Disclaimer: I don't own the X-Men I am just using them.
Copyright: Jarek is my character if you wish to use him then ask me please.
Author's note: I am sorry if I have been misspelling Jubilee's name. I have just noticed that in this part I was. I am extremely sorry.
A New Beginning Part 6
The day was three days before Christmas and Kitty and Jubilee needed to buy some gifts yet. They had waited like they did every year until the last minute. Now they needed someone to take them into the city so that they could finish shopping. So they decided that since Jarek wasn't around, he had already went into the city, they would ask Jubilee's boyfriend Gambit to take them.
The two girls thought about asking Rogue to come with them but she was with Logan who had went into the city to buy gifts himself. Everyone was going to buy gifts and now they needed to find someone to take them into the town, of course they knew that Remy would do it.
They fond him in his room playing with a deck of cards. He was playing solataire. He looked up from his game when the girls entered his room. "Hello ladies, can Gambit do something for you," he drawled.
"Yes you can you lazy cajun," Jubilee said playfully. "You can take us into the city so that we can finish our Christmas shopping since it is in a couple days you know."
"Gambit knows. Tell you what I will take you but first I need to make a phone call," Gambit said.
"Fine you can make the phone call but hurry it up. We will go and get our things," Jubilee told him.
The girls left the room and headed back to theirs. There Kitty spoke up, "Is he always like that. So willing to do whatever you ask him to do, or rather what you tell him to do."
"No he usually has some sly remark but he seemed a bit occupied and that was good since I didn't have to argue with the oaf," Jubilee said.
"Well at least we have someone to take us into the city to shop now," Kitty said. The girls got what they needed and waited for Gambit to pick them up so that they could leave. They had thought about going by themselves but had decided against it. It was more fun when there was a guy there to pester the whole time. That and well neither one of them really wanted to be scolded for taking a car without permission, which they knew they would never get.
* * * * *
Gambit sat in his room after the girls left and picked up the phone. He dialed a number and waited until someone picked the phone up on the other end. The voice was that of a man. "Who is it," the voice demanded.
"Dis is gambit. I am bringing the girls into de city so be ready," Gambit said to the man.
"Very well we shall be," the voice said right back. There was click in Gambit's ear as the man on the other end of the phone had hung it up. Gambit smiled then for the girls were in for quite a surprise when they reached the city.
He stood up and put on his long coat. He picked up his deck of cards and slipped them into his inside pocket of the coat. He looked around and decided that he didn't need
anything else and so left the room and went on down to Jubilee's and Kitty's room. There he knocked on the door and Jubilee answered it.
"It's about time Gambit. A girl could get old waiting for you," Jubilee said.
"Yes but you would look good as de old lady," Gambit said smiling.
"Yes but I am young and good looking so how about we leave before that all changes," Jubliee said smiling herself.
The girls followed Gambit down to the Garage where they took one of the BMW's. Gambit drove since he was the oldest and best driver among them. They headed for the city.
* * * * *
Jarek was standing in a jewler's shop looking at different necklaces and bracelets. He was buying gifts for the X-Men and for the girls. He had plenty of money to spend so he was not worried about any price. After all he thought the money I have I don't use much of anyway. Why not spend it on people who seem to care about me and that I in turn care about. It is just money after all where friendship is to be forever.
He was starting to believe that the girls and the X-Men were his friends. His trust was hard to earn and slowly they were earning it. Once they did he would be friends with them for the rest of his life. He would owe them that much. Of course he owed Kitty even more than he did any of the others. She had showed him something about himself. It was due to her that he felt that he had friends and that he owed her something. He truly felt that she was important to him. He didn't know why though. She was just a person, just a friend.
Kitty was special he decided. It was because she had proven him wrong when he had thought that there could be no fun had at a dance. He had thought that he didn't know how to have fun but she had shown him that he could. She had shown him that he was capable of things that he had long ago thought that he couldn't do anymore. He owed her something and so he would repay her in any way that he could.
