4/19/01
Denigoddess2001@aol.com
Story Arc: "X and The Single Gargoyle" Part V
Segement: Archangel of Twilight
Chapter 6: Frightful Lucidity
Disclaimer's in the first chapter, folks!
[Bracketed words indicate thought or telepathic transmission]
He watched from a distance as Chuck walked beside the purple hobgoblin. He felt betrayal rise in his throat like bad-tasting bile. His acute hearing overhead every sickening act of generousity enacted by the Professor. He was a flamin' Garg lover! It made Logan's stomach churn just knowing that purple animal had touched Adrienne. He knew they'd been all over each other like two teenagers.
[Ya think the Frail at least would keep it in the same species.]
Logan's tears evaporated in the heat of his hatred for Goliath.
Logan's attention turned to other things as he watched Adrienne walk around the airfield with one of those little green freaks. He'd sliced through that one like melted butter. That thought brought Logan savage satisfaction. He wanted to skewer every last one and skin them alive for getting their filthy talons into his Adrienne.
Damn. Goliath had been a thorn in his side for too long of time. Logan's late wife, Jaye, ceased to be because of that freak's frail, Elisa. Now, Adrienne had been brainwashed by that garg son-of-a-bitch. The freak even had Dree believing that logan almost raped her in the hallway after the Danger Room exercise six weeks prior.
"You and me are gonna dance, ya freakin' bastard."
Adrienne and the green garg she called Lex were walking along the edge of the field. He remembered that shrimp. The flying squirrel's wings sliced nice and easy for Logan. Now, if it weren't for Adrienne, he'd finish what he'd started a month and a half ago.
He didn't give a shit if they lived or died. As long as Adrienne came to her senses, that's all that mattered to him.
Half of his wife resided inside that woman. If he couldn't have Jaye back in his arms, then Adrienne would do just fine.
*******
A flash of crimson blinded her. The pain of the batrayal twisted her stomach in cramped knots. Rage tore through and crippled her mind. The pain seared her nerves with each passing second. She fell into a crumpled heap at Lexington's feet. The sudden wave of vertigo caused her to fight for air and consciousness.
"Adrienne? What's wrong?" Lex's concern cut through the murky haze of disorientation and chaotic onslaught of emotion.
"Logan, he's nearby." She said between labored breaths. She clutched her heaving chest. "Emapthic attack. Get Goliath.....please."
"Hang on, Adrienne! I'll get him!" Lex reassured her. "Goliath! Goliath! Adrienne's down!"
Goliath and Professor X heard Lexington's urgent cries for help. They turned to see Adrienne on the ground to see Adrienne lying on the ground. Her eyes rolled back in her head and she was convulsing.
"Call a doctor! Get one now!" Goliath bellowed as he scooped his beloved mate into his arms. "Lexington, how did this come about?"
Lexington seemed on the edge of hysteria. "She said Logan is nearby and it was an empathic attack."
"I'm going to kill him." Goliath said in a low growl with eyes aglow. "He shall pay dearly if harm befalls her this night."
Professor Xavier was beside them within seconds.
"Goliath, bring her to me. If she's suffered an empathic attack, then she'll enter cardiac arrest." He commanded the large Gargoyle.
"Can you help her?"
"I shall try."
*******
Adrienne felt quite groggy. She slowly opened her eyes. She found herself surrounded by glowing crimson orbs dancing around them. Globes of murky yellow and putrid green collided with them making ugly splatters in the air.
[Empathic plane.] She realized. [Only one man generates that kind of savage emotion. Only one man can get inside my mind like this.]
"Logan, where are you?" Adrienne called aloud. She abhorred being weakened. "I know you're here! Show yourself."
"Yeah, Darlin.' I'm here." His voice startled her as she felt two strong arms cradle her. She looked up to see icy cobalt eyes warm with worry as they gazed into hers.
The colors exploing around them slowed and softened in volume and hue. The harsh wind blowing around them became a gentle breeze. The frenzied chaos melted away into the familiar scene of the Danger Room.
[You're on my turf now, Manicure boy.]
"Logan, why are you doing this?" She whispered weakly. The agony of the empathic assault on her mind left her depleted, unprotected and weak.
