"Do we have to go back so soon? I was just starting to have fun." Domino said as she sat in the co-pilot seat headed back to the states.
"I told Logan we would only be a week." Bullet answered as he set the auto-pilot and sat back. "How is your arm?"
"Just a flesh wound, its a little tender but you did a great job with the stitching." Domino answered as she pulled up her sleeve and looked at the wound. "That scar will be one hell of a story. This was just what I needed thank you."
"Drug cartels are always fun and you never feel bad about it, I'm glad you chose Columbia after we left Africa." Bullet replied.
"The money doesn't hurt either." Domino said and looked back to the cargo hold where a pallet loaded with drug money sat.
"Most of that is going to charity, don't forget that." Bullet reminded her.
"I know I know but what charity?" She huffed out the question defeatedly.
"Whatever makes you sleep the best at night." Bullet answered.
"What do you think the team has been up to all week?" Domino asked as she got out of her seat and climbed into bullet's lap.
"They have no doubt been sleeping in, but working hard once they wake up, Logan isnt the earliest bird but he wouldn't let them slack off. Bullet responded as he wrapped his arms around Domino and pulled her into his chest.
"What do you say we slow this thing down and join the mile high club?" Domino asked and gave bullet a sexy smile.
Bullet slowed the jet and lifted Domino off his lap before unbuttoning his pants.
"It feels good to be home doesn't it?" Bullet asked as they walked in the front door.
"It kind of does." Domino replied as Bullet walked in the front door.
The pair were soon greeted by their team and even their new mascot Crixus. Logan lifted his beer and nodded to them and that was more of a greeting than Bullet expected from his fellow team leader. Bullet said hello to everyone and walked to his room to unpack. He walked back down stairs and out to his ruck to grab more of his bags and his two new katanas.
"New hardware?" Logan asked noticing the swords.
"Yea check it out." Bullet said and unsheathed on before tossing to Logan.
Logan caught the blade and whistled at the craftsmanship and ran his thumb along the razor sharp blade slicing his thumb open which healed as quickly as it was cut. He tossed the blade back to Bullet who had set his bags on the floor.
"Then she said no I said I'm a thespian. Get it, get it." A familiar voice finished a joke as two men appeared in the middle of the entertainment room. Bullet unsheathed his second sword and ran forward swinging the sword at the smaller of the two men's neck and thrusting the second blade at the larger mans gut stopping a mere inch from each.
"Who the hell are you?" Bullet asked before either of the two could react.
"Bullet, you don't remember me? I'm hurt." Wade said and began reaching for the pistol at his side.
"Do it and I will separate your head and lock it in my gun safe." Bullet said before turning to the larger man. "I will not ask again who are you?" Bullet asked for the last time.
"Bullet lower your swords." Domino demanded as she ran down the stairs having heard the commotion.
"They appeared out of nowhere, this one is crazy and I can only imagine his company is the same I will not lower my blades until I get some answers." Bullet shot back an inched his blades closer until he broke skin on deadpool's neck and the other man's gut.
"His name is Cable, he is not crazy." Domino said and approached but knew better than to try to stop Bullet physically. "Him yes your right, you should keep your sword on him." She then gestured to domino.
"Seriously writer, you are seriously not going to make him lower the sword?" Deadpool asked staring off at the wall.
"So Cable what are you doing here, did this one enlist you in his revenge plot?" Bullet asked and pressed a little harder though the man showed no sign of being in pain.
"No I actually came to speak to you, Wade would not leave me alone until I brought him along, he has a way of being very annoying until he gets his way." The man answered and Bullet smirked knowing all too well that the man was right about that.
"I am hurt that you think I would seek revenge, I don't kill for revenge just for money, ohh or chimi chongas I would definitely kill you for some chimi chongas." Wade said and Bullet sliced his throat before removing the blade and watched as the blood sprayed from Wade's neck. The wound healed and the bleeding stopped before Wade could speak. "That really hurt what was that for? Do you have chimi chongas?"
"Anything to shut you up even if its only for a second." Bullet answered and wiped the blood off on Cable's shirt before walking away. "Now tell me where you came from and what you came for or you will never make it back."
"Why don't you tell him Wolverine, it will be more believable coming from you." Cable said and looked to Logan who sat on the couch drinking a beer during everything.
"You know this man Logan?" Bullet asked.
"His name's Cable, he's a time traveler, comes back to make changes from time to time." Logan shrugged.
"Time traveler, you expect me to believe that?" Bullet asked turning back to the man.
"Is it really that hard to believe, it is you after all who invents the technology." Cable said and Bullet looked on with a straight face.