He was holding a diamond necklace in his hand. The price on it was $3000. Jarek smiled and wondered if Kitty or one of the other girls would like it. Examining it he noticed that there was a flaw in two of the diamonds and so gave it back to the jewler. Jarek could see the flaws since he knew what to look for. He had eyes that were better than any man's and he had training in noticing things that were wrong with jewels. That was part of his training while he had been with Mystique and he had never forgotten it.
He didn't know what he wanted to get anyone since he had never in his life given anyone a gift. This was his first real Christmas in his life and he wanted to enjoy it. Jarek also had no idea what anyone else was getting people. That would have given him a clue. He didn't care if anyone got him anything since Christmas to him was a time of pain and death.
He wanted friendship for a gift and that would be enough for him. It would be worth more than anything if he could have it since he didn't have but a few friends. He really wanted to get these people something nice and so he continued to look not knowing of jewelry was the right thing or not.
* * * * *
Logan and Rogue were buying gifts for everyone. They were not buying anything that was really expensive. Their gifts were more along the lines of things that everyone could use. There were shirts for people and perfume for Rogue's friends. They were going together to get the gifts that way they could pool their money and get a bit better gifts. The shirts were silk and the perfume expensive French perfume.
They had gotten all the gifts except for one person's and that was Jarek. That was a person that between the two of them they didn't know what to get him. He didn't seem to be the type of person who cared for anything that was material. He was more of a person that cared about people and such. So they thought about what to get him and still nothing came to mind.
"You know Marie I have no idea what Jarek would even want," Logan spoke up.
"I agree with you there Logan. I don't know what he would want either," Rogue said.
"Well why not you were with him a lot and it seemed that you are one of the only people that he really talks to," Logan asked.
"He doesn't tell me or anyone else what he likes. He doesn't tell us anything about himself really. He is kinda like you in that aspect," Rogue said smiling.
"Hey I can't tell you anything because I don't know anything," Logan said smiling back. The pain had eased since he had found himself a home. It didn't hurt as much to not know things when you had people to care about you.
"Let's go to dinner maybe something will come to us while we eat," Rogue said.
"Sounds good to me darlin. I am hungry anyway. This shopping makes a person hungry," Logan joked as they went in search of a place to eat.
They went and ate dinner at a restaurant and continued to think. Finally they thought of what to get him. So after dinner they left in search of the gift they were going to get Jarek.
* * * * *
The girls were talking about what they were going to buy for whom and it was starting to drive Gambit nuts. He was tired of listening to them so he said, "Chere could you keep it down, Gambit has a hard time hearing."
"What do you need to hear for you are driving and this is not a bus," Kitty asked him trying to sound serious but failing.
"De vehicle could have something wrong with it and den I could no hear it," Gambit said.
"You sound like an old man," Jubliee told him.
"Wasn't it you who were de old woman earlier," Gambit inquired.
"He's got you there Jubes," Kitty said.
"Yes but even old I am more fun than Remy is now," Jubilee said.
Kitty nodded her head and smiled at that remark. She was having fun on the trip into the city. It was fun to be with just her friends. It was a chance that they rarely had, to get away from the mansion and do something that they wanted to do She was watching the road as they were nearing the city.
The road blurred in front of the vehicle and so Remy slammed on the brakes and swerved to the side to avoid the people who appeared in the road. The car crashed into the ditch and stopped. Luckily they were not moving to fast so they were not harmed. They were slowing down since there was a curve that they had to go around. The curve was very sharp and was a place where many accidents had occurred. Now one more could be added.
Gambit and the two girls crawled out of the car. They walked up to the road and looked to see what was there. What they saw made the girls blood run cold. Standing in the road was a woman with blue skin known to them as Mystique. There was Sabretooth, Toad, and also there was another woman there with brown hair. They didn't know who she was but they really didn't want to. They knew that she was with the enemy so she herself had to be one of the enemies.
