Chapter Twenty Five: The Abduction
As y'all can read the title...
Orangeporqupine- Me too ;-}
Akshara- You're very close to the truth;-}
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Aks's eyes snapped open by Victor's suppressed growls scolding someone on the phone and like always, the argument was about her. She let out a soft sigh and looked at her Mate over her shoulder whose shirtless frame was standing cross-legged with one hand against the opened door of their room.
"-No you listen to me Nick, I don't care how ya convince that asshole, but I'm NOT coming!" Aks's sleepy eyes narrowed at this sudden call of Fury at 6 goddamned 30 in the morning.
"But Creed, you're the face of our side in this meeting."
"-I don't give a fuck how it goes without me. We need his help but that ain't gonna make me fuckin' beg for it from him. Take the firecracker with ya guys." the confusion deepened even more. Who's this mysterious 'helper' Victor was talking about and why is Jubilee involved in all this?
"I understand, Victor but you have to-"
"-Ya know what happened last night, right? Now ya tell me how I can leave my Mate alone in such an unsafe state. That's why," he turned around and smiled at his just awoken Mate. "Ya go there and tell him why I couldn't come, if he still says no, tell him ta go fuck himself!" he tossed the phone aside and walked back to their bed.
"Broke your sleep?" he pushed a messy lock behind her ear and kissed the soft, naked skin of her neck.
"Yep." Aks smirked. "So who's the guy you and Nick were talking about?"
Victor sighed in her curls. "Just another shit-faced mob boss of the dark world."
"You're hiding something again, Vic." Aks said dryly. She could now read Creed's eyes as well as he could hers.
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A stiff look took over his face. He pulled back and buried his eyes into hers. "Yes, I am, but just because ya can't handle the nasty truth behind this whole fuckin' meeting in this condition." His hand reached over to cup her cheek. "But don't worry, I ain't goin' anywhere. Especially, whatever happened in the mansion last night."
"What happened there last night?" another confusion crept onto her face.
Victor sighed. "The weather frail called a couple hours ago. The bitch they brought home believe that she was Jean, snooped through Cerebro to find our location by chasin' stripes's ass last night. When wheels tried to stop her, she attacked him."
"What?!" deep shock took over Aks's face. "She wasn't Jean?! A-And...how the hell did she know Marie would come here?"
"Where the hell else would the heart-broken stripes go?" he grunted. "Jimmy is the only goddamn shoulder to cry on for the entire goddamn Wolverine Fanclub."
"Is professor okay now?"
Creed nodded. "Scott and others saved at the right time."
"So what do we do now, Vic?" Aks asked agitated. "Daken and his people now know where we are. What if they-"
"Nothing like that is going ta happen, ya hear me?" his clawed fingers slipped behind her head and pulled her face closer. His hardened eyes caught her timid ones. "I'm not gonna let anything happen ta you or our Cub, got it?" he didn't ease the pressure until she nodded shakily.
He loosened his fingers and massaged her scalp. "Ya wanna know the truth, right? The truth is, I never trusted wheels's 'sit back and wait for the attack' techniques. Their first Invasion gave a goddamn huge estimation of what they could do or what else they could do in future. If they have an army, we would have to make an army of our own too."
"Our army?" she scrunched her eyebrows.
A mysterious side-smirk touched the left corner of his lips. "Like they say, the enemy of my enemy is my friend. Those goddamn sniffers have a very old grudge with another feral kind which has been living in the dark lairs for ages because of them. Your annoying friend, Jubilee was also one of them till a decade ago."
Aks covered her mouth in sheer shock mixed with horror. "Y-You mean..V-Vamp-"
"Yes." he replied shortly. "SHIELD keeps a strict watch at their hideouts and activities. Nick believes that they could be a big help in ghostin' those pups if we could convince them to get involved in this war. Their king Neculai Dracula, the grandson of Vlad Dracula is comin' ta Scotland for this talk today and-"
"Then what the hell are you doing here?" she asked as she pulled his hand out of her hair and brought it to her mouth. She kissed his palm. "I think you should go."
Victor shook his head. "But darlin'-"
"I'll be safe, Victor." an assuring smile on her lips. "I'm not alone here, I have Marie and Lo-"
"I DO NOT trust that runt to protect ya in my absence anymore!" he snarled out his anger and insecurity as the nasty replay of yesterday morning flashed before his eyes.
Once again, her hesitant hand reached up to touch his cheek and just like last time, he allowed her to hesitantly. "But you trust me, don't you? Like I've said earlier, whether it's Logan or anybody else, I'm just yours."
With a deep sigh, Creed finally leaned into her palm and nodded. "Okay. I'll be gone just for a few hours. Ya stay inside and if anything unusual happens, just one call and I'll be here."
