X-Mansion, briefing room
"I believe I've located Remy, he's being kept in the city within a government building deep underground...It will take us at least a few hours to get down there without getting noticed...which brings us to that problem..." Xavier explained.
"Not really..." Jean-Luc cut in.
"What do you mean not really...we can't just barge in there they'll be notified and flee before we get a chance to get down there." Scott seethed at the man's arrogance.
"Not-a-problem...you forget ya have three master thieves in your presence...boy." Jean-Luc growled.
"Very well then we'll divide into three teams, first team Hank, Logan, Kurt and Lapin. Second team Scott, Kitty, Rogue and Jean-Luc. Third team Storm, Jean, Bobby and Henri..."
"When do we leave?" Henri asked anxious to get his little brother back.
Xavier looked at them. "Ten minutes...get ready."
Twenty minutes later, they were in a park facing the building which Remy was held within, The Professor was in a nearby car waiting with Jubilee, giving out orders 1st team head east, 2nd north and 3rd go west. Xavier commanded using his telepathy. Hearing the orders the thieves took point and lead the teams, carefully and quietly climbing stairs and walls or crawling within vents, taking care of lasers, cameras and security without being seen or heard. It was rather hard with several students who either wouldn't keep quiet, or started bitching and whining, they'd had to be told more than once to shut the hell up.
Henri had even gone as far as to punch Bobby in the face. "If I lose my brother because of you, they'll never find your body ya fucken understand me ya little shit, now shut the fuck up and do what I say..." Henri whispered in the boy's ear so low that the others couldn't hear him and continued his way down a corridor. Hugging the wall and peeking past it. Spotting a guard who seemed more interested in watching a small portable television, Henri ordered the others to get on their knees which they all knelt down Henri crouched down crawling underneath the window and entered through the nearest door.
Jean-Luc crawled out from and overhead vent telling Kitty to replace the grate before coming down, carefully lifting the grate and holding on to the edge he flipped out and landed silently on his feet, hugging the wall he spotted the lasers adorning the hall, ordering his team to stay where they were, Jean-Luc slowly knelt, jumped, flipped, and shifted his body in order to avoid the lasers, Scott, Kitty and Rogue watched in awe as he made his way toward the control room at the end of the corridor and shut off the lasers.
Lapin slid down the cables of the elevator shaft the others quickly behind him, stopping at what seemed to be the last floor within the basement. Lapin quickly opened the doors a few millimeters and scanned the hallway it looked like a cellar; amazingly there were no cameras. Fully opening the doors Lapin leapt out and made his way down the darkened hall Logan was behind him. "That's weird..." Lapin whispered.
"What?" Logan asked as he sniffed around.
"There's no security, cameras, lasers, sensors, nothing."
"Perhaps no one comes down here..." Hank answered.
"Is it safe to split up?" Kurt asked.
"Yeah but keep your eyes open and keep quiet." Lapin answered.
"Alright Hank you go left, Kurt you and Lapin go right, I'll go straight...And hurry up."
After about five minutes as Logan sniffed the air he gasped and held his breath. "What the hell?" he whispered. He knew this scent all to well, It was blood, growling Logan ran towards the scent stopping at a metal door unsheathing his claws he swiped at the door and slammed it to the floor with a swift kick.
"FUCK...Hank get down here now!" Logan yelled.
Looking within the semi lighted room Logan could see there was only one person within it. Remy was strapped on a bed soaked with his blood. He was trembling and covered in sweat, his skin was porcelain white showing off the red marks on his body. His breathing was quick and ragged. His eyes were wide open and completely black, he had a tube down his throat and another in his side he also had IV's inserted in his arms and wires monitoring his heartbeat and breathing as well as a few machines keeping him alive his chest wrists and left shoulder were bandaged and soaked with blood, there were also soaked bandages littering the floor.
Quickly making his way to the boy, Logan gasped at what they had done to him. And hurriedly cut off the rope from his wrists and the belts and straps holding him down. "Remy...can ya hear me pup come on gimme something kid...HANK WHERE THE HELL ARE YOU?" Logan looked around seeing some surgical scrubs and cloth in a glass cupboard, which for some stupid reason was locked, breaking the glass Logan grabbed the cloths and shook off the glass, tearing them into strips he wrapped them around the boy's wounds tightly. "You'll be all right pup, just hold on."
