Innocence Lost II: The Forgotten One
By Didi
Disclaimer: All the characters within this story is owned by Marvel. I take no credit but with the imaginative story line. This is story will hopefully lead to another so stay tuned.
Warning: Were this a movie, it would be rated at least PG-13. I will not be responsible for outraged parents.
Note: This is an alternative timeline so don't go jumping down my throat about stuff that's going on in the comic. It's well before Everett Thomas's death and that's all I'm going to say on the subject of timelines. Any new characters written by me would will noticeable by the complete lack of inventiveness.
**Oh, and this is a sequel so please go read the first part, it's not that long. This will make much more sense to afterwards. Thanks. **
Summery: Sequel to Innocence Lost. Jubilee takes back her life and repays a debt owed. AU. New character introduced.
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"Scott says that he's bringing it here." Logan said as he hung up the phone. "Whatever you've got up your sleeves darling, he wants in on." [Emma, Jean says that she's on her way as well. Wants to talk to you about your theory.]
[I understand, Logan. Will the rest of the X-men be residing with us for a while? I will make arrangements for the guest hall to be...]
[No, Scott says that he'll call them in if something serious is on the move. He don't want to be disturbing them right now. Everyone is still resting up on the Juggernaut thing.]
[All right. Then just one room for the Summers?]
[Yeah.] Logan glanced at the subdued former White Queen. "Emma, will you make sure that we have all the files? Scott is going to want to review whatever you've got."
She nodded her head and got up slowly. "We should call it a night, kids. You all have classes tomorrow."
The rest of the group broke up slowly with only Logan and Jubilee lingeringly for their nightly talks. She always talked to him before she went to bed, found that it help her sleep better at night and take control of her nightmares.
Jonothan Starmore lingered in the doorway as well. [Lee?]
"Yeah, Jono?" She looked at him expectedly. The young man known as Chamber was the only one of her friend that didn't try to smother her with concern. He was the only one that understood that she needed time to heal on her own. For that, she was grateful for.
[This girl, what's her name? You've never mentioned a name.]
"I can't remember yet." She looked troubled by that. "I do know that she's got dark hair, brown I think. And green eyes. I remember her having very unusual color green eyes." She rubbed her forehead, painfully throbbing from trying to force the memories that would not come to surface at will. "I just can't remember a name to..."
[Don't force it. It'll come soon enough.] He nodded his good night and left his friend to her ever-watchful guardian. Though he would never admit it, he slept better knowing that Wolverine was there to watch over Jubilee. Jonothan Starmore didn't have a lot of friends. But he certainly wanted to keep the ones that he did have around as long as possible.
With all the fuss about Jubilee's trauma, no one really looked into the fact that her supposed death had other consequences. The members of Generation X lost more than just a friend that horrifying day, they found what was left of their hard-fought innocence shattered to a million pieces.
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10 months ago: Massachusetts's Academy
"Who saw her last?" Emma asked as she hurried down the stairway.
"Well, Everett and Monet were down in the..."
"Girl, I don't care what Everett and Monet were doing. Just tell me where did you see her last?" She asked with little patience as the gut wrenching fear threatened her usually calm and cold demeanor. It was like some horrible re-enactment of a nightmare she thought she had long expelled from her psyche.
Paige had pounded on her door half and hour before at four in the morning, disturbing her beauty sleep and annoying her to no end. But one look at the young blond girl's face told Emma that this was serious. Jubilee never came to bed. Paige had awaked in the middle of the night with her throat dust dry and found Jubilee's bed completely undisturbed.
Emma could feel all the moisture in her mouth go. [SEAN!]
[Oh for the love the lord, lass. Was yelling in me head really necessary? What in the world do you think you're...]
[Jubilee is missing.]
[What?] That got the old Irishman's attention like nothing else would. [When? Where?]
[I don't know. Paige just got me out of bed. Took me this long just to figure out that this isn't some stupid prank that the kids are pulling.]
[Are you sure? Are you absolutely...]
[Yes, I'm sure. I can feel Paige's fear. And I can't find Jubilee anywhere on the ground. I don't sense her at all.]
[Calm down, Emma. Meet me in the security room.]
[I'm on my way there now.]