Sabretooth and Toad started forward. Kitty was frightened and so was Jubliee. They looked to Remy to see what he was doing. He didn't look too surprised to them but he did draw a card out and charge it with his energy. He brought his arm back and was about to throw the card when Mystique spoke. "Don't do it Remy. If you throw that card you will also throw away your chance of joining the Brotherhood. It was you who wanted to join remember. It was you who wanted our protection and so we shall give it to you if you help us out right here," she said calmly.
Remy looked visibly shaken and had a hurt expression as he turned and looked at Jubilee and Kitty. He dropped the card and released the energy from it. "Gambit is sorry girls, but he need der protection," was all that Gambit said to them as he grabbed Jubilee by the arms and held her close so that she couldn't utilized her powers.
"Why Gambit. Wasn't our school good enough for you? Weren't you happy there with us? Why did you turn on us?" Jubilee asked with tears streaming down her face.
"Gambit did no turn on you. Gambit went to dem and asked for der protection with my problem. Dey say dat if Gambit bring them then they take care of my problem for me," Gambit answered sadly.
"But why didn't you ask us for our help, we would have helped you," Jubilee said.
"Gambit say dat de school was a good place. He wishes that I had found that place sooner. Gambit is sorry for what he is doing," Gambit said still holding Jubilee.
Gambit whispered into Jubilee ear then so that she might understand him and why he was doing this, "I have seen something dat was bad chere. For dat I am being hunted and Magneto offered me protection and a better life dan what I had. All I had to do was help him out. Chere I don't want to die, that is why I am helping them even though t pains me now."
Kitty was stunned by what had just happened. She couldn't believe that Gambit was a traitor. He had been so kind to her and her friends. He had helped Jarek when he was battling Sabretooth and now here he was turning against them to join the Brotherhood. He was joining the enemies of the X-Men and it was a reason that she just couldn't understand.
She knew that she had to get away to warn the X-Men of him but as she turned to run away she heard someone bearing down on her. She turned around to see who it was and saw Sabretooth. He swung his claws at her and she tried to phase through them but was too slow. She felt pain lance through her chest and she fell back to the snow.
"KITTY NO," Jubilee yelled while struggling to get away from Remy. It was no use he had her held to tight and she was just not strong enough to get away from him.
Kitty was laying on the ground and she reached up and felt her chest. When she pulled her hand away she saw that it was covered in blood. She wondered if she was going to die. It would not be so bad to die except that if she did it would cause a lot of pain to her friends. She didn't want them to hurt so she wanted to live. Hell she wanted to live anyway. She didn't want to die who was she trying to fool.
"Sabretooth you better hope that the wounds to that girl are not that bad or you will have to answer to Magneto. We were supposed to take them alive so that they could bring in the one that we want. Now pick her up and get going. I have a letter to deliver and then I will meet you back at the base," Mystique ordered.
Kitty felt herself losing consciousness. Before she did though she felt herself being lifted by Sabretooth and carried to the place where the others were presumably. She wondered who they wanted and then she blacked out.
* * * * *
Mystique had to deliver a letter to a room in the mansion. She didn't want to but she really didn't have any choice if she wanted to stay in the Brotherhood. She didn't want Jarek to die and that was what was going to happen to him if he followed what the letter had to say.
She had been ordered to deliver the letter to his room. Of course she still loved Jarek like a brother and so she would give him all the warning that she could. She pulled the letter out and added some lines to it. She then resealed the letter and put it in her pocket. After that she jumped into the car that she had placed near where they had kidnapped the girls. She drove to the Xavier mansion and to deliver a letter that would seal the fate of Jarek. She hoped that he didn't come but she knew deep down that he would try to help the girls and so she knew that she would at least get to see him one last time before he was killed. That was the only thought that kept her going. That she would be able to see him again.
