Lone Star
Disclaimer: I don't own any hoopla....umm **checks script** never mind. But I did come very close to owning Logan, Kurt and Gambit, but for reasons beyond my own (David Bowie's extremely tight pants in that movie the Labyrinth) I lost them.
A/N: Ding Ding Ding! We have a winner, well two and since I got the reviews at the same time they both get a walk on! Your two winners are Ava and SpasticSkitzo! As soon as either one of them reply to my e-mail then they get to walk on. And I'd like to send a shout out to:
Stephanie: Thanks for the review and sorry your computer is more than a little crazy-fied
UberNekoChan: Yes insanity is fun ^__^.
Ava: Right on the mark.
Risty: If you think that's funny imagine how he must have been in high school.
Norma: I'm sorry but I don't know who cable is. -_-; **feels retarded**
NeoStar: Yeah that's true, but sorry no it's not him, but I'm glad you picked up on the **SPOILER** March and Beast thing.
SpasticSkitzo: Goodie your split personality reviewed with you!
Ok and for all those sitting on the edges of your seats the two people Uncle A. is based off of is Mad-Eye Moody (See: Harry Potter series books 4 & 5.) and Uncle Aloysius (See: The Courtney Crumrin series.)
Chapter eight, Fools rush in where angles fear to tread.
**In the Brother Hood's 'base'**
Pietro ran as fast as his legs would carry him back to the Brotherhood's house-which was considerably fast-he'd just gotten new orders from his father, who'd told him that if they succeeded he'd send someone else to lead the brotherhood, and that was an opportunity he just couldn't pass up.
As he reached the thoroughly dilapidated building he could hear a bang a scream and a small explosion, which meant Toad had done something stupid to upset Wanda and she was retaliating.
He raced through the door and placed himself between Toad and Wanda, his arms outstretched. "Not now Wanda!" He said hastily "the boys and I got business to take care of." He raced out of the room, realized he'd forgotten something, and raced back grabbed Toad, "Come on Toad." and raced out, leaving a confused Wanda behind.
After a few minutes and a few curses about them being 'slowpokes' from Pietro, everyone was front and center in the living room-if you could call it that-except for Wanda, she still refused to have anything to do with their missions, but Magneto felt she might one day she'd get over it.
"Alright you bunch of maggots!" Pietro began in his best military drill voice. "I just got word from Maggs (Magneto) and we got a new mission."
"Yeah what is it?" Lance interrupted.
Pietro sighed theatrically, "I was just getting to that. I'm sure you all know that new teacher at Xavier's place, right?"
"Yeah she's a babe, yo, but what's that got to do with anything?" Toad asked hopping up and down as he watched a particularly juicy looking fly go by him.
"It's got-Ew Toad could you do that someplace else?"
"A growing Toad's gotta eat yo."
"Ergh! Any way, she's our target, we've gotta either put her out of commission or capture her long enough for Maggs to come and get her."
Blob looked up from the sandwich he was holding, "But how are we gonna get at her, we can't get her while she's in Xavier's place."
Pietro blinked at him for a moment (O_O) and then pulled himself together. "She goes out on Thursday nights to the local book store/café she's usually there for about two hours, she'll leave the institute at ten and come back around midnight, and she always goes alone. The plan is we get her before she gets to the bookstore, that way we'll have two hours before she's missed. You got all that?"
There was a long pause and then everyone nodded.
"Good, I'm gonna go scope out her normal route, I'm taking no chances." And with that he was gone.
**At the Institute later that night.**
"Logan...why...do...you...have...so....stubborn?" Each word was emphasized with a trial by error punch.
The two were spring, no powers allowed, in the training room. Logan had on his karate GI and Polaris had on a sports top and shorts. The room they were in was styled almost like a Japanese house, rice paper wall covering was on every wall, a small clock hung on one corner and the floor was covered in mats.
"Because, Black, I'm not going to that book store with you." He swung a her head but she ducked it, and took a low swing at his legs, he jumped it and tried to come down of her back, she looked up in time to roll out of the way. After Logan landed he looked around trying to find her, then he went flying into the wall, she'd used around off while his back was turned.
"Why not?" She asked getting up, she walked forward and held out a hand for him, he shrugged it off and got up himself.