"Darlin', I love ya." He murmered as he pressed a kiss into her curly charcoal ringlets. "I didn't mean to hurt ya with that kiss a while back. I didn't mean to do this to ya now."
"Love, my ass." She scoffed. "Don't even go there! This isn't love, this is psychic rape. You're violating my mind to try and dominate me, you cold ruthless asswipe!"
The agony racked her body as another wave of rage from Logan washed over her. "You loved me once."
"I never loved you. Jaye loved you. Jaye is dead. You have to let her go. You have to let me go."
"I can't, Adrienne." He said raggedly. "God knows I've tried. But, I know that bond and what it feels like."
"And you don't give a damn what your addiction does to me!" She spat.
"No, you don't." He snarled. "You don't have a clue, Frail. Without you, I feel more alone than I ever have. It's hard being unconnected to that much affection and unconditional acceptance. I just wanted to curl up and die."
"Your a mind junkie. Great."
"We share a bond whether you like it or not, Dree." He rasped. "Same mind, same body and same soul."
"We don't share a thing!" She retorted.
"What do you call this?" Logan motioned to the scene of the Danger Room around them. "This ain't really the Danger Room, Darlin.' We on a prime piece of psionic real estate called the Empathic Plane. You taught me how to navigate around this place. You taught me how to channel all that beserker rage to open a portal here and deal with it all. We're here for sure. This sure as Hell ain't La-la land."
"Jaye taught you those things."
"Then what do you call this, Sunshine?" He asked with a voice of spun silk.
"This is a residual effect from the time you deided to play God in Sevarius' lab." She glared at him. "Logan, let me go. Let me live my life. Let me help you. You need help-"
"I don't need shit or that psycho-babble you wanna shove down my throat." He drew her roughly upright. "If I can reach the real you, you'll realize that you love me. It's in ya. I can feel it."
"I don't love you, Logan."
"If you didn't, this link wouldn't exist. The bond doesn't take if there isn't something to hold it together. If you didn't love me, you wouldn't feel it."
"Of course I care about you." She felt like screaming at him to let her go. "I always have. I just don't have any romantic inclinations about you. You caught me a few minutes after my inception at my weakest point. There was no way the link could not take hold. I needed your lifeforce to survive and you provided the means for my survival. It was pure instinct that my mind latched onto yours. It was never love!"
"I don't think so." He countered. "If you didn't feel something for me akin to love this link wouldn't exist. Every night when you're with your walking waterspout, I feel it! I feel your feelings like they're mind. I hear his words echo in your mind. I feel his touch on your skin. I hear you cry out his name in your mind. You loved me like that once."
"Correction. Jaye Morgan loved you like that once." She harshly rebuked him. "She died a long time ago."
"Half of you is Jaye Morgan." Logan pointed out to her. "We loved each other in a way that went beyond the concept. It was each of us inside the other. Neither of us were alone. When you left me...I fell apart.
[Goliath, where are you?]
"Logan, this is insane." Adrienne felt strength slowly eroding away the frailty holding her body and mind captive. "I carry Jaye's DNA. That's all. I don't have her mind or her soul. I am my own person."
[Just keep him talking. Stall.]
"Yeah, I don't think so, Sunshine." Logan brought his lips to hers in a series of light kisses. As the cloud of dizziness slowly dispersed, she recognized that she wasn't strong enought to resist further assault on her empathic senses.
She laid passively in his arms. Something in the dark and distant recesses of her mind knew that he spoke the truth about the love he shared with his late wife. She understood that Logan was a man motivated and energized by raw emotion. At one time, that held her fascination with his primative charisma and wild sexuality. Now, it simply frightened her. His agressive, savage nature left Adrienne repulsed.
"I don't love you and I don't want you; not now and not ever. Get over yourself and get out of my life." Her outrage gave her new psionic strength. Unknown stamina and power flowed into her. It felt like it came from a source other than Human. The mist of quandry faded swiftly into oblivion as the resounding crystalline clarity cleared her mind. Order replaced chaos.
[Goliath, I knew I could count on you!]
"You're on my turf, Logan." She said in a low, monotone growl. "Unless you want your mind fried like scramble eggs, I suggest that you get out of my mind."
