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Chapter 14- Return
"Fifty-three" she said aloud, "Fifty three spots on the ceiling." Rogue perked up as she heard the familiar loud clank of the door. Sabertooth stood in the doorway staring down at her. Rogue just faced the ceiling again. Why had she even bothered to look? It was Sabertooth. It was always Sabertooth.
He entered at an oddly quick pace, rushing over to her. This caught her attention. "Come on Rogue, let's go. I'm getting you out of here." Before her eyes, Sabertooth shrunk to blue woman with brilliant red hair and glowing yellow eyes. Rogue didn't dare believe. 'This is it,' she thought, 'I have finally lost my mind. This is all a delusion."
"Why are you just sitting there Rogue, let's go." Mystique demanded, "Sabertooth could be back at any minute."
"You aren't real," Rogue said in a dreamy tone staring with a half smile, "All in my head."
Mystique reached over and gently but firmly smacked her daughter across her face.
"Ow," she cried out, "that hurt."
"Good. I'm real, now can we go," she asked in a low tone. Eyes opened wide, Rogue nodded. She was getting out.
"Okay now, stand still," Mystique ordered bringing out pistol and aiming at the chains. Her aim was true like usual. Rogue rubbed her wrists where the chains had just fallen from. Mystique impatiently grabbed her arm and dragged her off.
The next second they were running down a long narrow hallway that was just as grey and cold as her cell. In a breathless voice mystique explained briefly, "Irene had a vision. You will have to wait for the collar. I don't have the key. We will find another way to break it off later.
"Hold on." Mystique requested as the approached a large door blocking their path. A digital number pad was in the wall beside it.
"Where are we?" Rogue asked.
"Old army base, now silence. I have to concentrate," Mystique snapped punching in some numbers and shape shifting into Sabertooth, most likely for an eye match test.
Rogue leaned on a doorway beside them. While waiting for her mother to open the door, she took to looking around. Even when not running, there was very little to look at. It was just a hallway with random doors. A sudden noise caught her attention. A shadow loomed in a doorway on the other side of the hall, close to hers. Before it registered in her mind or she could get warning it pounced. There was a sickening crack as Sabertooth crashed Mystique into the door. A gun fell from her and clattered to the floor away from the three.
"No!" Rogue screamed, attacking him. Again all she got was thrown into a wall. This time it was much worse than before. He took the opportunity to kick the gun down the hallway. Rogue crumpled to the ground, unable to get up again. This distracted Sabertooth long enough to allow Mystique to recover. Stars swam in front of her eyes, but Rogue watched the best she could as her mother dodged a blow, and attacked. It was a straight kick to the chest, but even Mystique had very little effect on the large mutant. He aimed a fist at her and she ducked again but he shot his leg out and bringing her to the ground. Rogue winced. Then out of the corner of her eye, she saw the gun. It was defiantly a ways down the hallway, but if her mother stayed fighting long enough, Rogue could get it without Sabertooth noticing. Quick healing or not, a bullet would harm Sabertooth. Pooling her strength, Rogue began to crawl down the hallway. She would have liked to walk, but the immense swelling her foot and ankle told her she was too badly injured.
The sounds of the fight echoed loudly down the hard, cold hall as Rogue made her way down. It hurt to move her chest Obviously a rib or two had been broken. She kept crawling though, ignoring the pain. This was going to end now.
A sudden and very violent crack halted her movements. Fighting had suddenly ceased. Fearing the worst Rogue looked back. Her mother was slumped on the floor, a large, long stain running down the door she was against. Mystique had been knocked out, Rogue had to get the gun and get it now.
Too bad Sabertooth saw her. Before she could even lay a finger on it, it was swooped up in front her.
"Going somewhere x-girl?" He sneered. He picked her up to her feet and ordered her to walk. She collapsed again telling him that she couldn't. "Fine. I'll drag you then," he replied in an annoyed voice.
By one arm, she was dragged back to the cell. Without ceremony, she was dropped on the floor. Without a second glance, she was locked in. It hurt too much to move, so Rogue didn't. She laid there and just sobbed. Rogue found out that crying hurt too.
Sabertooth didn't return to her for a while. In fact the swelling of her foot had eased a bit before she came. This was probably the result of her resting it on the ice-like concrete floor.
"You better make it good tonight girly, since our time is almost through."
Rogue didn't know if she was more shocked by the words or the fact that he had spoken at all. Sabertooth usually just stuck to silence when he spent time with her. Quicker, more efficient, and altogether more animalistic. Today however, tonight in fact, he spoke.
"Almost through? What is happening to me?"
"Well my pet, tomorrow you are going to die." Normally a phrase like that would be shocking and horrifying. Rogue was only surprised that it took so long.
"So that is why you took me? To kill me?"
"For the most part, I got side benefits too." He said with a smile.
"Why wait so long? Surly you can find….side benefits….elsewhere?" Rogue asked. It was odd discussing her own murder but she was unbearably curious.
"I had to find the right time to kill you. Tomorrow fits very well."
"Why?" Sabertooth stared at her as if deciding whether or not to answer. In the end, he decided to humor her.
"Tomorrow is a big party in New York. Many people, many cameras. That is where I am going to kill you. On live T.V. so everyone can see me smash your poor little body."
"So Wolverine can see you smash my body."
"Smarter than you look aren't you my little pet? Yep, Wolverine will get to see your dying breath. Won't that be fun?" Sabertooth said, sounding much too happy.
"Tons," Rogue said in a flat emotionless voice.
When it came to dying, Rogue still had yet to decide if she even cared.
A/N
Okay, another chapter in this story. Again with the happy right?
Short chapter, but quick update.
It would have been quicker but I spent the day at Waldenbooks with a friend of my reading comics.
We made fun of the dorks who were like "Emma is so hot, I wish she were real."
Then we realized that we were sitting on the floor in the middle of the isle fighting over DC vs. Marvel. I was being particulary idiotic and doing dramatic impressions of Rogue ( offering deep sighs and sobbing that I couldn't touch my true love.) I got a few odd looks.
New chappie soon
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