~sorry for the teen angst . . . Harry Potter overdose ( oh and for the lack
of happiness . . . blame that on that bitch JK Rowling for killing Sirius!
Oh yeah and the sexual frustration between our young mutants is her fault
too, haha.
"Silly boy" The woman hissed, kicking Gambit hard so that he doubled over. "Don't sound so hopeful, for I am not your saint Jean Grey."
"Pryor" he spat, his eyes red with fury.
"The Goblin Queen too you, filth" She dug her head painfully into his back. "My lord requires power, and that, love, is where you come in. He is building an army, and wants you on his side . . . in return," Her black lips turned up in a smile "The Rogue can survive."
"what did ye'h do te'h her!?!?" Gambit yelled, his collar electrifying uncomfortably.
"Nothing, yet."
"A'h swea'h if you do anyt'ng!"
"My dear boy" Sinister chuckled, upon entering the room "I doubt you are in any position to do anything about it." Madelyne pressed a button on her waistband, sending electric shocks up his body once more.
"Fine, I'll do it" He muttered quickly, his eyes downcast "Jus' don' hurt her, please don' hurt her"
"Funny it is, you care about her so much even after she sent you away from your only daughter." Searing memories from Gambit's past raced through his head at rapid speed, each reopening old emotional wounds of his.
"Love is such a curse" Sinister sneered. "Now, Monsieur LeBeau, one other thing is required of you . . . regarding the very daughter Madame Pryor speaks of."
"NO!!" Gambit yelled as a teenage Aimée popped onto a large monitor behind them.
"Yes, I am afraid . . . Now to be sure that you do not betray me, I need you to sign a contract."
"What kind 'eh contract?"
"One that binds your powers to me, indefinitely, and if you should betray me, will willingly result in the death of our young mutant friend." Sinister bore his sharp teeth most unattractively "And the death of any others that you care about."
"Fine!" Remy yelled once again, as he felt a needle being pierced into the back of his neck. "AH!!" He yelled as the burning liquid seeped into his veins. "So he bought the army bullshit eh?" Madelyne nodded wickedly in agreement. "Once I finish draining this mutant of his power, and the power of his young daughter, they will be completely venerable. I kill the Rogue and have you lure away Wolverine. The Xmen will come in for a rescue short- handed, and finally with my power I can capture him, and finally I will be able to destroy-"
"The mutant abilities" Madelyne added fiercely.
"Yes of course, of Scott Summer's" Madelyne seductively walked towards him and wrapped her arms around his burly neck. "Oh I'm good!"
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"So I turn around, and Jean Luc is there with a gun to my head!" Aimée said with enthusiasm, delighting on the look of terror on her mother's face. "But then he saw 'em" she smiled and pointed to her eyes "And he lowered the gun. Mama we talked all night! I never knew I had family in Louisiana, Papa's family, last names and all!" Rogue smiled at her daughter's enthusiasm, she had once met Jean Luc LeBeau and she remembered how taken she was with him; he was not a bad man. "Then I met Mercy, and Henri and Anne, Mercy's pregnant too, and then I met Didier."
"Oh! The part a'h was most interested in from tha' start!" Aimée giggled and went into detail over how they met.
"Psh! For ah girl! When ah get ma'h strength back! Ha! Challenge him te'h lift ah car!"
The two girls laughed together, Aimée was so happy to be back home. "Baby?" Rogue asked slowly. "Can ah ask ya'h somethin'?"
"Sure."
"How come ya'h neva'h asked about ye'h daddy?"
"Guess I didn't think you would want to talk about it."
"Do you rememba'h that day?" "When he came back? Sure I do, I remember he made me laugh, and he had what you would call a 100 watt smile." Rogue laughed as Aimée smiled the exact same way. But Aimée's face turned dark. "I remember how sad you were, and how angry Logan was. I didn't understand why you were all so mad." Rogue reached out for her hand "I knew he was my dad, I knew it, but I wasn't angry with him, I was angry at all. I just wanted to savor every moment, just to catch him up on all that time he missed."
"Are ya'h angry now?"
"I don't know what to think." "Aimée, he's not ah bad man, in fact, he's tha' most wonderful man ah ever met. It's just . . . I don't want ya'h t'hate him. Ah don't hate him anymore. He was just scared, shit we all were. Din't think ya'h would ever survive ma'h powers. I don't think he could face losin' you, that and he thought he was a bad person to be a father."
"Why are you acting like he's dead? You know he could always come back, I don't need you to justify any-"
"Sugah, ah'm not sayin' what he did was right, but I understand it, and there's somethin' ya'h need t'know."