"Because I don't want to, that good enough for you?" He grabbed a towel lying on the floor and wiped the sweat off his face.
"No. I get so bored going there alone."
"Why not ask one of the kid's to go with you?"
"It's a school night."
"March?"
"Helping Hank in his labs."
"Your uncle?" He was getting desperate.
"Talking with Xavier. Look there no one to come with me, please Logan?"
"No." He said finally and walked out.
Polaris glared at the door he'd just walked out of, "JERK!" she yelled angrily.
"I know, and none of your sweet talkin' is gonna change my mind, darlin'." Came his gruff relpy.
Polaris sank to the floor and sulked for a moment, and she felt every bit as she was alone in the world. She heard the telltale ring of the clock on the wall, it was nine o'clock she had an hour to take a shower and get ready. She dragged herself up and stomped out of the room towards the bathroom.
**An hour and ten minutes later**
Polaris trudged along through the construction lot; it was a short cut she'd discovered the second week she'd been here. The Thursday's trip to the local book store/café had become a sort of tradition with her. Something she could look forward to, nothing was ever disappointing about a smoothie and a book.
She glanced around at the steal beams that made up the skeleton like frame of the soon to be building. She thought to herself how easy it would be just to simply tear down the entire thing, but she wouldn't she'd learned enough control not to do that.
When she looked at the frame she saw one particular beam that was leaning precariously off the side. She raised her hand and the beam stopped tilting, it lifted itself and floated to its place, molding itself to the side, she smiled to herself happy she'd help if only a little.
A soft clank made her look to the right. The can that had been knocked off a rafter a few floors up froze as it fell. She trundled up to the can and inspected it, she'd stopped it so it as about eye level, nothing odd or special about it. She looked up and saw a shadow leap down behind her. The can dropped as she lost her concentration. She saw that a kid was standing behind her. He looked to be in his teens. He was wearing one of the strangest outfits (not that she was big on fashion) she'd ever seen.
"Hey there kid, what are you doing out so late?" She asked looking down at him, he was crouched in an odd position, like a frog or a toad or something.
"I'm lookin' for someone."
"Really, who, I'm new here but maybe I can help you," The kid made a small hop and stood up. "So who are you looking for?"
"You, yo." He spat a green slime in her face.
Polaris stumbled backwards and fell over, she couldn't see, she could hardly see. Suddenly the ground left her and she felt a strong-arm wrap around her and something soft was pressed into her abdomen. Someone's picked me up! She thought.
She wiggled her arms to wipe the slime off of her face as the shoulder she knew she was resting on thudded as the person holding her took one step after another. Yuck, was the only thing that came to mind, she wipe the slime off of the back of her hand onto the black t-shirt she was wearing. She blinked a few time and the world came back into focus. She was lying across the shoulder of the biggest kid-no person she'd ever seen. The Toad kid would spit at her was hopping behind him, along with two other kid's she'd never seen, one had white hair and was wearing what looked like a professional biker outfit with metal shoulder pads, come to think of it, all the kid's except for the one carrying her had metal on their costumes, this was her lucky day.
The Toad kid stopped mid hop and was frozen in the air. "What's going on?!" he asked.
The kid with the white hair looked up with dawning realization. "It's her power! Blob knock her out!" He yelled waving his hands in the air trying to get Blob's attention even though his back was turned.
Not that it mattered anyway. Polaris wiggled free, she managed to get her feet braced against his shoulders, she curled her legs into the right position tensed, and pushed off, she sailed over the heads of the kid's and turned to face them.
"Ok kids who sent you?" She demanded raising her arms, ready to use her power if necessarily.
The moonlight, or lack there of considering it wasn't a full moon, outlined the building, luckily all of the kids had their backs turned to the building so they didn't see the five steel beams float quietly behind them, as they began their advance on her.
The one kid that looked like he had a fruit bowl on his head turned to glared at her, he snarled, his eyes rolled back into his head and he stomped. The ground shook. Polaris stumbled back almost loosing her concentration as she did, but not quite.
"Ok kid, you've can cause earthquakes, but my guess is you have to be on the ground to do it." She raised her hands and the boy was levitated off the ground, he struggled for a few moments then stopped and rested in the air beside Toad.
