Chapter 10: X Equals Protect
(Bayville)
Logan was riding through the highway on his motorcycle going eighty miles per hour. He along with Piotr and Remy decided to race each other back to the mansion. Piotr really wasn't up for the challenge at first but Remy, who came up with the idea made an offer neither men could refuse. The losers would have to fix up the winners bike.
Remy was speeding, catching up with Logan. The Cajun was cutting in front of other moving cars that honked at him for doing sure danger stunts. Remy was right beside Logan, giving the man a thumbs up but the only response he received was a low growl.
The two men stayed without distance of each other, neither gaining any advance on the other. They barely broke apart from one another, unless to avoid an approaching car or speeding passed a slow car. Their activity was subsided by Piotr rolling passed them going at least going ten miles more than them. Neither of the two men like that the Russian was in the lead so both speed up.
A tanker in front of the three biker mutants exploded, it swerving and blocking off all the lanes on the highway. Every mobile vehicle that was near quickly came to a stop to avoid running in the gas truck that was blazing with fire. The free flying flames clamp down on nearby cars surrounding truck.
The people looked in horror as the fire bounced to more cars. Many drivers and passengers got out their cars and ran in the opposite direction of the fire. However the three mutant men stood and stare at the flames already knowing what they must do.
"You two make sure that everyone is away from here and safe", Logan commanded.
"What are you gonna do Mon Amie?" Remy questioned.
"I'm going to see if there's anything left of the man driving the truck."
Piotr and Remy nodded their heading going into opposite directions to do their part. Piotr found a woman stuck in her car trapped between two other cars surrounding her car. Piotr pushed aside the car that was blocking the driver's side of the woman's car. The woman got out of the car in a panic and had a horrified look on her face when she took a look at Piotr with his body covered with metal. She quickly ran away from the site, without even as much as a thank you but the Russian wasn't that much offended because he knew the conflict the humans had against mutants.
Remy ran from car to car to make sure that everyone was safe and okay. No one seem to have been in any trouble until he came to a car that was caught on fire with a child maybe four or five years old in the back seat and a man in the driver's seat unconscious. Remy went over to the car and reached for the door handle to the car but it seem stuck he pulled harder but it wouldn't budge so he tried the left back seat door but it wouldn't open either. Remy figured that the door must be lock so he looked at the little boy in the car and gesture for him to lower his head. The boy seems to have understood what Remy meant because he scooted over to the other side of the seat and lower down. Remy put each hand on the doors on the left side of the car, which had started to glow at faint purple color. Both doors exploded off the hinges of the car and boy looked into the car and saw the boy huddled up at one side of the car with his hands covering his eyes. "Mon Amie are you okay?" Remy asked the boy holding his hand out to the boy, who made his way over to Remy with hesitation, and hooked his arms around the Cajun. Once Remy securely had the boy he went over to get the check on the man, who was stirring and waking up. When the man finally came to he saw Remy helping him out the car and holding the child in his hand. The child reached for the man, who happily took him into his arms hugging the boy tightly.
"Thank you", the man said looking Remy directly in the eye. "Really; maybe mutants aren't that bad after all."
Remy keep a blank expression on his face as the man and little boy evacuated away from the area.
Logan was near the tanker that blazing out heat from the fire growing around. Logan arrived at the door of the truck and to his surprise the man in the truck was still alive. Logan claws sheath out from between his knuckles and slashed the doors to get the man out because it was too hot to actually touch. Logan cut off the man's seat belt and thrown the man over his shoulder to carry him. As Logan with the man he started to smell something odd that seem to get stronger along with the smell of burning fire, then he was suddenly he was tackled to the ground by something almost as heavy as the man he was carrying over his shoulders.
He looked and saw the man that he was carrying laying on the ground but was shocked him the most was the person responsible for the stiffness in his sore arm now. Logan saw X-23 standing over the man, with an expression mixed between a scowl and smirk.
"X", Logan said slowly. "What are you doing here?"
"Saving your butt apparently", she replied dryly but then gesture a car that just exploded. "There was a line of gasoline that you were walking in and a fire caught on to it so I decided to save you."
