Hello again, dear readers!
I've finally figured out what I'm going to make happen in my story! Ideas are always very well accepted.
For those who aren't as obsessed as me (and go looking through internet to find everything they can on X-Men 2), I just want to tell you that I am pissed off. Well, first of all, we'll only get a glimpse of Gambit and Jubilee . . . BUT we will probably see them more in . . . X-Men 3! Yay!
Oh, and for other X-Men female fans, here are two words that, like me, will make you look even MORE forward to the X2 movie. The two words: Wolverine. Naked.
AHHHHHH!
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Chapter 19:
The X-Jet landed silently under the basketball court and the two platforms closed silently as the jet stopped humming. A large flap opened in the back and Scott ran out, followed by Iceman and Logan.
"Scott!" Jean yelled from the jet. "Get me a stretcher! Quick!"
Cyclops ran out of the landing room and came back moments later with Logan, carrying a stretcher. Wolverine helped Jean and Ororo as they held Nathan's body, carrying it up to the stretcher.
He fell limply onto it and the stretcher's white tissue was quickly dyed crimson. Rogue, Kitty, Jubilee and Max came out next, all very pale and praying for Nathan's life. Jean had to give him artificial breathing although the flight and was always giving him some sort of pill for his heart to keep beating. They all saw that Jean was really panicking as she knew the pills weren't working well, and Nathan's heart wasn't beating at all like it should.
To add something weird, Nathan didn't look at all like himself. He had darker hair and skin and all had noticed that his eyes were purple. They didn't know if it was because maybe he was going to stay in his 'hostile' form.
They all ran into the med lab, where Jean started giving out orders.
"Pyro, Iceman, Rogue and Kitty, get out!" she yelled. "Ah, you too Jubilee, Logan, and yes, you too Scott."
They all reluctantly started walking towards the exit, looking back at Nathan that was lying on the med table.
"Rory, stay here," Jean yelled. "I need you to help me."
Ororo walked back to her, ready to do whatever she could to help Nathan.
"Get me those IV tubes over there," Jean said as she started plugging machines to the boy's arms.
"And close the door," she added over the lame noise the monitor was giving.
~~~
Logan walked again down the hall and back, wondering what was going on in the med lab. He stopped in front of Rogue, stunned by the sad look on her face and tears in her eyes. She ignored them as she looked up at Logan, letting them fall freely onto her cheeks.
"Is he going to be all right?" she asked, sobbing between each word.
Logan sat beside her and passed her arm around her elbows.
"Don't worry, Marie," he said slowly. "Things el' turn out just fine."
Rogue kept crying, occasionally whipping her face with the palm of her hand.
"He took the bullet for me," she said after a while. "I would have been killed, but instead, he's the one that's going to die. Killed by himself."
She sobbed again, resting her head on Logan's elbow.
"I don't want him to die," she whispered.
"He won't, sweetie," Logan said, trying to comfort her the best he could.
Suddenly, the med lab door opened and Ororo appeared in the entrance, closing the door behind her. Logan and Rogue looked at her expectantly.
"It's not good," she said with a sigh. "Not good at all."
She walked in front of them and sat not too far away.
"Jean's doing the best she can, but she can't do miracles," she whispered.
"So . . . what's going on with the kid?" Logan asked.
"Well, he's taking more and more the appearance of the other Nathan, the one we fought last time," Ororo started. "We think it's because . . . this other self won over him."
"You mean he's going to stay . . . like, all evil?" Logan asked, sensing that Rogue was listening carefully.
"Logan, there's already not a very big chance for him to ever wake up," Ororo said, shaking her head. "We have no idea what's going to happen to him, and even less about his mutation. Pyro's out cold because he wasted too much of his energy, and he can't explain right now what he knows about his mutation."
Bobby, Max and Jubilee suddenly appeared out of the elevator, all changed into normal clothes.
"Pyro's sleeping," Jubilee said quietly, -for once- not making fun of her friend, knowing that he didn't deserve it and it was definitely not the time.
"How . . . how's Nathan?" Max asked timidly.
"Not well," Logan said slowly.
