Disclaimer: I do not own any of the X-Men movie characters.
Title: Unforgivable Sinners
By: Cmdr. Gabe E.
Note: This fanfiction occurs entirely in the X-Men movie-verse . Characters' unspoken thoughts are enclosed in .
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CHAPTER 42 IS UP o!!! Thanks for all the reviews o!
Hmmm...RoseMeg, ya know I luv ya, but your guess is a quite far off from what really happened in their pasts ! Sorry ! But don't worry...all will be revealed in due time !
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Chapter 42: Body and soul
Yuriko saw the door open and she impulsively turned to look at it. Her eyes suddenly widened with surprise as she saw Stryker standing in the doorway, in front of her naked, exposed body. She just stood there, unmoving as she stared at him. She knew she should cover herself, but she couldn't move. She seemed to have frozen in place. She wanted to cry out, but her voice jarred in her throat as if she had lost the ability to speak. Stryker had caught her unguarded, and she had no idea what to do. Her mind felt so cloudy. Why didn't she even feel him coming? Why was she just standing there?
Stryker's body didn't move an inch, as he remained standing in the doorway. He knew he had to turn away. He should have closed the door as soon as he saw her naked body. But he just remained standing there, looking at her. What was he doing? Did he like what he was seeing? He wanted to talk to her...not invade her privacy.
Then their eyes met...both of them with shocked looks on their faces. They stood there, staring at each other, unmoving. Every second felt like forever as deafening silence lingered in the air. Neither of them even seemed to breathe. The only thing Stryker could hear was the sound of his own heartbeat, as he looked at the naked, fragile woman in front of him. He had never seen anything like her.
The long moment of silence was finally broken by the sound of Stryker's faint whisper. "You are so beautiful." He said softly.
He suddenly snapped out of his trance and he realized what he had just said. He couldn't believe that he had been standing there, looking at her, for almost a full minute. A panicked look formed on his face as he slowly stepped back, his eyes still staring at Yuriko's. And without saying a word, he quickly closed the door in front of him, and ran down the hallway, back to their room.
Yuriko's eyes remained on the door as it closed in front of her. The last thing she heard was the sound of the door closing. Then she suddenly threw herself against the sink and leaned against it, her hands gripping its edges. She felt so sick...like she wanted to throw up. She gasped and forced more air into her mouth. Her bare shoulders moved up and down as she tried to catch her breath. She couldn't believe what just happened. She just stood there and let him stare at her. She couldn't even move when she stared into his eyes. It was as if time itself had frozen.
And why did it affect her anyway? Stryker had seen her naked countless of times before. He had even touched her body. Then why was she acting this way? She was acting as if it was his first time to see her like that, naked and exposed. Was it because of the way he was looking at her? She saw it in his eyes. He looked at her with awe. She saw him gaze at her body as if it was the first thing he had ever seen in his entire life. And the words he told her...the words he had spoken still lingered in her mind.
Why did Stryker say that? And why did he look at her the way he did? What was he even doing there in the first place? What did he want from her? She clenched her teeth and looked at the door with piercing eyes. She wasn't going to let that incident pass by as if it never happened. She was going to confront him.
She grabbed her undergarments and quickly put them on. Then she took Jean's clothes from the sink and hurriedly wore them over her body. She didn't want to waste any second. She wanted to confront Stryker now. She wanted to know what was going on in his head and why he said what he said and why he looked at her the way he did. And she was going to get her answers from him even if she had to carve it out of his own flesh.
She pulled the door open and marched down the hallway towards their room. She knew he was there. She could smell him. Her fists were tightly clenched and her eyes filled with flaming intensity as she strode down the corridor, each step bringing her closer to the man who had violated her. She could feel her jaw tightening as she remembered how he looked at her naked body. She felt so disgusted.
Yuriko soon reached the door to their room, and she angrily pushed it open. Deep angry breaths escaped from her lips as she stood in the doorway. The dim light of the room was already on, and her eyes wandered at Stryker's heaving form. There he was...the man who had controlled her body for more than ten years.
His back was facing her, so she couldn't see his face. He was slightly leaning forward with his hands on the table on the far side of the room. His head was bowed down and his shoulders heaved as deep breaths escaped from his lips.