"What?"
"At sunset, the day after you met him and he roared off, he came back. Cryin' carryin' on. Told me he loved you" Rogue took a deep breath "And wanted t'be in ya'h life no matter what. He said that ah din't have ta' take him back, he just wanted to be with you"
"And then he just left again?"
"No, ah told him to go, t'eh get out, te'h neva'h come back he'h again, and te'h never come near you. Or I would kill him." Rogue was in full tears by now "Ah told him that that * sniffle * ya'h hated him, and that you neva'h wanted to see his sorry self again!"
Aimée looked baffeled, dumbstruck may be a better word to describe it. Rogue continued, and yelled, this time louder than ever. Her vision blurred and the woman was obviously on the verge of an emotional breakdown. (think Mayella Ewell in To Kill A Mockingbird, when she was on the witness stand "Yer just a bunch of lyin! Cheatin! YELLABELLY'S!!!! haha okay back to the story.)
"AH TOLD HIM T'GET AS FAR AWAY FROM US AS POSSIBLE!! BECAUSE HE WAS NOTHIN' BUT A LYIN' . . . CHEATIN' . . . BASTARD THEIF!!" She collapsed on the bed in tears and began to sob on Aimée's arm. She sat there for a moment, still, the only sound being her mother's loud sobs. Aimée suddenly withdrew, looking venomous.
"That wasn't your choice." She hissed.
"Baby ah'm"
"That was MY decision. He said he wanted to see me." (k, think Harry Potter spazing out like he always does! Haha I love him still…okay back to the story)
"Calm down, sugah, please." Rogue asked, she was terrified and practically begging.
Aimée slammed her hand down on the table hard.
"NO! NO! No I won't calm down! I didn't hate him! I didn't hate him and you told him I did? YOU LIAR!! It was you! It was your fault he went away!" Rogue sniffled up at her, but Aimée was far past the point of consolation. She rivaled Wolverine's anger when Scott was in the room. Aimée reeled on her mother, chestnut hair flying everywhere. She turned and spoke slowly, but it was a powerful whisper. Chilled to the bone.
"And ya'h know what? I will never hate him, now I just hate you . . ." She sniffed once before leaving the room.
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"Aim's?" Aimée looked up to see Dupe in her doorway.
"Dupe" she smiled, still clutching her teddy bear.
"What's the matter?" He asked, sitting down on the bed beside her.
"My mother, but I don't really want to talk about it."
"Oka-"
"she sent him away! She was the one who told Remy to leave!"
"Your father . . ."
"I never told you about that, did I?"
"No"
Aimée looked down and told him everything about that day he came back, and every detail of the conversation she had just had with her mother.
"Aimée?" He put his arm around her and held her tight "I love you, you know that? We all love you. So does your mom, and I don't think she was trying to hurt you."
"I know," She said, hugging him tight, "I'm just not ready to forgive her yet." Abe smiled and kissed the top of her head, before Aimée playfully shoved him off of her.
"Ouch! What was that for?"
"You not calling me!"
"You were busy!"
"Fine, what were you so busy with?" Aimée comically raised an eyebrow "Galena?" Abe sighed and laid back on the bed.
"No"
"Prude!"
"No, its just . . . I don't want to be with her."
"Then who?"
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"Ry?" Aaron called from the doorway. O'Rya shut of her cd player and sat on her bed, looking at him curiously. "Hi" "Hi" He shifted uncomfortably.
"What are you doing here?" She asked blatantly.
"'Rya, I think I made a mistake." O'Rya shifted ever so slightly, but sat silent waiting to hear more. "I'm sorry, I was just scared."
"It's okay, we were moving fast anyway." She smiled up at him and Aaron remembered why he dated her in the first place, "Maybe we can just start fresh . . . dinner? Tonight?"
"Sure" "Then it's a date"
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Aimée spent the rest of the afternoon catching up with old friends. She conversed with the professor about her newfound abilities, and Hank was particularly interested in her trip. But she was happy as the evening fell, and Didier entered her room with a bottle of vodka and a roll of quarters.
"How do you always know how to put me in a good mood?" "I jus' love dat smile o' yours"
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O'Rya slipped into her golden dress, loving how the material felt on her smooth skin. She attached her earing and applied a last coat of lipstick. "Rap Rap Rap" sounded on her door, Aaron was always early.
"Just a minute!" She yelled, looking down at her cell phone.
"I will be back in five! I just have to take care of something first!" He yelled back.
