Ororo's Deathbed
Author's Notes: My apologies to those fans who are saddened by any bad portrayals of their favorite characters or suggested relationships. Please no flames. Non-constructive criticism makes me lose my zeal for writing. As of far, the reviews have been pleasurable though. As for the original characters, they are mine, and although the story sometimes loses gaze of the plot, it is only to buy time without putting a divider over the screen. Thanks to you all for following me down this journey! :)
. ..Continued
Gambit did not give Jean any time to counter his accusation as he quickly jumped out of the opened convertible top and ran towards the muddy and icy ground where Rogue and Storm had finally landed. Along with him, were running the few people that stayed in the mansion that were not deathly afraid of this concealed Windrider.
Although she had been nice to all who had come, and had expressed her motherly care and comfort to almost every mutant she met, she was still feared because of the greatness of her mutant abilities. Those who had been with her for a long time, and knew that the affections of her inner self would not allow her to harm any friends out of her own will, ran to her side as she lay unconscious. Coming from the select few: Logan, Jubilee, Hank, Rogue, Leech, Artie, Kitty, Caliban, and Jean, were whispers of her name, wondering if she was okay.
In the mansion, through the windows, were simply gasps at the devastation only a small maelstrom had caused. Rumors spread of what was actually happening, although a number of them were far from the truth. Kitty Pryde found herself running from where Ororo was laid in the mud and to Xavier's office, not knowing that he also had a part in finally calming Storm's mind. As she ran head first into the red exterior of the mansion, her fit body seemed to turn into ghost-material. It was called 'phasing' by those who understood it batter. Her body basically turned from flesh, bones, and blood to a 'spiritual' state that could still be recognized as her and she easily slipped through physical matter, unharmed. This is what this phasing mutant did as she ran through the exterior of the mansion and through countless rooms and furniture. Finally reaching Xavier's office on the first floor, she found the leader unconscious and laying limp in his wheelchair.
"Oh my gawd!" she said as she jumped up and down not knowing where to go and what to do. Just then, the forgotten lizard, Lockhead, caught Kitty's attention and climbed onto metal cabinet. Kitty quickly ran over to the cabinet, so many thoughts running through her that she could hardly realize what she pulled out of the top drawer. She pushed the com-link button, which automatically connected itself to the X-frequency uniquely modified by Xavier. She then put her mouth close to the speaker and her voice blurted into the communicator in Beast's lab coat, 'Hank! The Professor's in his office and hardly breathing! Hank!'
'Kitty, I hear you. I shall be in there soon to transport him to the Medical Laboratory. If you can get him down there, though, please do so quickly. We are now transporting Storm down there as well,' Beast said back through his communicator.
'Alright, I'll try to get him down there,' she said, almost crying, thinking to herself that both Ororo and the Professor could be dead. She then says to herself and to the unconscious Professor, "I hope Ororo didn't destroy the elevator system."
She wheels Xavier out of the room in haste as she runs pass gasping students and is followed by a mob of disciples who are curious to find out what happened. The mansion had become unreasonable full and the new teenage students were becoming quite annoying when they filled up the hallways hourly. Then again, it was good to feel the vibe and ever-running adrenaline that they gave to the mansion. This adrenaline and lively emotion was now what ran through her body and mind as she rushed to the elevator and smiled within herself, beneath the haste, that it was working. Her followers stopped as the elevator space became limited and ran over to the other elevators and filled them quickly. As her elevator *dinged* she ran out, pushing the wheelchair in a rush. When the doors to the medical lab swished open she noticed a peace in the room as the fore-mentioned X- Men members, minus Kitty, were at Ororo's side and Beast threw away an empty antibiotic injector.
Her adrenaline rush slowed down as she slowly wheeled Xavier inside. "Thank you Kitty," Hank said as he noticed her and immediately rushed to Xavier's wheelchair and moved him to a table.
"I'm going to get some rest. I have to be ready to prepare breakfast tomorrow," Jean says, heartlessly, as she walks out of the room after looking to a bandaged Rogue and Wolverine, and taking a final glance at Ororo.
No one seemed to notice Jean's untimely departure, except Beast who looked up to watch her soft red hair follow her out of the door. He continued to work on Xavier as Jean pressed her way through the crowd of teenagers outside. The redhead ignored various questions that were asked by the students and simply replied to many of them, "Ororo's a strong lady. She'll survive and turn out much better than before," with a smile of reassurance.
