ThegranddiscipleAnother chapter I gave input but Son of the Mourning mused due to my lack of free time
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The bullets went right through Kitty, causing her to roll her eyes and scoff. "Is that really necessary?"
Ulysses wasn't as fast as the other men pulling the trigger, he had to wait a second for his cannon to charge. When it did, a large purple and blue blast that hurt their ears shot forward at her, and she didn't move out of the way. Thinking that it wouldn't affect her like everything else that had ever been thrown at her.
The blast hit her square in the torso, lifting her off the ground and crashing hard into the wall behind her. Her phasing ability was unable to cope with the blast due to the frequency of it's sound. After all, it was still an altered mining tool. It's force hit her so hard it broke her clavicle and three of her ribs. When she hit the wall blood spit out of her mouth.
"KITTY!" Piotr yelled and rushed to her.
Disciple lowered his gun immediately, "Shit! Cease fire!"
Frank stopped firing but didn't lower his gun, "Who the fuck is that?!"
Disciple moved to help Piotr with her, "She's Kitty Pryde, Shadowcat. Lower your fucking weapons!"
Ulysses and Frank looked at each other and kept their weapons pointing at both her and Piotr, "That don't mean shit. Where the fuck did she come from?"
"She can walk through solid objects like walls and shit. That's her mutant power. She was an X-Men."
Piotr looked up to Ulysses and Frank with an angry expression, "She was the one who risked her life getting that file. Mina, please help her!"
Mina didn't dare move, Ulysses had thrown his free hand out to stop her from moving forward. His posture was tense, and he was in attack mode. Were he a wild animal, the hair on the back of his neck would be standing up, his teeth were already bare.
"They're telling the truth," Domino said from behind them all.
"Bullshit if I ever heard it. Why the fuck didn't she come through the front door with him?" Frank didn't buy it. He pointed his fun from Kitty to Piotr.
"Bokkie, come here. Now." Ulysses called for her and held his arm out. He looked around the room while pointing his canon. "Hold onto me. I don't know how many other friends he's got hanging around here. Doesn't smell right."
"There is just Kurt, but he knows not to pop in. It's just Kitty and I. Please- Mina, heal her." Piotr stood while holding her in his arms, walking towards them.
"STOP! STAY BACK- BACK UP AGAINST THE WALL!" Frank ordered him and pointed his gun.
"Please- she's hurt!"
"Frank- just listen to me. They're not the enemy." Disciple stepped between them and put his hands up.
"Move Disciple!" Frank ordered.
"She can pop through walls and shit. How do we know she wasn't the one on security cams looking through Mina's window?! She disappeared that night. Couldn't have been anyone else." Ulysses spat angrily.
"WHAT?!" Mina exclaimed angrily. "Who the fuck? When? How come no one told me?!"
"We'll talk later, Bokkie." Ulysses turned to her while keeping his cannon pointed at them. He cupped her cheek and looked into her eyes deeply, "Right now, Daddy's handling shit."
Domino looked at Disciple, "He's got a point."
Frank growled, "Fucking right he does."
"It wasn't them. Have you forgotten my powers? How I'm not only able to manipulate but tell when people are trying to deceive? It wasn't them. You said it yourself, both sides are after Mina." Disciple shot back angrily, but he still didn't reach for his weapon.
"He said it himself, he's been trying to find her and reach out to her for weeks. How do we know he isn't some fucked up sleeper agent for Xavier? He's already fucked with Dom's head. Even you didn't see that shit coming." Frank lowered his gun slightly, not being able to get a clean shot of Piotr with Disciple in the way.
Disciple didn't have an answer other than, "Just fucking trust me."
Ulysses waved his canon at Piotr and to the door, "Leave. Let this be the last time we ever meet. You will leave here and never try to reach out to her again."
Frank stood aside to let Piotr pass by him to the door. Domino was shocked that Ulysses was letting them leave alive or at all. "She needs help, we can at least patch her up before they leave."
"Just wait a fucking minute. This is the perfect time to join forces now that we know what we're facing." Disciple argued.
"We're safer as we are. Small crew with men at our call for a fight down there. You start bringing in more people, especially ones we don't know- that's when shit fucks up." Frank said knowingly. He had been down this road before.
"She needs medical help!" Piotr yelled.
"Then you best get her to a hospital," Ulysses said sarcastically.
"I won't leave until she is healed-"
"Do not take my mercy for kindness. Take your wounded and leave." His tone was not to be taken lightly.
