Taris Creed had never thought of himself as an evil person, but giving his good byes to everyone while Jubilee cried her heart out because he would be gone made him feel like a very evil person. He glanced at her quickly, her brown eyes were red with tears sliding down her cheeks unrelentlessly, her cheeks were puffy and her full rosy lips were quivering. Unable to stand the sight for long he looked back at the person he was saying good bye to.
"Ya have a safe trip ya hear?" Rogue was saying, she had a firm grip on his hand in their handshake. Taris had shook her hand at the begining of their conversation, which was five minutes ago, yet the southern woman kept on ramblings on squeezing his hand harder everytime she felt like crying.
"Um Rogue, I'm going to need that hand back." The auburn haired woman saw what Taris was talking about and released his hand.
"Ah know, and ah'm sorry. Just go already." Rogue whispered. Tears began to form in her eyes and she angrily brushed them away.
"Don't worry Rogue, we'll be fine, promise." With that said and done he moved on to Bobby who was standing next to Rogue impatiently. They stood staring at eachother for several long moments, blue eyes versus blue eyes. Suddenly Bobby threw his arms around Taris and hugged him tight, Taris stood there akwardly for a few moments but then hugged the brown haired man back.
"You take care, and don't forget to visit." Bobby said, pulling away from their hug. He was trying to hide a smile, but the corners of his mouth were peeking up. Taris looked at him with an eyebrow raised.
"Yeah, we will." As he turned around to move on to the next person he heard snickers from behind his back. He turned around quickly to see what they were laughing about but they stopped as soon as he looked at them. Continuing on in the line the snickers started again. Giving up on finding out what everyone thought was funny he went up to Jubilee. She sniffled and brushed away her tears that were replaced by more tears. "Hey." Taris said, she looked up at him still trying to get rid of the tears.
"Hey." She said back. Silence grew between them making them both feel uncomfortable.
"I guess this is good bye." Taris said, breaking the silence. Jubilee nodded her affirmative.
"Yeah, I guess so." She whispered back, her head dropping so she could stare at her feet. Taris slid a hand under her chin and lifted her head back up.
"It's gonna be okay, I promise." He pulled Jubilee into his arms, how he hated seeing her cry.
"You don't really know that Taris. What's gonna happen to us?" He stood there quietly, he had never thought about that.
"I think if we try we can stay together, we'll just really have to try hard." She shook her head slowly.
"We both know it's not going to work, long distance relationships never have worked." Tears began to pour from her eyes with renewed pain.
"But we'll try and that's what matters." Taris' mother started to motion towards him, indicating it was time to go. "I have to leave now Jubes, know that I love you, no matter what happens, I'll always love you." Despite the crowd they joined together and kissed like there was no tomorrow. His lips were squashed to hers in their tight embrace, tears sliding down both of their cheeks this time. Taris pulled away gently, backing up towards his father's jet. At the last moment he turned away from the crowd, tears flowing down his face.
Somehow everybody knew he wanted to be left alone, space was so necessary right now for him. He had never done well with seperation, it hurt alot. Taris recalled all the events that had happened up to this day, from the moment he first came to the Xavier Institute to the first time he met Jubilee. He knew leaving was a mistake, but he couldn't go against his parent's wishes. Sometimes I'm too good for my own health.
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Jubilee locked herself up in her room for days after Taris had left. The X-Women had tried to get her to let them in, but she had told them to leave her alone. They had not bothered her for two days now. Why Taris? Why did you have to leave me? She thought to herself, she had long ago cried her eyes dry, so she just whimpered instead. He's probably having the time of his life up there in Canada, probably has a girlfriend too! At this thought Jubilee really wished she could cry. But he said that he loved me before he left, told me he'd always love me, no matter what. So how could he move on? She had no answers to her own questions and it bugged her to no end. Hearing a knock at the door Jubilee ignored it. The knock came again and still she ignored it. When the knock came a third time she screamed in frustration. Getting up she started to rant.
"I told everybody that I wanted to be left alone and this is how..." Jubilee stopped speaking when she opened the door. She couldn't believe her eyes.
"They repay you?" He said finishing her sentence.
"Oh my gosh." She said before passing out.
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Taris squatted down next to where Jubilee passed out. He shook her gently, his large hands on her shoulders. When she moaned he shook just a little harder. Slowly she opened her eyes, her beautiful brown eyes sparkling with unshed tears. His own blue eyes started to water too, but he blinked them back.
"Hey Jubes." Taris greeted her. Jubilee lay on the ground shocked for a moment before sitting up abrubtly and throwing her arms around his neck, showering kisses across his face. She was mumbling unintelligably, but he didn't care, she was in his arms and that was what mattered.
"Oh my gosh Taris, I missed you so much." Jubilee said when she pulled away finally. "I thought you'd never come back! I thought you'd just move on and find a different girl to love and..."
"Whoa whoa whoa!" He stared at her shocked. "Did you really think that I could just move on? Jubes, I love you, not anyother girl." He pulled her tightly into his grasp, their eyes connected. "And I'm never gonna stop loving you." Standing up, Taris pulled her up to stand next to him. "Now c'mon, there's a meeting in the briefing room."
When they arrived in the briefing room they realized they were the last ones to get there. They both smiled impishly, last entrance was one of their favorite things to do. At the head of the table was Dezra Creed, Taris' mother, next to her was Professor Xavier.
"X-Men we have gathered together in the briefing room for the first time since Jin's death for a single reason." There was an uncomfortable silence as they waited for him to tell them what was going on. "Mr. and Mrs. Creed have extended an invitation to us to spend several weeks training with them in Canada." Taris watched as some of the X-Men fidgeted, while others just stared at his father with confused expressions on their faces. Beside him Jubilee stood with her mouth hanging open. She looked at him for confirmation and he smiled, a smile spread across her face then too.
"If some of you are uncomfortable with training with us or staying with us, realize that you are not being forced to go. We just thought it would be a good experience for everyone to have some practice in a different setting for a while." Taris thought his mother was very wise for making it a suggestion, that way the X-Men would feel more comfortable to accept the offer. His mother stood at the head of the table with an air of regalty around her. Alot of people wondered how Sabretooth had managed to get her to marry him, and whenever they asked he just shrugged his shoulders and told them 'that's what love does to you.'
Taris turned his attention to his father who was lounging in a couch that was seperated from the others in the room, it was also the one closest to where his mother was standing. Taris resembled his father alot, they both shared the blonde hair and blue eyes, they both had bulky frames, but Taris was smaller than his father by 6 inches in height. Taris was a feral, like father like son his mother said.
"I myself think it's a wonderful idea to train with the Creed's for a while, it will give us some more experience on a different terrain." The Professor said from his wheelchair.
"I agree with the Professor," Jubilee said from her position next to Taris, everyone looked at her like she'd grown a second head except for Dezra and Taris. "it would be a great experience. We've been cooped up in here for so long, I think it'd be nice to like, get away for a while." Several other people made comments of 'yes' and 'i agree'.
"Then it is settled, if you wish to go along with the Creed's then I would like you to meet them at the basketball court where their jet is." Slowly people began to leave the room as the meeting was dismissed. Jubilee turned to Taris with tears in her eyes.
"What did I tell you about crying?" Taris commented. Jubilee smiled at Taris and wiped away her tears.
"No more tears," She quoted him. "Because I'll always love you."
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(A/N) Next chapter will be the last! I know it! I promise that the next chapter will be the last. Plz read and review! You know I just looooove your comments and concerns, yadayadayada. But plz, refrain from flaming. Ight, L8r! -Sabeybaby
