who's in here!" Rogue yells as golden glowing eyes draw closer to her.
"You aren't even remotely as strong as Emma is, that's why your training is longer." The Phoenix says to her matter of factly. "Would you like to know why you're so weak?" Rogue stands silently staring at her. "It's because you're afraid. You're a coward, afraid of your powers, afraid of life, afraid of living, 'Well the good news is if I die in training'…" The redhead mimics the southerner's voice perfectly.
"You've already given up if you're ready to die. You' re even afraid of love, the purest essence in the universe, which is why you desperately cling to a man who can never truly return your affections. You are a coward. That's why Emma will always be stronger than you. But fortunately you now have the opportunity to change that. I hope for your sake you take advantage of it." The Phoenix says suddenly appearing in front of her.
The redhead stares into her eyes then lifts a finger to Rogue's face tracing her cheek bone. The Phoenix's touch is searing with heat like a hot poker on Anne Marie's face. Rogue flinches catching her breath as the Phoenix continues to her lips holding her index finger there, causing Rogue to shut her eyes tightly. Searing pain shoots through her lips, then it suddenly stops, as the Cajun finally vocalizes her pain. "Ahh…" She says opening her eyes, the Phoenix has disappeared. Rogue stands there alone in the garage looking at the ground feeling anger, sadness, and pain…actual pain as she traces her lips with her fingers. How was that possible?
She sits back down on the couch. There is a small table next to it with a picture of Gambit in it. She picks it up and sighs, not understanding what she had just experienced. She gazes at it for a few minutes and begins to cry. The now irritated woman launches the picture across the garage to the wall. It shatters. "Fuuuuccckkkk!" She yells.
Kitty's apartment
"Come on Kitty." Bobby says begging. "It's about to be the end of the world, literally not figuratively. Let's have some fun, go out with a bang, or maybe even a few bangs."
"I'm on my cycle Bobby I said, No."
"O-M-fucking-G, seriously Kitty, I am so not even a little bit kidding with you right now. I can go get the professor and he can tell you what's going on himself. Better yet I'll go get the Phoenix." Iceman says feeling beyond desperate.
"Really Bobby, the Phoenix, now I know you've lost it." His girlfriend says.
"Kittyyyy, I'm serious please. She says I'm one of the mutants who can reach Omega level and help save the world from Akram….Archi….Ashey….Aaaa….The Judge. There's only six of us and I'm one them." Getting off his knees and taking her hand, he looks into her eyes, and speaks in his most manly, confident voice. "I love you too much Kitty. If I only have 30 seconds to live, this is how I want to live them, looking into your eyes. And I will not leave this world, having not made love to you at least one last time Kitty Pryde." His face is serious and determined as he looks deeply into her eyes.
"You do remember I was up watching Xena:Warrior Princess with you last night, right? That's exactly… I mean like verbatim, what Xena said to Gabrielle after she showed her how to put the pinch on." Kitty says.
"Just because it's from a show, doesn't make it any less true baby, please." Bobby says utterly expiring from want.
"And you're one of the six that are supposed to save the world, that's a real good one Bobby. I give you points for imagination."
"Uuuhhhh, I don't want points, I want pus -," She interrupts him with a kiss on the lips and moving him toward her door.
Kitty phases him through the door then turns and heads back inside. "Good night Bobby." She says.
"You know what…" He yells at the door. "You're gonna be real sorry when Omega Iceman comes back from saving the world and the ladies are all over me! You'll be begging for it, I promise you! And you know what I'll say, No No no no no no, I've got a headache, I'm having my man time. We can't do it right now come back later."
"I love you Bobby, good niiiiight." She says.
He walks away from her door mumbling, "Yeah, I love you too."
Faculty Campus Quarters
After the meeting Emma laid in bed for literally 4 hours until she fell asleep. It was dark out when she finally woke up. She hesitates to take off her clothing wanting to keep the feel of her wife as close to her as possible. She eventually gets them off and lays them on the bed and heads into the shower. She felt like a huge boulder was lying on her chest as she let the water hit her body. Steam rose filling her lungs as she allowed her tears to fall. Her mind is overflowing with worry wondering if she was ever going to see Jean again.
"I should have made love to her before the meeting. Why the fuck didn't I make love to her?" She thought to herself. Taking a deep breath she lets her voice echo through the steam filled bathroom.
"Why did all of this have to happen? We were doing so well. We were so happy." She closes her eyes and sighs, her thoughts momentarily on the Phoenix. "Why does she have to have your face… your smile… your smell…..your lips, fuck! Why couldn't she have possessed someone else, huh? Why you Jean? Why you?"
A dark chuckle escapes the blonde's throat. "But then you wouldn't be my Jean without her would you, baby. You are the grace and compassion behind all that power. Who am I kidding, that's yet another reason why I find you so fucking irresistible Jean. I've always been attracted to power and it's always been attracted to me. But you're different Jean, so unique. Your power is your love…so full… so warm….so -" Sighing as more tears begin falling.