Piotr and Remy were walking over to the two both with questionable looks on their faces but Remy was the first to ask, "Who's the petite?"
"She's …"
"Laura Kinney", X-23 interrupted Logan wanting to introduce herself by using her actual name. "I'm Wolverine's clone."
"I'm don't want to be rude", Piotr said politely in his thick Russian accent. "'But I believe it's time for us to go."
Police sires along with the fire truck and ambulance could be heard as they all pulled up.
"He's right", Logan said. "Our work here is done lets go to the mansion."
(Bayville High)
Sam and Tabitha were both walking side by side out of the school building. It was around 4:20 and they were the only ones outside the building. Both had receive detention and were going to be in big trouble when they get back to the institute. While they were walking down the steps, Sam was glowering at Tabitha.
"Do you see what you do Tabitha?" Sam scowled. "Because of you we had to stay after school and when we get home we'll either have extra Danger Room session with Logan or get grounded or have to clean up the whole mansion."
"Hey it's not my fault that this teacher can't keep up with my speed and time", Tabitha shrugged off Sam's rant as if he said nothing of importance. "You wouldn't have gotten in trouble in the first place if you wouldn't have butted in by the way. Why did you but in anyway?"
"Because", Sam's face turned a dark shade of red but Tabitha just passed it off from his earlier anger at her. "It's my job to keep the members of my team in check, even if that means I have to pay the price too."
"Aww that's sweet", Tabitha mocked as they walk down the sidewalks along the busy streets of New York. "But you know that you can't be everyone's protector right?"
"I not everyone's protector", Sam countered. "Just yours" Tabitha raised a questionable eyebrow at that so Sam continued, "You my dear Tabby are the only piece of work that needs the full attention of her most profound leader only because you're always getting yourself in trouble."
"I do not always get myself in trouble." Tabitha pouts, folding her arms across her chest.
"You're right. You're almost always getting yourself in trouble."
"You know what Guthrie…"
Sam never found out what Tabitha had to say because they got distracted by a noise coming from an alley. Sam and Tabitha stared at each other for a brief second before they heard a high pitch scream and start dashing into the alley. They ran until a group of men came into their vision with one of the men, who was none other than Cameron Hodge, pinning a boy to the wall.
"Now listen here mutant", Cameron said in a vicious voice with spit flying from out his mouth. "Tell me everything you know about the X-Men!"
"I-I already tol-told you", the boy stuttered. "I don't know anything."
"Don't lie to me!" Cameron's face turned red with anger and his teeth seem to have been crunching against each other. "I know that all you mutants are in cahoots with each other."
"We have to do something", Sam told Tabitha but before they could come up with a plan the girl was already on the move. "Tabby wait"
"I'm going to ask you again", Cameron's face was millimeters away from the boy's. "Tell me what you know."
The mutant boy was shaking his head rapidly as Cameron brought one of his hands back and was about to plunge it into the boy's face until Tabitha intervened.
"If you really wanted to know that much about the X-Men, why didn't you ask one of us instead?"
Cameron and the men behind him stared at the blonde hair girl with shock. They had not expected for anyone to have found them in the alley, none the least caring about what they did to a mutant. Cameron let go of the mutant boy, who quickly ran away from the scene without even glancing back.
"Do you really think that you can handle us little girl?" Cameron challenged. "There's just one of you and four of us."
"Do you idiots really think that she would be here alone", Sam asked walking out of the shadows to help out his friend.
"It doesn't matter how many mutants you have with you because sooner or later all of the mutants in the world will by completely extinct."
"Keep dreaming bubby", Tabitha countered.
Cameron gesture a hand forward and the three men with him advance towards the two mutants. Sam jet propelled in the air and knocked one of the men into the back wall. Tabitha created a time bomb and threw it towards the other two men. It exploded causing the men to fall off their feet. Tabitha moved over to Sam as the smile in triumphant over to small defeat.
"Now geek boy", Tabitha frowned at Cameron. "Do you really think that you can mess with us?"