* * * * *
Jarek had bought the gifts that he thought he needed to get for people. He was on his way home. Home he thought funny how that sounds to my ears. He knew it was a home though and so he was in a hurry to get back. He needed to get the gifts wrapped before anyone knew that he had bought any for anyone.
He had been told that he didn't need to get anyone any gifts but that is not how he felt. He owed the X-Men, as well as the three girls and most importantly he owed Kitty. They would get gifts from him because it was the only thing that he could come up with to do for them. He didn't like owing anyone anything because it usually went bad on him and he would have to do something that was not good in order to repay them.
He pulled into the driveway on the motorcycle. He hopped off and grabbed his bags and went inside the mansion. He headed straight to his room so that he could drop off the gifts. He looked at the decorations down each hall and he didn't know why they decorated.
He thought back to his past and shook his head at what he remembered. He didn't remember in the last seven years even having a Christmas. Most every person alive looked forward to Christmas it seemed to him. He remembered what he had done for his last seven Christmas's. On one of them he had killed a few men. On another one he had almost killed himself, still another one he had been captured by the government and they had tortured him on Christmas day. They had said that torturing him all day long was going to be his Christmas present.
Jarek shook his head clearing it of those days. They were behind him even though he carried the darkness from those days inside of him. All he knew was that Christmas seemed to be a curse to him and he wondered if there was going to be anything that happened to him this year to ruin it.
He hoped that nothing did. Jarek stopped walking at that thought. Hope, a emotion that he had long forgotten. He owed Kitty for another thing now it seemed. She had made him a man instead of a walking block of ice and death. He needed to repay her somehow for showing him so many things.
He opened the door to his room and walked in. Jarek went over to his bed and sat down his sack with all of the gifts in it. He then turned and walked out of his room to see if Kitty was around. He needed to talk to her and her friends.
He went to their room and knocked on their door. There was no answer so he knocked again louder. When no one answered this time he walked away from their room and in search of one of the X-Men. He went down halls and all he saw was students singing carols and having fun. He wondered what it was like to know such joy al the time.
He continued on down the hall until he came to Xavier's room. He went in without even knocking. Inside was the entire X-Men team most of them wrapping gifts. Jarek noted that Logan and Rogue were there as well. He needed to know where Kitty was and so he asked, "Have any of you seen Kitty lately, or Jubilee. They are not in their room and I would like to talk to them."
Xavier looked up from the gift that he was wrapping and said, "They went into the city with Gambit to finish their Christmas shopping. They left a few hours ago but I am sure that they found a sale or something that is keeping them occupied."
"All right I will be in my room if anyone needs me for anything," Jarek said as he turned his back to them and left the room.
The X-Men wondered what he needed to talk to them about but they dismissed it as they went back to their gift wrapping. All but Logan that was who noticed that Jarek was a bit different when he found out that they were not back yet. Logan vowed to himself to keep on eye on the kid.
Jarek went back to his room and when he got inside of the room he noticed something on his bed that hadn't been there before. Jarek felt himself harden to what he was like before he arrived at the mansion when he saw the note. He walked over to the note and opened it up, and then read:
Ah Jarek my boy it seems to me that you are a problem. As such I have need of stopping you for a time. I have something that is important to you. I have your friends Kitty, Jubilee, and Gambit. If you ever want to see them alive again then you need to come to a place called Raven's Claw. I am sure that you know the place since it was there that you were tested on. Alas I need you to come alone for if you bring anyone else with you then your friends will die.
Signed Magneto.
Jarek went cold as he read that. He knew that he would have to go there by himself in order to free them. He also knew that Magneto wanted him dead even though he didn't come out and say it. He owed Kitty and so he would save her in the only way that he could, by giving his life up. It was then that he noticed down at the bottom of the note some other writing. It was not Magneto's handwriting, but it was Mystique's.
Jarek don't come to the hideout please. If you do then you will more than likely be killed. I couldn't live with myself if you died. I just don't want you to show up so please listen.
