Shout outs:

Mark C: Yeah Jean and Rogue may have had a small sliver put into the control of their minds, but will it be enough is the question. And they really are in trouble now and you know Logan will be pissed.

Gulogirl: Thanks for that, I'll keep that in mind in the future.

GothikStrawberry: Glad you liked it even though it is dark, and I liked your story just keep in mind this is an R fic and yours was PG-13 so there are a few things that you can and can't do with that kind of rating. But it's still good.

IvyZoe: I think she was at this side just because of her 'relationship' with Shaw at the moment. You're a bit off in what would happen next, and there'll be more Romy in the future too.

Aaron: Yeah they're starting to break out of their mental control. You can thank Slickboy for using that line from the show, it was perfect moment for it too. Yeah I am, I planned this Logan moment out since I wanted to do this fic.

Rolofreak1990: Yeah this is your first time and I'm glad you did and from your name I take it you love Logan/Ororo stories well you won't be disappointed later on.

Coldqueen: Yeah that was taken from the comics where I got the idea from.

Episodic: Ah…no I haven't heard that one before. Yeah that Logan moment is up next.

X00001: Glad you liked the fight scene and there will be tough times ahead for those trying to get over that.

The Uncanny R-Man: Yeah I just had to put that little homage to the comics in there. Yeah those two will not be happy to say the least when they get their minds back.

Thanks to: Chica De Los Ojos Café, Prophet-Song, Wen1, Lil Jean, Sparky Genocide

CHAPTER 18: SHOWDOWN PART 1

Logan didn't know where he was exactly, but from the smell of things he was back in the sewers, just not the ones they had taken. He hurt all over, inside and in places he didn't even know existed. He managed to crawl his way out of the water and out onto a stone walkway and just laid there on his back breathing slowly, allowing his body to heal as best it could. He knew that he didn't have that much time, but he had to allow his body to heal up to a certain point.

His cuts were starting to heal over, his internal organs were starting to fix themselves up, he didn't feel anymore blood in his stomach, and his punctured lung was back up to speed as he stopped feeling the wheezing sound while breathing while his face felt like it was mostly there again. He reached up and felt the hair on the side of his face where the skin had been ripped out and felt stubble there.

When he felt like he could move again, he managed to get up and started limping away. He had to find the others. He worked his way along dank, stone passages, his body healed up along the way. He knew that after this he would need to give his healing factor a rest. He managed to hear the sounds of booted feet coming his way and smelled the guards coming. He looked around, but didn't see anywhere to duck into then looked up at the large wooden beams overhead.

Logan managed to jump off the wall and with this claws, he dug into two different sets of beams and pushed against them with his feet. He saw several guards walk below him and was glad for the protection of the darkness and the fact that their masks only had small slits for them to look out of.

"Alright guys, you take the sewers and we'll look around here." Of them ordered some of the others.

When they were out of way one of the guards left behind turned to the one in charge. "You really think he could have survived that?"

"Couldn't hurt to be sure."

"Hey you think Selene will let us at those girls like she did with the other one?" another asked, "She was one hell of a fuck."

"Damn man, you get your rocks off doing teens?" Another asked.

"Hey, she was tight, nicely built, and one hell of a screamer," the man laughed, "That and I got a thing for Goths. I just hope we get a chance at the one in red this time. That other one with the ponytail doesn't have much of a chest on her."

"You're really are sick, you know that?" their leader told him, "Besides, Selene wants to have some 'fun' with them first and Leland already seems to have taken the black bitch to his personal quarters."

"I'd still like to screw Frost or that Asian girl," another said, "I mean come on, those two got bodies that-" He never got to finish, for Logan had heard enough and roared out as he impaled his claws into the heads of two of them. He let his anger and rage take over, slicing and hacking with his claws and tarring up the guards until they were all dead.

Logan let out a small growl and stalked off in the direction they came. He smelt a few more scents, but they were female. He found the door locked, but that wasn't a problem for him. A few quick slashes and the door was in pieces. He walked in and the room smelled of humans living in inhuman conditions. There were three women in the room all dressed in lingerie and looked like they hadn't had the ability to properly wash themselves either and a few looked underfed.

"Who the hell are you?" A busty young blond asked him defiantly.

"He's Logan of the X-Men," Sage said getting up and over to him. "He's a friend," she said over her shoulder and then turned to Logan. "Are the others with you?"

"Sage, right?" Logan asked the dark haired pale woman who nodded. "Yeah, but they got caught."

