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, Anabel's aunt Irene who knows about two or three words in English, Dru's mother, Baby Dru, Juan Mendoza, and other new characters who are not in the X-Men movie and comics. I don't endorse nor do I own the brand name of Krispy Kreme, Gucci, Prada,
Dru has telepathy (mind-reading) and telekinesis (moves things with her mind) from her mother and the rest from her father. This chapter starts back up where Dru, Bobby, Rogue, and Pyro are at Charlie's loft and Dru is continuing with her story. If I get some more reviews then I will try to upload faster.
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.
Horizontal lines means next scene.
Bold words are memories/flashbacks
Italicized words are thoughts
Parenthesis ( ) is translations from other language.
{ } means an pause in the story for an author's note.
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Chapter 10- Memory Down Hell Lane. . . Again Pt.2
{A/N: this is the continuation of Chapter 8's Stroll Down Hell Lane and somewhat throughout the story Dru reminisces on her trip through Europe before she came back to the US and search for her dad, Logan }
"So I took a thousand dollars out of my savings, gave it to a friend of mine, and she went and bailed Charlie out. I left him a letter saying that I wouldn't be back for a while and that I would contact him after things settled." Dru had finished her cigarette just as her story ended.
"What happened next?" Rogue had been listening to Dru's tale the whole time, listening in the hallway.
"Sleeping Beauty is awake." Dru jokingly said.
"Didn't mean to interrupt but what happened after you bailed Charlie out?" Rogue sat over next to Bobby on the sofa and laid herself against his chest.
Dru took out another cigarette but thought better against it and put it away, "Well I bought myself a one-way ticket to Europe because I didn't know how long it would take for me to explore all of Europe. I wanted to first explore Spain for a couple of days when I got there."
"How much money did you have after bailing Charlie out and your plane ticket?" Bobby asked. He started to Rogue shoulders which were covered by her jacket.
"Let's see I started out with $2900, gave a grand for Charlie and paid for a one way to Madrid, Spain where I would start my adventure was about $856, in total I had about a grand left." Dru got herself a glass of water from the kitchen and chugged it down.
Dru looked to the clock in the kitchen above the Jesus Christ portrait. It read four a.m. Charlie had gone out for take-out a half hour ago.
"Wonder where Charlie is?" Dru asked to herself.
"Quit stalling and finish this story!" Pyro got up and took Dru by the arm back into the living room.
"You're so aggressive, Pyro, I think I kinda like that." Dru said teasingly.
"Don't push it, I might do something I might regret." Pyro wished he could bring those words back. He felt his face turn red.
Dru noticed Pyro blushing but didn't want to put him on the spot because of it, so she continued her story.
Dru had bought a ticket to Madrid, Spain as soon as they had a early flight for it and they did which was the same night that she bailed Charlie out. She bought herself a ticket and went to Logan International Airport in Boston.
She was to board the plane which was to set off in less than ten minutes to Spain. Dru thought about it and made a hurried call that was next to the boarding entrance to her plane. She called Charlie one last time before she left Boston.The phone rang two times before Charlie picked it up.
"Hello, hello?" Charlie croaked over the phone.
Dru knew she had to talk or Charlie would hang up. She took a deep breath before she talked.
"Hey Charlie." Dru huffed out. She looked at her watch. She had seven minuted before the plane took off.
Dru could hear a lump form in Charlie's throat before he responded. "Dru? Is that you? Where are you? Why is all your things gone?" Charlie spat out so many questions at Dru that it was making her head spin.
"Charlie, hold on. I only have a few minutes to talk before I have to go." Dru looked at her watch again. She had only five minutes.
"Where are you going?" Charlie asked worriedly. He couldn't believe it, his best friend was actually going to leave him.
"Spain. But I can't tell you anymore. I'll call you when I get there. I love you Charlie. Remember your promise that you will get help." Dru said in a rush. She had only three minutes left.
"Dru, please don't go." Charlie cried into the phone.
Dru didn't cry but she continued, "Promise me that you will get help. Promise me."
Charlie started to sob a bit but he kept his voice, "Yes, I promise."
Dru let out a deep breath, said goodbye to Charlie, and told him that she would contact him when she got to Spain. She fast-walked over to the check stand where a woman checked her ticket and let Dru on board. Dru fast walked to her seat where she asked by the window and by herself. She asked specifically to have the two seats to herself.