Mystique.
Jarek couldn't believe that Mystique had taken the chance to warn him. If she had been caught then she would have been killed probably. Now he owed her again and it would take many years for him to repay her he thought. He still thought of her as his older sister and he would protect her no matter the cost to himself.
Jarek went over to his dresser and took out a package that he hadn't opened in a good long time. He knew that it was time for him to become who he once was. He opened the package and looked at the suit that sat there. It was his suit from the days he was an assassin. He put it on and looked at himself in the mirror. The suit was mostly black except for blue on his chest. The blue was covering about half his chest and then he put on his mask. It covered from his nose down leaving his eyes visible. The mask was white the only thing about him that was pure anymore and, even the mask had been covered in blood at one time.
He went over to his window and opened it. He gave a final look at his room his home and then he left. He went to a part of his past that didn't hold good memories. He had been held there and experimented on. Of course that place was where he should have died. Now he was returning and he would die there now. He didn't really care as long as the girls were safe.
Jarek approached the building and wondered what kind of reception he would receive. The temperature was well below freezing and it seemed to reflect how Jarek was feeling at the moment. The wind howled around him and the coldness was enough to kill a person even most mutants. The cold though was a friend of Jarek's it didn't ever bother him and he loved it.
As he came to within fifteen feet of the door he noticed that there were about a dozen mutants that were standing there waiting for him. He knew that they were there to stop him and kill him if necessary. Jarek waited for them to make the first move but what happened was that they parted and Magneto stepped forward.
"Ah Jarek my boy I'm glad to see that you could make it," Magneto said with a bit of joy in his voice.
"I made it. Now let my friends go," Jarek said coldly.
"I am afraid that I can't do that until I have you in chains. You see if I let them go now then you will fight us and I just can't have that," Magneto explained.
"Fine then chain me. It won't matter because I will kill you," Jarek coldly replied.
Magneto gestured to Sabretooth to go get Jarek and lead him into the hideout. As Sabretooth was doing that Magneto said, "Boy I don't think that you will kill anyone."
"We shall see," Jarek whispered to Magneto as he was led into the depths of his past.
* * * * *
Jarek was standing against a wall with his arms shackled to the wall. Magneto was standing in front of him and smiled widely. Jarek pulled against the chains to see if he could break them later. Magneto spoke up and said, "Those chains are made of titanium and I don't think that you will be breaking them."
"You are probably right Magneto. Do what you want for I will enjoy death if it comes for me. You can't frighten me with your threats of death. All I want you to do is keep your word and release the girls now," Jarek said.
"I just can't release them. I will keep them and then they will join the Brotherhood. Also I have a gift for you. I have acquired a man with amazing skills, he is a truly great man at giving torture. That I think is what I will give you for Christmas. Torture is what will make you se the light and join us," Magneto said.
"Well you can torture me and I can promise you that I will die before I join you. Now if you will just bring in your torturer we can start," Jarek coldly replied.
"Are you so ready to accept pain. Is that what you want. Is pain all that you want, in your life so ready to feel it," Magneto wondered.
"Pain is what I am. I deal pain and when I feel it I remember that I am indeed human. My pain will perhaps make you see that the best thing to do is release my friends," Jarek said with almost no malice in his voice.
"Jarek you are truly an enigma and you will be a waste when you die. I have never seen a mutant like you. You are quite possibly one of the most powerful ever. I will leave now so that your torture can begin," Magneto said as he turned and walked from the room.
Jarek leaned against the wall and wondered if the man was as good as Magneto claimed. If he was then the true and pure feeling of pain would be nice to feel for once. Jarek did like pain. It was something that made him feel, since most of the time he didn't feel anything. Jarek would welcome the pain for a release from what he feared would be done to his friends.
As he was wondering a man walked into the room. He was wearing blood red from head to toe. It was the uniform of a Dregan. They were men and women who were trained from birth to be torturers. With the man being a mutant Jarek wondered what he could do to him.
