Disclaimer: I don't own "X-men"
Logan watched as Jean put her hands on the side of Sarah's head. He couldn't believe it. Sarah was the baby girl in that dream he had. And he was the one that left her to almost die when she was young. 20 minutes later, Jean released her hands.
"What did you see?" Logan asked quietly.
"A lot of depressed memories Logan. Lot's of fights, lot's of tears, lot's of unhappiness, everything that would make a teenager unhappy. And I saw her dream. She seemed real upset and shocked," Jean explained.
"So she knows?"
"Yes. She knows."
Kurt, who was in the jet at the time, looked at the sleeping Sarah lying on the ground by the fire.
"She really does look like an angel. I just can't believe someone would make a father forget his first born. It's unbearable," he said with sorrow in his voice
"And that's not all. She was born very early than most babies. So she was most likely to die. But before she had her last breath, the mutation she inherited from Logan kicked in, and her health started to improve."
"She almost died? The poor thing,"
"Before Hannah died she was going to send the girls to the school after she talked to the principal about Sarah's fight on the first day. But she never got the chance. She was going to pick up the girls from detention, until Stryker killed her,"
Logan came out of his thoughts when he heard this.
"Stryker killed Hannah?" he asked his voice growing angry and vengeful
"It was his only way to get the girls. He didn't have full custody of them, and with everyone thinking you were dead, he killed her." Jean said. "Luckily, the girls were just around the corner, and got their mothers orders before she died,"
"What about Stryker? How'd they get past him?"
"It was Sarah's idea to go and Marissa's idea to burn down the house,"
"They burned down the house?!"
"It was their only way. Logan, I know it's not your fault, but if you were there this wouldn't have happened. Sarah always snuck out at night with her friends, Marissa didn't have her dad there at a girl scouts activity, and Sammy was always picked on because she didn't have a dad. Think about what life would be like if you were there,"
These words struck Logan hard. Jean walked away without saying another word.
That night, Logan checked on Marissa and Sammy. They were still up and whispering to each other. When they saw Logan, they gasped in fright, and quickly tucked themselves in.
"Is Sarah okay?" asked Sammy
"She's fine. She's not awake yet, but she knows. Jean snuck into her mind and saw her dream. She seemed real upset," Logan explained
"You haven't seen upset yet," warned Marissa
Logan nodded and sighed.
"Girls there's something you also need to know. It's about your mother," he whispered
Instantly, Marissa and Sammy sat up.
"What have you found out?" asked Marissa
"Is she not dead? Is she alive?" asked Sammy crawling up to Logan
Logan took Sammy up in his arms
"Look, she's not alive. I wish she was so I could see her again, but she's not. All we found out was who killed her," he whispered
"Who did?" asked Marissa
"It…It was Stryker,"
The girls were silent. Soon, Sammy was bursting into tears, burying her face into Logan's chest. Marissa started to cry softly as Logan held them both in his arms.
Sarah sat up instantly gasping, as if she needed air badly. What the heck was that dream of hers about? She looked at her surroundings and saw she was by the fire, wrapped in a blanket, and a pillow. She got up on her wobbly legs and walked toward the jet to see if anybody was up. No one was. It seemed like everyone was asleep. In the corner of the jet were a few boxes of the girls' stuff Jean and Storm had saved from being auctioned after the fire. One of the boxes had a guitar. It was, of course, Sarah's. It was originally her mothers. Before she met Logan and started working at the base, she earned her living by singing her own songs and playing at bars. She passed it on to Sarah when she was just seven and Sarah took lessons ever since. She made up her own songs and played songs that were already made. So she took it outside with her, and sat by the fire. She couldn't go back to sleep because she already tried a million times. After tuning the strings, she started to play softly and sing
(A/N: I don't own "Who's that Girl?" by Hilary Duff)
There were places we would go at midnight
There were secrets that nobody else would know
There's a reason but I don't know why
I don't know why
I don't know why
I thought they all belonged to me
Who's that girl?
Where's she from?
No she can't be the one
That you want
That has stolen my world
It's not real
It's not right
It's my day
It's my night
By the way
Who's that girl
Living my life
Sarah stopped singing as she noticed someone was watching. She put down her guitar and looked behind her. There was Logan smoking a cigar his shoulder to a tree.
"Hey kid," he said coming toward her. "It's about time you noticed I was here. And good thing you're up to,"
"Why is it a good thing?" asked Sarah softly as Logan sat down by her.
"There are a lot of things you need to know,"
"I already know you're my father. I saw it in my nightmare."
"I know you know. Jean snuck into your mind,"
Sarah nodded and they were both silent for while. All they could hear was the fire crackling.
