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Chapter 15

Andrea Von Strucker looked at the frighten boy in the cell that had a glass wall so she could see everything he did. He didn't look like a mutant, he just look like a six year old. He was sitting on the small cot that was along the side of the room. The cells where located underneath the New York laboratory, it was a converted cellar, there was 15 cells altogether only 4 of them were in use. All with the same plane white walls, cold tiles, harsh light and small cot. The glare of the light gave it all an unearthly glow to it.

The laboratory was a small warehouse in the district part of New York. From the outside it was made out to be a plastic tub producing company called 'Tubes'. Lorry with the company name and logo would load up or unload all day, but it wasn't plastic in the boxes they carried it was chemicals and science equipment. This laboratory was a fine example of Hydra's other investments. Of cause there was only a few who knew about these investments and one of the woman who was special enough to know of them was standing next to Von Strucker telling her about the boys physical. Andrea doubted this woman's loyalty.

"He was calm through out the tests. He was prepared for what I was asking him of." Dr Risman was flipping through the clipboard she held and looked up to the sad boy. "He is a fit and healthy boy. We wont be able to run the other test until tomorrow. The boy has only been here a night, less than 24 hours, I fear it would be too much too soon because he is only 6 years old."

"I did not expect you to run all the tests on him in one day. I do not wish to jeopardise his health, mental and physical." Von Strucker narrowed her dark eyes at Sam. "He knows why he is here. He is the key."

"How is he?" Dr Risman asked, upon having Von Strucker's eyes fall on her she explained herself some more. "I mean, he's young, we don't even know what his mutation is."

"I have a feeling that this boy knows what his power is." Andrea turned away from the cell and made her way to the lift. Dr Risman smiled weakly at Sam before following Von Struck. "Talk to the boy, Deborah; see if he will tell you anything. Your easy to trust."

Dr Risman watched the elevators doors open to let Andrea in and then close once she entered, leaving Deborah and a few guards down in the cells. Reaching Sam's cell Deborah enter the pass code and waited for the glass door to slide open. With a hissing sound as the air locks gave the door opened and Sam looked up to the woman who had just decided to help him get out alive.

"Sam?" Deborah sat down on the cot. "Do you remember me? Im Dr Risman, Im the one who checked that you weren't hurt earlier."

"I know." Sam said meekly. He wore a plain white, open back medical gown. Sam was sitting with his head bent down watching his feet swing back and forth and was slowly putting together the fact that he had seen this place before. It was one of his pictures. It was a lot for a boy of a young age to get his head round the fact that he knew what was happening before it happened but it was helping him not to be too scared. Sam Sneezed.

He was strapped to a bed and people were taking blood out of his arm, he was crying for his mum.

Sam shook his head and looked around him and realized he was still in the small room with a glass wall. Sam though it was like a dollhouse with one part of the wall missing. He use to play dolls with Frankee, he liked being ActionTim. Fear gripped him when he though of what he saw. He didn't want people taking his blood.

"You got a cold?" Dr Risman asked hoping to get him more interactive. She knew he should no sign of a cold from the tests done during the early hours of eth morning; it was getting close to 9am. She knew Viper would want some more test ran by the end of the day. As much as she said she didn't expected it to all be done in one day she still wanted it to be done. It was like saying no but really meaning yes and if Dr Risman or any other poor fool were to ignore this hint it would mean big trouble. She planed to take a small amount of his blood before noon and run some tests on it. It would only cause him a slight discomfort but the results she could get from them would be great. "Hey what do you say to me taking a bit of your blood to check fro a cold bug."

Screaming Sam flung his arms and feet at Dr Risman trying to get away from her. "No! No! No blood! No!"

Deborah tried to catch Sam's whaling arms in tempt of calming him down. Getting more upset by the force Deborah was using Sam kicked and hit hard severely times his foot or hand made contact with Dr Risman.

Alarmed by the screaming the guards rushed towards the cell and burst through the door. Assessing the situation the three guards acted quickly and pinned Sam down to the cot. The fourth Guard got the straps hang loosely down the side of the cot and pulled them together. Buckling them together Sam was quickly made unable to move. Still screaming Sam began to cry for his mum and every one else he loved.

"Thank you for helping but do you really think it was necessary to strap him down like a dog? He's only a child." Dr Risman rubbed her arm to soothe the pain a nasty kick from Sam had caused.

"It was best." One of the guards answered mono toned. "What were you attempting to do Dr?"

"I was going to take a blood sample and he got upset." She answered.

"He will not cause anymore damage so maybe it is best to take the sample now." The guard suggested in the same tone.

"That's barbaric!" Dr Risman reached towards the belts fastening to undo them. She stopped as Sam screamed louder. It was cruel to do it while he was held back but it would be safe for both her and Sam.

