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~ Part Six ~
The Island was colder than she'd anticipated. Thank God for her magnetic gifts; they grew in strength because of the cold, and helped her tolerate the intensity of it. She'd seen pictures of the safe haven in Rogue's mind. When she'd absorbed Magneto's power, she'd also absorbed a lot of his memories. One of the memories she held onto was one of her mother and Magneto. There was no doubt that he loved the woman. At least she could always cling to that memory. Her father had loved her mother. She'd spent that last year in Austria with Kurt. With his nack for the truth and his loyalty, she knew he was the only place to go. So she'd spent a year with him, trying to over come the pain of the past. Kurt was the best friend she'd ever had with the exception of Rogue. But the time spent with him had changed her tremendously. She'd gone from a 'I don't much care' attitude, to 'how can I help' one. She'd always had a passion for helping hurting people, but it was only through her time with Kurt and her new relationship with Christ that she'd given into it. Kurt had given her some great advice about how to deal with the pain she'd suffered. How to deal with her grandparents and her father. He'd made her understand, that though she did need to make amends with them for hurting them, that they couldn't be the center, or focal point of her life. Having finally gathered up the courage to come face to face with her father, she left Austria in search of him. She'd been hiding in the monestary when Logan had shown up looking for Kurt. The blue-face-monk, as Logan called him, had promised not to tell anyone that she was there, but he'd also promised God that he'd never lie. She'd feared that Kurt would break his word. As she hid out of sight, and out of smelling distance, she listened to the two men, and even managed to watch them for a short time.
["I couldn't take it anymore, Nightcrawler. I had to tell the professor the truth."
Kurt looked Logan in the eye. "The truth has a way of being found, even when we try to hide it. May I ask you, Herr Logan, what made you tell Professor Xavier whatever it is that is the truth?"
Logan studied him. "The professor trusts me, but I betrayed that trust."
"And what is the truth?"
"I came here to find the professor's granddaughter, not get my head analyzed by a blue-faced-mutant-munk! She has more of a right to be there than I do."
"Maybe her place isn't there."
Logan growled. "Have you seen her?"
"I have."
"Where is she?"
"I've promised her that I wouldn't tell you. She's trying to heal from the pain that was inflicted upon her, which resulted in her fleeing the mansion."
"You ain't gotta tell me about her pain! I know all about it, I caused it!" He ran a hand through his hair. "I'm trying to make things right, the prof can't say I didn't try."
Nightcrawler reached over and placed a hand on Logan's shoulder. "You should deal with your own pain, before you address hers. She'll be fine, my friend. Time heals all wounds, and our Lord brings about forgiveness."
"I ain't asking for forgiviness, monk! I'm trying to help the prof! She's his granddaughter! The only family he's got!"
"Then it is his duty to find her. Give it time, Herr Logan. She will return to the mansion, in her own time. When she's healed from her pain. You nor I could force her to return before she's ready."
"I ain't trying to force her to come back. I just want to help to Professor Xavier. He's sick with worry over where she is and if she's all right. Rogue spilled that she knew that Lizzy wasn't with Magneto. That means she has to be around here, somewhere, or with that Warren guy!"
"She's not with Warren. She's safe. I will tell her that you were here when next I see her. Why, my friend are you so passionate about her returning to the mansion? Would you be leaving if she came back?"
"If she wanted me gone, I'd leave! And she belongs there, whether you say so or not!"]
She'd stopped listening after that, waiting for him to leave, so she could talk to Kurt again. She shook her head at the memory. The last thing she needed right now was to be bothered by memories of a man she couldn't have. Thoughts of Logan were a distraction she couldn't afford at this point in her life. The most pressing matter in her life now was her father. With his own team of mutants guarding him, she had to be watching for them. There it was, Magneto's safe haven. It wasn't the same as it had been in Rogue's memory. There was no clear way in, which meant the only way in was through magnetic doors, which only Magento could open, or so he thought. She took a deep breath and began to float just as Magneto always did. The doors opened with little effort on her part. She floated inside and the doors closed behind her.
Magneto, Toad, Sabretooth, and Mystique stared at her. None of them had been aware of her presence or that she had access to this place. Magneto smiled ever so slightly, as he got to his feet. The startled feelings he ignored. He couldn't allow them, any of them to know that he was startled by this woman's presence.
Lizzy set down with extreme care, her eyes fixed on Magneto. He didn't look the same as he had in her grandmothers memories or even in Rogue's memories. He had such a regal look about him, it was hard to believe that he was the horrible creature that everyone at the mansion made him out to be. Was it possible that they had been wrong? She could understand why her mother had found him attractive. He looked like royalty. So sophisticated and refined; like a nobel man of old, or a king. It was like she'd jumped into a fantasy world. Sabretooth came at her and she raised her hand in his direction, causing him to stop dead still in his tracks. Mystique and Toad found that they couldn't move either. Her attention never left her father as she spoke. "You and I need to talk."
Magneto sat back down in his chair. "They won't hurt you."
"They won't hurt anyone, since they can't move." She lowered her hand, and they stayed where they were as though they were suspended in time. She kept her distance from Magneto. This was an awkward situation. "Do you know who I am?"
"Damaris Elizabetta Lockhart, I believe. The most powerful mutant in the world. How did you get in here?"
"You mean, you haven't been watching me? I know you haven't laid dormant the last thirty-two months. Charles Xavier warned me of your persistence and your intentions. And that little helmet of yours isn't going to shield your thoughts from me," Lizzy said. She knew without a doubt what he was thinking. He wanted the helmet to shield his thoughts, but that wouldn't have worked on her as it did Xavier. With her telekinesis and her magnetism combined she brought his helmet, that had set on a table not far from him, between them and twisted it into a little metal statue of him, then let it hit the floor.
"I see, Charles has trained you in useing your gifts," Magneto said. "None the less he can not find me in here. With or without that helmet. This place was designed with the same metal as that helmet. Cerebro can't penetrate it's walls."
"It doesn't need to." She stepped forward, and Sabretooth, Mystique, and Toad mimicked her movements. She had complete control over their minds.
"I had no idea you possessed the power of magnetism."
"You have no idea about a lot of things, I see. For a man of your power, intelligance and regality, I would have expected a little more."
Magneto stared at her. No one had ever treated him this way. At least not in long time. At the very least if he had to defend himself against her, he was weak against any mental influence she might try to use. She'd imbolaized his team of mutants. He didn't like the feeling of being helpless. Not since the end of the war and his release from the concentration camp had he been helpless to effect what happened in his life. He hated this feeling of helplessness. "Why have you come here?"
Lizzy cocked her head to the side. So he hadn't figured it out. He hadn't even thought it a possibility. She released a slightly agitated breath. Maybe it was completely stupid for her to be here. "To meet my father face to face. . . . Don't look so shocked, Daddy! My mother Isabella Lockhart left you when she learned she was carrying me, then died giving birth to me. I believe I owed you this visit."
Giving no hint of his startled mind, he studied her. "Apparently we both know of the relationship I had with your mother, but what makes you so sure that I'm your father?"
She made his chair float, then turned it into an extreme magnet. "I don't know. Maybe because it's the truth."
Magneto would take no more. Useing his own mutation he made the furniture go back into place, and his chair set down. He stood and stalked toward her. He no longer doubted that it was possible that she was his child. He had no words that would express this feeling inside of him. He had a child? It was awesome and even strange to think that it was true.