Just as Jean expected the elevator doors to close a rod stopped the doors, followed by a black-gloved hand, which flung them open and allowed the trench-wearing swamp rat to join Jean. "I knew you couldn't resist to come back for more," Jean said seductively as he boarded the elevator behind her.
"Jean, I-" but his words were cut off by Jean Grey as she wrapped her leg around his thighs and forced herself onto his lips. Her green eyes closed as Remy's red eyes gave a confused look of disapproval and pushed Jean away. Because of her lack of balance, the redhead fell to the elevator floor and looked up at Gambit with spite. "Dat just wasn't right, chere. You go crazy when Scott left. Now, listen, I don't want you."
"Yes you do!" she says as she stands up and pins him against the elevator wall telekinetically and begins to mentally brainwash him. "You're mad about me! And you're going to be with me tonight!"
When the elevator doors opened on the second floor Jean exited and Gambit followed behind her, his expressions seeming normal enough. A sly, devilish grin was crossing his face and as soon as he and Jean entered the room he attacked her with a kiss so passionate it was hard to tell whether it was spontaneous by him or a command by Jean. Nevertheless, the door to her room was closed to all spectators.
"There goes your hopes at gettin' Gambit, girl," a young teenage female mutant said as she walked to the side of her friend whose eyes were still pressed upon the door that was no closed and locked.
"No it's not," the first teenage girl whimpers, "Jean messed with his mind, stupid." She doodled with her long black hair, which was normal among Hispanics. With the power of psyche interference, she could easily sense when someone's mind was being pried and controlled. It was a unique ability, and normally not to useful, except when protecting her teammates from a powerful psychic.
"You gon' let Jean and Remy ruin ya night?" an African American teenager said as he approached the Hispanic girl. It was unusual, at times, to see someone with extremely baggy pants and a shirt down to his thighs pull out flowers from behind his back, but not this one. He pulled out five roses from behind his back and put them close to her face.
"Heh," she chuckles to herself before looking to him with hazel eyes, "Darè, I want you to know, that I don't want you and I need you to understand that."
"Give up on Remy, Sierra," he says persistently as his brown eyes make contact with her hazel and she just stares, open-mouthed, as if encased. "C'mon, lemme holla at you real fast."
"Girl, he's right," her friend whispers in her ear, "If you ever messed with Remy he'd be on his way to jail. And Darè's pretty cute anyway." The friend then walked away.
"What about your obsession with Ms. Munroe?" Sierra asks him after her friend walks away but watches from a distance.
The flowers begin to turn from red to white in his hands. "Ms. Munroe? Please, I let her go when I realized you. Even though Ms. Munroe is-" he tries to complete, but his words are cut off by Sierra.
"Ich snay on the unroe May," she says in what would be defined as Pig Latin. His eyes turn to the white haired woman as she walks through the hall, leaning on the shoulder of Wolverine and walking behind Beast. Rogue was not to far behind. The students in the hall, including Sierra and Darè, watched as they walked by and stopped at Jean's door. Sierra nearly told them that Gambit was inside, but was silenced as Beast's massive hand went and knocked on the door.
"Jean, are you present in the room?" he asks, already knowing she is. He continues to knock as he gets no answer. He had the time to think things over and analyze Jean's behavior. Either she was losing her mind, or she was the one that had poisoned Ororo. Or maybe it was a mix of both. He no longer pounded on the door, as it seemed helpless, and instead grabbed the doorknob and broke open the lock to the door.
"Hank!" Jean yells from inside the room with her head above a bed sheet but the rest of her body covered. Her telekinetically charged hand sends Beast flying into the wall, nearly crushing Sierra beneath him.
"Remy?" Ororo questioned before shaking her head and walking away. She released herself from Logan's shoulder and her hair began rising in as the white strands became blue with lightning and wind began to blow down the coffee tables in the hallway with all their contents. Then, suddenly it all stopped as Ororo's body went limp into the arms of Darè.
"What did ya do to her kid?" Logan says as he quickly makes his way to Storm's side.
"I can make plants, bimbo. All I did was put a little herb in her to put her to sleep," he says as the small incision to Ororo's skin is seen on the back of her arm.
The door to Jean's room suddenly slammed closed. Beast got up from his fallen position and looked to Logan, "Please, take Ororo to a room where she can rest. Sierra, my apologies for crushing you, but I would like you to go and stay with Ororo tonight. Keep your mind alert, I believe you may feel a bit of psionic disturbance if my hypothesis is correct,"
"Sure thing Mr. McCoy," she says as she seductively switches pass Darè and Logan lifts Storm in his arms and they walk to a bedroom.