The whole trip was spent over a box of tissues and Dru crying. She knew that Charlie needed to do this on his own and she needed to get out and see the world. Dru wondered to herself if Charlie would do the right thing and get himself some help. Maybe it was the bet to let him pick up the pieces.
By the time it was lunch on the plane, Dru was halfway to Spain. A female stewardess came up with a lunch tray and handed it to Dru. Dru didn't let the woman see her tear stained face but the woman knew and gave Dru an extra slice of pumpkin pie.
"Thank you." Dru said once she saw what a kind gesture the stewardess did.
"No problem. What's your name?" the female stewardess asked. She had a soft nurturing tone to her voice.
Dru thought about whether giving her a fake name but thought she was nice enough to give her, her name.
"Dru O'Hara." Dru's last name felt foreign to her. She had dropped her mother's maiden name after her mother left her. Dru didn't need the pain of reminding herself of a mother who left her. Who would?
"So your last name is O'Hara? Sounds Scottish." Rogue said. She had gotten herself comfortable on the sofa with Bobby.
Bobby wrapped his arms around Rogue and whispered sweet nothing in her ear.Dru kinda knew that Bobby was whispering sweet nothing in her ear from the deep red crimson color that was starting to show on Rogue's cheeks.
"That's my mother's maiden name. I dropped it after she left and yes, it's Scottish. My mother is half Scottish. I haven't used O'Hara as my last name in a while and I don't think I ever will." Dru had gone back to lighting a cigarette.
"You know those things can kill you?" Bobby pointed to Dru.
Dru took a puff of her cigarette and blew it in Bobby's direction.
"I'm counting on it." Dru said sarcastically.
"Alright, now quit distracting Dru because I want to hear more of her story." Rogue said impatiently.
Dru took another puff of her cigarette and a swig of her water and continued, "Well the stewardess. . .
"What a nice name. Mine's Anabel." the female stewardess replied.
Dru and Anabel got to know each other a bit more and found out that Anabel had family in Spain and offered a room in her aunt's villa in Barcelona.
"That's nice of you but I am backpacking throughout Europe so I will only be in Spain for a couple of days." Dru replied. She had finished her lunch and started on her first slice of pumpkin pie.
"Oh. Well, do you know where you're going to stay while you visit Spain?" Anabel asked with concern in her voice.
"No, but I was thinking of once we land in Spain that I ask information for a hotel." Dru said dumbfounded.
"No! Not at all, it would take you all day to find a hotel in Spain and since this is the season for touring, you'd be lucky to find a roach motel in Spain." Anabel proposed.
Dru thought it over and knew that it would take a while to find a place to stay and Anabel was offering a free place to stay while she got her things in order. Why not?
"Okay, I take you up on your offer." Dru gave Anabel a smile.
"Great. Wait for me outside at the gifts shop and I will be there in ten minutes." Anabel said.
"Okay." Dru went back to sulking at the window. She thought about how Charlie dig himself into a whole where there was no way out of it and in the end it would bring everyone with him, including his childhood friend.
Dru took her mind off Charlie for a bit and reached into her backpack that she had brought on board as a carry on. She took out her journal where she kept her thoughts and secrets where if one day she was to die then she could leave that journal to her friends. There in the journal they would know how she really felt and thought.
She wrote in her journal for a while until Anabel came back a few hours later with her dinner tray.
"How are you feeling?" Anabel asked concerned.
Dru looked up and gave her a smile, "I'm feeling much better now, thanks for asking." Dru took the dinner tray where Anabel gave her an extra scoop of chocolate ice-cream.
"If you need anything, just ask for me." Anabel said.
"Okay." Dru replied.
With that, Anabel left to give the other passengers their dinners. Dru ate in silence, reflecting on what she would do once she arrived in Spain. She thought about visiting the monuments in Madrid then after a day or two head to Pamplona and run with the bulls. It was the time in Pamplona when they had the Running of the Bulls, where people would release bulls in the street, and people would start running away from them.
"Wait a minute. People actually run with the bulls?" Pyro got up to get a soda.
"Yes, people actually runin Pamplona with the bulls. It's a tradition and I wanted to be part of that tradition." Dru yelled out to Pyro from the living room.
"What about Anabel? To me she comes off kinda psycho, you know the kind that befriend you and then kill you when you're alone with them.Bobby said.
