Authors: AC, Admiral, Chaos, Maria_Cline, Dreamweaver, Flame, Jubilee_79, Lady_Yann, Le Fae, Leilee, Rainfall, Snowbaby and Teb.
Rating: PG-13 for language and violence
Disclaimer: All Marvel Characters belong to Marvel Comics. All non-Marvel Characters belong to the authors of this story. No money is being made off of this story.
Teb and Angelo snuck out of the house very easily. Teb drove them into the city and parked the car.
"Time for you to meet MY friends," Teb said, getting out of the car.
She walked up to a group of guys standing in the shadows. Ange watched her carefully, then got out and walked over to them.
"Guys, this is Angelo. Angelo, these are the guys. Rick, Hottie, and James."
"Hola," Ange said, and put a protective arm around Teb's shoulders.
Hottie noticed Ange's untrusting face, "Don't worry, bro. Teb's like a little sister."
"Yea, bro, Teb's safe with us," James gave a goofy thumbs up that looked really silly coming from him.
Angelo relaxed. "Si, I was just worried about my chica hanging around with a bunch of guys."
"Your chica?" Rick teased, "Geeze, Teb, when did you get a boy? I never see you with any guys besides us?"
Teb blushed and looked into Ange's face, "Me and Ange go way back," she smiled. "I'm gonna stop at the folks place. I'll talk to you guys later."
"Your folks? Your not gonna hang with us tonight?" James asked.
"Sorry guys. I've got some visitors from far away I need to catch up with. i'll see ya," Teb grabbed Anges hand and ran down the street. They ran up the steps of a red brick building.
"Should I knock?" Teb asked, more to herself then to Ange. "I mean, I don't live here anymore."
Teb didn't have to answer as her older brother opened the door and gave her an odd look. Then he glanced at Ange, and then back at Teb.
"HEY, MOM! TEB'S HERE AND SHE BROUGHT A FRIEND!" he walked away, leaving the door open.
"Hello to you too, Ray," Teb sighed and walked in, and led Ange into the kitchen.
"Hey mom. I'd like you to meet Ange."
Teb's mom looked up from her cooking for a second. "Hello," she said, and went back to stirring her pot.
"Mom....MOM," Teb was getting annoyed. Here she was, back home, trying to introduce her boyfriend to her parents, and they STILL weren't interested in her.
Teb led Ange into the living room. Her father was sitting down reading the paper.
"Hey dad. This is Angelo, my boyfriend."
"Hola, sir," Ange said, trying to be nice.
Teb's dad looked up from his paper. "Are you one of those thug kids she's always hanging around with?"
"ummm..."
"They're not thugs, dad, they're nice guys!"
"Don't talk back to me. Go to your room."
"I don't live here anymore, DAD... Thanks for noticing," Teb grabbed Ange's hand and stormed out of the house.
Teb stopped outside. She was fuming. They treated her brothers girlfriends so kind. Why not HER friends?
"Sorry, Ange. Me and my family have issues."
Ange smiled and gave her a hug. "I love you, chica."
Teb smiled. Ange always knew how to make her feel better.
"Come on, we should get back before they notice we're gone. I just wanted you to meet my true family, and my real family."
Teb
Ryan was at the window looking outside when she saw it. Sabretooth was fighting with someone else.
"Cara, can you please watch Kat for a while?"
"Sure, no problem." Cara responded as Ryan walked out the door.
A very curious Eric Jr followed her outside, he still felt guilty for killing the man she loved, or at least he thought he had. At any rate he had decided to take over the role as protector of her since Sabretooth couldn't do it anymore.
She came outside just in time to see a small short woman driving her claws into Victor. "NNNOOOOO!" Ryan screamed. This was the second person that Sabretooth tried to kill that she has seen. Ryan seemed to be screaming for both parties involved. She didn't want anyone to be hurt, but she didn't want Victor to be hurt either.
Victor broke free from the girl and ran off at the sight of the crowd. He was told to stay away from the X-types until given new orders.
