Chapter Ten: The Pull
Another fluffy-wuffy chap with a little bit of wolfy action.
Kosongbird- Awww thank you for such a wonderful review dear, I'm glad you liked the way Victor and Aks're towards each other :-}
Vahditar- Yes Victor Creed has a soft daddy side too lol ;p
BirdyCreed1995- I'm glad you liked it :-}
Emily- I'm glad you liked Meera's character. I was a little nervous at first to make her look so bold before Creed but glad to know readers are loving her.
SPECIAL NOTE: As we all know, the most awaited X-men movie of the decade, LOGAN is hitting the theaters today so all the Wolvie fans out there, don't forget to check it out. We all gonna miss you as the big bad Wolverine, Hugh! I wish you had a healing factor in real life too. *sobs* Love you Bub *sobs*
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"They look so great together." Ororo smiled, looking at Jean and Scott enjoying their wedding rehearsal.
"Yeah, right." Aks muttered with an unnoticeable twirl of eyes. After all, how could she call these 'Love Birds' a perfect couple when she'd smelled the future Mrs. Summers ride her future brother-in-law's cock just one damned week before her wedding?
"Sorry 'Ro, but I-I just don't get it. I mean, why is Jean going through all these...customs when she wants herself married within just one week?" Aks asked with a nonchalant shrug.
"Well, maybe because every girl wants a perfect fairytale wedding for herself whether she's a mutant or human." the weather goddess replied with a genuine smile. "I know Jean always wanted this day to go just the way she'd planned for years but Scott's cheating...it turned things quite ugly between them but I'm glad they're back together and want to take their relationship to another level and as her best friend, I'll help my friend make her wedding day as memorable as I can. Do you know Jean even wanted it to take place in the most expensive hotel of New York but Scott said that he wanted them both to enter their married life in the mansion because that's the place he'd met her first time."
"Maybe you're right. Every girl has her own 'fantasies' for her wedding day." Aks gave an agreeing smile.
"By the way, what about you? What are your fantasies for your big day?"
"Umm, I don't know, I've just always seen those big fat Indian weddings so I've really not decided anything special for my 'church style' marriage yet and I don't wish to either because Victor Sabertooth Creed's ready to be my husband, it's a super special shit in itself." the expecting woman laughed.
"That's true." Ororo joined her. "So, have you guys decided the names yet?" she changed the topic, sitting beside her.
"Not yet, but we ain't gonna battle over it, Victor said I could choose the name for our first baby." she smirked briefly.
"Wow, do you guys settle all the issues the same way?" Munroe questioned in pleasant amazement.
"Means?"
"I mean, allowing each other to take decisions on subjects?"
"Yes, we totally do. Trust me, it saves alotta time and strength couples waste in debating."
Ororo chuckled softly. "Henry and I are definitely going to use it in our relationship because last time Logan and I-" she stopped abruptly, a surge of those old, bitter memories of her past with Logan washed over her mind.
"Umm, I know you don't like to talk about this but...I really wanna know, why did you break up with James?" there was a sharp curiosity in Aks's words.
The weather witch smirked and shook her head. "Because we didn't have that...chemistry. There were a lot of differences between my and Logan's way of handling a relationship. They increased in course of time and eventually we decided to separate our ways but as you can see, we're still good friends."
"You know," Aks pursed her lips. "Sometimes I really feel bad for James. I've always seen him as a loner since my day one in the mansion. I truly wish to see him settled with a nice woman but who knows what the great Wolverine wants in his kinda lady?" she shrugged.
"Well there's a particular lady Wolverine seems to be very interested in." Ororo gave a knowing smile.
"What? Really? Who is she?!" Aks asked with a surprised grin.
"You." the weather witch replied bluntly.
Aks almost flinched. "E-Excuse me?"
"Yes. You seem too busy with your 'Mate' to notice but, I've never seen Logan look at any other woman the way he looks at you and he unexpectedly becomes very caring and protective whenever it comes to you."
"Yeah, he does, but just because he's family." Aks almost growled at the older woman's audacity to think something like that about her relationship with her future brother-in-law."
