Chapter 4: Meet Wolverette
Madison lay in bed that night, tossing and turning greatly in her sleep. She bolted up, her claws extending and suddenly retracting when she saw nothing but blood on the wall.
" No..." she shouted. She flew from her bed, and punched the wall with such a force that it knocked Ororo's bed from the wall by three inches. She continues to assail the wall with nothing but her fists until Ororo came in, and then Madison saw nothing but blood and bone on her face either.
" Madison..." Ororo said, catching Madison's arms. " Damn! LOGAN!"
" Get the hell away from me!" She screamed. She pushed Ororo to the floor and with that, her hair went short and black and her eyes flared red. " Ro...You'd better run..." she breathed out. iSnikt./i Six inch blades protruded from her knuckles and she took a single step towards the fallen weather witch.
Ororo was speechless at the sudden transformation of Logan's daughter and backed up slowly until she tripped on Logan's foot. " Oh my god Logan...What happened to her?"
Logan was just as speechless as Ororo, but had no words to explain it. " I have no fucking clue darlin'. Run...Now...She's going to kill someone or rip something to shreds. GO! Get everyone off this floor and have the professor get us to the danger room stat."
Ororo ran out of the room and Kurt ran in, trying to find out what the hell happened. " Shaizur! Vas ze hell happened een here!" he shouted.
" Get out of here Kurt. She's gonna kill someone if she gets past me." Logan said.
iSnikt./i Logan's claws were unsheathed. Six blades of deadly nine inch adamantium and the wolverine. Kurt's eyes went wide when he saw the mix of ivory and adamantium claws protruding from Madison's knuckles. " Madison?"
" Go Kurt..." Logan snarled.
Kurt was gone and began helping Ororo heard the kids to one of the upper levels. He was so frightened that that was truly Madison. But how? Has she been hiding this from all of us? Why would she? She shouldn't though...Especially form me...he thought. " Ro...Vere ees Rogue?"
Rogue wandered into Madison's room and was brought to full wakefulness when she saw the father and daughter fighting. " Oh Mah GOD! Madison!" she screamed.
Madison's blood red eyes turned on Rogue and she felt the urge to kill surge through her at the sight of defenseless prey. She kicked Logan hard in the gut, sending the man through the wall into Ororo's room and the wall crumbled in his wake, knocking him loopy for just a few moments. She then rounded on Rogue, who again screamed and turned to the wall, pulling off one of her gloves.
" Madison...I don't wanna do this to ya..." she whimpered, her eyes full of tears and fright.
Kurt heard Rogue's scream and teleported to Madison's room almost instantly and came upon the sight of the untamed daughter of the wolverine stalking the cornered Rogue like prey. Just as Madison saw Kurt, she moved away from the frightened girl and pinned him to the wall and inhaled deeply, Kurt's familiar scent urging her desire to kill.
" Are you going to let me leave so I can kill Sabertooth's fucking ass?" she snarled from deep within her, where the animal inside her was not yet tame.
" Not until you've gained some measure of composure..." Kurt whispered. " How about zis..."
" What?"
" Hair vhiter zan gleamink snow. Sapphire eyes zat alvays know. Beautiful smiles zat captivate. A heart so pure und free of hate. Gentle hands zat sveet express. Artisiac fantasies zat hold no test. A mind so set to vat she believes, zat holds ze beauty of autumn leaves." he said softly, his eyes locking with hers the whole time. By the time he had said 'holds the beauty of autumn leaves', Madison was beginning to calm down. " Intelligence zat shines een all she can do, and paints ze dawns sveet vith morns dew. A heart whose endurance ees not easily spent."
Madison's grip on Kurt's shirt was loosening and her claws were beginning to retract as he grew closer to ending the poem.
" Alas...Tis a heart of innocence." he breathed out.
He watched as Madison's hair grow longer and white once more and Logan stood up and held his stomach. Kurt saw tears slide down Madison's cheeks and caught her as she fell to the floor. He knelt with her and held her close to him.
" Madison...vas happened to you?" he whispered, looking down to her.
" I...I don't know..." she replied. " I've been trying to avenge my mother for so long that the bottled rage I have is just hurting myself and other people." She looked up at Kurt and locked his eyes with hers. " You wrote the poem..."
" I did.." Kurt admitted.
" I'm sorry..." she whispered. She kissed Kurt quickly, and ran from the room.
Kurt wandered through the mansion the next morning, trying to make sense of what had happened last night in Madison's room. He was also trying to piece together why he wanted to be around Madison so much as well.