Ryan watched Victor run off. She couldn't take this anymore. There was no way she was going to let Victor run around the city picking fights with innocent people. She decided to follow him and try to reason with him. Part of her wanted to see if any of the man she loved was left in his heart. She still had hope in him, and wanted to bring the Sabretooth she loved back.
Eric saw Ryan run after Sabretooth, and followed her. What is she thinking going after that psycho alone, Eric thought to himself.
Ryan was following Sabretooth, when she couldn't catch sight of him anymore. She prepared herself for the attack she knew was coming. A large hand reached out and grabbed Ryan around the neck. He was holding her small body to his with her back turned towards him. Ryan suppressed a cry at the memory of how gentle his touch used to be with her.
"Why are you following me, frail? You want to die early?" Sabretooth growled in her ear.
"No, I just wanted to talk to you. I wanted to ask you why?"
"I don't have to justify anything to you. Who do you think you are anyway, frail?" Sabretooth was a little shocked by her question. No one had ever tried to make him justify his actions before. He was just a monster, and people accepted that.
"I thought I was the woman you loved. Why did you attack me back in the tunnels, Victor?" Ryan was getting closer to tears.
"I don't know what your talking about, but if you got some sick fantasy about getting some from old Sabretooth I think I could help you with that. I don't blame you... if I was sleeping with the runt, I would be looking for a real man too. Of course I'll have to kill you after."
"What's wrong with you? Why are you doing this to me and to everyone I care about? I thought you loved me?"
Victor squeezed Ryan's throat harder, "I don't love anyone frail…least of all you!"
Eric turned the corner to see Sabretooth choking Ryan. "Let her go, Creed!"
"Make me!"
I hope this works, Eric thought to himself. He used his empathic powers to try to dig deep into Sabretooth's emotions and bring out his love for Ryan. He dug deep, and just when Eric thought he had found it, Sabretooth began to twitch and suddenly he was out cold.
"What did you do to him?" Ryan screamed at Eric. He had tried to kill Victor once, and now he was doing it again. She knew he couldn't be trusted.
"I just tried to pull up his emotions towards you. I don't know what happened," Eric said, taking his pulse. "He's still alive."
"I'm not leaving him." Ryan said, and for the first time in years she began to focus her powers. Ryan morphed Sabretooth into an orange tomcat. "I still got it!" She smiled towards Eric.
"Let's take him back to the loft. Maybe we should pick up really big chains on the way?" Eric asked, very worried about bringing Sabretooth back to a house with kids in it.
Le Fae
Amanda had sensed what was happening with Sabretooth and took a dead run towards it, leaving Charles and Magneto behind. Though her side hurt, she managed to get there in time to see Eric knock out Sabretooth. She overheard Eric ask to take him inside, and decided to speak up.
"It might be too dangerous, Ryan. His memories of us have been distorted by Anon. He'll attack any one of us; and I know if he does, Logan will go after him," stated Amanda.
"What should we do? We can't leave himm" asked Ryan.
"I know. I saw one of those no-tell motels a little bit down the road. We'll take him there. You go check on Kat, and then have Jamar drive you down. I'll need his help to try to bring Victor's memories back. Eric, I need you to help me get him out of here without the others seeing him. Then you need to stay with me. My injuries are too severe to let me take on Sabretooth again. Don't tell anyone... especially Xavier or Wolverine. They'll kill me if they find out."
While Amanda and Eric got Victor out of there, Ryan went to go check on Kat. She was relieved that Victor's behavior was based on Anon's scheme, and that he hadn't stop loving her. She was also glad that Amanda was going to help her. She knew that Amanda liked Victor and would do anything to help him, even if it mean putting her relationship with Charles on the line. Now all she had to do was convince Jamar to help, and keep the secret from everyone. If she did, she was going to get Kat's father back, and the man that she loved.
A.C.
"Brillant idea," sneered a voice.
It was the young lady that initally tangled with Sabertooth. It was rather hard to tell if the blood on her clothes was hers or Creed's, but it was caked on the well worn jeans that she wore. Her jean jacket sported several tears.