"I don't think it's just a family thing." Ororo was still determined to drag the topic. "Rogue has been his only family for the past sixteen years but he never saw her as anything more than a kid but you, you're much younger than Rogue but still, you're a lot more than just a friend or his brother's fiancée to him. Sorry to say dear, but he almost looks...attracted to you."
Aks folded her arms over her chest with a stern look. "And I know the reason."
"What?"
"Hank told me, since I'm a temporary female feral during the whole pregnancy thing so my crazy hormones through my scent, they make other male ferals...quite uncomfortable around me. It's almost like a Pull, even Hank feels that too."
"Again, what?!" Ororo exclaimed in mild horror.
"Hey don't worry," Aks already raised her hands in surrender with a wide grin. "I already consider him a brother figure so you have no threat from me but yeah, as far as it goes about James, I don't care how he's taking this 'pull' until my pregnancy gets over because Victor Creed is my Mate and he's going to have to accept it one way or another."
Ororo sighed with a short smile. "Of course he will. By the way let's go, we have a rehearsal dinner to plan, too."
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"W-Who da fuck a-arre you, mu'dak?!" the biggest arms dealer and mob boss of Russia, Vladislav Kuznetsov snarled through his clenched razor-sharp teeth, wriggling under the boot of his attacker, a mysterious figure who was covered in black from head to toe and invaded his hideout and gang with his little..pack of some extraordinary mutants who could transform themselves into large ferocious wolves. The bodies of his men had covered the ground. After the bloody Massacre the savage beasts had made on his land with their strange metal claws, they all stood in a circle around their commander who was sinisterly laughing at the struggling, scaly body of his enemy beneath him.
"That's something you'll never be able to know in this pathetic life of yours." the tall, masked man increased the pressure of the tip of his shoe against the temple of Vladislav, causing the skull to crack so easily like a peanut shell. His broken mouth spat out blood.
Vladislav and his men fought very bravely, tried to send as much damage to the army of beasts as they could with their guns and the three inch long talons of their Reptilian boss but they just didn't die, not even a scratch. Maybe these creatures had what he did. A class five healing factor.
But his factor worked only until their commander's strange nine inch long blades prodded out of his knuckles and wrists. He'd seen those kind of blades only once in his life before, it was a great Canadian cage-fighter named Logan.
"W-Why...?" that was all that could come out of his quivering. His yellow eyes with slit pupils bulging out.
The dark figure brought one of his hands up and three shining blades made of the great alloy of adamantium and the ancient Japanese iron snikted out of it again. His deep gaze inspected his unique weapon.
"Why?...because that's what my master wants." with the end of vicious snarl, he bent down on one knee with lightening speed and drove his sword-sharp blades straight through the heart of his another prey.
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Next Day
"Oh my holy moly, just look at this thing!" Jubilee caught her ridiculously bright, magenta bridesmaid dress between her forefingers and thumbs and slowly held it against her chest with a nose so wrinkled up as if it'd just smelled a big pile of dog shit.
"Well..." Aks rubbed the back of her neck with a thoughtful face. "If you forget the colour, it's not that ba-"
"It's not that bad?!" Jubilee's roar cut her off. "Are you kidding me Chica?! It's a goddamn nightmare from that shitty Bridesmaids movie. Just look at this goddamn lace work at the hem, Gawd it could even get 'The Worst Bridesmaid Dress Of The Year' award!"
"Jubes's right." Rogue and Kitty agreed in unison. "We're not wearing that shit in the wedding."
"But girls, it's Jean's pick, we have to wear it." Ororo shrugged helplessly.
"Yeah. You shouldn't make the bride angry." Aks tried to make the bunch of whining girls understand.
"You can say that because you don't have to wear any of that shit due to your bump." Jubilee pouted.
"Oh c'mon guys, you're all-" her words caught in her throat as she saw her newest little friend, Meera sneak out of the mansion with a little box in her hand. She could smell a sharp tang of sadness dissolved in her sweet scent of Vanilla.