She stood stunned at his mind. The thoughts he was thinking at that moment flew at her like bubbles, just as Logan's thoughts so often had when she was at the mansion. She straightened, and nodded her head slightly. She raised her hand again and released her hold on the mutants standing in the room. Magneto extended his hand and she followed him.
"What's going on," Mystique demanded.
"A family reunion, Mystic."
"It's Mystique."
"Whatever," Lizzy said. She probably shouldn't have been so harsh, but she didn't like the thoughts Mystique was sending her way. With the increasing of her magnetic powers came an increase in her mental powers. She was relearning again to control her telepathy. She didn't even have to try to read their thoughts. She could hear them. Each of their thoughts, and none of which appealed to her. Only Magneto's thoughts were interesting enough for her to focus on. He was wondering about her life, and why Isabella had kept her from him. She followed him into his office, in complete silence. She didn't wait for him to offer her a place to sit down before she sat in a chair that faced his desk.
He sat in his chair and studied her. Learning of her was a great shock to him. He's lived seventy years now and he was just finding out that he had a daughter. She didn't look very old, but if memory served she had to be about twenty three.
"Twenty three, almost four months ago," was her answer to his unspoken question.
He was startled by her ability to know his thoughts. He knew when Charles Xavier was trying to read his mind, why didn't he know when she was?
"The magnetic fields you keep up around this place on top of the increasing of my magnetic abilities strengthen my telepathy."
He nodded then. "Tell me everything."
She studied him. "There isn't much to tell, . . . Magneto," she used the name he liked to be called, trying to stay on an even keel with him. She couldn't be too personal with him.
"Tell me what there is then."
"I can only give you what I've taken from my grandmother's memory."
"If it's all that you know, then it's enough."
"My mother left you because she was afraid of what you might do to me. She wouldn't have you twist my mind, to the extent that I followed only what you wanted me to do. She expected that I would be as she would have been if she had had her father around. That it wouldn't have mattered what you were doing, because you were my father."
He closed his eyes. He never would have manipulated her mind, though he would have taught her to be like him, he knew.
Lizzy heard his thoughts but pressed on. "She loved you and had thought you had changed, but you'd only hidden what you were doing from her. Why you'd chosen her, a human she didn't know. And it bothered her that you could hate normal people and love her. Maybe that was why she ran as quickly as she had. She was sure that I would be a mutant, and she knew that she was helpless to stop you if you tried to manipulate my mind. She died giving birth to me, her human body was too weak." The change in his expression indicated pain, and her heart contricted. She knew little of him other than what she was speaking, but her heart constricted knowing that he was in pain. She took a deep breath and continued, "My mutations were strangely obvious from birth. I used to make things fly off the walls when I was a baby. My grandmother blocked out my mutations with her telepathy, until I was old enough to learn to do something about them. By that point she I had too much of a mind of my own for her to control my mutations with mental suggestions."
"That does not surprise me," Magneto said.
"My childhood wasn't easy. I fought to fit in, but faced the ridicule most children who aren't 'normal' do. I was an orphan, and a bastard, and they never let me forget it. I had about two friends in this whole world who could understand what I was going through, and neither of them live in the same country I do. (Okay, maybe she played on the guilt a little, but it was the truth of her life.) I'd struggled to keep my mutant gifts under control from about the time that I turned six. It's not easy on a grown person without training, can you imagine what it's like for a six year old?"
"No."
"I slipped about three years ago, I assume that's when you learned of my existence."
He nodded. "It was all over the news and I tracked down every mutant I could find. It was only when Sabretooth caught your scent that I knew for sure."
"As I figured. My grandmother contacted Charles Xavier shortly after the accident. They got together and decided I belonged at the mansion learning to use my gifts for the sake of all humanity. That's when we met for the first time."
"I remember."
"I'm sure. I spent a little over a year and a half there, learning to cope with and use my mutant powers. Through the training I received from Charles Xavier, I've learned how to cope with and use each new mutation as it develops, or makes itself obvious. It all has to do with the mind, you know?"
"Yes. You said only about eighteen months with Xavier. Where have you been hiding this last year? I've not been able to find you."
"Neither has Xavier." She touched a finger to her temple, just as he had done after the mutant registration hearing when he'd been talking to Charles. "Some things happened, which I'd rather not discuss, that caused a parting of ways between myself and the X-Men. I've spent the last year in Austria with a man that goes by the name Nightcrawler. Charles Xavier was a great help to me and I will always be thankful to him for that. Should you and he fight again, as you have so many times in the past, I will not interfere."
He nodded, in silent understanding. "How did you learn that I was your father?"
"My grandmother's memories. You met her, Evelyn Lockhart. My mother never hid her choices, mistakes or otherwise from her mother."
"You decided to find me because?"
"Like it or not, you're my father." She searched his eyes. "I deserve the chance to have a father, and for reasons we won't dive into, I was robbed of that."
Magneto stared at her. "You're just going to give me the chance to be your father? I don't even have to ask?"
"No, you don't. But you do have to decide whether or not you want to be my father. I deserve the chance to know you, to know who you are."
He nodded. "You do. If I had-."
She brought her hand up to silence him. "No. I don't want to hear promises of how different my life would have been if you had known about me. None of us can change the past, we have to forgive and move on."
~ ~ ~
Logan had had all he could take of the X-Men for a while. The last six months that Lizzy had been at the mansion had been the longest he'd stayed in an one place for any length of time. He'd been going every couple of weeks since she'd been gone. He'd just gotten back three days ago, and he was ready to go again.
"I know just how to whisper, and I know just how to cry; I know just where to find the answers; and I know just how to lie. I know just how to fake it, and I know just how to scheme; I know just when to face the truth, and then I know just when to dream. And I know just where to touch you, and I know just what to prove; I know when to pull you closer, and I know when to let you loose. And I know the night is fading, and I know that time's gonna fly; and I'm never gonna tell you everything I gotta tell you, but I know I've got to give it a try. And I the road to riches, and I know the ways to fame; I know all the rules and I know how to break 'em and I always know the name of the game. But I don't know how to leave you, and I'll never let you fall; but I don't know how you do it, making love out of nothing at all (Making love) out of nothing at all, (making love) out of nothing at all, (making love) out of nothing at all, (making love) out of nothing at all, (making love) out of nothing at all, (making love) out of nothing at all. every time I see you all the rays of the sun are streaming through the waves in your hair; and every star in the sky ia taking aim at your eyes like a spotlight, The beating of my heart is a drum, and it's lost and it's looking for a rhythm like you. You can take the darkness from the pit of the night and turn it into a beacon burning endlessly bright. I've got to follow it, 'cause everything I know, well it's nothing till I give it to you. I can make the run or stumble, I can make the final block; And I can make every tackle, at the sound of the whistle, I can male all the stadiums rock. I can make tonight forever, Or I can make it disappear by the dawn; And I cane make you every promise that has ever been made, And I can make all your demons be gone. But I'm never gonna make it without you, Do you really want to see me crawl? And I'm never gonna make it like you do, Making love out of nothing at all. (Making love) out of nothing at all, (making love) out of nothing at all, (making love) out of nothing at all, (making love) out of nothing at all, (making love) out of nothing at all, (making love) out of nothing at all, (Making love)."