The other boy in the bike suit disappeared, no not disappeared, she tracked the metal on his body, he was running, only very fast, then suddenly he was out of her range he'd turned tail!
The Blob boy turned to run at her but was caught as three of the metal beams molded together and wrapped themselves around him, he was dragged back kicking and howling like a trapped animal.
"This is no way to fight!" He howled as he was pinned to the frame of the building the other two floated over and two more beams were used to pin them down, they continued to struggle yelling and kicking, but she didn't pay that any attention.
"I don't fight kids." She clarified. "Now, tell me who sent you!"
A clapping sound came suddenly, and she whipped around to look for its source. A lone figure melted out of the shadow and stepped into the dim moonlight. He was wearing a long trench coat she couldn't really see the clothing under it. He was handsome there was no lie to that; he looked to be her age or a year younger. His eyes though they seemed funny she couldn't really tell in the dim lighting, but oddly enough he was clapping.
"Bonjour and good going, chere, you beet these band of lozers with out breaking a sweat." There were yells of protest from the kids at that remark, but at that point neither of them were paying any attention.
As he approached her she saw what was wrong with his eyes, the whites of his eyes were black and his pupils, iris and all was red.
"I take it your not with them?" She asked looking at him skeptically.
"Not socially I assure you, but we share a common bond." He said glaring at the trapped teens.
"What are you babbling about?" She was prepared for anything now, this man wasn't a kid, she'd fight him if she needed to, something about the way he talked turned on the warning system everyone has to let the know their in bad company.
"I am here, chere, to extend a formal innovation." He mockingly bowed at her. "From Magneto."
Polaris snarled at him ready to pounce, if these guys were from Magneto that meant they were trouble. "What for?" she managed to get out through her clenched teeth.
"To join us."
"What this band of rag tag kids?" She jerked her thumb over her shoulder at the three kids pinned and struggling to the building.
"No he wants you in the inner circle, and this is and offer you should turn down." His voice let her know everything he meant although he didn't say it.
"Is that a threat?" She raised an eyebrow at him, crossing her arms in her best Logan pose.
"Maybe." He said grinning.
"Threat or not--?" She trailed off realizing she hadn't gotten his name.
"Gambit." He said.
"Well then, threat or not Gambit, my answer is the same as it was with Victor, or I suppose that's Sabertooth to you?" Gambit nodded. "That answer still stands 'no.' Now if you'll excuse me, I was on my was to get a cappuccino and the third book to a series I've been reading." She walked past but Gambit lifted a pole so that it barred her way.
"I'm afraid I can't let you do that shuga." He turned his head to look at her and smiled, the rest of his body still faced forward. "The same goes for me as it did Sabertooth, I'm to bring you to the boss willing or not, nothing personal mon ami."
The pole bent back till it looked like a U. "Well I'm not willing, amigo." She said, and Gambit went flying, or more specifically his metal pole went flying and he didn't let go, when he realized that it was turning on him so that he'd be pinned to the building just like the others, he let of and did a back hand spring as it swept the ground trying to trip him.
"Wrong move chere." He reached into his pocket and pulled out a deck of cards, holding each of them for a brief second before they caught fire and he threw them.
It didn't take her long to realize that they exploded. She bolted running as fast as she could, jumping and dodging frantically, she could feel the heat on the back of her neck. She fought with ever ounce of self- control she had not to start running in a panic, but to plan everyone of he footsteps.
Man I thought there were only 52 cards in a deck! Her mind scream at her, she took a flying leap as one of the cards exploded near her feet. She knew he wasn't aiming to kill her, just to knock her out, at least, that is, if he could.
She reached out with her power and brought down as many metal beams as she could, Gambit looked around frantically at them as they flew at him from all sides, they bent and molded unnatural until they cocooned him in.
Polaris then realized how horribly out of practice she was with using her powers to fight, she really out to get back in the game so to speak, and judging by the redness the metal of the beams was taking on, she would be.
The 'cocoon' erupted like a volcano, metal flew everywhere, the blinding flash caused by the explosion left Polaris's eyes out for a moment, and unfortunately in that one moment of weakness a slab of metal flew straight at her.
Her eye site came back just long enough for her to screw them back shut and the site of the heated metal only a few feet from her, there was no way she could stop it. She threw up her arms in an X trying in vain to shield herself, and she braced herself for the impact. It never came.
