Wow, getting pretty good at posting regularly so far right? Well, thank the fact that my schedule has finally slowed down at least for a weekend.

Disclaimer: I don't own the X-Men, Deadpool, or anything else that is obviously not mine. I do own Raven, Hilda, and any other OC I have already mentioned. Review and Enjoy!

It had been three months. Three months since Wade had last seen Gwen. Three months since he felt the softness of her skin or smelled the sweetness of her hair. Three months since the mercenary got his ass off the couch and did anything productive.

Piles of garbage overflowed from each trashcan. The sink was filled with three months worth of dirty dishes, takeout boxes, and moldy leftovers. Stacks of warnings, bills, and spam mail spilled over the kitchen counter and onto the once spotless floor. The once pristine apartment, that had always smelled of something delicious, had fallen back into its former state of disrepair.

And so had its sole occupant.

Wade Wilson sat on the couch he had purchased with his lost girlfriend, flipping through the various television stations blindly. No longer bound to a schedule of contracts and responsibilities, Wilson did what he wanted. And what he wanted for about three months now, was to just magically fuse to the couch so he could fade from existence.

Some days, he wished for Gwen to come back. Others, he wanted to find her himself. And sometimes, he even wished she had never came into his life at all.

"If you want to get technical about it, it was us who came into her life."

"We're not known for having the best decision making skills, now are we?" Wade grumbled, flipping the channel.

"Gwen was the best decision we've ever made!"

Deadpool snorted and scratched at his bare stomach. Since Gwen disappeared, he hadn't even bothered to get dressed in his uniform; other than his mask and some Deadpool themed boxers, of course. She had loved him in that thing. She had said he looked like a true hero.

But what kind of hero couldn't save his girl? What kind of hero was rendered completely useless from the disappearance of said girl?

"Even Superman had his kryptonite."

"Wrong franchise, buddy." he stopped channel surfing and decided to watch his former favorite lady, Bea Arthur, in action, "Besides, I'm no Superman."

"Gwen thought you were."

It was true. Gwen would often bestow the title of 'hero' or 'superman' upon him for the most trivial things. When he saved her from a large spider in the shower it was 'Oh, my hero!' followed with a kiss. When he carried all of the groceries up from downstairs because the elevator was broken it was 'You're my superman!".

Those little things at the time didn't mean that much to him. But now that she wasn't around to say them anymore, they were all he wanted to hear.

"Yeah, well, Gwen's not here. She's never going to be here again."

"Never say never!"

"What am I turning into now? God damned Justin Bieber?" Wade scoffed, taking a swig out of his bottle of whiskey, "Can it, all of you. I'm trying to watch some Bea Arthur here. Besides, it's not like anyone's come closer to finding her."

Despite all their efforts, nobody had even come close to determining Raven's location. The security tapes from Lupita's only gave them the IDs of only two of the kidnappers; both mutants with tons of priors who had both been reported as missing long before the kidnappings even started. The van they had shoved her limp body in was reported stolen from one of the projects in Detroit and that was about it.

The one place they hadn't checked was Raven's computer; which everyone knew was chock full of information from her research. However, nobody knew the password and all efforts to crack the code had proven useless. Now, the large, flat, black rectangle sat on Raven's side of the bed, serving no other purpose than to remind Wade of her constant absence.

He dug his free hand into his seventh bag of pork rinds and grabbed a handful of the fatty treat. He shoved it under his mask and into his mask, which wreaked of body odor, vomit, and blood. His shower had long since broken and he hadn't gotten around to fixing it due to the fact that the memory of how proud Gwen had been when she had finally fixed it. They had christened it almost as soon as Wade entered the newly refurbished shower.

His doorbell rang, but Wade just turned up the volume on the TV. He hadn't ordered any take out, so all other company was completely unwelcome.

Even Mr. Shugums plaintively raised up his tired, sad head from his bed and stared at the door for a moment. He refused to get up and see who was knocking. He couldn't even manage to bark. Instead, the poor thing just rested his head back on his pillow to stare at his master.

The doorbell rang again, this time followed by a harsh banging, and some unintelligible shouting.

"Whatever it is your selling: I don't want it." he took another swig of his beer "I don't want to accept Christ into my life. I don't wanna watch your band perform and I don't wanna volunteer at the homeless shelter. I just want to be left alone!"