"Logan?"
"In here Hank, for god's sake hurry the fuck up."
"What did you...Oh my god." Hank quickly went to the other side of the bed, sucking air through his teeth at the amount of damage Remy had received. "Before we can move him we have to stop the bleeding, opening his backpack Hank took out what he'd need to stop the bleeding and proceeded to work on the boy.
After like three minutes Kurt and Lapin walked into the room. "We didn't find anyth..." Kurt held his tongue as he saw blood pooling at Logan and Hank's feet.
Lapin's face paled at the sight, "R...em...?"
"Kurt contact Chuck, and tell him ta get the others out of here, and teleport Lapin out of here...then come back." Not hearing that familiar poof sound or smelling sulfur, Logan turned to the blue elf. "NOW...DAMNIT."
Kurt nodded and grabbed Lapin's arm teleporting him outside, quickly making his way to Xavier and explaining Logan's orders. After giving out the order to retreat, Kurt teleported back to Hank and Logan.
"Mr.Lapin are you okay?" Jubilee asked getting out of the car and shaking his arm. Lapin only stared ahead not saying a word.
"Help him inside the car Jubilee..." Charles told her. Jubilee tugged at his arm and opened the door for him, gently pushing him down and closing the door.
"I don't think his father will be to happy about this..."
"At least he's alive Hank...Fuck the bleeding just won't stop." Logan growled.
"Put more pressure on it, I'm almost done with his shoulder, then we can switch...You know what these look like?" Hank asked tying off a suture.
"Creed's gonna pay for this. I swear ta god he will."
Kurt teleported in, "Can I take him out now?" he rasped.
"Not yet Kurt, I still have to stop the bleeding in his chest and wrists... All right Logan switch places with me," Cutting away the bloodied bandages Hank immediately wished he hadn't; blood was starting to gush out. "Damnit he's still losing to much I'll have to bind the wound and fix it later, I don't want to keep him here. Quickly Kurt come here and take Logan's place, Logan come back here...I have to get the IV's and tubes out of him."
Ripping off the wires that monitored his vitals Hank carefully took out the IV's, wrapping more bandages tightly around his wrists and then waited until Remy took a breath, when he released it Hank pulled out the tube that was down the boy's throat, then the one at Remy's side...
"Please tell me we can get out of here now?" Kurt asked looking expectantly at Hank. Who nodded and told him to be careful Logan supported Remy's back while Hank held on to his legs.
"All right Kurt, get us out of here," touching Hank and Remy, Kurt then wrapped his tail around Logan's arm and they were instantly transported back outside to the park. They continued this way until they were at the mansion. Teleporting to the med-lab Hank quickly went to get what he needed, while Logan stripped off the torn and bloody clothes from Remy, "Kurt would you be so kind as to go boil some water please." Kurt did as he was told and teleported to the kitchen. Logan took the time to check out the damage, blood was caked and crusted in his hair and face, he was covered in cuts and bruises on his face, chest and arms the skin on his wrists was rubbed raw, he had green and purple bruises on his neck looked like he was strangled. He cringed he still hadn't seen his back yet.
After about ten minutes Kurt arrived with the boiling water, "Leave it on the table...now leave and tell the Professor to keep everyone up there..." Hank ordered. "Logan you clean his body...gently." He warned, as he took out bags of blood, which were Remy's type and proceeded to replenish what the boy had lost, and hooking him up to monitors.
Taking a soft cloth Logan dipped it into the warm water and squeezed out most of the water, and started wiping the blood from the boy's face.
"Is Remy alright, where is he, what happened?" Mattie asked Kurt nearly slamming him in the wall to get her questions answered.
"Miss please...I'm not a teddy bear you can throw around...ow you're kinda strong for an old lady..."
"Watch yo mouth boy, and answer my questions..." she growled.
"We did find Remy, but he was badly hurt, Dr.McCoy is working on him now, and told me to tell everyone to stay up here until he was finished."
