Im not very good at detail so im sorry if this chapter isn't so great. It took me forever to write this chapter.

Chapter 14

Marie was in the rec room with the Mini-X-Men. The Mini-X-Men were those who were old enough to understand the matters of the world but too young to make a difference. These were those who were normally in the final year or three of school. They went on the mini-schemas and were being trained to be part of the X-men once they had completed school. The Mini-X-Men were Bobby, Kitty, Jubilee, Roberto, Amara and Samuel.

They had just finished their finial training of the day. It had been two weeks since the beginning of the schedule Xavier had given everybody. Two weeks since Sam had been sharing her rooms. Two weeks since she's been doing night rounds with Scott and Logan and it had been two weeks since she woke up next to Logan. It wasn't the only time though. Whenever Marie had been helping Logan, Logan would watch over Sam. Half of the time when she got back Logan was a sleep but the other times he would have a cup of coco waiting for her.

It was those nights she looked forward too but it was also those nights Logan wouldn't stay. There was normal only a few hours left of the night when he left anyway, Logan would talk to her about everything. They swapped stupid stores like how Marie locked her self in the toilet when she was little; they were stories that they could laugh over. When the evening was more focused on the dooms that lay ahead, Marie would speak of her fears, Her concerns over Sam. Logan would listen to her and when she got upset he would wipe away her tears and stay the night with her. This only happened the once.

She had just come back and Logan was sitting on the bed with two cups in his hands and a big grin on his face. Sam was snoring softly. Marie smiled back but it was only on her face fro a second. Logan noticed this and quickly put the mugs down on the side table. Asking what was up he got a simply 'jean' as a reply. It was the night Scott had told her about his feelings for jean and how he had planned their future together. Lying down on the bed Marie bust out in tears. Logan hadn't got much out of her but he didn't leave her side.

It had hit her that night how much Scott had loved Jean. It made her think about how she had planed a future with Logan before she had left. It brought back all the feelings she had tried hard to repress. Had Logan planed a future with Jean too? It was hard to think about the man that was comforting her she had once loved and watched him love another.

"Hey Rogue cheer up." Bobby had just lost terribly to Samuel at a game of pool. He was never that good at sports like that, he preferred the more body contact one. It was thoughts like that Bobby wondered about his sexuality.

"Its ok Bobby, I was on night patrol last night. Im just a bit tired." Marie half yawned and smiled at the end of her sentence.

"Your over doing it Rogue. Your training whenever you can during the day, your doing extra patrol shifts and your looking after Sam. It doesn't look like your getting enough sleep." Bobby sat down on the couch with Marie. Roberto was playing Samuel now, Bobby watched as he bent over to take a shot. Rob's jeans tightened across his bum and Bobby couldn't help but stare. "Rogue, I think I might be gay."

"Really? Wow." Marie nodded her head and looked at Bobby. Now that he had said it she could kind of tell.

"What?" Bobby asked

"My life doesn't seem so hectic now." Marie laughed.

"Don't get over doing it Rogue. Im worried." Bobby rubbed her leg briefly.

"Ive got tonight off, im taking it easy. Im going to cook Sam some tea and then go to bed." Marie stood up to leave. "Thanks Bobby, for caring."

Marie finished putting the pizza on the plates, she wasn't a great cook but she knew how to use an oven. Picking up two plates and turning around she placed one in front of Sam and the other n front of Logan. Smiling she picked up her own plate and sat down at the table too. She use to cook pizza for Sam and Frankie but she didn't do it often because of how unhealthy it was. Sam had been miserable and Marie was hoping to cheer him up some.

"Thanks." Logan smiled and looked at the pizza and chuckled.

"What? Is something wrong with it?" Marie studied her pizza more closely.

"Its just, I never thought a pizza would mean so much to me just because you've cooked it." Logan smiled and chuckled again. "Its sad I know."

"No its sweet." Marie smiled.

"I kind of feel bad about eating it now. Im sorry little pizza but im hungry." Logan picked up the pizza and took a bite. Marie was openly laughing at Logan's silliness, he was daft some times. Eating her own pizza Marie watched Sam and Logan finish theirs. At the table right down was the two men Marie cared deeply about. Sam she loved as a brother, Logan she was unsure about, she had a feeling she knew what it was but her heart was too afraid to speak the words.