"I agree with Bobby, what happened if she took you somewhere and killed you?" Rogue asked a bit scared for Dru's welfare.
Dru stood up and twirled in a circle to show Rogue, Bobby, and Pyro that she was fine.
"See, nothing happenand I can honestly tell you three that Anabel did not murder me or hurt me." Dru sat back down and took another drag of her cigarette.
"We believe you." Pyro came back into the room with a soda in his hand.
"I think it's getting late, you guys' need to sleep." Dru got up but Pyro grabbed her wrist.
"You're not getting off that easy. Sit and finish this story. You expect to tell us a story and not finish it?" Pyro asked aggressively.
"Didn't see this side of you, Pyro. I like it." Dru said flirtatiously.
Pyro blushed and let go of Dru's hand. She sat back down and continued her tale. "After the plan landed. . . "
The plane landed in the Aeropuerto de Madrid or the Madrid Airport in the wee hours of the morning. Dru hadn't had a lot of sleep since finishing her dinner. She must have looked like shit. Dru grabbed her backpack and started to walk out of the plane.
"Remember to meet me by the gift shop!" shouted Anabel over the crowd of people exiting the plane.
Dru walked into the tunnel and out into the Airport. She looked around and saw a gift shop a couple of feet away. Dru didn't have any luggage to pick up other than her backpack. Dru walked over to the gift shop and waited.
Ten minutes later, Anabel came out of the tunnel, where Dru had previously had come through, and saw Dru. Anabel waved to Dru and she waved back. Anabel walked over to where Dru was waiting at.
"Do you have all your luggage?" Anabel looked around Dru.
"This is all my luggage." Dru fastened her backpack to her back.
"Oh." Anabel's smile fell.
"Since I'm trying to rough it, I only brought what I thought I needed on this trip." Dru said somberly.
Anabel thought it over for a bit and then an idea popped into her head. "Why don't we go a bit of shopping for your trip, come on my treat."
"I couldn't possible let you do that." Dru would have easily agreed and play Anabel for a fool but there was something pure about her, that Dru didn't want to mess with.
"Come on, my treat. A going-away present when you leave Madrid." Anabel wanted to take Dru under her wing.
"Anabel wanted to buy you things and you refused?" Pyro asked a little bit confused. If it was him, he would of jumped at the opportunity to get himself some expensive things.
"I started hustling and stealing around fourteen and I was real good at taking people's money but with Anabel it was different. She wasn't asking to get played. She just wanted someone to hang out for a while and I was there." Dru took a sip of Pyro's soda which she had finished for him.
"Hey!" Pyro took his soda from Dru's grasp but she had finished the drink.
"Sorry, I was really thirsty and the water wasn't working for me." Dru gave Pyro a pout.
"You're going to have to get me another soda." Pyro demanded.
"No problem." Dru held out her hand, concentrated, and a coke came to her from the refrigerator. She handed the soda to Pyro.
"It's nice to have telekinesis." Pyro commented.
"It is especially, when it comes from your mother's side of the family. My mother was a telepathic (mind-reader) and a telekinetic (moves things with her mind) but she always the devil who was taking her body over when she read people's minds or moves things." Dru took another drag of her cigarette.
"Wow." Oh shit! She known all along what I have been thinking! Pyro said to the group and to himself.
Yes, I have known all along and I am sorry Pyro, Bobby. Dru sent to Bobby and Pyro.
"Have you heard what I said all this time?" Rogue asked a little but uneasy.
"Yes and don't worry about it. I'm not." Dru took another drag of her cigarette.
Bobby's face started to turn red. Don't worry about it Bobby, all guys' can't resist me at first but you love Rogue and I wouldn't do anything to hurt your guy's relationship. Dru sent to Bobby's mind.
Bobby's blush started to go away and he relaxed a bit more.
"Now back to the story." Dru rubbed her hands and put them on her face.
"I don't know about it. It wouldn't seem right to me." Dru said a bit uneasy.
"Come on, what girl couldn't resist shopping and besides I want to." Anabel gave Dru a pout.
"Oh, alright. But I will pay you back one of these days." Dru threw up her hands up in defeat.
"You can pay me back. . . never!" Anabel hooked her arms with Dru's and they took off to her car in the long-waiting parking lot.