Darè is getting ready to walk down the hall with them, "Darè!" Hank calls out as he turns back, "I'll need your assistance in the laboratory to help with some antibiotics, if you're up to it."
Darè mumbles something before walking towards the elevator. Hank then turns to Rogue, "Ready?"
"Ah'll bust down the door, and get the swamp rat," she says as Beast nods his head and the next sound heard is a wisp of air as Rogue takes flight and slams down the door. Jean stands, as if prepared for them, clothed and with her hands outward, but she doesn't attack Rogue.
Instead, the redhead sends a telepathic message to her mind, 'What're you doing, Rogue?'
'You never mentioned anything about Ahodine! You tryin' to kill her or somethin'?' she replies in her mind to Jean before going after Remy. "What're you doin' swamp rat? One minute you're tryin' to get with Ororo and the next minute you're sleepin' with Jean?" Gambit simply does not respond to the questions, but instead looks at Rogue with glazed eyes.
"I know you poisoned her Jean!" Hank says as he runs into the room with blue eyes focused on Jean.
Jean simply lifts her hands again and Hank is held in mid-air, "Hank, you know as well as I that I love Ororo. How could you assume something like that?" she says with tears in her eyes.
Hank growled with wrath just before he was dropped to the floor. A gloved hand was on Jean's shoulder as the redhead calmed, "Jean, we're both sorry for assumin' you did that. I guess we just got a little worried about our favorite Windrider." Rogue says as she drags both Gambit and Beast out of the door.
Jean telekinetically bolts and closes the door before running her fingers backward through her hair. "Our favorite Windrider," she mumbles. "The Weather Witch's loving sister will be her downfall. It's all too good to be true," Jean says with a laugh as a light seems to crawl across her eyes.
She walked out to her balcony and looked the clear sky with nothing but a bright, full moon shining. She flew to the room where Ororo was now placed and went to the balcony. Inside the room were Ororo, Logan, and Sierra, although she did not notice the teenager in there. "Oh Logan," she said while she sat on the balcony and then thought to herself, 'Our little Windrider will find her little love targets messing around with me and she'll have no reason to stay here; that's if she lives.'
To Be Continued.. .
Footnote: Yes, I know this section was a bit confusing and off target. It will all be deciphered next time I write, I promise.
Author's Notes: My apologies to those fans who are saddened by any bad portrayals of their favorite characters or suggested relationships. Please no flames. Non-constructive criticism makes me lose my zeal for writing. As of far, the reviews have been pleasurable though. As for the original characters, they are mine, and although the story sometimes loses gaze of the plot, it is only to buy time without putting a divider over the screen. Thanks to you all for following me down this journey! :)
. ..Continued
Gambit did not give Jean any time to counter his accusation as he quickly jumped out of the opened convertible top and ran towards the muddy and icy ground where Rogue and Storm had finally landed. Along with him, were running the few people that stayed in the mansion that were not deathly afraid of this concealed Windrider.
Although she had been nice to all who had come, and had expressed her motherly care and comfort to almost every mutant she met, she was still feared because of the greatness of her mutant abilities. Those who had been with her for a long time, and knew that the affections of her inner self would not allow her to harm any friends out of her own will, ran to her side as she lay unconscious. Coming from the select few: Logan, Jubilee, Hank, Rogue, Leech, Artie, Kitty, Caliban, and Jean, were whispers of her name, wondering if she was okay.
In the mansion, through the windows, were simply gasps at the devastation only a small maelstrom had caused. Rumors spread of what was actually happening, although a number of them were far from the truth. Kitty Pryde found herself running from where Ororo was laid in the mud and to Xavier's office, not knowing that he also had a part in finally calming Storm's mind. As she ran head first into the red exterior of the mansion, her fit body seemed to turn into ghost-material. It was called 'phasing' by those who understood it batter. Her body basically turned from flesh, bones, and blood to a 'spiritual' state that could still be recognized as her and she easily slipped through physical matter, unharmed. This is what this phasing mutant did as she ran through the exterior of the mansion and through countless rooms and furniture. Finally reaching Xavier's office on the first floor, she found the leader unconscious and laying limp in his wheelchair.
"Oh my gawd!" she said as she jumped up and down not knowing where to go and what to do. Just then, the forgotten lizard, Lockhead, caught Kitty's attention and climbed onto metal cabinet. Kitty quickly ran over to the cabinet, so many thoughts running through her that she could hardly realize what she pulled out of the top drawer. She pushed the com-link button, which automatically connected itself to the X-frequency uniquely modified by Xavier. She then put her mouth close to the speaker and her voice blurted into the communicator in Beast's lab coat, 'Hank! The Professor's in his office and hardly breathing! Hank!'
