Return to Weapon X

"So the machine works properly?"

"Yes, sir!"

"What about the test results?"

"The embryo is developing fine so far. Any other disadvantages of it can be dealt with afterwards."

"Good…"

"What about the mother? Once the baby is born we start the cloning process. She's of no use afterwards for us, except to put pressure on him."

"How is the reprogramming of Weapon X going?"

"Not working, sir. We don't know why, but he's somehow immune to it."

"How is that possible?"

"We think it has to do with his healing factor, sir."

"Then block it!"

"We can't! He wouldn't survive the procedures otherwise. It had nearly taken a week back then to repair the damage on his brain and neural system. Without his mutation at all, he wouldn't be of any use either, sir!"

"…"

"Your suggestions, sir?"

"Try the reprogramming again. If it doesn't work, we get rid of both after she gave birth…"

"Yes, sir. Everything's prepared to start the cloning right after Weapon X2 is born. The machines have proven to simulate an uterus and by now we have extracted enough ovum of other test objects to reproduce Weapon X2 as often as you want, sir."

"ere the parental cells saved, too, in case of an emergency?"

"Yes, sir. We only need the child to start the process."

"Good. Do you already know the sex?"

"No. Unfortunately the embryo is in a position which makes a determination impossible currently. But I'll do the check ups everyday, so I'll inform you as soon as I know!"

"You know what to do if it I a female!"

"Yes, sir. We are prepared for an abortion and have enough serum to make the mother fertile immediately fertile again."

"Good. How much more time until the delivery?"

"Approximately 4 ½ months if nothing comes in between."

"Good. You know your orders, Hongo. You're dismissed!"

"Yes, Mr. Director!"

Looking at the bars when two soldiers appeared, Jean raised her head and watched how they tossed Logan into the cell again. Immediately she was at his side and placed a hand on his cold and sweaty shoulder. "Not again…," she gasped and looked at him worriedly. "Logan,…you can't take this anymore…"

"I'm fine," he grunted and slowly got on his knees while his head was still lowered.

"No, you're not! Damn it, I'm sick of seeing you like this…," she gave back and he noticed that she'd been crying before.

"Tell them," he replied and finally managed to raise his upper body enough to have a look at her. "Why did you cry?"

Wrapping her arms around him, she buried her face on his neck. "I saw another female mutant when they got me for the check up," she told him calmly and felt how he pulled her closer since she was crying again.

"And?" he asked her softly, resting his head on hers.

"She was at least seven month pregnant," Jean went on and had to swallow hard before she closed her eyes shivering. She was sure it was just another nightmare she's have to endure from this day on. "One of the lab-guys said something about that it didn't work again and… Hongo got so pissed because of it, since they'd already tried it seven times…"

While listening to her, Logan stroked through her hair and waited for his healing factor to kick in. By now his mutation had more than trouble to catch up with the damage the test caused on him. The food they got was way too little to fill his system with enough power to heal him completely. He didn't eat much anyway and gave, to Jean's protest, her most of it. "What happened then?"

"They just shot her," she sobbed and clung even tighter to him. "As if she was some kind of worthless thing… The soldier just pushed her to the ground and shot her…" Burying her head in his shoulder, she cried a loud in despair. She was more than scared to death after seeing it. "You should have seen her," she said after a while and locked eyes with him, whereas he wiped away her tears. "She looked like a…like a shell. As if she'd been already dead before… It was so horrible…" Shaking her head, Jean looked down.

"What did the check up say?" he asked her after a while and looked at her slightly bulged belly.

Jean shrugged and touched it. "Since they haven't given me any meds, I think everything's fine…"

Logan nodded before he looked at the two cameras. "Good…"

Sensing that something was wrong, Jean began to frown and touched his cheek. "What's wrong?"

"Listen," he said and pulled her head closer as if he was about to kiss her. "Wrap your arms around me and pretend I was kissing you," he whispered as calm as he could and Jean obeyed. "Look,…we have to get out and quickly!"