He had to come to terms with how he felt about the professor's granddaughter. He didn't like the way things had turned out. If he could go back in time, he'd change it. He hated that one woman could affect him so much! She'd left, and left him torn apart. He actually knew now what she'd felt like when he'd said what he had. It was no joke when she'd said that their 'activites' had been a mistake. If they'd listened to their better consciences they wouldn't be in this mess. He wouldn't be in this mess!
"I'm lying alone with my head on the phone, thinking of you 'til it hurts. I know you hurt too, but what else can we do, tormented and torn apart. I wish I could carry your smile in my heart for times when my life seems so low. It would make me believe what tomorrow could bring. When today doesn't really know, Doesn't really know. *I'm all out of love, I'm so lost without you, I know you were right, believing for so long. I'm all out of love, what am I without you, I can't be too late to say that I was so wrong* I want you to come back and carry me home, Away from these long, lonely nights. I'm reaching for you. Are you feeling it too? Does the feeling seem oh, so right? And what would you say if I called on you now, and said that I can't hold on? There's no easy way, it gets harder each day, Please love me or I'll be gone. I'll be gone. I'm . . .* *. What are you thinking of? What are you thinking of? What are you thinking of? * *."
He grabbed his bag, and began stuffing it with some clean clothes. Jubilee and Kitty were good at playing the same kind of music Lizzy had been into. The soft rock stuff, and eighties, or whatever you wanted to call it. It didn't have to be loud for him to hear it, but it seemed like every time he came back they turned it up louder and louder as they played it. He was getting to the point when he really hated it. Almost every song they played reminded him of her, or their nights together.
"Here I am, playing with those memories again; and just when I thought time had set me free, those thoughts of you keep taunting me. Holding you; a feeling I never outgrew, though each and every part of me has tried, only you can fill that space inside. So there's no sense pretending, my heart it's not mending. Just when I thought I was over you, and just when I thought I could stand on my own, oh, Baby, those memories come crashing through; and I just can't go on without you. On my own; I've tried to make the best of it alone. I've done everything I can to ease the pain, but only you can stop the rain. I just can't live without you; I miss everything about you. Just when I thought I was over you, and just when I thought I could stand on my own. Oh, Baby, those memories come crashing through, and I just can't go on without you, go on without you, It's just no good without . . . you. Without you, Without you, Without you, Without you."
"I, I was the lonely one, Wondering what went wrong, Why love had gone and left me lonely. I, I was so confused, Feelin' like I'd just been used, Then you came to me and my loneliness left me. I used to think I was tied to a heartache, That was the heartbreak, but now that I found you. *Even the nights are better, now that we're here together; Even the nights are better since I found you. Oh, even the days are brighter when someone you love's beside ya; Even the nights are better since I found you.* You, You know just what to do, Cause you had been lonely too, And you showed me how to ease the pain. And you did more than mend a broken heart, Cause now you've made a fire start, And I, I can see that you feel the same way. -I never dreamed there's be someone to hold me, Until you told me, and now that I found you. * * - - * * Oh, even the nights are better, Now that we're here together, Even the nights are better since I found you."
"Now the night has gone, now the night has gone away; doesn't seem that long; we hardly had two words to say. Hold me in your arms for just another day, I promise this one will go slow; Oh, we have the right you know; we have the right you know. Don't say the morning's come, don't say the morning's come so soon, Must we end this way, when so much here is hard to lose? Love is everywhere; I know it is; such moments as this are too few; oh, it's all up to you; it's all up to you. *Here I am the one that you love, asking for another day; understand the one that you love, loves you in so many ways.* Tell me we can stay, tell me we can stay, oh, please. They are the words to say, The only words I can believe. Hold me in your arms for just another day, I promise this one will go slow; oh, We have the right you know; We have the right you know. * * The night has gone a part of yesterday, I don't know what to say, I don't know what to say. * *."
"I open my eyes I see your face. I can not hide, I can't erase the way you make me feel inside. You complete me, girl that's why something about you makes me feel, baby my heart wants to reveal, I'm down on my knees I'm asking you. Said these three words I wanna hear from you. Yes I will, take your hand and walk with you. Yes, I will, say these words I promise too, Yes, I will, give you everything you need and someday start a family with you. Yes, I will, take your hand and walk with you. Yes, I will, baby I promise you, Yes, I will, give you everything you need and some day start a family with you. Yes, I will. Oh, baby. This is no ordinary love, and I can never have enough of all the things you've given to me. You're my heart, my soul, my everything. Every night I'm thankin' the Lord. Thank you, Lord for giving me the strength to love her more and more each day. I promise her, as long as I hear those three words. Yes I will, take your hand and walk with you. Yes, I will, say these words I promise too, Yes, I will, give you everything you need and someday start a family with you. Yes, I will, take your hand and walk with you. Yes, I will, baby I promise you, Yes, I will, give you everything you need and some day start a family with you. I stand beside you in everything you do, baby, wherever you go, whatever you do, baby I'll be there. As God as my witness I will carry this through. Together as part of my promise to you. Yes I will, take your hand and walk with you. Yes, I will, say these words I promise too, Yes, I will, give you everything you need and someday start a family with you. Yes, I will, take your hand and walk with you. Yes, I will, baby I promise you, Yes, I will, give you everything you need and some day start a family with you. Yes, I will.(it's gonna be all right)."
"How can I convince you what you see is real? Who am I to blame you for doubting what you feel? I was always reaching, you were just a girl I know, I took for granted the friend I have in you. I was living for a dream, loving for a moment; taking on the world, that was just my style, Now I look into your eyes and I can see forever, The search is over you were with me all the while. Can we last forever? Or do we fall apart? At times it's so confusing, the questions of the heart. You followed me through changes, and patiently you'd wait, 'til I came to my sense through some miracle of fate. I was living for a dream, loving for a moment; taking on the world, that was just my style, now I look into your eyes and I can see forever. The search is over you were with me all the while. Now the miles stretch out behind me, loves that I have lost. Broken hearts lie victims of the game. Then good luck, it finally struck like lightning from the blue. Every highway's leading me back to you. Now at last I hold you, now all is said and done. The search has come full circle, our destiny's are one. So if you ever loved me, show me that you give a damn. We'll know for certain, the man I really am. I was living for a dream, loving for a moment, taking on the world, that was just my style, Then I touched your hand, I could hear you whisper the search is over, love was right before my eyes."
"I've got a picture of your house, and you're standing by the door. It's black and white and faded it's lookin' pretty worn. I see the factory that I worked, silhouetted in the back. The memories are grey, but they're really coming back. I don't need to be the king of the world, as long as I'm the hero of this little girl heaven isn't too far away; closer to it every day, no matter what your friends might say. How I love the way you move, and the sparkle in your eyes. There's a color deep inside, like the blue suburban sky. But when I come home late at night, and you're in bed asleep, and I wrap my arms around you, so I can feel you breath. I don't need to be a super man as long as you will always be my biggest fan. Heaven isn't too far away, closer to it everyday, no matter what your friends might say, we'll find our way. Whoa yeah. Now the lights are going out along the bullevard, memories come rushing back and it makes it pretty hard. Well, I got nowhere left to go and noone really cares. I don't know what to do, but I'm never givin' up on you. Heaven isn't too far away, closer to it every day. No matter what your friends say, I know we're gonna find a way. Heaven; it's not too far away. (Fade)"
"When the night has come and the land is dark, and the moon is the only light we'll see. I won't be afraid, nooo I won't be afraid, just as long as you stand, stand by me. So, Darlin', Darlin' stand by me, oh, stand, stand by me. Stand by me, stand by me. If the sky that we look upon should tumble and fall or the mountains should crumble to the sea, I won't cry, I won't cry, no I won't shed a tear, just as long as you stand, stand by me. So, Darlin', Darlin' stand by me. Oh, stand by me. Whoa stand, stand by me. Stand by me. Stand by me. Darlin', Darlin' stand by me. Oh, stand by me. Stand by me, stand by me. Whenever you're in trouble, won't you stand by me, Oh, stand by me. Oh, stand, stand by me."