It didn't take long for him to find out. The man went to the door and opened it. The man said something and a woman came into the room wearing the same outfit. The woman took his cloths off leaving him his pair of shorts that he always wore underneath. They then took out their instruments of their trade and laid them out on the table in the room.
The man looked Jarek over and said to the woman, "He is in amazing shape, is he not Justine. He will fun to torture and try to break. I feel that he will be our greatest achievement."
The woman Jarek noticed was quite beautiful. She was tall as well. He knew that only the most beautiful women were allowed to become Dregans. The reason was due to their ability with their beauty to break men with ease. It was their beauty that made men break when the torture would take a long time. Magneto was going all out it seemed. He was using both a woman and a man on Jarek hoping that they could break Jarek in a very short time. Well Jarek wouldn't break. His body would give out before he did and if that happened he would need forgiveness from his friends for leaving them to their fate.
The man stepped up to him then and was holding a knife. As Jarek watched the knife began to glow red hot. The man then drove the knife into Jarek's arm. The flesh cooked and the blood ran. Jarek didn't make a noise and he didn't move. The man drew the knife down his arm. From there he then proceeded to fly the skin from his arm. They were quite good as the woman used a hook to pull his skin out and then push it back into his other arm. Jarek didn't make a noise no matter what they did to him. He was strong and wouldn't give them the satisfaction of seeing him scream.
After more than six hours of continuous torture the two left. The walls were covered in blood and so were the two of them. Jarek was slumped against the wall with only the chains holding him up. The skin was growing back on his arm now and was almost all the way grown back. They had left the arm alone after they had skinned him. They had moved to his legs. His chest they had carved their initials into. His body was covered in his own blood but he hadn't made a sound at all. Jarek was standing in a pool of his own blood.
It had seemed that they had been told that he healed rather fast. If they had been told then that was why they hadn't tried to keep Jarek from bleeding so much. They knew that his body would produce more blood to allow for the blood that he had lost. They didn't fear that Jarek would die on them and that was something that they would use. The torture he would feel would be amazing but he would endure. He had to endure because he owed Kitty. It was like a prayer to him. As long as he thought of that then he felt he could go on when his body would give out.
As he was standing in his own blood the door opened and a man stepped in. Jarek pulled himself to his feet ready for another round of torture. The man that stepped into the light though was not a torturer. The man was Remy and Jarek wondered how he had made it to him when he was supposed to be a prisoner. Jarek also wondered how he knew that he was here and so he voiced his questions, "How did you know I was here and how did you get away." Jarek's voice was weak and he had trouble speaking through the white hot pain.
"Gambit is sorry mon ami," Gambit said sadly.
"Why are you sorry. What do you have to be sorry about," Jarek asked quietly not liking the way Gambit decided to start the conversation.
"Gambit did something he not proud of. Gambit helped capture de girls. I gave them over to Magneto. It was de only way for dem to protect me like dey said dey would. Dey said dey would keep me safe from de assassins after me. All I had to do was get you to them. Dey said I could get the girls and den you would come after them. I am sorry for dat it seems I was wrong and threw my chances away at de school," Gambit said sadly with a tear sliding down his face.
"Gambit look at me. I am being tortured and there is no way that I can help the girls. You will have to do it for me," Jarek replied with heat in his voice.
"Gambit can no help dem dey don trust me anymore. But Gambit does want your forgiveness mon ami," Gambit nearly pleaded.
"My forgiveness you don't need. Find the girls and beg them for their forgiveness. You need theirs not mine. Find them for me and free them. Take them back to the mansion, and beg for forgiveness there. All of them are the ones that you need forgiveness from," Jarek explained to Gambit.
"Why can you no forgive me," Gambit asked sadly once again.
"My forgiveness will not be needed by you. It would do you no good. You will only need it if I live Gambit. I don't think that I will live though. I will die here and so there is no need for you to worry about getting forgiveness from me. Now go and help the girls," Jarek choked out.
