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Tenshi Kanashii- Thanx! I was hoping somebody would like those parts and also that somebody would review and tell me. You did both so Yay you! Oh and thanx for the tip on the empathy though I didn't really get what you meant. But thanx for reviewing all those chapters. Review again plz.
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Girl number 1- Yeah I guess Chloe's power is like Pheobes power only she feels the stuff the people are feeling. Not sure if Phebeo does that. I'm not gonna give her anymore powers but I want to use a charmed power in another fic or character. What d'ya think of that? Thanx for reviewing. Do it again plz.
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Sry guyz I cant write back to all the reviewers all the time. Only people who have individual comments or questions or what ever. Thanx for all of you who reviewed that I didn't write. You guyz rock too!
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Chapter 12
Visions of darkness and A dream come true
The harsh, bright lights illuminating the room beamed down on Chloe, causing her to squint her chestnut brown eyes as she slowly opened them.
The young girl recognized the overly bright light fixtures and subtle scent of a doctor's office in the room, telling her that it was some sort of medical area. She decided not to move as much as possible because she could still feel the pain, only moving her arms slightly to rub her eyes in an attempt to clear her currently blurred vision.
She let out a loud groan and slowly sat up, clutching her head in her hands and leaning forward before feeling the headache and dizziness rushing back through her body as she regained consciousness.
She felt so tired and weak. She wanted to go back to bed and her head was aching to no end along with the rest of her body. 'This must be how Remy feels after a night out drinking with the men in the guild.' She figured.
'Wait.Remy!' Chloe had just remembered all the things that had happened the following nights, including the horrible nightmare of Remy and the blue skinned imposter.
"I'm afraid that was no nightmare you had Chloe." She jerked her head up; startled to see the Professor sitting in a wheelchair, not far from the bed she was sleeping in.
"Wh-what are you talking about? What happened? How.how did I get here?" She asked, breathing heavily and feeling very dazed and out of breath once again.
"Professor, I thought you were.away somewhere or.I.I can't really remember." She admitted, sounding and looking very confused at her lack in memory of current events, not to mention that she wasn't totally awake at the moment and she had somehow earned herself a hospital bed.
"Its alright Chloe. Don't overwhelm yourself by trying to remember the irrelevant things. I was out on a mission with Beast. That is correct. But right now I would like you to try and remember what happened before you blacked out. The corridor you were in, the card, Logan. Try to remember what happened." He said again very calmly, wheeling over to her bedside.
She closed her eyes and did as Xavier said, trying to concentrate and recall all the things that had happened. She remembered Jean, Scott, and Evan going back to the garden, Kurt teleporting Kitty and Rogue somewhere, and then Logan and herself talking and walking down the halls of the institute. She vaguely remembered slipping on a piece of paper. or was it a card? One of Remy's maybe? She could remember that much at least.
The rest was like a dream. The longer you were awake the farther away the events seemed to be from her thoughts.
Her head started to throb a little from the force she was putting on it in the process of racking her brain for hazy memories.
"Very good. Now I'm going to go into your head, which will allow me to see the things that you saw in your vision. Do you understand?" He explained and made sure Chloe knew everything he was going to do before invading the privacy of her thoughts.
Chloe was fine with him looking around in her fried cranium. She was too tired to care about childish crushes and petty secrets being revealed in the process.
She nodded a yes in response and tried to think even more about the dream, or vision as he put it.
There was a flash and suddenly she could feel herself being forced to relive the horrible nightmare just as she'd done before, but this time the Professor was there to help her through it. This time he was seeing the same thing she was seeing; only it didn't seem to hurt him as much as it did her.
He still got a headache and the emotional pain of seeing one mutant do something so harmful to another but he wasn't getting the feeling of the wind being knocked out of him or having to see his older brother get knocked unconscious over and over again and not be able to do anything about it like Chloe had.
Every time she had the vision it would do something to her. A stabbing pain in her stomach, a throbbing headache, using up her energy. Whatever the case was, it was getting worse every time she replayed the scene.
After having been through the same premonition about seven times with the Professor she'd had enough. She couldn't take reliving the scene anymore. She couldn't handle seeing her brother cringe in pain the way he did the same way every time she watched.
She broke away from the line of telepathy Xavier had formed.
Xavier's eyes shot open and widened from the shock of what he'd just seen. Though he soon erased that look from his face and concentrated on recalling the premonition he'd just encountered, searching for any clues as to where this incident might happen.
He didn't understand why she was having these visions. Premonitions weren't any form of her natural mutation, which meant that her body was not made for the power and was therefore rejecting it. This was also the reason why the use of this power was taking so much out of her.
Chloe was now gasping for air, tears streaming down her pale face. (AN: She does a lot of crying in this fic doesn't she?)
It was as if she was in water, only inches away from the surface, but the vision was keeping her under, tempting her to give in and drown.
After seeing her state Xavier thought it best to leave Chloe alone until she was calmer and decided to start things off by doing the thing he did best, ordering people around telepathically.
'Logan please inform Jean and Evan that we will be going on a mission.' He told Logan who was training with the new recruits in the danger room at the time.
'A mission? Any thing I should know?' Logan asked, confused.
'Nothing yet. Just tell them to suit up and meet me in the med lab.'
"I still don't understand. How did I do that? Why am I having these visions?" Chloe asked, now extremely confused. She had calmed herself down and now she wanted answers.
"Yes, well I do not understand all of this either. Only time will tell."
"No, only time will get my older brother killed." She shot back. It was true though. The longer she spent sitting around here the closer the dream would be to coming true.
"Chloe do you remember anything else about what was going on around you while you were having the premonition for the first few times before you blacked out?" He asked, choosing to ignore her last statement.
"Um.well I remember screaming and I know Logan was there. He was trying to tell me something. I was so confused about what was going on in real life and what was going on in the vision. I could have sworn I heard Scott's voice." She was silent for a few more seconds in deep thought, pondering what she had just said.