Paige found herself rushing down the corridor fast behind the sheer white trailing night robe that Emma had hastily pulled on. Her heart was pounding at rate that could possibly give her a heart attack. She was scared, more scared than she was willing to admit. She's played the good little student, played the masked hero, played the good little girl, but it never really hit her that being a X-Men meant this, this waking up with the sickening feeling that something was terribly wrong.
"Jubilee usually watches Jay Leno at night then comes to bed," Paige needed to talk, needed something to do other than imagine what could have happened. "She usually comes to bed around one in the morning. I go to bed around ten, there's never been problem before. I didn't know she didn't come to bed." She glanced around the brightly lit security room. "Should I get the others?"
Emma took a deep breath, trying to calm her hammering heart. "No, I will." Closing her eyes, she reached out to all her special students. [Wake up. We have an emergency. Everyone to the security room now.] She cut off from them before any one of them could respond with their usual whining about being woken up in the middle of the night.
Sean looked like a man that rolled out of bed in a hurry as he rushed into the room and fell into one of the six chairs that over looked the sophisticated technology that monitor the Academy grounds. "What do we have?"
"Nothing," Emma leaned over the man's shoulder. "I just got here myself and called the others. We need to know who she was seen with last and what could have happened?" [Sean, Paige is in real bad shape.]
[You're not doing too great yourself, lass. You're face is about as white as your nightgown there.]
[I'm not so much worried about me as I am about the kids]
[Let's not speculate on anything just quite yet. We need facts, details. Bring up all the camera and show me the last 12 hour of tapes in double speed.]
[The kids are coming.]
[Stay calm, Emma. We've got to figure this out first.] He turned with dark green eyes to steady the White Queen. He knew from much experience that a calm reasonable voice helps to elevate any panic that may arise. "Paige, we want the last 12 hours on the screens from every location we've got at double time. I want to see everything."
Paige moved to help just as a sleepy Anglo came in with his pajamas all buttoned wrong and his extra skin hanging off rather grotesquely for he was having trouble concentrating at this time of the night. "What's up, mi profesores? Why wake me when I was just getting to the good part of the dream with Cindy..."
"Jubilee's missing." Paige said with almost a cry of panic.
That sobered the usually nonchalant young hombre. The gray-faced boy reacted more quickly to Paige's obvious distress than he would have to the news. "You sure?"
"Would we wake you up if we weren't?" Emma snapped as her eyes watched the tapes from the previous hours. All was quiet.
Anglo was taken aback.
"What's going on?" Everett rubbed his eyes clear of sleep. "What happened?"
Anglo turned to his tall friend. "Our little chica is gone."
"What?" Everett's dark eyes crossed with confusion. He was having trouble concentrating. "What chica?"
"The little firecracker." Anglo said picking up on the tension in the air being eluded by the other three. "Julibee is missing."
Everett's eyes followed Anglo's to the screen as the other three review the tapes from all twenty-eight cameras on the ground. "How did that..."
"Mr. Cassidy?" Paige said with a frown at the fuzzy screen in front of her. "I can't get camera nineteen up?"
"Here, let me."
Emma turned to the two boys just as Monet and Jono came in, their rooms being the furthest away from the security room. "When was the last time any of you saw Jubilee last night?"
Jono shook his head. [I was in Boston all yesterday. Everyone was in bed when I came home last night, around eleven.]
Everett turned to Jono sharply. He knew Jubilee's habits as well as anyone around here. "Jubee wasn't watching Leno?"
[No, everything was dark.]
"I saw her at dinner at around eight and that was it." Anglo said, his brows coming together with concern. He didn't like this, not one bit. He's been on this whole hero thing long enough now that he knew trouble when it stared him in the face. "Ev, didn't she..."
"I saw her just after eight-thirty when she..." he's eyes went wide. A horrible dawning realization just hit him out of the blue. "Oh God, camera nineteen is out in the meadow fields right?"
Emma frowned just a Sean and Paige both let out loud gasped. Everyone turn to the screen where Sean had rewound the tape from security camera nineteen until they got a picture. A large purple blob of a man cut of Jubilee's escape route back to the academy just as someone off camera range fired something in her general direction. Jubilee screamed as she caught the shot off her hip but rolled up running and firing for all she was worth. Someone else hit her hard across the back of her neck, throwing her out of the camera's range. Someone else fired off a series of plasma shots toward the girl. The last image was of Jubilee's broken body being tossed toward the camera, her blood splattering across the grass and glass of the len, just as the screen went dead.
