CHAPTER FORTY-EIGHT:

Victors Home!

AN: First off, I wanted to say thank you for all the condolences I got for my bad week. You guys made me feel so much better! It was a small thing to some, true, but a big thing to me; the Lord always manages to balance out the bad with the good.

(hands out angel wings, flowers and chocolates to

Pric3y,

Jinx of the 2nd Law and

melala103, )

Also a blue ribbon and this collector's edition card of Sabretooth to Pric3y who already figured out Nick Fury's anti-age-r. Yes, it is the Infinity Serum, but there is a twist.

On my final note, I'm not sure how many chapters I'm allowed to post on one fic, so I might be starting the sequel soon.

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LAST TIME: Nick Fury and Victor/Sabretooth have been bargaining Nick Furys secret to immortality so that Victor can make his mate immortal like himself. However, nothing is for free, and Nick Fury wants Sabretooth to work for him.

VICTOR CREED: "Great." Sabretooth grunted. "So what's your secret?"

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NICK FURY'S HELLICARRIER

"You haven't agreed to the terms yet." Nick Fury said cunningly, eyeing the feral.

Victor snorted. "I tell ya what, Nicky. Give me a week ta get things in order. Then I'll have yer answer." The feral stood smoothly with all the grace of a deadly lion. "And if yer lyin' to me, if you try in any way to cross me," Sabretooth smiled his killers smile. "You won't like the consequences."

The feral mercenary strutted confidently out of the room, heading back towards the Blackbird…..and back to his frail, his mate.

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XAVIERS SCHOOL FOR GIFTED CHILDREN

Logan, Rogue, Jubilee and Cassie had just finished 'debriefing' Kayla/Bunny on Victor Creed, also known as Sabretooth; his kidnapping of Cassie, the Professor Xaviers intervention, Sabretooths hunting and job as a 'mercenary'.

"Well, I'll tell ya, Cat" Kayla said, putting her hands behind her forehead and leaning back a little. "the guy sounds like a good provider. Of course ah'm still gonna castrate him for kidnapping you."

Logan cleared his throat uncomfortably.

"Aw, you can't do that." Jubilee interrupted gleefully clapping her yellow gloved hands together. "How else will Cassie and 'Tooth have any kids?"

Cassie jumped in her seat as if an invisible person had just goosed her, and Roddy nearly toppled out of her lap. "Say WHAT!?"

"Well, you are his mate." Jubilee pointed out logically.

"As usual, sugah, ya show all the tact of a steam-roller." Rogue chastised her fellow student, scowling at her.

"But they even slept together last night!"

Rogue covered Jonesys ears and Kayla turned to her younger sister, arching an eyebrow. "Really now."

Cassie growled at the canary-yellow-clad mutant. "Yeah, slept as in 'Z's, not slept as in making love."

"Well the question right now is, are we leaving or not?" Kayla asked calmly. "I'm still going to get this Sabretooth, of course, but I can get a cab here fast."

Logan snarled. "She's not goin' anywhere."

Cassie held up both hands. "I tell ya what. Bun, could you possible stay for the week, till Monday?"

"Yeah, sure." Kayla answered, still holding Logans glare with her own.

"Good. Great. By the end of this week, I'll have a decision."

"Just make sure it's the right one, darlin." Logan growled, also not breaking his gaze from the Native Americans. "Victor isn't going to let you go without a fight."

"It's her choice to make." Bunny growled back.

Suddenly Logan jerked his head towards the doors, listening…..sensing…. "I think Vic's back." He informed the others, then looked uneasily towards Cassie 'Onee-san'. "Try not to get yourself killed."

"Oh don't worry about me." Kayla answered with an eager grin on her face.

Cassie groaned and put her face in her hands.

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THE HANGER

The instant Victor landed the Blackbird back into the hanger, he was greeted with the sight of a very ticked off Professor Xavier, a hesitant looking Storm with Hank/Beast standing protectively at her side, and the ice-boy who looked ready to kick him where the sun didn't shine.

Victor rolled his eyes. He wasn't in the mood for this $# %. He had to get his frail and the cubs to bed, and before that he had to have a little chat with his brother.

The instant he exited the Blackbird, he strode confidently up to the crippled Professor. "Wheels."

"Victor, what you did was wrong." The telepath started and Victor rolled his eyes, a very human gesture.

"No, what's wrong is you building the hanger under the stupid basketball court!" the feral growled at the Professor. "What kinds of stupid are you!"

The Professor looked a little taken aback. "I assure you we have never had an incident where any child has fallen into the hanger or been injured in a take-off."

When Beast cleared his throat, they all turned to look at him.

"Actually, Professor, that's not entirely true." Hank McCoy countered and the Professor wheeled around in shock.

"What!? Surely I would have known—"

"There seems ta be a lot going on here you don't know about." Victor growled, then addressed the blue-furred feral. "What happened?"

"No serious injuries, of course." The scientist said calmly. "But there were some close calls. Some of the children didn't notice the light that alerts the hanger will be opening and nearly fell in. If Logan hadn't been in there, they would have."

The Professor sat gaping. "What!? Why was I never told!?"

"It was in one of the reports I gave you." Beast answered calmly.

"Well, that settles it." Victor growled. "I'm disabling this thing tomorrow." He looked to the blue-furred feral. "See to it that there's some kind of block put up around the basketball court, let the cubs know they can't play on it for a while."

Hank nodded without challenging the order.

Victor looked back at the Professor. "I'm gonna be changing a lot of things around her, wheels, and you can either let me do what I'm gonna do or fight me…..But ya won't win." And with that, he strode out of the hanger, following the scent of his mate.