Chapter Three

"Wolverine!" Theressa screamed as she flew into the mansion with Scott, on the ground by her side. Scott thought it strange that Theressa still occasionally called her father Wolverine or Logan. Although by the time she found out that Wolverine was her father, she had had four children of her own and was used to calling him Wolverine or Logan just like Wolverine was used to call Theressa, kid when obviously she wasn't a kid anymore.

"In your office kid." Wolverine's voice yelled back and once more Theressa and Scott darted down the hall to her office and once they got their, the two saw Jean sitting on Theressa's desk, Storm in the chair in front of the desk, Chelsea sitting next to Michael on the couch whose wound was being wrapped by Wolverine. Xavier appeared a moment later.

"Michael, are you all right?" Theressa asked going to her son and looking at the wound and then kissing him on the forehead.

"Yeah mom, it's just a knife wound."

"Just a knife wound? You could have been killed out there, Michael. Logan what the hell happened out there? I thought all you had to do was go get a mutant?" Theressa yelled as she stood up and looked her father in the face.

"T would you calm down and listen? If not I'm gonna have to get Jeannine to hold you down and your still going to have to listen." Logan told his daughter before he could tell her what happened. So Theressa took a deep breath, calmed her face and placed her hands on her hips signaling that she was listening.

"All right, Warren, myself, Michael and Storm went to California to find a mutant who was tearing LA apart."

"Right I sent you on that mission myself." Theressa said interrupting Wolverine

"Turns out that it was a trap. One set by Renee, who's got other mutants under her control."

"So the cars and people in the air was….."

"Renee." Storm replied

"Was she controlling the fires as well or was that someone else?" Theressa asked wondering if it could have been a man that she had not seen in years.

"No." Wolverine replied,"That was Pyro."

"Pyro? I haven't heard of him in years. Was he being controlled by Renee?"

"Possibly." Wolverine replied

"Now what happened to Angel?" Theressa said wanting to know what had happened to her husband and where he was at this moment.

"Pyro attacked him with the fire and his wings went up in smoke. Before Storm could call up some rain, Renee had telekinetically pulled the burning wings off and disappeared. I think she's got a new power because she vanished into thin air. T I'm real sorry about all this. If I could have stopped it, you know I would have."

"Where's Warren now?" Theressa asked crossing her arms and doing a mind scan all the while. Before anyone could answer, Theressa flew out of the room.

Theressa, he's down in the med-lab. He's been knocked out since the accident. Beast is down there with him and has been giving him something for the pain. Maybe you can help. Jean said telepathically telling Theressa, half of what she all ready knew.

Two minutes later Theressa flew into the med-lab and found Beast being beat up by Warren, who was screaming "Kill me!"

"Black Fox," Beast said seeing Theressa fly in, "I believe I could use your help at getting your husband off of me before anyone gets hurt."

Theressa complied by telekinetically pulling Warren off of Hank and placing him on the med-lab bed and as she walked up to him, still holding onto him, unwilling to let him go, she asked, "What the hell is going on here Warren?"

"Kill me Theressa." Warren replied, his face as calm as a still river. His eyes were dead set on Theressa's loving face and Theressa knew he could see the shock in her eyes as well as her scar. Why on earth would he ask her to do such a thing a month after they had been married?

"What did you just ask me?" Theressa asked not wanting to believe her ears.

"If you love me kill me!"

"Hank why's he saying this?" Theressa asked as her scar turned a deep blue mixed with a little bit of white, since she was scared for Warren's life and afraid of what he might do.

"I don't know, my dear. He woke up about five minutes before you came in. I asked him how he felt and if I could get him anything and he asked me to kill him. When I told him I could never do such a thing to him or to you, Theressa, he jumped off the bed and began to fight me and then you flew in. Perhaps he doesn't think he can live with out his wings. You know with out flying threw the air and watching the sunsets. Maybe he doesn't want to be normal."

Theressa walked closer to her husband, placing on leg on either side of her waist as she cupped his face lovingly and spoke to him softly as if he were her child that had been afraid of a monster in his closet.

"Warren, listen to me baby, I love you with all my heart. Is what Hank said true? Do you think you need your wings to live?"

Angel didn't reply so Theressa continued, "Honey, I don't fall in love with your wings. I fell in love with the man that stayed by my side when I wasn't sure about anything at all. I fell in love with the man who loves my children as if they were his own and the man that left his home in another state to be with a woman who didn't know what she wanted or what she needed. Sure having wings has it's rewards but just because you've lost them doesn't make you any less of a man, or my husband, that you were before."

During Theressa's speech she had let her guard down and freed Warren from the telekinetic trap. Suddenly Warren grabbed Theressa's right arm and said, "If you truly love me kill me. Put me out of my misery Theressa. I don't want to be normal and live a life of not flying ever again as freely as I once did. Don't even say that you could take me flying all the time because I would still have to rely on you for that and that's the one thing that I want to myself. So just kill me now!"

Theressa yanked her arm away as tears fell down as water falls down a waterfall and backed away from her husband as she said,"No! I promised to love you in sickness and in health and till death do us part and that's a promise I intend to keep!"

Warren jumped off the table and charged at Theressa when she telepathically knocked him out and placed him back on the bed, covering him up with a white blanket that was near by. Theressa whipped her tears away and turned to Beast saying, "Let me know when he wakes up and I'll either send him to sleep again or go into his mind and try to calm him down."

Theressa headed for the door just as Hank was about to protest. The med-lab doors opened and Theressa said, "Hank I know the mind of my husband and I know the risks and I'm willing to do anything to get the Warren I love back home safely." Theressa walked out of the med-lab and the doors shut behind her.