Disclaimer: All X-Men characters involved in the movie, comic, and books belong to Marvel, except that a couple of new characters that are in my story, are mine, including Logan's estranged daughter, her best friend Charlie, Sonja, Veronika, Michael, Tom, Anabel, Dru's mother, and other new characters who are not in the X-Men movie and comics.
I don't own the brand of Tommy Girl, Whiskey, Martini. Most of the places are fictional except a few things. The names of the strip clubs are fake. Plus, Logan does remember his daughter, it just that he is in denial. He hates himself for leaving her and even though he couldn't remember things that happened after Stryker experimented on him, he still has memories of Dru.
Dru has telepathy (mind-reading) and telekinesis (moves things with her mind) from her mother and the rest from her father. This chapter will be what happened after the Professor and the group found out about Dru taking Rogue, Bobby, and Pyro off to have fun. If I get some more reviews then I will try to upload faster.
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Bold words are memories/flashbacks
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Chapter 9- Karma Came Back to Bite Me
(A/N: the beginning of this chapter starts a few hours ago with the continuation of the X-Men team finding out what Dru has done with Bobby, Rogue, and Pyro. Then in the next chapter I upload it will go back to the present where the group is in Charlie's apartment.)
A few hours ago:
"What about Dru?!" Logan asked impatiently.
"Well. . . " Nightcrawler stuttered.
Logan walked over to Nightcrawler and picked him up by the neck and slammed him against the wall. "Well what? What trouble has Dru gotten herself into?!"
Ororo (A/N: thanks to one of my readers for correcting me. Told you I would make a couple of mistakes) walked up to Logan. "It's not his fault Logan, don't take your anger out on him."
Logan looked to Ororo then back to Nightcrawler. He dropped Nightcrawler down and started to pace back and forth. Cyclops started to get a pounding in the back of his head and started to take a couple of breaths.
"What did Dru get herself into?" Logan asked with a rasp in her voice.
Nightcrawler rubbed his neck and started to talk. "Dru, Rogue, Bobby, and Pyro skipped class to go out and what teenagers say "having fun." Dru talked about a surprise for the group and before they left Dru. . ." Nightcrawler didn't know if he wanted to continue.
"And before they what?" Ororo asked.
"Well, Dru broke into Cyclops room to get the keys to the Coupe Mustang and then the gang left." Nightcrawler made the sign of the cross and asked for forgiveness.
"She what?!" Logan shouted.
"I knew someone was in my room!" Cyclops said to himself.
"What are we going to do?" Ororo said.
"Yes, what are we going to do with my daughter Dru?" Logan had started to call Dru his daughter after discussing with putting everything bad behind them.
"First we have to make some contact with her." Ororo intervened.
"Give me a minute." the Professor closed his eyes and concentrated.
At that moment, in time when Dru and the group were at the Dirty Riot strip club, she feels a tinge in her head. This is during the time when Dru talks with Michael, the gay bartender.
"Dru where are you?" the Professor sends to Dru's mind.
Dru sips at her soda and responds back to the Professor, "Can't tell you Professor but I must say the service where I am at is stripperlicious."
"Are you at a strip club, Dru?" the Professor asks in Dru's mind.
Dru teases Michael about his new boy toy and responds to the Professor. "I can't tell you that but where I am and the group is at is nice. That's all I will say, Professor."
And with that Dru closed her mind off to the Professor. She had learned to close her mind off to telepathic's when she was strong enough to do so. Stryker had shown her to do it. Huh, it seems almost everything went back to Stryker.
The Professor opened his eyes and he could see the X-Men group looking at him. "I'm sorry, she shut her mind off to me."
"What?! Do you know where the hell she is?!" Logan shouted out.
"There is a indication that they are at a strip club from what Dru clued me into." the Professor wheeled himself around his desk.
"A strip club? They are too young to be in one." Cyclops intervened.
"You don't know Dru like I do." Logan said.
"What do you mean, you know her? You've barely known her for two days." Cyclops said.
"That's not the whole truth. I've been in touch with Dru's mother since she was two. I sent her some gifts but I don't know if she received them. Her mother sent me some pictures and information on her as she was growing up but when I found out she abandoned Dru, I didn't know if she wanted to see me. Looks like karma came back to bite me." Logan went over to the couch in the Professor's lecture room and sat down.
"You mean to tell me, you weren't man enough to take your daughter in, even after her mother abandoned her?!" Cyclops yelled to Logan.
Logan stood face to face with Cyclops, he started to yell in his face.
