Chapter 3, woohoo! I hope you like it!
Disclaimer: Jeez, do I have to say this EVERY chapter? Grrr… ok, I don't own the X-men.
Enjoy!
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Darkside's eyes flickered open. Seven swirly blobs looked down at her. She blinked and rubbed her eyes. The Seven blobs turned into seven faces. Seven X-men faces.
"Hey there." Storm spoke, her long white hair tied up off her face. Darkside panicked, trying to camouflage into the bed she was laid on. But a searing pain shot through her stomach, totally taking her breath away. Looking down, she saw that someone had placed a bandage over her wounds. "Are you feeling ok?" Storm tried again to make conversation.
"Why are you being so nice to her?" Logan hissed, glaring down at her. "She tried to kill me."
"I did not." Darkside snapped, nodding at her wounds. "I'd say it was the other away around."
"Wolverine has a short temper." Storm explained.
"I do not!" Logan snapped again. The others ignored him.
"Can you tell us your name please?" Rogue asked. Darkside looked her up and down distastefully.
"Mel." She answered finally.
"Ok, Mel." Scott adjusted his glasses. "We need to ask you a few questions."
"Like…"
"Who's that freak you came with?" Logan cut back in. Darkside lowered her head, keeping her mouth tightly shut.
"What we really want to know, Mel, is where Ben is." Professor Xavier rolled closer to the side of the bed. "I have tried to track him, but he must be using the helmet from Cerebro to keep me away."
"I can't." Darkside answered simply.
"We just want to know if he's hiding in the school or not." Scott asked. "To know if the children are safe."
Darkside eyed them all carefully. "You know, wolf-man here's right… why are you being so nice to me? Why didn't you just leave me to die?"
"We don't leave people to die out of cold blood." Xavier shook his head. Both Darkside and Logan snorted.
"Try telling Ben that." She muttered. "You left his family to die."
"We're not gonna get any information out of her." Logan said, stepping closer. "And we sure as hell can't let her go back to that lunatic. What're we gonna do with her instead?"
"Logan…" Rogue frowned at him and turned back to Darkside. "Isn't there anything you can tell us? We're not going to hurt you… again."
But Darkside shut her mouth and rolled over away from them, ignoring the pain in her stomach. Her eyes fell on Nightcrawler, who had been silent for the whole conversation. He gave her a nervous smile and Darkside was sure that, if his skin hadn't been blue, he'd be blushing.
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Ben paced up and down the vacant room that he was using as a hiding place for that day. He would change rooms each day so that the X-men couldn't find him. It was a good job the school was so large.
He knew that Darkside was still alive, he'd stuck around long enough to watch Wolverine take her to the medical unit. He would wait until it was night, then it would probably be safe to go down to her. Even with his powers, it would be hard to survive an attack from all of the X-men at once, especially now that Wolverine found out about his potentially fatal weakness.
He continued to pace, adjusting the silver helmet he'd stolen from Cerebro. This would keep the silly old fool out of his mind.
It was very quiet in the part of the school he'd been hiding in. He knew Xavier had evacuated the children to a safer part of the building. But he knew where it was. He had followed a student there after destroying Cerebro. The student, who could turn into a cat, hadn't known that he and Darkside had been there, behind her the entire time. The security there was extremely advanced and it would be hard to get through it. He wished the students themselves no harm, but they would provide terrific bait to lure the X-men with.
But first thing to do, get Darkside back. Without her, getting past the security systems would be a lot trickier.
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"Why are you keeping her alive?" Logan hissed, storming up and down Professor Xavier's study.
"Can't you think of the simple answer yourself, Wolverine?" Xavier sat behind his desk, patiently watching him over the tops of his fingertips.
"The simple answer is, we don't need her." Logan growled, leaning forward over the professor's desk. "Look. I'm not saying kill her, I'm saying give her to the police."
"Oh yes, give her to the police. But if I give her to the police, they will want to know why. If I tell them that there is a dangerous mutant loose in my school, they will take the children away from me. And there is a chance they will find out this is a school for mutants and shut it down. Now do you understand why I'm keeping her alive here?"