"Why are you looking outside?" Rogue asked.
"Umm, I see you guys later okay?" she hastily left the argument in the middle, ignoring the confused faces of her friends and spun for door.
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"Ye aapke liye hai mommy-papa, shaadi ki saalgirah mubarak ho."- This is for you mom and dad, happy wedding anniversary.; Meera looked up to the sky with a beautiful smile on her face. Tears were sitting in the corners of her eyes. She looked down and blew out the candle on the small cake she'd made herself for the special day. She cut a small piece out of it with a weak sob and took a tiny bite. The sweetness on her tongue brought back all the bitter memories she'd gotten in this little life. She couldn't take it anymore. The lids covered her eyes and let the big, salty drops trickle down her cheeks.
Akele akele hi celebrate karogi?"- Gonna celebrate it alone?; an affectionate tone caused Meera to look over her shoulder quickly. Aks was standing against a tree, wearing a sisterly smile on her face she always talked to Meera with.
Meera hastily wiped her tears and hid the cake behind her back.
"What are you doing here?" she came back to her harsh attituded self.
"Smelled your sadness in the hall so came here to find out the reason but didn't know you were having a celebration here, can I...?" she gave a short nod and made space for her expectant friend on the bench. Meera cut out another piece.
"Mmmm, not bad! didn't know you were such a good baker." Aks grinned around her first mouthful of the chocolaty goodness.
"How did you know I made it?
"I can smell your hands all over it."
"Learned it from YouTube." she nonchalantly admitted. a peaceful silence filled the air between them after that.
"My mom and I," Meera broke awkward quietness. "We used to celebrate this day every year, just two of us. Even after eleven years of my father's death, there was no one else who could replace my dad in her life."
"Good to see you still want to continue her little 'tradition'." Aks smiled.
"I miss them very much." Meera finally said in a husky tone, unsuccessfully trying to trap those salty drops behind her eyelids.
Aks sighed. "I miss my parents too."
"Then call 'em. ISD call rates ain't that high now-a-days." Aks smirked at another witty reply from her little friend.
"Can't. because they live up there, with your parents." she smiled sadly.
"Oh I'm so sorry."
"Don't be." She looked straight to avoid Meera's apologetic eyes and let the same awkward silence filled the air again.
"Uhm, when did they...?" Meera tried to break the ice again.
"I was eight then." she replied softly.
"Whoa, that means you've lived a very long, lonely life, haven't you?"
"Not really." she looked back to Meera with a brief smile. "I had my granny until seventeen but since after her death, yeah I've been a lonely chick." she gave a short laugh.
"And all I have now is this goddamn school." Meera grumbled with a large roll of eyes.
"And we're good people. Away from all the hatred humans have against mutants, this place is a big, happy family and you're a part of it now. We're gonna maintain and protect you just like a family member." Aks gave an assuring smile.
"And save my soul from Algebra too?"
"What?"
"Your gigantic fiancée, he helped me with my math test yesterday. Can he do that next week again?" she batted her eyelashes at Aks, the same trick she'd tried on Creed and received a clean and clear No in return.
Aks had to laugh on this one. "Well every family has a badass in it and Uncle Creed is the one of this family so don't expect that kinda help from him repeatedly but yes, I'll try my best." she laughed again and Meera joined her this time.
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Okay now a few things to point out:-
1. Mu'dak means a$$hole in Russian.
2.I want my Werewolves to look ancient and very close to their real form so whenever you guys imagine them, picture'em as large, hairy, growling wolves, quite similar to Hugh Jackman from 'Van Helsing'.
3. Just one more chapter full of the lemony goodness of 'The Bachelor Party' and then you're all going to know about the identity of the serial killer and his Master and their true motive behind all the killings.
4. Last but not the least- I'm gonna miss ya a lot, Hugh X''( WHY FOX WHY?! How can you do something like that to Logey?! *crying my eyes out* Gawd I need another bucket of ice-cream and then I'm going to see the last of my Wolverine. Bye guys, see y'all next Friday.