The Funeral Chapter 8
Rating: PG-13
Disclaimer: If I owned them, Rogue and Logan would be shagging right this moment. ; P
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Marie looked up into the doorway as she heard her friends come to the living room. They had to push each other out of the way so one of them could fit in the doorway. Kitty phased through and got the only available spot on the couch. A 'damn it!' could be heard from Jubes. As she came closer she pointed at Kitty, " That's cheating." And sat down at her feet.
Marie smiled fondly at her friends. As much as she hate to admit it, but she would miss them if she ever had to leave them. Marie was snapped out of her revere when Jubes snapped, " Well, get on with it." Her smiled widened. Yeah, she loved her friends, well she thought of them more as her sisters.
" Anyway, the best looked down the road and then all of a sudden a red beam appeared and shoot the best back into the woods. It was a man and a woman in the leather uniforms. The woman was dark skinned with white hair and the other was a white man with a visor of some sort. I was scared, I didn't know what they wanted and I was afraid that they were going to the man behind. The man with the visor opened my door and I told him that I was stuck. He put his hand to his visor and a red beam appeared and it shattered the seat belt. They helped me out and grabbed the man before the camper exploded."
She was about to start up again when the doorbell rang and Jubes sprang up. They all heard "Pizza delivery" muffled though the door. They heard the sound of the door being opened and shut and Jubes came back with two pizzas. Logan looked at her both eyebrows arched this time. " What? I got hungry again." And sat back down and handed one to Marie, it was a large, and it was half cheese and half sausage and pepperoni. She threw back her head and laughed. Marie reached for the meat side, while Logan reached for the cheese. Marie always found it funny that he chose cheese as his only topping especially for a man who loved steak.
Around a mouth full of pizza, much to her mothers cringe, and began again. " When we reached New York, I was brought to a school, and the man was brought down to the med lab. He was there for a week. In the meantime the Professor enrolled me in some of the school classes. The white haired women's name was Storm; the man with the visor was called Cyclops and I meet a few students named Iceman and Pyro and ShadowKat and Siren. Everybody was nice and sweet to me, it almost felt like I belonged somewhere."
She reached down for two more slices of pizza and handed one of them to Logan and took a drink before starting up. " When the man finally woke up the professor told him to give him two days before he took off to help him find his past. The first night that he slept in his room, I couldn't sleep and I heard the man having a nightmare and went to go see if he was okay."
" When I went into his room he was twisting and turning in his bed. I tried waking him up with my voice, I called myself an idiot because I forgot my gloves and couldn't shake him awake. All of a sudden he bolted up in bed and he just stared at me and I remember that my vision was getting a little fuzzy and dark around the corners. He had woken up with his claws out and accidenlty stabbed me. I barely remember him calling for help and I remember raising my hand to his cheek and touching it. Next thing I know he on the grown twitching like a bug and I'm well again."
Logan's arm around her waist tightened almost painfully at the memory. " I was in the yard sitting on a bench when Iceman came up to me and told me that everybody was afraid of me and that the Professor was furious at me and that it would be best for everybody if I left. I later learned it wasn't Iceman but a woman named Mystique that had taken Iceman's shape and told me to leave. I was at the train station and snuck on a train, I had no money for a ticket and I had no idea where it was going.
" I was sitting in a seat when the man came up and sat down next to me and asked me if I was running again. I told him that a boy at school had told me that everybody was mad me. I knew what he was going to say before he even said it, and I didn't know what to do. He said that he thought that I should go back and give it a try, because this Professor seemed to really care about my kind and that was really rare for us. I didn't want to go back but at the same time I knew he was right. That school was probably the only place I would be safe."
" I told about how my mutation manifested itself at a very inconvenient time and how that he was still in my head, how it was the same with him. He told me that if I went back with him that he would take care of me. I asked if he promised and he said promised. The next thing I know the train jerk and the back of it started to split into two and sparks and fire flew from it."
Mrs. Knight saw that her daughter's hands had come to rest on her male companion's hands and that her knuckles had turned white. " A man wearing a helmet had levitated himself onto the train and the man next to me stood up and asked him what he wanted with him. I remember him laughing, god I still hear his laughter in my nightmares, and he said " My dear boy, whoever said I wanted you" and he turned to look at me."
" You? Why would he want YOU?" Meredith asked her voice laced with disbelief. Marie moved her head to look at her ex-aunt. She took a deep breath. " Next to the Professor and two or three other mutants, I am one of the most powerful out there."