All of a sudden the realization of the whole thing hit her hard in the face and she looked back at the Professor, her eyes widening as big as they could go. "Oh no. Scott." She exclaimed.
Xavier's eyes shifted over to the bed next to hers and he sighed deeply. Slowly, she turned her head to where the Professor was now looking. She regretted doing so shortly after.
"Scott? Scott wake up." She pleaded. Cyclops' limp form lay still on the bed beside hers. He had a dark purple bruise on his head; a few other not too serious bruises on both his arms and something must have done damage to his chest area because it was wrapped up tightly in bandages.
"I did that to him didn't I?" She asked after gulping quietly. Xavier said nothing but she knew what his answer was.
"What's going on? Is he going to be all right? Is Remy going to be all right? What does all of this mean?" She was at a very emotional state and Xavier couldn't calm her down telepathically just yet.
"It was only a vision and Scott is going to be fine right? Nothing like that is going to happen to my brother and Cyclops will be back to bossing us all around in no time right?.Right?" It was safe to say that Chloe was now in full freaking out mode and wanted some damn answers to her questions.
Xavier said nothing.
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Logan sat in the kitchen drinking his second beer that night when he heard a bamf behind him and smelt a strong whiff of Sulfur. "So you find anything out or did you two just decide to bring him home for dinner?" Wolverine questioned evenly without even turning around.
Although the smell of Night Crawler's sulfur was a little overpowering, Wolverine could still pick up the scent of Magneto's pyromaniac laky.
"No, the Shelia just couldn't bare to be without me." John said vainly. "Ow! What'd you do that for?" John asked Kitty, rubbing the back of his head where Kitty had smacked him.
"He's all ve could find. The brotherhood must have split vhen Mystique came to visit." Kurt explained.
"Hey, hey I came here on my own terms remember?" Pyro asked the two teens. They gave him an agitated glare. ".Well okay maybe more on the blue bloke's terms then mine." He said after seeing their faces.
"Wait a minute.you're trying to tell me that you wanna help us?" Logan asked John skeptically.
"Look mate you and I both know that mystique took the Cajun and well.Mags aint exactly Mystique's favorite mutant ya know?" The Aussie said bluntly.
"I still don't buy it.but Chucks up trying to find out what the hell happened to Sparky upstairs so it'll have to wait." Logan explained, growling at first as he eyed the squirming fire starter.
"Something happened?" Kitty inquired. Her mentor sighed in exasperation and he put down his beer bottle.
"Alright listen up, cause I'm only gonna tell you once. I've had it with being the one to explain what's going on." He said in a gruff voice as the others listened with confused faces.
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"You don't know when to give up do you kid?" Creed asked Rogue who was currently recovering in a crumpled form on the ground.
"I thought the X-men were supposed to be smart enough to know that throwing yourself against a man made of metal is pretty much futile." Colossus commented, tilting his now human head sideways at Rogue who shot him a death glare in return.
"Oh I don't know about it being Futile. I mean it probably broke a few of the kids bones in the process." Sabretooth said in amusement, also looking down at the girl.
Even Rogue had to admit that revealing herself to the enemy by doing a roundhouse kick on a guy that could very easily and quickly turn his body to solid metal probably wasn't the best choice on her part, but she wasn't worried about that now.
Along with a few possibly broken ribs and a very soar leg she had to worry about the fact that she'd definitely heard Chloe and she had Remy with her, which would most likely explain why Magneto's goons were creeping around this particular alley way.
"Calm down Petite. Remy be goin as fast as he can." She could hear his thick Cajun accent with laughter in his voice getting louder and closer to where she was.
"Alright Petite. Now dat ya got Remy's attention, how bout showin him dis 'great apartment you been talkin' bout fo' de past ten-" Remy stopped dead in his tracks when he turned the corner and saw Rogue's limp form on the ground below non other then his X-teammates Colossus and Sabretooth.
He saw the look in her eyes and he could feel what she was feeling because of his empathy. It was pain. She was hurt and in pain and it was because of Magneto's henchmen that she was in this state.
Gambit's anger was boiling up inside of him, ready to burst. His red on black eyes, flaring more then usual at this time.
If he had looked over at his little sister he would have noticed that her face had a look of pure hatred towards the men as well, but he was too busy getting ready to use the Acolytes as an outlet for all the excess anger he'd been feeling. Plus they'd hurt Rogue and were about to pay for that action dearly.
"Gambit tinks y' need ta get away from her." He threatened the two men who were now looking at him and his sister.
As soon as they made eye contact Gambit's glare seeped into the Acolytes like poison, sending a chill up even Sabretooth's spine. There was no doubt about it. Remy Le beau was pissed.
"Hey Gambit." Colossus said casually. "Aw sorry kid. Didn't realize this was your girlfriend." Creed said, kicking Rogue in the side.
This only managed to tick off Remy even more so, which was what Sabretooth had intended. "Don' say Gambit didn' try an' worn ya." Remy said as he fired up a few cards and threw them at the two men in his path.
Creed got knocked back a few feet by Remy's second card but Peter had managed to dodge all four of them. His only mistake though was getting close enough for Rogue to touch his unarmed leg, which she did and stood behind him soon after.
Peter was down but only for a second. Creed had come back from his injury and was now closing in on Remy, who was now out of cards.
Creed felt a gloved hand tap on his shoulder and for some reason he turned around to see who it was. "He aint mah boyfriend." Rogue said firmly and loudly before she suited up and knocked Sabretooth into a nearby wall.
"Chere, y' wound me." Remy said, putting a hand to his chest sarcastically. Rogue was about to throw him a comeback when she felt herself being lifted up by the waist and harshly thrown into a garbage dumpster.
When she was thrown into the dumpster she first hit the propped up lid, causing it to close behind her as she fell into the fortunately empty dumpster taking her out of the fight.
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"Wow! That's like.wow!" Kitty said, a little shocked after hearing Logan's story. "Ya.vow!" Kurt said in agreement.
"Now back to the matter at hand." Wolverine said gruffly, turning to look at John who was clicking his lighter open and closed out of habit.