Stryker felt his heart jump when he heard the door swing open. He knew it was her...It was Yuriko. Even without looking at her, he could already feel her intense anger towards him. He could feel her furious eyes boring a hole at the back of his head. And he understood her anger. He knew that what he did was wrong.
He willingly stared at her naked body. He violated her privacy. He didn't mean to barge in on her. He was actually as surprised as she was. But when he saw her naked in front of him, he couldn't find the will to look away. She looked so beautiful, standing there without any clothes covering her perfection. And it just wasn't her body...it was her entire being. Seeing her in her entirety lulled him into a trance. He felt like a moth drawn to the flame, and now he could feel the burn. He should have turned away. He should have closed the door as soon as he saw her like that, but he couldn't. She looked so beautiful that he just had to look at her.
The image of her naked body suddenly flashed in his mind, and he tightly closed his eyes and shook his head from side to side in an effort to wash the image away. He didn't want to think of her in that way. He didn't 'want' her in that way.
Yuriko closed her hands into tight fists as she looked at him. She could feel her fists shaking in anger as she remembered how he looked at her. She would never let him get away for what he did.
She marched towards him with fury in her eyes, and then she grabbed his shoulder and forcefully pulled him so that he was facing her. As soon as his face turned towards her, she pulled her hand back and sent a swift, hard slap towards his cheek.
"You bastard!!!" She shouted as she slapped him. The sound of her palm hitting his cheek echoed in the room. Stryker's head whipped to the side and his glasses flew off his face from the force of Yuriko's slap.
Then he just stood there, with his eyes wide open and his face still turned to the side as he felt the burning pain on his cheek. Yuriko gasped in anger as she pulled her hand away from him. She could see a red, searing mark on where she had slapped him. She knew she hit him too hard. She could still feel the sting of her slap in her own palm. She could still feel the impact of her hand against his cheek. And she enjoyed feeling that stinging sensation. It was proof that she had given him pain. He deserved it.
"Look at me..." She whispered through gritted teeth, her eyes intensely staring at him.
But Stryker remained unmoving. His face still looked away from her. He couldn't find the guts to look at her again. He didn't even know what to say. He wanted to explain to her what really happened in the bathroom. He wanted to tell her that he really didn't mean to see her like that. But it was too late for that now, because he did look at her...and he did stare at her body willingly.
"Why won't you look at me?" She asked with an intense tone in her voice. She wanted to hit him again. The more she looked at him, the more she wanted to hurt him.
Stryker still stood there, looking away from her.
Then she suddenly grabbed him by the chest of his suit and tugged him towards her. "Look at me!!!" She cried out as she gripped his suit tightly.
He felt his body jerk forward as Yuriko pulled him, but he still looked away. He didn't know if he could ever look at her again. He knew that once he looked at her, he would only see the anger in her face and the resentment in her eyes. He would only see her hate towards him. And that would hurt him even more.
When he saw Yuriko and Logan together, he would have done anything to be as physically close to her as he was now. He would have given everything to be alone with her. But now that he was finally alone with her, now that he was so close to her, he couldn't even find the right words to say, or the will to look into her eyes.
"Why can't you look at me now, William?! Why?!" She shouted as she tugged on him harder, causing his head to jerk back. "A while ago you were just staring at my naked body! And now...you can't even look at me, not even a glace. Why, William?!!! Answer me!!!" She couldn't hold back the anger in her voice as she continued to tug on him. But his face remained expressionless.
"Why did you stare at me like that?! What were you trying to prove?! Are you trying to prove that you still own me?!! That you can still look at me and do whatever you want with me as you please?! You don't own me anymore, William!!! I am free of you!" She shouted out loud. She wanted him to hear her. She wanted every word from her mouth to sink deep into his mind. She wanted to engrave her thoughts into his flesh. She wanted him to look at her and see her anger.
"For more than ten years you used my body. You treated me like a puppet! Everyday you stripped me and prodded me like I was a machine that needed repairs!" Her voice echoed in the room. "Do you want to hear everything that you did to me?! Do you want to hear how your hands ran over my curves? Do you want to hear how you inspected every part of my being?! Do you?!"