The next person who asked a question was David, which surprised everybody. "Why are you considered powerful?" Marie turned her attention to him. " Because I can kill with out leaving a trace and if I were ever captured by the government or people who like to use and sell dangerous mutants, I would be sold to the highest bidder as an assassin. The government would love to get their hands on me and breed me with a mutant that is as powerful and try and get a perfect soldier. With my skin and whatever mutant the father might be would be unstoppable."
Marie looked at her mother and the rest of the family and saw that the realization of the situation finally settled in their minds. As much as people feared mutants, there are those that would use them as soldiers and science experiments.
"How do we know what you are saying is true?" Meredith asked. Marie looked at Logan and he put his hand out towards Jubes and she moved and sat on the arm of the couch. He flexed his hand and out popped three twelve-inch claws. Everybody but the three girls gasped in fear and disbelief.
This time it was Logan that spoke up. " Because it happened to me. They cut me open and poured a metal that can't be broken and used me as a mercenary. I lost my memory and only remember the last fifteen years." A loud metallic sound was heard as he retracted his claws.
"You are the one in the story?" Mrs. Knight asked. She had finally put the pieces together, she suppose she should have sooner, but hey she was tired so sue her. Logan just shook his head.
Mrs. Knight noticed that Marie was rubbing the spots where the claws came out. She turned her head and buried it into his neck for few seconds and inhaled his sent and turned her head to look at her mother as she continued her story. She felt Logan bury his face in her hair. " Magneto, the guy with the helmet, could create magnetic fields and control metal, threw Wolverine to the back of the train and I got up to get to him but I felt something stick me in the neck."
"The next time I woke up, I was strapped to a machine that was placed inside the flame of the statue of Liberty. Magneto was there and so was Sabertooth, the beast that had attacked us before. He had asked me something," Marie got a faraway look in her face, " Asked me if I had ever seen the statue of liberty. He said that America was supposed to be the land of tolerance, but that there is no land of tolerance. I remember thinking well what do you know, you are to busy trying to kill off all the normals. I remember looking at the dead boatman and asking him if he was going to kill me. When he answered me it made me kinda frighten and calm at the same time. He needed me to take his powers because the machine is going to kill me when he activates it. I remember thinking at least I don't have to be around to see the results of his madness.
She shifted around more so that she was sitting sideways in Logan's lap and had her head resting on his chest. " When the machine started I remember pain. Lots a pain, especially in my hands. The power had burned my hands on the hand rests that kept me connected to the machine. I could feel it draining my life from me and it scared me, to death. Combined with Magneto memories of the Holocaust and the machine I'm surprised I lasted as long as I did. The last thing I saw before I blacked out was Wolverine's face. He had destroyed the machine and Cyclops had hurt Magneto. Then all of a sudden I felt a rush of life flowing into me, Wolverine was giving me his reginitve powers and bringing me back to life." Marie gave a laugh full of amusement and mirth. " There is a constant war between David, who hides in a corner and Magneto and Wolverine. Magneto wants me to change the world and start a war and Wolverine wants to kick Buckethead's ass. I'll tell yo..."
Marie's eyes glazed over and she had a vacant look on her face. Her mom looked on in alarm; "Marie?" she was going to shake her but Logan stopped her. " What's wrong with her?" she sounded frantic. Everybody else in the room too was looking at Marie in alarm. "She's okay. Rogue's just having a chat with the Professor." Meredith look on in exasperation. " How in the hell is she talking to the Professor?'' This was becoming more complicated than she needed.
Logan looked at the woman in distaste. " The Professor is a telepathe. He gets in our heads and asks if it's okay to talk to us. Sure as hell beats talking on the phone." Jubes and Kitty noticed that Marie's eyes were unglazing. " What'd he say, Chica?" Jubes asked, as impatient as ever.
Marie looked at her mother. " He wants to talk to you. He didn't tell me what, but he want to know if its okay." Her mother looked at her in surprise. 'He wants to talk to me. What about?' ran through her mind. She must have nodded her head in agreement because Marie's eyes were glazed over again. She turned to look at her mother again. " He's in the jet, so he should be here in a few minutes. He was on his way back home from visiting a family about enrolling their son into his school."
Marie watched her mother's classic way with dealing with stress: cleaning. She started to clean up the mess that was around the house and at the same time trying to fix her hair. Marie knew what the Professor was going to ask her mother. They had recently taken on some infants that had been dropped off at the mansion and they needed someone that had experience raising kids and they both thought that she was perfect for the part. Of course excusing the part about where she was weak with her father, she was an over all good mother who tried her best to instill manners into a daughter that would have rather playing tag than piano.
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Well what do you think? Constructive criticism welcomed.
