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Part 2

Remy's eyelids were heavy when he awoke and his body was tired and numb. Was it normal for your mind to be awake while your body was still a sleep? Both his nose and mouth felt clogged with gooey stuff that he couldn't identified and he felt weighted down all over.

He was inclined to roll over on his side but his mind eventually caught up with his nose and he noticed the medical, disinfectant smell he identified with laboratories.

Slowly event's came back.

The marauders…. Fervently he hoped this was Beast's lab. He lay still, praying no one had noticed that he was awake. Listening closely he became aware of the fact that he was not alone. Footsteps fell beside him and he heard someone murmuring to himself or her so as he thought softly that he had to strain to hear.




However, it was the next voice that made every part in Remy scream, 'Run!'

"You going to do anything about this frail?" He heard Sabretooth say.

"Tried licking it? No? Oh well, there's some solvent over there."

Sabretooth growled lowly, "Ya going to clean him up too?"

"Yes."

Sabretooth grunted, obviously getting bored hanging round.

"…And they would cover him in this stuff too…". He heard her say.

At least he assumed it was a woman, all his sense's seemed mucked up. There was some rustling and then he felt the weight on his body grow a bit lighter.

"…Use it on his face and it will probably kill him…"

A small cloth deftly wiped his face, removing the gooey stuff blocking his nose, eyes, mouth and ears. To his surprise he discovered he could move one of his hands, slowly he opened his eyes. A girl/ woman with dark black hair and green eyes was washing his face. She gasped, startled when she saw his eyes, here yes uncertain. Swiftly he grabbed her hand, and used it for leverage to sit up.

"I see you're awake." Her tone was calm and emotionless.

"Where am I?" Remy hissed, tugging her closer to him.

She flinched slightly. "My Father's labourites. Would you let go off my arm?"

With sudden realisation he found that he couldn't use his power, not letting go off her hand, her felt the heavy weight around his neck, an inhibitor. His eyes darted round the room looking for a quick escape.
"Guess me an' yo' goin' to take a walk chere."

"I don't think so Remy."

He froze, pulling her in front of him his other hand sliding round her neck.
"Wha' d' ya wan' Sinister?"

Sinister chuckled and moved across the room, Gambits eyes following his movements.
"Corrine can you go please. Sabretooth used the wrong solvent on his fur and needs your help."

She went to move but stopped when Gambits grip tightened on her throat. Despite the fact that her Father was standing right in front of her and she could probably take him down in a few seconds. Corrine was terrified; none of her Fathers 'patients' had ever directly threatened her. Keeping her calm facade she waited for her Father to intervene."

Sinisters red eyes flashed with something akin to amusement. He ignored the Cajun for a moment, turning his back on him to take a small black box of the table. He shuffled through some sheets and absently stated.
" I have been recently discovered an interesting pathogen. It should be of some interest to your friends. "

"And why would dat be Sinister?" Remy spat, grip reflexively tightening on Posions throat.

"It creates flu like symptoms in the victims body, then when the body begins to build antibodies against it. It begins, in layman's terms; turn the anti-bodies against each other, crippling the victim. Paralyse from the neck down is usually the end result. " Sinister paused allowing Remy to digest this information before continuing.
"I happen to have placed a small vial containing this in your home and I doubt you would want the vials structure to break-down and expose the others to it? Hmm?"

His grip slowly slackened on Poisons throat, his face a mixture of disgust and fear. No, he wouldn't do it. He couldn't co-operate with Sinister and sell his soul yet again. There had to be a way out, he'd find it or the others would him. But for now, Remy's shoulders slumped in defeat and he released Corrine.

"That's my boy. I knew you would make the right decision in the end."

Picking up a syringe, he smiled coldly. "Don't worry this won't hurt a bit."

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The others were going through various state of shock back at the mansion. Bobby having been silenced for his "couldn't have happened to a nicer guy" remarks by an irate Ororo who icily informed him, "Gambit was after all an X-man."

The mucus that had covered Logan's body had finally begun to dissolve with a little help from Beast, who wanted to insure his patient didn't suffocate.

They were avoiding the living room, after Beast informed them, that what covered the walls was indeed mutant remains and the source of Logan's condition. Still there was hardly a room in the house that wasn't touched by the marauders. Every room had been ransacked, especially the female dorm.

Rouge was the only one currently of no use. She stat hunched in the kitchen since she had been kicked out of the lab by Hank, and the fact she had nowhere else to go. Her room was the worst destroyed next to Jubilees. Statements of what was going to happen to her wrote all over the walls, her clothes viscously slashed…

She shuddered; barely noticing the door swinging open until her mind registered it was Jean.
"An' look with Cerebra Jean?"

"I'm sorry Rogue, Remy was always hard to locate before and now there's no trace of him at all. " Her voice was weary and strained, as she'd been trying for the best part of the night to locate Remy.

She winced in sympathy at Rogue stricken face. "I'm sure we'll find him, it's just a matter of time."

Rouge nodded numbly.
"You know, Jubilee staying out in the boathouse tonight, something about the mansion feeling like it was violated. If you like you could go out and stay with her. It might keep your mind of things. "

"Ma'be sugah, ah t'ink Jubilee's right, ah just wish, we'd been 'ere. Ma'be we coulda done som'thing' Anything.." Her voice cracked and she broke down in sobs.

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Okay, I just had to end that chapter there! Sorry about that. Poison is going to a bit more mention in the next chapter and things should begin to pick up after this!

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