Stryker clenched his teeth and closed his hands into tight fists as he heard Yuriko's words. Every word that flew from her lips hit him hard. Each and every one of them showed him an image of his past. He saw flashes of what he did to her. He saw himself, looking at her naked body...touching it...examining it. And her face was expressionless as he did. She looked so lifeless. He saw it all in his mind as Yuriko reminded him. It felt like a living nightmare and he didn't want to see it anymore. He wanted it all to stop.
Then he turned his head to look at her. Yuriko felt her chest tighten as she saw him staring deeply into her eyes.
"I didn't mean to look at you like that. I really didn't." He said softly as he looked into her eyes. "I...I didn't even know that you...you were undressed." He wasn't even sure how to explain himself. He just hoped she would understand.
Yuriko clenched her jaw as she stared back into his eyes. She didn't know if she should believe him or not. After all, she saw him staring at her. She saw him looking at her body. "Then what did you want from me?!" She asked through gritted teeth. She wanted to hear the answers directly from his lips.
Stryker exhaled and looked away, then he looked at her again. "Because I wanted to see you again. I mean, not in the way I saw you of course. I mean..." His eyes darted from left to right as he tried to think of the right words to say.
She furrowed her eyebrows as she looked at him. She couldn't even read what was going on in his mind. He looked so lost and defenseless. He couldn't even talk straight. What was going on in his head? Then his eyes suddenly focused on her. She could feel the intensity of his stare as he looked into her eyes.
"What I'm trying to say is that...I wanted to talk to you." He felt so fragile, so unarmed as he told her those words. "I missed you, Yuriko." He said firmly. He was now at her mercy as he poured out his heart on her.
Yuriko's eyes widened as she heard his words. She couldn't believe what he had just said. Why did he say those things to her? What was he trying to say? Then she felt her heart pounding in her chest. Something didn't feel right. She didn't like how he was looking at her and how he was talking to her. Her anger towards Stryker was suddenly replaced by fear. She felt so suffocated in his presence. She had to get away.
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Title: Unforgivable Sinners
By: Cmdr. Gabe E.
Note: This fanfiction occurs entirely in the X-Men movie-verse . Characters' unspoken thoughts are enclosed in .
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CHAPTER 42 IS UP o!!! Thanks for all the reviews o!
Hmmm...RoseMeg, ya know I luv ya, but your guess is a quite far off from what really happened in their pasts ! Sorry ! But don't worry...all will be revealed in due time !
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Chapter 42: Body and soul
Yuriko saw the door open and she impulsively turned to look at it. Her eyes suddenly widened with surprise as she saw Stryker standing in the doorway, in front of her naked, exposed body. She just stood there, unmoving as she stared at him. She knew she should cover herself, but she couldn't move. She seemed to have frozen in place. She wanted to cry out, but her voice jarred in her throat as if she had lost the ability to speak. Stryker had caught her unguarded, and she had no idea what to do. Her mind felt so cloudy. Why didn't she even feel him coming? Why was she just standing there?
Stryker's body didn't move an inch, as he remained standing in the doorway. He knew he had to turn away. He should have closed the door as soon as he saw her naked body. But he just remained standing there, looking at her. What was he doing? Did he like what he was seeing? He wanted to talk to her...not invade her privacy.
Then their eyes met...both of them with shocked looks on their faces. They stood there, staring at each other, unmoving. Every second felt like forever as deafening silence lingered in the air. Neither of them even seemed to breathe. The only thing Stryker could hear was the sound of his own heartbeat, as he looked at the naked, fragile woman in front of him. He had never seen anything like her.
The long moment of silence was finally broken by the sound of Stryker's faint whisper. "You are so beautiful." He said softly.
He suddenly snapped out of his trance and he realized what he had just said. He couldn't believe that he had been standing there, looking at her, for almost a full minute. A panicked look formed on his face as he slowly stepped back, his eyes still staring at Yuriko's. And without saying a word, he quickly closed the door in front of him, and ran down the hallway, back to their room.