"Who me?" Pyro asked innocently.
"Yeah you, ya pyromaniac twit." Logan shot back, not buying the boy's innocent act.
"Well what do you want to know?" John asked a little impatiently.
"Everything." All the people in the kitchen turned their heads to the doorway where the newcomer's voice had come from. Chloe stood in the doorway, supporting herself on the frame.
"Look mates, I want to help the Cajun, really I do.its just that the more information I give you this easily the worse Magneto's punishments gonna be. I mean come on, how do you think it'll look if I go back to the base without a single scratch on me and I gave you blokes all that information? I'll be made out to look like a flippin trader. Pyro explained.
"Well in that case." Chloe took a step closer to an unsuspecting Pyro and socked him hard in the face. The others just gaped in shock at her unnatural behavior.
"Oy! What was that for?" He asked, rubbing his soar jaw.
"Well the way I see it, you give us information without getting the crap beat out of you and it'll make you look bad for Magneto." She said looking over at the others. "But if you come back beaten and bruised then it'll look like you tried to fight us and keep your mouth shut." Chloe explained.
They all nodded in agreement. "Well exactly how much information am I gonna have to give you Sheila?"
"Hm. I'd say the bloodier you are the more information we'll get. I really hope you're not a bleeder." She said as Kitty stifled a laugh at the scared look on John's face.
"Well it can't be that bad. I mean come on, how hard can one Sheila hit?" He asked, regaining some of his cool.
"Okay one, This Sheila can hit just as hard as you." Chloe told him firmly letting him know that she wasn't exaggerating.
"Yeah like hello, she's Remy's little sister, what do you expect?" Kitty asked.
"And two, I'm not the one that gets to play Pyro Piñata." She stated.
"Your not?" Kurt, Kitty and John asked in unison.
"Nope. He is." She said, pointing over to Logan who had drawn his claws out.
"Oh yay!" Pyro said sarcastically, trying to cover up his loud gulp.
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Scott opened his eyes to see a worried Jean talking to the Professor above him.
"He's going to be awake soon right?" She asked Xavier for the fifth time in the last half hour.
"No Jean he's not going to be awake soon." He said, causing her eyes to widen.
"What? But I thought u said that."
"He's not going to be awake soon because it seems that Scott is awake right now." Xavier said, wheeling out of the room to give Jean and Scott some time alone.
Jean volunteered to explain everything to Scott when he woke up so they could have some alone time.
"Jean? What's going on? How'd I get he-" He was cut off when his girlfriends arms swung around him and hugged him.
He graciously accepted the hug that neither one of them was willing to pull away from for a long time.
"So what happened? He said, examining the bruises and bandages he'd been given.
Jean let out a tired sigh and looked at him through her wary eyes. "It's a long story Scott. A very long story." She said, sitting down on his bed beside him and trying to think of the best way to tell him that among other things he'd been knocked across the room and unconscious by a fifteen year old newbie. He was just gonna love this.
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"Yo' gonna regret dat pussy cat." Remy said, tightening his fists and glancing over at the shut dumpster in the alley. Piotr stood up and shook off the effects of Rogue's powers.
"Erm. maybe we should go." Chloe said, tugging at her brother's trench coat sleeve. Remy ignored her.
"Yeah Cajun. Just try and run away and see what happens." Sabretooth taunted.
"Remy please! "We need to go now! We need to get out of here." Chloe pleaded.
'No! They are not going to get either of the Le beaus. Either I get them, or no one does.' Mystique thought to herself in frustration.
"You know we could make this easy. Give up the little brat and maybe Magneto will go easy on ya for leaving." Sabretooth said, taking a step toward the girl.
Remy didn't like this action and decided to take a step in front of his little sister protectively.
Chloe looked at her surroundings and smirked when her eyes caught a rusted crowbar among the trashcans. She lifted the crowbar over her head, aiming it at Remy who had his back to her. Steadily she raised it higher and swung it at Gambit's back. She would have knocked him out if something hadn't interfered with her plans too.
Chloe, the real Chloe, tackled Mystique to the ground, knocking the weapon out of the fake's hand. "Get off of me you little brat." Mystique ordered, still in the form of Chloe and trying to get the real Chloe off of her.
"No.not until you.change." Chloe said stubbornly between the hair pulling, scratching, wrestling and rolling around on the pavement.
"Chloe?" Remy was very confused when he turned around to see his sister tackling.his sister. "What be goin on ere? Who.which one o' you is de real Chloe?" Gambit inquired.
The girls stopped killing each other to hear him. "I am." They both said in unison. "Are not." "Are too." They both said childishly, then went right back to battling each other as soon as he'd stopped talking.
The baffled Gambit had no idea of what was going on and Sabretooth took advantage of this. He picked the crowbar up and bashed it into Remy's leg, causing the Cajun to fall to his knees.
Remy tried to get up but was turned around by Creed. Sabretooth punched Gambit in the face twice before moving on and kicking him in the sides. Remy yelled out in agony as Sabretooth sliced into his flesh in his chest and he began to slowly bleed. This really wasn't his week for injuries.
Chloe heard her brother yell and looked up to see Sabretooth kicking him around. "No, Remy!" She called out to her brother and stood from her current fight with Mystique. "Get away from him you big flea motel." She yelled, running over to Gambit's side and forming two very high voltage electric orbs in her hands.
Before she could do anything to help though, Mystique tackled her and pinned her to the ground. "This would have been so much easier if you had just kept away you nosy little nuisance." Mystique said angrily as she watched her future member get pummeled to death.
"Sorry." Chloe replied casually. "I'm a little sister. Butting in and being nosy is basically what I do." She stated, smirking before head butting her opponent.
Mystique was knocked back momentarily and Chloe sat up, rubbing her forehead. "Ow! That looked a lot less painful in the movies." She groaned before getting kicked in the face by her double and landing on the floor again.
