Okay the first Melody POV is written by the excellent Oracles Maiden

Kurt muse saunters past with a cigar

Ok it looks like Kurt's picked up some bad habits off of my new Logan muse! Oh well he'll break the habit soon no doubt coz i it looks like he will be going home to NcsGirls fanfics soon (he really doesn't like Logan I'm afraid)

"Can we go yet?" whined Kat, sitting and clutching her knees as she rocked back and forth… she was seriously getting on my nerves now. She'd been doing it for the last fifteen minutes and had been moaning since we'd arrived at the camp, 2 days previously.

            And I wasn't the only one it was annoying.

            I had noticed that Wolvie was very quiet and was looking at the girl like he was a grisly bear… and she was the salmon. He was going to pounce any second… and as the closest thing to a leader around here I felt compelled to act.

            "Right we need to do something to relieve the tension around here…" I stood and said kindly but commanding.

            "Yeah we do…" Kat smiled looking up at me. "Like going home."

            "No."

            "Oh come on… please?" she whined again. I was 2 seconds away from grabbing her throat and squeezing as hard as I could until her eyes bulged out of her empty head.

            Then I had the best idea I'd had on this damn planet.

"Standin' on the mansions porch
You told me that you'd wait forever
Oh and when you held my ice
I knew that it was now or never
Those were the best days of my life
Back in the summer of '03
Man we were killin' time
We were young and restless
We needed to unwind
I guess nothin' can last forever - forever, no"

 Bobby sang desperately off tune, into an old branch, trying to do Elvis' Las Vegas at his very worse.                                                       Ok I admit it, a karaoke contest in the middle of nowhere wasn't the greatest idea I'd ever come up with… but it was all I could think of at the time… and it was relieving the stress on everyone… well… except Wolvie.

            "If you don't stop I will personally kill both of you!" Wolverine growled as Bobby and Kat launched into the second verse of their new release "I've got Sauce Babe."… And I was willing to help him.                                                                          "Please!" I pleaded with them, clutching my head… "Please do not destroy any more of my precious brain cells."                                                                                                      Kat looked at me dumbfounded before she took the 'Microphone' and started beating me around the head with it… No one really bothered because they were all comatose from the singing… except Bobby who stood and pointed.                                                     Then in the distance we heard it… carrying on the wind past all of us. It awoke the rest and halted the barrage from Kat… Bobby however took a while to stop laughing.  "Ash?" I questioned stepping forward at the sound of "Livin' on a prayer." I didn't want to believe my ears or my eyes anymore… but that song I couldn't dispute… our leader was back… bloodied and bruised but back. 

I stumbled towards them applying pressure to my wound with my t-shirt that I had taken off and was now becoming liberally drenched in blood as I pressed it to my shoulder under my leather uniform Jacket.

I needed to focus my mind in order to stop my falling in to a faint from my blood loss, so I was singing the Bon Jovi song 'Livin' on a Prayer' it seemed to fit my life the last couple of hours or so.

Yes I'm still alive, how? You might ask, quite simple a flash of inspiration as I looked death in the eyes. Despite what I had believed, I was not ready to die. I had lay on the floor feeling the blood ooze from me and listened to the roar of the waterfall behind me, waiting for the fatal blow. Then it occurred to me.

"If you are me, then your weakness is my weakness" I rolled out of the way of my opponent's blade and pushed them to their end over the waterfall and to the jagged rocks below.

I smiled faintly as I saw my friends but didn't let up the singing hell, it was keeping me alive. I stumbled forward as they saluted me, I just kept my little sing song up. I just kind of slumped on the floor at their feet and grinned

"We're all alive then!" then I fell asleep

***

When I awoke I was aware of eyes watching me, I couldn't see them it was more of a sensation then anything because I kept my eyes clamped firmly shut.

"Jesus can't a girl have a sleep without people staring at her now?" I moaned groggily

"Come on girls lets give her some space" I heard Mel's mother hen voice float through my sleepy mind.

I opened my eyes and hissed in pain as the bright sunlight burnt my eyes I sat upright quickly.

"Oh I wouldn't move so quickly you might rip your stitches!"

"What stitches?"

"The stitches that we put in that nasty stab wound in your shoulder, Wolverine did it"

For some reason that alarmed me

"Is he really qualified to be doing that?" I asked worried, for all I know I could have an arm stuck to my foot, I checked quickly everything seemed to be in the right place.

Jubilee stepped forward and spoke for the first time "Apparently he's trained in field medicine, whodathunkit huh?"

Mmmm…indeed he'd kept that quiet.

I stood up and brushed the grit off of my trousers.

"How long was I out for?" I asked Ev who was looking at me worriedly

"Hard to tell everyone's watch stopped when we came through the portal, but you slept all through yesterday and well into today"

I nodded, funny I still felt tired.

"We'll stay here 2 more days until everyone's got their strength back then we'll push on to Teasel which isn't more then a days walk away" I said prodding the tender wound which was freshly stitched with something that didn't look like it was meant for the purpose.

"Where's Wolverine, Bobby and Kat?" I asked suddenly realising that they were missing

"They've gone to get food, well Wolvies catching our dinner, and Kat and Bobby are fetching some more fire wood" Jubes said prodding what was left of the fire with Kats scythe.

"I'm glad Kats gone too, she was giving me a headache with all her moaning" Mel said massaging her head to prove a point.

I had a killer headache and everything seemed slightly fuzzy due to my blood loss.  I sat on a log and began to lay down my plan, they wouldn't understand, well Mel and Kat would…correction Kat would understand eventually, and the rest would just have to. I would speak to Mel and Kat about it when I got the opportunity to get them alone.

2 days later

The days went slowly as we had nothing to do and it was increasingly hard to get Mel and Kat together alone, but I did and Mel agreed whole heartedly with me, Kat needed a bit of persuading but she could see the logic now it was time to share our decision with the rest of the group.

I stood on the log flanked by Mel and Kat; it made it easier talking down to them.

"Okay we have all seen the portal, and we have probably all thought bout walking through it at some point, now we are telling you to go, you have to!"

I looked around as there was a chorus of "No ways" 

"Look the fact is, well…it's an order" I looked around at their angry faces and softened my tones "It's for your own good you know"

"How?"

"Look just trust me."

They looked disbelieving "Please do it for me…us"

Jubilee nodded "I'll go but only cause you said please"

Ev nodded too.

That was clinched then if the others didn't agree we would push them through.

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Kurt: grins angelically Please! Feed me before I return home!

Logan: Stuff that! Review or I'll claw ya! Coz if ya reading this ya really have no excuse not to review!