"That," she stuttered with shock. "Thing is a menace to society!"
Maggie couldn't believe what she was hearing. These people were actually planning on keeping him!
Lady_Yann
As Ryan was walking off to go check on Kat, she nearly ran into the girl that Victor had attacked. She was about to apologize to the girl, but then she heard the girls comment about Victor. "That thing is a menace to society." Ryan knew that this girl had every right to be angry with Victor, but Ryan was still fiercely protective of him. This girl nearly gutted Victor, and she was saying that HE was a menace. The nerve of her, Ryan thought to herself.
"Victor is not a menace to society. He's just confused right now and needs some help." Ryan said, trying to keep her calm.
"Bull, he's an animal!" The stranger stated, completely shocked that this blonde bimbo could be so naive as to believe that creep is "just confused".
Ryan stepped closer to the stranger, she had never backed down from anyone in her life and she was not going to start now.
"Victor is not an animal." She said calmly, and then poked the girl in the chest. "Now I think you had better leave."
"Wait… no… I can't believe this. You're not trying to pick a fight with me, are you BARBIE?" The stranger said in a mock tone. This blonde bimbo was not going to try to bully her around.
Amanda and Eric watched the whole scene unfold. Eric had picked up Sabretooth in his alley cat form, but put him down when he saw the tension rising between Ryan and the stranger. With Ryan's mood getting angrier, she couldn't hold Sabretooth in cat form anymore and his shape shifted back to his normal form.
Amanda thought it might be best to defuse this situation. She had seen this stranger take Sabretooth on in a fight and nearly win, but she had also seen Ryan rip the heart from someone's chest and shove it down that person's throat. If these two started fighting, things wouldn't look pretty.
"Hey, maybe we could talk this out later. We need to get Sabretooth out of everyone's view."
"Stay out of this Amanda. Ms. Attitude here needs to be taught a lesson," Ryan said, staring at the girl.
Amanda didn't know what to do. Both girls could easily kill each other, and this was not what she wanted. She also knew she couldn't stop either in a fight. She thought quickly and projected her solution to the girls as a subliminal message.
Right when both girls were about to rip each other apart, something strange happened. Instead of the bloody massacre the fight was supposed to be, it turned into a hair pulling and scratching girlie catfight.
Each girl had a chunk of the other girl's hair in their hands, pulling hard left and right while scratching at each other's faces. The girls pulled so hard they lost their footing, and were now rolling around on the ground scratching at each other. Unfortunately for both girls, it had rained recently in San Francisco... and the girls rolled right into a very large mud puddle in someone's front yard.
Eric started to laugh at the sight of his very first view of a mud-wrestling match. Granted he thought Ryan was a pretty good fighter, but his money was on the stranger.
Amanda stared at him, shocked. "Do something!" She said. She couldn't believe this was happening. A psycho was unconscious and about to wake up at any moment, and instead of securing him she had to break up a catfight.
Logan turned the corner, following the scent of where everyone had gone when he saw the stranger and Ryan covered in mud, fighting with each other. "What in blazes is going on here?" He asked the laughing Eric and the more than angry looking Amanda.
"Logan, can you please stop them?" Amanda pleaded with the man.
Logan then made the biggest mistake of his life... because everyone who has ever seen a catfight knows better than to get involved. They are best to be left to work themselves out. As he reached to separate the two girls, he lost his footing and ended up in the mud between the two fighting girls. He was now in the middle of a mud fight. For the first time in his life Logan cried, "Help!".
Yann and Le Fae
Sammi rounded the corner just in time to see Logan get pulled into the cat fight. And when she heard him call for help she almost started laughing. Instead she yelled, "THAT'S IT!!!! EVERYONE STOP, NOW, OR MORE THAN A CAT FIGHT IS GOING TO HAPPEN!"