'Kitty, I hear you. I shall be in there soon to transport him to the Medical Laboratory. If you can get him down there, though, please do so quickly. We are now transporting Storm down there as well,' Beast said back through his communicator.
'Alright, I'll try to get him down there,' she said, almost crying, thinking to herself that both Ororo and the Professor could be dead. She then says to herself and to the unconscious Professor, "I hope Ororo didn't destroy the elevator system."
She wheels Xavier out of the room in haste as she runs pass gasping students and is followed by a mob of disciples who are curious to find out what happened. The mansion had become unreasonable full and the new teenage students were becoming quite annoying when they filled up the hallways hourly. Then again, it was good to feel the vibe and ever-running adrenaline that they gave to the mansion. This adrenaline and lively emotion was now what ran through her body and mind as she rushed to the elevator and smiled within herself, beneath the haste, that it was working. Her followers stopped as the elevator space became limited and ran over to the other elevators and filled them quickly. As her elevator *dinged* she ran out, pushing the wheelchair in a rush. When the doors to the medical lab swished open she noticed a peace in the room as the fore-mentioned X- Men members, minus Kitty, were at Ororo's side and Beast threw away an empty antibiotic injector.
Her adrenaline rush slowed down as she slowly wheeled Xavier inside. "Thank you Kitty," Hank said as he noticed her and immediately rushed to Xavier's wheelchair and moved him to a table.
"I'm going to get some rest. I have to be ready to prepare breakfast tomorrow," Jean says, heartlessly, as she walks out of the room after looking to a bandaged Rogue and Wolverine, and taking a final glance at Ororo.
No one seemed to notice Jean's untimely departure, except Beast who looked up to watch her soft red hair follow her out of the door. He continued to work on Xavier as Jean pressed her way through the crowd of teenagers outside. The redhead ignored various questions that were asked by the students and simply replied to many of them, "Ororo's a strong lady. She'll survive and turn out much better than before," with a smile of reassurance.
Just as Jean expected the elevator doors to close a rod stopped the doors, followed by a black-gloved hand, which flung them open and allowed the trench-wearing swamp rat to join Jean. "I knew you couldn't resist to come back for more," Jean said seductively as he boarded the elevator behind her.
"Jean, I-" but his words were cut off by Jean Grey as she wrapped her leg around his thighs and forced herself onto his lips. Her green eyes closed as Remy's red eyes gave a confused look of disapproval and pushed Jean away. Because of her lack of balance, the redhead fell to the elevator floor and looked up at Gambit with spite. "Dat just wasn't right, chere. You go crazy when Scott left. Now, listen, I don't want you."
"Yes you do!" she says as she stands up and pins him against the elevator wall telekinetically and begins to mentally brainwash him. "You're mad about me! And you're going to be with me tonight!"
When the elevator doors opened on the second floor Jean exited and Gambit followed behind her, his expressions seeming normal enough. A sly, devilish grin was crossing his face and as soon as he and Jean entered the room he attacked her with a kiss so passionate it was hard to tell whether it was spontaneous by him or a command by Jean. Nevertheless, the door to her room was closed to all spectators.
"There goes your hopes at gettin' Gambit, girl," a young teenage female mutant said as she walked to the side of her friend whose eyes were still pressed upon the door that was no closed and locked.
"No it's not," the first teenage girl whimpers, "Jean messed with his mind, stupid." She doodled with her long black hair, which was normal among Hispanics. With the power of psyche interference, she could easily sense when someone's mind was being pried and controlled. It was a unique ability, and normally not to useful, except when protecting her teammates from a powerful psychic.
"You gon' let Jean and Remy ruin ya night?" an African American teenager said as he approached the Hispanic girl. It was unusual, at times, to see someone with extremely baggy pants and a shirt down to his thighs pull out flowers from behind his back, but not this one. He pulled out five roses from behind his back and put them close to her face.
"Heh," she chuckles to herself before looking to him with hazel eyes, "Darè, I want you to know, that I don't want you and I need you to understand that."
"Give up on Remy, Sierra," he says persistently as his brown eyes make contact with her hazel and she just stares, open-mouthed, as if encased. "C'mon, lemme holla at you real fast."
"Girl, he's right," her friend whispers in her ear, "If you ever messed with Remy he'd be on his way to jail. And Darè's pretty cute anyway." The friend then walked away.