"You're in no condition to be makin' threats, Frail." He hurtfully grabbed her upper arms."Why are you screwin' that purple hobgoblin, givin' it to him instead of lovin' me. Ain't a man good enough for ya?"
"It actually rather simple. Let me put it in terms simple enough for you to understand." Her sarcasm caused his eyes to narrow. She snarled and he watched her eyes flash in an unholy violet luminescence.
"Goliath treats me with respect. He doesn't try to dominate me. He doesn't try to own me. He treasure me. And honey, he's better in bed than any human I've heard about."
"Frail, you had better just shut yer mouth." He warned her with an ominous note in his voice.
"What are you going to do?" She taunted Logan. "Cry?"
She let forth a Darkforce bolt from her hands that sent Logan reeling into the air. He soared helplessly until he landed on the ground several feet away. "Now, I'm pissed."
Logan stood up and straightened his clothing. "So this is what it comes down to?"
"You got that right."
"If you're so connected to your precious Goliath, where's he now?"
"Logan...just go."
"You ever wonder why you're drawn to a garg? He ain't even the same fuckin' species." Logan sneered. "You ever figure out why he wants you and who the other half of you is?"
"I know who I am." Adrienne watch Logan as he stepped forward. "I'm a Kiari/ Mutant hybrid with your dead wife's DNA as the data base for my particular genetic configuration."
"Not even close, Darlin.'" Logan chuckled as he walked toward her.
Adrienne fired another bolt of the cold, lifeless energy of Darkforce at him. The black bolt of void were missiles of intense sentient energy link to Adrienne's will and desires. Their shapes altered from sleek torpedoes into an expansive net intent upon snaring the Mutant called Wolverine.
Somehow, he lunged out of the way just as the net fastened itself securely to the ground. He watched the quivering black tendrils of the net vainly reach for him.
"Not bad, Frail. You're gettin' better with your fightin.' You're figurin' out that your abilities are controlled by personal choice and not raw ability."
He dodged the tendrils with ease and sprung forward to land only a few feet away. He tackled the young woman and knocked her to the ground. He lay atop her. His heavy weight heald her steadfast. "When Jaye and i battled like this in the Danger Room, she like it. Combat was just a form of foreplay for us. You wonder why I always win? Because you want me to. You like being tamed, you always have."
"You're sick." She snarled as she struggled against his strength.
"No, I'm not. "In the real world I kick your ass in combat. In here, you can't win because you don't have the will to fight me."
A solid knee came upwards to firmly impact with Logan's exposed crotch. He howled like a wounded animal. With the might she needed, she called mentally upon her bond for Goliath. The energy she need to escape Logan came alive inside her. She felt Goliath's love and power wash over her. She felt his awesome presence flow through her. With eyes ablaze with violet flame, she effortlessly dislodged Logan from her person.
She watched as he landed roughly on the hard surface. Beaten and bloodied, covered in lacerations and abrasions, he rose to his knees. "You wonder why goliath even gives you the time of day? Your four-legged lizard lover ever tell you that the other half of your DNA configuration is Elisa Maza?"
"In your dreams, Logan." She screamed but it barely came out barely above a whisper.
There was utter stillness. The narcosis attacked her.
"Yeah, Frail, that's the cold harsh reality." He gave a rueful laugh. "The only reason you're with him is because some other woman's psyche is vying for equal time with Jaye's. The only reason he even looks at you is because of the same reason I am; I want my wife back. He thinks he loves you because you are all that's left of Elisa Maza."
"You lie."
"Then where is he?"
*******
Goliath slowly closed his eyes. He reached within himself to find that special harmony of warmth. He looked for that particular connection and rapport that he shared with his mate. He chose to enter it only of her invitation. More than once, she had told him that she preferred her mind to be her own. He wished not to invade and violate her most private thoughts.
He found the link and he traveled along it's course. In his mind's eye, it apeared as a celadon cable radiant and luminescent against a dark mantle akin to the expanse of the heavens.
he felt the gentle and loving covenant come alive inside him. He followed the arc between them until orbs of colored brilliance danced around him. Momentarily blinded, he shielded his eyes against the glare of their mesmerizing pulsations.
