Part. 5: Dark Dreams and Consequences
Jubilee was lying awake in her bed just looking out her window at the stars, she couldnt sleep, she sighed and looked at her alarm-clock 6:16 it said.
She and Logan had returned to the mansion a couple of hours earlier but she hadnt been able to sleep, everytime she had closed her eyes she had seen her family die and dreamed about her time at the Project X base.
They had let her out into the cold snow covered forest in just some underwear and a mask that covered her mouth. The snow had been cold and slippery under her feet´s and the winds were cold, her mission was to cross the forest get into an enemy building and kill the leaders in it, but this was only practice.
They realist a pack of starved wolves after her and with nothing but her powers and her own body to defend herself it was only natural that her powers grew faster.
She was an animal friend and she had hated to kill those wolves, but they had been starved and beaten and they would have killed her if she hadnt done something first.
After she had finished her "mission" she was brought to the lab for testes (not the friendly kinds) and then she was locked away in her room the main "house" although it had been a 1700 century castle it wasnt that nice. The missions changed from time to time but it was always a struggle for life or death and it always ended with more tests to see how fast she was "coming along" as they called it.
She didnt want to go back to that; she would survive sure but for what?
Her head was hurting a little bit, it had been a long time since she had been drinking and in the end she really only had herself to blame. She closed her eyes again as the sun started to rise not wanting to wake up anytime soon.
The needles were slowly injected into her back; she didnt scream they had done it so many times before. A black mask was putt over her face so that she would be allowed to breath under the cold water. Needles was also put into her arms before they started to lower her down into the water, she closed her eyes shortly but opened them again. First her vision was blurry but then after a few second she could see clearly one of the effects the drugs that they were about to pump into her body did.
She could hear the machine go one and soon she felt the sharp pain that no one could ever get use to, going thru her body again.
Oh God it hurt, she screamed, well as much as she could with the mask on anyway. Her whole body started to shake as the drugs went into her making all her muscles cramp.
She was in there for about twenty minutes but it seemed so much longer, after they just pulled her up and dump her onto a white table and a team of white clothed men came up to her. They strapped her down and took some blood from her and after that they cut her; they cut her open without anything to ease the pain to pick something out that they had put there about a month earlier.
Even though she could hardly move she could scream now and she did the inhuman sounds that came out of her echoed thru the big metal building.
After they had removed whatever they had put in her, they stitched her up once again with noting to ease the pain.
Then she was taken over to the "training room" for a three hour training program without any paused, she could barley stand up but as the program went on so did she, and after that it was strait back to the lab again. And again the halls were filled with the inhuman scream that never seemed to end.
Jubilee was awoken by her own screams and she held her arms around herself so hard that she almost pierced the skin. She fell out of her bed and scramble onto her feet´s, she could clearly hear the knock and calls from her door but she ignore them and got into the bathroom just in time to throw up every last piece of food that she had in her stomach.
Jubilee slowly sat up and leaned against the bathtub, she sighed deeply as she heard the door in her room open, on her way into the bathroom she had managed to slam the door shut behind her.
She could hear people calling her name but she didnt answer, she didnt want to see anybody right now.
She just couldnt talk to anyone after one of her "darker" dreams, every emotion she had ever felt was going around in her head, she didnt know what to feel everything was just going around and around together with the memories.
"Jubilation?" Storm´s gentle voice asked as she slowly opened the bathroom door. Jubilee didnt answer her she just kept looking strait into the wall hoping that Storm and the others would go away but they didnt, she felt a hand on her shoulder and she could feel several pairs of eyes looking at her.
She could hear Storm talking to her but she wasnt listening.
"Jubilation" Professor Xavier´s voice said in her mind, Jubilee´s head snapped up. "Jubilee are you alright?"
"Yes" She answered. "It was just a nightmare, and I´m a little bit sick"
"Yes Logan told me so I do understand why you are feeling bad"
"Yeah..."
"Jubilee go back to bed and get some rest" He told her. "And after lunch I would like to see you in my office"
"Okay, can you please tell the others to leave?"
"Very well" Professor Xavier said and a few seconds later Ororo started to lead the others students out of the room. Jubilee crawled her way back to bed and pulled her cover over her head.
"Oh just fucking kill me" She said when she could hear her whole body protesting against the alcohol from last night.
The next time Jubilee woke up it was way past noon and the sun was high in the sky, she could hear the laughter of her friends who were probably out playing in the snow.
Her head didnt hurt anymore and her stomach had settled, she slowly rose from the bed and headed into the bathroom for a long hot shower.
She locked both the door that lead back into her own room and the one that lead into Jean´s, then she got undressed and stepped into the shower turning on the water, enjoying the feeling of the hot water going down her body and thru her hair.
She sighed heavily and sat down pulling her knees up under her chin. She wished that she could just disappear, this was the worse thing she had done since she had arrived at the Institute and she had done some stupid things. She slowly stood up again and begun washing her hair.