"That's all you've been doing, Wade! Now open up!"

That voice. It was Domino. He would answer the door for her. Her company was like a double edged sword. On one side, she looked so much like Gwen that it was almost like being with her again. On the other, she looked so much like Gwen that it constantly reminded him that she wasn't gone.

"Hold on, Dom, hold on! I'm not exactly decent!" Deadpool shouted, making sure everything was at least tucked in so he was decent when he answered the door.

"I've seen you in worse, Wade! Now open up! I've got something important to tell you!"

"Hmph. If it was that important you should've at least called or sent a text first!" he shouted back. He could hear her laugh. Minus the obvious differences in height, hair length, and personality, it was Domino's voice and laugh that gave her away whenever he found himself seeing Raven in her.

"Yeah, well that would be a good idea if you would actually answer your phone!"

Wade shook his head and a ghost of a smirk crossed his face. He could see Chimmi run in, his claws sliding on the wood, barking loudly. He was the only thing in the lonely and decrepit apartment that did not show any sign of being effected by Raven's accent. It was probably due to the fact that he had never gotten the privilege of meeting her.

Wade unlocked the door, doing his best to keep the happily barking pit bull from jumping and licking Domino all over.

"Wow! New dog?" she exclaimed as she entered the apartment. Her nose wrinkled at the horrid smell of the apartment. She had visited multiple times while Raven was living there. The apartment smelled nice and was clean. It was hard to believe that it was transformed back into this state of disrepair in such a short amount of time. If you could call three months short.

"Yeah...name's Chimmi...ya know, like Chimmichanga." Wade explained, closing and locking the door behind him. Chimmi calmed down once Domino scratched the sweet spot behind his ear.

"Ah, I see." she looked over at Mr. Shugums, who hadn't stirred in the slightest since her entry.

"Got bored with Mr. Shugums after all this time?" she joked. Deadpool sighed and rubbed the back of his head, sadly.

"Nah. Gwen said he could use a buddy so...well...you know."

Domino let her hand drop from the odd looking pit's ears, watching as the dog happily trotted over to the couch and sat down as if he was watching Bea Arthur with the same type of enthusiasm Wade held for her. It would've made her laugh if it was a different time. Now, it was just sad.

"Wade, I'm sorry...I didn't mean to bring up anything bad." she apologized. Wade shrugged and sat down on the couch next to Chimmi.

"Everything sucks nowadays, Dom. Don't beat yourself up over it. Now, what can good ol' DP do for you today?"

His phrasing was joking, but his tone and lack of a smile revealed he was in an incredible amount of pain.

"Well," Domino sighed and sat on the chair adjacent to the couch "You can start by coming with me back to the X-Mansion with Raven's laptop."

"With my busy schedule? Ha! You really should've called to schedule an appointment."

"I'm serious, Wade." she leaned forward with her hands folded in between her knees. She took a deep breath, thinking very carefully about her next words. It would not be wise to say anything too hopeful. After all, they had no idea if what Kyle found in Raven's old room would lead to anything. But the letter, Kyle found behind a hidden compartment above the bed could quite possibly contain the code they needed to break into Raven's laptop and give them some sort of lead to her location.

"We think we found the code to Raven's computer."

Deadpool froze completely, hardly taking a breath or even making the slightest noise. The news was so uncertain, but so full of hope. If they could crack Raven's computer then they could probably find her. Or at least get on the track to finding her.

"Wade, she left a letter behind a false panel above her bed." Domino continued, figuring it would be safe to do so, "Kyle found it...you know he moved into her old room right? Well, he and his girlfriend Penny were getting...well...intimate, for lack of a better term, and the panel just popped right off. All that was inside was a letter. Now, you and I both know Raven wouldn't leave a letter of any kind lying around for no reason. We think it could be a clue. Something she left in case of emergencies."

Deadpool felt as if he was just hit in the head with a piece of rebar. His world was shaking before his very eyes. He could see Gwen curled up with Mr. Shugums on the floor wearing that white sundress and red ribbon in her hair. She gave the dog a kiss on the head and smiled up at him.

"Come find me, Wade. Be my superhero and come find me." she beckoned. He reached a scarred hand towards her, wishing with all of his might to just tuck a stray lock of her hair behind her ear.