They heard the elevator door open again, and this time it was Scott and the Professor that appeared. Strangely, Kitty was said to be in her room and didn't intend to come down. Jubilee supposed that she was crying. Poor Kitty hadn't spoken since Nathan had fell to the ground. It was to say, she was traumatized.
"Jean's still working on him?" the professor asked, seeing everybody in the hallway.
Many nodded approvingly.
They waited in silence, not being able to hear anything from the med lab. An hour passed, and finally, the door opened.
A very tiered and sad looking Jean appeared in the entrance, still wearing her uniform, her red hair vaguely tied into a ponytail. She sighed seeing everyone outside the door. They all just looked at her, some wondering if they wanted to hear opinion of Nathan's health.
"All we can do now is pray," she said, trying to hide a few tears from gliding down her cheek.
Rogue started crying again and Jubilee joined her. Max had stayed expressionless, the same look of wretchedness he had on his face since it had all started. Logan growled, both Scott and Ororo sighed and the professor simply closed his eyes for a moment.
All of them wanted Nate to stay alive.
~~~
Rogue looked around the med lab on more time.
After Jean had finished explaining everything about what had happened to Nate, she had told her that she could take the first watch round. Jean would have done it herself, but she needed to rest and so it was Rogue that was watching over Nate for the next three hours. After her, there was Kitty, then Logan in the morning and Max later on.
Rogue grazed the side of Nathan's cheek one more time, feeling pity as she looked at him, attached to the med lab table with metal cuffs. Jean had said it was necessary, because he had taken his 'other self's appearance, and so might be dangerous.
Marie sat back down in her chair, looking at the monitor with an evil look, as if warning it of not letting the green line go straight, *again*. Jean had showed her everything to do in case it went dead, and she had used those methods more than four times in the past thirty minutes. Every time, the monitor started his circuitousness again. Rogue was scared to loose Nathan every time it did that.
Once, she was sure he had opened his eyes, but nothing changed on the machines to prove it.
Finally, three hours later, Kitty came to replace Rogue. At first, she had just peeked through the med lab door, but slowly, she entered, Rogue noticing that her eyes and cheeks were all swelled up by having cried too much. She had tried to hide it, but nothing could hide true despair.
She had brought her hand to her mouth seeing Nathan lying on the table, and after shedding a few other tears, she got herself together and took Rogue's place near him.
Rogue went back upstairs to try and sleep a bit, but she would only have had nightmares about what had happened, so she decided to just stay up with Jubilee and Max, that also didn't want to sleep.
They talked, trying to free their minds of what was weighting on their hearts, but it didn't really work. Some time later, the sun rose, not being very clear through all the grey clouds. They went down to breakfast, and it was there everyone saw how each and every one of them were so affected by Nathan's life. Even if they didn't know much about him, they were affected by his . . . situation.
Logan took turn after Kitty, and to relax, all the younger X-Men, save Jean and Logan who were both with Nathan, went in the common room to watch the news, still trying to get their mind off things. What they saw on television didn't at all.
They watched as a man in a grey suit, holding a microphone, appeared on the TV. Screen. He started talking as an unsightly scenery was made visible behind him.
"Behind me are the rest of New York's east side docks," he started. "That have vanished through the night, result of somebody terrorist attack. It was caused late in the night, as gasoline had been sprayed over a big part of the warehouses. Four of the six security guards were burnt alive, but are said to have been nocked out before the incident. Authorities confirm that this attack might not have been caused by mutants, but maybe by teenagers from the neighbourhood. The odds are that mutants are the ones that have destroyed the docks, and so the search goes on, as the police is still looking for suspects."
Pyro lowered the volume as another person appeared on the screen, showing firefighters in the background, trying to tame a rather large fire back at the docks.
"Someone else was at the docks!" he said. "Nathan's not the one who lit the fire, since it was put up after we left."
"Man, this is freaky," Bobby said, leaning back in the sofa.
"Hey, wait!" Scott said. "Turn it up!" he added, talking about the volume.
Pyro obeyed and they all listened as a woman with short black hair started speaking.
"The Friends of Humanity are still searching for Magneto, mutant terrorist accused of the Liberty incident. No trace of him has been found yet, but many are suggesting that he is still in the United States."
A picture of Magneto appeared in the corner of the screen.