Yuriko's eyes remained on the door as it closed in front of her. The last thing she heard was the sound of the door closing. Then she suddenly threw herself against the sink and leaned against it, her hands gripping its edges. She felt so sick...like she wanted to throw up. She gasped and forced more air into her mouth. Her bare shoulders moved up and down as she tried to catch her breath. She couldn't believe what just happened. She just stood there and let him stare at her. She couldn't even move when she stared into his eyes. It was as if time itself had frozen.
And why did it affect her anyway? Stryker had seen her naked countless of times before. He had even touched her body. Then why was she acting this way? She was acting as if it was his first time to see her like that, naked and exposed. Was it because of the way he was looking at her? She saw it in his eyes. He looked at her with awe. She saw him gaze at her body as if it was the first thing he had ever seen in his entire life. And the words he told her...the words he had spoken still lingered in her mind.
Why did Stryker say that? And why did he look at her the way he did? What was he even doing there in the first place? What did he want from her? She clenched her teeth and looked at the door with piercing eyes. She wasn't going to let that incident pass by as if it never happened. She was going to confront him.
She grabbed her undergarments and quickly put them on. Then she took Jean's clothes from the sink and hurriedly wore them over her body. She didn't want to waste any second. She wanted to confront Stryker now. She wanted to know what was going on in his head and why he said what he said and why he looked at her the way he did. And she was going to get her answers from him even if she had to carve it out of his own flesh.
She pulled the door open and marched down the hallway towards their room. She knew he was there. She could smell him. Her fists were tightly clenched and her eyes filled with flaming intensity as she strode down the corridor, each step bringing her closer to the man who had violated her. She could feel her jaw tightening as she remembered how he looked at her naked body. She felt so disgusted.
Yuriko soon reached the door to their room, and she angrily pushed it open. Deep angry breaths escaped from her lips as she stood in the doorway. The dim light of the room was already on, and her eyes wandered at Stryker's heaving form. There he was...the man who had controlled her body for more than ten years.
His back was facing her, so she couldn't see his face. He was slightly leaning forward with his hands on the table on the far side of the room. His head was bowed down and his shoulders heaved as deep breaths escaped from his lips.
Stryker felt his heart jump when he heard the door swing open. He knew it was her...It was Yuriko. Even without looking at her, he could already feel her intense anger towards him. He could feel her furious eyes boring a hole at the back of his head. And he understood her anger. He knew that what he did was wrong.
He willingly stared at her naked body. He violated her privacy. He didn't mean to barge in on her. He was actually as surprised as she was. But when he saw her naked in front of him, he couldn't find the will to look away. She looked so beautiful, standing there without any clothes covering her perfection. And it just wasn't her body...it was her entire being. Seeing her in her entirety lulled him into a trance. He felt like a moth drawn to the flame, and now he could feel the burn. He should have turned away. He should have closed the door as soon as he saw her like that, but he couldn't. She looked so beautiful that he just had to look at her.
The image of her naked body suddenly flashed in his mind, and he tightly closed his eyes and shook his head from side to side in an effort to wash the image away. He didn't want to think of her in that way. He didn't 'want' her in that way.
Yuriko closed her hands into tight fists as she looked at him. She could feel her fists shaking in anger as she remembered how he looked at her. She would never let him get away for what he did.
She marched towards him with fury in her eyes, and then she grabbed his shoulder and forcefully pulled him so that he was facing her. As soon as his face turned towards her, she pulled her hand back and sent a swift, hard slap towards his cheek.
"You bastard!!!" She shouted as she slapped him. The sound of her palm hitting his cheek echoed in the room. Stryker's head whipped to the side and his glasses flew off his face from the force of Yuriko's slap.
Then he just stood there, with his eyes wide open and his face still turned to the side as he felt the burning pain on his cheek. Yuriko gasped in anger as she pulled her hand away from him. She could see a red, searing mark on where she had slapped him. She knew she hit him too hard. She could still feel the sting of her slap in her own palm. She could still feel the impact of her hand against his cheek. And she enjoyed feeling that stinging sensation. It was proof that she had given him pain. He deserved it.
"Look at me..." She whispered through gritted teeth, her eyes intensely staring at him.