"Where have all the good men gone and where are all the gods? Where's the street wise Hercules to fight the rising odds? Isn't there a white knight upon a fiery steed? Late at night I todd and I turn and I dream of what I need. I need a hero, I'm holding out a hero for a hero 'til the end of the night He's gotta be strong and he's gotta be fast and he's gotta be fresh from the fight. I need a hero I'm holding out for a hero 'til the morning light, He's gotta be sure and he's gotta be soon and he's gotta be larger that life. Somewhere after midnight, in my wildest fantasy Somewhere just beyond my reach is someone reaching back at me. Racing on the thunder and rising with the heat. It's gonna take a super man to sweep me off my feet. I need a hero, I'm holding out a hero for a hero 'til the end of the night He's gotta be strong and he's gotta be fast and he's gotta be fresh from the fight. I need a hero I'm holding out for a hero 'til the morning light, He's gotta be sure and he's gotta be soon and he's gotta be larger that life. I need a hero I'm holding out for a hero 'til the end of the night. Up where the moon meets the heavens above out where the lightening splits the sea I can swear there is someone somewhere watching me. Through the wind and the chill in the rain I'm just starting to fly. I can feel his approach like a fire in my blood. I need a hero, I'm holding out a hero for a hero 'til the end of the night He's gotta be strong and he's gotta be fast and he's gotta be fresh from the fight. I need a hero I'm holding out for a hero 'til the morning light, He's gotta be sure and he's gotta be soon and he's gotta be larger that life. I need a hero, I'm holding out a hero for a hero 'til the end of the night He's gotta be strong and he's gotta be fast and he's gotta be fresh from the fight. I need a hero I'm holding out for a hero 'til the morning light, He's gotta be sure and he's gotta be soon and he's gotta be larger that life. I need a hero I'm holding out for a hero 'til the end of the night."
"Looking in your eyes, I see a paradise This world that I found is too good to be true. Standing here beside you; want so much to give you this love in my heart that I'm feeling for you." "Let 'em say we're crazy, I don't care about that. Put your hand in my hand, Baby, don't ever look back. Let the world around us just fall apart, Baby, we can make it if we're heart-to- heart." "And we can build this dream together standing strong forever. Nothing's gonna stop us now. And if this world runs out of lovers we'll still have each other. Nothing's gonna stop us, nothing's gonna stop us now." "I'm so glad I found you; I'm not gonna lose you. Whatever it takes, I will stay here with you. Take it through the good times, see you through the bad times. Whatever it takes is what I'm gonna do." "Let 'em say we're crazy. What do they know? Put your arms around me, Baby, don't ever let go. Let the world around us just fall apart, Baby, we can make it if we're heart-to-heart." "And we can build this dream together, standing strong forever. Nothing's gonna stop us now. And if this world runs out of lovers, we'll still have each other. Nothing's gonna stop us, nothing's gonna stop us." "Ooo, all that I need is you." "All that I ever need." "And all that I want to do." "Is hold you forever; ever and ever. And we can build this dream together standing strong forever. Nothing's gonna stop us now. And if this world runs out of lovers, we'll still have each other. Nothing's gonna stop us, nothing's gonna stop us, (fade)."
"Oceans apart, day after day, and I slowly go insane. I hear your voice on the line, but it doesn't stop the pain. If I see you next to never, how can we say forever? Wherever you go, whatever you do, I will be right here waiting for you. Whatever it takes or how my heart breaks, I will be right here waiting for you. I took for granted all the times, that I thought would last somehow. I hear the laughter, I taste the tears, but I can't get near you now. Oh, can't you see it, Baby, you've got me going crazy. Wherever you go, whatever you do, I will be right here waiting for you. Whatever it takes or how my heart breaks I will be right here waiting for you. I wonder how we can survive this romance. But in the end if I'm with you, I'll take the chance. Oh, can't you see it, Baby, you've got me going crazy. Wherever you go, whatever you do, I will be right here waiting for you. Whatever it takes, or how my heart breaks I will be right here waiting for you. Waiting for you."
"Shut that d--- s--- off!" He screamed.
Kitty phased through the wall. "If you don't like it, take off again! You seem to be getting better and better at that!"
He growled, and the music got louder.
"I realize the best part of love is the thinnest slice, and it don't count for much but I'm not letting go, I believe there's too much to believe in. So lift your eyes if you feel you can Reach for a star and I'll show you a plan. I've figured it out, what I needed was someone to show me. You know you can't fool me I've been loving you too long It started so easy you want to carry on, carry on. Lost in Love and I don't know much, Was I thinking aloud and fell out of touch? But I'm back on my feet, and eager to be what you wanted. So lift your eyes if you feel you can Reach for a star and I'll show you a plan. I've figured it out, what I needed was someone to show me. You know you can't fool me I've been loving you too long It started so easy you want to carry on, carry on. Lost in Love and I don't know much, Was I thinking aloud and fell out of touch? But I'm back on my feet, and eager to be what you wanted. You know you can't fool me I've been loving you too long It started so easy you want to carry on, carry on. Lost in Love and I don't know much, Was I thinking aloud and fell out of touch? But I'm back on my feet, and eager to be what you wanted. Now I'm lost Lost in love Lost in love Lost in love Now I'm lost I'm lost in love (fade)."
Slinging his bag over his shoulder, Logan left his room, on his way out of the mansion. He needed to get away as quick as possible. And he'd be d----- if Lizzy was gonna stay gone from their lives. If it took the rest of his life, he was gonna find her and bring her kicking and screaming back to the mansion, and back to him. She wasn't gonna leave him like this! He wouldn't let her!
~ ~ ~
Jubilee ran to the window, and peered out of it. She turned back to look at Rogue and Kitty. "He's leaving again!"
"Good," Rogue said.
"What," Kitty demanded.
Rogue looked at her. "Maybe he's gotten the picture. Ain't nobody gonna convince me that that man ain't in love with the professor's granddaughter. Maybe if he goes lookin' fer her and finds her and kisses her butt, she'll come back. She left 'cause he broke her heart!"
"Really," Kitty asked, sitting back down on the bed. "I knew he yelled at her, but I didn't know he'd broken her heart! I didn't know there was anything between them."
"Ah was the only one that did, and it only started three days before she left. The point is, Kitty-Kat that he broke her heart. He's hurtin' too, Ah can see it. Just let him hunt her up. Who knows what might happen. Ah think, they'd make a cute couple."
Jubilee kind of smiled. "That explains, why I thought I saw her going into his room in the wee hours of the morning the day she left."
Rogue looked at her. "Yah just keep your mouth shut about that. They both said it was a mistake to be doing what they were, and look at the heart ache it caused! Just worry about getting your home work done."
"What is it with you," Jubilee asked studying her. "You've changed too."
"Just mind your business, Jube." Rogue turned her attention back to her book, silently praying that Logan had left in search of Lizzy. They made such a cute couple.