"I once planed to go to England. So I could see one of those red buses." Logan admitted. They were in Marie's room, Sam was asleep in the corner and Logan and Marie was swapping storied again.

"I once was stupid enough to sneak into some weirdo's trailer but he spotted me and dumped me in the middle of no where. It worked out in the end, it turned out the weirdo had a heart and he came back and picked me up." Marie smiled and stretched out on the bed, she loved bantering with Logan when he knew he couldn't raise his voice higher than a whisper.

"Im that weirdo aren't I?" At Marie's nod he looked straight into her eyes. "That hurt. In fact it hurts just as much as it will hurt you when I tickle you."

"Don't!" Marie whispered as loudly as she could. Logan smiled wickedly and began to tickle Marie. Because they were distracted neither of them knew of the threat that was breaking into the grounds until the arm lights went off.

Marie looked at Logan, fear written all over her face. Logan looked back at her then to Sam. Getting up, Logan helped Marie off the bed. "Get him out of here now."

Marie nodded and went to wake Sam. Once he was awake enough to move, Logan lead Marie and Sam to the secretly panel in the corridor where the other students where escaping. Make sure Marie and Sam went through the panel, Logan turned to leave. Hearing his name Logan looked back to see Marie had returned. "Get out of here now Rogue. I don't want you to get hurt."

"I can help, im part of the X-men." Marie insisted. Sam poked his head round the panel and called for Marie.

"Marie go and take care of Sam. You know that's what you've got to do." Logan watched as the students scrambled through the passageway, red lights were swirling around the room it was the only source of light until the emergencies lights activated.

"I don't want to lose you Logan." Marie gasped, a loud smashing sound could be heard from below.

"Marie, don't do this. You wont lose me but you will lose Sam if you don't go NOW!" the last bit was a shout as another crash was heard. The younger students began to scream. Pushing Marie towards a scared Sam, Logan ran off towards the Crashes. It sounded like they were coming from Xavier's office.

Marie grabbed Sam and went back through the passageway. Tell the students to calm down she lead them towards the underground tunnel that took them on a 4-mile track to a safe house. She was the oldest there at the moment; she knew that the X-men and Mini-X-men where back there fighting. She felt like a coward.

As they reached the forked turning that lead them from the School to the safe house or to the gates of the school. Marie made a stupid mistake; she turned around, with Sam in tow.

"Where we going Emily?" Sam asked.

"To help."

Logan sniffed the air. He picked up an unfamiliar scent, turning around he listened for anything that gave away where the person was hiding. He didn't have to wait long until he heard a whipping sound, turning around quickly again he ran towards the sound. A person jumped around the corner at Logan. This person was a man, with tentacles and covered in Carbonadium armour. He was a mutant and by the looks of the metal he was an enhanced one at that.

Growling Logan bee-lined towards the guy. He drew his craws and jumped at the mutant. With a quick swish the mutant had swept Logan to the side with one of his tentacles. Logan was flunged to the wall. Landing on the floor Logan got up and headed for him again. This time Logan got to swipe at the mutant with his claws. It was here when Logan found that the metal he was covered with was not as strong as his. A piece of the mutants armour on his left arm fell off.

Grinning Logan went to attach again.

It was a heated battle, each getting swipe for swipe. The mutants strengthen was above the average man but he did not heal as Logan did. As Logan crashed the mutant from wall to wall while cutting off his armour, the mutant was losing strengthen. Logan picked up the weakened mutant and pushed him up against a stone pillar. Plaster crumbled to the floor. Logan would have to apologise to Xavier for leaving a dent. Notices that the mutant was near its end Logan spoke. "What's your name bud?"

"You Canadian crap, I shall never speak." A strong Russian voice gave the answer; she the mutant was a Russian.

Logan stabbed the Russian with one of his claws in his shoulder. "Sure about that. What's your name?"

"Its Omega Red." Omega answered. His answer seemed to upset Logan as he growled and brought his claws across Omega's neck. Letting him fall to the ground to bleed to death Logan carried on to Xavier's office.