"Adrienne, where are you?"
He saw her not far away firing at a target he knew too well. Goliath's protective urges surged at the very thought that Logan was hurting her. He watched the figure advanced toward his betrothed. Goliath longed for an updraft to catch his wings. He reached out to the distant visage of his beloved and leapt from the rocky surface toward her.
The underdraft he so critically required surged beneath him. Goliath extended his large wings and soared above his mate. Logan was a formidable warrior. Goliath knew a silent attack was best. His keen ears eavesdropped on their heated exchange below him.
Logan landed roughly on the surface. Beaten and bloodied, covered in cuts and scrapes, he rose to his knees. "You wonder why goliath even gives you the time of day? Your four-legged lizard lover ever tell you that the other half of your DNA configuration is Elisa Maza?"
"You lie."
"Then where is he?"
Goliath let forth a deafening roar as he descended feet -first upon the unsuspecting Wolverine. Goliath used his great strength and pummelled him mercilessly into the rough surface of the ground. Goliath placed a knee strongly between Logan's shoulder blades. He kept a large taloned hand on his neck.
"I want to shatter your skull where you lie." Goliath growled low and deeply into Logan's ear. "You've violated my wife and you will pay for that."
"Yeah, but at least I told her the truth." Logan taunted the Gargoyle.
"YOUR TRUTH!" Goliath slammed his jaw into the concrete.
"Goliath, please don't hurt him." Adrienne rushed to his side. The Gigantic Gargoyle turned to see the anguish that marred his Sweetling's features. "It has to stop here and now."
The words hung in the air between them. Goliath paused then hauled Logan upright by the collar of his jacket. "Begone from this place and tread not here again. Otherwise you and I shall meet and Adrienne won't be able to save your sorry life."
The lavender leviathan's onyx eyes seethed with barely contained longings for vengeance. They burned ominously as Goliath threw Logan's battered body through the portal looming above them. Logan howled wildly as he sailed through the eyes of the maelstorom and vanished. Goliath knew that only he and his Beloved remained inside her mind.
Denigoddess2001@aol.com
Story Arc: "X and The Single Gargoyle" Part V
Segement: Archangel of Twilight
Chapter 6: Frightful Lucidity
Disclaimer's in the first chapter, folks!
[Bracketed words indicate thought or telepathic transmission]
He watched from a distance as Chuck walked beside the purple hobgoblin. He felt betrayal rise in his throat like bad-tasting bile. His acute hearing overhead every sickening act of generousity enacted by the Professor. He was a flamin' Garg lover! It made Logan's stomach churn just knowing that purple animal had touched Adrienne. He knew they'd been all over each other like two teenagers.
[Ya think the Frail at least would keep it in the same species.]
Logan's tears evaporated in the heat of his hatred for Goliath.
Logan's attention turned to other things as he watched Adrienne walk around the airfield with one of those little green freaks. He'd sliced through that one like melted butter. That thought brought Logan savage satisfaction. He wanted to skewer every last one and skin them alive for getting their filthy talons into his Adrienne.
Damn. Goliath had been a thorn in his side for too long of time. Logan's late wife, Jaye, ceased to be because of that freak's frail, Elisa. Now, Adrienne had been brainwashed by that garg son-of-a-bitch. The freak even had Dree believing that logan almost raped her in the hallway after the Danger Room exercise six weeks prior.
"You and me are gonna dance, ya freakin' bastard."
Adrienne and the green garg she called Lex were walking along the edge of the field. He remembered that shrimp. The flying squirrel's wings sliced nice and easy for Logan. Now, if it weren't for Adrienne, he'd finish what he'd started a month and a half ago.
He didn't give a shit if they lived or died. As long as Adrienne came to her senses, that's all that mattered to him.
Half of his wife resided inside that woman. If he couldn't have Jaye back in his arms, then Adrienne would do just fine.
*******
A flash of crimson blinded her. The pain of the batrayal twisted her stomach in cramped knots. Rage tore through and crippled her mind. The pain seared her nerves with each passing second. She fell into a crumpled heap at Lexington's feet. The sudden wave of vertigo caused her to fight for air and consciousness.
