X - Angel

Chapter 18

By the time Morning had come, Piper found herself, cuddled closely into Warren's chest, as his wing covered her, protecting her from the cold wind. He was asleep, his face set in an Angelic form, with stray strands of blond hair, flecked over his forehead.

Piper reached up to them, and swept them away, as Warren's hand moved up and took hold of her own. His eyes were still closed, but he pressed her palm, to his lip's, and smiled at her, as he slowly flicked his eyes open.

"Morning..." He whispered. "Are you warm enough?" He asked concerned.

Piper nodded. "I'm fine... thankyou." She smiled back, but then the memory of her surrounding came back to her, and the smile faded. "I wish we were back at the institute... do you think they'll be looking for us?" She asked.

"Most probably..."

"They wont find us..."

"What makes you think that?" Warren asked.

"I dont know... I just have a really bad fealing about it."

"Wakey, wakey, comrades!" Came Lance's voice from the doorway. "Breakfast is served..." He called, and from that, a sloppy bowl of porridge was stuck through the bar's.

Warren rolled over, and stood up.

"See you real soon..." Lance snarled, and dissapeared.

"What do you think he ment by that?" Warren asked.

"I have no idea..." Piper said shaking her head. She crawled off of the bed, and retrieved the bowl. "We had better eat this I suppose... better than nothing." She said, and dipped her finger's into the mixture, scooping it into her mouth.

Warren did the same, and after a while, the pair began to feel a little lightheaded. Piper walked over to the window, breathing in deeply, hearing her heart beat in her eardrum. As she rested her head against the steel bar's, she saw the landscape start to sway from side to side. She glanced over her shoulder at Warren, who was on his knee's, leaning against the bed, obviously fealing the same notion of sickness as her. She saw him pick up the bowl, looking at it disgustingly, before throwing it to the far side of the wall. Before long. within a few seconds, she fell into a deep sleep.

The bar's bent themselves away, giving enough room for Sabertooth, to walk into the cell, and carry Piper out. He was under the scrutinising eye of Magneto, who stood, and watched, placing the bar's back into their original form. He took a unpleasant look at Warren, as he layed face down on the floor, and walked off.

Piper awoke, to a putrid smell overpowering her senses, as it woke her up. She was sitting strapped into a metal chair, with a Velcro band across her forehead, and also seperate ones restraining her hands, and feet.

"Nice of you to join us..." Magneto commented, as he stood infront of her. Piper found it hard to talk, but soon let out a slight groan. Magneto let out a soft laugh. "It's no use talking my dear. Charles cannot hear you now."

With that, he signaled his finger in the direction of Mystique, who stood a few meter's away, at a control panel. A massive surge of electricity was shot through Piper's body, through little electrodes, placed on her skin.

"What do you want?" She gasped, as she gritted her teeth.

"We want you to come back to us Piper... or should I use the name Hendrix, perhap's... as that is your 'real' name."

"Not any more..." She growled, and another surge of Electricity. She let out an almighty scream, as John couldnt watch anymore, and turned away.

"Hey, where are you going? This is the best bit..." Lance said as he caught his arm.

John gave him a threatening look, and looked down at Lance's hand. He released it, and John met his eyes once more. "Not really my thing." With that, John left.

Magneto kept talking to Piper, and electricuting her, if she didnt answer to what he wanted.

"Come back into the fold Piper." He ordered.

"Never!" A gut wrenching scream awoke Warren, with a start.

He ran over to the barred door's, and gripped at the cold steel. "Piper?!" He shouted.

Another scream, more louder and painfull than the last. With this almighty yell, the wall's started to shake, and chip's off from the ceiling began to fall off, and bounce across the floor.

"Professor Xavier, please.... we need your help!" Warren shouted in his mind. "Please! Charles, you have to help! They're hurting her!"

Meanwhile, Xavier, Ororo, Jean, Scott, and Logan, were standing around in his office.

"Have you tried, tracking their footstep's?" Scott asked, glancing over at Logan.

Logan shot him a look. "I'm not a bloodhound. I dont go crawling around on all fours."

"You sure about that?" Scott replied.

"Children please?!" Ororo broke the argument. "Professor, what do you think we should do?" She asked turning round to Charles.

"Charles?" Jean asked worried, as suddenly Xavier covered his ear's, and lent forwards in his chair. "What is it?" She asked, as Scott pulled him back to sit upright.

"It's Warren... I can hear him... he's too loud, I cant talk to him." He explained in short gasp's.

Jean knelt down, and placed her index finger's on her temples, and closing her eyes, concentrated hard. "Warren?" She called. There was no reply. "Warren, answer me."

Warren stood there pulling at the bar's, screaming in his mind for anyone to help, and shouting Piper's name aloud.

"Warren can you hear me?" Came an echoed voice, faintly in the back of his mind.

"Miss Grey?" He asked, turning around in his cell. With realisation, he rolled his eyes, and spoke in his head. "Miss Grey, is that you?" He asked.

Jean let out a sigh in Xavier's office, as thing's returned to normal. "Yes Warren, it's me... you gave the Professor a bit of a headache though." She said lightly.

"They've taken myself and Piper,... and now they have Piper, and I think their hurting her. I can hear her screaming! You have to help!" He panicked.

Everyone in Xavier's office saw the look of frustration on Jean's face, as she furrowed her brow.

"Warren... you must calm down." Came Xavier's voice, setting himself into a trance. "Tell us where you are."

"I dont know... I just woke up here this morning, and Piper was with me... now they've got her, and I cant get out..." Warren started to get hysterical.

"Calm down Warren, your getting irrational. It's hard to follow your thought's..." Xavier told him. Jean however was concentrating on his location, and as Scott handed her a peice of paper and a pen, she began to randomly write some number's, and names.

Jean set the pen down, and Scott looked at it. "We've got their location." He commented, and himself, and Logan rushed out of the room, going downstair's.

"Warren..." Xavier continued. "We know where you are, do you hear me?"

"Yes..." Warren answered. He was now sitting before the barred doorway. Set tear's, lined his cheeks, as everything around him was silent. "It's all quiet now... " He thought to himself, not realising Xavier would have heard him.

"We're going to be there as soon as Possible. Just hold tight Warren. We're coming for you." Xavier finished, and broke the connection.

The Professor looked at Jean worridly. "What is it?" She asked.

"Piper..." He replied. "Hurry, they need you." He instructed, as he followed Jean, and Ororo run down to the ready room.

"Professor?" Rogue called out jogging over to him from the T.V lounge. "What's going on?" She asked, as she noticed everyone had gone downstair's.

"There seems to be a situation... Warren and Piper have been kidnapped..." He was hestitant to say whom by.

"Why?" She gasped after the inital shock of two of her friends being kidnapped. "Who would do such a thing...?" She asked, just as Kurt walked up behind her.

"Magneto..." He watched as Rogue's eyes grew wider. "I apologise for not saying anything sooner, Rogue. But given your past history with him, I thought it better for you to leave out this mission. If that's perfectly alright with you." He explained.

She slacked her shoulder's a bit, and let out a sigh, thinking of what had happened before. She ran a finger through the white streak in her hair. He was responsible for that, and regrettably, she agreed to stay behind.

"Thankyou,... I'm hopefull, you could keep this to yourself?" He asked, in his kind way. Rogue nodded, and walked off, slowly.

Kurt was left to stand there, having heard the whole conversation. "So Magneto has just taken Piper, for no reason at all?" He asked.

"Well, Piper was once under Mystique's tutorlidge. Therefore making her part of his Brotherhood." Xavier started. Kurt listened intently, as they made their way over to the Elevator. "Of what I gather, he wants her back."