Maybe it was for the best that Sinister got her back, sure she would become a weapon of mass destruction but so what? Someone, someday would probably stop her and maybe kill her and everything would be fine.
Yeah great plan Jubs just freaking great!
Jubilee turned of the shower and stepped out putting new underwear and her robe, she dried her hair and laid back on her bed. If she could just...
Knock, knock
Jubilee looked at the door, who could that be?
"Yeah?" She said and sat up correctly.
"It is Ororo, can I come in?" The white haired beauty asked.
"Sure" Jubilee answered and the door opened. "Came to yell at me before everyone else does?" Jubilee asked as Ororo sat down beside her on the bed.
"No, I came to see how you were doing" Ororo said.
"And then kill me, right?"
"Yes"
"Got it"
"Jubilee I am not mad at you"
"Your not?"
"Jubilee do you know what my first thought was when Logan told me?" Ororo asked her.
"I´m gonna kill her and hide her body in my garden?" Jubilee tried.
"No, that was my second thought" Ororo said with a smile. "My first thought was, what in the world would I have done if something had happened to you"
"That was so not what I would have thought" Jubilee said.
"Jubilation you are as important as any other students here" Ororo said and put her hands on Jubilee´s shoulders. "I care about you all very much"
"Yeah.." Jubilee said and looked down.
"Now get dressed, Professor Xavier wants to see you" Ororo said and stood up. Jubilee did what she was told and put on a pair of blue jeans and a green t-shirt. Then she quietly fallowed Ororo to Professor Xavier´s office, where he was waiting with Logan. Storm lead her inside and gestured for her to sit down in the chair across from Professor Xavier, Jubilee sat down but didnt meet the Professor´s or Logan´s eyes.
"I dont know where to start" Professor Xavier begun. "You were out past curfew, you went all the way into NYC without promision, you were at a club and you drank" He paused for a second and sighed. "The problem Jubilation is that you never think about the consequences of what you are doing, do you have anything to say for yourself?"
"No" Was the only thing Jubilee could say or more like whisper.
"Fine then, your grounded" Professor Xavier started, yeah like she hadnt seen that coming. "No TV, no phone, no after school practice with your gymnast group and no outside activity without promision is that clear?"
"Yes"
"I know that you may think that this is unfair but you half to learn to take some responsibility"
Okay... Jubilee could take everything he had to say except that, she hated it when people told her that, she had taken responsibility for everything that Project X had made her do and everything else to, so she didnt need to learn anything.
"I have" She said quietly.
"What?" Ororo asked, no one had heard what she had said.
"I said I have" She told them and looked up. "I took responsibility for myself and my life when all the other kids here were playing in the backyard" she said calmly. "I had to cloths myself and feed myself and you dont think that I had to suffer the consequences for that?" She stood up. "I can take whatever punishment you chose to give me but I have dealt with the consequence that is my life, so when I go out and do stuff like that I´m trying to forget okay? I´m trying to forget my life!!" And with that Jubilee turned around and rushed out of the room not stopping until she reached her own.
She looked her room putting a protecting barrier around it so that no one would be able to enter, sure it sparkled like hell but it worked. She didnt join the others for dinner either even though she was starving; she just sat there by her window looking out feeling worse than crap.
She didnt like to be locked in, she knew that she could go wherever she wanted as long as she was INSIDE the mansion but the thing was she wanted out.
She carefully opened her window looking out to make sure nobody was around, than she climbed out and jumped over to the tree. When she had reached the ground she hurried to get into the forest so that no one would see her. When she was sure that she was safe she slowed down but she didnt stop, she had gone out for a walk after all.
How did she always manage to screw things up? She was so stupid, she always let her mouth go and go, maybe the Professor was right; she didnt think things over before she did them.
"What the hell am I suppose to do with my life?!" She asked out load angry at herself and the world.
"I can answer that" A dark voice said and Sabertooth came out from where he had been hiding in a few bushes.
"What didnt get enough last time?" Jubilee said and her hands started to glow, Sabertooth just smiled and snapped his fingers and just one second later they were surrounded by black dressed soldiers, pointing there guns strait at Jubilee.
"You think that will stop me?" Jubilee asked sounding braver then she felt, Sabertooth just snapped his fingers again and a few of the soldiers fired of silent shots that hit her in the back, neck and arms.
Jubilee pulled the tiny arrows from her body, but it was to late the drugs had already entered her body making her sleepy.
She growled and sent of a series of paffs taking down the soldiers and Sabertooth before taking of running towards the mansion.
She didnt get very long before she felt another arrow hit her back and her vision was becoming blurry. She turned around sending away another paff not really sure if it hit anything she continued running.
Then suddenly from nowhere something that looked (and was as sticky) as a spider web was thrown down on her. It was very heavy and with the drugs in her body she just couldnt stand up, she fell hard to the ground.
The last thing she saw was Sabertooth face as he told the soldiers to take her back to the base.
(School had just started so I have a lot of things to do, so this isnt really what I wanted but...)