Rating: PG-13
Disclaimer: If I owned them, Rogue and Logan would be shagging right this moment. ; P
^^^^^^
Marie looked up into the doorway as she heard her friends come to the living room. They had to push each other out of the way so one of them could fit in the doorway. Kitty phased through and got the only available spot on the couch. A 'damn it!' could be heard from Jubes. As she came closer she pointed at Kitty, " That's cheating." And sat down at her feet.
Marie smiled fondly at her friends. As much as she hate to admit it, but she would miss them if she ever had to leave them. Marie was snapped out of her revere when Jubes snapped, " Well, get on with it." Her smiled widened. Yeah, she loved her friends, well she thought of them more as her sisters.
" Anyway, the best looked down the road and then all of a sudden a red beam appeared and shoot the best back into the woods. It was a man and a woman in the leather uniforms. The woman was dark skinned with white hair and the other was a white man with a visor of some sort. I was scared, I didn't know what they wanted and I was afraid that they were going to the man behind. The man with the visor opened my door and I told him that I was stuck. He put his hand to his visor and a red beam appeared and it shattered the seat belt. They helped me out and grabbed the man before the camper exploded."
She was about to start up again when the doorbell rang and Jubes sprang up. They all heard "Pizza delivery" muffled though the door. They heard the sound of the door being opened and shut and Jubes came back with two pizzas. Logan looked at her both eyebrows arched this time. " What? I got hungry again." And sat back down and handed one to Marie, it was a large, and it was half cheese and half sausage and pepperoni. She threw back her head and laughed. Marie reached for the meat side, while Logan reached for the cheese. Marie always found it funny that he chose cheese as his only topping especially for a man who loved steak.
Around a mouth full of pizza, much to her mothers cringe, and began again. " When we reached New York, I was brought to a school, and the man was brought down to the med lab. He was there for a week. In the meantime the Professor enrolled me in some of the school classes. The white haired women's name was Storm; the man with the visor was called Cyclops and I meet a few students named Iceman and Pyro and ShadowKat and Siren. Everybody was nice and sweet to me, it almost felt like I belonged somewhere."
She reached down for two more slices of pizza and handed one of them to Logan and took a drink before starting up. " When the man finally woke up the professor told him to give him two days before he took off to help him find his past. The first night that he slept in his room, I couldn't sleep and I heard the man having a nightmare and went to go see if he was okay."
" When I went into his room he was twisting and turning in his bed. I tried waking him up with my voice, I called myself an idiot because I forgot my gloves and couldn't shake him awake. All of a sudden he bolted up in bed and he just stared at me and I remember that my vision was getting a little fuzzy and dark around the corners. He had woken up with his claws out and accidenlty stabbed me. I barely remember him calling for help and I remember raising my hand to his cheek and touching it. Next thing I know he on the grown twitching like a bug and I'm well again."
Logan's arm around her waist tightened almost painfully at the memory. " I was in the yard sitting on a bench when Iceman came up to me and told me that everybody was afraid of me and that the Professor was furious at me and that it would be best for everybody if I left. I later learned it wasn't Iceman but a woman named Mystique that had taken Iceman's shape and told me to leave. I was at the train station and snuck on a train, I had no money for a ticket and I had no idea where it was going.
" I was sitting in a seat when the man came up and sat down next to me and asked me if I was running again. I told him that a boy at school had told me that everybody was mad me. I knew what he was going to say before he even said it, and I didn't know what to do. He said that he thought that I should go back and give it a try, because this Professor seemed to really care about my kind and that was really rare for us. I didn't want to go back but at the same time I knew he was right. That school was probably the only place I would be safe."
" I told about how my mutation manifested itself at a very inconvenient time and how that he was still in my head, how it was the same with him. He told me that if I went back with him that he would take care of me. I asked if he promised and he said promised. The next thing I know the train jerk and the back of it started to split into two and sparks and fire flew from it."
Mrs. Knight saw that her daughter's hands had come to rest on her male companion's hands and that her knuckles had turned white. " A man wearing a helmet had levitated himself onto the train and the man next to me stood up and asked him what he wanted with him. I remember him laughing, god I still hear his laughter in my nightmares, and he said " My dear boy, whoever said I wanted you" and he turned to look at me."
" You? Why would he want YOU?" Meredith asked her voice laced with disbelief. Marie moved her head to look at her ex-aunt. She took a deep breath. " Next to the Professor and two or three other mutants, I am one of the most powerful out there."