"Kay," O'Rya sighed as she dialed Abe's cell phone number.
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Abe button his shirt and sprayed on a last bit of cologne. He hopped on his bed to see O'Rya's cell phone number flashing across his.
"Hey Ry! Ready? What? Oh, okay, no I'm fine. Yeah. Well as long as your alright, yeah. Uh. Bye." Abe squeezed his eyes shut tight and laid back on his bed, suddenly hating the smell of his cologne.
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Aaron walked slowly down the hall. He raised his hand to knock on Aimée's door but saw that it was already slightly open. He poked his head in, instantly wishing he hadn't. Aimée lie on her bed, feverishly kissing the handsome Cajun atop of her. Aaron once again felt the feeling he had gotten on the stairs and slowly turned his head outside the room. Steadying his breath Aaron turned, and walked down the hall to meet his date.
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"Do it!" Sinister yelled as Madelyne emerged from her chambers, still half asleep, "We have wasted to much time already!"
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Rogue felt every nerve in her body tingle. She gasped for breath and a dry scream escaped her parched lips. Her vision blurred as she toppled off the hospital bed. Landing with a smack on the hard tile floor, blood trickling from her mouth.
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Hank strolled into the hospital ward a half an hour later, whistling through his teeth. "Well my little Scarlette O'Harra, I have a surprise for y-" He froze and dropped the tray of food on the floor as he went to scopp her up. "Jean!" he yelled, "JEAN!"
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Jean reached for her temples, Hank's voice screaming through her head.
"Professor!"
"I heard it too Jean, got get Aimée!" Xavier hovered down the steps feverishly.
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"Aimée!" Jean yelled, out of breath, as she swung the door open. Didier and Aimée froze, looking embarrassed and annoyed at Jean's sudden presence. "Your mother! She's collapsed!"
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Sinister laughed as he watched his guards torture Gambit mercilessly. His horrible chuckle only drowned out by Remy's occasional screams "WHAT HAVE YOU DONE!?!" "SINISTER!" "WHAT HAVE YOU DONE!?!"
"Nothing worse, my boy, than the damage you have already caused." Sinister sneered smiling wickedly, his plan would work afterall.
~yeah I know Madelyne Pryor is no longer the Goblin Queen. But her being in league with Sinister transpired from a picture from the Xmen comic "Rubicon" by Chris Claremont and Jim Lee.
-Foo
"Silly boy" The woman hissed, kicking Gambit hard so that he doubled over. "Don't sound so hopeful, for I am not your saint Jean Grey."
"Pryor" he spat, his eyes red with fury.
"The Goblin Queen too you, filth" She dug her head painfully into his back. "My lord requires power, and that, love, is where you come in. He is building an army, and wants you on his side . . . in return," Her black lips turned up in a smile "The Rogue can survive."
"what did ye'h do te'h her!?!?" Gambit yelled, his collar electrifying uncomfortably.
"Nothing, yet."
"A'h swea'h if you do anyt'ng!"
"My dear boy" Sinister chuckled, upon entering the room "I doubt you are in any position to do anything about it." Madelyne pressed a button on her waistband, sending electric shocks up his body once more.
"Fine, I'll do it" He muttered quickly, his eyes downcast "Jus' don' hurt her, please don' hurt her"
"Funny it is, you care about her so much even after she sent you away from your only daughter." Searing memories from Gambit's past raced through his head at rapid speed, each reopening old emotional wounds of his.
"Love is such a curse" Sinister sneered. "Now, Monsieur LeBeau, one other thing is required of you . . . regarding the very daughter Madame Pryor speaks of."
"NO!!" Gambit yelled as a teenage Aimée popped onto a large monitor behind them.
"Yes, I am afraid . . . Now to be sure that you do not betray me, I need you to sign a contract."
"What kind 'eh contract?"
"One that binds your powers to me, indefinitely, and if you should betray me, will willingly result in the death of our young mutant friend." Sinister bore his sharp teeth most unattractively "And the death of any others that you care about."
"Fine!" Remy yelled once again, as he felt a needle being pierced into the back of his neck. "AH!!" He yelled as the burning liquid seeped into his veins. "So he bought the army bullshit eh?" Madelyne nodded wickedly in agreement. "Once I finish draining this mutant of his power, and the power of his young daughter, they will be completely venerable. I kill the Rogue and have you lure away Wolverine. The Xmen will come in for a rescue short- handed, and finally with my power I can capture him, and finally I will be able to destroy-"
"The mutant abilities" Madelyne added fiercely.