Logan shook his head quietly. Xavier leaned forward in his wheelchair.
"To lure Ben to us." He said obviously.
"Oooooh!" Logan nodded, understanding dawning on his face. "I get it now!"
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Nightcrawler stole another quick glance at her from across the medical room. She was beautiful. Her hair was dark brown, tied back in a messy ponytail. Her eyes were oval and a deep chocolate brown. She was leaning back against the wall in her bed, tugging at a loose thread in the duvet cover.
It was his turn to keep watch on her, make sure that she didn't get away. If Vapor turned up, Kurt only had to press the emergency button and the other X-men would soon join him.
Darkside noticed that he was looking and turned her head to give him a quick glare. His eyes snapped back to the book he was reading. Well, holding. He couldn't concentrate properly, the words swimming across the page.
"Whatcha readin'?" Darkside asked, still tugging on the thread. Kurt looked around the room to check she was actually speaking to him and not someone else. She eyed him. "Hey you, blue guy, I said whatcha readin'?"
"Oh, erm…" Kurt had to turn the book over to look at the cover as the name slipped out of his mind like a goldfish. "Zhe Bible."
"Oh right." She nodded. "Interesting." There was another long silence. Kurt silently apologized to the Lord for forgetting the name of the Bible, feeling extremely stupid. "What's your name, then?"
"Kurt Wagner…" Kurt answered.
"And what's your mutant name?"
"Nightcravler. Its dumb izn't I…"
"No it's pretty cool. It's better than mine anyway." Darkside shrugged, turning back to the thread. Another silence followed as Kurt tried to think of something to say.
"So, erm… you and zhis Vapor are… togezher?" He asked quietly. Darkside burst out laughing.
"No no no no no no!" She shook her head, still laughing. Kurt was glad he'd amused her, but couldn't help but feel she was laughing AT him. She stopped laughing, still smiling. "No, we're just good friends. He's sorta like my brother. I once used my mutant powers to sneak into a bank volt and steal twenty five thousand dollars. But the police came after me. Ben let me live with him to keep away from the cops." She shrugged. "I've lived with him ever since. Why do you think I'm trying to help him now? He helped me. I even call him 'master' sometimes." She grinned, but then turned away. "I shouldn't be talking to you."
Kurt's face fell. "Vhy?"
"You're an X-man. I'm supposed to kill you, not give you my life story."
"Vell, zhank you for not killing me."
"No problem." Darkside smiled at him, a smile that made him blush even harder. "Where'd you get those cool tattoos?" She indicated to the patterns snaking over his body.
"Zhey aren't tattoos." Kurt looked at the floor. "I did zhem myself. Vun for each sin. So I have qvite a lot."
"Can I see?" She waved him over. He hesitantly edged a bit closer to her. Although he wanted to move right up to her, Logan had INSISTED that he had kept his distance, in case she tried something. But all thoughts of Logan tumbled out of his mind. "They're beautiful." Darkside ran her hand down a long scratch on his cheek, surprised at the velvety feel of his skin.
'Now! Do it now!' Darkside's brain screamed at her to just punch him and make a run for it. But for some reason she couldn't move, her forefinger still following a pattern down Kurt's cheek. Kurt looked at her and their eyes locked together.
"Yoo-hoo!" A voice made both mutants push away from each other. Vapor was stood behind them, holding the lightning gun in his hand. He squinted at Darkside in confusion. "What are you doing, Darky?"
"I, erm…" Darkside desperately tried to think of an answer. "Nothing."
"Good. I've came to save you." He turned to Kurt. "Bye." A bullet of lightning crackled from the gun, shooting towards Kurt. But Kurt teleported across the room in a puff of blue smoke, reappearing by the door and quickly pressing the alarm button. Almost instantly, the metal door that Vapor had walked through opened and Wolverine, Rogue and Cyclops rushed in.
"Like a fly to shit." Logan smiled at Rogue.
"Hey, buddy, remember me?" Scott asked Vapor playfully.
"Oooooh, yeah, the one I KO'd in ten seconds?" Vapor answered just as sarcastically. "Sure I remember you."