"Ok, you have peaked my interest, you have five minutes, start talking." Bullet said and sheathed his swords.
"What you are doing, the mission, you can not continue the way you are going." Cable said and Bullet laughed.
"I am not stopping." Bullet informed him.
"I am not asking you too, you can not sit back and do nothing either. You just need another approach, this ask no questions kill everything that moves attitude cant continue, you have to be smart." The man said and bullet scoffed.
"And why is that?" Bullet asked.
"Because it gets you killed." Cable said and the jaw of everyone standing around listening dropped except for Bullet's.
"Why should I believe you?" Bullet asked him unsure of what the man told him.
"Because things get a lot worse after your death." He said and stood in the exact same spot he appeared in as wade walked to the fridge and grabbed one of Logan's beers before an empty bottle flew across the room and smashed against his skull.
"Owww what was that for?" Wade asked as the wound from the glass in his head healed.
"Put it back." Logan warned.
"Back to the topic at hand, who kills me?" Bullet asked turning back to Cable choosing to ignore the other situation.
"You do." Cable said and everyone around gasped, they knew Bullet was having a hard time but also knew he was doing better with his grieving.
"So that means I accomplish my mission?" Bullet asked knowing that was what he planned to do after avenging the deaths of his family. "I finally make it back to them?"
"Yes you make it back to your family, and also the rest of your team." Cable informs him.
"What do you mean he makes it back to the rest of his team?" Rahne interrupted before Bullet could ask the same question.
"All of you except for Logan and Bullet will perish, but you can all take comfort in the fact that Bullet avenges your deaths, after causing your deaths of course." Cable answered her and looked to Bullet with a thousand yard stare in his eyes.
"I think its time for you to go if you want to make it back to your terrible future, I will look after my team. Have you considered the fact that no matter what you do your future will be a wreck, sure you can make small changes, save certain individuals but the outcome stays more or less the same, your tossing pebbles into the ocean, let that sink in on your way back and then fix things in the present instead of trying to fix them in the past. Goodbye Cable." Bullet said and turned his back on the man.
"I will go but before I do I will leave you with one piece of advice, you should check out Illinois." He said and grabbed wade before pushing a button on his wrist and disappeared again.
"Logan I take it this man wouldn't have come back here to lie to us right?" Bullet asked him.
"Wouldnt make much sense would it." He stated.
"I guess not I need some air." Bullet said and walked toward the door.
"I dont think so, your not leaving me to clean up this mess." He said as the rest of the team began asking him question after question.
"I will answer any questions you have when I get back, please do not turn to Logan with your inquiries. There better?" Bullet asked as he opened the door.
"Where are you going?" Domino asked.
"Out."
"Has Bullet come back yet?" Domino asked as she walked down the stairs from her bedroom noticing Logan sitting at the bar with a beer.
"No." Logan said and took a swig of the cold brew.
"Its almost midnight, we should look for him." Domino said as thunder boomed followed by lightning illuminating the room through the windows.
"How do you plan on finding him?" Logan asked.
"You can track him." Domino suggested.
"Not in that storm, it wasnt raining when he left, there are no boot prints no scent trail to follow, people tend to go to the same places, do you have any idea where he might have gone?" Logan asked.
"I can think of a few places." Domino answered him.
"Good luck." Logan said and got up from the bar. "I'm going to bed."
"Your not coming?" She asked.
"He's a grown man not a lost puppy he will come back." Logan said and continued walking.
"What about you?" Domino asked turning to Crixus as he laid on the sofa with his head toward the front door waiting for Bullet to walk in. Crixus lifted his head as Domino walked toward his bedroom to get his spare truck key and then back down the stairs.
Domino ran through the rain and opened to door to Bullets truck, Crixus jumped in and climbed to the passenger seat. Domino climbed in and brushed her already soaked hair out of her face. She started the truck and backed down the long driveway. She drove up the mountain to the clearing he had taken her to when she hurt her wrist and he made her a sling and tea that he lied and said would help with the pain but instead made her tired so she could rest. There was no sign of him there so she continued driving further up the mountain. She racked her brain trying to think of where he may be just then Crixus began barking and looking out of the passenger side window.
"Is he that way?" Domino asked and pulled the truck to the side of the road and shut the engine off. They had to trek the rest of the way on foot, the clearing is not wide enough for the truck. Domino sighed and opened the door. Crixus jumped over her and took off into the forest. Domino jumped out slammed the door and took off after him. After running for roughly a mile she came to a clearing and noticed Crixus sitting in the mud as Bullet scratched behind his ear.
