I was so excited about the reviews from the last chapter that I am here posting again.

I wish all the ffn and ao3 readers could combine and form a super group lol you are all such lovely people.

Sandradee27- I am totally down for writing another story where colossus and mina get together. Like it is so planned out in my head already. But I have to mant projects right now. I am going to finish this one first before I start another marvel fic lol

I want to give another shout out to faded galaxia for helping me with the piotr scene and putting up with my non stop Africa but Toto memes.

PrincessDarcy_of_Asgard is awesome for helping with the hospital scene and giving me a second pair of eyes. And thanks for all the ao3 and tumblr love lol

Everyone needs to bow down to thegranddisciple for giving me the inspiration and most of these scenes for us all to enjoy. He gave domino life in this fic. *Wayne's world* WE ARE NOT WORTHY! Tou guys should go check out his work. Nicely done.

this chapter piotr tries to cover his tracks. Ulysses and mina reunite.

Next chapter Ulysses calls the shots and Frank is a badass

I pushed Frank's part to next chapter. He deserves more than a quick ending to this chapter.


Mina stayed at the hospital with Marius, refusing to leave his side and sitting right by his bed. This was all her fault, and she needed to make sure he was going to be alright. She was a nurse and knew that he would recover from his injuries, it was her not being able to help him with her powers that upset her the most. She should be able to fix this for him, but she was too scared of who might come for her.

Against everything in her being that told her not to, Mina sent Ulysses the hospital information. She laid her head on her crossed arms that were resting on the foot on Marius' bed. The morphine they gave him for pain had knocked him out a while ago so now she was alone with her thoughts. Her phone went off, notifying her of a text message. Thinking it was Ulysses, she pulled it out of her purse and checked it.

'Are you safe little one?'

She wanted to smile, and she wanted to throw the phone. Only Piotr called her little one. He was sweet for checking in on her but was he really going to ask that when this was probably his fault? She took a deep breath before sending her message. 'I am. Marius wasn't so lucky.'

'What happened?' Piotr sent right back.

'You should know, shouldn't you?'

'Little one…?'

She rolled her eyes and huffed, blowing a stray lock out of her eyes. She deleted her message three times before sending it. 'Two guys beat up Marius. They were asking for me. Who were they?'

Piotr started to panic again, things were getting out of control and fast. If the Professor found out that he failed to bring Mina onto the team and that he led Magneto right to her, he could be in serious trouble. 'Little one- it is very important that you do no use my name- either one of them. I will do the same. I don't want to chance either of our devices getting compromised. For your safety and mine.'

'YOUR safety?' she fired back.

'If anyone finds out that I am friends with a mutual contact of UK then I could be in serious trouble.' He was talking about Ulysses. He sent another text right after. 'NO ONE can know about me.'

'I saved you in my phone as Big Guy. You better not be lying to me about this. I won't tell anyone as long as you don't either.'

Her phone rang, he was calling her. She stood up and went to the corner of the room, trying to keep her voice down, so she didn't wake Marius. "Yeah?"

"It is good to hear your voice again," Piotr said. He instantly regretted it, he could hear her anger through the phone. "Look, I didn't tell anyone. I didn't tell your secrets, I swear."

"Stop bullshitting me. Who were those men?" Mina hissed.

He didn't want her to panic, he didn't want her to be scared. "I don't know yet. I'm working on it. Where are you?" He was whispering and trying to keep the phone call private from the other two on the jet.

"Pio- Grr… Big guy, then how did you know something was wrong? Did you put a bug on me? Is my phone being tracked?" she almost slipped and used his real name.

"No. No. There is no tracker or anything. I just said that because I didn't know if you were going to leave Amsterdam or not. Even if you didn't stay and I never got to see you again… I want you to be safe." He was surprisingly smooth with his recovery. "But I'm on my way now. Where are you?"

"I'm at the hospital with Marius. What do you mean- on your way? You can't come here! Ulysses is on his way!" she said in a hushed tone.

"Why him?!" he said loudly, causing his fellow X-Men to look at him. "What is he- why?"

"Because I called him. One of the guys Marius described fit his profile. I had to be sure. He said he was coming to take care of everything. He was going to find out who those guys were." she pinched the bridge of her nose and sighed heavily into the phone. Now that she said it out loud it sounded stupid.

"Listen to me- you can not tell him about me. You can't tell anyone anything about me. I'm on my way with two… coworkers. If they found out…"

"I said I wouldn't say anything as long as you wouldn't. How far out are you? What are you going to do? I can't send him away. You said that you would hide me- not bring more of your guys!"

Piotr ran a hand through his hair, "I'll keep them busy. I'll keep them away from you, I promise. I'll fix this. I promise, little one."


Ulysses took five of his men with him to Amsterdam, "Cover the entrances and exits on the floor, keep a low profile." He told his men before rushing to the room number Mina gave him.

He slid to a stop on the slick floors and ducked into an empty room. Officers were leaving the room she was in and heading right towards him. If Mina and the old man told the cops that it was him that did it, he would get picked up, and they would run all the other shit that he was wanted for in this country. What if she said fuck Ulysses Klaue and ratted him out to SHIELD? And the phone call was the bait to get him in a trap?