She was about to be kicked in the stomach and be out of the games for good when Kurt appeared in a cloud of sulfur. "Sorry to interrupt zis little love fest but I need to borrow her." Kurt said, grabbing Chloe's wrist and porting them both away.
"I have to go back. I have to help Remy." Chloe stated, pulling out of Night Crawler's grip. They had landed on the rooftop above the alley.
"Right. And getting yourself killed vill help him how?" He asked.
"I wasn't getting myself killed. I was about to totally kick her ass until you showed up and took me here." She stated, though she knew full well that it was a total lie.
"Oh zank you ever so much for rescuing me from ze evil mutant about to kill me Kurt." He said in a voice much higher then his own, obviously trying to sound like Chloe. "Oh no problem Chloe. I mean all I did vas risk mine life to save you." He said in his own voice, hinting that, that was what should have been said.
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Back on the ground Sabretooth had picked up Remy and was about to throw him against one of the walls but something stopped his body from meeting the bricks.
Jean stepped into view with her hands on her temples. She was using her telekinesis to prevent Remy's face from getting bashed into the building.
Gambit was set back on the ground next to Jean who was now accompanied by Evan and Kitty. "Kitty, Rogue's in the dumpster to your left. Phase through it and grab her." Jean said, not even opening her eyes. She was concentrating on throwing trashcans at Sabretooth with her powers.
"Eww! Like gross." Kitty said, taking a deep breath, holding it and pinching her nose before phasing in and out of the box with Evan.
Somebody had to carry Rogue and she definitely couldn't do that and concentrate on phasing at the same time so Evan would have to do it.
"Aw man Rogue girl. You couldn't have been trapped somewhere that didn't reek so badly?" Evan asked.
"Evan you moron. She's like unconscious. I don't think she's going to like answer." Kitty said bluntly.
"Okay dats it. What de hell is goin on here?" Gambit asked impatiently. He saw Rogue and dismissed the question for the moment as he took her from Evan and held her in his arms protectively.
He looked down at her, wishing he could hold her closer and with more ease but he was too weak to do either. He just held her still body.
Then they all heard a loud growl. Sabretooth was getting angrier and Jean was getting weaker. "I can't hold them off much longer guys. Where's Night Crawler with Chloe?" She asked.
"Chloe be right over here." Remy said as Mystique walked over to him.
"Yeah. Thank goodness you all came when you did. I thought for sure were doomed." Chloe said, wrapping an arm around Gambit.
"Cajun get the hell away from her. She aint who she looks like." Logan said, lunging toward Creed just as Jean collapsed to the floor from over use of her powers.
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"Look, I'm grateful okay. Really I am but right now I'm not the one that needs saving, Remy is." Chloe said to the blue elf.
"But Gambit vould vant you to be safe. Ve have all been doing zis fighting thing a lot longer zen you have." He reasoned with her.
"But I can't just sit here doing nothing. I feel so useless." She said looking down at Logan and Creed who were currently duking it out.
Kurt sighed in defeat as he looked over at the girl. She looked back at him and saw in his eyes that she'd somehow one the argument.
"Come on." He said, knowing he'd lost the fight as he grabbed her hand and they both ported back to the ground.
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"Remy you moron! You can't tell the difference between your own sister and some honey lunatic?" Chloe asked in disbelief as she saw Mystique and Remy together.
Kurt and Chloe had ported over to the ground and Kurt was assisting Jean to her feet.
Remy had just handed Rogue to Storm who was taking her and Jean to the X- van. "Huh?" He inquired, looking at Mystique.
She smirked devilishly. "Oops." She said innocently, morphing into her blue form. She then did a perfect roundhouse kick into Remy's face, kicked him in his wounded chest and morphed into a raven before flying off. Her plan had failed.
Remy fell to the ground, giving in to his final attack. Chloe rushed to his side and hugged him. "Oh no don't. You're so not getting out of this that easily." She said, trying to remove some of the pain. "Your not allowed to die until I say I told you so about a million more times." She laughed, releasing him from her grip.
She gasped, seeing his blood on her hand when she let him go. "Remy!" She shouted, but even after she shook him vigorously he'd already passed out.
Rogue decided to choose this moment to wake up. The X-van had been driven to the alley to meet the others and the doors were open so she could see everything. She sat up, rubbing her head but froze when she became aware of the scene she was witnessing.
Gambit was lying on the ground, his head in Chloe's lap. She shook him fiercely before stopping only to brake into tears. "Hang on Remy. Please just hang on a little longer." She pleaded as Evan and Kurt lifted his body and teleported over to the van.
Even Piotr had stopped his attack toward Shadow Cat who was unaware of his presence. He hadn't attacked her, and he easily could have done so with her attention being elsewhere.
Rogue wasn't really sure why the massive mutant neglected to hurt her friend but didn't really care much at the moment. Her concerns were more focused on a beaten Remy that was placed next to her as the doors closed.
Rogue only stared in shock at everything going on and then at Gambit's nearly lifeless form beside her. The fight was over and they'd gotten Remy back, but would it be too late?
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OHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH! Yeah I know, I know Remy got the crap kicked outta him but guess what, Romyness is around the corner. Duh! Of course I'm not gonna kill off Remy. It's like a rule. It's not allowed. What would the world be like without Remy?
Okay people sorry for such a long wait for updating but I had and sorta still have writers block and my computer went on the fritz and I lost like a big peace of the chapter on top of that but I got it back like two days later. Don't ya hate it when that happens?
Anyways you guyz know the drill. I wrote, now you review, and I'll write again. I'm not even gonna start writing the next chapter until I get at least five reviews.okay maybe I'll just brainstorm cuz I luv you guyz so much. Thanx for reading. now review!
-AngieX
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Tenshi Kanashii- Thanx! I was hoping somebody would like those parts and also that somebody would review and tell me. You did both so Yay you! Oh and thanx for the tip on the empathy though I didn't really get what you meant. But thanx for reviewing all those chapters. Review again plz.
