Disclaimer: I don't have anything to do with X-men. (I just like them)

Not sure about Forge and Ororo's history, I'll I now is he didn't want Ororo to stay an X-men. Sorry if I screw up royally on his part.

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Ororo woke up on the roof, soaking wet from the night's rain. Luckily, because of her mutation, she was able to withstand low and high temperatures. She sat up and breathed in, "The smell after a good rain….is there anything more fresh?" she asked herself.

Suddenly Jean's voice entered her head. Hey, Ororo are you okay? We can't find you. Where are you?

Get out of my head Jean.

There was silence. Ororo, I just want to make-

Were you not listening? I'll be found when I want to be found.

There was silence. Are you sure? I mean I

"AAAGGGH!!" Ororo flew into her room, and quickly changed out of the wet clothes. She was now wearing a t-shirt and some old Jeans. She ran out of her room, nearly slamming into several students. She dashed to the garage and jumped into the closest car, speeding away from the school, as fast as she could.

**

Victor sat in the warehouse. #this was the last place I saw her.#, he thought to himself. The Anger was rising and he couldn't bury it. He needed to let It out. He turned on the crates where he had been sitting, tearing them apart. But it was no use, the Anger was still there. #I have to get away from here.# he thought to himself. #to many memories.#. he hurried to the garage, revved up the engine of his motorcycle and sped away.

**

Ororo flipped her hair back in the wind. (she grabbed one of the convertibles)

And tried to think of anything but what the past month had brought. She succeeded, but she also brought up more pain.

Flashback

"Forge?…..Forge, What are you doing?", Ororo asked as forge was pulling his things out of his dresser.

"I'm leaving Ro. I will not watch as you destroy yourself in this place"

"What do you mean? Destroy myself? I've lived her most of my life-"

"And that's why you can't see….Ororo, look I love you. But no wife of mine is going to fight crime as an X-men!"

"Forge, I can't leave here, I have a friends, I have family-"

"I'm not asking you. I asked you yesterday if you would leave with me. You said no. So now I'm telling you, I'm leaving!" he left the room with a suitcase, slamming the door.

Now

"No! I will not waste any tears on that asshole!", Ororo yelled as she drove. #he isn't worth my time or my tears#. Ororo kept driving, not caring where she was headed. She soon pulled up to some dive. That had a small apartment building next to it. Not sure if she wanted to go in, she sat in the car. #What am I going to do?….I can't stay at home any more….it doesn't feel right# Ororo leaned back in her seat, wishing everything would go away.

**

Victor Creed sat in a booth in the back of one of his haunts. He had just ordered a beer when a cheaply dressed woman came in. Seeing her the urge to kill rose. #Breathe, just breathe.#, It had been about a year since the last time he killed someone just to kill. Oh, he still killed people, hell it was one of the thinks he was good at. But after he saw her up close and actually got to feel her skin. The drive to kill was replaced by the drive to find her and make her his. Now he just murdered people when Magneto or someone else needed a favor. Ororo had made it easy for him. All of his rage transferred into loving her. Victor took a swig of his beer. When he set it down the woman he had been eyeing, walked over to him.

"Hey baby, why the long face?" she said as she sat down in the booth across from him. She leaned forward, trying to give him a view of her cleavage, her cheap perfume wafting over to him. "Anything I could do?"

Victor looked the girl in the face, #too much makeup, Ororo doesn't need any.#

"I don't pay for it, now why don't you get your nasty ass out of that seat and leave me the fuck alone?"

The woman sat back as if she had been slapped, "Asshole!"

A large man stood up at the bar, nudging his friends who did the same. "Hey Lulu, that guy bothering you?".

"Lulu" stood up and said, "No Charlie, he just-He just-", Lulu burst into fake tears.

The fake tears, were enough for the 4 guys who apparently were old friend's of Lulu's, "Come on, guy, outside.", the largest one said.

Victor had stayed quiet this whole time. #here we go# he thought. He looked up at the biggest guy and laughed. The guy was about five inches shorter than Victor and though he was muscular, would never last against Sabretooth.

"What the fucks so funny?", The man asked.

Victor stopped his laughing, a stood up from the table. He looked down t the smaller man, whose eyes had widened when he saw just how big Victor was, and said, "This" he grabbed the mans throat, throwing him into the bar.