Everyone froze. Logan quickly got out of the way and was standing next to Sammi. Sammi looked at Amanda and Eric and telepathically told them, /Get him out of here, now. I got this covered./
Ryan turned Sabretooth back into cat form; Amanda and Eric quickly picked him up and headed towards the motel.
Ryan and the other girl got up and looked at Sammi.
"Ryan, go check on Kat, Ok?" Sammi asked. Ryan nodded and took off down the street.
Sammi turned to the other girl and asked, "Who are you?"
The girl took a rather defensive stand and said, "Why the hell do you want to know?"
Sammi was trying not to lose her temper, but this girl wasn't helping.
"I want to know, because.." Sammi popped her claws and finished, "You act and look like me and my father. Now, Who are you?"
jubilee_79
Jonas stepped up behind her. "Talk." he said and the new girl turned around to look right into the eyes of a big Dragon-looking creature.
"Hunny, don't you think that was overkill?" Sammi asked, grinning at Jonas who looked rather angry.
Amanda walked up, not too happy. "Jonas, you complained at Jamar... do you think this is any less..." she didn't finish.
"Police!.. who is..." An uniformed policewoman yelled from down the street.
Jonas turned around... still in Dragon form.
"Great!" Sammi and Amanda yelled at the same time.
"Oh my..." Tina said silently to herself as she took in the sight in front of her. A gigantic monster was looking at her.
"Don't move." She screamed and drew her gun.
Jonas moved to look at Amanda, but was stopped by the sound of the gun as it hit him twice in the head. He didn't even feel the shots, but the shock made him fall over.
Sammi jumped aside and landed on her feet and ran to make sure Jonas was ok.
"Is it dead?" the woman asked and walked closer.
"Great, just great." Amanda said.
She was about to telepathically change the woman's memory, when she noticed that she could not access her mind... it was totally locked down...
/She is a mutant... how is that possible?/ Amanda thought as Wolverine charged towards the woman.
Admiral
Maggie thought to herself as she tried to wipe some of the mud from her clothes. It was kind of hard to see around the large form that had looked like it was going to eat her. She noticed that her hands were shaking as she wiped the mud away.
She thought again. She did a mental count of her money and went looking for her backpack. She found it lying under a nearby bush. Now if she could figure out what happened to her guitar case she was going to get the hell out of Dodge. Then that sneaky little voice spoke up in her head, 'Hey, what about the homicidal maniac?' That was enough to make her linger.
Lady_Yann
Cara watched Little Kat as she went over to play with Athena's twins. She smiled. Athena had done such a good job raising them. They were little gentlemen. Cara dearly loved children...and wanted some of her own.
A shadow crossed her face at that thought. She never talked about children with Jamar. She wanted to give him children. She knew he'd be a great Father...and longed to see him bouncing his own little one on his knee. But it was not to be.
The doctors had advised her that it would not be wise for her to have children. Her illness was in remission, but it had left her heart and body too weak. They told her that she would probably never be able to carry a pregnancy to full term, much less give birth. The strain could kill her. The day that the doctor told Cara that, part of her died. She felt like she was defective...and not of worth.
Cara had dreams of children, whom she loved very much. When she woke up from these dreams, she cried because they weren't real. Her arms ached to hold her own little ones...to hear them call her Mommy. She'd helped raise Kat, and loved her dearly. Being around Kat as she grew had helped ease her pain at least a little, but she longed for her own little angel.
The dreams were wonderful, but waking from them always caused Cara so much pain. She almost wished that she would never dream about the children again. Almost. Yet, she always longed to see her dream children again.
Cara put a hand over her eyes to halt the tears which were threatening to flow. It wouldn't do to cry and make anyone else upset.
Rainfall
From a distance, Hope felt someone's despair. It tore at her. She found Cara quietly sobbing. She saw into her heart and knew what caused her sadness. The magic bloomed from her and engulfed Cara in an healing light. Hope knew that the next time that Cara and her love were together, Cara would get her wish.
Lady_Yann
Ryan walked into the loft covered in mud. She was so angry, she wanted to hit something really hard.