Taineyah- I'm saving Remy. I'm saving Rogue. (Just not all at once.) I'll even try and save the whales just cuz u reviewed. May even use it in the fic a little later on. Lol. Thanx for reviewing. Hope you do it again.
jiana weasley- Okedoke, I'm a little worried for my safety now but I get the picture yes. I know how you feel about needing people to updating. Sry I didn't update for a while. Couldn't be helped really. Review again plz.
Girl number 1- Yeah I guess Chloe's power is like Pheobes power only she feels the stuff the people are feeling. Not sure if Phebeo does that. I'm not gonna give her anymore powers but I want to use a charmed power in another fic or character. What d'ya think of that? Thanx for reviewing. Do it again plz.
Ishandahalf- Yeah I like Mystique too I guess only she is as you said a 'Stupid Mystique Garbage face' in this fic. Sry Mystique luvers if ya wanted her to be all on the side of good for this one. Though who knows right? Review again plz. I'd totally luv it.
Sry guyz I cant write back to all the reviewers all the time. Only people who have individual comments or questions or what ever. Thanx for all of you who reviewed that I didn't write. You guyz rock too!
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Chapter 12
Visions of darkness and A dream come true
The harsh, bright lights illuminating the room beamed down on Chloe, causing her to squint her chestnut brown eyes as she slowly opened them.
The young girl recognized the overly bright light fixtures and subtle scent of a doctor's office in the room, telling her that it was some sort of medical area. She decided not to move as much as possible because she could still feel the pain, only moving her arms slightly to rub her eyes in an attempt to clear her currently blurred vision.
She let out a loud groan and slowly sat up, clutching her head in her hands and leaning forward before feeling the headache and dizziness rushing back through her body as she regained consciousness.
She felt so tired and weak. She wanted to go back to bed and her head was aching to no end along with the rest of her body. 'This must be how Remy feels after a night out drinking with the men in the guild.' She figured.
'Wait.Remy!' Chloe had just remembered all the things that had happened the following nights, including the horrible nightmare of Remy and the blue skinned imposter.
"I'm afraid that was no nightmare you had Chloe." She jerked her head up; startled to see the Professor sitting in a wheelchair, not far from the bed she was sleeping in.
"Wh-what are you talking about? What happened? How.how did I get here?" She asked, breathing heavily and feeling very dazed and out of breath once again.
"Professor, I thought you were.away somewhere or.I.I can't really remember." She admitted, sounding and looking very confused at her lack in memory of current events, not to mention that she wasn't totally awake at the moment and she had somehow earned herself a hospital bed.
"Its alright Chloe. Don't overwhelm yourself by trying to remember the irrelevant things. I was out on a mission with Beast. That is correct. But right now I would like you to try and remember what happened before you blacked out. The corridor you were in, the card, Logan. Try to remember what happened." He said again very calmly, wheeling over to her bedside.
She closed her eyes and did as Xavier said, trying to concentrate and recall all the things that had happened. She remembered Jean, Scott, and Evan going back to the garden, Kurt teleporting Kitty and Rogue somewhere, and then Logan and herself talking and walking down the halls of the institute. She vaguely remembered slipping on a piece of paper. or was it a card? One of Remy's maybe? She could remember that much at least.
The rest was like a dream. The longer you were awake the farther away the events seemed to be from her thoughts.
Her head started to throb a little from the force she was putting on it in the process of racking her brain for hazy memories.
"Very good. Now I'm going to go into your head, which will allow me to see the things that you saw in your vision. Do you understand?" He explained and made sure Chloe knew everything he was going to do before invading the privacy of her thoughts.
Chloe was fine with him looking around in her fried cranium. She was too tired to care about childish crushes and petty secrets being revealed in the process.
She nodded a yes in response and tried to think even more about the dream, or vision as he put it.
There was a flash and suddenly she could feel herself being forced to relive the horrible nightmare just as she'd done before, but this time the Professor was there to help her through it. This time he was seeing the same thing she was seeing; only it didn't seem to hurt him as much as it did her.
He still got a headache and the emotional pain of seeing one mutant do something so harmful to another but he wasn't getting the feeling of the wind being knocked out of him or having to see his older brother get knocked unconscious over and over again and not be able to do anything about it like Chloe had.
Every time she had the vision it would do something to her. A stabbing pain in her stomach, a throbbing headache, using up her energy. Whatever the case was, it was getting worse every time she replayed the scene.
After having been through the same premonition about seven times with the Professor she'd had enough. She couldn't take reliving the scene anymore. She couldn't handle seeing her brother cringe in pain the way he did the same way every time she watched.
She broke away from the line of telepathy Xavier had formed.
Xavier's eyes shot open and widened from the shock of what he'd just seen. Though he soon erased that look from his face and concentrated on recalling the premonition he'd just encountered, searching for any clues as to where this incident might happen.
He didn't understand why she was having these visions. Premonitions weren't any form of her natural mutation, which meant that her body was not made for the power and was therefore rejecting it. This was also the reason why the use of this power was taking so much out of her.
Chloe was now gasping for air, tears streaming down her pale face. (AN: She does a lot of crying in this fic doesn't she?)
It was as if she was in water, only inches away from the surface, but the vision was keeping her under, tempting her to give in and drown.
After seeing her state Xavier thought it best to leave Chloe alone until she was calmer and decided to start things off by doing the thing he did best, ordering people around telepathically.
'Logan please inform Jean and Evan that we will be going on a mission.' He told Logan who was training with the new recruits in the danger room at the time.
'A mission? Any thing I should know?' Logan asked, confused.
'Nothing yet. Just tell them to suit up and meet me in the med lab.'
"I still don't understand. How did I do that? Why am I having these visions?" Chloe asked, now extremely confused. She had calmed herself down and now she wanted answers.
"Yes, well I do not understand all of this either. Only time will tell."
"No, only time will get my older brother killed." She shot back. It was true though. The longer she spent sitting around here the closer the dream would be to coming true.
"Chloe do you remember anything else about what was going on around you while you were having the premonition for the first few times before you blacked out?" He asked, choosing to ignore her last statement.