"What about your obsession with Ms. Munroe?" Sierra asks him after her friend walks away but watches from a distance.
The flowers begin to turn from red to white in his hands. "Ms. Munroe? Please, I let her go when I realized you. Even though Ms. Munroe is-" he tries to complete, but his words are cut off by Sierra.
"Ich snay on the unroe May," she says in what would be defined as Pig Latin. His eyes turn to the white haired woman as she walks through the hall, leaning on the shoulder of Wolverine and walking behind Beast. Rogue was not to far behind. The students in the hall, including Sierra and Darè, watched as they walked by and stopped at Jean's door. Sierra nearly told them that Gambit was inside, but was silenced as Beast's massive hand went and knocked on the door.
"Jean, are you present in the room?" he asks, already knowing she is. He continues to knock as he gets no answer. He had the time to think things over and analyze Jean's behavior. Either she was losing her mind, or she was the one that had poisoned Ororo. Or maybe it was a mix of both. He no longer pounded on the door, as it seemed helpless, and instead grabbed the doorknob and broke open the lock to the door.
"Hank!" Jean yells from inside the room with her head above a bed sheet but the rest of her body covered. Her telekinetically charged hand sends Beast flying into the wall, nearly crushing Sierra beneath him.
"Remy?" Ororo questioned before shaking her head and walking away. She released herself from Logan's shoulder and her hair began rising in as the white strands became blue with lightning and wind began to blow down the coffee tables in the hallway with all their contents. Then, suddenly it all stopped as Ororo's body went limp into the arms of Darè.
"What did ya do to her kid?" Logan says as he quickly makes his way to Storm's side.
"I can make plants, bimbo. All I did was put a little herb in her to put her to sleep," he says as the small incision to Ororo's skin is seen on the back of her arm.
The door to Jean's room suddenly slammed closed. Beast got up from his fallen position and looked to Logan, "Please, take Ororo to a room where she can rest. Sierra, my apologies for crushing you, but I would like you to go and stay with Ororo tonight. Keep your mind alert, I believe you may feel a bit of psionic disturbance if my hypothesis is correct,"
"Sure thing Mr. McCoy," she says as she seductively switches pass Darè and Logan lifts Storm in his arms and they walk to a bedroom.
Darè is getting ready to walk down the hall with them, "Darè!" Hank calls out as he turns back, "I'll need your assistance in the laboratory to help with some antibiotics, if you're up to it."
Darè mumbles something before walking towards the elevator. Hank then turns to Rogue, "Ready?"
"Ah'll bust down the door, and get the swamp rat," she says as Beast nods his head and the next sound heard is a wisp of air as Rogue takes flight and slams down the door. Jean stands, as if prepared for them, clothed and with her hands outward, but she doesn't attack Rogue.
Instead, the redhead sends a telepathic message to her mind, 'What're you doing, Rogue?'
'You never mentioned anything about Ahodine! You tryin' to kill her or somethin'?' she replies in her mind to Jean before going after Remy. "What're you doin' swamp rat? One minute you're tryin' to get with Ororo and the next minute you're sleepin' with Jean?" Gambit simply does not respond to the questions, but instead looks at Rogue with glazed eyes.
"I know you poisoned her Jean!" Hank says as he runs into the room with blue eyes focused on Jean.
Jean simply lifts her hands again and Hank is held in mid-air, "Hank, you know as well as I that I love Ororo. How could you assume something like that?" she says with tears in her eyes.
Hank growled with wrath just before he was dropped to the floor. A gloved hand was on Jean's shoulder as the redhead calmed, "Jean, we're both sorry for assumin' you did that. I guess we just got a little worried about our favorite Windrider." Rogue says as she drags both Gambit and Beast out of the door.
Jean telekinetically bolts and closes the door before running her fingers backward through her hair. "Our favorite Windrider," she mumbles. "The Weather Witch's loving sister will be her downfall. It's all too good to be true," Jean says with a laugh as a light seems to crawl across her eyes.
She walked out to her balcony and looked the clear sky with nothing but a bright, full moon shining. She flew to the room where Ororo was now placed and went to the balcony. Inside the room were Ororo, Logan, and Sierra, although she did not notice the teenager in there. "Oh Logan," she said while she sat on the balcony and then thought to herself, 'Our little Windrider will find her little love targets messing around with me and she'll have no reason to stay here; that's if she lives.'
To Be Continued.. .
Footnote: Yes, I know this section was a bit confusing and off target. It will all be deciphered next time I write, I promise.