Piotr scowled, and his face turned red. He looked at Mina, "Really, little one? This is how you treat a friend? Me? After everything? You choose this criminal over people who are trying to help you? She needs help, and you can save her."
Mina shook her head and looked at him with a hurt expression, "I don't even know who you are anymore. He's right, every time you come around bad things happen. That Xavier guy… my father… used everyone to make me. He used you to get to me. How can I look at you and not know that everything was a lie? Tell me how can I look at you the same way ever again?"
"What we have- HAD- was the realest thing I've ever felt. If this is your decision, I will respect that. But please, heal my friend."
"Mina." Domino didn't want to see her friend Kitty hurt, but she also didn't want to make Mina do anything she didn't want to. "Please…. Just help her then they can leave."
"I couldn't even if I wanted to. Please leave." Mina looked away, back to Ulysses who was giving her a proud smirk.
"You heard her. Get the hell out." Frank pointed to the door and waved him along with his gun.
"But-"
"She can't use her powers right now. So it's time for you to leave." Frank said firmly.
"What do you mean?" Domino asked, not understanding.
"The kid can't use her powers when she's upset," Frank explained.
Piotr grit his teeth and glared daggers at Ulysses as he walked past him towards the door, still holding his friend Kitty in his arms.
"If I see you again, I will slaughter you," Ulysses promised him. "This is your only warning."
Disciple started to follow Piotr and Kitty out, Ulysses called to him. "Where the fuck do you think you're going?!"
Disciple didn't turn around. Instead, he looked at him over his shoulder. "Since you refuse to let the kid heal them, you know, like the controlling bastard you are, I'm going to make sure they get to a medic who CAN help her."
Ulysses let go of Mina and stepped closed to Disciple, "The fuck you just say to me?"
"You heard me, since you want to be Mr. Jealous and show no compassion to people who just risked their life for your Bokkie, I'm going to help them." Disciple turned to face him finally, wanting to get shot in the chest rather than the back if Ulysses decided to shoot him.
He shook his head and waved his .45 towards the window instead of his cannon, using it to point. "You want to help them? When they come in here uninvited and expecting to take what's mine. Expecting and demanding things because they bring information we didn't ask for- IMFORMATION WE ALREADY HAD!" He was talking about Frank getting the information as well. "You think I should just let that bastard into my home, sleep with my woman and not say a fucking thing?!"
Mina walked up behind Ulysses and wrapped her arms around him, "Lee, that won't ever happen."
"That's not what I meant, and you know it. I meant showing a little fucking appreciation! Maybe even a fucking thank you. You know what, whatever. I'm done arguing with a brick wall." Disciple waved his hand in dismissal to Ulysses and started to walk out the door.
"I order you to stand the fuck down!" Ulysses yelled.
Disciple flipped him off, "You may be my boss, but I only work deals for you. This shit isn't work related. You don't get to order who and how I conduct my personal life. If that's how you want to be, then you can make your own deals."
"So that's what you want? To demote yourself because you want to be right so bad?"
"This isn't about being right or wrong- this is about doing the right thing. If you're gonna be a dick about it then fine. Let's see how well you do making deals without me."
"I was doing just fucking fine before you showed up, don't you forget that. You want to go play captain save-a-hoe then go! And you can fucking stay out! Your office, your living quarters, your pay- all of it will go to Domino. She's in charge of the deals now, and you can keep your ass down at the docks with Lekan and the rest of the men! Living in the basement with the fucking grunts!" Ulysses yelled at him, and Mina squeezed his middle tighter, trying to use her powers to calm him down, but it wasn't working.
"FINE!"
"FINE!"
"I SAID FINE!"
"THEN GET THE FUCK OUT!"
The door slammed shut behind Disciple, and the windows shook. Domino and Frank looked at each other and to Ulysses.
"Well… that was fun." Domino broke the silence. "I'm gonna go secure the perimeter and make sure that they leave."
Ulysses scowled, "I need you to come with us to the café."
Frank cleared his throat, "We got this. We need someone here to make sure those X-Men don't circle back." He gave Ulysses a look that said, just let it go already.
Frank and Ulysses rounded up three trucks full of armed men to head out to the café. Ulysses wasn't going to take any chances with Logan and Mystique. He'd gone toe to toe with Logan before when he was unarmed and barely made it out alive. He wouldn't let that happen again, especially with a blue woman who could change her appearance. Whatever the fuck that meant.
