AN~ Celine Dion's My Heart Will Go On plays here.
It was funny, Peter thought, that now, not half an hour later, he and Daphne were back in the same cell he'd just gotten Sabrina and Puck out of. Also, in a morbid sort of way, he thought it was funny that he'd just taken his best friend's place, and his girlfriend had taken her sister's. But morbid humor wasn't called for right now.
For some time, he and Daphne just sat there. They talked a bit about how 'He,' as Daphne referred to the leader of the mutants, was acting, and about what was probably going to happen to them, but for the most part they were silent. Words didn't seem appropriate, because they both knew they were about to die.
Until they heard the whisper at the window.
It was a very high-set window, one so far up the wall that no one could reach it unless they could fly. Which Puck, who was standing outside the window, could. The reason they hadn't simply gotten out that way before was that Puck would need someone outside the window to help him out once he got up there. Someone like Sabrina, who was also standing outside.
"We don't have much time," Sabrina called. "They're coming, but Puck can take one of you up at a time, and then I'll pull you out. Who's first?"
"Daphne." Peter said immediately. "She's more valuable to them."
Puck slipped through the window immediately and grabbed Daphne, pulling her up to Sabrina's waiting arms, moving quickly and silently. But the silence only allowed them to hear the footsteps coming down the hall, toward their door. Puck returned for Peter, moving faster now. He'd just picked him up when the door opened. He was there, and when He saw what was going on, He was enraged. He burst forward, grabbing for Peter, pulling him back.
"GO!" Peter shouted.
Puck had no choice. As more and more mutants poured into the cell, drawn by some unheard signal, he flew to the window and Sabrina yanked him out.
Daphne stared at Peter in horror, as he mouthed one final word at her:"Goodbye."