"How long was I asleep?" asked Sarah
"Uh, not too long I think. But Jean told me to keep an eye on you,"
"Okay,"
There was another long silence between the two. Logan looked at her. But she didn't look at him. She was looking down on the ground. Logan noticed something fall from under her neck. It was a chain that had dog tags. Sarah gasped and put them in her hands to put them away. Logan grasped her hand before she could hide them.
"Let go!" she said
"What's that you got?" asked Logan calmly
"Nothing!"
"You know you're a bad liar. And it looks like it's something to me…you wanna show me what it is?"
"No!"
"Look, I've got something like that. If I show it to you, can you show that charm of yours to me?"
"…That depends,"
Logan nodded. He unzipped his jacket a bit, reached under his shirt, and took out dog tags similar to Sarah's. He took them off his neck and gave them to Sarah to look at.
Sarah took them in her hands and looked at its engravings. It had a code that was similar to hers and a codename: "Wolverine" it said. Hers would be the same except of her codename: "Feline". So she took out her dog tags and gave them to Logan. Logan studied them for a while.
"How long have you had these?" he asked
"You should know. You're the one who abandoned me," Sarah mumbled
Logan snapped his head toward her.
"Now look kid. I did not abandon you," he said
"Yeah you did," Sarah said
"No I didn't,"
"Yeah, you did,"
"No I didn't,"
"YES YOU DID! All you did was take one look at me, and left Logan. One look! Don't you even remember at all? I just wished, just wished, that you could remember all of us."
"If I had a choice to take you with me, I'd take it. But I didn't have a choice. I didn't remember anything. It's not my fault. I was…I was scared,"
Sarah looked at him
"You?" she asked in disbelief. "You were scared?"
"Yeah," Logan whispered.
"I'm sorry,"
"What did you say?"
"I said I'm sorry! I'm sorry that I misjudged you! I'm sorry that I hated your guts ever since I met you! And I'm sorry that you were scared. Truth be told, you know why I'm always in a sassy mood? It's because I'm scared too! We had to run away from psycho who experiments on mutants. We're not safe anymore. And if he caught me, or Sammy, or Marissa, what do you think would happen?!"
Logan stared at her in shock. All the anger that had poured out of her mouth had left her bottom lip shaking and labored breathing, and a mile of sobs. He put an arm around her
"Sarah…" he started
Sarah silenced.
"You just called me Sarah," she said
"That's your name, isn't it?" he asked
"It's just that you've always called me kitten,"
"I was just playing. You know? See what made you ticked,"
"Well it worked,"
Logan laughed a bit.
"Come on. Let's get you back to bed," he said helping Sarah up.
"But I want to see if Sammy and Marissa are okay," Sarah protested
Logan didn't say anything as he led Sarah to a tent. Sammy and Marissa were in two sleeping bags, sleeping. There were two extra ones.
"Jean told me that if you wake up in the middle of the night screaming, she'll know I'll be there because she doesn't want to worry,"
Sarah nodded as she lay down on her sleeping bag. Logan lay down too beside the girls. And in a minute, sleep took them
The next morning, Sarah, Sammy, and Marissa found themselves awake on the jet.
"How long were we out?" asked Sammy sleepily
"Probably an hour," said Marissa
"Ugh. Feels like 5 minutes," whispered Sarah
Marissa and Sammy giggled at Sarah's little joke. They were glad she's okay.
"Hey guys," said Rouge as she came up and sat by them
"Hi," the girls greeted
"I just heard the good news. Isn't it great?"
"What good news?" asked Sarah.
"That Logan's your dad. It's so cool. You guys are so lucky. I mean, it's great that he's finally found a piece of his past. He's been looking for it for 15 years."
"I know,"
Sarah didn't say anything else as they landed in front of a familiar scene: Alkali Lake. As they landed as sudden urge took control over Sarah. Her senses were gonna be out of control in just a few minutes. The urge inside her was growing rapidly, and she couldn't take it anymore. She turned to Marissa and Sammy
"Once we land, we're going inside," she said.
Marissa and Sammy looked at Sarah. Then they realized that she meant they were going inside the base.
"What?" they asked in unison.
"We're gonna go in there and get Stryker," Sarah explained
"Sarah, he'll kill us!" whispered Sammy
"No he won't. You guys are gonna stay behind me at all times. Any shot that comes toward us will go through me,"
"But he still has custody of us. Once he catches us, he won't let us go. Logan doesn't have custody of us because he wasn't there to sign the adoption papers," said Marissa
"Stryker does not have custody over us. As far as I know, he's not even related to us, because family does not betray family members. They look out for each other. And that's what I'm gonna do when we go in there. So are you with me or not?"
Marissa and Sammy looked at each other.
"But what'll happen if he catches one of us?" asked Sammy
"I'll be there for you always," Sarah said
"Same here Feline," Marissa said as she put her hand out in the middle.
Sarah smiled and put her hand on top of Marissa's. Sammy hesitated before she put her hand on top of hers.