"Get us free of these things and we can help," Sage said pointing at the collar and Logan, gently with his claws, cut off the device. He did the same for the two other women. Emma once again felt the minds in the room and immediately searched for Vince, but couldn't penetrate the shielding on this level and knew he had to be in the upper floors.

She went off to find him, but Logan grabbed her arm and stopped her. "Where do ya think you're going Blondie?"

"First off, my name is Emma Frost," she said as she pulled her arm free, "And there's someone else that was here and I intend to find him."

"You'll have a better chance with all of us," Sage told her. "I've calculated the odds and alone you won't get far. With all of us, you stand a higher chance of success for finding and saving him."

"And I need ta find this Selene woman…She's got the others," Logan said and when he saw the horrified looks on their faces, he knew they were in trouble.

Emma knew all to well what that woman was capable of and she didn't want others to suffer at her hands. She just prayed, this being the first time in a long while, that Vincent would be able to hold out. "Alright, I know the way….But we better get there as fast as we can before she really starts to have some fun," she finished silently to herself.

Hellfire Club – Selene's Chamber (AN: This scene is a little graphic sexually and in violence. If this at all offends you, I urge you NOT to read any further. You have been warned.)

The rescue attempt had not gone anywhere near as good as everyone had hoped. Not long after Wolverine had been slammed through several floors into the sewers below and Harry Leland took Ororo away, Shaw had used the collars to knock them all out and had ordered the guards to take them all to Selene's chamber. The Black Queen had insisted that she be allowed to 'punish' them alone and judging by the dark tone in her voice, she was quite eager to do so. Knowing Selene, the now powerless X-men would face no mercy from the insidious woman. Never the less, Shaw and the rest of the inner circle allowed her to do what she did best…Punish those who stood in the way of the Hellfire Club.

Upon reaching her chamber of torture, Selene ordered the masked guards to place each on of the unconscious mutants along the wall in a row. Since they were still bound by their collars, they would be powerless to do anything and that's the way Selene wanted it. While they were all still out for the moment, the Black Queen slowly went along the row of mutants and pondered how she was going to do this.

"Hmm…Who should I start with?" she said with an insidious grin.

Slowly, some of the X-men began to wake up from their unconscious state. This was good…For Selene wanted them to see what she had in store for all of them. They tried to move or use their powers to escape, but with their hands bound behind their backs and the collars inhibiting their powers, that was all but impossible.

"Let us go you bitch!" struggled Scott as he tried to break free from the tight restraints.

That comment earned him a harsh kick from the Black Queen, who was not at all fazed by Scott's remark.

"I'm afraid you all aren't going anywhere…" she said coldly, "You should never have come here…You have no idea who you're dealing with!"

"You kidnapped our friends you evil hag! And my sister!" shot Kurt as he tried to use his powers without success, "You von't get away vith this!"

Selene then turned her attention away from Scott and towards the bound blue mutant and suddenly, a slow, evil smile spread across her face. As she walked over to Kurt, he noticed the strange look in her eye and it was enough to make all the fur on his body stand on end. As the others watched anxiously, Selene grabbed him by the jaw and with surprising strength brought him up to his feet.

"Hmm…Now what do we have here?" she said in strange, sultry voice brimming with sinister intent, "A demon from the looks of it." Kurt's face twitched upon hearing her call him that, but unlike everybody else he had referred to him as a demon…She didn't sound disgusted. If anything…She sounded somewhat turned on.

"Get away from him!" yelled Wanda, earning her a shock from her collar.

However, her words did not register at all with Selene as her gaze remained disturbingly fixated on Kurt.

"I would advise you all to keep your outbursts to yourself," said Selene in a cold, threatening tone, "Besides…I want you to be conscious for what I'm about to do…Take him."

Obediently, the guards followed their orders and grabbed Kurt from where his was and dragged him away towards the center of the room.

"Kurt!" yelled Kitty, not liking one bit where this was going, "Leave him alone!"

However, that just earned her and the rest of the bound X-men another round of shocks from their collars. Kurt tried to struggle against the guards, but a quick his from one of Selene's specially made tasers quickly stopped whatever resistance the young blue mutant could muster.

"Chain him to the gurney," ordered Selene.

In the center of the room, a menacing metal gurney with metallic shackles and a vertically rotating pivot stood ominously before the unwitting X-men as they watched the guards strap each one of Kurt's limbs tightly so he couldn't escape. As he quickly forced himself to recover from the shock, he once again began to struggle.