"Mon ami I shall help de girls. I shall get you help though and you will live," Gambit said as he left the room.
"I don't think that you can help me Cajun. I am going to die here in a place of my past. The ghosts that still reside here taunt me. They are waiting for their killer to join them," Jarek whispered to himself as the man and woman came back in. This time they had an audience to watch them do their work.
* * * * *
Gambit left the holding room where Jarek was and felt a resolve to do what was right for a change. All his life he had taken the easy way out and had taken the best way out for himself. He saw how much Jarek cared for the girls and it made Gambit sick because he cared but he had thrown his feelings aside to save his own skin. It was something that he vowed never to do again.
Gambit knew where Jubilee and Kitty were being held so he headed that way. He needed to get them out of there and get back to the mansion so that the X-Men could held get Jarek out. Gambit couldn't believe what they were doing to Jarek. They were torturing him to make him give up his beliefs and follow Magneto. That or they were torturing him for the sheer enjoyment of it and either way Gambit didn't want to be associated with people who did that since it reminded him of the guild that he had run away from.
Gambit made it to where the girls were being held. There was a mutant outside the door guarding it so that neither of them could get away. The mutant didn't have any special powers he was just strong and fast. Of course the man could also control light and that was a good power to have since he could really mess an opponent up.
Gambit looked at the man and said, "I need to speak to the captives."
The man just nodded knowing that Gambit was the one that had brought them in. The man stepped aside and let Gambit enter the cell. Inside he found Jubilee sitting in a corner holding Kitty. Jubilee could have used her power but she was in despair and didn't. Kitty was in some pain but the wounds that Sabretooth had inflicted were not that deep. They drew blood but that was about it.
Gambit went over to the girls and knelt down next to them. He looked at them and knew that he had one something terrible and that he wouldn't blame them if he didn't get their forgiveness but he needed to ask it of them. That and they needed to know that Jarek had come for them. He spoke up then speaking in a low voice so that the man outside the door couldn't hear him, "Girls I need to speak to you."
"Get away Gambit I never want to see you again," Jubilee replied coldly.
"I understand but you must listen then I will leave you alone. Jarek is here and he is a captive," Gambit said.
Kitty looked up and through the pain she felt said, "He is here but why? How did he find the place and how did they catch him?"
"He found the place because he was given directions by Magneto. He was captured because dey threatened to kill the two of you if he fought. He is here because he wanted to save you and he felt that by giving himself up he would be able to," Gambit answered with admiration in his voice for Jarek.
"How do you know Gambit this could be another one of your tricks trying to get us to break," Jubilee said sadly.
"Gambit knows he messed up chere. Dat is why he went to beg forgiveness from Jarek when I found out he was here. Gambit, now know that he must help you because it is de right ting to do. Jarek wanted Gambit to help you and so I shall. I owe him that much. I beg your forgiveness but I shall understand if you don't give it to me," Gambit said with tears rolling down his face.
The two girls could tell that he was truly sorry for what he had done and now he wanted to fix it. He was going to risk his life for them and that was a noble act even though he had been misguided in helping catch them in the first place. Jubilee looked up at him from where she was sitting. She threw her arms around Gambit an said, "I forgive you Gambit you foolish Cajun."
Kitty sat up and said, "I forgive you as well Gambit now can we just get out of here if that is what you were coming here to do. We need to help Jarek out."
Gambit shook his head at Kitty then and answered her, "We can no help Jarek. If we try we will lose our chance to get away. I don like to leave him but if we do den we can get help from de X-Men."
"I want to help him. He came here to save us and then we are just going to leave him. That is not right," Kitty said angrily.
"Chere Jarek knew full well dat when he came here he would be putting his life in the hands of Magneto. He did it for you. Don't let him sacrifice himself for nothing leave with us so we can get help," Gambit said.