"I miss you, Wade." her voice cracked like it was coming from an old recording that had been overplayed and her dark eyes welled up with tears "Please, Wade."

There was a snapping sound. Where was that coming from? Raven wasn't snapping at him. Then who was?

"Wade...Wade...WADE!" Domino yelled snapping her fingers in front of his face. He blinked, causing the mirage of Raven to fade and be replaced with Domino's own concerned face.

"So, did you hear me?" she asked. He nodded. How could he have missed it? It was the first good news he had heard since Raven had disappeared.

"Yeah. I heard you. When do we leave?"

The corner of Domino's mouth curled up into a crooked smirk. Even though it wasn't in its entirety by far, but the old Deadpool was beginning to rear its crazy head. And it was an amazing thing to see.

"We can leave in five if you hurry."

"I won't even shower!" he exclaimed, rushing past Domino towards his bedroom.

Judging by how badly he wreaked of body odor and other unpleasant smells, he needed a shower or to at least be quarantined. However, she wouldn't quell his enthusiasm. Especially when they were all on the first trail to Raven that didn't appear to be a dead end.

"Alright, fuckers. What do we got here?" Deadpool asked as he and Domino burst through the doors of the war room. From what he could see, the gang was all there: Rogue, Gambit, Wolverine, Storm, Kyle, and Penny. The only one who was missing was Cable, but he probably was stuck in some sort of time paradox or something.

Wolverine's nose wrinkled as the foul smelling Deadpool got within range. He couldn't complain too much about the foul odor, though. The stinky mercenary held what could be the key to finding Raven under his arm.

"Well, now we've got Raven's laptop we might have a lead on finding Three Mile." he said as the laptop was slid onto the table. The rest of the group gathered around as Domino plugged a charger into the computer and turned it on.

"I still don't see how this Dana could make an entire island disappear! I could've sworn it was right there!" Gambit exclaimed, pointing at a blank spot on a nearby map, "But no matter how many times we flew over it, there was no sign of anything being there at all!"

"Maybe Gwen's got something on her laptop." Rogue said "I mean, she had been working on finding the damn place for such a long time."

"Well, we won't get anywhere if we can't figure out the password." Kyle grumbled, crossing his arms. Penny produced the letter and slid it across the table to Deadpool.

"You were the closest to her out of all of us." Penny told him "Maybe you can figure out the password from this."

Deadpool took the letter out of its envelope and opened it.

"I'm not really known for my exceptional sleuthing, Flower Child, but if you insist."

His eyes looked down at the slightly yellowing page of the letter.

"Dear Whoever is Reading This," her familiar neat print wrote "If you are reading this, that means you found my secret hiding place. I've cleared it of anything good (money, porn, candy...you get it). But since I moved out, I don't really have a need for a secret hiding spot anymore. However, I did think it would be smart to leave a letter here in case anything screwy happens to me. I mean, with all the mutant abductions going on, you gotta be prepared right? Anyways, there's too much I need to say to whoever you are and not enough ink in my pen. You can find what you need on my computer. But, just so the wrong people don't get the wrong information, I'm not just gonna write my password on here. I will leave you a hint, though. And it's a hint that only the one I trust the most will be able to know. Ok, here it goes:

What's our song?

Ok, that's it. Happy guessing!

From,

Gwen Pierce"

She must've ran out of ink at that point because of how faded the last two letters were at the end of her name. Luckily she wrote down everything, but what did she mean by 'our song'?

Deadpool set the letter down and stared and the blue login screen of Gwen's laptop. They had mentioned a few options of what their personal song could be, but had never agreed to anything in particular. It appeared as if she had made her decision herself, though.

"Well, any ideas as to what could be 'our song'?" Storm asked, running her fingers through her snowy hair. The room was silent for what seemed like an eternity before anyone spoke up.

"Well...our song is a Taylor Swift song...maybe that's it?" Penny suggested. Wade rolled his eyes, not really understanding why this chick was here in the first place. She had met Gwen a total of, what, three times? She wouldn't even be here if it wasn't for Kyle.

"Gwen hates Taylor Swift...thinks she's a skank and a poser." he said, "Moving on."