"Um.well I remember screaming and I know Logan was there. He was trying to tell me something. I was so confused about what was going on in real life and what was going on in the vision. I could have sworn I heard Scott's voice." She was silent for a few more seconds in deep thought, pondering what she had just said.
All of a sudden the realization of the whole thing hit her hard in the face and she looked back at the Professor, her eyes widening as big as they could go. "Oh no. Scott." She exclaimed.
Xavier's eyes shifted over to the bed next to hers and he sighed deeply. Slowly, she turned her head to where the Professor was now looking. She regretted doing so shortly after.
"Scott? Scott wake up." She pleaded. Cyclops' limp form lay still on the bed beside hers. He had a dark purple bruise on his head; a few other not too serious bruises on both his arms and something must have done damage to his chest area because it was wrapped up tightly in bandages.
"I did that to him didn't I?" She asked after gulping quietly. Xavier said nothing but she knew what his answer was.
"What's going on? Is he going to be all right? Is Remy going to be all right? What does all of this mean?" She was at a very emotional state and Xavier couldn't calm her down telepathically just yet.
"It was only a vision and Scott is going to be fine right? Nothing like that is going to happen to my brother and Cyclops will be back to bossing us all around in no time right?.Right?" It was safe to say that Chloe was now in full freaking out mode and wanted some damn answers to her questions.
Xavier said nothing.
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Logan sat in the kitchen drinking his second beer that night when he heard a bamf behind him and smelt a strong whiff of Sulfur. "So you find anything out or did you two just decide to bring him home for dinner?" Wolverine questioned evenly without even turning around.
Although the smell of Night Crawler's sulfur was a little overpowering, Wolverine could still pick up the scent of Magneto's pyromaniac laky.
"No, the Shelia just couldn't bare to be without me." John said vainly. "Ow! What'd you do that for?" John asked Kitty, rubbing the back of his head where Kitty had smacked him.
"He's all ve could find. The brotherhood must have split vhen Mystique came to visit." Kurt explained.
"Hey, hey I came here on my own terms remember?" Pyro asked the two teens. They gave him an agitated glare. ".Well okay maybe more on the blue bloke's terms then mine." He said after seeing their faces.
"Wait a minute.you're trying to tell me that you wanna help us?" Logan asked John skeptically.
"Look mate you and I both know that mystique took the Cajun and well.Mags aint exactly Mystique's favorite mutant ya know?" The Aussie said bluntly.
"I still don't buy it.but Chucks up trying to find out what the hell happened to Sparky upstairs so it'll have to wait." Logan explained, growling at first as he eyed the squirming fire starter.
"Something happened?" Kitty inquired. Her mentor sighed in exasperation and he put down his beer bottle.
"Alright listen up, cause I'm only gonna tell you once. I've had it with being the one to explain what's going on." He said in a gruff voice as the others listened with confused faces.
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"You don't know when to give up do you kid?" Creed asked Rogue who was currently recovering in a crumpled form on the ground.
"I thought the X-men were supposed to be smart enough to know that throwing yourself against a man made of metal is pretty much futile." Colossus commented, tilting his now human head sideways at Rogue who shot him a death glare in return.
"Oh I don't know about it being Futile. I mean it probably broke a few of the kids bones in the process." Sabretooth said in amusement, also looking down at the girl.
Even Rogue had to admit that revealing herself to the enemy by doing a roundhouse kick on a guy that could very easily and quickly turn his body to solid metal probably wasn't the best choice on her part, but she wasn't worried about that now.
Along with a few possibly broken ribs and a very soar leg she had to worry about the fact that she'd definitely heard Chloe and she had Remy with her, which would most likely explain why Magneto's goons were creeping around this particular alley way.
"Calm down Petite. Remy be goin as fast as he can." She could hear his thick Cajun accent with laughter in his voice getting louder and closer to where she was.
"Alright Petite. Now dat ya got Remy's attention, how bout showin him dis 'great apartment you been talkin' bout fo' de past ten-" Remy stopped dead in his tracks when he turned the corner and saw Rogue's limp form on the ground below non other then his X-teammates Colossus and Sabretooth.
He saw the look in her eyes and he could feel what she was feeling because of his empathy. It was pain. She was hurt and in pain and it was because of Magneto's henchmen that she was in this state.
Gambit's anger was boiling up inside of him, ready to burst. His red on black eyes, flaring more then usual at this time.
If he had looked over at his little sister he would have noticed that her face had a look of pure hatred towards the men as well, but he was too busy getting ready to use the Acolytes as an outlet for all the excess anger he'd been feeling. Plus they'd hurt Rogue and were about to pay for that action dearly.
"Gambit tinks y' need ta get away from her." He threatened the two men who were now looking at him and his sister.
As soon as they made eye contact Gambit's glare seeped into the Acolytes like poison, sending a chill up even Sabretooth's spine. There was no doubt about it. Remy Le beau was pissed.
"Hey Gambit." Colossus said casually. "Aw sorry kid. Didn't realize this was your girlfriend." Creed said, kicking Rogue in the side.
This only managed to tick off Remy even more so, which was what Sabretooth had intended. "Don' say Gambit didn' try an' worn ya." Remy said as he fired up a few cards and threw them at the two men in his path.
Creed got knocked back a few feet by Remy's second card but Peter had managed to dodge all four of them. His only mistake though was getting close enough for Rogue to touch his unarmed leg, which she did and stood behind him soon after.
Peter was down but only for a second. Creed had come back from his injury and was now closing in on Remy, who was now out of cards.
Creed felt a gloved hand tap on his shoulder and for some reason he turned around to see who it was. "He aint mah boyfriend." Rogue said firmly and loudly before she suited up and knocked Sabretooth into a nearby wall.
"Chere, y' wound me." Remy said, putting a hand to his chest sarcastically. Rogue was about to throw him a comeback when she felt herself being lifted up by the waist and harshly thrown into a garbage dumpster.