"Friends of Humanity, my ass," they all heard Jubilee mutter grumpily, making them smile a little.
"But the professor still can't trace Magneto down, even with Cerebro," Ororo said. "He knows he's probably going to do something, well, against the humans, and all."
"Yeah," Rogue said quietly. "But right now we better keep an eye on what's going to happen to Nate, and then we might maybe need to check out what happened to the docks," she whispered.
They all looked at her, seeing her thinking, as if planning what she wanted to do. It was sweet, yet so sad at the same time, seeing how much she seemed to care for Nathan.
Kitty, on the other hand, was much better at keeping her feelings for herself. Everyone could see that she had cried an ocean in her room when they had come back. She tried to smile sometimes, but it looked so painful every time.
She hadn't eaten much at breakfast, and had gone down to check on Nathan five times since her watch.
Jubilee liked Nathan, sure because he was good looking, but she only considered him as a good friend. She actually seemed more interested in Max, but that was another story. She was currently pretty stressed out in knowing what was going to happen if both her two best friends loved him. Who would *he* choose?
The day passed slowly, the young X-Men checking frequently on Nathan, still wondering what was going to happen to him. Jean had suggested that there were four things that could happen to him. The first one was that he was in coma, and there it would depend on many other things for him to wake up. The second, was that he was going to wake up . . . as his other self ( and everyone knew that wouldn't good at all). The third solution was the one everyone wanted: for him to wake up, as himself. The fourth, and last option was the one they all feared: his death.
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Yes, who would he choose? Review, tell me with WHO you would like him to go with and WHY. I am mostly preoccupied with the WHY. And please, don't just say: *because she loves him more*. Give me good reasons.
Hey, I don't know much about Gambit, but do you think I should put him in? Add a little more problems with Nathan and his choosing one girl?
Just for you all to know, there's a lot more things going to happen and I've got full of ideas. Yay!
You can just review now. *grins*
P.S.: For the readers of 'Cherry Love' and 'Nightmare', next chapters also coming soon. I'm getting a whole week off school. Holidays. I'll have lots of writing time. Another yay!
Well, bye . . . until I send my next chapter!
P.P.S.: Review.
I've finally figured out what I'm going to make happen in my story! Ideas are always very well accepted.
For those who aren't as obsessed as me (and go looking through internet to find everything they can on X-Men 2), I just want to tell you that I am pissed off. Well, first of all, we'll only get a glimpse of Gambit and Jubilee . . . BUT we will probably see them more in . . . X-Men 3! Yay!
Oh, and for other X-Men female fans, here are two words that, like me, will make you look even MORE forward to the X2 movie. The two words: Wolverine. Naked.
AHHHHHH!
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Chapter 19:
The X-Jet landed silently under the basketball court and the two platforms closed silently as the jet stopped humming. A large flap opened in the back and Scott ran out, followed by Iceman and Logan.
"Scott!" Jean yelled from the jet. "Get me a stretcher! Quick!"
Cyclops ran out of the landing room and came back moments later with Logan, carrying a stretcher. Wolverine helped Jean and Ororo as they held Nathan's body, carrying it up to the stretcher.
He fell limply onto it and the stretcher's white tissue was quickly dyed crimson. Rogue, Kitty, Jubilee and Max came out next, all very pale and praying for Nathan's life. Jean had to give him artificial breathing although the flight and was always giving him some sort of pill for his heart to keep beating. They all saw that Jean was really panicking as she knew the pills weren't working well, and Nathan's heart wasn't beating at all like it should.
To add something weird, Nathan didn't look at all like himself. He had darker hair and skin and all had noticed that his eyes were purple. They didn't know if it was because maybe he was going to stay in his 'hostile' form.
They all ran into the med lab, where Jean started giving out orders.
"Pyro, Iceman, Rogue and Kitty, get out!" she yelled. "Ah, you too Jubilee, Logan, and yes, you too Scott."
They all reluctantly started walking towards the exit, looking back at Nathan that was lying on the med table.
"Rory, stay here," Jean yelled. "I need you to help me."
Ororo walked back to her, ready to do whatever she could to help Nathan.
"Get me those IV tubes over there," Jean said as she started plugging machines to the boy's arms.
"And close the door," she added over the lame noise the monitor was giving.