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Aks's jaw tightened as she walked into the hall and bumped into Logan coming from the opposite direction.
"What the hell, Logan?!" she growled rubbing her forehead.
The use of his common name from her mouth stung Logan like a bee again but he quickly suppressed the pain that just rose in his chest. "S-Sorry, I was just-"
"You know what, just forget it and tell me where Marie is." she cut him off dryly.
"Marie.." Logan rubbed his neck, trying to find a way to tell her. "She's just gone out. She said she needed some time alone."
"And you let her?!" Aks shook her head in disbelief. "Even after knowing what could possibly be waiting for her out there?"
Now it was Logan's jaw's turn to tighten. "Hey yer not the only one who's worried about her, Aks. I tried to stop her but she didn't-"
"Well let me try then," she spun for the door.
"Whoa, hold on a damn second, where you goin'?" Logan hurriedly tried to stop her by catching her wrist but-
"Don't!" she yanked her hand back as if his touch was poison. "Don't try to touch me, Logan."
The pain Logan had been trying to stifle for the past ten minutes finally crossed his face. "Really? Now you can't even bear my slight touch?"
"No, I can't." she snapped. You lost that right when you crossed the damn limits of our relationship." she stormed out of the house as she finished her snarling sentence.
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"It ain't safe to be walking alone in the woods like this, Marie."
Marie snapped her neck to the soft voice behind her. She relaxed a little bit when she saw it was just Aks. She didn't like it when anyone else but Logan called her by her real name but it was different with Aks. The woman was the most understanding and caring friend someone could possibly have.
"How did you find-"
"Through this." she tapped her nose smirking.
Marie sighed. "I just wanted to be alone for a while."
"So you could cry your lungs out for a man who's not worth it?" the pregnant woman carefully sat beside her friend on a large cylindrical boulder. She ran her eyes around. It was the opposite side of the river where she'd never come before.
"Saying that is easy for you because you've never been cheated on. It's crazy to say but, Creed's obsession for you is never make you go through it. Hell, that man's even gonna chase ya to heavens." her reply was harsh and amusing at the same time.
Aks smirked. "It's not obsession, darlin'. It's love."
Marie rolled her eyes. "Whatever helps you sleep at night."
"Believe it or not but it's true. He's never gonna admit it but I know he does. And it's really crazy to say but, I love him too."
Marie lifted her head and shook it in disbelief. "No way-"
Aks chuckled at her flabbergasted face. "Yes I do. In fact it was me who admitted it first. Love and trust, both should always be mutual in a relationship otherwise, like Victor says, life becomes a real bitch on ya." Marie couldn't resist a chuckle at the funny quote. Aks grinned back.
Their laughs were interrupted by a sudden twitch of Aks's nose, it had caught a damned swarm of some very familiar but hostile scents.
Marie's eyebrows met each other immediately. "What happen-"
"Shhh." Aks signaled her to be quiet. They got up quickly and ran their eyes around. The feral woman took a deep sniff again. Her eyes widened as she recognized the scent her mind could never forget after that damned attack.
The man who killed her little friend Meera so brutally in front of her eyes. Daken.
She gasped in horror and caught Marie's wrist. "Marie, let's get outta he-" before the feral woman could even complete her damned sentence, a large pack of invisible werewolves pounced at both women out of nowhere.
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Creed hurried out of old building with a victorious smile. The damned bloodsucker finally agreed to help them on the condition that his men would be allowed to prey upon all the homeless bums of the roads because nobody wouldn't give a shit about them. They now had a strong defense against those goddamn Werewolves. Now all he wanted to go back to his Mate and..
All his thoughts vaporized at once as some blurred vision bursts into his brain. A stream of shivers ran down his spine and brought him to his knees. His entire body trembled like a leaf and his eyes automatically squeezed shut as a swarm of some vague images overwhelmed his mind. Men growling, circling around, ripping their clothes off, turning into large beasts and one of them still in his human form. After a hard struggle, He recognized the face. Daken. The fucker was walking towards something or...someone with a predatory smirk on his lips. Victor could hear a rugged heartbeat, feel a surge of mixed emotions. Fear, anger and desperation. The heart started beating out of its chest with each advancing step of that goddamned slave of those wolves and suddenly he heard her scream for him.
VICTOR! ! ! ! !
Sabertooth roared out loud.
Save the Mate!
His eyes snapped open. He tried to grab a hold of his self. His quivering hand reached into the back pocket of his jeans.
"J-Jimmy! Where is she?"
A painful pause. "Umm, she's not here right now-"
"What the fuck, Logan?!"
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For those who didn't get the end, Aks contacted Victor through the feral telepathy.
Okay the bad times returned for the feral couple, what do you think is going to happen next ;-}?