Just then a tranquilizing dart shot into the necks of both Sam and Tabitha and they both fell the ground unconscious. Cameron stared wide eyed as the two mutants hit the ground and turned to the person that caused their downfall. Duncan Matthews walked from out the shadows with three more darts in his hand.
"I told you that they couldn't resist helping that poor little boy", Duncan smirked.
"Yeah I've have to admit that you were right." Cameron looked down at the two Young X-Men with disgust. "Come let's take them to Creed before they wake up."
(Xavier's Institute)
When Logan, Remy, Piotr, and Laura got back from the accident Logan decided that it would be best to bring Laura back to the institute to meet Xavier and see if she could enroll into the institute. Laura was currently in the Professor's office with Logan, Ororo, and Hank discussing if she should be allowed into the school.
"So why exactly did you intend on coming back here?" Charles asked.
"Well I've been on my own for a long time now", Laura started. "But I'm tired of living on my own and the only person that I could think of to help me was…" Laura turned her gaze over to Logan so that everyone would know who she was talking about. "And plus he offered to me before that I could stay here, if that offer is still available."
"It is", Xavier assured her. "And we would be happy to have you join us." Charles outstretched his hand for Laura to shake, which she complied. "Logan I think that it would be best for you to show Laura to her room."
"No problem Chuck", Logan replied. "Come on kid."
As Logan and Laura walked out of the room, Charles turned to the other to fine teachers at the school. "So what do you think?"
Ororo hesitated before speaking, "I know she means well but…what if she hurts someone?"
"I agree with Ororo", Hank said. "The girl has been traumatized her whole life. What if she can't control here impulses?"
"Well Logan seems to have a great belief that she's not back", Charles responded.
"Yeah but that's because she's basically him", Hank continued. "They're the same person experimented on by the same people. The only difference is that we know what Logan's capable of but not her."
Logan and Laura were walking down the hallways of the institute and even though that neither of them wanted to admit it, they were both glad to see each other. As they were walking Logan saw Rogue coming their way with a book in her hand. She was reading it not paying attention to where she was walking.
"Rogue", Logan saw that his voice startled the southern girl. "I want to you officially meet someone." Rogue closed the book in her hand and went over them. "Rogue this is Laura, I think you remember her."
"Ah yeah", Rogue replied like she would actually forget that day. "She like took out all the X-Men except for you. What's she doing here anyway?"
"She's joining the X-Men", Logan replied. "Well really she's going to be with the Young X-Men."
"Cool, we could really use someone like her on the team." Rogue directed her attention to Laura. "Being here is great, at least most of the time it is, but the only killer thing is the Danger Room sessions."
"So how often do you train?" Laura asked.
"Two or three times a day", Logan answered.
"But I thought that you guys were the X-Men", Laura complained. "I thought that you guys would at least train for like half the day or something. That's what I did when…" Laura stopped talking not wanting to think about Weapon X.
"Yeah I told them we should train all day but no one wants to listen to me."
"Logan that's because you try to kill us with your session most of the time", Rogue countered.
"Yeah well at least it would help you if you ever had to face a greater challenge." Logan realized with all the talk that they were doing he forgot about a session that he was supposed to be doing. "I completely forgot the session that I was having today. Rogue do you mind showing Laura to her room?"
"Not at all"
"Thanks", Logan turned to Laura. "I'll see yah later kid."
Laura scowled Logan for calling her a kid but he hadn't seem to notice because he was already heading towards the Danger Room. "Don't worry about it", Rogue said seeing the other girl's facial expression, "He calls everyone a kid. Come on let's go to your room and then meet everyone."
(Friends of Humanity Base)
Sam was slowly gaining consciousness but felt dizzy and nauseating and could barely tell that he was locked in a cell along with a body beside him. When his vision cleared he discovered that the body lying next to him was Tabitha's. He used as much strength as he had to pulled himself over to Tabitha and began to nudge her awake.
"Come on Tabby wake up", Sam urged.
"Hmm-Uh…Sam?" Tabitha wakes up and rubs her eyes with the same nauseating feeling as Sam. "Where are we? What's going on?"
"I don't know", Sam replied. "But those guys did something to us and…"
"We locked you up", a familiar voice said. Duncan walked up to the cell that spread him from the mutants.