~ Part Six ~
The Island was colder than she'd anticipated. Thank God for her magnetic gifts; they grew in strength because of the cold, and helped her tolerate the intensity of it. She'd seen pictures of the safe haven in Rogue's mind. When she'd absorbed Magneto's power, she'd also absorbed a lot of his memories. One of the memories she held onto was one of her mother and Magneto. There was no doubt that he loved the woman. At least she could always cling to that memory. Her father had loved her mother. She'd spent that last year in Austria with Kurt. With his nack for the truth and his loyalty, she knew he was the only place to go. So she'd spent a year with him, trying to over come the pain of the past. Kurt was the best friend she'd ever had with the exception of Rogue. But the time spent with him had changed her tremendously. She'd gone from a 'I don't much care' attitude, to 'how can I help' one. She'd always had a passion for helping hurting people, but it was only through her time with Kurt and her new relationship with Christ that she'd given into it. Kurt had given her some great advice about how to deal with the pain she'd suffered. How to deal with her grandparents and her father. He'd made her understand, that though she did need to make amends with them for hurting them, that they couldn't be the center, or focal point of her life. Having finally gathered up the courage to come face to face with her father, she left Austria in search of him. She'd been hiding in the monestary when Logan had shown up looking for Kurt. The blue-face-monk, as Logan called him, had promised not to tell anyone that she was there, but he'd also promised God that he'd never lie. She'd feared that Kurt would break his word. As she hid out of sight, and out of smelling distance, she listened to the two men, and even managed to watch them for a short time.
["I couldn't take it anymore, Nightcrawler. I had to tell the professor the truth."
Kurt looked Logan in the eye. "The truth has a way of being found, even when we try to hide it. May I ask you, Herr Logan, what made you tell Professor Xavier whatever it is that is the truth?"
Logan studied him. "The professor trusts me, but I betrayed that trust."
"And what is the truth?"
"I came here to find the professor's granddaughter, not get my head analyzed by a blue-faced-mutant-munk! She has more of a right to be there than I do."
"Maybe her place isn't there."
Logan growled. "Have you seen her?"
"I have."
"Where is she?"
"I've promised her that I wouldn't tell you. She's trying to heal from the pain that was inflicted upon her, which resulted in her fleeing the mansion."
"You ain't gotta tell me about her pain! I know all about it, I caused it!" He ran a hand through his hair. "I'm trying to make things right, the prof can't say I didn't try."
Nightcrawler reached over and placed a hand on Logan's shoulder. "You should deal with your own pain, before you address hers. She'll be fine, my friend. Time heals all wounds, and our Lord brings about forgiveness."
"I ain't asking for forgiviness, monk! I'm trying to help the prof! She's his granddaughter! The only family he's got!"
"Then it is his duty to find her. Give it time, Herr Logan. She will return to the mansion, in her own time. When she's healed from her pain. You nor I could force her to return before she's ready."
"I ain't trying to force her to come back. I just want to help to Professor Xavier. He's sick with worry over where she is and if she's all right. Rogue spilled that she knew that Lizzy wasn't with Magneto. That means she has to be around here, somewhere, or with that Warren guy!"
"She's not with Warren. She's safe. I will tell her that you were here when next I see her. Why, my friend are you so passionate about her returning to the mansion? Would you be leaving if she came back?"
"If she wanted me gone, I'd leave! And she belongs there, whether you say so or not!"]
She'd stopped listening after that, waiting for him to leave, so she could talk to Kurt again. She shook her head at the memory. The last thing she needed right now was to be bothered by memories of a man she couldn't have. Thoughts of Logan were a distraction she couldn't afford at this point in her life. The most pressing matter in her life now was her father. With his own team of mutants guarding him, she had to be watching for them. There it was, Magneto's safe haven. It wasn't the same as it had been in Rogue's memory. There was no clear way in, which meant the only way in was through magnetic doors, which only Magento could open, or so he thought. She took a deep breath and began to float just as Magneto always did. The doors opened with little effort on her part. She floated inside and the doors closed behind her.
Magneto, Toad, Sabretooth, and Mystique stared at her. None of them had been aware of her presence or that she had access to this place. Magneto smiled ever so slightly, as he got to his feet. The startled feelings he ignored. He couldn't allow them, any of them to know that he was startled by this woman's presence.
Lizzy set down with extreme care, her eyes fixed on Magneto. He didn't look the same as he had in her grandmothers memories or even in Rogue's memories. He had such a regal look about him, it was hard to believe that he was the horrible creature that everyone at the mansion made him out to be. Was it possible that they had been wrong? She could understand why her mother had found him attractive. He looked like royalty. So sophisticated and refined; like a nobel man of old, or a king. It was like she'd jumped into a fantasy world. Sabretooth came at her and she raised her hand in his direction, causing him to stop dead still in his tracks. Mystique and Toad found that they couldn't move either. Her attention never left her father as she spoke. "You and I need to talk."
Magneto sat back down in his chair. "They won't hurt you."
"They won't hurt anyone, since they can't move." She lowered her hand, and they stayed where they were as though they were suspended in time. She kept her distance from Magneto. This was an awkward situation. "Do you know who I am?"
"Damaris Elizabetta Lockhart, I believe. The most powerful mutant in the world. How did you get in here?"
"You mean, you haven't been watching me? I know you haven't laid dormant the last thirty-two months. Charles Xavier warned me of your persistence and your intentions. And that little helmet of yours isn't going to shield your thoughts from me," Lizzy said. She knew without a doubt what he was thinking. He wanted the helmet to shield his thoughts, but that wouldn't have worked on her as it did Xavier. With her telekinesis and her magnetism combined she brought his helmet, that had set on a table not far from him, between them and twisted it into a little metal statue of him, then let it hit the floor.
"I see, Charles has trained you in useing your gifts," Magneto said. "None the less he can not find me in here. With or without that helmet. This place was designed with the same metal as that helmet. Cerebro can't penetrate it's walls."
"It doesn't need to." She stepped forward, and Sabretooth, Mystique, and Toad mimicked her movements. She had complete control over their minds.
"I had no idea you possessed the power of magnetism."
"You have no idea about a lot of things, I see. For a man of your power, intelligance and regality, I would have expected a little more."
Magneto stared at her. No one had ever treated him this way. At least not in long time. At the very least if he had to defend himself against her, he was weak against any mental influence she might try to use. She'd imbolaized his team of mutants. He didn't like the feeling of being helpless. Not since the end of the war and his release from the concentration camp had he been helpless to effect what happened in his life. He hated this feeling of helplessness. "Why have you come here?"
Lizzy cocked her head to the side. So he hadn't figured it out. He hadn't even thought it a possibility. She released a slightly agitated breath. Maybe it was completely stupid for her to be here. "To meet my father face to face. . . . Don't look so shocked, Daddy! My mother Isabella Lockhart left you when she learned she was carrying me, then died giving birth to me. I believe I owed you this visit."
Giving no hint of his startled mind, he studied her. "Apparently we both know of the relationship I had with your mother, but what makes you so sure that I'm your father?"
She made his chair float, then turned it into an extreme magnet. "I don't know. Maybe because it's the truth."
Magneto would take no more. Useing his own mutation he made the furniture go back into place, and his chair set down. He stood and stalked toward her. He no longer doubted that it was possible that she was his child. He had no words that would express this feeling inside of him. He had a child? It was awesome and even strange to think that it was true.