When she was thrown into the dumpster she first hit the propped up lid, causing it to close behind her as she fell into the fortunately empty dumpster taking her out of the fight.
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"Wow! That's like.wow!" Kitty said, a little shocked after hearing Logan's story. "Ya.vow!" Kurt said in agreement.
"Now back to the matter at hand." Wolverine said gruffly, turning to look at John who was clicking his lighter open and closed out of habit.
"Who me?" Pyro asked innocently.
"Yeah you, ya pyromaniac twit." Logan shot back, not buying the boy's innocent act.
"Well what do you want to know?" John asked a little impatiently.
"Everything." All the people in the kitchen turned their heads to the doorway where the newcomer's voice had come from. Chloe stood in the doorway, supporting herself on the frame.
"Look mates, I want to help the Cajun, really I do.its just that the more information I give you this easily the worse Magneto's punishments gonna be. I mean come on, how do you think it'll look if I go back to the base without a single scratch on me and I gave you blokes all that information? I'll be made out to look like a flippin trader. Pyro explained.
"Well in that case." Chloe took a step closer to an unsuspecting Pyro and socked him hard in the face. The others just gaped in shock at her unnatural behavior.
"Oy! What was that for?" He asked, rubbing his soar jaw.
"Well the way I see it, you give us information without getting the crap beat out of you and it'll make you look bad for Magneto." She said looking over at the others. "But if you come back beaten and bruised then it'll look like you tried to fight us and keep your mouth shut." Chloe explained.
They all nodded in agreement. "Well exactly how much information am I gonna have to give you Sheila?"
"Hm. I'd say the bloodier you are the more information we'll get. I really hope you're not a bleeder." She said as Kitty stifled a laugh at the scared look on John's face.
"Well it can't be that bad. I mean come on, how hard can one Sheila hit?" He asked, regaining some of his cool.
"Okay one, This Sheila can hit just as hard as you." Chloe told him firmly letting him know that she wasn't exaggerating.
"Yeah like hello, she's Remy's little sister, what do you expect?" Kitty asked.
"And two, I'm not the one that gets to play Pyro Piñata." She stated.
"Your not?" Kurt, Kitty and John asked in unison.
"Nope. He is." She said, pointing over to Logan who had drawn his claws out.
"Oh yay!" Pyro said sarcastically, trying to cover up his loud gulp.
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Scott opened his eyes to see a worried Jean talking to the Professor above him.
"He's going to be awake soon right?" She asked Xavier for the fifth time in the last half hour.
"No Jean he's not going to be awake soon." He said, causing her eyes to widen.
"What? But I thought u said that."
"He's not going to be awake soon because it seems that Scott is awake right now." Xavier said, wheeling out of the room to give Jean and Scott some time alone.
Jean volunteered to explain everything to Scott when he woke up so they could have some alone time.
"Jean? What's going on? How'd I get he-" He was cut off when his girlfriends arms swung around him and hugged him.
He graciously accepted the hug that neither one of them was willing to pull away from for a long time.
"So what happened? He said, examining the bruises and bandages he'd been given.
Jean let out a tired sigh and looked at him through her wary eyes. "It's a long story Scott. A very long story." She said, sitting down on his bed beside him and trying to think of the best way to tell him that among other things he'd been knocked across the room and unconscious by a fifteen year old newbie. He was just gonna love this.
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"Yo' gonna regret dat pussy cat." Remy said, tightening his fists and glancing over at the shut dumpster in the alley. Piotr stood up and shook off the effects of Rogue's powers.
"Erm. maybe we should go." Chloe said, tugging at her brother's trench coat sleeve. Remy ignored her.
"Yeah Cajun. Just try and run away and see what happens." Sabretooth taunted.
"Remy please! "We need to go now! We need to get out of here." Chloe pleaded.
'No! They are not going to get either of the Le beaus. Either I get them, or no one does.' Mystique thought to herself in frustration.
"You know we could make this easy. Give up the little brat and maybe Magneto will go easy on ya for leaving." Sabretooth said, taking a step toward the girl.
Remy didn't like this action and decided to take a step in front of his little sister protectively.
Chloe looked at her surroundings and smirked when her eyes caught a rusted crowbar among the trashcans. She lifted the crowbar over her head, aiming it at Remy who had his back to her. Steadily she raised it higher and swung it at Gambit's back. She would have knocked him out if something hadn't interfered with her plans too.
Chloe, the real Chloe, tackled Mystique to the ground, knocking the weapon out of the fake's hand. "Get off of me you little brat." Mystique ordered, still in the form of Chloe and trying to get the real Chloe off of her.
"No.not until you.change." Chloe said stubbornly between the hair pulling, scratching, wrestling and rolling around on the pavement.
"Chloe?" Remy was very confused when he turned around to see his sister tackling.his sister. "What be goin on ere? Who.which one o' you is de real Chloe?" Gambit inquired.
The girls stopped killing each other to hear him. "I am." They both said in unison. "Are not." "Are too." They both said childishly, then went right back to battling each other as soon as he'd stopped talking.
The baffled Gambit had no idea of what was going on and Sabretooth took advantage of this. He picked the crowbar up and bashed it into Remy's leg, causing the Cajun to fall to his knees.
Remy tried to get up but was turned around by Creed. Sabretooth punched Gambit in the face twice before moving on and kicking him in the sides. Remy yelled out in agony as Sabretooth sliced into his flesh in his chest and he began to slowly bleed. This really wasn't his week for injuries.
Chloe heard her brother yell and looked up to see Sabretooth kicking him around. "No, Remy!" She called out to her brother and stood from her current fight with Mystique. "Get away from him you big flea motel." She yelled, running over to Gambit's side and forming two very high voltage electric orbs in her hands.
Before she could do anything to help though, Mystique tackled her and pinned her to the ground. "This would have been so much easier if you had just kept away you nosy little nuisance." Mystique said angrily as she watched her future member get pummeled to death.