"Adrienne? What's wrong?" Lex's concern cut through the murky haze of disorientation and chaotic onslaught of emotion.
"Logan, he's nearby." She said between labored breaths. She clutched her heaving chest. "Emapthic attack. Get Goliath.....please."
"Hang on, Adrienne! I'll get him!" Lex reassured her. "Goliath! Goliath! Adrienne's down!"
Goliath and Professor X heard Lexington's urgent cries for help. They turned to see Adrienne on the ground to see Adrienne lying on the ground. Her eyes rolled back in her head and she was convulsing.
"Call a doctor! Get one now!" Goliath bellowed as he scooped his beloved mate into his arms. "Lexington, how did this come about?"
Lexington seemed on the edge of hysteria. "She said Logan is nearby and it was an empathic attack."
"I'm going to kill him." Goliath said in a low growl with eyes aglow. "He shall pay dearly if harm befalls her this night."
Professor Xavier was beside them within seconds.
"Goliath, bring her to me. If she's suffered an empathic attack, then she'll enter cardiac arrest." He commanded the large Gargoyle.
"Can you help her?"
"I shall try."
*******
Adrienne felt quite groggy. She slowly opened her eyes. She found herself surrounded by glowing crimson orbs dancing around them. Globes of murky yellow and putrid green collided with them making ugly splatters in the air.
[Empathic plane.] She realized. [Only one man generates that kind of savage emotion. Only one man can get inside my mind like this.]
"Logan, where are you?" Adrienne called aloud. She abhorred being weakened. "I know you're here! Show yourself."
"Yeah, Darlin.' I'm here." His voice startled her as she felt two strong arms cradle her. She looked up to see icy cobalt eyes warm with worry as they gazed into hers.
The colors exploing around them slowed and softened in volume and hue. The harsh wind blowing around them became a gentle breeze. The frenzied chaos melted away into the familiar scene of the Danger Room.
[You're on my turf now, Manicure boy.]
"Logan, why are you doing this?" She whispered weakly. The agony of the empathic assault on her mind left her depleted, unprotected and weak.
"Darlin', I love ya." He murmered as he pressed a kiss into her curly charcoal ringlets. "I didn't mean to hurt ya with that kiss a while back. I didn't mean to do this to ya now."
"Love, my ass." She scoffed. "Don't even go there! This isn't love, this is psychic rape. You're violating my mind to try and dominate me, you cold ruthless asswipe!"
The agony racked her body as another wave of rage from Logan washed over her. "You loved me once."
"I never loved you. Jaye loved you. Jaye is dead. You have to let her go. You have to let me go."
"I can't, Adrienne." He said raggedly. "God knows I've tried. But, I know that bond and what it feels like."
"And you don't give a damn what your addiction does to me!" She spat.
"No, you don't." He snarled. "You don't have a clue, Frail. Without you, I feel more alone than I ever have. It's hard being unconnected to that much affection and unconditional acceptance. I just wanted to curl up and die."
"Your a mind junkie. Great."
"We share a bond whether you like it or not, Dree." He rasped. "Same mind, same body and same soul."
"We don't share a thing!" She retorted.
"What do you call this?" Logan motioned to the scene of the Danger Room around them. "This ain't really the Danger Room, Darlin.' We on a prime piece of psionic real estate called the Empathic Plane. You taught me how to navigate around this place. You taught me how to channel all that beserker rage to open a portal here and deal with it all. We're here for sure. This sure as Hell ain't La-la land."
"Jaye taught you those things."
"Then what do you call this, Sunshine?" He asked with a voice of spun silk.
"This is a residual effect from the time you deided to play God in Sevarius' lab." She glared at him. "Logan, let me go. Let me live my life. Let me help you. You need help-"
"I don't need shit or that psycho-babble you wanna shove down my throat." He drew her roughly upright. "If I can reach the real you, you'll realize that you love me. It's in ya. I can feel it."
"I don't love you, Logan."
"If you didn't, this link wouldn't exist. The bond doesn't take if there isn't something to hold it together. If you didn't love me, you wouldn't feel it."
