A Madman's Heart

Part 12

Victor Creed, by choice a loner, by law a murder in most of the places he has been, and by nature a survivor. Right now he is going against almost everything in his nature to find a way back to the little girl he has come to consider as a life line. How it happened he doesn't know, but what he does know is that sometime in between training her and making her into what Sinister wanted, he cared for the pup. He cared so much that if pushed he might put his life on the line, though he never thought he would. At this point the lied to himself on what he would sacrifice for the girl.

The airport, a small and stuffy building with two people to run it. Right now Victor Creed was about to rip apart one of them in anger.

"Sir I'm sorry, you're asking us to make a 24 hour flight in half the time… it just isn't possible. If we didn't have to refuel or change your planes then maybe, but we just can't." the young man stated while typing at an old computer. Creed's claws sunk a bit deeper into the wood counter.

"I told you before. I don't want no fucking scenic route. Just fly the over the Middle East." Creed stated through clenched teeth.

"We can't sir, that's a no fly zone and it would take us just as long to fly around it as to go the other way." the attendant stated and Creed sighed trying not to lose control, though it was getting exceedingly harder as the minutes flew by. He walked out of the place without further discussion with any of the people. The 24 hour flight would take him just to Dallas and it would have taken him another five hours by the time he was able to reach Jubilee. He didn't have 29 hours when there was another way. He got into his jeep and slammed the door so hard that it almost broke off. Grabbing the cell phone from the seat next to him, Victor fumbled around with it for a moment before he had the X-men mansion's number in and waiting for the answer.

Jubilee was avoiding two people now. First was Remy Lebeau, who for the most part wanted to talk to her. The man was become more of a pain with his smooth accent and thieving abilities. The Second was Logan. The man just would not leave her alone about these training sessions and though Jubilee had already done two, the night was still young in Logan's mind. He wanted her to trying something blind with only her senses to help her navigate.

"Boring." Jubilee stated to herself as she walked into the Rec room only to find Kitty on the couch. The older girl physically paled as Jubilee walked in. Jubilee hide her smile knowing that she had been giving Kitty a lot of hell since she arrived. 'Servers her right for saying something nasty about my Sabe.' Jubilee thought as she sat down on the couch.

"Logan is looking for you." Kitty told Jubilee and she shrugged. Jubilee only continued to look at the T.V. screen to see if anything good was on.

"What's your problem?" Kitty asked with a frown and looked over at the younger girl. Jubilee looked a bit surprised by the question. "You came here for help and we gave it, but you act as though we will kill you?"

"First off I did come here for help, I came her because Victor thought I could lay low here, second I'm not acting like you will kill me, you might bite my head off, but you can never kill me." Jubilee stated then turned back to her show.

"Lay low, from what? If you told us what was after us then maybe we could help, it's better then going at it alone." Kitty stated and flipped off the T.V.

"You wouldn't stand a chance, now leave me alone." Jubilee stated and flipped the T.V. back on. Kitty only pushed the power button again. Jubilee pushed power on the remote and kitty finally unplugged the T.V. and gave a victorious smile. Jubilee narrowed her eyes.

"You just did not you prep wanna be freak." Jubilee stated and sent a few paffs at the older girl. Kitty only moved out of the way of the paffs then frowned. The paffs hit the T.V. screen and sent it up in an explosive mess. Scott rushed in at the sound of the T.V. exploding and looked at both the girls. Both were on the couch and Jubilee was hold Kitty by the neck while the other was pulling Jubilee's hair.

"Get off each other and explain." Scott stated as he yanked Jubilee away from Kitty only to have kitty pull out a good chunk of Jubilee's hair in the process. Pain ran through Jubilee's enter skull and a wave of paffs were sent our of her hands at Kitty in retaliation. Most of the paffs hit Kitty before she even had the chance to activate her mutant powers and let them slide through her. Scott was forced to let go of the teenager when her body temperature raised to the point where his hands were burned.

The medical room was a mess and Hank shook his head at the two teenagers and adult that were in the room with him. After treating Scott and Kitty's burns, he turned his sights to Jubilee who was glaring murder at the wall beside Kitty. His first concern had been for the head wound, but she wouldn't let her get near her at first till she had calmed down enough that her body temperature was normal.