Frank was dressed down in his full Punisher gear but wearing a thick black coat over to cover up the white skull on his chest until necessary. Ulysses changed out of his usual dress shirt and slacks, instead putting on his black BDU pants with his gun holstered on his thigh and brown desert shirt with the sleeves rolled up. He always had his sleeves rolled up to give him proper access to his cannon. He had ruined three shirts before he figured that out.
"You said I was safest with you. That nothing would happen to me when I'm with you." Mina argued about going with them.
He thought about leaving Mina at home in case they ran into any trouble. Not only did she argue that she needed to see that Marius was safe, the chance that her ex-crush was sniffing around and now knew where they lived and had a friend who could walk through walls- no. She was staying with him at all times now. He wasn't going to take any chances with her.
"I know what I said, love. I just want you to be safe, when we get there, you are to listen to me. Got it? Do as I say and I will keep you safe."
"You should give her a gun," Frank grunted as he loaded the weapons in the back of the truck they were standing next to.
"Really?" Mina perked up.
"NO! I don't want to chance her hurting herself. We ain't got time to teach her how to shoot. Later, baby." Ulysses said and helped her into the back of the truck. He still didn't know that she was probably a better shot than him. She sat sideways in the truck, with her legs sticking out and facing him and Frank with the door open.
"But-"
"Listen up!" Ulysses didn't hear her, he turned to bark orders at the men. "I want Team A to perimeter the building with Frank, Team B is going in with me! We got an American with metal claws running around."
"He's actually Canadian." Frank cut in.
Mina and Ulysses looked at him as if saying, really?
"He's North American." Ulysses said sarcastically to the men before continuing on, "The other one is a woman with blue skin and red hair. She is a mutant who can change her appearance to look like any one of us. So here's what we're gonna do. We will have a password that only we are going to know."
The men cocked their heads to the side or looked at each other in confusion. Ulysses growled in frustration and added, "So we know it's really us and not the imposter."
"Oooooh."
"What's the password then, boss?" one of the men closest to him asked.
Lekan peeked out from behind one of the truck from loading up more gear, "Menudo Mondays!"
"What he said- the password is Menudo Mondays." Ulysses caught what was said and tried to correct himself. "Wait- no. That's not the pass-"
Frank got everyone moving, "You heard him! Load up and head out!"
Ulysses sighed in defeat and shook his head. Mina rubbed a hand on his back and smiled up at him, "I think it's is a really good password, love. No one would ever guess it."
Ulysses was sitting in the backseat with Mina pressed to his side. She had her legs across his lap and her face buried in his neck, with one arm wrapped around his waist and the other tracing patterns on his chest. This was the calmest he had been all day, with his head tilted back and resting against the seat and holding her tightly.
"Hey Frank, would you rather fight fifty duck sized men… or one man sized duck?" Lekan asked Frank in the front seat.
Mina snorted and started laughing. Ulysses actually chuckled and peeked an eye down at Mina, he loved to see the smile return to her face.
"What? That's the stupidest thing I've ever heard." Frank scoffed and kept driving in silence.
After a few minutes he finally answered, "So go I have enough ammo? Are they armored? You know what- I would choose the one giant duck. They ain't got teeth, I'd just need a knife and then I'd go to town on that Sesame Street mother fucker."
"Imagine cooking that thing… Thanksgiving would be amazing." Mina said from the backseat.
Frank slowly nodded, "Damn… I haven't celebrated Thanksgiving in… shit… over a decade."
"What?! No way!" Mina's head shot up, "We need to do Thanksgiving this year!"
She looked up to Ulysses with big puppy dog eyes and pouted her bottom lip. He gave a small snort, "What is this Thanksgiving thing?"
Lekan turned around in his seat, "All the food you could ever imagine. All day eating. Let's do it boss- I make some mean tamales!"
Frank pointed to Lekan, "And football. Don't forget football all day. I've always wanted to deep fry a turkey."
"Oh my mouth is watering, I'm starving now." Lekan said.
"If we still have football…" She said quietly.
Feank scowled and gripped the steering wheel tightly, "We fucking better or I'll punish the bastard."
Lekan slowly turned his head to look out the window and quietly exit the awkward conversation.
"Please, Lee?" she asked again.
Ulysses looked back down to Mina and winked at her, "If that's what you want, Bokkie."
The café was dark when they pulled up. The men in the other trucks got out first with their AR-15s and split off. Some around to the alley and others surrounding the building and some rushing inside the building. Frank and Lekan got out and looked around to make sure there weren't any snipers before opening Ulysses' door.