"What happened to you?" Cara asked Ryan as she walked past her.
"Mommy, did you make mud pies too?" Kat beamed at her Mom. In her eyes, Ryan was the best Mom in the world. She was never scared of getting dirty like other kids Mom's were. She dove right in just like her and that made her more fun. "Mommy, you can't make mud pies without me!"
"I'm sorry, Scrappy. I just couldn't help myself," Ryan said, trying to keep her cool with her daughter.
She was angry and didn't want to bring Kat into it. Ryan then looked at Cara "Don't ask," was all she said and walked to her apartment and decided to take a shower. Everyone Ryan passed on her way stopped in shock and started giggling.
After several hours of trying to get all the mud off, Ryan finally succeeded. She decided to go find Jamar and see if he could drop her off at the hotel Amanda was stashing Sabretooth in.
"Yeah, well boys smell bad!" Kat yelled at little Robbie.
"No we don't. Girls have cooties!" Robbie yelled back to Kat.
"To tell you the truth, boys and girls basically smell the same except for a few differences, and there are no such things as cooties." Little Mac explained to his brother and new friend.
"Hey, you guys want to do something fun?" Kat said bright eyed to her two new friends. When her Mom told her that some children her age would be coming to stay with them for a while she was happy. Even if they were both boys, Kat was happy to have people her own age to hang out with.
"Well, girls aren't very fun." Robbie said. "But okay… what do you want to do?"
"Follow me," Was all Kat said and led the boys to Cara's room and to her computer.
Le Fae
Hope knew that before the night was through, there would be a lot of work to be done. She smiled softly and she appeared next to Hank, only to kiss his sweet face and disappear again. Once again she reached out with her powers to the source of turmoil amongst her friends.
She found Ryan lost in a sea of hopelessness and hurt. She wasn't sure how to go about fixing Creed's memory of Ryan and the love that they shared, but she was sure that she could take some of the anger and aggression from him.
Hope smiled at the two that were going to stand watch.
"Have no fear. The fearsome Sabertooth shall relax in his repose till awakened."
Amanda and Eric exchanged glances, unsure of what to do.
"Have you both loved ones that you wish to spend time with for as long as you may?" Hope asked. "Do not fear. He will be safe."
Maggie had followed from a safe distance, watching as two of the strangers took Creed into a motel room.
She stood outside for about an hour until they came out and left. She waited a few more minutes before going to check it out.
It was a good thing that Henry taught her how to pick locks. Maggie wanted to make sure that the monster wasn't going to be push any little old ladies around. She smiled with satisfaction when the tumblers all fell into place.
On light feet she entered the room. It took a second for her eyes to adjust to the dim light, but she could hear Creed snoring lightly from the bed.
She watched Creed sleeping and could easily see why the blonde bimbo was so stuck on the guy. Even asleep there was an intense animal magnetism.
She reminded herself that this guy was a bully who had to be taken care of. Maggie popped her claws and prepared to subdue the guy for good.
Creed wasn't sure what woke him. he lay still, keeping the rhythm of his breathing steady. There it was again... someone was in the room with him, yet he wasn't sure of her intentions. He could smell her arousal and at the same time her dislike... Those were the best kind of partners.
Maggie thought that the sound of his breathing changed a little, so she froze at the edge of the bed. She was taken by complete surprise as a heavy hand swept out and pinned her slender form beneath his heavy male body.
Lady_Yann
Jamar stood at the edge of the room fuming over the sights before him. /I can't believe Magneto and that whack job Arac...Eric. Aack! I don't care what he calls himself! I can't believe they are in our house... but I trust Cara, so it'll be alright./ He goes and gives Cara a hug, not quite realizing that he'd just synched her multiplying ability. A tingle rushes up their spines.
"Honey, will you go and see what the kids are up to?"
"Sure thing I'll be back in a flash." A sour look crosses her face and he gives her a lopsided grin before replying, "I'll just walk." He says as he heads toward their room.
What're ya gonna do with that?" asked Robbie.