"Bullet you have to be freezing, you know its raining right." Domino asked as she was cold and had only been in the rain for minutes and not hours.
"I'm fine." Bullet said in his regular tone of voice as if the weather had no effect on him at all.
"You just left us after that bomb was dropped and then didn't even bother to come back." Domino said with anger becoming more and more evident in her voice.
"What do you want me to say?" Bullet asked and didn't even bother to face her.
"That you don't plan on getting the team killed, if there is even a team left after that news and what is this about you killing yourself after everything?" Domino asked and took a seat on the log that bullet was sitting on.
"Of course I dont plan on getting you killed but you all knew the risk when you signed up." Bullet stated firmly.
"Is that why you kill yourself? I dont think its just to rejoin your family or you never would have agreed to make things official between us." Domino stated and Bullet merely shrugged. "Are you going to talk to me?" She then asked.
"I don't have the answers you want. Perhaps you should go back I will be back sooner or later." Bullet told her.
"Quit being a pussy, get your ass back to the Aerie, get some rest and clear things up with your team. Cable informed us that we all die so that we are prepared, the future is never set in stone we can change things, we don't have to die but we need you to keep us together Bullet, without you this team will fall apart. It is you who keeps us from killing each other, Logan is great but he is not the glue to keep everyone together that's you. Now I am not giving you an option get the hell up." Domino demanded and threw an elbow knocking Bullet back off the log and expelling the air from his lungs. "If you are going to tear this team apart to tear us apart then don't wait for it to happen just do it. The team deserves better than that, they have been risking everything fighting beside you and you just leave them wondering where we are going to go from here, they look to you for answers and you will get your ass back and supply them with the answers they need."
Bullet looked at her from the ground and then laid his head back into the mud and let her words sink in. "Your right." Bullet then said as he sat up and the slowly got to his feet. He walked slowly back in the direction Domino had come from. Crixus walked beside him occasionally shaking off all though it did no good as they rain kept falling. They reached the truck and Bullet climbed into the passenger side having said nothing the whole walk.
After a silent drive back down the mountain they reached the Aerie and walked inside. Thankfully for Bullet everyone else seemed to be asleep giving him time to figure out what he would say to them. He walked to his room and got a shower washing the mud off of him under the hot water. He walked back out to find Domino in his room her hair still damp from the rain.
"I cant believe that the strongest man I know can be such a baby." She said and Bullet sighed deeply as he dried his hair.
"Not now Dom." Bullet said and climbed into bed after discarding the towel.
"When?" She asked angrily standing at the edge of the bed.
"Does never sound good?" Bullet asked hypothetically.
"Thats your problem, you never talk about the things that bother you and then one of two things happen, either you blow up and do something stupid out of anger and wind up risking your life to along with a bunch of others or you shut down and enter a depressed state, would it be possible for you to accept that you got some bad news and figure out a rational way to deal with it for once?" She ranted and Bullet closed his eyes and ran his fingers through his hair out of frustration.
"I just found out everyone in this house apart from Logan will die because of me and you expect me to just accept that? Why are you accepting this? If you were smart you would get as far away from me as possible, everyone who gets close to me dies, cant you see that I am poison, a parasite leeching what I need from those around me without regard to how it will affect them." Bullet stated. "I dont want to lose anyone else, maybe we should disband the team."
"And then what?" Domino asked wondering where he was going with this.
"I finish this myself, you heard Cable I accomplish this mission in the end and avenge my family's death." Bullet answered.
"I cant speak for the others but I am with you in this and I will not let you do this without me, the future is not set and I refuse to accept that my life ends at the hands of a purifier we haven't faced one yet with the capability to kill me." Domino informed him.
"I cant lose you Dom, I cant go through that again." Bullet said and his features dropped from neutral and emotionless to sullen.
"I'm not going anywhere, that's what I am trying to tell you." She said as she stripped down and climbed into bed with him.
"Just because you say it doesn't mean it wont happen." Bullet said and laid back again.
"Im with you in this until this mission is over, I will see the end of it. I will not discuss this further, I am going to bed, its exhausting putting up with your shit." She said and laid her head back on her pillow.
"Dom?" Bullet asked as he turned to face her.
"Hmm?" She asked him.
"Thanks." Bullet said.
"For?" She asked turning over to look at him.
"For not biting our tongue, for telling me what needed to be said. For not leaving me to sleep alone tonight." Bullet said and kissed her forehead.
"Your bed is more comfortable than mine." She joked and curled up next to him resting her head onto his chest.