"Matthews", Tabitha snarled. "Don't you have anything better to do with your life, like college or football?"
"You know, you're lucky that we even put you in this cage", Duncan glared at the girl. "You have the privilege to be here instead of being dead."
"You know yah can't hold us right?" Sam stumbled onto his feet ready to jet propel out but his legs gave away and he slump back to the ground.
"Sam are you alright?" Tabitha asked warily.
"Yeah I'm fine."
The two mutants heard Duncan laugh, "Do you idiots really think that we weren't prepared to face your kind. We drugged you so that you couldn't get away."
"Or before you could kill another human", Cameron came into view scowling at the mutants. "You mutants shouldn't even exist. And The Friends of Humanity are going to make sure that we rid away all of your kind."
Tabitha and Sam were huddled together both not showing any kind of fear in their faces, but rather confidence and hope. "What do you plan on doing with us?" Sam asked.
"Well", a new voice said. Duncan and Cameron both turned around and saw Graydon Creed walk up. The man had a blank expression on his face to hide the hatred he held against mutants. Sam noticed that his posture was straight and in line, his face was hard and he seem to be in control, but Sam could sense the revulsion against him and Tabitha just by the man's cold hard stare. "I plan on ending all mutants but first I think that we should start with the mutants that took the life of one of my fellow followers." Graydon turned his gaze to Cameron.
"You won't get away with this!" Tabitha exclaimed but Sam put a hand on her shoulder.
"The X-Men will find us", Sam said in a surprisingly calm and cool tone. "And when they do, we will stop everything that you do. All we want is peace with regular humans but with people like you that will never happen."
"With people like us?" Graydon looked offended. "You're the ones that ruin everything that life stands for and we're just trying to make everything better. Now I'm done talking with you."
As Graydon turned his back on them the two mutants didn't notice that someone was behind them and then they felt a shocking bolt of electricity passing through them. Sam vision blurred before he passed out and all he could do was hope that the X-Men were on their way to recuse them.
(Bayville High)
Principal Cooper was walking out of the school's door getting her car keys from out of her purse. She walked over to her car but was surprise to see Professor Xavier waiting beside her car.
"Professor Xavier", she greeted him. "What are you doing here?"
"I've come to see if a couple of my students were here."
"You do understand that school has been out for nearly three hours now", the woman questioned.
"Yes but to my understanding Sam and Tabitha both had detention and had to stay after school."
"Yes I remember", Valerie nodded. "But they both left the school grounds and I haven't seen them since. Maybe they were too scared to go home because they didn't want to be punished. You know many students try to avoid trouble."
"Yes maybe you're right", Xavier said full of doubt. "Thank you for your time."
(Xavier Institute)
Laura was exploring around the institute looking for Logan after Rogue introduced her to everyone and then left her to deal with something. Rogue told her to stay put until she got back but Laura really didn't like listening to commands especially after being controlled all her life. Logan's scent was all around the house but Laura finally caught his recent scent which leads her to the kitchen.
When walks into the doorway of the kitchen she didn't see Logan anywhere but instead five students. She saw Kurt, Alex, Dani, Christy, and Bobby talking and laughing over something Kurt had said. She left and continued to trail Logan's scent which then leads her to the Rec. Room. In the room Roberto, Sean, and Jamie were watching a soccer game on TV. Sean and Jamie were sitting on the couch while Roberto was sitting on the floor. Hank was also in the room but was wearing glasses to read the book in his hands but every once in a while he would look at the game.
Laura turned to walk away when she bumped into none other than the Cajun himself. "Whoa petite, what are you doing?"
"Just trying to find Wol-I mean Logan", Laura tried not to scowl at the man so tried to scurry away from him.
"I know where he is", Remy replied before the girl could leave, which worked because she turned back towards him, raising an eyebrow. "He's in the Danger Room, I'll take you." Remy began to lead the way.
"You know I can find my own way right?"
"Yes but I insist on meeting the daughter of the world's famous Wolverine", Remy tried to suppress a laugh as they enter the elevator. "Who would have guessed that Logan of all people would have a child?"