Reaching the office he found it to be trashed. Walking further in Logan noticed Beast cradling the Professors head close to his chest. Worried Logan ran the rest of the way to them. Xavier was sprawled on the floor, to Logan he looked dead. "Is he?"

Marie held Sam behind her as she lead the way back, she could here crashes and people screaming. She has decided to go to the gates of the mansion. There was bound to be something she can do to help there. Edging out of the cave the tunnel lead them to Marie snuck away from the mansion to a small patch of trees. "Sam, I want you to stay here and not move. Im going to help, you will be ok here. Don't move ok?"

Marie felt abit bad about leaving the 6year old there alone. She hoped that this was the best thing to do. He would be safe here though, he couldn't see the school and nobody could see him. Sitting him down on the ground against the largest tree Marie set off towards the school. Sam would be save.

Hiding behind a near by tree Marie watch two large black trucks being unloaded. Army garb men were rushing around the carries. Moving back the arm men where beckoning what was in the trucks forward.

Marie gasped as she saw four robots leave both trucks. Eight all together, they were heavily armed. Marie watch in horror as one of the men heard her gasp. She hid behind the tree pressing her back as far into it as possible. She heard shouting of 'over here' and 'someone is there'. Marie was in big trouble.

Peeking around she came face to face with a grinning face. It was one of the men. Acting quickly Marie punched him in the face, panicked grabbed her as she looked from him on the floor up to the five men coming towards her, armed with guns. Feeling her mutation activate Marie Kicked the man on the floor in the head knocking him unconscious. All that training had paid off. Looking back to the men coming towards her, Marie ran towards the nearest one Side-kicking him and ripping the gun from his hand. Using the butt of the gun Marie jabbed him in the back of the neck. That was another one down.

She took everything in around her noticing the intense danger she was in. There were too many for her to take on, plus they had robots too. She was doomed but she wasn't going to go down with out a fight. Taken off guard a man tackled her to the ground.

Making a 'umphing' sound as she landed on the ground she twisted her body so that she could touch his face with her bear skin. Feeling his memories flash through her mind Marie realized that the robots were sentinels and the damage they could cause. She also learnt that the man's orders were to destroy all mutants but not Sam. She had lead Sam straight to them.

Pushing the unconscious man off her Marie scrambled up to her feet. She just had enough warning of seeing the next man to kick him soundly in the gut. Thoughts of how Marie had to get Sam away from here lead her to run towards where she left him. Entering the small closer where Sam was huddled Marie muttered a quick. "Sam!" Before she was hit hard across her head. With her vision spinning Marie looked up to see one of the men standing above her with a cigar in his mouth. She closed her eyes and whispered "Sam" opening them again she saw the end of the guys gun come trashing down to hit her in the face. After that it was just darkness, with a dull pain throbbing her skull.

"Viper! We've got the boy. What shall we do to the girl?" The man saluted Von Strucker as she returned back from visiting Xavier. She got out her compact mirror and touched up her red lipstick.

"Good." She spoke with disinterest waving away the boy who was in the arms of another man. They had shot him with a tranquilliser once Marie had fallen down. Obeying her silent orders the man took Sam inside one of the Black vans. "Kill the girl."

"Are you sure? Don't that I doubt your orders" The man stuttered once Von Strucker turned her icy glare to him. "She is strong. She took out three of the men. She only touched James and now his in some sort of a coma, he wont wake up."

"Really? Very well. Don't kill her." Von Strucker walked towards the Van and got into the passenger seat, looking back at the sleeping boy in the back of the van she spoke. "I have an idea, lets rub salt in the wound. Xavier is gone and we have the boy. Hurt the girl. Badly. Then leave her on theground for them to find."

"Yes Viper." The man had a wicked smile on his face as he began to walk away from the van.

"Call the men back, we have what we come for. Tell Omega Red and Gauntlet to report to me." Viper called out to him.

Logan didn't move a muscle as he waited for Beast's answer. The Professor lifeless in Beast's arm, his skin was pasty. Logan looked for sign of his chest moving indicating that he was breathing. He didn't see any.