She tentatively opened her eye to see what had happened, she had to be dead. Right? There was no way she could have survived that. But she had.
As she opened her eyes she saw Logan standing in front of her his claws out and in full rage. He was wearing one of the weirdest costumes she'd ever seen, but that didn't matter, all that mattered was that he was here. Glancing down she saw scrapes of metal that had been sliced up. So that was it, he'd saved her, a second time.
Polaris quickly regrouped her thoughts and raised her arms, all the metal with in a ten-foot radices lifted and pointed at Gambit. She saw that the kids had managed to get free and were nowhere in site, just as well.
"Ok bub, whaddya want with Black?"
"Her in general." Gambit said backing away he seemed to realize he was out matched.
"Well your gonna have to get through me!" He snarled advancing on him.
"Oh don't' worry I have every intention to, but not now. And until then here's my calling card and " And with that he pulled ne more card out of his pocket and held it a little longer than he had the others before throwing it, right at the two.
Before they could blink the card exploded causing the whole building to collapse on them. Polaris hardly had time to think before Logan knocked her to the ground as he put his body between her and the debris that rained down on them it only took a moment before they were buried beneath them.
Logan's body created a small air pocket for them, she was lying flat on her back and he was on all fours on top of her, had this been any other situation Polaris would have laughed at the thought of her being in such an awkward position, but now was not the time for laughs they'd been here less than a minute and already they were running out of air.
"Can you-argh-get us outta here Black?" Logan grunted straining with the humongous weight on his back. It was then that Polaris realized that he was holding up the entire thing himself, it wasn't for him, she'd have been crushed. That's three times, god almighty how am I going to make this up to him.
"Hold on she said." She wrapped her arms around Logan's neck and heaved with every ounce of energy she had. The pile of debris scattered like paper caught in a wind, flying everywhere, if anyone had been watching they would have seen Polaris and Logan flying out of the explosion unharmed, locked in what looked suspiciously like a hug.
Polaris flew them over, clinging tight to Logan making sure she wouldn't fall she took them a good distance from the site so that there would be none to place the blame on. It would of course be blamed on mutants as a whole, but that didn't matter.
They landed in a small park about a mile from the institute she'd managed to get them that far before she felt she'd drop them both out of exhaustion. Her land was not at all graceful she simple dropped both of them, unfortunately on a hill. Logan dropped like a dead weight, but Polaris possessing no adamantium skeleton tumbled head over heals to the bottom.
After her little tumble and cursing she got up and trudged up the hill wiping the grass and some dew off her. When she reached the top of the hill she found Logan, she'd expected that much, but he wasn't breathing.
She sprinted up the rest of the distance her muscles screaming at the strain. When she got to him she dropped to the ground. "Logan?" she asked nudging him a little. "Logan!" she practically pushed him down the hill. She grabbed his wrist and checked his pulse there was a slight throb but it was growing more and more faint. She checked his neck it was the same.
He was alive, for now, but there was no telltale rise and fall of the chest to indicate any breathing. Her mind was racing what to do what to do, the Heimlich, no that was for choking what was for not breathing, CPR! That's right, ok her mind continued to race, she'd taken a class on this once, what to do, tilt the head back to that the throat is aligned, pinch the nose, she had to pull his hood back for that, breath one two three four five six, then six more chest compressions.
She did this two time before Logan woke up, though she didn't notice, she was somewhere at on three while breathing, when she realized Logan was kissing her. She jerked her head back and he smirked up at her.
"You started it." Logan said cockily.
"Did not I was doing CPR you stopped breathing." She tried to sound as indignant as possible while trying her hardest not to turn red.
Logan sat up running and ran a hand through his hair, "You know I have a heightened healing factor."
Polaris turned to face him satisfied that her face was not too red. "I forgot!" she yelled and stood up, preparing to march straight back to the institute.
Logan stood up a second after she had. "Are you sure?"
"JERK!" she yelled angrily.
"I know, and none of your sweet talkin' is gonna change my mind, darlin'." He said and kissed her again.
For once they both felt like maybe, just maybe, they weren't so lonely after all.