"Don't you ever tell me what I should or shouldn't do! I was going to take care of her but I got into trouble and that's where I met Stryker. A few months later, I was running with blades coming out of my knuckles and pieces of my memory was gone! It took me years before I realized the little girl in my dreams was my flesh and blood!" Logan pushed Cyclops into the wall.
"Enough, you two! Right now our number one concern is to find Dru and the others." Ororo said. She turned to the Professor for some guidance.
"Yes, Ororo is right. We must find the others before something happens to them." the Professor said.
"Logan I don't know how to say this and don't be offended by it, but do you know any places around here where there are strip clubs?" Ororo asked embarrassingly.
Logan calmed down a bit and thought it over. Then a bright light went off in his head.
"Yeah, there's about two or three strip clubs around here. There's the Always Dancing club which is a couple of miles here, then the Dirty Riot I haven't gone into that one yet, and then there's Coochie R Us which is about half an hour from here." Logan got some stares from the group.
"What?" Logan asked Cyclops.
"Nothing, it's just you're very accurate with how far the strip clubs are from here." Cyclops stifled a smile.
"Well I am known around the clubs, maybe they might know if they saw Dru." Logan tried to change the subject.
"Tell us about the clubs a bit, maybe it might give us a clue to where Dru might be." Ororo said out of character.
"We'll the Always Dancing club is an all male strip joint where there are woman with big, uh, balloons." Logan held out his hand embarrassingly to demonstrate.
"Oh." Ororo blushed a little.
"And then the Coochie R Us, I have been once or twice is a women and gentleman's club but I see more woman than men at the club." Logan tried his best not to blush.
"What about the Dirty Riot club?" asked Nightcrawler.
"I haven't gone to that one but it's male and female dancers so its for both genders. Heard it was a good strip joint." Logan started to think which club Dru might be if she was at one of them.
"Alright how about we split up that way we can find them faster." Ororo said.
"What if we don't find them in there?" Logan asked. He started to formulate a plan on how to whip Dru's ass when she got back. He may not have experience in fathering but he had a master's degree in ass whopping.
"Logan, wait until we find them and ask them why they disobeyed orders and left the campus without permission." the Professor said.
"When I get my hands on her. . ." Logan said angrily.
"If you get your hands on her." Nightcrawler corrected.
"If and when I get my hands on her." Logan said through gritted teeth.
"Alright, Ororo and Logan go to the R Us club and check and see if Dru and the rest might be in there." the Professor was a little embarrass to say "coochie".
Logan stifled a little laugh but went back to serious once the Professor gave him the eye.
"Cyclops and Nightcrawler will go to the Dirty Riot club and check in with you two once they confirm if Dru is there. I will see if Cerebro might show where the group might be in case Dru hadn't thought about cloaking the others and her from Cerebro." the Professor said.
Then the group was off, Logan and Ororo took one of the Jaguars from the garage, while Nightcrawler and Cyclops were transported to the Dirty Riot club. Nightcrawler was a little uneasy to enter but if this was for the good then he would stick it out.
While on the way to the Dirty Riot club, Cyclops, and Nightcrawler, missed Dru and the group by fifteen minutes. They entered the Dirty Riot club to see a ray of gentleman in g-strings and women in scantily clad clothing.
"Oh my." Nightcrawler covered his eyes but took a peak to see a woman dressed in a white off the shoulder dress with a ghastly huge slit in the middle. He couldn't believe women would go through pain and pleasure to wear such high heels. (A/N: do you remember the person he is describing? If not check chapter 8)
Anyone in the club didn't think twice at Nightcrawler's complexion.
Ororo radioed to the Professor and Cyclops that Dru had previously been at the R Us club, a while back but not tonight. She also radioed in her disbelief that everyone who worked at the R Us knew Dru as a regular customer. Maybe that's because it was a both gender club with male and female dancers. Ororo said they would head over to the Dirty Riot club to meet up with the group.
"I wonder what happens when it's her birthday in the club." Cyclops commented.
"Maybe they give her a cake where a man pops out and sings Happy Birthday to her in a little teeny underwear." Nightcrawler laughed at his own comment and so did Cyclops.
Cyclops and Nightcrawler waited for Ororo and Logan to arrive by taking a look around to see a bartender making an order for one of the female dancers. Cyclops walked up to the bartender and tried to come up with a snappy thing to say to him.
"What do you want to drink hot stuff?" Michael said flirtatiously.
"Me?" Cyclops looked around at the comment Michael made. When he saw that Michael meant him, Cyclops started to blush in embarrassment and not in flattery. This was not his day.
"Yes you cutie. What do you want to drink?" Michael had now found his new play toy. Whether he was gay or not, it didn't matter to Michael.
Nightcrawler walked up to the bar and ordered himself something to drink.