Kitty nodded her head then and said, "I suppose that you are right but it feels wrong to leave him when he came here for us. I see your point though so let's go."
The three of them stood up and walked to the door. He motioned for Kitty and Jubilee to be ready and opened the door. The man turned to look at him and saw that standing there was Gambit with a glowing card in his hand. Jubilee was next to him her hands glowing with her power and Kitty was just standing there. Jubilee unleashed her power and sent it at the man. He was blinded and stumbled back from the force of her power. Gambit threw his card and it exploded on impact with the man's chest.
Gambit hadn't charged it with too much power since he didn't want to kill the man. He just wanted to knock him out. Gambit accomplished that and the three of them headed down the halls. Gambit was in the lead. Whenever he saw anyone he jumped back so that he wasn't seen and held the girls where they couldn't be seen. Once the person was gone the three of them moved on again.
The place was huge and Gambit wasn't sure if they were going to get out of the compound without being seen again. He wondered if they were going to need to battle their way out. If that was the case he vowed that he would fight until he was dead so that Jarek's forgiveness was earned even if the man died. Gambit wondered about that. He hadn't told the girl's that he was expecting to die because he figured they would insist on staying and trying to help him. That and they would have freaked out maybe.
They were nearing the doors to the outside when Toad appeared. He looked directly at them and smiled then, "It seems we have a traitor. Well Gambit I will have to kill you now so that our little insurance stays put."
With that Toad leapt through the air at Gambit. Gambit didn't have time to charge one of his cards and was a little slow dodging. He was kicked in the chest by Toad and he fell back with his chest on fire from pain. Jubilee in the mean time fired her power at Toad who felt it hit him and he stumbled to the side. Gambit forced himself to his feet and pulled some cards from his coat. He charged two and threw them at Toad who jumped over them. Jubilee was ready though and nailed him in the air with her power. He flew back through the air and hit the wall hard.
Kitty was looking for something to use as a weapon to help her friends out and she was not finding much. She was looking along the wall and saw that there was a old two by four board. She went over and picked it up and headed back to the fight. She was going to help her friends.
The fight raged on while Kitty was looking for something to use as a weapon. Toad had used his spit move to put Jubilee out of the fight. She was rolling around on the ground trying to get the hardened stuff off her face but to no avail. Gambit was bleeding from a cut on his forehead. Toad stood there smiling widely at Gambit knowing that he had the battle won. Toad flashed his tongue out and Gambit ducked under it and at the same time threw one of his cards. This one was charged with a bit more power and it hit Toad in the leg. Toad fell down as his leg collapsed from the impact. He tried to rise but Kitty was there and brought the board down on Toad's head knocking him out.
Gambit ran over to Jubilee who was still trying to get the covering off her face. He grabbed her and held her still he didn't know what to do. Kitty came over and said, "My god help her Gambit or she will die."
Gambit knew that but what was he supposed to do. He thought about it and then had an answer. He could charge the stuff up and then release his power. When he did that with his cards the cards disintegrated. He would try that and pray that it worked.
"Jubilee honey don't move and don't get nervous about what I am going to do. I am going to charge the covering on your face with my power," Gambit said.
Gambit charged the covering up and it started to glow purplish pink. He then released his power and the covering disintegrated. Jubilee took in large gulps of air and hugged Gambit. "Thank you Gambit," She stammered out. Her heart was beating fast because she felt that she was going to die. She was near to it and she hadn't liked the feeling.
Gambit helped her to her feet then and said, "We have to go chere. The coast is clear and now is de best time." The three of them ran off into the night hoping to get back to the mansion in time to save their friend. Gambit didn't know how long one man could hold on with what they were doing to Jarek. He had seen it and knew that he would have given in to them in less than an hour with what they were doing. Jarek had endured six hours and would endure more. He needed to get help and that was what he was going to do. He owed it Jarek to help him since he had gotten him into the mess.