1Authors Note:
OK a few announcements to make…
Today I had my first skating competition, and I didn't fall! YAY!
I've put up my website on my profile, but I wouldn't go to it cause it sucks. My comp has major issues and I can't do anything to it. So disregard this note please.
I've decided that it would be impossible top post my favorite lyrics on my profile, so I'll randomly change the songs when I fell like it. Right now I have Rob Zombie- Dragula, and Dierks Bentley-Settle For A Slowdown. Just in case anyone gives a damn. OK here's the story.
Chapter 21:
Someone was in her room she knew it. Zakara grasped the knife that she kept hidden under her pillow tighter. She didn't want to use her incredible senses to determine who it was; they might have been able to detect the movement of her tongue even in the pitch-black darkness. Whoever it was they were quiet. The "attacker" ran their fingers through her hair, probably thinking that she was asleep. As soon as they came in contact with her she pounced. Zakara shot up out of bed and grabbed them in a death lock. She was pressed up against the wall with the knife pressed up against there throat ready to slice them if need be.
" Ack! Za-ka-ra it's me." Mort chocked out. Zakara immediately released her hold on Toad, sheathing the knife into an empty holster on her boot.
" Sorry, but I can't be to careful right now."
" S'ok I understand." Toad said rubbing his neck. " Look I know it's early bu' I 'ad somethin' important to ask you."
Zakara sat back down on the bed motioning Toad to sit with her. " Is something wrong?"
" No, no nothin's wrong at all I was jus' wonderin' if you wanted to come wif me to the mainland."
" Sure, but why ask me at six in the morning?"
" 'cause we need to get there by eight."
"Mort you're speaking in tongues. Whatever it is you can just tell me." Zakara said comfortingly while snuggling up against him.
"D' you want to come wif me to meet my niece?"
" YOUR NIECE!" Zakara exclaimed. Mort clasped his hand over her mouth. "Oi! D' you want the entire Brotherhood te hear you?" He hissed.
" You never told me you had a niece." She said when he lowered his hand from her. " In fact I didn't even think you really had a family." Zakara said quietly.
" Pretty convincin' huh?" Toad smiled his golden eyes glimmering in the darkness. " Abou' five years ago I went back to Britain to find my parents, I was gonna kill them." Mort paused and Zakara kissed his check lightly to let him know that she cared. " Bu' I couldn' do it. They never wanted to put me in that hellhole of an orphanage. In fact they said someone took me out of the 'ospital an' put me there. At first I didn't believe them, then I saw 'er. She 'ad the exact mutation as me, an' I knew tha' they were tellin' the truth. Found out tha' she was my sister's, apparently Elizabeth, my sister, was born 'bout a year after I was. Anyway's she go' married and 'ad Anna. Bu' 'er jackass of a 'usband couldn' stand the fact of 'avin' a mutan' as a daughter, so he left 'er. I knew a place where Anna could be accepted as a mutan',' Xavier's School Fo' The Gifted Youngsters'. A school run by the most powerful telepath in the world. They were 'appy to let both of them stay, even though Eve isn't a mutan'."
" Wow." Zakara whispered. " I had no ides. But why tell me? And why now?"
" Professor Xavier, the guy who runs the school, also leads the X-men. There kinda our enemy."
" Wait your enemy?"
" I don' think I've been totally honest wif you 'bout the entire 'Brotherhood' organization. While we are tryin' to protect mutan' rights were doin' it at a cost. 'm a terrorist 'Z', we all are." Mort paused waiting for Zakara to say something, but she never did. " The X-men our are enemies, they've been tryin' to stop us at everythin' we've ever done. Did you hear 'bout the attack at the Statue Of Liberty when the U.N Summit was goin' on last year?" Zakara nodded her head 'yes' but said nothing. " Well it was us against them, an' we lost, bad. There weather witch, Storm, electrocuted me into the 'udson, an' when I go' out of the hospital I went to the nearest bar. An' that's the exact one I meet you in."
" Well now I see why you're the Right Hand." She finally said.
" Yer no' mad?"
" No of course not, why would you think that?"
" I thought you'd 'ave to kill me."
" Why on earth would you think that!" Zakara exclaimed.
" I've killed people 'Z' wouldn' tha' brand me as some sort of evil creature? An' doesn' tha' mean you half to kill me?" Zakara laughed lightly.
" Mort for one thing it would be almost impossible for me to kill you, we're both to evenly matched. Two your not evil, well technically you are but evil does not rule you so therefore I cannot kill you. The fact that you didn't kill your parents and all their help and support you've given to your niece and sister proves it. And thirdly I don't think I could anyway, I care to much about you."
" Thanks 'Z'." Toad leaned in and kissed her lightly on the mouth.
" So tell me more about this school."
" It's a great place, everyone there is a mutan', well except fo' 'E'. When 'm no' doin' anythin' here I go there an' help wif the little kids. It's a great way to spend more time wif Anna. An' the professor 'as promised me to make sure that no one in the Brotherhood finds out."
" Anna must really care about you."
" Yeah, she's a great gel. A little ambitious bu' a great kid. So wanna come wif me?"
" I'd love to."
Authors Note:
So how's that for a plot twist? Come on who saw it comin'? No one? YAY! Please R&R