A/N: R&R! I think I'm terrible at romance scenes so please don't kill me. **Hides from angry mob**
Disclaimer: I don't own any hoopla....umm **checks script** never mind. But I did come very close to owning Logan, Kurt and Gambit, but for reasons beyond my own (David Bowie's extremely tight pants in that movie the Labyrinth) I lost them.
A/N: Ding Ding Ding! We have a winner, well two and since I got the reviews at the same time they both get a walk on! Your two winners are Ava and SpasticSkitzo! As soon as either one of them reply to my e-mail then they get to walk on. And I'd like to send a shout out to:
Stephanie: Thanks for the review and sorry your computer is more than a little crazy-fied
UberNekoChan: Yes insanity is fun ^__^.
Ava: Right on the mark.
Risty: If you think that's funny imagine how he must have been in high school.
Norma: I'm sorry but I don't know who cable is. -_-; **feels retarded**
NeoStar: Yeah that's true, but sorry no it's not him, but I'm glad you picked up on the **SPOILER** March and Beast thing.
SpasticSkitzo: Goodie your split personality reviewed with you!
Ok and for all those sitting on the edges of your seats the two people Uncle A. is based off of is Mad-Eye Moody (See: Harry Potter series books 4 & 5.) and Uncle Aloysius (See: The Courtney Crumrin series.)
Chapter eight, Fools rush in where angles fear to tread.
**In the Brother Hood's 'base'**
Pietro ran as fast as his legs would carry him back to the Brotherhood's house-which was considerably fast-he'd just gotten new orders from his father, who'd told him that if they succeeded he'd send someone else to lead the brotherhood, and that was an opportunity he just couldn't pass up.
As he reached the thoroughly dilapidated building he could hear a bang a scream and a small explosion, which meant Toad had done something stupid to upset Wanda and she was retaliating.
He raced through the door and placed himself between Toad and Wanda, his arms outstretched. "Not now Wanda!" He said hastily "the boys and I got business to take care of." He raced out of the room, realized he'd forgotten something, and raced back grabbed Toad, "Come on Toad." and raced out, leaving a confused Wanda behind.
After a few minutes and a few curses about them being 'slowpokes' from Pietro, everyone was front and center in the living room-if you could call it that-except for Wanda, she still refused to have anything to do with their missions, but Magneto felt she might one day she'd get over it.
"Alright you bunch of maggots!" Pietro began in his best military drill voice. "I just got word from Maggs (Magneto) and we got a new mission."
"Yeah what is it?" Lance interrupted.
Pietro sighed theatrically, "I was just getting to that. I'm sure you all know that new teacher at Xavier's place, right?"
"Yeah she's a babe, yo, but what's that got to do with anything?" Toad asked hopping up and down as he watched a particularly juicy looking fly go by him.
"It's got-Ew Toad could you do that someplace else?"
"A growing Toad's gotta eat yo."
"Ergh! Any way, she's our target, we've gotta either put her out of commission or capture her long enough for Maggs to come and get her."
Blob looked up from the sandwich he was holding, "But how are we gonna get at her, we can't get her while she's in Xavier's place."
Pietro blinked at him for a moment (O_O) and then pulled himself together. "She goes out on Thursday nights to the local book store/café she's usually there for about two hours, she'll leave the institute at ten and come back around midnight, and she always goes alone. The plan is we get her before she gets to the bookstore, that way we'll have two hours before she's missed. You got all that?"
There was a long pause and then everyone nodded.
"Good, I'm gonna go scope out her normal route, I'm taking no chances." And with that he was gone.
**At the Institute later that night.**
"Logan...why...do...you...have...so....stubborn?" Each word was emphasized with a trial by error punch.
The two were spring, no powers allowed, in the training room. Logan had on his karate GI and Polaris had on a sports top and shorts. The room they were in was styled almost like a Japanese house, rice paper wall covering was on every wall, a small clock hung on one corner and the floor was covered in mats.
"Because, Black, I'm not going to that book store with you." He swung a her head but she ducked it, and took a low swing at his legs, he jumped it and tried to come down of her back, she looked up in time to roll out of the way. After Logan landed he looked around trying to find her, then he went flying into the wall, she'd used around off while his back was turned.
"Why not?" She asked getting up, she walked forward and held out a hand for him, he shrugged it off and got up himself.