"ERR! Let me go!" he yelled, but his struggling only seemed to amuse the Black Queen as she slowly approached him with a menacing look on her face.

Kurt didn't know what to expect…But he sure as hell didn't like where this was going. The look in this crazy woman's face was one of pure evil. The sultry grin was even more disturbing as both Kurt and his weary friends watched anxiously the subtle actions of the Black Queen.

"You know…I've met demons before…Real demons, not fuzzy look-a-likes," said Selene as she moved in closer to Kurt as he now hung completely upright and was a mere six inches or so from the insidious woman's face, "Most people find demons to be repugnant and evil…Yet I find them strangely…Exotic."

Kurt felt his stomach churn as the Black Queen began to trace patterns around his chest and play with some of the hair on his face. The sultry grin only grew wider as she traced a path lower down towards his private area, causing him to grow even more repulsed by this woman. She then took his tail in her hand and gently ran her fingers down the soft cartilage while bringing the spade shaped tip to her mouth and sensually licking it.

The rest of the X-men looked in horror at this woman's actions and Wanda was about to lash out again, but this time Scott had stopped her. But even if she had, it most likely wouldn't have even registered with Selene as she moved in closer towards Kurt's face.

"Lady…You are fucking sick!" shot Kurt angrily, earning him a harsh slap.

"That's no way to talk for a young man to talk to a woman," said Selene as she took a long, ominous machete from a nearby table.

The rest of the X-men tensed as they watched her slowly run the cold blade along his cheek.

"You and your friends have been quite a nuisance to the rest of the Inner Circle…But to me, you are somewhat of a gift," said the Black Queen in a darker voice as she drew the blade lower, "It's not every day I get a chance to have a little 'fun' with a demon boy."

Then, as the others watched in horror, Selene began to use the machete to cut off the upper part of Kurt's uniform, leaving him bare-chested and partially exposed to this sick woman. But even if it was partial…It was too much for comfort.

"My, my…" said Selene as she put the machete down and traced her hands along his well shaped chest, looking as though it was only turning her on even more, "You have quite the body for a boy of your age. From the looks of it, you must be quite…Acrobatic."

Kurt was growing more anxious and desperately wanted to tell this crazy woman to fuck off, but before he could…She suddenly grabbed hold of his crotch with her hand.

"Hmm…You may have the look of a demon, but you are still a man," smiled Selene as she licked her lips with intent.

All of the contents of Kurt's stomach nearly jumped into his throat as he felt her squeeze his private area in her hand, but he managed to swallow the disgusting bile…Not wanting to show weakness before this evil woman. The others watched in horror and desperately wanted to do something, but the guards stood watchfully over them, ready to deliver painful, paralyzing shocks at any given moment. Wanda could tell where this was going…She could see it in Selene's eye. The others could see it too and they wanted to lash out, but they were powerless to do so.

As Selene released her grip on Kurt's crotch, she moved her hands back up to his face and brought herself within inches of him.

"Neither you nor any of your friends may not leave this room the same," she said coldly, yet with a continued look of sexual arousal on her face, "You will all be 'punished' for your insolence…But before whatever Shaw has planned for you, I intend to have as much 'fun' with you as I can."

Then, Selene proceeded to undo Kurt's pants. He felt the sickness within him grow even worse as he struggled against the hard, metal shackles. But there was nothing he could do to stop her as she stripped him bare for everybody to see.

"Oh God…" said Kitty as she tried to look away, not wanting to see one of her best friends get raped by a psychotic woman, "Oh God I can't look…"

"NO! Kurt!" exclaimed Wanda, no longer to hold herself back.

But once again, the guards used her collar to shock her into submission. There was nothing anybody else could do other than watch in horror as Selene removed her thong and gave Kurt a harsh punch in the chest, causing the gurney to fall flat so Kurt was now facing the ceiling.

"No…" struggled Kurt, closing his eyes, hoping for this all to be a bad dream.

Suddenly, he felt a pained shock from Selene's tasers again, causing him to yell out in pain while she let out a satisfied laugh.

"Pathetic boy…" she scoffed as she got on the gurney and straddled his pelvis, "You're sister said the same thing…Before I had all the guards rape her pathetic little body!"

A sudden look of anger fell upon Kurt as he heard Selene speak those words. The effects of the taser blast no longer seemed to matter as he pictured this insane woman doing something like this to Rogue.