When he stepped out he looked around before holding his hand out to Mina. When they got in the building she called out to her friend, "Marius?!"
They heard a shuffle and clinking coming from the back of the café, "M-Mina?"
Ulysses stopped her from rushing back there and put his finger to her lips. He signaled some of the men to go check it out first.
"Clear!"
Ulysses put Mina behind him and drew his gun, holding onto her hand firmly so she wouldn't rush forward like he knew her to do. They rounded the corner and saw Marius huddled behind some shipping crates of potatoes.
"Marius!" She exclaimed and tried to pull Ulysses' arm away from pointing the gun at him, "What are you doing?!"
"Weren't you listening to me? One of them can look like anyone. You. Me. Even him." Ulysses scolded her and turned back to Marius. He spoke in his native language to test him, "Tell me what we spoke of in the hospital."
"I'm not going to insult you by lying. You know who I am. You may not agree with my methods, but what I can do is keep her safe. Can your local uniform do that?" Marius repeated verbatim as if they just had the conversation.
"Can they?" Ulysses asked him, wanting to know if his answer has changed.
"No. Not like you can."
Ulysses nodded and put his gun away, turning to the men and ordering them to keep searching. He let Mina go and she rushed forward to her dear friend, ready to heal him. "Are you hurt? What did they do to you?"
"I'm not hurt, sore from hiding and ducking behind things getting destroyed. But I am fine." He took Ulysses' offered hand and stood up slowly.
Mina made sure to use her powers to make him conformable once she helped him sit at the counter. It was pointless hiding her powers now. She grabbed him a clear unbroken cup and poured him coffee just the way he liked it.
Ulysses stood across from him at the counter and asked him specifics about what happened while Mina worked on cleaning up the place around them. "Baby, don't hurt yourself on the broken glass. I'll get some of the guys to clean it up."
"No it's no problem. We're going to have to replace some chairs and tables, Marius. I'm sorry."
"Maybe it's time to retire, eh? Close up shop and go relax on a beach with a pretty lady?" Ulysses smirked at the old man.
Marius scoffed and waved his hand at him, "Bah! I will just rebuild. My father didn't leave during the war and this is no different. They can try and run me out of here but I stay!"
Mina bit her lip in worry. Ulysses knew she was concerned about her mentor and he had to do something before she thought of something foolish like coming back to the café. He couldn't have her leave him or leave their home and put herself in danger.
"Then let me help." Ulysses said suddenly. "I will invest in your business. Giving you the money to restructure how you want."
Marius looked at him with wide eyes, "You don't have to do that."
"No, but I want to. You can't use your insurance because you didn't call the cops. If you did that would put her at risk. That's why you haven't done it yet. You're doing me more of a favor by keeping this under wraps. You need protection, let me keep a few men here to cover things and make sure that no one bothers you again." Ulysses held his hand up again to stop Marius from interrupting him, "It won't be permanent. Just until things settle down and I handle this."
Marius was quite for a few moments before finally nodding his head, "I always wanted to get one of those fancy computer things that take orders. Maybe a jukebox."
After they made sure that Marius made it home safe and got the men in order to help him at the café, Mina pulled Ulysses down to her level by the front of his shirt. Kissing him deeply and making him giggle, "You're sweet for doing this for Marius. Thank you."
He actually blushed and couldn't hide the smile on his face, "What can I say? I'm a sweet guy."
Frank snorted as he walked by and mumbled something about being a kiss ass.
Ulysses threw himself into work tenfold now that he and Disciple had a falling out. He hadn't seen the other man except in passing when he was on his day off and going to see Domino. They both knew it was for the best. He hated to admit it but he wasn't closing the deals like Disciple could and was getting desperate. Since he lost the Kingpin deal and everyone found out who ordered the hit on the crime boss of Hell's Kitchen, no one wanted to do business.
Sure, he still had the Stark money rolling in and the Australian deals but it wasn't enough for Ulysses. He wanted it all and wouldn't stop until he had it. Then and only then would it suffice for him and it was all for Mina. He was ignorant to the stress that he was putting on their relationship and more concerned with the business. He was getting desperate and contemplating asking Mina and Domino to hug or something to give him some good luck but shook his head at the thought every time.
