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Knife in the Dark: Scene 14

"Who was that?" Indigo came out of nowhere, taking the handset out of Blaze's unresisting fingers and putting it on the glass-topped table. The hand he kept hold of. A look of distraction crossed his face and he went ashen. "Doesn't feel too good, but then… Blaze you're a walking contradiction. Part of you is scared and upset, even guilty. But part of you is sort of excited or summot. What's going on?"

"It was Gambit, one of the X-Men." Blaze told him frankly, tugging her hand free. "Its over Indigo, or almost over anyway. There are only he, Wolverine and I left. If we can't find a way to free the others soon, they will be killed. But first Gambit and Logan have to lose the soldiers on their tail, so they are coming here."

"What?" Indigo didn't seem impressed. "Why?"

"Because I told them to. How can I get in touch with Stifle?"

"Look man, you're supposed to be sorting us lot out. Now you're abandoning us for your fancy American friends?" Indigo demanded. Blaze turned on him hotly.

"What now you want me to help? I thought you didn't trust me Indie, that you didn't want me here."

"Blaze…" Indigo wheedled as Blaze stomped off across the room. "Don't do this, not after last night. I'm trying, please, just gimme a go right?"

Blaze stopped dead before entering the bathroom. She let Indigo approach her and turn her in his arms. The touch of his hands was as soothing and electrifying as ever, and she heard herself sigh. This time he definitely initiated the kiss that became needy and demanding on both their parts.

"If you want me to help you…" Blaze mumbled between kisses. "You're going to have to tell me the whole story. What's happened to the rest of your gang?"

"In a bit." Indie promised, guiding Blaze back to bed. "In a bit."

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"What are you still doing up Shockwave?" Matthew asked softly, approaching the girl who sat on the windowsill and tucked up behind the curtain with her feet drawn up underneath her.

"Thinking. What are you still doing up Matt?" She replied without even looking at him.

"Thinking." He replied with a thin smile. "How would you feel about us all up and moving again? I'm not sure that the Cooper family's log cabin in the mountains is the safest place for us to be hiding out."

"There's no point. I'm not spending the rest of my life hiding." Shockwave spoke in an indignant whisper, trying not the wake the rest of the cabin's inhabitants. "Why hasn't the Professor done anything?"

"They must be holding him like they're holding the others Sam."

"Then why haven't Wolverine, Gambit and Blaze done anything?" Shockwave forgot to whisper. "If talking to these people hasn't worked, they should try something else."

"You're confusing them with the Brotherhood Sam," Matthew counselled, placing a reassuring hand on the brunette's shoulder. "Wolverine, Gambit and Blaze are the good guys, the heroes."

"The only reason Wolverine, Gambit and Blaze are heroes is Charles Xavier." Sam spoke with wisdom beyond her years, turning back to glare at the moonlight as if it had somehow offended her. "Without him, without the X-Men, they'll probably just go off the rails. And to be honest, that might be the very best thing that could happen right now…"

The End

A/N: Thank you so much to all my wonderful reviewers, especially Deus X Machina, you are too kind. See ya all next time in the thirdstory of four, Shades of Heroes:Slaves to the Cause, love Lamby