Title: An Ending And A Beginning
Author: Phatz
Rating: R
Disclaimer: Don't own them. So get the hell off my back.
Summary: Logan and Marie's friendship takes a nosedive, but will it lead to something better? Or is it too late?
Authors Notes: Sorry this chapter took so long and that it's so short, but work and school have gotten in the way. What are you gonna do? Oh and there are some pretty adult and dark situations in this chapter. It's nothing graphic, but you've been warned.
~Thoughts~
Telepathic Speech
Chapter 7Logan opened his eyes while swimming into consciousness. He was sore all over and had a pounding headache, which was not unusual in this place. It was from the drugs wearing off. He knew if Stryker and his cronies stopped pumping him full of drugs and let him regain consciousness, it was so they could torture and experiment on him. They always wanted him awake for that, so he could feel and see everything.
They door behind him opened, and Logan sniffed to see who it was. He couldn't smell anything, and he realized they must have slapped a collar on him. He cursed inwardly.
Stryker strode into his line of vision, with a wicked smile on his face. "How's my experiment today?"
"Fuck you."
"Ah, lingual as always I see." Stryker tapped his chin, and his smile grew broader. "I have a surprise for you Wolverine."
"Good. I was beginning to miss our time together." Logan bit out.
"Oh, I'll think you'll love this surprise."
"Fuck you."
Stryker laughed, and turned on his radio. "Roberts!" He barked, "You can bring in the prisoner now."
The door opened, and Roberts drug in a young woman, who was tied up, and kicking and screaming. Roberts threw the girl to the ground in front of Logan. "No…" Logan growled.
"I believe you two know each other?" Stryker smirked. "If not, let me introduce you. Wolverine, this is Rogue; Rogue, this is Wolverine." Stryker laughed.
"Let her go!" Logan yelled. "I'll fucking kill you! Let her go!"
"Now, now Wolverine," Stryker said, grabbing Marie's bare arm, "It's your fault she is here."
"Marie! use your skin! Get the hell outta here!" Logan thrashed against the restraints, they didn't move. He did not care if he ever got out of this place, as long as Marie didn't have to go through the pain he did. He couldn't let that happen.
"Really Wolverine, are you that stupid? If I have a power suppressor collar for you, don't you think I have one for her?" Stryker held up Marie's arm, showing Logan a bracelet that looked exactly like the collar around his neck.
"You don't want her." Logan growled. "She's useless."
"Oh I have a use for her. A very good use."
Stryker dragged Marie to a steel table, threw her on it, and strapped her down. He turned back to Logan and looker him straight in the eyes. "I'll be right back." He left.
"Marie? Are you ok?" Logan looked at Marie. She was shaking and crying. "Marie?"
"No."
"Don't worry Marie. I'll find a way to get you out. I won't let them hurt ya."
"You can't do anything Logan."
"Marie don't worry, I'll find a-"
"It's your fault I'm here anyway." She whispered.
"What?"
"Stryker told me that you wouldn't cooperate. That's why I'm here. For leverage, I guess."
"Marie, I'm-"
"Why can't you leave me alone Logan?" Marie sobbed. " I don't love you, ok? I love Remy. But you just wouldn't let it go. I'm here because you love me. It's your fault." Marie continued to cry, and Logan was suddenly very angry with himself. Marie was right. It's his damn fault she's here. If he weren't such a bastard being obsessed with a twenty year-old woman, she wouldn't be here. She loved Remy, not him. "Marie… how would Stryker know? I never told him anything. You have to know I would never let them get ya."
"You don't think I have telepaths here Wolverine?" Stryker said, re-entering the room with three guards behind him. "I need to teach you a lesson. You are not a man. You are an animal, a weapon. For me to use as I see fit. I just had to find your weakness, the one thing you cared about." Stryker placed a hand on Marie's breast, and squeezed. "And I found it."
"Get your fucking hands off her!" Logan growled.
"Of course." Stryker said, walking to stand next to Logan. "I'm not the one who was going to do anything." Stryker turned to the tree guards, standing near Marie. "Do what you want men."
Logan watched in horror as the three guards took turns punching, kicking, and slapping Marie. She struggled against her straps, and yelled out in pain.
"You mother fuckers! Don't touch her!" Logan struggled against the adamantium bonds, the metal digging into his skin, making his blood drip down his arms. He didn't notice. All he noticed was Marie being beaten in front of him, with him being powerless to stop it.
"This is your fault Wolverine." Stryker whispered in his ear. "If you would have listened, and realized you are nothing more than a lab rat, she wouldn't be here."
Logan looked at Marie, who was crying uncontrollably. "Let her go, and I'll do whatever you want." Logan whispered.
Stryker, shocked at Logan's silent plea, smirked. It was working. "After they are finished with her, I will let her go. This is your punishment for not listening the first time."
The three guards, obviously tired of beating Marie, dropped there pants, and each took turns raping Her. Marie screamed Louder, and thrashed against the straps holding her down, begging for them to stop.
"No!!" Logan popped his claws, and began to try and hack his way through the adamantium bonds, or his own wrists. He didn't care which. Marie was being beaten and raped right in front of him, and it was his fault. All his fault.
"Ok, that enough. Get off that mutant bitch." Stryker commanded the guards. They complied. "Now, leave us alone." They guards left the room, and Stryker walked up to a sobbing and beaten Marie, with a pistol in his right hand. "Thank you my dear, you did well."
"Let her go." Logan stated lifelessly. "Let her go, and I will do whatever you want."
"I heard you the first time." Stryker sneered. "But I changed my mind." Stryker put the point of the pistol to Marie's temple, and cocked the gun.
"No!" Logan yelled. "Don't!"
"It's your fault Wolverine."
Logan looked at Stryker. "Kill me instead. Let her go and kill me."
"I need you, not her. After all, she is now useless to me, as you said earlier."
Logan looked into Marie's bloodshot eyes. "I'm so sorry darlin'. God I'm sorry. I love you."
Marie looked right back at Logan, and muttered her final words. "I hate you."
Stryker pulled the trigger, and the bullet entered Marie's skull with a sickening sound. She died instantly.
Logan roared in pain and anguish, and began to thrash against his restraints once again. Eventually giving up, Logan collapsed against the restraints, and to Stryker's surprise, Logan began to cry uncontrollably.
Logan didn't notice Stryker leave the room, or take Marie's body with him. She was dead. It was his fault, and she hated him for it. The last thing she ever said to him was 'I hate you', not that Logan blamed her. He hated himself, and for the first time in his remembered life, he cried. He kept repeating the same words, over and over. "It's my fault. It's my fault."
Stryker stood outside the lab door, grinning wickedly. He never dreamed seeing that bitch die would break him so totally. But apparently it had.
"I thought you weren't going to kill her." Johnson walked up to Stryker, and gazed at the dead mutant, although it was no longer Marie. The mutant now had red scaly skin, and green hair. "She was our best metamorph you know."
Stryker snorted. "So? We'll get another. Wolverine thought it was that Marie bitch, and he blames her death on himself, just like I hoped he would."
"Do you think it really worked?"
"Of course. He's in there crying, repeating 'My fault'. It worked better than I hoped."
"So we can wipe his mind now?"
"Only one way to find out." Stryker lead Johnson to the mutant holding cells, to get started on destroying the mutant known as Wolverine, and start creating Weapon X.
(To be continued…)