"We are so gonna get in trouble!" Sammy said to herself as she followed her sisters in the large spillway
"We are NOT gonna get in trouble," Sarah said
"We're gonna get in trouble either way," said Marissa. "It's whether we get in trouble by our friends, or we never get to see them again,"
"Hmm, good point,"
The girls came to a stop in front of a big doorway.
"Well aren't we creative?" asked Marissa judging the style of the door
"Oh look who's talking about not judging a book by its cover," said Sarah.
"Let's just get this over with or we can go back to the jet," said Sammy looking frantically around
"I don't think we can," said Marissa
"And why the heck not?"
Marissa pointed behind the group of mutants.
"That's why not," she said
Sammy and Sarah turned around and saw about a dozen soldiers with guns in their hands. They all huddled close together.
"So," said Sammy. "Any bright ideas Sarah?"
"I'm thinking! I'm thinking!" growled Sarah as she pumped her fists.
"Think faster!
"Let's just kick their butts!" shouted Marissa as she let loose a line of flames from both of her hands.
Marissa's power got two soldiers bursting into flames and they started screaming. Sarah smirked at her younger sister.
"Now that is what I call a plan," she said releasing her claws.
Sammy lifted herself off the air as a smile spread across her face. She flew across the room taking about 5 of the soldiers in the air and knocking them together. Sarah had the other five circled around her
"Let's see. There are only 5 soldiers, and one of me," Sarah said to herself. "Who am I forgetting...Oh yeah!" Sarah released her claws. "The six avengers"
Without another word, Sarah attacked the soldiers as more came out from secret doorways with guns. Marissa looked and saw that they had guns with them and one of them had cuffs that could fit around a person's body.
"Sarah hurry up!" she shouted
Suddenly Marissa felt a prick in her neck, and before she could blast another ball of flame, she collapsed on the ground unconscious.
"Fira!" shouted Sammy as she dodged some bullets that were heading her way.
Sarah looked behind her and saw Marissa being crowded around by four soldiers. But before she could get to her sister, two soldiers grabbed her arms, and she felt metal wrap around her body and wrists. She struggled, practically lifting herself in the air and kicking and screaming.
"Get your hands off of me right now!" she shouted. "Get off!"
Sammy saw what was happening and figured it was up to her. She flew toward her sister.
"I'm coming Feline!" she yelled.
Soon a soldier stepped in front of Sammy, the barrel of a gun pointed straight at her face. She gasped, lost her balance of flying, and fell to the ground. She was about to get up when she felt the gun on her forehead. She eyed the soldier holding the gun as she got up, and he held her wrists behind as the big doors in front of them. There, to Sarah's surprise, was Stryker standing with a strange woman. She had jet black, long hair, and was wearing black all over and ice blue eyes.
"There you are!" said Stryker with a creepy smile on his face. "I was worried sick about you children,"
"No you weren't!" shouted Sammy. "You just wanted to find us, and kill us all! Like you killed mom!"
Sarah snapped her eyes toward her sister, then at Stryker.
"What did you do?!" she growled, her chest rapidly going in and out.
"Your mother gave me no choice," Stryker said ignoring Sarah. "She swore to me that she would keep her secret,"
"What secret?"
"When you were just a baby Sarah, after the police found you, Hannah knew everything that had happened. Even though she wasn't there of course, she figured everything out. She threatened to report me, and I threatened to kill you if she ever told anyone that shouldn't be told."
"Ha! Too late Stryker! We know everything now! Besides you can't kill me! I have a healing ability!"
"That is true. But there are ways to kill a mutant, even with a healing mutation,"
Sarah stared at him with cold eyes. Stryker only smiled at the young girl whose life was always torn down by him. He ran a finger along her cheek.
"So much like your father," he said. "Valiant; Brave; Tough, and you have his eyes. Yes I remember his eyes."
"You knew nothing of my father," Sarah struggled.
Stryker smiled again, looked at a soldier holding Marissa, and nodded. The soldier started walking away with her limp form.
"Hey, where are you taking her!?" cried Sammy
"Don't worry little Samantha," said Stryker. "She'll be with her mutant friends by the time she wakes up,"
"Don't call me that!"
"But that's what your mother called you when you were very little,"
Sammy looked like she was going to cry. But instead, she let out a cry of rage, and flipped the soldiers that held her over, and got free. Sarah did a back-flip, taking the soldiers with her. She was released and she started running with Sammy. When they got out of sight, Sammy used her mind powers to release Sarah from her cuffs.
"This is so bad. They got Marissa, and if we go back to the jet, they'll yell at us for sure for sneaking out," said Sammy
"I know. But we have to save her, and the only way to do it is to split up," said Sarah
"I…I don't know. If we split up and find Marissa, how're we gonna get past Stryker?"
Sarah looked at Sammy and held her hand tightly.
"I don't know,"she whispered