"You…Bitch…" gasped Kurt through the pain, but it simply earned him another shock.

The others tried not to look, but they couldn't tare their eyes away from what was happening to their friend. Selene then proceeded to say a series of mysterious words, which cast a strange dark spell, causing Kurt's member to stiffen against his will. Selene delivered another painful shock with her tasers to his chest, causing him to yell out in pain again just as she impaled herself on him.

"Yes…Feel the pain demon!" yelled Selene as she delivered shock after shock to the screaming young man's body, giving her all the more pleasure in the process and riding him hard. He was a nice size, not in the same league as a true demon, but he was still nice inside of her.

"Oh I can't watch…" said Kitty as she turned away from it all, "Tell me when it's over…" Tears were now falling from her face as the sounds she heard would surly give her nightmares for quite some time.

Kurt continued to scream and yell in pain as Selene kept shocking him with her tasers and gyrating her hips against his. A small amount of blood was now seeping out of Kurt's mouth and nose as Selene continued to scratch and shock the young man into a world of pain. The longer it went, the louder his yells became. For the horrified onlookers, it was a truly ghastly sight…Watching this sick woman rape their friend. Wanda wanted to close her eyes, but she found herself unable to as tears began to stream down her face as she saw Kurt's suffering before her.

Selene felt herself close to achieving her orgasm as she kept shocking and beating Kurt's tattered body with more vigor. The louder he yelled, the more she laughed…Taking a great deal of pleasure in his suffering.

"Stop it! Just stop it!" Wanda shouted seeing this horror show and earned a large shock from a guard.

Selene stopped shocking him, but still riding Kurt turned to them. "I'd keep it down if I were you! Besides, the girls will be next after I'm satisfied and I'm sure you boys and handle me after my little 'demon lover', but if you want the guards to have some 'fun' with you now I'm sure they wouldn't mind."

"No…" Kurt said weakly at hearing that, but she just shocked him again, and Kurt cried out in pain again.

"Yes…That's it demon boy! Yell louder! Let me hear you scream!" she taunted as she shocked him again, causing even greater pain for the young man, "I can sense that you are not pure…For you have already given yourself to another girl. Such a pity…You're sister was pure and that made it all the more fun!"

Kurt didn't know how much longer he could take. It hurt so much that part of him just wanted to succumb to death rather than face any more of this torture. The thought of Rogue going through this same ordeal fueled his determination to stay alive and fight through the pain. However, with each shock he found this harder and harder.

Tears were now streaming down the faces of the others as they tried to shut out what they were seeing. But even if they closed their eyes, they could still hear Selene's sickening laughter or Kurt's pained cries. She kept on scratching and shocking her way towards her climax, looking forward to seeing him and the rest of his friends suffer in this fit of agony. The pain of others only brought her more pleasure as she felt Kurt weakening from her increasingly harsh treatment of his body. She was close…It wouldn't take much longer now. If he didn't die from this, he'll be begging for death afterwards and the rest of the X-men would know the world of hurt that they were in for.

"Yes boy! Louder! Scream louder!" said Selene as she gave him another painful shock with her tasers, "Scream like your sister did when she was 'punished' for her insolence! Give in to the pain you little bastard! GIVE IN!" Then, she arched her back and cried out as she had an orgasm…And to Kurt's eternal shame, his body betrayed him as he released himself into this woman.

Selene ground into him a little. "Oh yes," she purred. "I may just keep you as my own personal slave boy." She grinned at him.

Kurt was on the verge of passing out, then suddenly…The door to the chamber burst open and Wolverine, Emma, Sage, and Psylock rushed in. Upon seeing Selene inflicting her torture on another, Emma's expression turned to one of great rage. She ran forward turning into her diamond form as the others took out the guards.

Selene hadn't been ready and got a diamond fist slammed into her face. She heard and felt her nose break, blood coming out of it and her eyes stinking with tears from it. Emma didn't stop though…

"YOU STUPID BITCH!" yelled Emma with rage in her eyes as she tackled the insidious woman and began punching and maiming her with all her might, "YOU'RE GOING TO PAY FOR ALL THE TORTURE, PUNISHMENT, AND RAPE YOU'VE DONE TO ME! I SWEAR I'LL FUCKING KILL YOU!" She kept on punching and punching letting all her anger, hatred and rage out on Selene's face.

"Blondie you do know you're killin' her right?" Logan shouted over to her as they got the others out of the shackles with the guards all laid out on the floor.