"Why?" she asked him barely audible and entwined one hand in his hair while the other was stroking up and down his back.

"I did a bit eavesdropping and overheard a talk between Wraith and that lab guy. As soon as they have the kid they want to clone it and get rid off you. Of me, too, if they can't turn me into a dumb killer again." Having her head turned away from the cameras, her eyes grew wide in shock. "I think I finally found a way out of here, but you need to act a bit…"

"What do you want me to do?" Jean asked after a while and felt her heart beat echoing in every inch of her body.

Pulling her head gently closer, Logan whispered his plan into her ear. They didn't know if there were any bugs in that cell. Still, he didn't want to risk it. Looking at her after he'd finished, he noticed the fear in her eyes. "Okay?" Logan asked her and she nodded slowly. Giving her an encouraging smile, he stroked her cheek gently and pulled her into a brief kiss. Looking at him afterwards, Jean felt her heart hammering even faster. Not thinking about it, she bent forward and wrapped her arms around his neck again. Closing her eyes, she completely drowned in his caressing and enjoyed it.

Breaking it after a while, Logan rested his forehead against hers, eyes closed and heaved a deep breath. He knew when they were back home, if they made it out of here, it would be over. He wouldn't be the one who held her at night and watched over her after a nightmare scared her. By then, he wouldn't even be allowed to touch her at all without risking being blast into pieces… This thought of not having her at all after this hellhole was over made him, even if he'd never admit it, more than sad. If not even depressed… "So you're up for it?" Logan asked her to break the silence. "Will you be able to make it?"

"Will you? I'm not the one who looks half dead here…," Jean replied clearly more than worried.

He shrugged smirking. "You there to fix me afterwards, I hope…"

She smiled and stroked over his cheek. "Bet on that!"

"Good. But I warn you, ed. You gonna see a side of me, which ya might not like!" he warned her seriously. If someone was so stupid to get in their way, he would make sure that this one would pay for it. Still, he would also take his time to do some hunting. He had three people on his list he wanted to take revenge on. And his personal nemesis was the ultimate number one. He would make him pay not only for what he had done to him…especially for what he'd done to her.

"If we can get these off, I can help you," Jean mumbled and looked at the cuff on her wrist.

"No, you stay out of it!" Logan protested and shook his head. "I'm not risking that you get hurt. It will become difficult enough if we have to go over the mountains. So you need to safe your energy."

"But we need to get these off," she replied and looked at him. "What if they can trace us with it?"

"True," Logan agreed and took her hand into his to examine it. "We'll find a way, don't worry…"

Looking a bit skeptically, she tilted her head a bit. "You're not planning to do anything stupid, right?"

He chuckled and shrugged playfully. "Got three on my list and I'll get'em!"

Heaving a deep breath, she looked down. "Just make sure that I don't have to carry you over the mountains, okay?"

Logan nodded. "Promised…"

Sighing, Jean pulled him close and rested her head on his chest. "I can't wait to see the others again, she said calmly whereas he looked away. "They must think we're dead…"

"Yeah…," was all Logan said while the muscles on his jaw tensed briefly. Clearing his throat after a while, he sighed. "Why are we sitting on the ground by the way?" Cocking an eyebrow at the read head, who still sat on his lap and had her arms wrapped around him, he watched how she rather looked confused.

"Don't know…," Jean replied and had to smile slightly. "Because you laid there and weren't feeling so well, I think…"

"Well, now I feel good again," he said and wobbled his head. "So, move over or do I have to carry ya?" Before she could answer, he pulled her up, ignoring her surprised shriek. He carried her over to the bed and laid her down, before he did the same next to her.

Playfully, she gave him a slap on the chest. "Warn me next time…"

"There won't be a next time, darlin'," he replied and smirked when she began to frown. "You're just becoming too heavy!"