To be continued....
By Didi
Disclaimer: All the characters within this story is owned by Marvel. I take no credit but with the imaginative story line. This is story will hopefully lead to another so stay tuned.
Warning: Were this a movie, it would be rated at least PG-13. I will not be responsible for outraged parents.
Note: This is an alternative timeline so don't go jumping down my throat about stuff that's going on in the comic. It's well before Everett Thomas's death and that's all I'm going to say on the subject of timelines. Any new characters written by me would will noticeable by the complete lack of inventiveness.
**Oh, and this is a sequel so please go read the first part, it's not that long. This will make much more sense to afterwards. Thanks. **
Summery: Sequel to Innocence Lost. Jubilee takes back her life and repays a debt owed. AU. New character introduced.
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"Scott says that he's bringing it here." Logan said as he hung up the phone. "Whatever you've got up your sleeves darling, he wants in on." [Emma, Jean says that she's on her way as well. Wants to talk to you about your theory.]
[I understand, Logan. Will the rest of the X-men be residing with us for a while? I will make arrangements for the guest hall to be...]
[No, Scott says that he'll call them in if something serious is on the move. He don't want to be disturbing them right now. Everyone is still resting up on the Juggernaut thing.]
[All right. Then just one room for the Summers?]
[Yeah.] Logan glanced at the subdued former White Queen. "Emma, will you make sure that we have all the files? Scott is going to want to review whatever you've got."
She nodded her head and got up slowly. "We should call it a night, kids. You all have classes tomorrow."
The rest of the group broke up slowly with only Logan and Jubilee lingeringly for their nightly talks. She always talked to him before she went to bed, found that it help her sleep better at night and take control of her nightmares.
Jonothan Starmore lingered in the doorway as well. [Lee?]
"Yeah, Jono?" She looked at him expectedly. The young man known as Chamber was the only one of her friend that didn't try to smother her with concern. He was the only one that understood that she needed time to heal on her own. For that, she was grateful for.
[This girl, what's her name? You've never mentioned a name.]
"I can't remember yet." She looked troubled by that. "I do know that she's got dark hair, brown I think. And green eyes. I remember her having very unusual color green eyes." She rubbed her forehead, painfully throbbing from trying to force the memories that would not come to surface at will. "I just can't remember a name to..."
[Don't force it. It'll come soon enough.] He nodded his good night and left his friend to her ever-watchful guardian. Though he would never admit it, he slept better knowing that Wolverine was there to watch over Jubilee. Jonothan Starmore didn't have a lot of friends. But he certainly wanted to keep the ones that he did have around as long as possible.
With all the fuss about Jubilee's trauma, no one really looked into the fact that her supposed death had other consequences. The members of Generation X lost more than just a friend that horrifying day, they found what was left of their hard-fought innocence shattered to a million pieces.
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10 months ago: Massachusetts's Academy
"Who saw her last?" Emma asked as she hurried down the stairway.
"Well, Everett and Monet were down in the..."
"Girl, I don't care what Everett and Monet were doing. Just tell me where did you see her last?" She asked with little patience as the gut wrenching fear threatened her usually calm and cold demeanor. It was like some horrible re-enactment of a nightmare she thought she had long expelled from her psyche.
Paige had pounded on her door half and hour before at four in the morning, disturbing her beauty sleep and annoying her to no end. But one look at the young blond girl's face told Emma that this was serious. Jubilee never came to bed. Paige had awaked in the middle of the night with her throat dust dry and found Jubilee's bed completely undisturbed.
Emma could feel all the moisture in her mouth go. [SEAN!]
[Oh for the love the lord, lass. Was yelling in me head really necessary? What in the world do you think you're...]
[Jubilee is missing.]
[What?] That got the old Irishman's attention like nothing else would. [When? Where?]
[I don't know. Paige just got me out of bed. Took me this long just to figure out that this isn't some stupid prank that the kids are pulling.]
[Are you sure? Are you absolutely...]
[Yes, I'm sure. I can feel Paige's fear. And I can't find Jubilee anywhere on the ground. I don't sense her at all.]
[Calm down, Emma. Meet me in the security room.]
[I'm on my way there now.]