"She did really seem to like when we danced to 'A Change is Gonna Come'. It was the first time she smiled since escaping Three Mile the first time." Gambit piped up, smiling as he recalled the memory fondly. He had held her close that night and truly felt how small and fragile she was. But he had already seen what she wad capable of doing. She was so strong that it made sense that nobody else would've even thought she was so delicate on the inside; that even she needed a shoulder to lean on every now and again.

He could feel her tears on his shirt that night, but they weren't tears of sadness. They were tears of happiness. He could tell by the way she smiled and clung to him with such a desperate air about her. If he hadn't dragged his feet, he probably would be in the same boat Wade was in now. But even though Gwen and he were never an item and would probably never be one, that didn't mean Gambit didn't stop caring about her. In fact, he felt the same pain as Deadpool, even though it didn't reflect as much on the outside.

Domino shook her head after typing in the guess.

"Nope. That's not it. Any other ideas?"

The room once again fell silent as they scrambled together any possible ideas. Gwen's tastes in music were about as sporadic as Wade's train of thought. Narrowing down just one song would be difficult and time consuming. And time wad not something they had right now.

"We were bouncing around two songs that night with Gwen."

"Yeah, but what were they?"

"Can't we just flip back a couple of chapters?"

"Nah, that's only for the readers. We've gotta think for ourselves for this one."

"Unless the author wants to give us a hint?"

"Don't count on it. That bitch is crazy."

Realization hit Wade like a ton of bricks. Out of the two songs they had been discussing that night, it was that one that held the most meaning for Gwen. It was the song that she knew the best and had listened to for years.

"Crazy." he blurted out.

"There's no room for crazy, here, Wade. If we want any hope of finding Raven, we've gotta buckle down and figure this out." Domino replied. Wade shook his head and slid Domino's chair aside, pulling his own up to the table.

"I'm not crazy. The song-our song- is." he said, typing his guess into the white rectangle. He hit the enter key and crossed his fingers.

Her desktop loaded onto the screen with some charming welcome music. Her wallpaper was a picture of the two of them from a walk they took in Central Park. His red suit and her all black attire made the two of them stick out from the white snow like sore thumbs. A red knit flower contrasted against her black hat perfectly and Mr. Shugums could be seen frolicking in the distance. She had insisted on having the photo taken after he had started a snowball fight. Even though he didn't want it taken, he felt bad because he had accidentally hit her in the face with a snowball. He was glad to see the picture wasn't just collecting dust somewhere.

"Well, I'll be God damned, you actually did it!" Wolverine exclaimed as the group collectively scooted closer.

"Psh. Of course I did. You think she would pick anything you losers have up in those puny brains of yours." he scoffed.

"Actually, if you wanna get technical, anyone's intelligence is actually determined by the amount of ridges on the brain, rather than the actual size of the brain." Kyle chimed in as he slid his chair closer to the computer screen.

Wade rolled his eyes as they all waited for the computer to load completely.

"Well, well, look who's going to school and learning junk." he grumbled.

Suddenly, a video chat box popped up onto the screen. Once it came into focus, everyone could tell who it was.

"Raven?" Rogue exclaimed.

"Turn it up, Scarface!" Wolverine ordered.

"Thanks for figuring out the password, Deadpool. Could you please turn up the volume, Deadpool?" Deadpool mumbled, but obliging his request. It had been so long since he had actually heard Gwen's voice and he was just as eager to hear what she had to say as anyone else. Maybe even more.

"Hey. If you are watching this, then you managed to get only my computer using my alternate password. Also, you're either Wade or someone who got Wade to tell you what our song is, which would mean that you're probably one, or all of the X-Men." she waved at the camera "Hi guys!"

"Hey, babe." Wade whispered, touching the screen with his fingertips. Her voice sounded even more angelic than he had imagined it to be.

"Anyways, I set this whole thing up so I could direct you through the shitstorm of information that is my laptop." she continued. A red arrow suddenly appeared on the screen.

"I'll walk you through everything through this camera and this handy dandy arrow, here. So, let's begin."

Gambit rubbed his hands together.

"Ah, now we gettin somewhere!"

"Leave it to Gwen to make an entire walkthrough on how to use her computer. Damn thing must be loaded with crap." Kyle commented.

"Just shut up, kid." Wolverine growled "This is our first lead in months and we can't afford to waste it."

The red arrow made its way across the desktop and clicked on a file labeled ' '. A window opened, full of various videos and other files, all in very precise order.