"Water with a slice of lemon in it, please." Nightcrawler said to Michael.
"Sure, and what will you have papi chulo?" Michael kept throwing comments at Cyclops.
"I will have the same thing." Cyclops replied. He tried to look at Michael when he served their drinks.
"That will be $3.00." Michael said.
Nightcrawler looked to Cyclops to pay. He had left his money at the mansion.
"What?!" Cyclops said.
"Can you spot me? I forgot my money at the mansion and I didn't know I would be thirsty." Nightcrawler pleaded.
"Ugh! Fine!" Cyclops took out his wallet and handed Michael a five.
A few seconds later, Michael handed Cyclops back his change which was fifty-cents.
"I'm supposed to get back $2.00." Cyclops said. He'd done his math when Michael went to get his change. Unless Michael was slow it still wasn't an excuse to give him the wrong change.
Michael looked at Cyclops and he said in his New York accent that he had perfected all his life, "I know how to count and I am not slow. I get a tip which is a dollar and fifty cents. Do you have a problem with that sweet thang?"
"No I don't have a problem with that and I am certainly not you're sweet thang." Cyclops tried to keep his cool and not do something that would bring unwanted attention to their search.
"Alright then honey, I won't bother you." Michael held his hands in surrender.
"Thank you." Cyclops said.
"For now." Michael added. He blew Cyclops a kiss before returning himself to serving other customers their drink.
Cyclops shivered in disgust at himself.
About fifteen minutes later, Ororo and Logan walk into the club and again none of the dancers or customers paid any attention to Ororo's white hair. There wasn't as many customers after Dru, Rogue, Bobby, and Pyro inhabited. There was only two or three customers left who were asking the female and male dancers for lap dances.
"Anything we missed?" asked Logan.
Cyclops doesn't say anything but Nightcrawler tells Ororo and Logan about Cyclops getting hit on.
"Well, well, well. Looks like Cyclops has an admirer." Logan says teasingly.
"Shut up." Cyclops barks out. "Wonder if the customers or dancers will call the cops if they find out we're mutants." Cyclops thought.
"Don't worry, most of the dancers and customers are mutants and if they are humans, then they have no problems with mutants at all." Michael answered one of Cyclops's intended questions.
"How did you know what I was going to say? Never mind." Cyclops figured out that Michael was a telepathic.
"Sorry, usually I try to control myself from doing that but lately people have juicy secrets that they won't tell and keep it to themselves. I am such a sucker for gossip." Michael made a Shirley temple for a woman with blond hair and wearing a red crotch less teddy with red pumps.
Everyone but Michael and Logan, averted their eyes when the blond haired woman with the red teddy stood up and walked over to Logan.
"Would you like a lap dance?" asked the blond dancer who was coming onto Logan a little bit strongly.
Logan trying his best not to look down, he distracted himself by looking around the room at things and playing it cool.
"No thanks. Not interested now but how about later?" Even in a situation with trying to find his daughter, Logan still played it off suave and smooth.
"Are you sure, I'd lower the price to half off." the blond dancer wasn't going to leave Logan alone.
"I'm sure sugar." Logan was trying to use every control he had not to be aroused by the blond who was trying her hardest to give him a lap dance.
"Name's, Cherry and yes you can pop my cherry anytime." Cherry seductively said. She walked away but not before giving Logan a glance at her bottom.
Logan bit down on his bottom lip and turned around to face the group looking at him with uprise brows.
"What?" Logan asked in disbelief.
"Nothing." said Ororo nonchalantly.
"Yeah, nothing." Nightcrawler said.
Michael had watched comically the group from the comfort of his wet bar and fixed himself a vodka on the rocks.
"Can we get back to what is important and that is finding Dru?" Nightcrawler questioned.
Michael who was faced back towards the X-Men group, he twinged at Nightcrawler's statement. He thought to himself of how these people knew Dru.
Dru wasn't the type by Michael's opinion to associate herself with serious people. She almost hung out with everyone but serious people.
"Damn, what had Dru gotten herself into this time",Michael said to himself.
"What did you say about Dru?" Logan turned to face Michael's back who at this time was trying to entertain himself by washing the shot glasses.
"Dru who?" Michael tried to play it off cool but it looked like the X-Men weren't going to buy it.
"I heard you said, specifically about what Dru had gotten herself into. Don't play with my boy because I can hear things real good and if you don't want me to gut you in front of everyone then I suggest you tell me where Dru is." Logan threatened.
Michael turned around and faced Logan with a smug on his face.
"What are you so happy about?" Logan asked.
"Well, if you weren't staring at Cherry's hoo-ha then you wouldn't have missed the oh-so-infamous-temptress, that everyone who works at the club here loves." Michael said sarcastically.
