1 Future Past
Author's Notes: We'll see how Jubilee reacts to being back home, before everything was lost. *Means thoughts.
Disclaimer: The X-men are not mine.
Jubilee stood patiently waiting, while Nathan Dayspring set the coordinates to his time traveling machine. Ironically enough, she was going to kill herself only moments ago. Her life seemed so meaningless and empty, that she had been ready to end it all. Sabretooth had killed her children. Wolvie was gone, and she had to kill her husband. Everything that she had ever loved was gone, taken away from her with no way of ever returning.
Of course that was before Cable came with his time traveling machine. He informed her that the Sabretooth from her time, traveled back to the past, with plans of meeting himself. He planed on causing all kinds of chaos and destruction to any that stepped in his way. She couldn't allow the madman, who killed her children, to travel back to the past to undo everything before it even began.
Thoughts of Sabretooth going after Charles sent a wave of panic throughout her body.
She may have had to kill Charles, but she would be damned if she allowed him to kill Charles instead. She may have lost her love for her husband, but that man gave her two beautiful daughters. They were two beautiful women, taken in their prime. Jubilee refused to allow Sabretooth to steal her babies from her again.
*No. He's not going to steal my babies away from me a second time.
If there was anything left in this world that motivated her to stay alive, was the knowledge of knowing that Sabreooth was out there.
It seemed like she had been waiting for five minutes, before Nathan grabbed her hand. He pulled her into a large vortex, which shimmered a bright blue light. It appeared to resemble waves in the sea. The ride wasn't like anything she ever felt before. Ever molecule in her body tingled with sensations that she couldn't describe. It was like all of her emotions were balled up into one single emotion. It was just that powerful. She felt joy, sorrow, pain, and so many other feelings. She could barely deal with them all at once. It was too much, and doubted that people like Bishop and Cable really enjoyed these frequent jumps through time.
As soon as she felt like she couldn't stand it anymore, they went through the end of the portal. The portal was raised up in the sky. When they came out of the portal, they fell on the ground with a loud thud.
"I thought you knew how to work that thing?" Jubilee said rubbing her sore rear end.
"I do, I got us here, didn't I?"
"Well since you managed the skill of getting us here, why don't you work on that landing a little?"
Nathan laughed to himself, remembering everything that his father had told him about her. She was still the same, only her outward appearance had changed a great deal. He remembered her as a short spunky kid, with her haircut almost as short as his. Then he remembered that loud yellow jacket, clumpy glasses, and pink boots and earrings.
He noticed that now she definitely looked more grown up. Her short hair was now longer. She was forty-eight, and the grayness in her hair was beginning to show up all over her head. She didn't have many wrinkles, and was still quite attractive for her age. The only wrinkles that she had, was lying right under her eyes, from years of laughing and crying. From what he could gather, lately she had been crying a little too much.
He watched her as she got back on her feet, and dusted her pants off. He had never really noticed her before, and guessed it was because she had been just a kid in his time. Only it wasn't the time that he was born in. Scott Summers was his dad, and before he was even born Jubilee was already a full fledge member of the X-Men. The only reason why he was in the past was because his dopleganger had traveled to the past. Strife was his name, and he was bent on destroying Nathan. Strife traveled back to the past, to kill Nathan, when he was a baby. He had almost succeeded, but he didn't. The very thought of Strife trying change the past was enough to make Nathan succeeded in destroying him. So he was already familiar with the kind of damage that Sabretooth could bring if he was allowed to stay.
He looked back at Jubilee, who was staring at him oddly. She wasn't saying a thing, and Nathan just let his thoughts take control of his mind again. He wondered how he could look so old, and how she could retain her youthful glow. In fact he was really younger than she was, but now he stood in front of her with hair as white as snow. Her hair still had flecks of black in it. She was without a doubt beautiful in every right. She had lost everything that she ever cared for, but she didn't let it wear her down. Not physically anyway, but emotionally she was coming apart.
If there's one thing that time has taught him, was to cherish what you had while you have it, because soon you won't have it anymore. He suddenly realized that this young woman had lost it all. He realized that time waits for no man. So he snapped out of his daydreams, and looked at the raven- haired beauty.