"Which we will do without argument." Looking at Jean-Luc, Charles answered as he his x-men and the master thieves entered the mansion. The senior LeBeau nodded knowing that there was nothing he could do until the doctor did his best to help his son get better.
"Come Jean...I tink everyone needs a café after what happened, I'm sure no one will be sleeping tonight." Mattie coaxed everyone into the kitchen, where she proceeded to feed every single one of them. Jean-Luc had his elbows on the table resting his head on his hands and closed his eyes trying to block out all the noise everyone was making, while Henri watched his father, Lapin just stared into his coffee. Mattie was busying herself by cleaning the kitchen.
"Alright students it's getting late I think it would be best if you all retired to bed..." Xavier watched as they all left grumbling, leaving only Storm, himself, and his Cajun guests.
"I know this is a very stupid question Mr.LeBeau, but how are you doing?"
"How ya think I'm doin' my son may be dying and I can't do anyt'ing for him."
"Mr.LeBeau please I was just concerned as to..."
"Hush now...all of ya...dis may not be my house but I'll be damned if ya'll gonna start fighting, when Remy's goin through all dis..." Mattie now had tears in her eyes. "All alone..." She cried. Jean-Luc immediately stood up and hugged the old woman who helped raise his children.
"I'm sorry Tante..." he whispered, grasping her shoulders Jean-Luc then smiled. "I'm positive he'll make it, ya know as well as I do he been to much of a pain in the ass growin up, ta give up dat easily."
That said Mattie and Henri laughed, "Yeah Tante ya remember when we thought he got lost in da swamp, papa had da whole Guild looking for him, and when we came home he was sound asleep in his bed covered in mud and lord knows wat else."
"Yeah I remember dat, boy wasn't able ta sit for a week after his punishment." Jean-Luc chirped. Pouring himself another cup of coffee, and pulled out a chair for Mattie at the table.
"Could always tell he'd done mischief with that cocky little grin o' his." Mattie smiled.
"You adopted Remy?" Storm asked, looking to Jean-Luc.
"Yeah how'd that happen?" Logan asked entering the kitchen and sitting down. "Hank told me ta tell ya that the kid's stable for now but he doesn't want anybody down there just yet."
Xavier nodded then looked to Jean-Luc.
Sitting down in his previous seat Jean-Luc started, "Ah was eatin lunch one day at a diner, when dis scrawny little redheaded seven year old tried ta pick ma pocket." Jean-Luc closed his eyes and laughed at the memory. "Followed him, was scared of da cops said they'd take him to the orphanage...'they's bad people there' he said. Kept looking at the ground, I told 'im if ya come wit me I won' call the cops, and I swore that I wouldn't hurt him, took 'im a while but he said he would. Was real polite and all as he followed me to da street he backed off inta the shadows and rubbed at his eyes, I asked him what was wrong. Said the light hurt his eyes he wouldn't answer more dan that. I knelt down ta him and lifted his head, seeing da fear in his eyes, I was a bit surprised and I reassured him dat no harm would come ta him, he nodded but wouldn't come out in da light, gave him my sunglasses and took him home. Aftah gaining his trust, which didn't take long I adopted him...hated school..." he finished.
"And hospitals...damn needles." Henri added with a smile.
"Vampires..." Logan chuckled.
"And baths..." Mattie threw in laughing.
Storm, Logan and Charles all smiled at the little story.
After taking a breath, Mattie smiled. "Oh yes the moment dat boy walked inta the house and in our lives he stole our hearts dats for sure...I could feel mine tear apart every time he had those nightmares though."
"Nightmares?" Charles questioned.
"Almost every night for like eight months he took ta sleeping in my bed with me, since I was always rocking him ta sleep every time he'd wake up screaming." Jean-Luc answered.
Mattie looked to Lapin, tilting his head towards hers she asked. "Ya alright now chile?"
Lapin shook his head a tear falling down his cheek. "Nevah seen im like dat before...had ta hurt." Mattie leaned forward and hugged him, brushing away the tears.
"He's alright now, da pain will go away." She whispered kissing his forehead.
After about an hour of talking about anything that would help pass the time, the Professor received a message telepathically from Hank saying that they could finally come down to med-lab.