"Of course I care about you." She felt like screaming at him to let her go. "I always have. I just don't have any romantic inclinations about you. You caught me a few minutes after my inception at my weakest point. There was no way the link could not take hold. I needed your lifeforce to survive and you provided the means for my survival. It was pure instinct that my mind latched onto yours. It was never love!"
"I don't think so." He countered. "If you didn't feel something for me akin to love this link wouldn't exist. Every night when you're with your walking waterspout, I feel it! I feel your feelings like they're mind. I hear his words echo in your mind. I feel his touch on your skin. I hear you cry out his name in your mind. You loved me like that once."
"Correction. Jaye Morgan loved you like that once." She harshly rebuked him. "She died a long time ago."
"Half of you is Jaye Morgan." Logan pointed out to her. "We loved each other in a way that went beyond the concept. It was each of us inside the other. Neither of us were alone. When you left me...I fell apart.
[Goliath, where are you?]
"Logan, this is insane." Adrienne felt strength slowly eroding away the frailty holding her body and mind captive. "I carry Jaye's DNA. That's all. I don't have her mind or her soul. I am my own person."
[Just keep him talking. Stall.]
"Yeah, I don't think so, Sunshine." Logan brought his lips to hers in a series of light kisses. As the cloud of dizziness slowly dispersed, she recognized that she wasn't strong enought to resist further assault on her empathic senses.
She laid passively in his arms. Something in the dark and distant recesses of her mind knew that he spoke the truth about the love he shared with his late wife. She understood that Logan was a man motivated and energized by raw emotion. At one time, that held her fascination with his primative charisma and wild sexuality. Now, it simply frightened her. His agressive, savage nature left Adrienne repulsed.
"I don't love you and I don't want you; not now and not ever. Get over yourself and get out of my life." Her outrage gave her new psionic strength. Unknown stamina and power flowed into her. It felt like it came from a source other than Human. The mist of quandry faded swiftly into oblivion as the resounding crystalline clarity cleared her mind. Order replaced chaos.
[Goliath, I knew I could count on you!]
"You're on my turf, Logan." She said in a low, monotone growl. "Unless you want your mind fried like scramble eggs, I suggest that you get out of my mind."
"You're in no condition to be makin' threats, Frail." He hurtfully grabbed her upper arms."Why are you screwin' that purple hobgoblin, givin' it to him instead of lovin' me. Ain't a man good enough for ya?"
"It actually rather simple. Let me put it in terms simple enough for you to understand." Her sarcasm caused his eyes to narrow. She snarled and he watched her eyes flash in an unholy violet luminescence.
"Goliath treats me with respect. He doesn't try to dominate me. He doesn't try to own me. He treasure me. And honey, he's better in bed than any human I've heard about."
"Frail, you had better just shut yer mouth." He warned her with an ominous note in his voice.
"What are you going to do?" She taunted Logan. "Cry?"
She let forth a Darkforce bolt from her hands that sent Logan reeling into the air. He soared helplessly until he landed on the ground several feet away. "Now, I'm pissed."
Logan stood up and straightened his clothing. "So this is what it comes down to?"
"You got that right."
"If you're so connected to your precious Goliath, where's he now?"
"Logan...just go."
"You ever wonder why you're drawn to a garg? He ain't even the same fuckin' species." Logan sneered. "You ever figure out why he wants you and who the other half of you is?"
"I know who I am." Adrienne watch Logan as he stepped forward. "I'm a Kiari/ Mutant hybrid with your dead wife's DNA as the data base for my particular genetic configuration."
"Not even close, Darlin.'" Logan chuckled as he walked toward her.
Adrienne fired another bolt of the cold, lifeless energy of Darkforce at him. The black bolt of void were missiles of intense sentient energy link to Adrienne's will and desires. Their shapes altered from sleek torpedoes into an expansive net intent upon snaring the Mutant called Wolverine.
Somehow, he lunged out of the way just as the net fastened itself securely to the ground. He watched the quivering black tendrils of the net vainly reach for him.
"Not bad, Frail. You're gettin' better with your fightin.' You're figurin' out that your abilities are controlled by personal choice and not raw ability."