"She's-fucking-immortal-she-can't-be-killed!" Emma said punctuating each word with a fist to the Black Queen's face. When Emma finally stopped her right hand was covered in blood and there was more of Selene's blood on her arm, chest, and a few places on her face. Selene's face, however, had seen better days and it was hard to tell if it was human at the moment.

Upon being cut free of his confinement by Logan, Kurt fell to the ground in a pained heap. He had endured Selene's inhuman torture and rape. He had never felt so violated, mortified, and angry. His breathing was in short gasps as Gambit, who was the closest one nearby, and Logan helped him up.

"Kurt…You okay homme?" said Remy as he looked into the angry, pained eyes of the young man before him.

"Nien…" he grunted as he shook himself free from their grasp and retrieved his pants that Selene had ripped off and put them back on, "I'm pretty fucking far from okay!"

Logan had never heard Kurt speak in that kind of tone before, but given the circumstances of what he had just endured, he could hardly blame him. Selene had done some pretty sick shit to him and now he was angrier than he had ever been his whole life. It was bad enough to have endured her abuse…But in hearing her taunt him about doing the same kind of thing to Rogue, it had pushed him over the edge. And without saying another word, he made a mad dash out of the room.

"Kurt! Where are you going!" yelled Gambit as he began to follow.

"To get my sister back!" he shot in response, full of anger as he forced his way through several groups of guards and made his way into the halls.

"Kurt!" yelled Wanda, not wanting him to go up against Rogue all by himself in his current state.

"Don't worry cherè! Gambit will follow him!" said the Cajun as he followed close behind, leaving the others to deal with Selene and the rest of the guards.

-Leland's Personal quarters- (another nasty scene ahead but the last of this kind for sometime)

Ororo, unlike the others, was taken to Harry Leland's personal chambers. She had a cold knot in her stomach in what the large man had planned, but it was the thought of her being brainwashed into his little secretary that truly horrified her. After seeing Jean and Rogue, she knew that eventually they would break her as well. Her wrists were still bound behind her back as she entered the room that looked like a palace out of the industrial revolution period.

She might have been in a bit of awe at the place, but considering her current state and her thoughts on Logan, she had far harsher things weighing heavily on her mind. She had never seen him so hurt before. It had been heart wrenching to see him like that and then him falling through the floor like that…She just felt so numb now. Logan was her closest and dearest friend and seeing all that…She whished none of this had happened. She wished this Hellfire Club had never existed so they all cold have their lives back to the way they were.

She wanted Logan and her to be okay with each other again…She was miles off, the guards left her alone in the room as Leland had something to discuss with Shaw, but all too soon the man entered the room and that brought her out of her thoughts.

The man grinned at seeing her there. "Good to see you here," he said in a mocking tone. "I now see the big picture and what Shaw has planned. You see, normally we could have killed you all, but with all the telepaths we have Shaw had an interesting idea that he shared with us as you all were led away. You see, he plans on turning you all into our little slaves and then going after Xavier and the others."

Ororo felt horrified at that and wondered what these…Monsters…Were going to do.

"You see why not have our own school for mutants? Although personally, I think we need a better facility then in Bayville, but think about it…A school to train our future members of the Hellfire Club where all would be loyal and powerful enough to stand against any foe." He sat down, pouring himself some wine and gestured for her to sit. Storm refused and stood her ground. "Defiant, aren't you?" Leland grinned at her pulling the glass to his lips. "I like that."

He took his drink and stood up towering over her by a foot. "You know, I can't wait until they make you mine. Such an exotic beauty under my arm will make other envious." She cupped her chin and she pulled back ready to spit in his face, but he slapped her hard, making her fall to her side. Her hands were still bound behind her back so she couldn't stop the fall and she tasted blood in her mouth from a cut lip.

Leland pulled her up by her hair, she gave a small cry of pain, but stood up. "You need to learn some manners and trust me…There are plenty of ways to break you." He pulled her over to a large wooden desk. "You know how they break wild horses? They ride them until they are beaten." He pushed her down onto the desk so her backside was to him and with growing horror, she knew what he had planned.

He placed hand on her back and it felt like someone was putting fifty pounds on her back. She grunted out as air was forced out of her lungs. She also felt him unbuckle her belt and pull the pants of her uniform down. She felt him take her panties with them and felt them slide down to her ankles and boots. She tried to remain calm, for this wasn't the first time she had been in this kind of position.