Dru came upon Anabel's car which was Bentley Arnage! From what Dru knew about the price of the Bentley was about, $229,000. Anabel was loaded and she did everything to show it off. No wonder, Anabel didn't want Dru to pay her back. She had more money then she could count.
Anabel and Dru headed off to Anabel's home villa where she lived with her sweet aunt.
"Hello." Anabel's aunt croaked.
"Hello ma'am, name's Dru." Dru replied.
"My name is Irene. I'm Anabel's aunt, nice to meet you." Irene croaked back.
"Nice to meet you too." Dru looked around at Anabel's villa which was extraordinary.
No words to describe the villa's beauty would do it fair justice. What words that might have done justice was that it was marvelous, breath-taking, situated on ten acres of land, with Spanish-style theme. It had a marvelous garden in the front that went around the house with a massive pool in the backyard and a jacuzzi next to the pool.
Anabel had servants who would tend to her aunt and herself. The villa had five guestrooms and four bedrooms with a marvelous furnishings. One of the four bedrooms was Anabel's which was situated at the south end of the villa, while her aunt's was two rooms down her's.
The five guestrooms were at the north end of the villa. Each of the guestrooms were furnished in different styles. Dru picked the medieval style room.
"Unpack your things and come downstairs so we can go shopping." Anabel said before giving a kiss on both of Dru's cheek and leaving Dru to unpack.
Dru didn't have a lot to unpack but she used this time to look around her room. Her room had a king-sized canopy bed, with a dresser, chairs, a flat screen television, writing table, a jacuzzi, and a shower/bath tub.
She walked down the stairs where Anabel was finishing her make up in the mirror by the entrance doors.
"Dru! We must be off to find you some clothes for your adventure!" Anabel walked up the steps to grab Dru's hands and they said goodbye to Anabel's aunt, Irene, and they were off.
They were off, Anabel dragged Dru to so many stores in Madrid that Dru was tired of shopping. Nope, just kidding she wasn't tired of shopping, from Prada to Gucci.
Anabel and Dru stopped for a moment to rest from their shopping extravaganza at an ice cream shop called, Delicious! They went over to the counter to choose their flavors and a male clerk walked over to them and asked their orders.
"Hello, welcome to Delicious. Name's Juan, how may I help you?" Juan said in a semi-thick Spaniard accent.
"Yes, I would like. . ." Anabel's voice trailed off as she locked eyes with Juan.
"Come back to earth Anabel. Hello?" Dru said as she tried miserably to bring Anabel and Juan out of their dazes. Snapping her fingers didn't work to wake Juan and Anabel out of their daze so Dru did the next best things. She screamed.
"HEEEEELLLLLLOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!????" Dru screamed like a banshee.
Everyone in the ice cream shop, including Juan and Anabel winced at Dru's scream and turned towards her.
"Are you okay?" Anabel asked concernly.
Juan walked over around the counter, went over to Dru, and asked in a calm manner if Dru was suffering from an illness.
"No, I'm not but maybe you and Anabel are." Dru responded back after the people in the ice cream shop went back to their chatting.
"What are you talking about?" Anabel tried to hide her feelings for Juan but her blushing cheeks were giving her away.
Juan blushed too and looked over at the clock over the cash register.
"My shift is up." Juan said directly to Anabel.
"Really?" Anabel replied nonchalantly.
"Love is in the air and it seems cupid has shot these two in the ass very hard." Dru thought to herself.
"Shit!" Pyro expressed when he had dropped his drink on himself.
"Watch the carpet John (Pyro). Don't want Dru's friend to get angry with you." Rogue said.
"What is he going to do about it? Strip tease me?" Pyro laughed at his comment.
A paper towel came at John (Pyro A/N: thanks for some of my reviewers who told me about Pyro's real name) and it hit him upside the head.
"Dru!" Pyro shouted towards Dru from the kitchen.
"That's what you get for being a wise-ass!" Dru yelled back.
"Who's being a wise-ass?" Charlie asked as he entered the loft with two boxes of pizza, box of Krispy Kremes in one hand and a sixteen pack of sodas in the other hand.
"John is." Bobby said.
"Who's John?" asked Charlie.
"It's Pyro's real name but he hates it." Dru said.
Out of nowhere like a cat, Dru leaped at Charlie. Charlie who was cut off guard, dropped the pizza's. Dru winked and the boxes of pizza stopped in mid-air and floated towards the coffee table.