"Yes of course, of Scott Summer's" Madelyne seductively walked towards him and wrapped her arms around his burly neck. "Oh I'm good!"
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"So I turn around, and Jean Luc is there with a gun to my head!" Aimée said with enthusiasm, delighting on the look of terror on her mother's face. "But then he saw 'em" she smiled and pointed to her eyes "And he lowered the gun. Mama we talked all night! I never knew I had family in Louisiana, Papa's family, last names and all!" Rogue smiled at her daughter's enthusiasm, she had once met Jean Luc LeBeau and she remembered how taken she was with him; he was not a bad man. "Then I met Mercy, and Henri and Anne, Mercy's pregnant too, and then I met Didier."
"Oh! The part a'h was most interested in from tha' start!" Aimée giggled and went into detail over how they met.
"Psh! For ah girl! When ah get ma'h strength back! Ha! Challenge him te'h lift ah car!"
The two girls laughed together, Aimée was so happy to be back home. "Baby?" Rogue asked slowly. "Can ah ask ya'h somethin'?"
"Sure."
"How come ya'h neva'h asked about ye'h daddy?"
"Guess I didn't think you would want to talk about it."
"Do you rememba'h that day?" "When he came back? Sure I do, I remember he made me laugh, and he had what you would call a 100 watt smile." Rogue laughed as Aimée smiled the exact same way. But Aimée's face turned dark. "I remember how sad you were, and how angry Logan was. I didn't understand why you were all so mad." Rogue reached out for her hand "I knew he was my dad, I knew it, but I wasn't angry with him, I was angry at all. I just wanted to savor every moment, just to catch him up on all that time he missed."
"Are ya'h angry now?"
"I don't know what to think." "Aimée, he's not ah bad man, in fact, he's tha' most wonderful man ah ever met. It's just . . . I don't want ya'h t'hate him. Ah don't hate him anymore. He was just scared, shit we all were. Din't think ya'h would ever survive ma'h powers. I don't think he could face losin' you, that and he thought he was a bad person to be a father."
"Why are you acting like he's dead? You know he could always come back, I don't need you to justify any-"
"Sugah, ah'm not sayin' what he did was right, but I understand it, and there's somethin' ya'h need t'know."
"What?"
"At sunset, the day after you met him and he roared off, he came back. Cryin' carryin' on. Told me he loved you" Rogue took a deep breath "And wanted t'be in ya'h life no matter what. He said that ah din't have ta' take him back, he just wanted to be with you"
"And then he just left again?"
"No, ah told him to go, t'eh get out, te'h neva'h come back he'h again, and te'h never come near you. Or I would kill him." Rogue was in full tears by now "Ah told him that that * sniffle * ya'h hated him, and that you neva'h wanted to see his sorry self again!"
Aimée looked baffeled, dumbstruck may be a better word to describe it. Rogue continued, and yelled, this time louder than ever. Her vision blurred and the woman was obviously on the verge of an emotional breakdown. (think Mayella Ewell in To Kill A Mockingbird, when she was on the witness stand "Yer just a bunch of lyin! Cheatin! YELLABELLY'S!!!! haha okay back to the story.)
"AH TOLD HIM T'GET AS FAR AWAY FROM US AS POSSIBLE!! BECAUSE HE WAS NOTHIN' BUT A LYIN' . . . CHEATIN' . . . BASTARD THEIF!!" She collapsed on the bed in tears and began to sob on Aimée's arm. She sat there for a moment, still, the only sound being her mother's loud sobs. Aimée suddenly withdrew, looking venomous.
"That wasn't your choice." She hissed.
"Baby ah'm"
"That was MY decision. He said he wanted to see me." (k, think Harry Potter spazing out like he always does! Haha I love him still…okay back to the story)
"Calm down, sugah, please." Rogue asked, she was terrified and practically begging.
Aimée slammed her hand down on the table hard.
"NO! NO! No I won't calm down! I didn't hate him! I didn't hate him and you told him I did? YOU LIAR!! It was you! It was your fault he went away!" Rogue sniffled up at her, but Aimée was far past the point of consolation. She rivaled Wolverine's anger when Scott was in the room. Aimée reeled on her mother, chestnut hair flying everywhere. She turned and spoke slowly, but it was a powerful whisper. Chilled to the bone.
"And ya'h know what? I will never hate him, now I just hate you . . ." She sniffed once before leaving the room.
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"Aim's?" Aimée looked up to see Dupe in her doorway.
"Dupe" she smiled, still clutching her teddy bear.