She lies down in the Jacuzzi tub letting the hot water hit her chest taking a deep breath. She lets her mind drown in thoughts of her beautiful wife. Emma closes her eyes. "Jean." She moans as her hand begins to softly caress the smooth skin of stomach gently moving up grazing her nipple with her thumb then massaging her breast, while the other slowly inches towards her quickly moistening center.
She touches herself remembering the feel of her wife as her mind replays the blissful morning they shared together. Emma massages her clit slowly in gentle circles as the memory of Jean's tongue makes her heart race, squeezing her breast relishing in the feel the redhead's telekinetic touch and the thousands of tiny electric pulses caressing her body making her go insane. Her breath hitches as she slips two fingers into her sex, while her other hand releases her breast and runs through her hair. The sound of Jean's moan fills her ears, she begins to cry slipping her index finger into her mouth and sucking it gently. Her fingers slide in and out of her slick center, the heat of the steam increasing her desire.
"Jean." She calls out, moaning pumping her fingers faster as her thumb circles her clit, she rocks her hips meeting her thrusts, as she flashes back to feeling her wife's strong slender smooth fingers vibrating inside of her. "I need you." She whispers. "I need you inside me baby." As her heart beats faster and her tears continuously flow, she can sense her, feel her Jean through their memories. She's moaning louder as her voice vibrates throughout the room bouncing off the walls. "I'm almost there baby, don't stop. Uuuom, please don't stop." A sob catching in her throat, her fingers pumping faster as she gasps for air, she sees Jean in her mind slowly devouring her center.
Suddenly she hears a voice whisper in her ear. "Cum for me, my love."
She begins to cry harder, knowing who's there, through blurry eyes, feeling the heat of the whisper she slowly turns her head to see a red mane and heavily lidded golden amber eyes staring at her sensually. A pink tongue licks plump full lips.
Emma stops herself, closes her eyes, lays her head back against the tub and takes a deep breath. She removes her fingers from her sex and raises them towards the water descending on her body.
The redhead quickly grabs the blonde's wrist and takes her still slick digits into her mouth and gently sucks on them. Closing her eyes as a small choked whimper escapes her throat as she moans. Emma can feel the Phoenix's tongue working steadily skillfully around her fingers. The redhead slowly removes the digits from her mouth still circling them with her tongue. She puts Emma's hand down and looks into her eyes. "Mmm, you're delicious." She leans in gently kissing Emma's lips. "Don't fight it my love." Phoenix says.
Emma stares blankly forward tears still flowing. Phoenix leans in and kisses her lips again then disappears. Emma's chest heaves as she breaks down crying, almost convulsing she cries so hard. "Jean…p..pl..pleaseeee, come back to me." She says laying her head on the side of the tub sobbing.
She finally gets out of the shower, dries herself off, and gets into bed. She grabs her wife's pillow from her side of the bed and buries her face in it smelling Jean's scent as it helps her drift off to sleep. "Jean." she whispers.
Danger room Level 2: Preparations
Phoenix wasted no time at all as she had carved out an area the size of two football fields in length, width, and height underneath the Danger Room. In what seemed like an almost instantaneous amount of time Forge had set up a state of the art holographic and environmental control system to cover the entire area. Somehow the redhead made sure that the techie mutant had every type of metal, microchip, wire, and tool he could possibly want or even think of. The room was practically a mega-stadium, it was even equipped with a completely independent power system, not attached to any other grids, self renewing energy. This was technology humans couldn't even begin to comprehend. There were viewing windows all around the dome, each had an incredibly thin glass like material that according to the Phoenix could withstand the blast of an exploding Sun.
There were 3 entrances. One was specifically designed for the redhead equipped with a cooling and decontamination chamber. The entrance for the trainees was on the opposite end of the dome with a 100 meter hallway leading to a holding chamber equipped with fiber-optic clothing, weapons, and energy cocktails. The medical bay is also connected to the holding chamber. The last entrance is to the Atlantian Medical Bay, which is what Hank is calling it.
The small entrance is on the right wall at the center of the dome, it's about a foot larger and longer than the bio-beds in the institute medical bay. It is stocked with elixirs and concoctions that are not yet known to Earth based medical science. The Phoenix brought Charles and Hank to the room to show them how to tend to the trainees after each day of training. She informed them that if anyone died it would be because they hadn't followed her orders properly. At least one of the vials had the ability to instantly repair broken bone and marrow.
The Phoenix had Forge create special microscopic nodes to attach to her head to read her brainwaves and send specific instructions to the medical bay on a second by second basis using Professor Xavier's Cerebro helmet specifications. She had Charles run a mind memory program using Forge's latest invention to capture the mental play by play of every trainee, so they could review them during down time and see what they needed to change during the next day training.
The dome was completely anomaly proof inside and out once you were in the dome, there was no escape. All in all it only took two days. Of course that was because Forge never slept. He was like a kid in candy land, minus the sugar rush.
Faculty Quarters
Emma stayed inside those two days. Taking her work calls in the apartment. She even had meetings over the phone. Her office manger Saturday, expressed concern for her, telling her this was highly unusual behavior and that she was there if she ever needed to talk. Emma appreciated the gesture, but all she wanted was her wife. She hadn't touched herself since the day the Phoenix appeared in her bathroom. She was beyond frustrated, not just sexually but emotionally. She hadn't expected to be separated from Jean this long. It was beginning to take its toll on her.