"Sorry." Chloe replied casually. "I'm a little sister. Butting in and being nosy is basically what I do." She stated, smirking before head butting her opponent.
Mystique was knocked back momentarily and Chloe sat up, rubbing her forehead. "Ow! That looked a lot less painful in the movies." She groaned before getting kicked in the face by her double and landing on the floor again.
She was about to be kicked in the stomach and be out of the games for good when Kurt appeared in a cloud of sulfur. "Sorry to interrupt zis little love fest but I need to borrow her." Kurt said, grabbing Chloe's wrist and porting them both away.
"I have to go back. I have to help Remy." Chloe stated, pulling out of Night Crawler's grip. They had landed on the rooftop above the alley.
"Right. And getting yourself killed vill help him how?" He asked.
"I wasn't getting myself killed. I was about to totally kick her ass until you showed up and took me here." She stated, though she knew full well that it was a total lie.
"Oh zank you ever so much for rescuing me from ze evil mutant about to kill me Kurt." He said in a voice much higher then his own, obviously trying to sound like Chloe. "Oh no problem Chloe. I mean all I did vas risk mine life to save you." He said in his own voice, hinting that, that was what should have been said.
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Back on the ground Sabretooth had picked up Remy and was about to throw him against one of the walls but something stopped his body from meeting the bricks.
Jean stepped into view with her hands on her temples. She was using her telekinesis to prevent Remy's face from getting bashed into the building.
Gambit was set back on the ground next to Jean who was now accompanied by Evan and Kitty. "Kitty, Rogue's in the dumpster to your left. Phase through it and grab her." Jean said, not even opening her eyes. She was concentrating on throwing trashcans at Sabretooth with her powers.
"Eww! Like gross." Kitty said, taking a deep breath, holding it and pinching her nose before phasing in and out of the box with Evan.
Somebody had to carry Rogue and she definitely couldn't do that and concentrate on phasing at the same time so Evan would have to do it.
"Aw man Rogue girl. You couldn't have been trapped somewhere that didn't reek so badly?" Evan asked.
"Evan you moron. She's like unconscious. I don't think she's going to like answer." Kitty said bluntly.
"Okay dats it. What de hell is goin on here?" Gambit asked impatiently. He saw Rogue and dismissed the question for the moment as he took her from Evan and held her in his arms protectively.
He looked down at her, wishing he could hold her closer and with more ease but he was too weak to do either. He just held her still body.
Then they all heard a loud growl. Sabretooth was getting angrier and Jean was getting weaker. "I can't hold them off much longer guys. Where's Night Crawler with Chloe?" She asked.
"Chloe be right over here." Remy said as Mystique walked over to him.
"Yeah. Thank goodness you all came when you did. I thought for sure were doomed." Chloe said, wrapping an arm around Gambit.
"Cajun get the hell away from her. She aint who she looks like." Logan said, lunging toward Creed just as Jean collapsed to the floor from over use of her powers.
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"Look, I'm grateful okay. Really I am but right now I'm not the one that needs saving, Remy is." Chloe said to the blue elf.
"But Gambit vould vant you to be safe. Ve have all been doing zis fighting thing a lot longer zen you have." He reasoned with her.
"But I can't just sit here doing nothing. I feel so useless." She said looking down at Logan and Creed who were currently duking it out.
Kurt sighed in defeat as he looked over at the girl. She looked back at him and saw in his eyes that she'd somehow one the argument.
"Come on." He said, knowing he'd lost the fight as he grabbed her hand and they both ported back to the ground.
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"Remy you moron! You can't tell the difference between your own sister and some honey lunatic?" Chloe asked in disbelief as she saw Mystique and Remy together.
Kurt and Chloe had ported over to the ground and Kurt was assisting Jean to her feet.
Remy had just handed Rogue to Storm who was taking her and Jean to the X- van. "Huh?" He inquired, looking at Mystique.
She smirked devilishly. "Oops." She said innocently, morphing into her blue form. She then did a perfect roundhouse kick into Remy's face, kicked him in his wounded chest and morphed into a raven before flying off. Her plan had failed.
Remy fell to the ground, giving in to his final attack. Chloe rushed to his side and hugged him. "Oh no don't. You're so not getting out of this that easily." She said, trying to remove some of the pain. "Your not allowed to die until I say I told you so about a million more times." She laughed, releasing him from her grip.
She gasped, seeing his blood on her hand when she let him go. "Remy!" She shouted, but even after she shook him vigorously he'd already passed out.
Rogue decided to choose this moment to wake up. The X-van had been driven to the alley to meet the others and the doors were open so she could see everything. She sat up, rubbing her head but froze when she became aware of the scene she was witnessing.
Gambit was lying on the ground, his head in Chloe's lap. She shook him fiercely before stopping only to brake into tears. "Hang on Remy. Please just hang on a little longer." She pleaded as Evan and Kurt lifted his body and teleported over to the van.
Even Piotr had stopped his attack toward Shadow Cat who was unaware of his presence. He hadn't attacked her, and he easily could have done so with her attention being elsewhere.
Rogue wasn't really sure why the massive mutant neglected to hurt her friend but didn't really care much at the moment. Her concerns were more focused on a beaten Remy that was placed next to her as the doors closed.
Rogue only stared in shock at everything going on and then at Gambit's nearly lifeless form beside her. The fight was over and they'd gotten Remy back, but would it be too late?
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OHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH! Yeah I know, I know Remy got the crap kicked outta him but guess what, Romyness is around the corner. Duh! Of course I'm not gonna kill off Remy. It's like a rule. It's not allowed. What would the world be like without Remy?
Okay people sorry for such a long wait for updating but I had and sorta still have writers block and my computer went on the fritz and I lost like a big peace of the chapter on top of that but I got it back like two days later. Don't ya hate it when that happens?
Anyways you guyz know the drill. I wrote, now you review, and I'll write again. I'm not even gonna start writing the next chapter until I get at least five reviews.okay maybe I'll just brainstorm cuz I luv you guyz so much. Thanx for reading. now review!
-AngieX