He dodged the tendrils with ease and sprung forward to land only a few feet away. He tackled the young woman and knocked her to the ground. He lay atop her. His heavy weight heald her steadfast. "When Jaye and i battled like this in the Danger Room, she like it. Combat was just a form of foreplay for us. You wonder why I always win? Because you want me to. You like being tamed, you always have."
"You're sick." She snarled as she struggled against his strength.
"No, I'm not. "In the real world I kick your ass in combat. In here, you can't win because you don't have the will to fight me."
A solid knee came upwards to firmly impact with Logan's exposed crotch. He howled like a wounded animal. With the might she needed, she called mentally upon her bond for Goliath. The energy she need to escape Logan came alive inside her. She felt Goliath's love and power wash over her. She felt his awesome presence flow through her. With eyes ablaze with violet flame, she effortlessly dislodged Logan from her person.
She watched as he landed roughly on the hard surface. Beaten and bloodied, covered in lacerations and abrasions, he rose to his knees. "You wonder why goliath even gives you the time of day? Your four-legged lizard lover ever tell you that the other half of your DNA configuration is Elisa Maza?"
"In your dreams, Logan." She screamed but it barely came out barely above a whisper.
There was utter stillness. The narcosis attacked her.
"Yeah, Frail, that's the cold harsh reality." He gave a rueful laugh. "The only reason you're with him is because some other woman's psyche is vying for equal time with Jaye's. The only reason he even looks at you is because of the same reason I am; I want my wife back. He thinks he loves you because you are all that's left of Elisa Maza."
"You lie."
"Then where is he?"
*******
Goliath slowly closed his eyes. He reached within himself to find that special harmony of warmth. He looked for that particular connection and rapport that he shared with his mate. He chose to enter it only of her invitation. More than once, she had told him that she preferred her mind to be her own. He wished not to invade and violate her most private thoughts.
He found the link and he traveled along it's course. In his mind's eye, it apeared as a celadon cable radiant and luminescent against a dark mantle akin to the expanse of the heavens.
he felt the gentle and loving covenant come alive inside him. He followed the arc between them until orbs of colored brilliance danced around him. Momentarily blinded, he shielded his eyes against the glare of their mesmerizing pulsations.
"Adrienne, where are you?"
He saw her not far away firing at a target he knew too well. Goliath's protective urges surged at the very thought that Logan was hurting her. He watched the figure advanced toward his betrothed. Goliath longed for an updraft to catch his wings. He reached out to the distant visage of his beloved and leapt from the rocky surface toward her.
The underdraft he so critically required surged beneath him. Goliath extended his large wings and soared above his mate. Logan was a formidable warrior. Goliath knew a silent attack was best. His keen ears eavesdropped on their heated exchange below him.
Logan landed roughly on the surface. Beaten and bloodied, covered in cuts and scrapes, he rose to his knees. "You wonder why goliath even gives you the time of day? Your four-legged lizard lover ever tell you that the other half of your DNA configuration is Elisa Maza?"
"You lie."
"Then where is he?"
Goliath let forth a deafening roar as he descended feet -first upon the unsuspecting Wolverine. Goliath used his great strength and pummelled him mercilessly into the rough surface of the ground. Goliath placed a knee strongly between Logan's shoulder blades. He kept a large taloned hand on his neck.
"I want to shatter your skull where you lie." Goliath growled low and deeply into Logan's ear. "You've violated my wife and you will pay for that."
"Yeah, but at least I told her the truth." Logan taunted the Gargoyle.
"YOUR TRUTH!" Goliath slammed his jaw into the concrete.
"Goliath, please don't hurt him." Adrienne rushed to his side. The Gigantic Gargoyle turned to see the anguish that marred his Sweetling's features. "It has to stop here and now."
The words hung in the air between them. Goliath paused then hauled Logan upright by the collar of his jacket. "Begone from this place and tread not here again. Otherwise you and I shall meet and Adrienne won't be able to save your sorry life."
The lavender leviathan's onyx eyes seethed with barely contained longings for vengeance. They burned ominously as Goliath threw Logan's battered body through the portal looming above them. Logan howled wildly as he sailed through the eyes of the maelstorom and vanished. Goliath knew that only he and his Beloved remained inside her mind.