Lucy Wood- Thanks. I am definitely trying here. :-) Hope you enjoy this one.

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Bima- LOL. Sounds about right. ;-) Glad you like it.

SNEAKY

When they reached Sinister's base, Marie and Logan were a little bit shocked. There was no way someone would have thought that it was, well, what it was. It looked just like all the other buildings in New York, in fact it was suppose to be some sort of insurance company. Even though the building was closed, it was obvious that they could not go through the front door. With the building plans, they found that the safest route was through some of the air vents. So that was Marie's entrance and she agreed to meet the guys in a certain office that Gambit had chosen. Gambit was captured by the X-men, so he took Logan and acted like he was bringing him in with him. Of course, Logan hated this, but played along nonetheless. It's not like he couldn't bust out of those chains pretty quick and knock around a few heads if the need be.

It didn't take long for Marie to get to that office, so she took a look around while she waited for them. She found an awful lot of files on the X-men, but hardly anything with either her or Logan in it.

"Guess he hasn't been watchin' them that long." she whispered to herself. But it was already too late. Someone was in that room watching her, and she never stood a chance. The person snuck up behind her and knocked her out.

Meanwhile, Gambit and Logan were on their way up to the office so that they could lay in their next plan of attack, since it was going to be much harder getting to the lower levels where Sinister did all of his experimenting. It was fairly easy getting to the office, it was just that they were stopped a few times by security. They waited for Marie for about ten minutes, but it was obvious something was wrong.

"We gonna have ta go without da femme."

"We don't leave without her." they argued.

"Non, it obvious she got caught. We go now or we be in da same situation." Logan grunted and followed Gambit through the emergency exit. They went down about two flights before coming to weird scanner. Gambit placed his hand on the scanner and an elevator appeared in the wall. Logan used his claws to hold himself up on the roof of the elevator until the doors opened. Some men came towards Gambit to search him and Logan dropped down onto the men.

Logan was able to do what he did best, but he wasn't exactly enjoying it. Right now he was a man on a mission. He had to find Marie, the hostages only came second. He could care less about Gambit, as long as he didn't double-cross him. Logan followed Gambit through the halls and through some more secret entrances. But once they came to the floor, Gambit looked over at Logan.

"Dis be it mon ami. But you gonna have to be careful. Where da cells are, dey have built in power inhibitors."

"You're not coming?"

"Non, Gambit meet up wit ya. Got'ta take care of a couple of things first. Ya got 'bout ten minutes ta find dem all. Just be careful. Meet ya back outside, non." Logan nodded and did his best to follow the scents. It was obvious that Marie was down here somewhere, but where.

Logan was doing his best to rush, but it took him a good five minutes just to find where they were holding Marie. It looked as if they were setting her up for some type of sugery, but then left her there. She was pretty well drugged, so he slipped her over his shoulder and found the hostages just down the hallway. Knowing that whatever it was that Gambit was doing was serious, he knew that he couldn't go the way they came, so being who he is, he made his own exits.

Once they finally reached the surface, it was like a bomb went off inside of the building. Each story fell one by one to the ground, but each of the mutants just put as much distance as they could between them and that building, destroyed or not. Just as they were a few blocks away, they reached a park and found the X-men waiting. Logan explained everything to Jean, hoping that maybe they could find out what they did to Rogue. But there wasn't much that she could do until they reached the mansion.

When Marie finally woke up, she was in the med bay. It was pretty dark, but she could still make out the figure that was a few feet away from her asleep in a chair. Seeing him laying there content brought a smile to her face. She laid herself back down and took a deep breath, which was just enough to make Logan jump up. He looked over at her as she was trying to hold back her laughter.

"Sorry, Ah didn't mean to wake you."

"Are you ok?"

"Yeah, why? Everything go ok?"

"Sure it did, except that I had to save you." He told her as he stood close to her cot.

"Well aren't ya my night and shinin' armor."

"Seeing as how I have to constantly save you." he told her grinning. She returned his grin, with a playful glint in her eyes.

"Ya complain'?"

"Wouldn't have you any other way." But just as Logan was about to kiss Marie, someone walked in and cleared their throat.