"I'm not his…" Laura trailed off because she didn't really want to correct Remy. For once no one would label her as the clone of Weapon X but actually a real person, her own individual persona.
The elevator opened and Remy walked down the corridors of the Sub-Basement with Laura right behind him scanning over the foreign area. They both stopped walking when they arrived at the doors outside of the Danger Room.
"Okay so we'll go up to the control room and…"
Laura zoned out from what Remy was about to say because she heard Logan groaning in pain. Before Remy knew what was happening Laura rushed passed him and started slicing away at the door.
Remy stared in disbelief, "What are you doing!?"
Without answering Laura kicked at the door knocking it apart from the hinges and running into the Danger Room. She ran into the slivery blue platform and saw a figure knocking Logan off his feet and then putting their foot on top of his chest. Before Remy could even blink Laura went off and tackled the figure from off of Logan. This caught Logan off of guard and he hurried onto his feet when he got up he saw that Laura had Jubilee pinned down to the ground.
"Laura, what do you think you're doing!?" Logan asked as Remy and he approached the two girls.
"I-I thought that you were in trouble", Laura responded and started to feel foolish.
"Well", Jubilee groaned from Laura's weight pressing on her. "He's not. Can you get off me now?"
Laura got off of Jubilee and Logan helped her up, "Are you okay?"
"Yeah", Jubilee replied. "I'm going to go back upstairs."
"I'll come with you", Remy said not wanting to stay with the other two dangerous mutants.
Logan waited for Remy and Jubilee to be out of hearing range before talking to Laura, "Laura you didn't have to bust in here. Did Remy even tell you what we do in this room?" Before she even had a chance to answer he continued. "This is the Danger Room and here is where we train. That's what me and Jubilee were doing; training." Logan sighed at seeing the girl lower her head, avoiding his gaze so he puts a hand on her shoulder, which makes her look at him. "You have to understand that here everyone is not out to get you at least not in the mansion. This is a safe place to be, I just want you to know that."
"Logan please meet me in my office", Xavier's voice said in Logan's head.
"Laura I have to go but I'll be back"
Logan left the girl in the room but she hardly notice because she seem to have been lost at thought about something.
(Xavier's Office)
"What do you mean they were taken?" Logan heard Scott's voice as he entered the room. He saw that Ororo, Hank, and Jean in the room.
"What's going one?" Logan asked.
"Charles has just informed us that Sam and Tabitha have been taken by mutant haters", Hank informed him.
"What?" Logan snarled. "Okay Chuck, tell us where to find them."
"They're a little far away out of Bayville at an abandon factory."
"Alright let's go then", Ororo said.
(Factory)
Tabitha woke up to find herself out of the cell but cuffs on her hands that had chains on them connecting to the wall. She also saw Sam strapped down on a table still unconscious. "Sam", She whispered his name loud enough for him to hear but not loud enough to alert anyone nearby. "Sam." Tabitha started to worry when she didn't get a reaction from the country boy. "Sam!"
"He can't hear you", Cameron said holding something sharp and silver in his hand. "We dosed him up twice as much as you so he won't be waking up anytime soon. "
Tabitha saw that what Cameron was holding was a dagger. "Wha-What are you going to do?" she asked frightfully.
"Well my best friend die in front of me", Cameron responded. "Now I think that someone deserves to share that same pain and experience with me. You know what they say an eye for an eye."
Cameron moved closer to Sam's motionless body. If it wasn't for the slights rise and fall of his chest, Tabitha would of thought that he was already dead. Cameron lowered the dagger and traced with the tip of it over Sam's skin.
"No!" Tabitha screamed. "You can't do this!"
"Oh but I can", Cameron stated. "And I will. You see I had to suffer a loss because of one of you X-Men and now all of you X-Men will suffer a loss because of me." Cameron started to cut slightly on Sam's arm piercing his pale skin.
Tabitha sucked in a breath, "Stop! No please!"