He growled under his breath and popped the collar up on his coat to hide most of his face, "This girl is going to be the death of me."

Ulysses wasn't going to run away. Even if she did rat him out, he had to see her one last time before he got caught or fought his way out. When the coast was clear, he crept back into the hallway and made it to Marius' room. A nurse walked out of the room as he reached for the door handle. She blocked his path and put her hand up.

"Sir, you can't go in there. Only family right now until the authorities are done here." She was an older woman with dark purple scrubs. She started to take off the blue rubber gloves she wore.

"I need to get in there!" he argued. Was he gonna have to take out this old lady to get to Mina? Because he would.

"Sir, the waiting area is down the hall by the elevators."

"MY GIRLFRIEND IS IN THERE!" he finally lost his cool and raised his voice. Everyone around them stopped and looked at the scene. He forgot that the officers were hanging around on this floor.

This wasn't the nurse's first rodeo, she stood up straight and took the stethoscope from around her neck. Ulysses thought the old woman was going to square up to him. The door opened behind her before anything else happened.

"I'm not your girlfriend!" Mina hissed when she popped her head out of the room. "But I'm glad to see you."

A huge smile replaced the scowl on his face and he stood a bit taller. The nurse looked from Mina to Ulysses and crossed her arms. "Well?"

"It's alright, he's with me." Mina opened the door to let Ulysses in.

"He can stay. As long as he keeps it down and doesn't wake my patients." she gave him a firm look and nodded towards the door to let him pass.

Mina closed the door as soon as he entered the room. They stared at each other, neither one moving or saying anything. She wanted to hit him, hurt him like Marius hurt. She wanted to yell at him, to scream all her frustrations at him and how much she hated him.

"Mina…"

Him saying her name was all it took for her bottom lip to quiver and her eyes to water. She wanted to break down and cry because this was too much for her to handle. Seeing her distress, he held his arm out for her. Mina threw her arms around his neck and buried her face in his coat, sobbing quietly as he held her tightly.

"Shh Love. I'm here." He said soothingly and tangled his hand in her hair, bringing her closer to him.

She didn't know how long she cried, but Ulysses didn't mind her using him as a source of comfort. Her arms were tight around his neck, and her breath was on the skin of his Adam's apple. Had this been a different situation he would have made a move.

"Talk to me. Tell Ulysses what happened, love."

She pulled back and sniffled, letting him go to push her glasses to the top of her head and wiped her face with both hands. Her nose was red, her eyes were swollen, and her cheeks were wet. "I'm sorry. Oh god, I'm such a mess. I'm sorry. Are you hurt? How was your trip?" She put her hands on his neck right below his jawline.

"No. No. I'm not hurt, are you?" Ulysses moved his hand to wipe another tear away. "Here- this is a lot better." He laughed and pulled out his handkerchief. Mina being worried about him while everything around her was falling apart made something in his chest flutter.

"I'm alright. I'm just- I don't know, Lee."

"What did you call me?" he bent his head down to look at her.

"Sorry. Ulysses. I tend to give people nicknames in my head. Won't happen again." She let out a small awkward laugh and looked away.

"No one's ever given me a nickname before." He laughed then added, "Other than the usual curse words, mind you. I like it."

She gave him a sad smile and wiped her face with his handkerchief. She sniffled a few times and ran her hand through her hair. "Did you find anything out? Do you know who it was?"

"It wasn't me- I swear. I just got in from Germany." He put his hand up in surrender.

She sighed and looked back at Marius who was sleeping peacefully in the bed. "I know. Look, I'm sorry for jumping the gun and pointing the finger at you. I know it wasn't you. He said the guys had two arms." She looked back at him and gave him a playful smirk.

Ulysses looked to the door, seeing if anyone was looking through the little window at them. "Then why are the cops here? Who called them? Did you rat me out?" he asked seriously.

Instead of getting offended she rolled her eyes. "No, I didn't rat you out. You're keeping my secrets as much as I'm keeping yours. That's what friends do right?"

"Then why are they here?" he shot back with a scowl.

"Because a man was attacked on the way to work. We must file the report, we had to bring him here and follow protocol. You don't think that I want to heal him? That's exactly what those men are going to be looking for! If he didn't end up in a hospital and he showed up to work tomorrow without a scratch? Then they would know he was lying about me." She started to cry again. Mina turned her back to him and hugged herself around the middle.

Ulysses felt that flutter in his chest drop to his gut. He took a deep breath and moved behind her. "I'm sorry, Love. I… I didn't mean to… fuck. I'm sorry, Mina."

She just nodded but didn't respond. Ulysses wrapped his arm around her and pulled her to him. She turned and buried her face in his neck, using him for support once again as he wanted.

"I'm going to fix this. I have my guys on this, and I will find out who did it. I promise that I will make this all better" he pressed his lips to her forehead. "I need to get more information from him though. I need to know exactly what happened."

She pulled back to look at him but didn't remove her hands from his chest. "Lee, he's been through a lot already. Please don't make him go through that again."

"Don't worry, I'm not going to drill him with questions. I'll be patient."

She laughed for the first time today. It was loud, and she covered her mouth with her hands quickly so she wouldn't wake up Marius. "YOU patient?" she said sarcastically.