She realized that she hadn't actually asked the Phoenix how long she would be "taking priority" over her wife's body. What if this was for the duration of the training? Emma would drive herself crazy. She had to talk with the redhead, set some things straight. She needed Jean, she needed her badly. The only problem is that there was no way to get down to the second level Danger room yet. The special access elevators hadn't been opened yet.
She tried in vain to telepathically contact her, she even asked the professor after he reappeared above ground. The area was completely psychic proof. For a moment she thought of touching herself again, seeing as the Phoenix seemed to find that entertaining, but she knew it wouldn't be genuine, though she didn't mind putting on a show to get what she wanted. She sat in her apartment feeling utterly defeated.
Its late in the afternoon the day after the danger room's completion, when Emma gets a knock on her door. "Who is it?" Emma calls from her office in the bedroom. There is no response as the knocking continues. "Who is it!" She yells louder knowing whomever it is can hear her, the apartment was not that big. The knocking continues. "Fuck." Emma slams her hands down on her desk and stands up very irritated and stomps to the door. "Who the fuck is it!" she says not opening the door, when the person still doesn't answer it. She opens the door ready to verbally light up whoever is on the other side of it.
Golden eyes greet her. "I heard you were looking for me." Emma stands there staring still beyond pissed off, but words suddenly escape her. "May I come in?" The redhead asks in a seductive tone. Emma nods and closes the door behind her as she walks into the living room and sits on the couch. Phoenix drags her fingers along the cushions. "Ah, memories." Her golden eye's boring into the blonde's blue orbs. "Have a seat lover. I'm sure by now you have some things you want…" Looking towards Emma's crotch then back up to her eyes. "…to ask me. I'm all ears lover."
Emma cautiously sits beside her and takes in a deep breath. Deep down she was still scared of the woman, but she had an opportunity and she was going to make the most of it. But she had to use a bit of strategy. She knew from their first real conversation that things shouldn't just be about Jean if the redhead was going to be cooperative. "You appeared in my bathroom 4 days ago. Why did you do that and how long had you been watching me?"
The redhead's eyebrow arched as she smiled at the blonde. "Hmm, I'd been watching you since you left the office, and I did it because I want you, desperately, but I won't force you, I want you to want me too." Emma was surprised by her frankness. "Anything else you want to know lover?"
"I want to know your name." The blonde says watching as the redhead's eyes widen a bit and she looks down into her lap to Emma's surprise.
She looked downright shy and vulnerable. Emma feels a little pang in her heart just looking at her. "I told you, you aren't ready to hear it yet." Phoenix says.
Seeing a bit of an opening Emma continues her mental game, finding herself getting more pulled in than she would like to admit. "What do I need to do to be ready to hear it?" She places her hand over the redhead's and looks into her eyes as the Phoenix turns toward her with a look of awe on her face.
The flamed deity takes a deep breath and sits up turning her eyes away from the blonde. "It doesn't work like that, you are either ready to hear it or you are not. And right now you're not. I know you want Jean. That's why I came here today. You're my lover and I want to give you what you want." She pauses taking in a deep breath and turns to look into Emma's amazingly blue eyes. The blonde is struck to the heart by the longing in the woman's amber eyes. She feels like her soul is being covered in warmth. Emma works overtime to keep her game face on as the Phoenix shifts into her wife's adorable pout. "You don't have to coerce me lover, everything I have is yours."
Emma looks away for a moment feeling an intense weight in her chest at the utterance of those words. Those were Jean's words. Emma feels like she's on the verge of tears. "Except your name." Emma says feeling strangely drawn to the woman next to her. What was happening? She didn't really care, did she? She's just an entity possessing her wife that's all she is. The redhead takes a deep breath and prepares to switch over. Emma can feel it. "Wait." The blonde whispers, seeing those golden orbs now trained on her. Emma is silent as she can't seem to find the right words.
The Phoenix sighs. "After tomorrow, I'll only manifest in the training arena. Jean will be in your arms again." She tells Emma, as she takes in another deep breath and prepares to switch again.
"Wait damn it!" Emma shouts.
The redhead sighs and looks at her. "What is it?"
Emma looks down holding the Phoenix's hands. "What if, what if I need to speak to you?" She says sounding very much like a child, asking for something she knows she can't have.
"Now what would you possibly need to speak to me about lover, you'll have your Jean and she's all you need right?" And with that she quickly switches before Emma can interrupt again. She falls back on the couch.
After a moment Jean opens her emerald green eyes, to see Emma sitting beside her. She grabs the blonde as tears begin to well in her eyes. "I'm back. I'm really back. I was so scared Em! God, I wasn't sure what was going to happen." Jean says as she feels Emma's arms lightly around her. "What is it baby? What's wrong? Did she do something to you again?" The redhead asks sensing worry and longing in her partner.
Emma looks up. "I missed you baby." Her voice barely a whisper.
TBC...