~~~
Logan walked again down the hall and back, wondering what was going on in the med lab. He stopped in front of Rogue, stunned by the sad look on her face and tears in her eyes. She ignored them as she looked up at Logan, letting them fall freely onto her cheeks.
"Is he going to be all right?" she asked, sobbing between each word.
Logan sat beside her and passed her arm around her elbows.
"Don't worry, Marie," he said slowly. "Things el' turn out just fine."
Rogue kept crying, occasionally whipping her face with the palm of her hand.
"He took the bullet for me," she said after a while. "I would have been killed, but instead, he's the one that's going to die. Killed by himself."
She sobbed again, resting her head on Logan's elbow.
"I don't want him to die," she whispered.
"He won't, sweetie," Logan said, trying to comfort her the best he could.
Suddenly, the med lab door opened and Ororo appeared in the entrance, closing the door behind her. Logan and Rogue looked at her expectantly.
"It's not good," she said with a sigh. "Not good at all."
She walked in front of them and sat not too far away.
"Jean's doing the best she can, but she can't do miracles," she whispered.
"So . . . what's going on with the kid?" Logan asked.
"Well, he's taking more and more the appearance of the other Nathan, the one we fought last time," Ororo started. "We think it's because . . . this other self won over him."
"You mean he's going to stay . . . like, all evil?" Logan asked, sensing that Rogue was listening carefully.
"Logan, there's already not a very big chance for him to ever wake up," Ororo said, shaking her head. "We have no idea what's going to happen to him, and even less about his mutation. Pyro's out cold because he wasted too much of his energy, and he can't explain right now what he knows about his mutation."
Bobby, Max and Jubilee suddenly appeared out of the elevator, all changed into normal clothes.
"Pyro's sleeping," Jubilee said quietly, -for once- not making fun of her friend, knowing that he didn't deserve it and it was definitely not the time.
"How . . . how's Nathan?" Max asked timidly.
"Not well," Logan said slowly.
They heard the elevator door open again, and this time it was Scott and the Professor that appeared. Strangely, Kitty was said to be in her room and didn't intend to come down. Jubilee supposed that she was crying. Poor Kitty hadn't spoken since Nathan had fell to the ground. It was to say, she was traumatized.
"Jean's still working on him?" the professor asked, seeing everybody in the hallway.
Many nodded approvingly.
They waited in silence, not being able to hear anything from the med lab. An hour passed, and finally, the door opened.
A very tiered and sad looking Jean appeared in the entrance, still wearing her uniform, her red hair vaguely tied into a ponytail. She sighed seeing everyone outside the door. They all just looked at her, some wondering if they wanted to hear opinion of Nathan's health.
"All we can do now is pray," she said, trying to hide a few tears from gliding down her cheek.
Rogue started crying again and Jubilee joined her. Max had stayed expressionless, the same look of wretchedness he had on his face since it had all started. Logan growled, both Scott and Ororo sighed and the professor simply closed his eyes for a moment.
All of them wanted Nate to stay alive.
~~~
Rogue looked around the med lab on more time.
After Jean had finished explaining everything about what had happened to Nate, she had told her that she could take the first watch round. Jean would have done it herself, but she needed to rest and so it was Rogue that was watching over Nate for the next three hours. After her, there was Kitty, then Logan in the morning and Max later on.
Rogue grazed the side of Nathan's cheek one more time, feeling pity as she looked at him, attached to the med lab table with metal cuffs. Jean had said it was necessary, because he had taken his 'other self's appearance, and so might be dangerous.
Marie sat back down in her chair, looking at the monitor with an evil look, as if warning it of not letting the green line go straight, *again*. Jean had showed her everything to do in case it went dead, and she had used those methods more than four times in the past thirty minutes. Every time, the monitor started his circuitousness again. Rogue was scared to loose Nathan every time it did that.
Once, she was sure he had opened his eyes, but nothing changed on the machines to prove it.
Finally, three hours later, Kitty came to replace Rogue. At first, she had just peeked through the med lab door, but slowly, she entered, Rogue noticing that her eyes and cheeks were all swelled up by having cried too much. She had tried to hide it, but nothing could hide true despair.