"That won't happen again." Rogue snapped. "We know your weakness now. We could kill you."
"Not if I kill you first." Vapor fired his gun again, catching Rogue off guard. It hit her in the shoulder, making her jerk back over a bed. Darkside started to jump up, but Logan grabbed her from behind, slamming her back down. He grabbed Kurt in the other hand, pushing them together. "Hold on to her." He snapped at him, who carefully gripped onto Darkside's arm. Scott helped Rogue up off the bed, then rounded on Vapor. He took a glass medicine bottle from the shelf and threw it at him as hard as he could. It hit Vapor in the chest, and for a few moments, his body flickered back to being solid. Logan took full advantage, grabbing him round the neck. But Vapor fought back, elbowing Logan in the chest and flipping him over his head onto a computer monitor.
His body stared to turn transparent again. As Scott reached for another glass, Vapor kicked him hard in the stomach, then jerked his knee upwards to hit him in the face as he doubled over. But Rogue snatched a bottle instead, breaking it over Vapor's head. As he flickered solid, she gripped his face in her bare hands. Vapor gasped, veins creeping up his pale face. He froze, his skin turning blue.
"NO!" Darkside easily pushed Kurt away from her and punched Rogue hard in the face, sending her reeling backwards. Ben dropped to the floor, drained of his energy. Darkside snatched the lightning gun from the holster around Vapor's waist and fired it at each X-men. Except Kurt. Rogue, Scott and Logan were all flung backwards, crashing through various equipment and smashing into the wall at the opposite end of the medical unit. When they got up, Darkside and Vapor were gone. Nightcrawler twisted his tail in his hands again.
"Oops." He said quietly. "I zhink zhey're getting avay."
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Woohoo! Another chapter! I hope you all enjoyed that.
The Kurt/Darkside pairing was by request by Soul Eater herself, who loves Kurt as much as I love Wolverine ^^ Well, maybe almost as much…
By the way, what the hell does LMAO mean? Laugh My Arse Off or something?
Please keep reading!
Disclaimer: Jeez, do I have to say this EVERY chapter? Grrr… ok, I don't own the X-men.
Enjoy!
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Darkside's eyes flickered open. Seven swirly blobs looked down at her. She blinked and rubbed her eyes. The Seven blobs turned into seven faces. Seven X-men faces.
"Hey there." Storm spoke, her long white hair tied up off her face. Darkside panicked, trying to camouflage into the bed she was laid on. But a searing pain shot through her stomach, totally taking her breath away. Looking down, she saw that someone had placed a bandage over her wounds. "Are you feeling ok?" Storm tried again to make conversation.
"Why are you being so nice to her?" Logan hissed, glaring down at her. "She tried to kill me."
"I did not." Darkside snapped, nodding at her wounds. "I'd say it was the other away around."
"Wolverine has a short temper." Storm explained.
"I do not!" Logan snapped again. The others ignored him.
"Can you tell us your name please?" Rogue asked. Darkside looked her up and down distastefully.
"Mel." She answered finally.
"Ok, Mel." Scott adjusted his glasses. "We need to ask you a few questions."
"Like…"
"Who's that freak you came with?" Logan cut back in. Darkside lowered her head, keeping her mouth tightly shut.
"What we really want to know, Mel, is where Ben is." Professor Xavier rolled closer to the side of the bed. "I have tried to track him, but he must be using the helmet from Cerebro to keep me away."
"I can't." Darkside answered simply.
"We just want to know if he's hiding in the school or not." Scott asked. "To know if the children are safe."
Darkside eyed them all carefully. "You know, wolf-man here's right… why are you being so nice to me? Why didn't you just leave me to die?"
"We don't leave people to die out of cold blood." Xavier shook his head. Both Darkside and Logan snorted.
"Try telling Ben that." She muttered. "You left his family to die."
"We're not gonna get any information out of her." Logan said, stepping closer. "And we sure as hell can't let her go back to that lunatic. What're we gonna do with her instead?"
"Logan…" Rogue frowned at him and turned back to Darkside. "Isn't there anything you can tell us? We're not going to hurt you… again."