Walking out of the cell Dr Risman went to the stored cupboard and took out a sterile syringe walking back to the cell. She looked guilty down to Sam. Cleaning his arms with a wipe she tapped his arm and waited for a clear vein to show. At Sam's more petrified cries Dr Risman wiped a tear from her eye and took a sample of Sam blood. She hoped the results showed something from all this.

Logan watched the battered face of Marie tensely for an hour before giving up on the idea that staring at her would wake her up. Looking around the room he ponder on what had happened today. The students were all back and everyone had chipped in to restore the mansion to some of its former gory. Storm had taken charge until Xavier had recovered. The Poison had total been destroyed from his brain now and they were just waiting on the professor to find his way out of the fog to the light of reality, in other words they were waiting for him to wake up. It was nearing 6pm, Logan had been unable to concentrate on anything during the day while he was helping the others and found him self just returning to Marie's side throughout the day. Scott and the mini-X-men had gone on a mission to get enough pizzas for everyone to eat tonight. From the cheering he heard from upstairs Logan guessed the mission had been a success. Logan's stomachs rumbled again.

He hadn't eaten anything all day; worry had gripped him enough to take him mind of mundane things like food and water. The smell of more than 40 pizzas's soon filled the whole school. Logan's stomach grumbled again as eth smell hit him, he cursed his heighten senses. The sound of his empty stomach eating its self filled the room again.

"Just go have something to eat ya big dope." Logan looked down at Marie to see her looking back at him with a back eye, bruised cheek, cut lip and a weak smile. "You can bring me back some of that pizza too im starved."

"Marie! Your awake!" Logan face split in a huge smile soon replaced with concern as Marie whizzed a laugh at his outburst and her face clenched in pain. "Are you ok? Should I get Beast?"

"No, im fine, it just hurts a little. Where's-" Marie stopped as she remembered where the person she was going to ask for was. "Oh Logan im so sorry."

Logan used his hand to push back the hair from Marie's face, he felt the slight tingle of her power as he move his hand away. She still hadn't got control back. "Marie, its not your fault, we're going to get him back I promise. His going to be ok."

"Im such a horrible person, I should of gone with the others, or made Sam to go with them. I lead him straight to him." Marie felt a bitter tear fall down her face stinging the cuts it fell into. Marie tried to move but a searing pain in her ribs stopped her.

"They broken, well two of them are." Logan stopped Marie from moving anymore. "You was in a pretty bad state when I found you. Your powers were activated and I touched you but you didn't start to heal."

"My powers are changing." Marie's voice was harsh and wispy; Logan helped her drink from a glass of water. Sitting up as far as she could without being in pain Marie looked around the room and noticed the Professor also lying on a bed. "What happened?"

"It was Viper, she kissed him." Logan shrugged; he was trying to lighten the mood. "He is okay, his just taking a nap for awhile. Seems Wheels couldn't take being kissed by a woman like that."

Marie looked down at her hands and back up to Logan. "Do you hate me?"

"What? Of course not!" Logan didn't even have to think before he answered her. "I don't blame you Marie. You were trying to help. Its that Viper's fault and im going to make her pay when we find her."

"Hydra did those experiments on you didn't they? They're going to do the same to Sam." Marie exclaimed. "What if they do the same to him or worst? I hated seeing you in pain through your nightmares, I can't bare to think of Sam like that, his only 6!"

"They didn't do all of it, Striker did the most damage, and Hydra just funded him. Sam will be ok. I promise." Logan felt uncomfortable taking about his past to Marie. He knew she had the same nightmares he had and the same memories but he felt ashamed of what he had let happen to him. He wasn't strong even to stop them; Logan hated feeling weak. "Don't get your self worked up about this. You need to rest and you need to get better. Look I'll go and get Beast to look you over, maybe he will let you sleep in your room tonight."

"The results shows that his mutation hasn't acted up yet and we cant tell what it is." Dr Risman's assistant read from the graph. He was in his mid-twenty's and had shoulder length blonde hair. He was tall and had blue eye's, he was fresh out of university. "There is the possibility that using sharp electric shocks to the cortex of his brain will activate the Gene. It will be painful though and I don't know if he is strong enough to stand the tension on the brain."

"The results from earlier show that he is strong enough Ted, you should know this because you was there when we did the tests. He is a normal as it gets to a healthy 6 year old." Dr Risman sighed; she knew where her tests were leading her too. She will be ordered to activate the gene. To find out what his X-gene is. Use it for Vipers advantage. She couldn't do it .She needed to tell Xavier but it was too risky to do it and Viper had kissed him during the attack. She knew Viper didn't trust her anymore.