"You mean, you're just too weak!" Jean gave back and he received another soft slap.

"I'm not, darlin'!" Logan said and shook his head smirking.

"Prove that in the next months," Jean replied and snuggled up to him, while he looked at her completely seriously. Hearing her sigh deeply, he knew that she would be soon asleep and began to stroke through her long hair sadly.

"Hey, Steven!" Chase called and walked over to the man in front of the isolation track. "Still here?"

"Well, you know Curtis, don't ya?" Steven replied annoyed. "Bet he has some fun with one of those mutant sluts again…"

Looking at the tall man with the short blonde hair in front of him, Chase shook his head. "I'd kick his but for making me waiting!"

"Believe me, that's my plan!" the other man replied with a grim face.

Chase ran a hand through his short black hair while his brown eyes met the blue ones of his opposite. "Man, I wish they would allow us to have some fun, too…"

"With those mutant sluts?" Steven asked him sounding disgusted. "You could give me money and I wouldn't touch them!"

Chase could only grin and nudged him playfully. "Ah, come on! I've seen how you've looked at the red head in there…," he grinned. "She's damn hot. You can't deny that!"

"Yeah, and she's a no-go! Wraith cuts of your head if you touch her!"

Chase could only snort. "He already gets a hard-on if he only sees her. Just give him a room where she's in and he'll break his own order."

"Yeah, already heard that he's sitting in front of the screens the whole time through and waits that something happens in there between them…" Steven looked at his opposite and saw how this one grinned.

"If I was with her in there, then something would happen at least every night. Can't believe that guy doesn't touch her… I'd be on top of her as soon as she looked at me…"

About to reply something, Steven suddenly turned towards the door frowning. "Did you hear that?" he asked his opposite when he looked at him again.

"No, what?" Chase asked him, as he suddenly heard a noise, too. "No, wait! Now I heard something…" Concentrating harder, he suddenly smirked. "Maybe that guy has finally figured what he can do with her?" Watching how his comrade leant with his ear against the door, he saw how this one searched the keys in his pockets all of a sudden.

"No, something's wrong. He calls for help." Quickly, he opened the door and went inside, followed by his comrade, who held his weapon ready in his hands. "What's wrong?" Steven asked harshly and stopped right in front of the bars; seeing how Logan kneeled next to Jean on the ground while she had wrapped her arms around her belly tightly and cried aloud in pain.

"Get that lab-guy!" Logan barked and glared at them. Chase stepped away from behind his partner and looked at the red head closely. "Damn it, get him!2 the mutant yelled at them, while Jean still cried heavily.

Seeing that Steven didn't move, Chase nodded towards the door. "Go, I stay here!"

"Nope," the other soldier replied. "I'm not getting him for nothing. I want to keep my head, ya know…"

"I think she's losing the child," his comrade said while he kept his eyes in the weeping woman. "And if that happens, you gonna lose your head, pal!"

Thinking about it, Steven finally nodded after he heard how the mutant baked angrily at him again and told him to get help. "Stay here! I'll get him!"

Nodding, Chase watched him leave and turned towards the prisoners again. He was sure they could feel his nervousness and fear. With his weapon ready, his eyes grew side when he noticed that the male mutant suddenly had blood on his hands. "Oh, fuck…," he gasped and moved towards the door, searching for the keys.

While Logan began to pant in fear and watched how Jean dropped to the ground screaming in pain, he turned to the soldier. "Damn it, do something!"

"Step aside!" Chase demanded and pointed to the wall. Obeying with a last look on Jean, Logan retreated while the soldier opened the bars and kept his eyes on him. "To the back wall!" he ordered and pointed his weapon on the man. Waiting until this one stood there, he bent down to check on the sobbing woman on the ground. Laying a hand on her shoulder, he felt her shaking heavily. "Hold on! Help is on the way!" Switching towards Logan, who's face mirrored the fear he felt, he heard how quick footsteps approached. It didn't take long until Steven arrived with Hongo and two other assistants.