The next person who asked a question was David, which surprised everybody. "Why are you considered powerful?" Marie turned her attention to him. " Because I can kill with out leaving a trace and if I were ever captured by the government or people who like to use and sell dangerous mutants, I would be sold to the highest bidder as an assassin. The government would love to get their hands on me and breed me with a mutant that is as powerful and try and get a perfect soldier. With my skin and whatever mutant the father might be would be unstoppable."
Marie looked at her mother and the rest of the family and saw that the realization of the situation finally settled in their minds. As much as people feared mutants, there are those that would use them as soldiers and science experiments.
"How do we know what you are saying is true?" Meredith asked. Marie looked at Logan and he put his hand out towards Jubes and she moved and sat on the arm of the couch. He flexed his hand and out popped three twelve-inch claws. Everybody but the three girls gasped in fear and disbelief.
This time it was Logan that spoke up. " Because it happened to me. They cut me open and poured a metal that can't be broken and used me as a mercenary. I lost my memory and only remember the last fifteen years." A loud metallic sound was heard as he retracted his claws.
"You are the one in the story?" Mrs. Knight asked. She had finally put the pieces together, she suppose she should have sooner, but hey she was tired so sue her. Logan just shook his head.
Mrs. Knight noticed that Marie was rubbing the spots where the claws came out. She turned her head and buried it into his neck for few seconds and inhaled his sent and turned her head to look at her mother as she continued her story. She felt Logan bury his face in her hair. " Magneto, the guy with the helmet, could create magnetic fields and control metal, threw Wolverine to the back of the train and I got up to get to him but I felt something stick me in the neck."
"The next time I woke up, I was strapped to a machine that was placed inside the flame of the statue of Liberty. Magneto was there and so was Sabertooth, the beast that had attacked us before. He had asked me something," Marie got a faraway look in her face, " Asked me if I had ever seen the statue of liberty. He said that America was supposed to be the land of tolerance, but that there is no land of tolerance. I remember thinking well what do you know, you are to busy trying to kill off all the normals. I remember looking at the dead boatman and asking him if he was going to kill me. When he answered me it made me kinda frighten and calm at the same time. He needed me to take his powers because the machine is going to kill me when he activates it. I remember thinking at least I don't have to be around to see the results of his madness.
She shifted around more so that she was sitting sideways in Logan's lap and had her head resting on his chest. " When the machine started I remember pain. Lots a pain, especially in my hands. The power had burned my hands on the hand rests that kept me connected to the machine. I could feel it draining my life from me and it scared me, to death. Combined with Magneto memories of the Holocaust and the machine I'm surprised I lasted as long as I did. The last thing I saw before I blacked out was Wolverine's face. He had destroyed the machine and Cyclops had hurt Magneto. Then all of a sudden I felt a rush of life flowing into me, Wolverine was giving me his reginitve powers and bringing me back to life." Marie gave a laugh full of amusement and mirth. " There is a constant war between David, who hides in a corner and Magneto and Wolverine. Magneto wants me to change the world and start a war and Wolverine wants to kick Buckethead's ass. I'll tell yo..."
Marie's eyes glazed over and she had a vacant look on her face. Her mom looked on in alarm; "Marie?" she was going to shake her but Logan stopped her. " What's wrong with her?" she sounded frantic. Everybody else in the room too was looking at Marie in alarm. "She's okay. Rogue's just having a chat with the Professor." Meredith look on in exasperation. " How in the hell is she talking to the Professor?'' This was becoming more complicated than she needed.
Logan looked at the woman in distaste. " The Professor is a telepathe. He gets in our heads and asks if it's okay to talk to us. Sure as hell beats talking on the phone." Jubes and Kitty noticed that Marie's eyes were unglazing. " What'd he say, Chica?" Jubes asked, as impatient as ever.
Marie looked at her mother. " He wants to talk to you. He didn't tell me what, but he want to know if its okay." Her mother looked at her in surprise. 'He wants to talk to me. What about?' ran through her mind. She must have nodded her head in agreement because Marie's eyes were glazed over again. She turned to look at her mother again. " He's in the jet, so he should be here in a few minutes. He was on his way back home from visiting a family about enrolling their son into his school."
Marie watched her mother's classic way with dealing with stress: cleaning. She started to clean up the mess that was around the house and at the same time trying to fix her hair. Marie knew what the Professor was going to ask her mother. They had recently taken on some infants that had been dropped off at the mansion and they needed someone that had experience raising kids and they both thought that she was perfect for the part. Of course excusing the part about where she was weak with her father, she was an over all good mother who tried her best to instill manners into a daughter that would have rather playing tag than piano.
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Well what do you think? Constructive criticism welcomed.