Cameron ignored whatever she was saying and moved along to the other arm to do the same. "You know Graydon let me do this alone because he felt that I should have some kind of closure. So he moved your bodies to this factory and said that I can do anything I want with you two and I decided on this." Cameron smirked when he her Tabitha whimpered with tears slowly following down her face. "You shouldn't cry, it's not like you're the one getting cut open. And the best thing that will make you happy is that I'm going to let you go. Let you go so that you can tell all you little mutant friends to run and hide from the Friends of Humanity because they will be next."
Tabitha stared at Sam's body and because most of her attention was on Cameron and the dagger in his possession she didn't notice that Sam didn't have on a shirt. Cameron was tracing the dagger along Sam's throat and then moved it over right above his heart. "Did you know", Cameron said. "If you hit the right spot of the heart, that you can kill the person easily with less blood and less mess?" Cameron moved the dagger lower just above Sam's belly button. "Good them I'm not that cruel. I'm going to cut him everywhere else first so that you can even feel the pain and then I'm going for the heart. So maybe I'm even crueler." Cameron pulled his hand back slightly then plunged the dagger into Sam which caused Tabitha to scream out loud. Tabitha saw the drips of blood coming from the dagger as Cameron pulled it out.
Before Cameron could do anymore damage something blasted the door open and then to Tabitha relief saw the X-Men feeling into the room. As the five members flowed into the area, Jean use telekinesis to force the dagger out of Cameron's hand and it slid across the floor. Logan ran over to Tabitha and sliced off the chains and cuffs, while Hank and Ororo went to go assist Sam.
"Stay where you are", Cyclops said as he saw the Cameron attempted to move. "You're going to jail buddy."
"That's fine", Cameron held up his hands in surrender. "All I wanted was to get my point across", he looks over to Tabitha who is shaken and crying in Wolverine's arm. "And I think I have."
(Xavier Institute)
After the X-Men delivered Cameron to the police they quickly hurried back to the house to take Sam to the infirmary. Jean used her powers to hover Sam across the law and before anyone could open the door someone, a woman, busted out of the mansion and landed on her back just below the steps. The woman was Asian with long black hair pulled back into a ponytail and was wearing a black suit with long adamantium nails coming from her fingertips.
Laura flipped out of the mansion and was about to land on the woman, but the woman was too fast and quickly rolled before it could impact her. The X-Men stared at the woman on her feet.
"Get Sam and Tabitha into the house", Logan commanded. "And make sure the others are okay. Me and Laura can take care of this."
Scott was about to protest but knew that out of everyone these two mutants would be able to handle themselves. The others went into the house without questioning Logan.
"So who's our friend?" Logan asked Laura as he and her circled the woman.
"Her name's Lady Deathstrike and she's…"
"Going to either kill or bring back Weapon X", the woman said. "But both of you would be a big price to bring back to him."
"Him?" Wolverine questioned. "Who?"
Lady Deathstrike advanced towards Logan and tried to slice him with her nails but Logan, being as quick as he is, grabbed her wrist. She kicked him in the gut knocking him onto the ground but then Laura started throwing punches and tried to kick the woman, who kept dodging every attack.
A helicopter appeared above them, flashing a blinding bright light. Lady Deathstrike took this as an advantage and knocked Laura off her feet and made a clean get away. Logan went over to Laura and helped her up. He saw that the helicopter had S.H.I.E.L.D. on the side of it as it lowered to the ground.
Nick Fury appeared at the door of the helicopter and jumped down to the ground and walked over to the two mutants with a toothpick in his mouth.
"No!" Logan yelled putting a protective arm over Laura as if that would keep Nick away from her. "You can't have her. How did you even know where she was anyway?"
Laura moved around Logan's outstretched arm and walked over beside Nick, which surprised Logan more than anything. "What's going on here?"
"X-23 was on a mission", Nick said. "She was to protect you from getting killed by Lady Deathstrike, one of Weapon X still active members."
Logan stared at Laura in disbelief, "But why didn't you tell me?"
"It wasn't a part of the mission to tell you", she responded. "Remember at the highway? It wasn't an accident. Lady Deathstrike caused it because she was trying to kill you."
"But when did you team up with Shield?"