"What's wrong?" the Japanese scientist asked urgently and entered the cell, looking at Logan first, who had his arms crossed on his back, before he kneeled down next to Jean.

"I think she has a miscarriage," Chase said and joined his comrade, who stood next to the assistants at the bars.

"Can't be," Hongo said shaking his head and forced Jean to turn around. "Everything was fine when I did the check up…" Examining the groaning woman, he pulled the shirt up to have a better look.

"She was bleeding, too, sir!" Chase added and made Hongo look up quickly in shock, when it hit him…

Only hearing a snikt and seeing a shadow moving, which was accompanied by a loud primal scream, a hissing sound echoed through the cell and blood splattered against the walls and floor. Not able to react at all, the men stood not a chance against the furious beast and it didn't take long before Hongo and his mean laid, eyes wide open in shock, dead on the ground. Wolverine didn't care that their blood was slowly covering the ground due to sliced throats and vitals. Quickly, he searched through Hongo's pockets until he found the keycard he was looking for and handed a gun to the still shocked and heavily breathing Jean. "Know how t'handle this?" he growled and she took it into her shaking hands.

"I think so…," Jean replied even if she'd never handled a weapon before. She could only guess and tried to remember what she's seen on TV.

Feeling how he grabbed her hand roughly and pulled her up to her feet, she was dragged to the door by Wolverine, who stopped there sniffing. Carefully looking into the deserted corridor, he began to move. "Quick!" he grunted and rand own the corridor while pulling her with him.

Heavily breathing and feeling scared to death, Jean turned her head from time to time to make sure that no one was following them. Seeing how a door opened right in front of them, she felt him letting go of her hand and watched how he jumped at the two soldiers, claws first. They didn't even see what hit them. Stopping behind him quivering, Jean watched how he looked into the room quickly before he beckoned her to come over. "Come!"

Following his order, she walked past him; noticing that they were in a changing stall. Hearing him locking the door, she watched how he searched through the lockers and quickly raised her hands when he threw clothing into her direction. "Get dressed!" Obeying, Jean pulled the thick uniform and winter jacket on, while Wolverine did the same. After they'd put warm boots in, too, he worked in a hatch above them.

Jean couldn't believe how fast he actually was. His movements and agility was nothing compared to what she was used of him. She hadn't even seen him in the Dangerroom like this before. Watching how pitch black eyes turned to her, she was pulled up all of a sudden. "Get up and stay there!" Wolverine grunted and waited for her to grab the edge.

"Logan, no!" Jean gasped and shook her head. "I'm not separating from you!" Frightened, she looked deep into his scary black eyes when she heard him growling at her.

"Get.up.and.stay.there!" he repeated again in a menacing low voice and before she could react, she was lifted even higher into the air. Knowing that he would probably make her do it, she finally obeyed and climbed into the hatch. Turning, she saw how he closed it quickly and made his way to the door again. "Please, come back…," she whispered quivering and retreated into the farthest corner of the dark hatch…

Back in the corridor, Wolverine ran it down; following the scent he would recognize everywhere. He knew what he had to do and he wouldn't leave before it was done. Hearing how the alarm suddenly shrilled off, he narrowed his eyes growling. With claws extracted he heard how heavy footsteps echoed through the corridor and approached from afar. Stopping quickly, he raised his head and looked at the pipes above him, which were running down the whole corridor. Not thinking twice, he jumped up and buried his claws into them. Fixing his predator eyes to the ground while he hid between the pipes, he waited for his prey patiently… And it didn't take long before a devilish grin appeared on his lips…

That was part 10, hope you liked it. Thanks for the nice reviews again! I always love to read what you think about the chapters, so thanks a lot: ) I haven't written further yet, but I'm sure I'll post another chapter in the next week. ; ) Please review and see ya!