But Darkside shut her mouth and rolled over away from them, ignoring the pain in her stomach. Her eyes fell on Nightcrawler, who had been silent for the whole conversation. He gave her a nervous smile and Darkside was sure that, if his skin hadn't been blue, he'd be blushing.
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Ben paced up and down the vacant room that he was using as a hiding place for that day. He would change rooms each day so that the X-men couldn't find him. It was a good job the school was so large.
He knew that Darkside was still alive, he'd stuck around long enough to watch Wolverine take her to the medical unit. He would wait until it was night, then it would probably be safe to go down to her. Even with his powers, it would be hard to survive an attack from all of the X-men at once, especially now that Wolverine found out about his potentially fatal weakness.
He continued to pace, adjusting the silver helmet he'd stolen from Cerebro. This would keep the silly old fool out of his mind.
It was very quiet in the part of the school he'd been hiding in. He knew Xavier had evacuated the children to a safer part of the building. But he knew where it was. He had followed a student there after destroying Cerebro. The student, who could turn into a cat, hadn't known that he and Darkside had been there, behind her the entire time. The security there was extremely advanced and it would be hard to get through it. He wished the students themselves no harm, but they would provide terrific bait to lure the X-men with.
But first thing to do, get Darkside back. Without her, getting past the security systems would be a lot trickier.
~*~*~*
"Why are you keeping her alive?" Logan hissed, storming up and down Professor Xavier's study.
"Can't you think of the simple answer yourself, Wolverine?" Xavier sat behind his desk, patiently watching him over the tops of his fingertips.
"The simple answer is, we don't need her." Logan growled, leaning forward over the professor's desk. "Look. I'm not saying kill her, I'm saying give her to the police."
"Oh yes, give her to the police. But if I give her to the police, they will want to know why. If I tell them that there is a dangerous mutant loose in my school, they will take the children away from me. And there is a chance they will find out this is a school for mutants and shut it down. Now do you understand why I'm keeping her alive here?"
Logan shook his head quietly. Xavier leaned forward in his wheelchair.
"To lure Ben to us." He said obviously.
"Oooooh!" Logan nodded, understanding dawning on his face. "I get it now!"
~*~*~*
Nightcrawler stole another quick glance at her from across the medical room. She was beautiful. Her hair was dark brown, tied back in a messy ponytail. Her eyes were oval and a deep chocolate brown. She was leaning back against the wall in her bed, tugging at a loose thread in the duvet cover.
It was his turn to keep watch on her, make sure that she didn't get away. If Vapor turned up, Kurt only had to press the emergency button and the other X-men would soon join him.
Darkside noticed that he was looking and turned her head to give him a quick glare. His eyes snapped back to the book he was reading. Well, holding. He couldn't concentrate properly, the words swimming across the page.
"Whatcha readin'?" Darkside asked, still tugging on the thread. Kurt looked around the room to check she was actually speaking to him and not someone else. She eyed him. "Hey you, blue guy, I said whatcha readin'?"
"Oh, erm…" Kurt had to turn the book over to look at the cover as the name slipped out of his mind like a goldfish. "Zhe Bible."
"Oh right." She nodded. "Interesting." There was another long silence. Kurt silently apologized to the Lord for forgetting the name of the Bible, feeling extremely stupid. "What's your name, then?"
"Kurt Wagner…" Kurt answered.
"And what's your mutant name?"
"Nightcravler. Its dumb izn't I…"
"No it's pretty cool. It's better than mine anyway." Darkside shrugged, turning back to the thread. Another silence followed as Kurt tried to think of something to say.
"So, erm… you and zhis Vapor are… togezher?" He asked quietly. Darkside burst out laughing.
"No no no no no no!" She shook her head, still laughing. Kurt was glad he'd amused her, but couldn't help but feel she was laughing AT him. She stopped laughing, still smiling. "No, we're just good friends. He's sorta like my brother. I once used my mutant powers to sneak into a bank volt and steal twenty five thousand dollars. But the police came after me. Ben let me live with him to keep away from the cops." She shrugged. "I've lived with him ever since. Why do you think I'm trying to help him now? He helped me. I even call him 'master' sometimes." She grinned, but then turned away. "I shouldn't be talking to you."