"Jesus! Don't do that Dru!" Charlie shouted after Dru pulled him into a hug.
"You love it! Don't deny it you cad!" Dru laughed as Charlie pretended to be suffocating from Dru's hug.
Pyro saw Dru and Charlie hugging and he felt a twinge of jealousy sprout in him.
"What are you telling them?" Charlie asked suspiciously.
"My trip throughout Europe. . . and the decision to make me go through with it." Dru didn't look Charlie in the eyes because she would have seen the still sparkle of hurt that has yet to heal.
"Really? Have you told them about the wedding?" Charlie said a bit cheery.
"What wedding? I hope not your wedding, Dru." Rogue chimed in. She had gotten up from her comfortable resting spot in Bobby's arms and crawled over to the coffee table.
"I wouldn't picture Dru as the marrying type." Pyro said coldly.
"Just because I have a problem with society's rules and getting into trouble doesn't mean I can't make a good wife." Dru said proudly.
"Yeah sure." Charlie rolled his eyes.
A slap to the chest and Charlie pipped down.
"You want another one Charlie or have you had enough." Dru said holding up her hand in case Charlie wanted to get smack again.
"No, Miss Dominatrix." Charlie said curtly.
"Good. . . hey!" Dru said once she realized Charlie called her a dominatrix.
"What?" Charlie asked innocently.
"It's Dominatrix to you, not Miss." Dru said proudly.
"Sorry. Dominatrix Dru." Charlie corrected.
"Much better, now on your hinds, bitch!" Dru said yelling a command.
"Now don't take it too far." Pyro said.
"I'm just dictating my rights as a dominatrix." Dru retorted as she sauntered over to the coffee table and grabbed herself a slice of pizza.
"Anyways, back to the story, what about the wedding?" Bobby said through a mouthful of pizza.
"Don't eat with food in your mouth, you might choke, Bobby." Rogue replied in a motherly tone.
Bobby in a fit of childhood remembrance, opened his mouth full of pizza, and showed it to the group.
"Ewwww. . . Bobby!" Rogue slightly pushed Bobby.
"That's sick." Pyro replied through a mouthful of pizza.
"Look who's talking." Dru said after she had gobbled down two slices of pizza.
"Alright, let's see the wedding that wasn't Dru's!" Charlie yelped out joyfully when he stuffed into his mouth a Krispy Kreme donut and downed a soda.
"Ah, yes. The wedding! Well I stayed with. . ." Dru said.
Dru had stayed with Anabel for two days and in those two days, Anabel and Dru had only spent four hours together. Those four hours was when they went shopping on the first day Dru arrived. Anabel and Dru hung out when they walked through the hallways or asked to borrow something from each other.
Other than that, Anabel and Juan had been attached at the hip ever since Juan's shift had ended at the ice cream shop. They spent every waking and sleeping moment with each other.
Dru saw the city of Madrid by herself but she had no problem with it. The city was magnificent with its old houses and chapels. Children who laughed and song choruses of love ran through the streets. Dru had felt herself more alive in Madrid then she could have back home.
After coming home the second night at staying with Anabel around midnight, Dru walked into the foyer to see Anabel, Juan, and Irene, Anabel's aunt waiting up for her.
"What happen?" Dru asked.
"Yo egal. (Same here)" Irene said in her native tongue.
"What are you hiding behind you back?" Dru said to Anabel.
"Si, nieta. Que estas escontiendo? (Yes, niece. What are you hiding?)" Anabel's aunt asked suspiciously.
"Dru I am getting married. Tia, mi voy a casar con Juan (Aunt, Juan and I are getting married!" Anabel replied to her aunt in the same native tongue.
A translator didn't need to be at Dru's service to know what Anabel's aunt was ranting about towards Juan and Anabel.
"Tia! Yo quiero Juan con todo my corazon! (Aunt, I love Juan with all my heart!)" Anabel screamed at her aunt, Irene.
"No gritez! Mi desicion es final! Tu no vas a casar te con Juan! (Do no yell! My decision is final! You will not marry Juan!)" Irene had to sit down after shouting her response to Anabel. She put her hand to her chest and took deep breaths.
Juan got on his knee in front of Anabel's aunt while Anabel walked over to Dru, and tried to hold back her tears.