Logan grabbed Michael around his collar and pulled him over the bar towards his face.
"How long was she here for and did you see who she was with?!" Logan was tired of being played.
"Hey watch the shirt, Dru gave me this for my birthday." Michael pointed to his shirt which was silk cotton.
"Why is it that the source of everything bad that is happening to me these days always comes back to Dru?" Logan said to himself.
Logan had let go of Michael. But Michael wouldn't tell them nothing that he hadn't already accidentally spilled to Logan and the others.
"I'm loyal to Dru and I won't betray a friend no matter what." Michael would not budge even when Logan threatened to skin him.
"He's not going to talk Logan, obviously he is loyal to Dru no matter what." Ororo said.
"Of course. Besides she would kill me if she knew I said something I shouldn't." Michael put his elbows on the table and leaned on the bar.
"But all I will tell you is that she came here with some kids like seventeen or eighteen years and was throwing dow around like paper. She comes in here once in a while to visit the club and moi." Michael addresses himself.
"How did she get a hold of money?" Cyclops said.
"Who knows but she won't even tell her second best friend about it." Michael refers himself as Dru's second best friend.
"Okay then." Ororo turned towards the dancers' poles to look for anyone that might have information on Dru's whereabouts.
"Who's her first best friend?" asked Logan.
"Sorry can't tell you that." Michael made a gesture of zipping his mouth and throwing away the key.
The same blond who had hit on Logan for a lap dance came up to Ororo.
"You want information on Dru?" the blond now was starting to suck on a lollipop and staring at Logan while doing it.
"Denise don't!" Michael pleaded to the blond. He wasn't going to let this skank squeal just so she could have Logan.
"I will tell you all you need to know if I can have a lap dance with this one." Denise pointed to Logan.
Logan wasn't complaining but the look on Ororo's face, she wasn't going to let him have any fun.
"No deal." Ororo said. She wasn't going to use someone to get information.
"How about him?" Denise walked over to Cyclops and caressed his cheek which Cyclops backed away.
"Deal." Logan says right away.
"No, he's mine bitch!" Michael walked to the front of the bar in between Cherry and Cyclops.
"Your name isn't on him, fag!" Cherry said defensively.
Michael took off his watch and earrings and looked to Cyclops. He held up his right hand and slapped Cherry right across the face. Cherry flew back and landed on her back. Michael went over to grab Cherry's hair but Logan held him back.
"Let me at that wench! She has no right to call me that! That bitch has no right to disclose Dru's information!" Michael was being held back from Logan while the customers and dancers just looked at the fight as ordinary. As if everyday a fight broke out and they had better things to do then help.
Cherry got up from the ground with a slap mark made of the side of her face. She rubbed her cheek and had pure hatred in her eyes for Michael.
"I wasn't planning on telling them anything even if I got the lap dance with either guy but because you're being a dick, I will tell them." Cherry said.
"Don't you even think of telling them! If you do, I will make sure your fat ass never works in Massachusetts!" Michael threatened.
"Dru went off with Charlie who is her first best friend and I don't know exactly where he lives but I think its about twenty minutes away from this joint." Cherry crossed her arms across her chest and smirked at Michael.
"You bitch, you don't know what the hell you've just done. When Dru finds out what you did, she will hunt you down and kill you." Michael spat out.
"Why? Just because I told them who her best friend is and where he lives or maybe that her best friend used to be an alcoholic who would hit her!" Now Cherry had gone too far.
Logan released Michael and went over to Cherry. He grabbed her by the neck and slammed her against the wall. Cherry tried to get Logan to release her by scratching at his face but it didn't work.
"What do you mean, he used to hit her?!" Logan didn't know of his daughter being abused. If he had known this, then maybe he would have been a bit more easier on Dru.
"Let. . . go. . . of. . . me!" Cherry was gasping for air.
Michael went over to Logan. "Let go of the wench. She isn't worth it."
Logan looked to Michael and then to Cherry. He released Cherry but not before Michael kicking her in the stomach.
"Go and get your things and get the hell out of here!" Michael barked.
Cherry picked up her heels which had fallen off and ran to the back. Michael whispered into one of the bouncer's ears to watch Cherry while she gathered her things. The bouncer nodded in agreement and went to see Cherry off.
Ororo, Cyclops, and Nightcrawler, now saw another side of Logan. The side who wanted to protect his daughter, Dru from harm. Even if it meant to hurt people to do it.
"What has gotten into you?" Ororo spat out to Logan.
Logan took a couple of deep breaths before answering Ororo.
"I was trying to get some answers from the girl." Logan explained.