But Stryker remained unmoving. His face still looked away from her. He couldn't find the guts to look at her again. He didn't even know what to say. He wanted to explain to her what really happened in the bathroom. He wanted to tell her that he really didn't mean to see her like that. But it was too late for that now, because he did look at her...and he did stare at her body willingly.
"Why won't you look at me?" She asked with an intense tone in her voice. She wanted to hit him again. The more she looked at him, the more she wanted to hurt him.
Stryker still stood there, looking away from her.
Then she suddenly grabbed him by the chest of his suit and tugged him towards her. "Look at me!!!" She cried out as she gripped his suit tightly.
He felt his body jerk forward as Yuriko pulled him, but he still looked away. He didn't know if he could ever look at her again. He knew that once he looked at her, he would only see the anger in her face and the resentment in her eyes. He would only see her hate towards him. And that would hurt him even more.
When he saw Yuriko and Logan together, he would have done anything to be as physically close to her as he was now. He would have given everything to be alone with her. But now that he was finally alone with her, now that he was so close to her, he couldn't even find the right words to say, or the will to look into her eyes.
"Why can't you look at me now, William?! Why?!" She shouted as she tugged on him harder, causing his head to jerk back. "A while ago you were just staring at my naked body! And now...you can't even look at me, not even a glace. Why, William?!!! Answer me!!!" She couldn't hold back the anger in her voice as she continued to tug on him. But his face remained expressionless.
"Why did you stare at me like that?! What were you trying to prove?! Are you trying to prove that you still own me?!! That you can still look at me and do whatever you want with me as you please?! You don't own me anymore, William!!! I am free of you!" She shouted out loud. She wanted him to hear her. She wanted every word from her mouth to sink deep into his mind. She wanted to engrave her thoughts into his flesh. She wanted him to look at her and see her anger.
"For more than ten years you used my body. You treated me like a puppet! Everyday you stripped me and prodded me like I was a machine that needed repairs!" Her voice echoed in the room. "Do you want to hear everything that you did to me?! Do you want to hear how your hands ran over my curves? Do you want to hear how you inspected every part of my being?! Do you?!"
Stryker clenched his teeth and closed his hands into tight fists as he heard Yuriko's words. Every word that flew from her lips hit him hard. Each and every one of them showed him an image of his past. He saw flashes of what he did to her. He saw himself, looking at her naked body...touching it...examining it. And her face was expressionless as he did. She looked so lifeless. He saw it all in his mind as Yuriko reminded him. It felt like a living nightmare and he didn't want to see it anymore. He wanted it all to stop.
Then he turned his head to look at her. Yuriko felt her chest tighten as she saw him staring deeply into her eyes.
"I didn't mean to look at you like that. I really didn't." He said softly as he looked into her eyes. "I...I didn't even know that you...you were undressed." He wasn't even sure how to explain himself. He just hoped she would understand.
Yuriko clenched her jaw as she stared back into his eyes. She didn't know if she should believe him or not. After all, she saw him staring at her. She saw him looking at her body. "Then what did you want from me?!" She asked through gritted teeth. She wanted to hear the answers directly from his lips.
Stryker exhaled and looked away, then he looked at her again. "Because I wanted to see you again. I mean, not in the way I saw you of course. I mean..." His eyes darted from left to right as he tried to think of the right words to say.
She furrowed her eyebrows as she looked at him. She couldn't even read what was going on in his mind. He looked so lost and defenseless. He couldn't even talk straight. What was going on in his head? Then his eyes suddenly focused on her. She could feel the intensity of his stare as he looked into her eyes.
"What I'm trying to say is that...I wanted to talk to you." He felt so fragile, so unarmed as he told her those words. "I missed you, Yuriko." He said firmly. He was now at her mercy as he poured out his heart on her.
Yuriko's eyes widened as she heard his words. She couldn't believe what he had just said. Why did he say those things to her? What was he trying to say? Then she felt her heart pounding in her chest. Something didn't feel right. She didn't like how he was looking at her and how he was talking to her. Her anger towards Stryker was suddenly replaced by fear. She felt so suffocated in his presence. She had to get away.
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