"So we are going to get out of here, or what?" He said looking over his shoulder making sure that no one had spotted them. They started walking in the direction of the large mansion, which still wasn't in sight.
"I was just going to ask you the same thing. Thought I lost you for a moment there."
"Nope. I was just thinking."
"Well can we walk and talk at the same time? Sabretooth won't sit around waiting for us to finish our lovely little conversation."
"Oh yeah. First let me send Xavier a psi message to let him know that we're here."
"Charles?" She said with a quiver in her voice. The mansion came into view, and her heart started beating rapidly.
"It'll be alright. Just remember that I'll be shielding your thoughts, so don't you worry about that alright."
"Charles is one of the greatest telepaths in the world. So how do you intend to shield my thoughts from someone as powerful as him?"
"Charles is from this time, and I am not. He may be the greatest telepath of this time period, but all good things must come to an end."
"You sure sound confident of yourself."
"Me? No actually I'm not all that confidant. Fact is I'm scared shitless."
"Please don't curse." They finally walked to the large wooden door, and glanced at each other.
"Sorry. Look I know what I am capable of, and shielding your thoughts will be a piece of cake. I wouldn't have suggested it, if I knew I couldn't do it. We're here. Are you ready to go inside, because Charles will be waiting on the other side of this door, and there will be no turning back once we're inside."
"Yeah I'm ready. I'm just scared…"
"Shitless?"
"Yeah I'm scared shitless too."
"Just pretend that he was never you're husband, as think of him as only your mentor. O.K."
"I can do that. Think of him as my mentor, that can be done. So can we go now, times wasting?"
They walked into the back door, that lead straight to Charles office. It took them no time before they were in the old stuffy office. Jubilee's heart was caught in her throat, as she finally saw the professor's back. He was still sitting in the old hovercraft wheelchair that he bought, in order to get around the mansion quickly.
When Charles heard noises coming from the rear passageway, he turned his wheelchair around. He looked at the face of Nathan Dayspring first, and then his eyes finally rested on Jubilee. His eyes roamed up and down her body, that sent a wave of old feelings for him to come rushing back to Jubilee. His eyes were as blue as the ocean, and when he smiled she froze in her place. He sat there mesmerized that his little Jubilee had grown up to be such a beautiful woman. He was sure that he was staring, so he opened his mouth and begins to speak.
"Jubilation. You have no idea how good it is to see you. We have been expecting you. I'm pretty sure Nathan has given you the lowdown on our situation here. Sabretooth needs to be stopped. You're our only hope. If you decide for whatever reason, that you no longer wish to do this, then do not hesitate to let us know. Nathan will aid you on your mission; so brief him with everything that you know about Sabretooth. As you may already know, I'll provide you with anything that you may need. You also have full access of the danger room, but only during school hours. I have arranged for you to sleep near my quarters, that way you won't be disturbed by anybody here at the school. If you have any questions, don't hesitate to ask. Nathan why don't you take Jubilee to her quarters, as quietly as you can. Oh and Jubilee."
"Yeah." She said suddenly becoming more self-conscious about her appearance.
"It's good to have you back home." He said smiling at her like he used to whenever she made him happy.
"Thanks." She said and then she just stood there.
Everything went silent, as she stared into his beautiful blue eyes. She lowered her eyes until; she spotted the cleft under his chin. It was a spot that she had always loved; it was without a doubt her favorite spot.
When they were married, she would kiss the tender spot under his chin. It became her favorite spot, after they had watched a movie called Angel Eyes with Jennifer Lopez. In the movie Jennifer asked her boyfriend to kiss a spot that had never been kissed before.
As a joke she looked at Charles and told him to do the exact same thing, and he did. He had kissed the underside of her underarm, causing her to twist and turn around with laughter. When she finally composed herself, he looked seriously into her eyes and said you next. That's when she kissed his cleft. Her favorite spot, and her favorite memory.
She was suddenly awakened from her memories, when she felt a strong tug on her arm. She looked up, and met Nathan's angry gaze. He pulled on her arm, until she voluntarily started walking. He looked over at Charles, and begins to speak.
"Thanks Charles. I'll let you know if we need anything."
They walked out of the room, and went to a small elevator. No body knew about this elevator, including Jubilee. This was her first time ever seeing it. She thought about all the parties she could've went to if she had known about it earlier.