"I am unsure. His Body is lifeless yet I can still hear him in my head. He is confused, I am confused. His body is dead yet his mind is still alive." Beast shook his head and sighed. He took in the destroyed room. Chair's were broken, pictures hung skewed on the walls. Xavier's desk over turned. Everything was in disarray. "Its all my fault. I let her in; I took her to the Professor. He told me to leave them alone, He said it was ok. If I had only stayed with him."

"Who's she Beast" Logan asked.

"I should have been here." He muttered.

"Beast." Logan demanded. "Who is she?"

"Oh…um…it was, she called herself Mrs Von Strucker but the men she was with, mutants, called her Viper. She did this." Beast sobbed openly as the guilt gripped his sad heart.

"Did she kiss him?" Logan didn't know how to handle the crying Beast but he had a feeling that Viper had kissed the professor with her poisonous lipstick. The kiss of death. "Beast, the Professor still had a chance but you've got to act quick. Take him to the medic lab and test him for poison. Look for Hyperthimes in his blood stream."

"Hyperthimes? The professor told me of this a while back. Do you think this is what it is?" Beast's face lit up. If it was Hyperthimes poisoning the professor did indeed stand a chance of surviving. "I know how to treat it, I can save him!"

"Then go save him!" Logan urged Beast to act quickly. Helping Beast up with the Professor in his arms. Logan ran a head to make sure the corridors to the Lab were clear. Expecting men to be the corridor Logan was slightly put off guard when there wasn't any. Logan was put even more so off his guard when he didn't hear nor seen anyone the two floors they had to travel down to reach the bay. Where had they gone?

Once safe inside the locked doors of the medics bay, Logan helped Beast put the Professor onto the table and then to place monitor tabs on his body. Watching Beast as he went about setting up the equipment Logan noticed how Beast had started to mumble to him self. It seemed talking through his actions help Beast to deal with the stress of eth situation. He listened as Beast went on to talk about the poison and how to treat it.

"It sorts of 'shuts down' the body as it attacks the mind. It slowly eats away at it, the victim is fully aware of what is happening around him and to him but is unable to stop it. The professor's mutation must be helping him to fight it off as the monitors show that the poison had not started to destroy his mind just his body has been effected." Beast looked at the paper coming out of the printer shaking his head and tutting he began to flurry about attaching more wires to the professors body and then switching on the large machine it was connected to a loud bussing sound filled the small room. "We need to keep his body from decaying. IV will be need to be dripped into him and electric plus should generate his cells and blood flow to continue to circulate. It works as a giant solar panel working his whole body to be regenerated. It will only work for a week at the most. So we must hope that he Professor can fight off the poison enough to pull through this. I shall be helping to kill the Hyperthimes cells by injecting the anit-cell and the t-cell directly to his brain stem."

"Isn't that dangerous?" Logan frightened Beast out of his trance by speaking. It seemed Beast had forgot he was in the room.

"Yes," Beast replied. "It could cause so many problems that I almost hesitate to do it but it is his only chance."

"I need to go check on the school." Logan stood up from the bed he had seated himself on. As soon as both of his feet hit the floor the phone right next to him rang. Looked at Beast, who shrugged his shoulders in return, Logan answered. "Hello?"

"Logan? Its Storm." Looked sighed as he heard the familiar voice soothe his uneasiness. "Im at the safe house with the children. We're all safe. Ive just had contact from Scott saying that he and the X-men have scooted the school and they have gone. I checked on the CCTV cameras to confirm what he said and his right, they have gone. The trucks are no longer on the grounds but that's not why im calling you…"

Logan held his breath and didn't move as he listened for what she was going to say. His eyes moved around the room going from the Professor to the CCTV camera in the corner.

"Rogue and Sam isn't here with us…" Storm sighed.

"Where are they?" Logan demanded, he felt the hairs on the back of his neck stand on end. His nostril's flared; he knew he wasn't going to like what he heard next.

"We've watched the CCTV's in search of them. We lost sight of them after the left the gate tunnel. They were right near them Logan. I fear the worst." A sob escaped Storm's lips. Logan let the phone fall looked at Beast and then ran out of the door.

Beast picked up the phone and looked at it quizerly. He put it to his ear and said a soft "Hello?" After a long pause he muttered "Good lord!"