She stood stunned at his mind. The thoughts he was thinking at that moment flew at her like bubbles, just as Logan's thoughts so often had when she was at the mansion. She straightened, and nodded her head slightly. She raised her hand again and released her hold on the mutants standing in the room. Magneto extended his hand and she followed him.
"What's going on," Mystique demanded.
"A family reunion, Mystic."
"It's Mystique."
"Whatever," Lizzy said. She probably shouldn't have been so harsh, but she didn't like the thoughts Mystique was sending her way. With the increasing of her magnetic powers came an increase in her mental powers. She was relearning again to control her telepathy. She didn't even have to try to read their thoughts. She could hear them. Each of their thoughts, and none of which appealed to her. Only Magneto's thoughts were interesting enough for her to focus on. He was wondering about her life, and why Isabella had kept her from him. She followed him into his office, in complete silence. She didn't wait for him to offer her a place to sit down before she sat in a chair that faced his desk.
He sat in his chair and studied her. Learning of her was a great shock to him. He's lived seventy years now and he was just finding out that he had a daughter. She didn't look very old, but if memory served she had to be about twenty three.
"Twenty three, almost four months ago," was her answer to his unspoken question.
He was startled by her ability to know his thoughts. He knew when Charles Xavier was trying to read his mind, why didn't he know when she was?
"The magnetic fields you keep up around this place on top of the increasing of my magnetic abilities strengthen my telepathy."
He nodded then. "Tell me everything."
She studied him. "There isn't much to tell, . . . Magneto," she used the name he liked to be called, trying to stay on an even keel with him. She couldn't be too personal with him.
"Tell me what there is then."
"I can only give you what I've taken from my grandmother's memory."
"If it's all that you know, then it's enough."
"My mother left you because she was afraid of what you might do to me. She wouldn't have you twist my mind, to the extent that I followed only what you wanted me to do. She expected that I would be as she would have been if she had had her father around. That it wouldn't have mattered what you were doing, because you were my father."
He closed his eyes. He never would have manipulated her mind, though he would have taught her to be like him, he knew.
Lizzy heard his thoughts but pressed on. "She loved you and had thought you had changed, but you'd only hidden what you were doing from her. Why you'd chosen her, a human she didn't know. And it bothered her that you could hate normal people and love her. Maybe that was why she ran as quickly as she had. She was sure that I would be a mutant, and she knew that she was helpless to stop you if you tried to manipulate my mind. She died giving birth to me, her human body was too weak." The change in his expression indicated pain, and her heart contricted. She knew little of him other than what she was speaking, but her heart constricted knowing that he was in pain. She took a deep breath and continued, "My mutations were strangely obvious from birth. I used to make things fly off the walls when I was a baby. My grandmother blocked out my mutations with her telepathy, until I was old enough to learn to do something about them. By that point she I had too much of a mind of my own for her to control my mutations with mental suggestions."
"That does not surprise me," Magneto said.
"My childhood wasn't easy. I fought to fit in, but faced the ridicule most children who aren't 'normal' do. I was an orphan, and a bastard, and they never let me forget it. I had about two friends in this whole world who could understand what I was going through, and neither of them live in the same country I do. (Okay, maybe she played on the guilt a little, but it was the truth of her life.) I'd struggled to keep my mutant gifts under control from about the time that I turned six. It's not easy on a grown person without training, can you imagine what it's like for a six year old?"
"No."
"I slipped about three years ago, I assume that's when you learned of my existence."
He nodded. "It was all over the news and I tracked down every mutant I could find. It was only when Sabretooth caught your scent that I knew for sure."
"As I figured. My grandmother contacted Charles Xavier shortly after the accident. They got together and decided I belonged at the mansion learning to use my gifts for the sake of all humanity. That's when we met for the first time."
"I remember."
"I'm sure. I spent a little over a year and a half there, learning to cope with and use my mutant powers. Through the training I received from Charles Xavier, I've learned how to cope with and use each new mutation as it develops, or makes itself obvious. It all has to do with the mind, you know?"
"Yes. You said only about eighteen months with Xavier. Where have you been hiding this last year? I've not been able to find you."
"Neither has Xavier." She touched a finger to her temple, just as he had done after the mutant registration hearing when he'd been talking to Charles. "Some things happened, which I'd rather not discuss, that caused a parting of ways between myself and the X-Men. I've spent the last year in Austria with a man that goes by the name Nightcrawler. Charles Xavier was a great help to me and I will always be thankful to him for that. Should you and he fight again, as you have so many times in the past, I will not interfere."
He nodded, in silent understanding. "How did you learn that I was your father?"
"My grandmother's memories. You met her, Evelyn Lockhart. My mother never hid her choices, mistakes or otherwise from her mother."
"You decided to find me because?"
"Like it or not, you're my father." She searched his eyes. "I deserve the chance to have a father, and for reasons we won't dive into, I was robbed of that."
Magneto stared at her. "You're just going to give me the chance to be your father? I don't even have to ask?"
"No, you don't. But you do have to decide whether or not you want to be my father. I deserve the chance to know you, to know who you are."
He nodded. "You do. If I had-."
She brought her hand up to silence him. "No. I don't want to hear promises of how different my life would have been if you had known about me. None of us can change the past, we have to forgive and move on."
~ ~ ~
Logan had had all he could take of the X-Men for a while. The last six months that Lizzy had been at the mansion had been the longest he'd stayed in an one place for any length of time. He'd been going every couple of weeks since she'd been gone. He'd just gotten back three days ago, and he was ready to go again.
"I know just how to whisper, and I know just how to cry; I know just where to find the answers; and I know just how to lie. I know just how to fake it, and I know just how to scheme; I know just when to face the truth, and then I know just when to dream. And I know just where to touch you, and I know just what to prove; I know when to pull you closer, and I know when to let you loose. And I know the night is fading, and I know that time's gonna fly; and I'm never gonna tell you everything I gotta tell you, but I know I've got to give it a try. And I the road to riches, and I know the ways to fame; I know all the rules and I know how to break 'em and I always know the name of the game. But I don't know how to leave you, and I'll never let you fall; but I don't know how you do it, making love out of nothing at all (Making love) out of nothing at all, (making love) out of nothing at all, (making love) out of nothing at all, (making love) out of nothing at all, (making love) out of nothing at all, (making love) out of nothing at all. every time I see you all the rays of the sun are streaming through the waves in your hair; and every star in the sky ia taking aim at your eyes like a spotlight, The beating of my heart is a drum, and it's lost and it's looking for a rhythm like you. You can take the darkness from the pit of the night and turn it into a beacon burning endlessly bright. I've got to follow it, 'cause everything I know, well it's nothing till I give it to you. I can make the run or stumble, I can make the final block; And I can make every tackle, at the sound of the whistle, I can male all the stadiums rock. I can make tonight forever, Or I can make it disappear by the dawn; And I cane make you every promise that has ever been made, And I can make all your demons be gone. But I'm never gonna make it without you, Do you really want to see me crawl? And I'm never gonna make it like you do, Making love out of nothing at all. (Making love) out of nothing at all, (making love) out of nothing at all, (making love) out of nothing at all, (making love) out of nothing at all, (making love) out of nothing at all, (making love) out of nothing at all, (Making love)."