Kurt's face fell. "Vhy?"
"You're an X-man. I'm supposed to kill you, not give you my life story."
"Vell, zhank you for not killing me."
"No problem." Darkside smiled at him, a smile that made him blush even harder. "Where'd you get those cool tattoos?" She indicated to the patterns snaking over his body.
"Zhey aren't tattoos." Kurt looked at the floor. "I did zhem myself. Vun for each sin. So I have qvite a lot."
"Can I see?" She waved him over. He hesitantly edged a bit closer to her. Although he wanted to move right up to her, Logan had INSISTED that he had kept his distance, in case she tried something. But all thoughts of Logan tumbled out of his mind. "They're beautiful." Darkside ran her hand down a long scratch on his cheek, surprised at the velvety feel of his skin.
'Now! Do it now!' Darkside's brain screamed at her to just punch him and make a run for it. But for some reason she couldn't move, her forefinger still following a pattern down Kurt's cheek. Kurt looked at her and their eyes locked together.
"Yoo-hoo!" A voice made both mutants push away from each other. Vapor was stood behind them, holding the lightning gun in his hand. He squinted at Darkside in confusion. "What are you doing, Darky?"
"I, erm…" Darkside desperately tried to think of an answer. "Nothing."
"Good. I've came to save you." He turned to Kurt. "Bye." A bullet of lightning crackled from the gun, shooting towards Kurt. But Kurt teleported across the room in a puff of blue smoke, reappearing by the door and quickly pressing the alarm button. Almost instantly, the metal door that Vapor had walked through opened and Wolverine, Rogue and Cyclops rushed in.
"Like a fly to shit." Logan smiled at Rogue.
"Hey, buddy, remember me?" Scott asked Vapor playfully.
"Oooooh, yeah, the one I KO'd in ten seconds?" Vapor answered just as sarcastically. "Sure I remember you."
"That won't happen again." Rogue snapped. "We know your weakness now. We could kill you."
"Not if I kill you first." Vapor fired his gun again, catching Rogue off guard. It hit her in the shoulder, making her jerk back over a bed. Darkside started to jump up, but Logan grabbed her from behind, slamming her back down. He grabbed Kurt in the other hand, pushing them together. "Hold on to her." He snapped at him, who carefully gripped onto Darkside's arm. Scott helped Rogue up off the bed, then rounded on Vapor. He took a glass medicine bottle from the shelf and threw it at him as hard as he could. It hit Vapor in the chest, and for a few moments, his body flickered back to being solid. Logan took full advantage, grabbing him round the neck. But Vapor fought back, elbowing Logan in the chest and flipping him over his head onto a computer monitor.
His body stared to turn transparent again. As Scott reached for another glass, Vapor kicked him hard in the stomach, then jerked his knee upwards to hit him in the face as he doubled over. But Rogue snatched a bottle instead, breaking it over Vapor's head. As he flickered solid, she gripped his face in her bare hands. Vapor gasped, veins creeping up his pale face. He froze, his skin turning blue.
"NO!" Darkside easily pushed Kurt away from her and punched Rogue hard in the face, sending her reeling backwards. Ben dropped to the floor, drained of his energy. Darkside snatched the lightning gun from the holster around Vapor's waist and fired it at each X-men. Except Kurt. Rogue, Scott and Logan were all flung backwards, crashing through various equipment and smashing into the wall at the opposite end of the medical unit. When they got up, Darkside and Vapor were gone. Nightcrawler twisted his tail in his hands again.
"Oops." He said quietly. "I zhink zhey're getting avay."
~*~*~*
Woohoo! Another chapter! I hope you all enjoyed that.
The Kurt/Darkside pairing was by request by Soul Eater herself, who loves Kurt as much as I love Wolverine ^^ Well, maybe almost as much…
By the way, what the hell does LMAO mean? Laugh My Arse Off or something?
Please keep reading!