The elevator doors opened and they stepped inside. Nathan pressed the numbers, and turned around to glare at Jubilee.
"What?" Jubilee said now confused as to the turn of his mood.
" Don't ever do that again!"
"Do what?"
"You know exactly what you did. I nearly fried my brain trying to shield your thoughts from him."
"I thought that you said that you were capable of shielding my thoughts?"
"I am, and that's beside the point. I mean I can shield your thoughts fine, but when you start staring at people like you lost your mind. I had to send him a message that the only reason that you were staring, was because you hadn't seen him in so long. I can cover your mind, but as for actions that's another thing."
"Gee, you act like I was staring for an hour or something.
"Close enough. It was roughly five minutes. The poor man looked like he was about to have a heart attack.
"Sorry. It won't happen again."
"It better not."
"So where are we going?"
"Weren't you listening? We're going to your, no correction our room."
"What, this is a mansion. What exactly do you mean our room?"
"Charles only had two bedrooms in his quarters. One is his room, and the other is ours."
"Why can't you just sleep downstairs or something?"
"We need to stay close to each other. No one knows about you here. If you were to get in trouble than I want to be somewhere around when it does."
"This is totally not fair."
"Don't get your thongs in a bunch."
"How do you know that I wear thongs?"
"Please, who still wears panties?"
"Guess you got a point, but I still don't like it."
"Calm down will you. There is going to be two beds, and it's been arranged so that we each can get some level of privacy."
"Oh."
"After you put your things away, we will go to the danger room. It's time to see if you still have what it takes to be an X-Man."
"You'd be surprised at the things that I'm capable of, old man."
"Just remember whose older here missy."
"Missy? I think that you just proven your own point buddy."
"Ha ha. Laugh it off honey, you're still the oldest."
They went into their room, and sat their things down. They put on their fighting clothes and headed down to the danger room. Classes had begun only moments ago, which meant that the majority of the X-Men would be teaching classes. However both knew that it was time to get serious, and so they headed to the danger room. They prepared to train like never before, because time was running out. Not only that, but they had to literally stop a madman.
Author's Notes: We'll see how Jubilee reacts to being back home, before everything was lost. *Means thoughts.
Disclaimer: The X-men are not mine.
Jubilee stood patiently waiting, while Nathan Dayspring set the coordinates to his time traveling machine. Ironically enough, she was going to kill herself only moments ago. Her life seemed so meaningless and empty, that she had been ready to end it all. Sabretooth had killed her children. Wolvie was gone, and she had to kill her husband. Everything that she had ever loved was gone, taken away from her with no way of ever returning.
Of course that was before Cable came with his time traveling machine. He informed her that the Sabretooth from her time, traveled back to the past, with plans of meeting himself. He planed on causing all kinds of chaos and destruction to any that stepped in his way. She couldn't allow the madman, who killed her children, to travel back to the past to undo everything before it even began.
Thoughts of Sabretooth going after Charles sent a wave of panic throughout her body.
She may have had to kill Charles, but she would be damned if she allowed him to kill Charles instead. She may have lost her love for her husband, but that man gave her two beautiful daughters. They were two beautiful women, taken in their prime. Jubilee refused to allow Sabretooth to steal her babies from her again.
*No. He's not going to steal my babies away from me a second time.
If there was anything left in this world that motivated her to stay alive, was the knowledge of knowing that Sabreooth was out there.
It seemed like she had been waiting for five minutes, before Nathan grabbed her hand. He pulled her into a large vortex, which shimmered a bright blue light. It appeared to resemble waves in the sea. The ride wasn't like anything she ever felt before. Ever molecule in her body tingled with sensations that she couldn't describe. It was like all of her emotions were balled up into one single emotion. It was just that powerful. She felt joy, sorrow, pain, and so many other feelings. She could barely deal with them all at once. It was too much, and doubted that people like Bishop and Cable really enjoyed these frequent jumps through time.
As soon as she felt like she couldn't stand it anymore, they went through the end of the portal. The portal was raised up in the sky. When they came out of the portal, they fell on the ground with a loud thud.
"I thought you knew how to work that thing?" Jubilee said rubbing her sore rear end.
