Defy Not the Heart.

Sabertooth walked briskly down the hall of the lair, his brown tattered jacked almost sweeping the floor behind him. He entered his room to find a warm bath prepared for him. Of course he prepared it himself so he knew it was there. He quickly undressed and climbed into the tub. Sabertooth sat in peace for only a few minutes, for Mortimer Toynbee, AKA Toad, walking into the room, interrupted his peace. Sabertooth hastily jumped up and grabbed his towel, and wrapped it roughly around him.

"TOAD!" Mortimer looked at him and raised an eyebrow. "GET OUT!"

"Magneto sent me here to scrub your back." Toad said, acting disgusted. Sabertooth shook his head and sat back down, putting the towel back on the side unit before it got wet. Toad walked up to him and with a cloth in his hand and started rubbing Victor's hairy back. He slowly started going down his side, and down the inside of his thy. Sabertooth jumped at the touch and punched Toad in the face making him sprawl back onto the floor.

"Oww!" Toad said, grabbing his nose. "You could have just said NO!" Sabertooth jumped out of the bath and got dressed and stormed out of the room. Toad got up, still cradling his bleeding nose, when he heard laughing. He looked around and rolled his eyes. "Come out!"

"I take it he wasn't interested." Mystique said laughing.

"Not even a little."

"What is wrong with you? You do not usually take rejection to heart." Toad looked at her, a dreamy expression upon his face.

"You did not see him, Raven, all golden-skinned and so beaut—"

"Save me his praises, It's the same with you every time a new handsome face comes along. And you never stop to think of your current lover and what he would do if he learned of it. I don't want to be irate with him for beating you for your faithlessness.

"Can I help it that men are so possessive." Mystique laughed at his long-suffering tone. "If you wan to be like Wanda and flit from one man to another, then you should not commit yourself to a single one!" She said.

"You compare me that slut, who has crawled into every bed in this place?" He demanded crossly. "She is too stupid to know how to please a man for more than a day!"

"But smart enough to avoid any jealous beatings, which you are not, I do no enjoy putting you back together after they are done with you. If you cannot be faithful, Toad, at least pick you lovers smaller than you, or build up your musclues."

"Bit I like to feel helpless, as a woman would feel. Would you want to be stronger—"

"We are not discussing me," She said, angerly. "And I do not know why I bother to talk sense into you, you will do as you always do, no matter what I say."

"I don't know why he rejected me anyway."

"Could it be the fact that you came right onto him."

"What else was I supposed to do?"

"Be faithful to your lover. You know Magneto has his doubts about you already, and I wouldn't be surprised if he beat you for finding out." Toad tilted his head to the side in an annoyed manner. "Ask him straight out." She said sighing. He clearly wasn't going to give up.

"Ok, Now get in the tub!" Toad said, pointing to the water. Mystique looked at the water and sighed.

"I don't see why you're the one who baths me, I mean, are you not at all attracted to my hotness." Toad shook his head.

"Not in the least." Mystique shrugged.

"It was worth a try."

TBC.. Plz R&R