"Charlie!", Lulu screamed,

Two of the men had chairs. The first guy succeeded in hitting victor but the other guy's chair was caught by him. Victor pulled back on the chair and pushed forward suddenly, hitting the man in the jaw. He turned his attention on The man who had just hit him with the chair. The man began to back away, "hey man, I'm sorry, dude, I-I" Victor grabbed him by the throat and was about to toss him when he heard a click. Growling he turned to face the noise.

The bartender had a gun, "Mister, I know you come here a lot, but I will not hesitate to shoot off your face if you do anything to that boy."

Victor shook his head, and pushed the boy he had in his hand away from him. Walking up to the bar, he pushed the shotgun into his chest, "Come on, do it." he commanded. "DO IT!". The older man, stood back in fear.

"Don't make a threat you don't have the balls to carry out.". #hit him, kill the kid# his mind told him, #No!# he thought. Shaking his head, he ran from the bar.

**

"Hello, I was sitting across the way, when I realized you have a vacancy? I was wondering, how much is rent?", Ororo asked the older woman at the desk with a smile.

"Well, we have two rooms available. And it's about 750 dollars a month for the two bedroom apartment 550 for the one bedroom.", The older woman smiled, she liked the young girl.

Ororo's eye's widened in surprise, "Wow, that's so cheap, I mean, how do you stay in business?"

"Well, my husband and I run the bar next door. It ain't much but it's where we make our money. We lived in the space above it for awhile, but when our children were born, we need a bigger place. So we became the landlords of this complex. Well, a few years go by and when the women who owned it died, she gave it to us. So the prices are high enough that they pay for taxes and such, but cheap enough so you don't need to be rich to by one. But I'd be lying if I didn't say that it also gives us some spending money."

Ororo was about to say something, when an older man came rushing through the front door. "Vern! You gotta come quick! Some freak just threw Charlie into the bar. He's hurt, we gotta get him to a hospital. Sam's jaw got messed up but

For the most part he's okay, Joe and Nick are okay. But hurry!"

"Do you need any help?", Ororo asked.

"Yeah,", the older man rushed out, Vern trailing at his feet.

As soon as the three reached the bar, Ororo went to Charlie's side helping put pressure on the wounds. Vern called the hospital, and then the police.

Joe was sitting at the bar when a police man came over and began to question him. Though Ororo couldn't hear the policeman's voice she heard Joe's loud and clear, "Yeah, we was just sitting her minding our business, when Lulu asks the guy why he's upset, next thing you know, Lulu's crying and Charlie and the rest of us, ya know, come to her aid. Well, he freaks out he stands up and he's at least 7 ft tall. He grabs Charlie and throws him, I him with a chair and he almost breaks Sam's Jaw. Nick stayed back with Max, well, Max he pulls out this gun he keeps under the car for stuff like this and tells the big guy to leave, then! The guy goes over to Vern and says 'Do it!', like as if it wouldn't hurt him!". Joe kept talking but Ororo didn't hear the rest of the conversation. #It couldn't be him….could it?…….7 ft tall, any one could be almost seven feet tall…..#

Vern walked over to Ororo, "Hun? You okay? I'm sorry if all of this is a shock to you, I don't understand it, the guy, the boys say did this, was always so quiet…..I'll understand if you don't want the apartment.", Vern was kind of put down, she never had a younger woman as a tenant, and she thought this girl was nice.

Ororo thought for a few moments and with a smile, said, "I'll take the two bedroom one."

**Two hours later**

Ororo snuck into the mansion, so far she hadn't run into anyone, and she wanted to keep it that way. She made her way down to the Lab, hoping to find the earrings Lici had made for her. As she made her way across the Lab she heard a voice, "Where you going all sly like?".

Ororo turned to see Mystique. "Mystique! How-", Ororo then remembered Mystique and Toad had been captured when she had been kidnapped. "None of your business." She turned back to the room and started away.

"How was Vic? Or Lici? Man, I thought they'd be here sooner. When I see that girl! I'm gonna give her a piece of my mind." Mystique laughed.

Ororo felt a tug at her heart, #I have to tell her# she thought. She turned back and headed to Mystique's cell, "I don't think that's going to happen anytime soon, Mystique."

Mystique laughed again, "Ah! You don't know Lici, she'll figure out a way to get back here."

"Mystique?", Ororo sat down a few feet in front of the cell. "I gotta tell you something…..Toad too."

Mystique was about to reply with some smart as remark, but when she saw Ororo's eyes she went shut her mouth.

"what is it?", Toad yelled from his cell.

"It's about what happened…..this past month."

"We've been gone a month? Man! Where are those guys?"

"I'll tell you, just be quiet."

Ororo began her story.