"But he is only young." Ted spoke unsurely. He was against the whole mutant experiment, if he knew what the fully obligations of his job was before he took it, he would of reconsidered but now he was here the fear of Viper's goons killing him if he left made him stay. He hated the idea of cause this little boy pain. It didn't matter if he was a mutant, he was still human.

"Don't you think I already know that?" Dr Risman screeched. "We've both got a job to do so lets just get on with it because you and me both know what would happen if we didn't."

"Isn't there anything we can do?" Ted asked hopefully.

"No, the only person who could was kissed by Viper." Dr Risman felt all the air leave her body as she began to gave up thinking about helping Sam. "Get the boy. Make sure you drug him first. Lets keep him unaware of what's happening."

"Thanks for letting my stay in your room Logan. I couldn't stay in Sam's and my room knowing it's my fault he isn't sleeping there." Marie was propped up against the headboard of Logan's bed with pillows behind her back. Logan was lying next to her being careful not to move too much to cause Marie discomfort.

"It's ok. Marie. Ive been thinking though," It was getting close to 8pm, Marie had been feed and moved soon after to Logan's room after he had fetched Beast. All the time the thought that Marie hadn't absorbed his power had been nagging him. "I want you to try to absorb my power. Just my power."

"Logan?" Marie still hadn't got control over her powers yet, Beast had suggested it was a defence mechanism her body had created because of it being in its weakened state.

"You've always said you never want to take other peoples power because you think it leads them to be being in your head for a while. Maybe if you want to take it you could." Logan tried to explain it as best as he could but his idea was so far-fetched even he didn't understand the logical behind it. "Just give it ago."

"You're a sadist aren't you?" Marie narrowed her eyes at Logan. "You enjoy the pain. Well that's the only reason I can think of for you suggesting something so stupid."

"You saying im stupid?" Logan growled. He knew she didn't mean what she was saying. It was how they teased each other.

"Your about as clever as a slice of cheese. Im not doing it." Marie answered.

Logan sighed and leaned up on his elbow, turning to face Marie. "Just try it, please."

"Don't blame me if you get hurt, you stupid sadist. Ok bub, I want your powers." Marie focused on what Logan's powers where and what they could do before she reached out slowly for Logan's hand. Once contact was made, she still thought about how she wanted Logan's powers only. Pulling her hand back after a short while Marie look at Logan, He was still awake and breathing, so she hadn't drained him of his life force. She had felt the tingle of her power taking something from him. Searching his face she asked "Did it work?"

Logan watched the skin of her lip where it was cut knit back together. He looked up to see other cuts doing the same and the bruising fading until it had gone. It wasn't until all the wounds he could see had gone before he spoke. "Lift up your top."

"What? You're a pervert too?" Marie giggled as Logan pulled back the blanket and Marie moved to pull her shirt up. It was then she noticed that her side didn't hurt her nor was there any marks on her arms. Feeling the hope building up inside her Marie moved her top to expose the patch of skin that was banged. Removing that she looked at the skin that she had come to hate mere seconds after learning what had been carved there. Looking at the skin, there weren't any open cuts but there was the silvery scar of the skull clear against her pale flesh. "Wow. What does this mean?"

"I think you have more control over your power than you know of." Logan answered.

"Touch the boy's skin for gods sake you piece of mutant shit." Von Strucker kicked the teenaged run-away mutant girl that was cowering at her feet. She was one of the prisoners that were less useful to her.

Sam was still strapped to the medic bed. He felt different. His skin was tingling around his head. He tried to look towards the voices he was hearing but couldn't see anything. Straining his neck as far as it could Sam tried his hardest to see. He felt a small cold shacking hand touch his arm and suddenly flashes of a girl with mouse brown hair filled his mind. Pictures of her being strapped to a bed like his, screaming like he had. People taking and putting things in her. The picture of her whole body shaking before her movement stopped altogether. A low tone filled the room and a woman spoke. "Time of death, 3.45pm. Date 11/05/04."

The hand left him and he watched as the girl he saw in his head was pulled up to her feet to face him. Fear was in her eyes, her hair was matted with dirt and sweat. He saw her die.

"What happened? What happened?" Von Strucker screamed before hitting the girl across her face.

"I don't…I…I…don't know." The girl sobbed.

Von Strucker looked at Sam. Something had happened the computers show his X-gene spiking up. Thanks to their advanced technology they had been able to activate the boys X-gene but they still didn't know what his power was. After several tests and no results they had result to using other methods to gain the information. From the results of this test it seems that his power is skin based. Narrowing her eyes he looked at Sam. "What happened boy?"