He had to come to terms with how he felt about the professor's granddaughter. He didn't like the way things had turned out. If he could go back in time, he'd change it. He hated that one woman could affect him so much! She'd left, and left him torn apart. He actually knew now what she'd felt like when he'd said what he had. It was no joke when she'd said that their 'activites' had been a mistake. If they'd listened to their better consciences they wouldn't be in this mess. He wouldn't be in this mess!
"I'm lying alone with my head on the phone, thinking of you 'til it hurts. I know you hurt too, but what else can we do, tormented and torn apart. I wish I could carry your smile in my heart for times when my life seems so low. It would make me believe what tomorrow could bring. When today doesn't really know, Doesn't really know. *I'm all out of love, I'm so lost without you, I know you were right, believing for so long. I'm all out of love, what am I without you, I can't be too late to say that I was so wrong* I want you to come back and carry me home, Away from these long, lonely nights. I'm reaching for you. Are you feeling it too? Does the feeling seem oh, so right? And what would you say if I called on you now, and said that I can't hold on? There's no easy way, it gets harder each day, Please love me or I'll be gone. I'll be gone. I'm . . .* *. What are you thinking of? What are you thinking of? What are you thinking of? * *."
He grabbed his bag, and began stuffing it with some clean clothes. Jubilee and Kitty were good at playing the same kind of music Lizzy had been into. The soft rock stuff, and eighties, or whatever you wanted to call it. It didn't have to be loud for him to hear it, but it seemed like every time he came back they turned it up louder and louder as they played it. He was getting to the point when he really hated it. Almost every song they played reminded him of her, or their nights together.
"Here I am, playing with those memories again; and just when I thought time had set me free, those thoughts of you keep taunting me. Holding you; a feeling I never outgrew, though each and every part of me has tried, only you can fill that space inside. So there's no sense pretending, my heart it's not mending. Just when I thought I was over you, and just when I thought I could stand on my own, oh, Baby, those memories come crashing through; and I just can't go on without you. On my own; I've tried to make the best of it alone. I've done everything I can to ease the pain, but only you can stop the rain. I just can't live without you; I miss everything about you. Just when I thought I was over you, and just when I thought I could stand on my own. Oh, Baby, those memories come crashing through, and I just can't go on without you, go on without you, It's just no good without . . . you. Without you, Without you, Without you, Without you."
"I, I was the lonely one, Wondering what went wrong, Why love had gone and left me lonely. I, I was so confused, Feelin' like I'd just been used, Then you came to me and my loneliness left me. I used to think I was tied to a heartache, That was the heartbreak, but now that I found you. *Even the nights are better, now that we're here together; Even the nights are better since I found you. Oh, even the days are brighter when someone you love's beside ya; Even the nights are better since I found you.* You, You know just what to do, Cause you had been lonely too, And you showed me how to ease the pain. And you did more than mend a broken heart, Cause now you've made a fire start, And I, I can see that you feel the same way. -I never dreamed there's be someone to hold me, Until you told me, and now that I found you. * * - - * * Oh, even the nights are better, Now that we're here together, Even the nights are better since I found you."
"Now the night has gone, now the night has gone away; doesn't seem that long; we hardly had two words to say. Hold me in your arms for just another day, I promise this one will go slow; Oh, we have the right you know; we have the right you know. Don't say the morning's come, don't say the morning's come so soon, Must we end this way, when so much here is hard to lose? Love is everywhere; I know it is; such moments as this are too few; oh, it's all up to you; it's all up to you. *Here I am the one that you love, asking for another day; understand the one that you love, loves you in so many ways.* Tell me we can stay, tell me we can stay, oh, please. They are the words to say, The only words I can believe. Hold me in your arms for just another day, I promise this one will go slow; oh, We have the right you know; We have the right you know. * * The night has gone a part of yesterday, I don't know what to say, I don't know what to say. * *."
"I open my eyes I see your face. I can not hide, I can't erase the way you make me feel inside. You complete me, girl that's why something about you makes me feel, baby my heart wants to reveal, I'm down on my knees I'm asking you. Said these three words I wanna hear from you. Yes I will, take your hand and walk with you. Yes, I will, say these words I promise too, Yes, I will, give you everything you need and someday start a family with you. Yes, I will, take your hand and walk with you. Yes, I will, baby I promise you, Yes, I will, give you everything you need and some day start a family with you. Yes, I will. Oh, baby. This is no ordinary love, and I can never have enough of all the things you've given to me. You're my heart, my soul, my everything. Every night I'm thankin' the Lord. Thank you, Lord for giving me the strength to love her more and more each day. I promise her, as long as I hear those three words. Yes I will, take your hand and walk with you. Yes, I will, say these words I promise too, Yes, I will, give you everything you need and someday start a family with you. Yes, I will, take your hand and walk with you. Yes, I will, baby I promise you, Yes, I will, give you everything you need and some day start a family with you. I stand beside you in everything you do, baby, wherever you go, whatever you do, baby I'll be there. As God as my witness I will carry this through. Together as part of my promise to you. Yes I will, take your hand and walk with you. Yes, I will, say these words I promise too, Yes, I will, give you everything you need and someday start a family with you. Yes, I will, take your hand and walk with you. Yes, I will, baby I promise you, Yes, I will, give you everything you need and some day start a family with you. Yes, I will.(it's gonna be all right)."
"How can I convince you what you see is real? Who am I to blame you for doubting what you feel? I was always reaching, you were just a girl I know, I took for granted the friend I have in you. I was living for a dream, loving for a moment; taking on the world, that was just my style, Now I look into your eyes and I can see forever, The search is over you were with me all the while. Can we last forever? Or do we fall apart? At times it's so confusing, the questions of the heart. You followed me through changes, and patiently you'd wait, 'til I came to my sense through some miracle of fate. I was living for a dream, loving for a moment; taking on the world, that was just my style, now I look into your eyes and I can see forever. The search is over you were with me all the while. Now the miles stretch out behind me, loves that I have lost. Broken hearts lie victims of the game. Then good luck, it finally struck like lightning from the blue. Every highway's leading me back to you. Now at last I hold you, now all is said and done. The search has come full circle, our destiny's are one. So if you ever loved me, show me that you give a damn. We'll know for certain, the man I really am. I was living for a dream, loving for a moment, taking on the world, that was just my style, Then I touched your hand, I could hear you whisper the search is over, love was right before my eyes."
"I've got a picture of your house, and you're standing by the door. It's black and white and faded it's lookin' pretty worn. I see the factory that I worked, silhouetted in the back. The memories are grey, but they're really coming back. I don't need to be the king of the world, as long as I'm the hero of this little girl heaven isn't too far away; closer to it every day, no matter what your friends might say. How I love the way you move, and the sparkle in your eyes. There's a color deep inside, like the blue suburban sky. But when I come home late at night, and you're in bed asleep, and I wrap my arms around you, so I can feel you breath. I don't need to be a super man as long as you will always be my biggest fan. Heaven isn't too far away, closer to it everyday, no matter what your friends might say, we'll find our way. Whoa yeah. Now the lights are going out along the bullevard, memories come rushing back and it makes it pretty hard. Well, I got nowhere left to go and noone really cares. I don't know what to do, but I'm never givin' up on you. Heaven isn't too far away, closer to it every day. No matter what your friends say, I know we're gonna find a way. Heaven; it's not too far away. (Fade)"
"When the night has come and the land is dark, and the moon is the only light we'll see. I won't be afraid, nooo I won't be afraid, just as long as you stand, stand by me. So, Darlin', Darlin' stand by me, oh, stand, stand by me. Stand by me, stand by me. If the sky that we look upon should tumble and fall or the mountains should crumble to the sea, I won't cry, I won't cry, no I won't shed a tear, just as long as you stand, stand by me. So, Darlin', Darlin' stand by me. Oh, stand by me. Whoa stand, stand by me. Stand by me. Stand by me. Darlin', Darlin' stand by me. Oh, stand by me. Stand by me, stand by me. Whenever you're in trouble, won't you stand by me, Oh, stand by me. Oh, stand, stand by me."