"This contains all of the security footage, video, and anything relating to the experiments on Three Mile back when the first group of nut jobs started experimenting on mutants." Raven explained. The window scrolled up and highlighted a file labeled 'Deadpool'.

"Wade..." her black eyes making direct contact with the camera. They were so sad and full of pain, but why?

"Wade, if you're watching this, this is the file that holds all of the information known about you before you lost your memory." Raven's voice cracked as if she was about to cry "I can't stop you from looking, but I'm warning you not to...and if anyone else is watching this...don't let Wade watch or read anything in here...I did and...it's not pretty, to say the least."

Deadpool felt his brow furrow as the red arrow exited out of the ' ' file. She had stressed so much importance over memories, but now that he had the opportunity to have some of his old memories back she didn't want him to see. And all because it just wasn't pretty?

"Maybe it has something to do with all of our nightmares?"

"Maybe. It would be best to focus more on finding Gwen anyways instead of worrying about ourselves. It's not like these files are going anywhere."

"True."

The red arrow clicked on her tracking program and scrolled through a list of locations until it finally clicked on a file called 'Three Mile'. A map opened up and three small green dots placed themselves in a perfect triangle right over the direct spot Gambit was pointing to earlier. The same spot they had scoured for the location of an island that had just disappeared, seemingly overnight.

"Now, I know we didn't have any luck finding the island before, but all my research does indicate that it should be here." she sighed and ran her fingers through her hair. She must've been exhausted; both mentally and physically.

"Dana could've done anything: sunk the island and created an underwater base, used all the psychics she could find to fuck around with anyone's radar, or, what I think she did, she could've somehow gotten her hands on a really high tech cloaking device." she explained, shaking her head.

"It's crazy, but I think she's had this device all along; which may be why nobody's been able to find her anywhere. But it shouldn't be that hard to break. A couple of missiles should do the trick. And if that doesn't, well, I'm sure you will figure out something."

"I can't believe it." Storm placed a hand over her mouth "It was right under our noses the whole time."

Anger and frustration hit Deadpool like a ton of bricks. He had flown over that damn blank spot in the ocean dozens of times with the X-Men and not once had anyone seen anything that looked close to an island, minus a few whales.

"That's all I really have to say for now. But don't worry, I've made a video for each thing you click on so you can see my steps and actually hear me explain stuff. And don't worry, you won't have to hear me give this same speech every time you log in either." she gave them a warm smile "But if you did find this on your own and are watching this then something really bad has happened to me. I don't want you to go out of your way for me, though. I won't die, no matter what hell they out me through. Just worry about those without a super cool healing factor."

She stopped and looked over the computer screen. It was then that the group noticed that she had been filming this in her old room at the X-Mansion. She must've started planning this a long time ago. It was very wise of her.

"You guys are the best friends I could've ever asked for." she told them "And Wade, you'll always be my hero. No matter what happens, ok? I'm just sorry things ended up this way."

She paused to wipe some tears from her eyes. It looked like she wanted to say something else. Wade could tell from the look on her face.

"Alright, that's it. Bye."

And with that, both the red arrow and Raven disappeared from the computer screen. Wade clenched his fists and stood up abruptly.

"So when are we leaving?" he asked, his tone oddly serious. Domino smiled up at him, relieved to see most of his old fire had returned. In fact, it seemed as if a fire had just been lit within the hearts of everyone there. They were all burning as a team.

"Tomorrow morning." Wolverine replied, "We have to make sure the kids are taken care of and the Blackbird is completely fueled and combat ready."

"We should also load the data from Raven's computer into the Blackbird as well." Rogue suggested "We don't wanna be shootin in the dark again."

Wolverine nodded.

"Alright. So, we'll meet back here tomorrow morning and be out by dawn."

The group nodded collectively, mumbles of threats and guesses as to what they might run into on the island spreading like wildfire. And although Wade was never too keen on waking up at dawn for anything, he wasn't complaining now.

Tomorrow he would get Gwen back. Tomorrow he would charge back into Three Mile with guns a blazing and save the damsel in distress.

Even though nobody else thought so, he was a hero. Wade Wilson was a fucking hero and tomorrow, he would prove it to everyone.

Song(s) Used:

A Change is Gonna Come by The Neville Brothers

Kryptonite by Three Doors Down

Hero by Foo Fighters