"I saw her die." Sam felt as if he should add Mrs to the end of his sentence, his mum had always told him to speck to elders with respect but this woman scared him and he didn't want to use his manners. This woman appeared to be a very bad mummy to Sam eyes. Sam felt the strap's being loosened and then removed. He sat up when he was motioned to do so. He looked at the digital calendar and clock that was attached to the wall, the date was 10/05/04. "She's going to die tomorrow."

"What? Does this mean he can see people's death?" Von Strucker looked to Dr Risman for answered.

"Its too early to tell. It does seem he needs to touch the person first to be able to see their death. There is still the possibility that his powers aren't fully activated. It has only been a few hours since it was first done." Dr Risman started to check Sam for any sign of physical damage. His heart was being monitored as was his blood pressure and brain waves. The results showed that he had experience a different brain wave pattern during the time he had touched the girl. It seemed as if her patterns were entering his mind. Looking at eth similar monitors attached to the girl, dr Risman matched the patterns to be a perfect match. "Her brain waves were transmitted to his mind."

"Do more research, inform me of the results in 4 hours and I want to hear progress." Von Strucker motioned for the scientist to take the girl back to her cell. Sam was to stay and be tested further.

Dr Risman checked Sam further. She wanted to know what it was his skin did so looking around to see if anyone was paying attention she placed her palm over his forehead.

A hushed phone between Dr Risman and another flashed before Sam's eyes. Dr Risman unlocking him from a different cell door and ushered him towards aback door flooded into his mind. Logan and Emily flashed briefly through. Dr Risman screaming and then falling to the ground, veins clearly showing on her body as it convulsed rapidly on the dirt. As if seeing from her eyes Sam looked up to see the face of Emily sighing and walking away. It finished soon after.

"What did you see Sam." Dr Risman felt her heart rate pick up, it was like an adrenaline rush. Searching Sam's eye's she waited for a reply.

"Pictures." Sam said in a quite voice. What he had seen confused him so much. What was happening when people touched him? Why did he always see them dieing at the end. Was it his fault? What had he done? Were these people going to die because of him? "I want to go to sleep."

"You cant, we have more tests to make." Dr Risman stated.

"She knows what his mutation is. His being kept at the New York lab…" Cr Risman talked as quietly as she could into the phone as she told the other person on the other end the address. "He's safe. She wants him to see her future. To tell her what's going wrong with the experiments but his mutation isn't strong enough to pick certain details out yet so she's having us injected the x-gene cell into his blood stream to strengthen it."

It had been three days since Sam's X-gene was activated. None stop experiments on the boy forced Dr Risman to risk her life to make this call. The man on the other end sounded pissed off but relieved at the same time. She had to save Sam. "I don't know if we will be staying here long. She's spoken of going to a place up north, that's all I know. Please come quick."

"We will." The ruff voice spoke before hanging up. Dr Risman placed her phone down before sitting on the couch in her living room. It wasn't long before her phone rang again. Hastily she answered. "Hello?"

"It's me, ive decided its too risky having him so near them, we're moving. Im only taking a few people and I need you to keep things running. We're going at 2am, be here." The harsh voice spoke and didn't wait for a reply before she hung up. Von Strucker was always like that.

Dr Risman knew it was too risky to phone them up again now; it would be suicide to do so. Looking at her phone she hoped they could track them down.

Logan put the phone down and turned to the sleeping form of Marie on his bed. It was the first lead he had got since Sam was taken. He didn't want to rush going after him with considering everything first. Xavier was still out cold. Scott and Storm had taken to running the school and looking after the children. The X-men filled in and helped when they could. Logan and Marie spent their time searching for Sam and testing Marie's powers.

She has learnt how to take away factors and leave the others. Such as taking life force and leaving the memories and power behind. And visa-versa. Marie had become very dependent on Logan; he had become the person she looked up to again. Logan couldn't help he self but love this and to look up at Marie at times too.

Returning to the bed and waking Marie he told her about the phone call and soon both she and he was talking to Scott and Storm about setting out a rescue party. They would have Sam back.

A/N

Took me awhile to get this one up didnt it? in all fairness its cause my family, school and writing life is going to plot. Family my 19yr old sister just told my 40 year old dad she was having an affair with someone whos older than him(Snape and Hermione anyone?).My brother got brought home by the police for stealing and my mum is starting to lose it. She wished i'd drowned in the shower last night! Yeah mum, love you too.

At school im now know as the 'fucking bitch' i dont mind it i think its kind of cool. 'hey fucking bitch you doing anything tonight?' sort of has a ring to it.

And with my writing im doing less of it, i dont even have time to read anymore! its just wrong!

sorry about that just felt like a rant. Remember WOLVERINE ACTION FIGURES!!!