"Where have all the good men gone and where are all the gods? Where's the street wise Hercules to fight the rising odds? Isn't there a white knight upon a fiery steed? Late at night I todd and I turn and I dream of what I need. I need a hero, I'm holding out a hero for a hero 'til the end of the night He's gotta be strong and he's gotta be fast and he's gotta be fresh from the fight. I need a hero I'm holding out for a hero 'til the morning light, He's gotta be sure and he's gotta be soon and he's gotta be larger that life. Somewhere after midnight, in my wildest fantasy Somewhere just beyond my reach is someone reaching back at me. Racing on the thunder and rising with the heat. It's gonna take a super man to sweep me off my feet. I need a hero, I'm holding out a hero for a hero 'til the end of the night He's gotta be strong and he's gotta be fast and he's gotta be fresh from the fight. I need a hero I'm holding out for a hero 'til the morning light, He's gotta be sure and he's gotta be soon and he's gotta be larger that life. I need a hero I'm holding out for a hero 'til the end of the night. Up where the moon meets the heavens above out where the lightening splits the sea I can swear there is someone somewhere watching me. Through the wind and the chill in the rain I'm just starting to fly. I can feel his approach like a fire in my blood. I need a hero, I'm holding out a hero for a hero 'til the end of the night He's gotta be strong and he's gotta be fast and he's gotta be fresh from the fight. I need a hero I'm holding out for a hero 'til the morning light, He's gotta be sure and he's gotta be soon and he's gotta be larger that life. I need a hero, I'm holding out a hero for a hero 'til the end of the night He's gotta be strong and he's gotta be fast and he's gotta be fresh from the fight. I need a hero I'm holding out for a hero 'til the morning light, He's gotta be sure and he's gotta be soon and he's gotta be larger that life. I need a hero I'm holding out for a hero 'til the end of the night."
"Looking in your eyes, I see a paradise This world that I found is too good to be true. Standing here beside you; want so much to give you this love in my heart that I'm feeling for you." "Let 'em say we're crazy, I don't care about that. Put your hand in my hand, Baby, don't ever look back. Let the world around us just fall apart, Baby, we can make it if we're heart-to- heart." "And we can build this dream together standing strong forever. Nothing's gonna stop us now. And if this world runs out of lovers we'll still have each other. Nothing's gonna stop us, nothing's gonna stop us now." "I'm so glad I found you; I'm not gonna lose you. Whatever it takes, I will stay here with you. Take it through the good times, see you through the bad times. Whatever it takes is what I'm gonna do." "Let 'em say we're crazy. What do they know? Put your arms around me, Baby, don't ever let go. Let the world around us just fall apart, Baby, we can make it if we're heart-to-heart." "And we can build this dream together, standing strong forever. Nothing's gonna stop us now. And if this world runs out of lovers, we'll still have each other. Nothing's gonna stop us, nothing's gonna stop us." "Ooo, all that I need is you." "All that I ever need." "And all that I want to do." "Is hold you forever; ever and ever. And we can build this dream together standing strong forever. Nothing's gonna stop us now. And if this world runs out of lovers, we'll still have each other. Nothing's gonna stop us, nothing's gonna stop us, (fade)."
"Oceans apart, day after day, and I slowly go insane. I hear your voice on the line, but it doesn't stop the pain. If I see you next to never, how can we say forever? Wherever you go, whatever you do, I will be right here waiting for you. Whatever it takes or how my heart breaks, I will be right here waiting for you. I took for granted all the times, that I thought would last somehow. I hear the laughter, I taste the tears, but I can't get near you now. Oh, can't you see it, Baby, you've got me going crazy. Wherever you go, whatever you do, I will be right here waiting for you. Whatever it takes or how my heart breaks I will be right here waiting for you. I wonder how we can survive this romance. But in the end if I'm with you, I'll take the chance. Oh, can't you see it, Baby, you've got me going crazy. Wherever you go, whatever you do, I will be right here waiting for you. Whatever it takes, or how my heart breaks I will be right here waiting for you. Waiting for you."
"Shut that d--- s--- off!" He screamed.
Kitty phased through the wall. "If you don't like it, take off again! You seem to be getting better and better at that!"
He growled, and the music got louder.
"I realize the best part of love is the thinnest slice, and it don't count for much but I'm not letting go, I believe there's too much to believe in. So lift your eyes if you feel you can Reach for a star and I'll show you a plan. I've figured it out, what I needed was someone to show me. You know you can't fool me I've been loving you too long It started so easy you want to carry on, carry on. Lost in Love and I don't know much, Was I thinking aloud and fell out of touch? But I'm back on my feet, and eager to be what you wanted. So lift your eyes if you feel you can Reach for a star and I'll show you a plan. I've figured it out, what I needed was someone to show me. You know you can't fool me I've been loving you too long It started so easy you want to carry on, carry on. Lost in Love and I don't know much, Was I thinking aloud and fell out of touch? But I'm back on my feet, and eager to be what you wanted. You know you can't fool me I've been loving you too long It started so easy you want to carry on, carry on. Lost in Love and I don't know much, Was I thinking aloud and fell out of touch? But I'm back on my feet, and eager to be what you wanted. Now I'm lost Lost in love Lost in love Lost in love Now I'm lost I'm lost in love (fade)."
Slinging his bag over his shoulder, Logan left his room, on his way out of the mansion. He needed to get away as quick as possible. And he'd be d----- if Lizzy was gonna stay gone from their lives. If it took the rest of his life, he was gonna find her and bring her kicking and screaming back to the mansion, and back to him. She wasn't gonna leave him like this! He wouldn't let her!
~ ~ ~
Jubilee ran to the window, and peered out of it. She turned back to look at Rogue and Kitty. "He's leaving again!"
"Good," Rogue said.
"What," Kitty demanded.
Rogue looked at her. "Maybe he's gotten the picture. Ain't nobody gonna convince me that that man ain't in love with the professor's granddaughter. Maybe if he goes lookin' fer her and finds her and kisses her butt, she'll come back. She left 'cause he broke her heart!"
"Really," Kitty asked, sitting back down on the bed. "I knew he yelled at her, but I didn't know he'd broken her heart! I didn't know there was anything between them."
"Ah was the only one that did, and it only started three days before she left. The point is, Kitty-Kat that he broke her heart. He's hurtin' too, Ah can see it. Just let him hunt her up. Who knows what might happen. Ah think, they'd make a cute couple."
Jubilee kind of smiled. "That explains, why I thought I saw her going into his room in the wee hours of the morning the day she left."
Rogue looked at her. "Yah just keep your mouth shut about that. They both said it was a mistake to be doing what they were, and look at the heart ache it caused! Just worry about getting your home work done."
"What is it with you," Jubilee asked studying her. "You've changed too."
"Just mind your business, Jube." Rogue turned her attention back to her book, silently praying that Logan had left in search of Lizzy. They made such a cute couple.