"Because I don't want to, that good enough for you?" He grabbed a towel lying on the floor and wiped the sweat off his face.
"No. I get so bored going there alone."
"Why not ask one of the kid's to go with you?"
"It's a school night."
"March?"
"Helping Hank in his labs."
"Your uncle?" He was getting desperate.
"Talking with Xavier. Look there no one to come with me, please Logan?"
"No." He said finally and walked out.
Polaris glared at the door he'd just walked out of, "JERK!" she yelled angrily.
"I know, and none of your sweet talkin' is gonna change my mind, darlin'." Came his gruff relpy.
Polaris sank to the floor and sulked for a moment, and she felt every bit as she was alone in the world. She heard the telltale ring of the clock on the wall, it was nine o'clock she had an hour to take a shower and get ready. She dragged herself up and stomped out of the room towards the bathroom.
**An hour and ten minutes later**
Polaris trudged along through the construction lot; it was a short cut she'd discovered the second week she'd been here. The Thursday's trip to the local book store/café had become a sort of tradition with her. Something she could look forward to, nothing was ever disappointing about a smoothie and a book.
She glanced around at the steal beams that made up the skeleton like frame of the soon to be building. She thought to herself how easy it would be just to simply tear down the entire thing, but she wouldn't she'd learned enough control not to do that.
When she looked at the frame she saw one particular beam that was leaning precariously off the side. She raised her hand and the beam stopped tilting, it lifted itself and floated to its place, molding itself to the side, she smiled to herself happy she'd help if only a little.
A soft clank made her look to the right. The can that had been knocked off a rafter a few floors up froze as it fell. She trundled up to the can and inspected it, she'd stopped it so it as about eye level, nothing odd or special about it. She looked up and saw a shadow leap down behind her. The can dropped as she lost her concentration. She saw that a kid was standing behind her. He looked to be in his teens. He was wearing one of the strangest outfits (not that she was big on fashion) she'd ever seen.
"Hey there kid, what are you doing out so late?" She asked looking down at him, he was crouched in an odd position, like a frog or a toad or something.
"I'm lookin' for someone."
"Really, who, I'm new here but maybe I can help you," The kid made a small hop and stood up. "So who are you looking for?"
"You, yo." He spat a green slime in her face.
Polaris stumbled backwards and fell over, she couldn't see, she could hardly see. Suddenly the ground left her and she felt a strong-arm wrap around her and something soft was pressed into her abdomen. Someone's picked me up! She thought.
She wiggled her arms to wipe the slime off of her face as the shoulder she knew she was resting on thudded as the person holding her took one step after another. Yuck, was the only thing that came to mind, she wipe the slime off of the back of her hand onto the black t-shirt she was wearing. She blinked a few time and the world came back into focus. She was lying across the shoulder of the biggest kid-no person she'd ever seen. The Toad kid would spit at her was hopping behind him, along with two other kid's she'd never seen, one had white hair and was wearing what looked like a professional biker outfit with metal shoulder pads, come to think of it, all the kid's except for the one carrying her had metal on their costumes, this was her lucky day.
The Toad kid stopped mid hop and was frozen in the air. "What's going on?!" he asked.
The kid with the white hair looked up with dawning realization. "It's her power! Blob knock her out!" He yelled waving his hands in the air trying to get Blob's attention even though his back was turned.
Not that it mattered anyway. Polaris wiggled free, she managed to get her feet braced against his shoulders, she curled her legs into the right position tensed, and pushed off, she sailed over the heads of the kid's and turned to face them.
"Ok kids who sent you?" She demanded raising her arms, ready to use her power if necessarily.
The moonlight, or lack there of considering it wasn't a full moon, outlined the building, luckily all of the kids had their backs turned to the building so they didn't see the five steel beams float quietly behind them, as they began their advance on her.
The one kid that looked like he had a fruit bowl on his head turned to glared at her, he snarled, his eyes rolled back into his head and he stomped. The ground shook. Polaris stumbled back almost loosing her concentration as she did, but not quite.
"Ok kid, you've can cause earthquakes, but my guess is you have to be on the ground to do it." She raised her hands and the boy was levitated off the ground, he struggled for a few moments then stopped and rested in the air beside Toad.