" Professor?" he said, walking into Xavier's office.
" Yes Kurt?"
" Vere ees Madison?" he asked.
" In the garden at the moment. Go ahead if you want to see her."
Kurt nodded and teleported to the garden, Madison sketching in her drawing pad. He sat watching her for a few minutes, and sat beside her. " So...Vas ahr you goink to do now about last night?"
" I'm not sure Kurt...I'll probably leave for a while, to cool my jets a bit...Not now though...It's almost spring and Christmas is close by. I'll do a little bit of shopping and leave the presents under the tree...All I know is that my dad is pissed at me about last night.." she said. A solitary tear fell from her cheek onto Kurt's hand and he pulled her to him, hugging her tightly.
" I do not hold you aht fault for anyt'ing zat happened last night...Logan ees vorried about you. Zat ees all I'm sure..." he whispered.
" Why do you have this affect on me? I mean...I don't know how, but it almost seems that every time I'm around you, nothing is wrong, although a lot of shit is..." Madison choked out.
" I do not know myself liebe...but you are not ze only von affected..." he whispered. Kurt gently wrapped his arms around her and pulled her close.
Madison cried in Kurt's arms, comforted by his solace and silent understanding, not knowing the man holding her loved her.
Three weeks later, Kurt sat alone in his room, contemplating much on Madison. She was a wounded lion, a woman who had lost her mother and never been able to cope with the unknown rage from it. He was also contemplating their relationship. He was certain that they could have something more than friendship, but wasn't sure if Madison would actually give in. " Shaizur..." he laughed. " In such short time none ze less." He stood up, walking to Madison's room. Just as he was about to knock on the door, he heard Madison say ' 'Ro, I can't take that chance...' and he knocked gently, Madison and Ororo talking.
" Hi Kurt..." she said with a weary smile. Her eyes still shone with the depression she had carried since the incident in her room. " Is there anything you need?"
" Nein...I vus goink to ask eef you vere busy tonight..." he said nonchalantly, though he was smiling broadly.
Madison smile and closed the door a bit, she and Ororo sharing some heated whispers. " What do you have in mind?" she giggled. She turned to face Ororo, a shocked, but amused look on her face. " I heard that Ororo Maya Munroe..."
With that Ororo burst out laughing and Kurt shook his head. " Eef you ahr busy vit 'Ro..."
" Oh no...She was just leaving..." Madison said, pushing the woman out of her room. Ororo must have done something hilarious while Kurt wasn't looking, for Madison burst into laughter, forgetting her woes for a while.
" Vhy don't ve go for a movie?" Kurt said, looking curiously at Madison.
" Love to Kurt...I'll be down in twenty, kay?" she said, her voice bright and cheery for once.
" Vas ze hell ees 'Ro doink?"
" I'll tell ya later..." Madison replied, chasing after Ororo, who squealed and ran down the hall, Logan looking out of his door. Ororo ducked inside of there, Madison soon following
Madison pinned Ororo to Logan's bed, and the woman was trying so hard not to laugh. " You really do love him?"
" Love who?" Logan said, looking to his daughter and Ororo. " And Maddy, if you weren't my daughter, I'd consider this really kinky right about now."
" Nothing Daddy..." Madison said. " Great...Even my own father now! Jeez..." : And yes Ororo...I do happen to love him. Just don't know how I'm gonna break it to Dad...:
Ororo burst out laughing and Madison got up, going to her room and changing. By the time she went down stairs, Kurt was there, face makeup on to hide his fur and gloves on his hands. " Your missing one thing Kurt and that's lip color...Up to my room please..."
" I'm not a personal elevator..." he said, looking down and above his sunglasses disapprovingly.
" I know, but do you want to here a very specific word all night?" Madison said, raising a perceptive eyebrow.
" True...Shaizur..." he laughed. " I thought zat I forgot somet'ink." He was gone and he came back, looking more natural now. He looked to Madison and took her hand, and he teleported them to the garage. " Vas movie do you vent to see?"
" It doesn't matter...Just as long as we have a good time." Madison replied. She felt so right around him, he made her problems disappear and she never wanted it to be any other way.
They enjoyed their movie, watching the last Lord of the Rings movie. Kurt walked Madison to her room after they got back, and they both sighed deeply.
" Vell...I guess zis ees guten nahct..." he said, shifting his shoulders slightly, his tail twitching.
" Yes...it has been a good night...Night Kurtzchen..." she whispered. She kissed him softly on his cheek and hugged him tightly. She gave him a weary smile and closed her bedroom door and leaving Kurt with a worried smile on his face.