Paige found herself rushing down the corridor fast behind the sheer white trailing night robe that Emma had hastily pulled on. Her heart was pounding at rate that could possibly give her a heart attack. She was scared, more scared than she was willing to admit. She's played the good little student, played the masked hero, played the good little girl, but it never really hit her that being a X-Men meant this, this waking up with the sickening feeling that something was terribly wrong.
"Jubilee usually watches Jay Leno at night then comes to bed," Paige needed to talk, needed something to do other than imagine what could have happened. "She usually comes to bed around one in the morning. I go to bed around ten, there's never been problem before. I didn't know she didn't come to bed." She glanced around the brightly lit security room. "Should I get the others?"
Emma took a deep breath, trying to calm her hammering heart. "No, I will." Closing her eyes, she reached out to all her special students. [Wake up. We have an emergency. Everyone to the security room now.] She cut off from them before any one of them could respond with their usual whining about being woken up in the middle of the night.
Sean looked like a man that rolled out of bed in a hurry as he rushed into the room and fell into one of the six chairs that over looked the sophisticated technology that monitor the Academy grounds. "What do we have?"
"Nothing," Emma leaned over the man's shoulder. "I just got here myself and called the others. We need to know who she was seen with last and what could have happened?" [Sean, Paige is in real bad shape.]
[You're not doing too great yourself, lass. You're face is about as white as your nightgown there.]
[I'm not so much worried about me as I am about the kids]
[Let's not speculate on anything just quite yet. We need facts, details. Bring up all the camera and show me the last 12 hour of tapes in double speed.]
[The kids are coming.]
[Stay calm, Emma. We've got to figure this out first.] He turned with dark green eyes to steady the White Queen. He knew from much experience that a calm reasonable voice helps to elevate any panic that may arise. "Paige, we want the last 12 hours on the screens from every location we've got at double time. I want to see everything."
Paige moved to help just as a sleepy Anglo came in with his pajamas all buttoned wrong and his extra skin hanging off rather grotesquely for he was having trouble concentrating at this time of the night. "What's up, mi profesores? Why wake me when I was just getting to the good part of the dream with Cindy..."
"Jubilee's missing." Paige said with almost a cry of panic.
That sobered the usually nonchalant young hombre. The gray-faced boy reacted more quickly to Paige's obvious distress than he would have to the news. "You sure?"
"Would we wake you up if we weren't?" Emma snapped as her eyes watched the tapes from the previous hours. All was quiet.
Anglo was taken aback.
"What's going on?" Everett rubbed his eyes clear of sleep. "What happened?"
Anglo turned to his tall friend. "Our little chica is gone."
"What?" Everett's dark eyes crossed with confusion. He was having trouble concentrating. "What chica?"
"The little firecracker." Anglo said picking up on the tension in the air being eluded by the other three. "Julibee is missing."
Everett's eyes followed Anglo's to the screen as the other three review the tapes from all twenty-eight cameras on the ground. "How did that..."
"Mr. Cassidy?" Paige said with a frown at the fuzzy screen in front of her. "I can't get camera nineteen up?"
"Here, let me."
Emma turned to the two boys just as Monet and Jono came in, their rooms being the furthest away from the security room. "When was the last time any of you saw Jubilee last night?"
Jono shook his head. [I was in Boston all yesterday. Everyone was in bed when I came home last night, around eleven.]
Everett turned to Jono sharply. He knew Jubilee's habits as well as anyone around here. "Jubee wasn't watching Leno?"
[No, everything was dark.]
"I saw her at dinner at around eight and that was it." Anglo said, his brows coming together with concern. He didn't like this, not one bit. He's been on this whole hero thing long enough now that he knew trouble when it stared him in the face. "Ev, didn't she..."
"I saw her just after eight-thirty when she..." he's eyes went wide. A horrible dawning realization just hit him out of the blue. "Oh God, camera nineteen is out in the meadow fields right?"
Emma frowned just a Sean and Paige both let out loud gasped. Everyone turn to the screen where Sean had rewound the tape from security camera nineteen until they got a picture. A large purple blob of a man cut of Jubilee's escape route back to the academy just as someone off camera range fired something in her general direction. Jubilee screamed as she caught the shot off her hip but rolled up running and firing for all she was worth. Someone else hit her hard across the back of her neck, throwing her out of the camera's range. Someone else fired off a series of plasma shots toward the girl. The last image was of Jubilee's broken body being tossed toward the camera, her blood splattering across the grass and glass of the len, just as the screen went dead.
To be continued....