The other boy in the bike suit disappeared, no not disappeared, she tracked the metal on his body, he was running, only very fast, then suddenly he was out of her range he'd turned tail!
The Blob boy turned to run at her but was caught as three of the metal beams molded together and wrapped themselves around him, he was dragged back kicking and howling like a trapped animal.
"This is no way to fight!" He howled as he was pinned to the frame of the building the other two floated over and two more beams were used to pin them down, they continued to struggle yelling and kicking, but she didn't pay that any attention.
"I don't fight kids." She clarified. "Now, tell me who sent you!"
A clapping sound came suddenly, and she whipped around to look for its source. A lone figure melted out of the shadow and stepped into the dim moonlight. He was wearing a long trench coat she couldn't really see the clothing under it. He was handsome there was no lie to that; he looked to be her age or a year younger. His eyes though they seemed funny she couldn't really tell in the dim lighting, but oddly enough he was clapping.
"Bonjour and good going, chere, you beet these band of lozers with out breaking a sweat." There were yells of protest from the kids at that remark, but at that point neither of them were paying any attention.
As he approached her she saw what was wrong with his eyes, the whites of his eyes were black and his pupils, iris and all was red.
"I take it your not with them?" She asked looking at him skeptically.
"Not socially I assure you, but we share a common bond." He said glaring at the trapped teens.
"What are you babbling about?" She was prepared for anything now, this man wasn't a kid, she'd fight him if she needed to, something about the way he talked turned on the warning system everyone has to let the know their in bad company.
"I am here, chere, to extend a formal innovation." He mockingly bowed at her. "From Magneto."
Polaris snarled at him ready to pounce, if these guys were from Magneto that meant they were trouble. "What for?" she managed to get out through her clenched teeth.
"To join us."
"What this band of rag tag kids?" She jerked her thumb over her shoulder at the three kids pinned and struggling to the building.
"No he wants you in the inner circle, and this is and offer you should turn down." His voice let her know everything he meant although he didn't say it.
"Is that a threat?" She raised an eyebrow at him, crossing her arms in her best Logan pose.
"Maybe." He said grinning.
"Threat or not--?" She trailed off realizing she hadn't gotten his name.
"Gambit." He said.
"Well then, threat or not Gambit, my answer is the same as it was with Victor, or I suppose that's Sabertooth to you?" Gambit nodded. "That answer still stands 'no.' Now if you'll excuse me, I was on my was to get a cappuccino and the third book to a series I've been reading." She walked past but Gambit lifted a pole so that it barred her way.
"I'm afraid I can't let you do that shuga." He turned his head to look at her and smiled, the rest of his body still faced forward. "The same goes for me as it did Sabertooth, I'm to bring you to the boss willing or not, nothing personal mon ami."
The pole bent back till it looked like a U. "Well I'm not willing, amigo." She said, and Gambit went flying, or more specifically his metal pole went flying and he didn't let go, when he realized that it was turning on him so that he'd be pinned to the building just like the others, he let of and did a back hand spring as it swept the ground trying to trip him.
"Wrong move chere." He reached into his pocket and pulled out a deck of cards, holding each of them for a brief second before they caught fire and he threw them.
It didn't take her long to realize that they exploded. She bolted running as fast as she could, jumping and dodging frantically, she could feel the heat on the back of her neck. She fought with ever ounce of self- control she had not to start running in a panic, but to plan everyone of he footsteps.
Man I thought there were only 52 cards in a deck! Her mind scream at her, she took a flying leap as one of the cards exploded near her feet. She knew he wasn't aiming to kill her, just to knock her out, at least, that is, if he could.
She reached out with her power and brought down as many metal beams as she could, Gambit looked around frantically at them as they flew at him from all sides, they bent and molded unnatural until they cocooned him in.
Polaris then realized how horribly out of practice she was with using her powers to fight, she really out to get back in the game so to speak, and judging by the redness the metal of the beams was taking on, she would be.
The 'cocoon' erupted like a volcano, metal flew everywhere, the blinding flash caused by the explosion left Polaris's eyes out for a moment, and unfortunately in that one moment of weakness a slab of metal flew straight at her.
Her eye site came back just long enough for her to screw them back shut and the site of the heated metal only a few feet from her, there was no way she could stop it. She threw up her arms in an X trying in vain to shield herself, and she braced herself for the impact. It never came.