Mina hardly ever saw Ulysses. When he wasn't fast asleep by her side he was locked up in his office on the phone. He skipped the breakfast she tried to make him and kissed her quickly before running back into his office. She would walk into his office to tell him that dinner was ready but he always told her he would be there in a minute. The first week she sat at the table by herself while the food got cold. He never came to dinner. She thought maybe he was stressed because of work, so she brought it to him in his office. Some times he ignored it and let it get cold. Other times he would scarf it down and thank her by leaving his dirty plate on the counter.
Eventually she would cook dinner and just leave it wrapped for him in the fridge or microwave. She ate alone every day. Frank was busy with whatever Ulysses told him to do. Ever since Disciple walked out, Frank's work load picked back up to what it was before Mina came into the picture. He chatted with her when he could and even played a game of cards late one night before having to run off to the cargo bay.
Domino was busy learning how to do Disciple's old job. She would line up the deals like she was told but they would fizzle out when they got to Ulysses. Which meant she had to keep the deals coming to make up for the lost ones. For every five deals that she brought maybe one would bite. Domino would have lunch with Mina and talk as much as they could.
They talked about where Mina grew up and what she did while she was on her own. Domino was proud of her for running away from the orphanage and away from the bully that Wilson Fisk was. She apologized profusely about missing her childhood and not being there for her. Promising to be there for her from here on out. They talked about Mina's relationship with Ulysses and she expressed her concerns.
Whenever Disciple was near, Mina tried to talk to him but he refused to even look at her. He grunted once while he passed, that was some sort of acknowledgement, at least Mina thought. He never came up to the house anymore, instead choosing to stay down by the docks and his new living arrangements in the basement. He only came up on his days off and it was always spent locked up in Domino's room.
Mina tried to figure out what the hell she did to piss him off. Could he still be upset about the Piotr and girl that was hurt? She told him twice now that she wasn't able to use her powers then.
"Hey Disciple, how are you today?" she asked him one day when he walked past her on the couch towards Domino's room.
He said nothing, not even looking at her. He just kept walking past her and out of the room.
"Alright- fuck me then." Mina called out to him, trying to get some sort of reaction but he still ignored her.
Frank saw the whole interaction, scowling at Disciple and moving towards Mina. "Don't sweat it, kid. I'll talk to him."
She sighed and curled hugged her legs, curling up in a ball on the couch. "Don't worry about it. I'm use to it by now. Just another guy ignoring me on a daily basis." She got up and walked around the coffee table, "I'm going to bed. Since there's nothing else to do. Goodnight Frank."
That didn't sit well with Frank at all. He knew she was depressed and he knew it was because of his boss being a self centered prick and Disciple being an all around jackass. He was going to have words with both men.
The final straw for Mina was when Ulysses stopped coming to bed at a reasonable time. He stayed in his office until the early hours of the morning, crawling into bed with her smelling like whiskey and smoke. Then crawling out of bed a few hours later. Why the hell were they even together if it got to the point of him avoiding her all together like Disciple did.
Mina Hawkins had enough.
Ulysses had finally closed a large deal that made up for losing the last two. He was beat from the long hours and wanted nothing more than to crawl into bed with Mina and hold her tight. That was the plan, until he found the door to her room locked. He knocked and waited for her to answer.
"Yeah?!" she called from the other side.
"Bokkie, it's me. Open the door."
"Occupado." She said sarcastically.
He snorted and tried the knob again but it didn't budge, "Very funny, love. Come on. Open up. Daddy's tired."
"Then the big bad wolf better go knock on another door. Maybe Frank will let you share his bed." She called back and still didn't move from her spot on the bed.
"Bokkie, don't be like that." He tried to push the door with his shoulder but it didn't budge. Damn the new reinforced doors that Disciple installed.
"Why don't you go sleep with your wife?" Mina yelled back coldly.
"What?!"
"Your office. Since you're married to your work." She rolled her eyes and crossed her arms.
"Can we not have this conversation through a door? Come on. Let's talk about it." He leaned his forearms against the doorframe and looked over his shoulder to see who was listening in.
Of course Frank peeked his head out of his room and scowled at Ulysses. He was making sure that he wasn't doing anything stupid like trying to blast the door down with his canon. If Mina wanted to be left alone then Frank was going to make sure that she was left alone.
"Mina, I'm trying to finish my business and get the money together for you! So I can quit and be with you! I'm trying to get the money together so we never have to worry about anything for the rest of our lives!" Ulysses growled through the door with a clenched jaw. He was losing his patience.