Kat grinned. "You've seen the X-Men show on t.v., right? Did you ever wonder what the professor would look like if he had Storm's hair?"
Little Mac was intrigued. "No, what would he look like?" he asked.
Kat grinned mischievously, and turned on the computer. She pressed a few keys, and they were in. Kat opened the X-Men picture files, and the editor, and started messing around.
Jamar enters the room to see the kids gathered around the computer screen.
"And this is what he'd look like with Blink's hair. Oh, Hi Unca Jar Jar." Kat looks up at Jamar and gives him her most innocent expression.
Robbie and Mac are having a hard time suppressing their giggles. They keep looking back at the computer screen, and start to laugh again.
"What are you kids up to?" Jamar asks as he walks over to view the screen. After seeing it, he begins laughing. Kat stares at her uncle for a while before she asks, "Unca Jar Jar, what happened to your eyes? Do they hurt?" Just then he remembered his eyes were not their usual brown, but were now swirling vortexes of rainbow light.
"They're okay, hon. it's just a little trick I picked up a couple years ago."
Jamar begins reminiscing about being a kid, and how much fun he and Kat's father Creed had during his stay at the mansion. Kat pulls him outta his thoughts by tugging on his jacket.
"Unca Jar Jar, will you play with us?" She asks, followed by a chorus of little voices.
"I'd love to..." He inclines his head to the side as if listening to something unseen.
**Jedi! I need you to meet me outside in a few minutes... we have some business to take care of.** Amanda's voice says in his head.
/It must be big if she's using codenames, plus it wasn't a team summons either. So what do I do now?/ The tingling he felt earlier grows worse. "Kit Kat, I'll be right back, okay?"
"Okay." She says as she gives him a Cara special.
Jamar steps out, realizing he's picked up an aura and didn't know it. He concentrates, trying to pinpoint whose it is. He smiles moments later... he is standing face to face with himself, also wearing the same infamous smile. There's something different about the double, but he doesn't have time to figure it out as he ushers the double back into the room and leaves to meet Amanda, a.k.a Delphi.
"I told you I'd be back. You kids wanna see a trick? Kat, come here." Jamar places a hand on her forehead and suddenly disappears. Standing before Kat is now a young boy about her age, with long bluish-white hair and the same rainbow eyes as her uncle.
"Who are you, and where's Unca Jar Jar?" She asks.
"I'm Logan Jamal, but everyone calls me L.J. Yer uncle had ta go, but he said that I could play with you guys," He says, giving her a lopsided grin.
Kat had a funny feeling as he grabbed her hand and they all went back to the computer.
Delphi waited with the others as Jedi came out. Zeklos, doing his wraith thing, appeared out of thin air. "'First One', we must talk."
"Later Zek, we have things to take care of."
The small group looks around to see if anyone is watching. Jamar pleased at finally getting to use his Teleportation ability ports them all away.
Chaos
Jamar teleported the group to the hotel that Amanda stashed Creed at. The group looked around to make sure no one saw them arrive, and then began walking up the stairs to the room.
"This is it," Amanda stated, and brought out the key.
Ryan was smiling at the thought of having her Victor back. She knew he was a good man, and soon everything would be ok. She wasn't prepared for the sight that greeted her eyes. Creed was rolling around the bed with the same bitch from earlier. Everyone gasped in shock and Eric being empathic could feel Ryan's rage. She couldn't believe what she was seeing. One minute the woman was trying to kill him, and the next she was trying to sleep with him. Ryan nearly cried when she saw the lust in Victors eyes, they held a look that she thought was once solely reserved for her.
"VICTOR! How could you!?!?!" Flashes of Ryan's past went through her head. The time she caught the first man she thought she loved went flashing through her mind. "YOU ASS!!!" Ryan screamed. She was near hysterics.
Victor's eyes cleared as he saw Ryan crying and screaming at him. He didn't understand why she was so upset with him being with this woman. He didn't understand what was going on But there was something so familiar about this woman. He just couldn't put his finger on it.
Le Fae