"That doesn't give you the right to come in and start kicking the crap out of them for information." Ororo said.
"Ororo is right, we have to be discreet about it." Nightcrawler replied.
"We can't be hitting people, just to get information on where Dru and the others are at." Cyclops said.
Logan took a couple more breaths before a voice starts in his head.
"Oh my, are you looking for me?" Dru said. She sent her message to Logan.
"Yes. Where the hell are you?" Logan replied back.
Nightcrawler stepped to Logan. "What is it?" he asked.
"Has that buffoon Cherry told you anything?" Dru questioned. This is around the time where Charlie was driving the group to his loft.
"Dru's sending me a message." Logan replied.
"She told us a couple of things. Why the hell you didn't tell me about you being abused?" Logan asked Dru mentally.
"Would you have cared either way?" Dru asked.
"I would have been there for you." Logan replied.
"I've already taken care of it and it was a while ago, so thanks, but no thanks I wouldn't have wanted your help." Dru shot back.
Dru and the group started to go into Charlie's loft. A few minutes later, Charlie left to get the gang something to eat while Dru started to tell them her story.
"Damn it Dru! Where are you?" Logan asked.
"Alright I'll tell you!" Dru said with defeat in her thought voice.
"Do you know where she is?" asked Cyclops.
"Shut up! She is going to tell me where she is now." Logan said.
"Do you have a pen and paper?" asked Dru.
"Hold on." Logan asked the group for a pen and paper.
"You ready?" asked Dru. Of course she was going to give Logan false direction but hey, he didn't know.
"Yes." Logan said mentally.
"Okay, you take this route. . . and then make a left. . ." Dru said.
About ten minutes later Logan got himself directions that he thought would lead them to Dru and the other. What he didn't know was that the directions would lead them to another part of the city even though Charlie's loft was not in Massachusetts but in New York.
"Are you sure these are the directions Dru?" Logan asked.
"Of course. This is the same house Charlie and I roomed in while I was looking for you." Dru said in a serious tone.
"If I find out that you have lied to me then you will be in deep shit, got that?" Logan said.
"I am not lying now, will I ever do in the future, dad." Dru said. She was playing this off very easily using the "never lying again" line.
"I don't know." Logan was starting to question Dru's directions.
"Then you're just going to have to trust me." Dru said to Logan before she said some more things about Charlie's drinking to Rogue, Bobby, and Pyro.
"Alright. I'll see you in a bit." Logan said to Dru before telling the X-Men group that they were going with Dru's direction even though Cyclops objected it.
He said that Dru was giving them the wrong direction but Logan told him that Dru was done with lying. He was sure of it.
"See you in a bit, dad." Dru said before stopping her telepathic communication with Logan.
"Come on. We gotta jet before they think of leaving again." Nightcrawler said.
The X-Men group left the club and Nightcrawler nodded to Michael before they left. They all walked out into the Massachusetts air and all gotta into the car. Nightcrawler didn't know where the location was so they had to punch the coordinates into the car's navigation system which gave them instructions to Dru's intended place. The group drove to the place where it took them an hour to get to. When the group got there, they knew they had been stooped. The directions Dru had given them, led them to an abandoned warehouse.
"Damn it!" yelled Logan.
"Wait, what if they're in there?" asked Nightcrawler.
"No they're not. She played you like a violin, Logan." Cyclops said.
Logan got out of the car and inspected the warehouse, he let out a roar of anger and displeasment.
"Druuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" Logan roared out.
Logan's yell could be reached to Dru's ears but not the others. Even if New York was next to Massachusetts, her hearing was much better than Rogue's, Bobby's, or Pyro's put together.
"Looks like it's back to square one." Ororo said.
Meanwhile:
Dru took a drag of her cigarette, "It doesn't have to make sense to you but it perfectly makes sense to me."
"Alright but please go on with your story." Pyro started to play with his lighter."Okay." Dru took another drag of her smoke before continuing with her story.
A/N: Woo! This took me a week and a half to finish this. Sorry, it takes me a while to write the first draft then I change it all lot so that it makes sense and long to read. Hope you enjoy this chapter, and thanks to SamHobbit, who put me on his favorites list. I am so honored. :tear: And I would like to thank LoneEagel13, TheWolf, SamHobbit again, Elf Princess Claire, and last but not least, mystery-child-001 for putting me on your author alert list. :Kisses: Now it might take a bit more time since on Monday, August 16th, I will going back to school and it might be hectic for a while but I assure you I will update my next chapter in about 1-2 weeks. Please read and review!
Next chapter: the continuation of Dru's sobbing story and will the X-Men group find her and the others?! Tune it next time.