Harry Leland looked at her dark skinned ass with lust. He had wanted her since he first saw her and he, like the others in the Hellfire Club, always got what they wanted. Then…He proceeded to unzipped his fly.

Ororo heard the sound and felt her hands flex. She looked around the desk for a letter opener or something that could be used as a weapon. Then she felt his member against her, from what she could tell it was bigger then she had thought and then felt him spread her ass cheeks. She wondered why when the sudden jolt of pain answered her question. She cried out as his member was brutally shoved into her anus. 'Oh Goddess…Not this.' She prayed as he started to hump her like an animal.

This wasn't the first time for her, but it had been a very long time. Back in her youth she and her sister had been orphaned and spent time living on the streets. During those years, they had stolen to feed themselves. One man tried this with her sister and her, but Storm had found a knife and killed the man. Later on, she had to do other things in order to make ends meat. Some of the things she had stolen…And some times she had used her own body to the ones that bought it in order to jack up the price. She never told her sister about that or anyone.

Once there had been a street gang and she told her sister to run one way while she led them off. Later when they met up her sister had been so worried about her and asked what took her so long. Ororo had just said that it took longer to shake them…When in truth they had caught her and had their own 'fun' with her.

It was after that they had left the city and gone into the jungle and were lucky to have been taken in by a tribe. That was the end of the nightmares in the city, but now it seemed she was back to that nightmare. She grunted out as he slammed into her repeatedly and it felt like her inside were on fire and she was going to be split in half. She cried tears of pain, but refused to cry tears for any other reasons. She refused to whimper, for she would not let him break her like this. Others had tried and failed and she would be damned if this PIG would do it to her.

He also seemed to have too much stamina for her tastes. She came up with an idea and forced herself to relax. Leland found himself going in and out easier, but figured it was the blood from the forceful fucking. Ororo waited and then clenched down as hard as she could. "Oh god!" Leland shouted and couldn't take it anymore and Ororo felt him cum inside of her. The only bright point was that she knew she wouldn't get pregnant from this.

"My, my…Aren't you the little whore," Leland smiled, "You know my family made a fortune off of your people when they were just slaves. I like the idea of you being mine. Maybe my family owned some of yours at a time…Wouldn't that be ironic?" Ororo just felt repulsed by that comment.

Leland pulled himself out and fixed his pants and looked at the debased woman. Ororo for her part was still too sore to move at the moment and was just glad it was over for the moment. Then the door kicked in and Logan entered.

After freeing the others he had to cut his way through guards and a few Reavers trailing Ro's scent when he caught it. But the sight of her bent over the desk like that and the smell of sex and blood in the air enraged him to a level he didn't know was possible.

"Don't you stay dead?" Leland yelled at this intrusion. He hadn't planned on seeing that man again and from the looks on his face, he might have cared for her. Was she his woman? That thought gave him some perverse pleasure, but he beat this man once and he cold beat him again. He enhanced his weight again and charged ready to send this little worm to China this time.

Logan only saw red as the large man came at him. He was slower because of the extra weight, but Logan had healed in the time from their last encounter and was faster now. He ran forward yelling and at the last moment leaped over Leland as he brought a fist down and stabbed him in the neck with his claws.

When Logan landed he turned around to see the large man holding the wound in vain as blood poured out. He turned to Logan with wide eyes and Logan just growled and imbedded both claws into the man's chest. There was a slight gurgling sound and Logan let the man fall to the ground dead.

He turned his attention to Ororo and gently pulled up her clothing and she was thankful for that. He cut the bonds and helped her off the desk. "Ro…are-" She placed a hand on his mouth and then he cut off her collar.

"Thank you Logan," she said in a painful voice and then her eyes grew white and looked at the body of Leland and launched a thunderbolt at the body burning it. She just looked at the chard remains her anger at the man still in her, but she had to control her emotions…For the time being. Right now, the others needed her help now.

"Are you alright Ro?" Logan asked gently.

"I will be." She said walking as best she could forward.

"Ro…I'm sorry."

"Don't be," she said quickly.

"No, not just that…About us…" She slowly turned to face him a little uncertain. "Look Ro after this…Can we talk? I don't like us like this, I want you back…I want my friend back."

Ororo was touched by his words and gently touched the side of his face where is was nearly done healing over. "Yes…After this. But first…"

The anger in Logan returned. "Yeah, but first let's take these scum out for good."

NEXT UP CHAPTER 19: SHOWDOWN PART 2