She had brought her hand to her mouth seeing Nathan lying on the table, and after shedding a few other tears, she got herself together and took Rogue's place near him.
Rogue went back upstairs to try and sleep a bit, but she would only have had nightmares about what had happened, so she decided to just stay up with Jubilee and Max, that also didn't want to sleep.
They talked, trying to free their minds of what was weighting on their hearts, but it didn't really work. Some time later, the sun rose, not being very clear through all the grey clouds. They went down to breakfast, and it was there everyone saw how each and every one of them were so affected by Nathan's life. Even if they didn't know much about him, they were affected by his . . . situation.
Logan took turn after Kitty, and to relax, all the younger X-Men, save Jean and Logan who were both with Nathan, went in the common room to watch the news, still trying to get their mind off things. What they saw on television didn't at all.
They watched as a man in a grey suit, holding a microphone, appeared on the TV. Screen. He started talking as an unsightly scenery was made visible behind him.
"Behind me are the rest of New York's east side docks," he started. "That have vanished through the night, result of somebody terrorist attack. It was caused late in the night, as gasoline had been sprayed over a big part of the warehouses. Four of the six security guards were burnt alive, but are said to have been nocked out before the incident. Authorities confirm that this attack might not have been caused by mutants, but maybe by teenagers from the neighbourhood. The odds are that mutants are the ones that have destroyed the docks, and so the search goes on, as the police is still looking for suspects."
Pyro lowered the volume as another person appeared on the screen, showing firefighters in the background, trying to tame a rather large fire back at the docks.
"Someone else was at the docks!" he said. "Nathan's not the one who lit the fire, since it was put up after we left."
"Man, this is freaky," Bobby said, leaning back in the sofa.
"Hey, wait!" Scott said. "Turn it up!" he added, talking about the volume.
Pyro obeyed and they all listened as a woman with short black hair started speaking.
"The Friends of Humanity are still searching for Magneto, mutant terrorist accused of the Liberty incident. No trace of him has been found yet, but many are suggesting that he is still in the United States."
A picture of Magneto appeared in the corner of the screen.
"Friends of Humanity, my ass," they all heard Jubilee mutter grumpily, making them smile a little.
"But the professor still can't trace Magneto down, even with Cerebro," Ororo said. "He knows he's probably going to do something, well, against the humans, and all."
"Yeah," Rogue said quietly. "But right now we better keep an eye on what's going to happen to Nate, and then we might maybe need to check out what happened to the docks," she whispered.
They all looked at her, seeing her thinking, as if planning what she wanted to do. It was sweet, yet so sad at the same time, seeing how much she seemed to care for Nathan.
Kitty, on the other hand, was much better at keeping her feelings for herself. Everyone could see that she had cried an ocean in her room when they had come back. She tried to smile sometimes, but it looked so painful every time.
She hadn't eaten much at breakfast, and had gone down to check on Nathan five times since her watch.
Jubilee liked Nathan, sure because he was good looking, but she only considered him as a good friend. She actually seemed more interested in Max, but that was another story. She was currently pretty stressed out in knowing what was going to happen if both her two best friends loved him. Who would *he* choose?
The day passed slowly, the young X-Men checking frequently on Nathan, still wondering what was going to happen to him. Jean had suggested that there were four things that could happen to him. The first one was that he was in coma, and there it would depend on many other things for him to wake up. The second, was that he was going to wake up . . . as his other self ( and everyone knew that wouldn't good at all). The third solution was the one everyone wanted: for him to wake up, as himself. The fourth, and last option was the one they all feared: his death.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Yes, who would he choose? Review, tell me with WHO you would like him to go with and WHY. I am mostly preoccupied with the WHY. And please, don't just say: *because she loves him more*. Give me good reasons.
Hey, I don't know much about Gambit, but do you think I should put him in? Add a little more problems with Nathan and his choosing one girl?
Just for you all to know, there's a lot more things going to happen and I've got full of ideas. Yay!
You can just review now. *grins*
P.S.: For the readers of 'Cherry Love' and 'Nightmare', next chapters also coming soon. I'm getting a whole week off school. Holidays. I'll have lots of writing time. Another yay!
Well, bye . . . until I send my next chapter!
P.P.S.: Review.