"I do, I got us here, didn't I?"
"Well since you managed the skill of getting us here, why don't you work on that landing a little?"
Nathan laughed to himself, remembering everything that his father had told him about her. She was still the same, only her outward appearance had changed a great deal. He remembered her as a short spunky kid, with her haircut almost as short as his. Then he remembered that loud yellow jacket, clumpy glasses, and pink boots and earrings.
He noticed that now she definitely looked more grown up. Her short hair was now longer. She was forty-eight, and the grayness in her hair was beginning to show up all over her head. She didn't have many wrinkles, and was still quite attractive for her age. The only wrinkles that she had, was lying right under her eyes, from years of laughing and crying. From what he could gather, lately she had been crying a little too much.
He watched her as she got back on her feet, and dusted her pants off. He had never really noticed her before, and guessed it was because she had been just a kid in his time. Only it wasn't the time that he was born in. Scott Summers was his dad, and before he was even born Jubilee was already a full fledge member of the X-Men. The only reason why he was in the past was because his dopleganger had traveled to the past. Strife was his name, and he was bent on destroying Nathan. Strife traveled back to the past, to kill Nathan, when he was a baby. He had almost succeeded, but he didn't. The very thought of Strife trying change the past was enough to make Nathan succeeded in destroying him. So he was already familiar with the kind of damage that Sabretooth could bring if he was allowed to stay.
He looked back at Jubilee, who was staring at him oddly. She wasn't saying a thing, and Nathan just let his thoughts take control of his mind again. He wondered how he could look so old, and how she could retain her youthful glow. In fact he was really younger than she was, but now he stood in front of her with hair as white as snow. Her hair still had flecks of black in it. She was without a doubt beautiful in every right. She had lost everything that she ever cared for, but she didn't let it wear her down. Not physically anyway, but emotionally she was coming apart.
If there's one thing that time has taught him, was to cherish what you had while you have it, because soon you won't have it anymore. He suddenly realized that this young woman had lost it all. He realized that time waits for no man. So he snapped out of his daydreams, and looked at the raven- haired beauty.
"So we are going to get out of here, or what?" He said looking over his shoulder making sure that no one had spotted them. They started walking in the direction of the large mansion, which still wasn't in sight.
"I was just going to ask you the same thing. Thought I lost you for a moment there."
"Nope. I was just thinking."
"Well can we walk and talk at the same time? Sabretooth won't sit around waiting for us to finish our lovely little conversation."
"Oh yeah. First let me send Xavier a psi message to let him know that we're here."
"Charles?" She said with a quiver in her voice. The mansion came into view, and her heart started beating rapidly.
"It'll be alright. Just remember that I'll be shielding your thoughts, so don't you worry about that alright."
"Charles is one of the greatest telepaths in the world. So how do you intend to shield my thoughts from someone as powerful as him?"
"Charles is from this time, and I am not. He may be the greatest telepath of this time period, but all good things must come to an end."
"You sure sound confident of yourself."
"Me? No actually I'm not all that confidant. Fact is I'm scared shitless."
"Please don't curse." They finally walked to the large wooden door, and glanced at each other.
"Sorry. Look I know what I am capable of, and shielding your thoughts will be a piece of cake. I wouldn't have suggested it, if I knew I couldn't do it. We're here. Are you ready to go inside, because Charles will be waiting on the other side of this door, and there will be no turning back once we're inside."
"Yeah I'm ready. I'm just scared…"
"Shitless?"
"Yeah I'm scared shitless too."
"Just pretend that he was never you're husband, as think of him as only your mentor. O.K."
"I can do that. Think of him as my mentor, that can be done. So can we go now, times wasting?"
They walked into the back door, that lead straight to Charles office. It took them no time before they were in the old stuffy office. Jubilee's heart was caught in her throat, as she finally saw the professor's back. He was still sitting in the old hovercraft wheelchair that he bought, in order to get around the mansion quickly.
When Charles heard noises coming from the rear passageway, he turned his wheelchair around. He looked at the face of Nathan Dayspring first, and then his eyes finally rested on Jubilee. His eyes roamed up and down her body, that sent a wave of old feelings for him to come rushing back to Jubilee. His eyes were as blue as the ocean, and when he smiled she froze in her place. He sat there mesmerized that his little Jubilee had grown up to be such a beautiful woman. He was sure that he was staring, so he opened his mouth and begins to speak.