"Head wounds are the number one cause of death, the head holds over a hundred tiny veins and capillaries that, if cut, will bleed for hours if not treated." Hank stated as he grabbed a few things from a cabinet. Jubilee turned her glare to him before rolling her eyes at him. Hank smiled as he grabbed a swab and began to remove the dried blood from Jubilee's face then put a bandage on the small area where her hair had been pulled out. After he was done he placed the swabs into the.

"Blue, why did my body heat up like that? Generally it just shots paffs off then I go back to normal." Jubilee asked while getting off the medical bed.

"I suppose that your changes recently have caused your plasmoids to change there way of exiting your body. Instead of manifesting into you 'paffs' they simple externally create a build up that heats the outer surrounding of your skin. You yourself are not actually heating up, but instead anything that touches you." Hank said and Jubilee raised an eyebrow before nodding.

"Now that both of you are bandaged, what happened?" Scott asked while watching both girls carefully. Jubilee on the other hand knew the question was more for her.

"I didn't do anything. I was just watching T.V. when Ms. High and Mighty decided to unplug it." Jubilee stated and Kitty looked at her shoes. Scott frowned and looked at Kitty.

"Mr. Summers I was just asking her a question on why she was being so crude to everyone and she kept avoiding me. I did unplug the T.V., I did nothing after that to cause her to attack me." Kitty stated and Jubilee could see Scooter nodding slightly. Jubilee frowned and threw up her hands.

"Fine, don't even think of my answer, she attacked me first, now if you will excuse me I want to be alone." Jubilee stated and stormed out of the room.

Sitting on the roof of the Xavier Manson, Jubilee hugged herself while staring at the stars. The day had been a bad one, first Creed called and said he was having problems getting to her, but would be one time, then the Kitty thing and now… Jubilee ran a hand through her hair. The once shoulder length hair was now only an inch at most. Kitty's hair pulling stunt had taken out a small chunk of her hair and it was far to notable with long hair. Once Jubilee cut it, the short hair laid over the cut like it was never there.

Her nerves were as bad as they were gonna get, Sinister was going to show up soon and the only thing she could do was wait. Of course she could always just turn Scott in, but Jubilee frowned at the thought. As mad as she was today at him, the guy didn't even know her so she brushed it off.

"He's coming isn't he?" Remy asked from not to far away. Jubilee jumped before settling down and looking back at the stars. They both knew who he was, Sinister, the devil himself. Remy sat down on the roof a few feet from her. Jubilee, to tired to care about if he knew right now, she wanted someone to talk to.

"Yeah." was all she could manage and Remy shifted. She looked over at his eyes and saw the pain building slowly. "What's he got on you?"

"Nothing." Jubilee frowned at the response.

"I know Remy, it's kinda not hard to learn when you're around all the other people who wish they could be like you. The one who got away. The one who was suckered into…" Jubilee was stopped By Remy' hand suddenly covering her mouth. Sapphire eyes meet Red ones as Remy removed his hand. Seconds later Logan walked out of the kitchen for a cigar. They sat in silence while Logan finished his Cigar and then only once he had gone inside did Remy sigh in relief.

"Gambit was young then, petit'. My powers were to strong for me to control so I had Sinister help me. In return he wanted me to lead his men down into some tunnels, it wasn't till later that I realized what would happen?" Remy whispered and Jubilee nodded. He crossed her arms over his knees while looking up at the sky.

"We can't be free of him can we? No matter how far any of us go or how many different lives we create, he will always be there." Jubilee stated and rested her head on her knees. Remy only sighed.

"No, petit', we find a way to get rid of him. Remy promise." Remy stated and Jubilee looked at him. "Creed called and asked me to get you out of here. We leave tomorrow night and we meet him later down de road." Remy told her and Jubilee froze for a second. Why would creed not tell her about this. Slowly she turned her head to look out at the forest. If she was to go with Remy then she could avoid drawing out a conflict with sinister in front of these people or she could go on her own before Remy could stop her. She wished Creed and told her or hinted that he might do this, should she go with Remy, go by herself, or stay and face Sinister…

AN: Okay everyone, Cliffhanger sorta I know, the choice is up to you guys. What should Jubilee do?