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Title: Blow after Blow
By: Nianna
Summary: What happens when you lose all your loved ones? Logan is soon to find out
Note: Two months after the last chapter
Chapter Two
Scott
and Ororo stood silently by the entrance, watching the children file
in. All the children's voices seemed to drop as they caught the
adult's watchful gaze, not used to the teachers not speaking to
children as they walked by. Scott turned as he felt a tap on his
shoulder, and smiled sadly as he saw Bobby.
"You're after
Rogue, I expect" Scott said, and Bobby nodded. Scott looked over to
Ororo and she nodded, as if she knew what he wanted to do. Scott took
Bobby to the side
"Bobby, I have something to tell you" He
said softly
"What is it?" Bobby asked, his voice slightly
higher than normal, his face etched with worry.
"Rogue... She,
she... she didn't make it...We have reasons to believe that
Sabretooth somehow broke into the school and well, injured her. With
her injuries from Alkali Lake as well, she couldn't do it."
Bobby's
eyes searched the floor, as if looking for an answer to a question
no-one else knew. "No..." He uttered, "I should have stopped
her from flying. If I had flown then she wouldn't be hurt, and then
she wouldn't have died… and then.." Bobby started to ramble.
His hand flew up to grip Scott's shoulder, staring into his eyes.
"I'm sorry… I'm so sorry…" Bobby turned, his head
hanging low, his shoulders slumped. He kept mumbling sorry to
himself, and quickly broke out in a run, to go to his room
"Bobby!"
Scott called after him, knowing what he was feeling, but Ororo placed
a hand on his shoulder.
"Leave him," She whispered. Scott
gazed at the door where the young man had just ran out off. He didn't
know how Bobby would cope, and he was worried. Scott hadn't slept
or eaten for days, and it was catching up on him.
Logan
sat with his knees pulled up to his chest, in his cell. Only his eyes
looked up when the door opened, no other part of his body moved.
Magneto walked in, followed by Sabretooth and Mystique, smiling
gently.
"Why do you not escape?" Magneto said, "You know you
can...you have enough strength. We're not stopping you."
Logan
didn't reply. He had given up saying anything a long time ago, all
they did was twist his words, and use them against him. Magneto
sighed and turned to leave. "Sabretooth, sort him out" He
whispered in the beasts ear.
Sabretooth growled and stepped
forward, grinning. Logan's eyes were staring back at the floor,
knowing what would come next. It had almost become a sort of routine,
these days, and Logan just shut off his mind. He didn't feel a
thing, didn't make a sound, whatever they did to him. He didn't
even see it.
Kurt, Ororo, and Scott sat quietly in the
Professors office. "Bobby is not coming?" Xavier asked, but he
already knew the answer, just waiting for conformation. Ororo shook
her head, and sighed., glancing across at Scott. Scott and herself
had tried to talk to him, but he had refused to even open the door.
No-one could even touch the door handle, it was too cold. Ororo
thought that because of Bobby's emotions, he had probably lost
control of his mutation…
"Logan? Have you found him?" Kurt
asked, and then it was the Professor's turn to shake his head. It
wasn't unusual for Logan to disappear like this, but because of
what had happened to him, all of the X-men were concerned, as to what
he would do. Xavier didn't like keeping track of anyone, but he
didn't want Logan to lose control of himself, and regret it later
on.
"He either has had a mental block up, which should soon
fail, or he is... Well, he is captured somewhere where even I cannot
penetrate."
"Magneto" Scott muttered, his eyes blazing.
They could rule out Stryker, at least, as they knew he was dead.
There was really only one other person who could capture Logan, and
that was Magneto, as Scott had said.
"We'll give it another
month, then we will check" Xavier said, and wheeled slowly round
his desk, "But for now, we must concentrate on the students. They
are all upset, but we must make sure that they know they can speak to
people about what they are feeling. It's not a bad thing to be
upset."
They all stood, and Xavier watched them leave. He knew
the school would never be the same. None of the adults or children
living in the mansion would not miss Rogue and Jean. Both of them had
been very well known…
Logan
was dragged to his feet and pushed forward by Sabretooth. He entered
what seemed to be a lab. Logan's face did not convey any emotion,
he did not want to give Magneto that satisfication. His eyes met
Magneto's.
"Now lets see whats really in that body" Magneto
teased, hoping for a reaction from Logan, but still nothing changed.
The last thing Logan saw, was Sabretooth's fist.