"What's the matter?" He asked, sitting down on the bed beside her.
"My mother, but I don't really want to talk about it."
"Oka-"
"she sent him away! She was the one who told Remy to leave!"
"Your father . . ."
"I never told you about that, did I?"
"No"
Aimée looked down and told him everything about that day he came back, and every detail of the conversation she had just had with her mother.
"Aimée?" He put his arm around her and held her tight "I love you, you know that? We all love you. So does your mom, and I don't think she was trying to hurt you."
"I know," She said, hugging him tight, "I'm just not ready to forgive her yet." Abe smiled and kissed the top of her head, before Aimée playfully shoved him off of her.
"Ouch! What was that for?"
"You not calling me!"
"You were busy!"
"Fine, what were you so busy with?" Aimée comically raised an eyebrow "Galena?" Abe sighed and laid back on the bed.
"No"
"Prude!"
"No, its just . . . I don't want to be with her."
"Then who?"
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"Ry?" Aaron called from the doorway. O'Rya shut of her cd player and sat on her bed, looking at him curiously. "Hi" "Hi" He shifted uncomfortably.
"What are you doing here?" She asked blatantly.
"'Rya, I think I made a mistake." O'Rya shifted ever so slightly, but sat silent waiting to hear more. "I'm sorry, I was just scared."
"It's okay, we were moving fast anyway." She smiled up at him and Aaron remembered why he dated her in the first place, "Maybe we can just start fresh . . . dinner? Tonight?"
"Sure" "Then it's a date"
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Aimée spent the rest of the afternoon catching up with old friends. She conversed with the professor about her newfound abilities, and Hank was particularly interested in her trip. But she was happy as the evening fell, and Didier entered her room with a bottle of vodka and a roll of quarters.
"How do you always know how to put me in a good mood?" "I jus' love dat smile o' yours"
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O'Rya slipped into her golden dress, loving how the material felt on her smooth skin. She attached her earing and applied a last coat of lipstick. "Rap Rap Rap" sounded on her door, Aaron was always early.
"Just a minute!" She yelled, looking down at her cell phone.
"I will be back in five! I just have to take care of something first!" He yelled back.
"Kay," O'Rya sighed as she dialed Abe's cell phone number.
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Abe button his shirt and sprayed on a last bit of cologne. He hopped on his bed to see O'Rya's cell phone number flashing across his.
"Hey Ry! Ready? What? Oh, okay, no I'm fine. Yeah. Well as long as your alright, yeah. Uh. Bye." Abe squeezed his eyes shut tight and laid back on his bed, suddenly hating the smell of his cologne.
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Aaron walked slowly down the hall. He raised his hand to knock on Aimée's door but saw that it was already slightly open. He poked his head in, instantly wishing he hadn't. Aimée lie on her bed, feverishly kissing the handsome Cajun atop of her. Aaron once again felt the feeling he had gotten on the stairs and slowly turned his head outside the room. Steadying his breath Aaron turned, and walked down the hall to meet his date.
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"Do it!" Sinister yelled as Madelyne emerged from her chambers, still half asleep, "We have wasted to much time already!"
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Rogue felt every nerve in her body tingle. She gasped for breath and a dry scream escaped her parched lips. Her vision blurred as she toppled off the hospital bed. Landing with a smack on the hard tile floor, blood trickling from her mouth.
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Hank strolled into the hospital ward a half an hour later, whistling through his teeth. "Well my little Scarlette O'Harra, I have a surprise for y-" He froze and dropped the tray of food on the floor as he went to scopp her up. "Jean!" he yelled, "JEAN!"
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Jean reached for her temples, Hank's voice screaming through her head.
"Professor!"
"I heard it too Jean, got get Aimée!" Xavier hovered down the steps feverishly.
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"Aimée!" Jean yelled, out of breath, as she swung the door open. Didier and Aimée froze, looking embarrassed and annoyed at Jean's sudden presence. "Your mother! She's collapsed!"
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Sinister laughed as he watched his guards torture Gambit mercilessly. His horrible chuckle only drowned out by Remy's occasional screams "WHAT HAVE YOU DONE!?!" "SINISTER!" "WHAT HAVE YOU DONE!?!"
"Nothing worse, my boy, than the damage you have already caused." Sinister sneered smiling wickedly, his plan would work afterall.
~yeah I know Madelyne Pryor is no longer the Goblin Queen. But her being in league with Sinister transpired from a picture from the Xmen comic "Rubicon" by Chris Claremont and Jim Lee.
-Foo