"They found me three months ago and offered me a chance to work for them and obviously I told them yes. So I worked with them on various mission and then we found out that Weapon X were targeting previous members and one in particular was after you. Nick figured that since you and I shared a bond that I would make the great candidate for the job of protecting you."
"So that's why you attacked Jubilee", Logan remembered. "Because you thought I was in danger and didn't want anything to happen to me."
"Yeah, but now my job is over", Laura said.
"Don't go", Logan said grabbing onto the girl's arm. "You can't leave. If you stay you can finally live like a normal teenage girl and don't have to work to be a weapon all the time."
"But isn't that all I am?" Laura said. "Even when I'm here I'm pretty sure that's what I'll be."
"No", Logan shook his head. "You are more than that. Here yeah you'll work but most of the time you get to go to school, make friends, and worry about normal teen problems, instead of killing and fighting all the time."
"Yeah, but what about…" Laura looked back towards Nick.
"I'll handle that", Logan smirked at the girl.
Logan went over to talk to Nick and after ten minutes of bickering and arguing, Nick and his soldiers finally left and Logan walked back over to Laura. "Come on", he said putting and arm around her. "Let's go inside."
(Infirmary)
After Hank, Jean, and Professor Xavier were done patching up Sam, he had to get some rest. Tabitha practically had to beg Xavier to let her stay with Sam for the night. At first he refused but then she told him that it would help her to sleep at night to know that he was truly okay. So now Tabitha was sitting by his infirmary bed holding his hand in hers.
After a few hours Tabitha eyes were feeling heavy and she was slowly drifting off to sleep, but before she could get some rest Sam woke up. "Tabby", his voice sounded hoarse and rough.
"Sam!" Tabitha hugged him tightly causing him to flinch in pain, she noticed and quickly detached herself from him. "Sorry I'm just glad to see that you're alright."
"Yeah, I glad that you're okay too", Sam smiled but then saw the distorted look on her face. "What's wrong?"
"It's just", Tabitha started as tears started to fill her eyes. "If it wasn't for me none of this would of happened to us. If I didn't get in trouble you wouldn't have come to my rescue and got yourself in trouble and then we wouldn't have had to walk home and we wouldn't have got kidnapped."
"Tabitha", Sam firmly said grabbing her hand. "I wouldn't have changed a thing. Well other than me getting stabbed. You see if none of this happened that little boy that they had would be hurt or even worst."
Yeah", Tabitha said. "Maybe you're right. You know I keep thing about what you said about humans and mutants. Do you really think that we can get along?"
"Of course", Sam assured her. "Anything is possible we just got to work hard at it. We can't let people like the Friends of Humanity stop us from trying. But I know that you probably think that I'm stupid for thinking that."
"No", Tabitha shook her hand. "I actually think that it could happen with mutants like you and the Professor around. I was really scared that you were going to die and I really didn't want to lose you Sam." Tabitha and Sam stared into each other's eyes and Tabitha made the first move at kissing him on the lips. They broke apart after a few seconds. "If you tell anyone how soft I'm being I'm going to have to kill you" she joked.
"Well then, I promised not to", Sam smiled as Tabitha kissed him on the cheek.
Author's Note:
So guys I know that this episode was pretty tense and all but I have to say I liked how it turned out. And you guys saw that there's something going on with Sam and Tabitha now, and Laura's in the picture, and that Weapon X will not let go of Logan. Now I'm going to tell you guys that I think I might make a season 6 of this story. But this is my rule I need at least five reviews telling me that you guys want the new season and ten yes in the polls that says you want it. So guys please review and vote yes. Now on to another subject, I'm also planning on writing a new story after this on is finished and it's called 'The Rogue'. Me and a friend of mine by the name of Skyscraper25/hjxjfdndj is collaborating on his new project. The story will be about Rogue and all the boys falling for her but she doesn't know who to choose because they all make her feel great and important. Now throughout the story it will be the viewers to decide who Rogue will be with. So after I get done with this story please checks out the Rogue, which should be ready in four weeks. And now that I think about it, it's sad that we only have three episodes left until this story ends. So please guys review and tell me what you think