"I distinctly remember telling you that I didn't want your fame or fortune. I just wanted you, but I cant even have that. Am I even your girlfriend? Because I see Frank and Lekan a hell of a lot more than I even see you!" Mina shot back.
"What do you mean?! You are my girlfriend! Mina!" He began pounding on the door.
She turned her stereo up to drown him out. He pinched the bridge of his nose and counted backwards from ten. He repeated that at least five times before deciding that he should just give her space. If that was what she wanted. He went back into his office to try and think of something.
Ulysses walked into his office and slammed the door behind him. He saw the empty spot against the wall where the couch should have been. He wouldn't even be able to get a few hours of sleep if he wanted to because he forgot to buy a new couch. He grabbed an empty whiskey glass from his desk and threw it against the wall.
"FUCK!"
He was trying his damn hardest, couldn't she see that? All these long hours and hell that he was going through was for her! Married to the job, how could she even think that?! After everything he did for her! He helped Marius back when… back when… shit how long ago was that? He sat down in one of the arm chairs and rubbed his face with his hands while resting his elbows on his knees.
"Wanna talk about it?" Frank said from the doorway.
"No."
"Tough shit. Time for some hard truth." Frank said as he kicked the other arm chair to face Ulysses.
"Leave me alone."
"I'm gonna say what I gotta say then I'll leave. You ain't even gotta talk. Just shut up and fucking listen." Frank pulled out a pack of cigarettes from his front shirt pocket and threw one to Ulysses before putting one in his mouth and lighting it. Then throwing the zippo at him to light his own.
Ulysses grunted thanks as he lit his cigarette and took a deep drag and leaned back against the arm chair while looking up to the ceiling.
"She's right and you know it. I couldn't even count on one hand how many time you spent with her. Let alone had a complete conversation. The fact that you can't see how sad she's been lately fucking disgusts me. What kind of man are you?" Frank scolded him.
"So you came in here to insult me? Kick me while I'm already down?" He didn't even raise his voice. He lost the fight in him when he thought about her turning him away.
"No one else is going to put you in your place. She told you what the problem was and you denied it. Lied through your teeth and through the door that everything was fine. Take it from me coming from a long ass time of experience and a failed marriage. You can't let the job get in between you and her. I missed out on birthdays and anniversaries because the job was always more important. I felt that I had to prove myself in my work to show who I was as a man." Frank shook his head.
Frank got up and grabbed two clean glasses and the bottle of whiskey from the small bar by where Disciple's desk used to be. "None of that shit matters. She didn't give a shit who you were when you first started coming around her and she doesn't give a shit now. Now I get that women are hard to read. Fuck all if I haven't gotten the hints thrown in my face. But the kid has been blunt and forward with you and you're still being an ass."
"But-" he started clawing at his dress shirt, scratching at his chest. "I can't fucking stand this shit. We need to fire the new dry cleaner, my clothes have gotten so fucking itchy!"
Frank threw his head back and laughed, "You stupid son of a bitch. You didn't notice that she was doing your laundry? That's why everything felt softer and better. She stopped doing your laundry a week ago to try and get you to talk to her. You haven't even noticed that she stopped cooking for you. You've been eating left overs for weeks."
His eyes went wide, "But… that was her? I…"
"You just realized everything she did for you and now you are realizing everything what you're going to miss when she leaves your ass."
"I'm doing this for her! Everything! The house, the truck, the money-"
"Listen to yourself, man. You're trying to justify your neglect. Fucking listen. She wants you. Just you. Not some one sided relationship-fuck you, listen to me. You could provide the world on a silver platter but it won't mean shit to her if she can't enjoy it with YOU! She ain't like the other women you fuck around with."
"I never said she was like the others." Ulysses pouted and took a drag from his cigarette again.
"Then stop fucking treating her like it. She kicked you out because she's tired of being put in last place. This is her showing you that she's halfway out the fucking door." Frank stood up and downed his glass.
Ulysses sat up suddenly with wide eyes, "NO! She can't leave!"
"She can and she will if you keep this shit up. Why do you think Colossus got so close to her so fast? He did what you're failing to do. So man the fuck up and crawl back to her and apologize." Frank slammed his glass down on the table and walked out.
Ulysses sat there for hours mulling over her words and taking her comment to heart. How she told him that he was married to the job and not being a proper boyfriend. She is perfect for him and it took her kicking him out to realize what he's about to lose, if he hasn't already lost it.
"I should have fucking married her." He moaned into his palms as he tried to figure out how to fix this.