Logan ran to the gates not pausing for breath on the way, his ears were ringing from the wind wiping through them; his face ached from the cold wind. Once at the gate he looked from the tire tracks left behind to the tress that hide the tunnel. Walking closer to him he noticed an object on the floor near a small clearing. As he got closer Logan soon realised that it was Marie. Running as fast as he could he reached the unconscious girl's side. Checking quickly for sign of life Logan pulled the girl to his chest and a sob of joy retched from his body as he found them. She was still alive. Relief filled his whole being. It wasn't long until he felt the familiar tug of Marie's power pull the life from his body. Pulling away Logan was careful not to touch her bare skin as he searched for signs of her waking.

"Logan…" A quiet whimper left her lips. Her eyes fluttered and opened a fraction before closing again. Marie frowned as she tried to speak. "Men…couldn't…Sam!"

"Its ok, Marie. Ive got you. Where's Sam?" Logan fought off the feeling to hug Marie with all his might. He noticed the tear that slowly made its way down Marie's delicate cheek.

"He's gone." Marie sobbed her arms moving to cling to Logan. "Its my fault."

Logan hugged Marie as she cried on his shoulder. It wasn't long before she had fallen to sleep. Picking her up he walked back to the mansion to take her to the medic's bay.

Once there he placed her on the bed he was sitting on moments before and looked sadly to Beast. "She was knocked out. I don't know for how long. Sam's gone."

"She's been hit at eth top of her head, there is slight bruising showing already on her forehead. I am guessing she has been out for a while. Had she wakened yet?" Beast fussed over Marie, checking her eyes and her head for further damage. "She has been hit at the back of her head too, there is marks on her arms, signs of a struggled. Our Rogue did not go down with out a fight. What worry's me is that she is rather battered. Cuts are littered everywhere, they is also a rather bad gash on her side."

"She woke a few moments ago, it wasn't for long though. She tried to tell me what happened but she couldn't form the words. She just sobbed and went back to sleep." Logan voice was rough and unfamiliar to him. He watch Marie a sleep on the bed, He had always thought she looked innocent when she slept but it was different this time, the other times it warmed his heart to see her sleep but this time it filled his heart with rage at the thought of seeing his beaten Marie's face covered in cuts and bruises.

"Ah, that is good. The hit is not as bad as it seems. She will sleep now for the rest of the day at least, give her time for her brain to rearrange its self." Beast started to clean the gash on her side, was it was free of dried blood Beast could see the cut in all its glory. Gasping at what he found he spoke out. "This is not a normal cut, they did this as a sign. It was clearly done after she was knocked out other wise it wouldn't be so clear. It isn't that deep but scarring will be left behind."

"What is it?" Logan moved so he could see the cut. It was a clear outline of a skull. Beast was right, for it to be done the size of a small orange and neat Marie must have been unconscious. It wasn't highly detailed just the outline of the skull and a line across for the teeth and two mixed matched circles for the eyes. Logan tried to swallow the sob that raised in his throat. She had been marked as some kind of cattle. "She absorbed some of me when I held her. Why hasn't that help to heal her?"

"Marie's powers are evolving from what they use to be, I don't understand fully to what extent yet. We are learning as we go along with her power. I shall run some tests as soon as she has recovered fully." Beast frowned and rubbed his chin. "Storm is bring back the students, the X-men are helping restore some of the damage. There isn't much more you can do now Logan apart from to wait for both her and the professor to recover to find out exactly what has happened."

"How is the Professor?" Logan asked looked aver to the still lifeless form of the man who has helped him discover some of his past.

"He is improving. His thought are more organised and I can hear him more clearly in my head. He is gaining control of his mind, the poison is backing off." Beast's voice picked up as he told Logan of the good news. "Logan, you need to distract yourself from your worry's for Rogue and the Professor. Maybe it would be best if you went and helped the others."

Logan rubbed the back of his head and groaned. "I guess your right."

Logan walked out of the room and went to find the others.

Wow it's took me ages to write this chapter. Well it would have been finished sooner but my computer got sick and went to hospital for a few days. Just got it back today and I couldn't wait to finish this chapter!

Thanks for the reviews, I wasn't too sure if people would enjoy this story because its similar too many Logan/Marie stories in someway.