"Jubilation. You have no idea how good it is to see you. We have been expecting you. I'm pretty sure Nathan has given you the lowdown on our situation here. Sabretooth needs to be stopped. You're our only hope. If you decide for whatever reason, that you no longer wish to do this, then do not hesitate to let us know. Nathan will aid you on your mission; so brief him with everything that you know about Sabretooth. As you may already know, I'll provide you with anything that you may need. You also have full access of the danger room, but only during school hours. I have arranged for you to sleep near my quarters, that way you won't be disturbed by anybody here at the school. If you have any questions, don't hesitate to ask. Nathan why don't you take Jubilee to her quarters, as quietly as you can. Oh and Jubilee."
"Yeah." She said suddenly becoming more self-conscious about her appearance.
"It's good to have you back home." He said smiling at her like he used to whenever she made him happy.
"Thanks." She said and then she just stood there.
Everything went silent, as she stared into his beautiful blue eyes. She lowered her eyes until; she spotted the cleft under his chin. It was a spot that she had always loved; it was without a doubt her favorite spot.
When they were married, she would kiss the tender spot under his chin. It became her favorite spot, after they had watched a movie called Angel Eyes with Jennifer Lopez. In the movie Jennifer asked her boyfriend to kiss a spot that had never been kissed before.
As a joke she looked at Charles and told him to do the exact same thing, and he did. He had kissed the underside of her underarm, causing her to twist and turn around with laughter. When she finally composed herself, he looked seriously into her eyes and said you next. That's when she kissed his cleft. Her favorite spot, and her favorite memory.
She was suddenly awakened from her memories, when she felt a strong tug on her arm. She looked up, and met Nathan's angry gaze. He pulled on her arm, until she voluntarily started walking. He looked over at Charles, and begins to speak.
"Thanks Charles. I'll let you know if we need anything."
They walked out of the room, and went to a small elevator. No body knew about this elevator, including Jubilee. This was her first time ever seeing it. She thought about all the parties she could've went to if she had known about it earlier.
The elevator doors opened and they stepped inside. Nathan pressed the numbers, and turned around to glare at Jubilee.
"What?" Jubilee said now confused as to the turn of his mood.
" Don't ever do that again!"
"Do what?"
"You know exactly what you did. I nearly fried my brain trying to shield your thoughts from him."
"I thought that you said that you were capable of shielding my thoughts?"
"I am, and that's beside the point. I mean I can shield your thoughts fine, but when you start staring at people like you lost your mind. I had to send him a message that the only reason that you were staring, was because you hadn't seen him in so long. I can cover your mind, but as for actions that's another thing."
"Gee, you act like I was staring for an hour or something.
"Close enough. It was roughly five minutes. The poor man looked like he was about to have a heart attack.
"Sorry. It won't happen again."
"It better not."
"So where are we going?"
"Weren't you listening? We're going to your, no correction our room."
"What, this is a mansion. What exactly do you mean our room?"
"Charles only had two bedrooms in his quarters. One is his room, and the other is ours."
"Why can't you just sleep downstairs or something?"
"We need to stay close to each other. No one knows about you here. If you were to get in trouble than I want to be somewhere around when it does."
"This is totally not fair."
"Don't get your thongs in a bunch."
"How do you know that I wear thongs?"
"Please, who still wears panties?"
"Guess you got a point, but I still don't like it."
"Calm down will you. There is going to be two beds, and it's been arranged so that we each can get some level of privacy."
"Oh."
"After you put your things away, we will go to the danger room. It's time to see if you still have what it takes to be an X-Man."
"You'd be surprised at the things that I'm capable of, old man."
"Just remember whose older here missy."
"Missy? I think that you just proven your own point buddy."
"Ha ha. Laugh it off honey, you're still the oldest."
They went into their room, and sat their things down. They put on their fighting clothes and headed down to the danger room. Classes had begun only moments ago, which meant that the majority of the X-Men would be teaching classes. However both knew that it was time to get serious, and so they headed to the danger room. They prepared to train like never before, because time was running out. Not only that, but they had to literally stop a madman.