She tentatively opened her eye to see what had happened, she had to be dead. Right? There was no way she could have survived that. But she had.
As she opened her eyes she saw Logan standing in front of her his claws out and in full rage. He was wearing one of the weirdest costumes she'd ever seen, but that didn't matter, all that mattered was that he was here. Glancing down she saw scrapes of metal that had been sliced up. So that was it, he'd saved her, a second time.
Polaris quickly regrouped her thoughts and raised her arms, all the metal with in a ten-foot radices lifted and pointed at Gambit. She saw that the kids had managed to get free and were nowhere in site, just as well.
"Ok bub, whaddya want with Black?"
"Her in general." Gambit said backing away he seemed to realize he was out matched.
"Well your gonna have to get through me!" He snarled advancing on him.
"Oh don't' worry I have every intention to, but not now. And until then here's my calling card and " And with that he pulled ne more card out of his pocket and held it a little longer than he had the others before throwing it, right at the two.
Before they could blink the card exploded causing the whole building to collapse on them. Polaris hardly had time to think before Logan knocked her to the ground as he put his body between her and the debris that rained down on them it only took a moment before they were buried beneath them.
Logan's body created a small air pocket for them, she was lying flat on her back and he was on all fours on top of her, had this been any other situation Polaris would have laughed at the thought of her being in such an awkward position, but now was not the time for laughs they'd been here less than a minute and already they were running out of air.
"Can you-argh-get us outta here Black?" Logan grunted straining with the humongous weight on his back. It was then that Polaris realized that he was holding up the entire thing himself, it wasn't for him, she'd have been crushed. That's three times, god almighty how am I going to make this up to him.
"Hold on she said." She wrapped her arms around Logan's neck and heaved with every ounce of energy she had. The pile of debris scattered like paper caught in a wind, flying everywhere, if anyone had been watching they would have seen Polaris and Logan flying out of the explosion unharmed, locked in what looked suspiciously like a hug.
Polaris flew them over, clinging tight to Logan making sure she wouldn't fall she took them a good distance from the site so that there would be none to place the blame on. It would of course be blamed on mutants as a whole, but that didn't matter.
They landed in a small park about a mile from the institute she'd managed to get them that far before she felt she'd drop them both out of exhaustion. Her land was not at all graceful she simple dropped both of them, unfortunately on a hill. Logan dropped like a dead weight, but Polaris possessing no adamantium skeleton tumbled head over heals to the bottom.
After her little tumble and cursing she got up and trudged up the hill wiping the grass and some dew off her. When she reached the top of the hill she found Logan, she'd expected that much, but he wasn't breathing.
She sprinted up the rest of the distance her muscles screaming at the strain. When she got to him she dropped to the ground. "Logan?" she asked nudging him a little. "Logan!" she practically pushed him down the hill. She grabbed his wrist and checked his pulse there was a slight throb but it was growing more and more faint. She checked his neck it was the same.
He was alive, for now, but there was no telltale rise and fall of the chest to indicate any breathing. Her mind was racing what to do what to do, the Heimlich, no that was for choking what was for not breathing, CPR! That's right, ok her mind continued to race, she'd taken a class on this once, what to do, tilt the head back to that the throat is aligned, pinch the nose, she had to pull his hood back for that, breath one two three four five six, then six more chest compressions.
She did this two time before Logan woke up, though she didn't notice, she was somewhere at on three while breathing, when she realized Logan was kissing her. She jerked her head back and he smirked up at her.
"You started it." Logan said cockily.
"Did not I was doing CPR you stopped breathing." She tried to sound as indignant as possible while trying her hardest not to turn red.
Logan sat up running and ran a hand through his hair, "You know I have a heightened healing factor."
Polaris turned to face him satisfied that her face was not too red. "I forgot!" she yelled and stood up, preparing to march straight back to the institute.
Logan stood up a second after she had. "Are you sure?"
"JERK!" she yelled angrily.
"I know, and none of your sweet talkin' is gonna change my mind, darlin'." He said and kissed her again.
For once they both felt like maybe, just maybe, they weren't so lonely after all.
A/N: R&R! I think I'm terrible at romance scenes so please don't kill me. **Hides from angry mob**