"Senora, you quiero a tu nieta, Anabel, con todo mi corazon y cuerpo. No voy a ser mal con tu nieta. (Madam, I love your niece, Anabel, with all my heart and soul. I bring no ill will towards your niece)." Juan replied lovingly.
Anabel's turned towards Dru for help to stop her niece from marriage.
"Mija, dices a mi nieta que ella esta loca a casar se con este pinche maldito! ( Girl, tell my niece that she is crazy to marry this fucking bastard! )Anabel's aunt commanded to Dru.
Dru looked over to Anabel, who looked at her with tear stained cheeks. She tried her best to come up with the native language to respond to Irene's question.
"Es su vido. (It's her lifa)" Dru replied as best as she could.
Like a banshee, Irene started wailing, from what Dru interpreted from Juan after Irene stopped shouting ran to her room.
"She told Anabel that she would be disowned from the family if she didn't marry me." Juan looked sad for a moment before Anabel came back into the room with a box of tissues in hand. She ran after her aunt but Irene had shut herself in her room.
All Dru could come up with was, "Do you love Anabel with all your heart?", which was directed at Juan.
This was the same question except Anabel's name in the question, when Dru had asked this question it was directed at Charlie a while after she had gotten back from Europe.
Juan didn't need to think it over. "Yes, I love Anabel with all my hear and even my soul. I care for her and want to grow old with her."
A little stifled cry came from Anabel as tried again to hold back her tears but these were tears of joy.
"I love you too with all my heart too!" Anabel ran towards Juan's open arms and they embraced.
"Hold up! This can't be true." Pyro objectively said. He couldn't believe that two people could fall in love than less than two days.
"It most certainly is true. People can fall in love quickly." Rogue protested.
"I think its impossible to fall in love with someone that you barely know. What if the guy was a craze killer for all she knew." Pyro said.
"Juan really meant no harm towards Anabel, he truly did love her with all his heart." Dru replied as she took a swig of her soda.
"What do you mean did? Bobby asked.
"Well, Anabel died a year later from complications of giving birth to their daughter who they named after me. Dru Mendoza " Dru looked at the ground as she said the last comment.
"I'm sorry." Pyro said.
"I found this out about it from a phone call that Juan had placed while I was in Greece. It felt like a knife had slice a part of my heart that had kept Anabel. She threw me a life line when I had no idea what to do in Europe." Dru had to take a deep breath after what she revealed to the group.
"What happened with Anabel's aunt?" asked Bobby.
Another breath and Dru was ready to retell her story again.
"Anabel and Juan were planning on having a little wedding which meant it was them, the priest, and me." Dru smiled at the memory of the wedding.
Dru ran around the room looking for something fashionably to wear as the maid of honor and the best women for Juan and Anabel's wedding. It was to take place this morning even after a few hours ago Anabel's aunt had gone against them.
"Hurry up Anabel, the priest won't wait this long. Even priests need to sleep in some days." Dru called out to Anabel who was dressing in the wedding dress that Dru had given to her.
The wedding dress had been Dru's mother's dress.
"You gave your future wedding dress to Anabel?!" asked Charlie in disbelief.
"Yes." Dru replied back.
"But you told me yourself no matter what, that you would keep your mother's dress even if you had to kill to protect it!" Charlie retorted. This was new news for Charlie.
"I've kept my mother's wedding dress in a plastic container in my bag for far too long and besides I wanted Anabel to have it. She deserved it. Her mother too ran out on her and she didn't have any siblings and I was close to a sibling to her." Dru uttered.
"But you've only known her for Anabel for two days." Bobby voiced.
"But we still kept in touch after the wedding. I gave Anabel my wedding dress as a gift and besides I am not getting married anytime soon." Dru laid herself on the couch like she was a mental patient talking to a therapist.
The clock over the wall said 5 AM. But yet the group still weren't ready to sleep even though their eyes were bloodshot and all were on sugar highs with the donuts.
"So, I gave Anabel my semi used wedding dress which was clean, pressed, and fit Anabel perfectly. The priest was ancient and mumbled the marriage vows to Juan and Anabel. I stood behind them in the middle since I was best man/woman and maid of honor." Dru smiled at herself when she thought of being the stand in's for both Anabel and Juan.
"It must have been beautiful." Rogue uttered softly.
"It was, even though it was just the four of us, but when two people are in love they don't care if they get married in the bathroom as long as they are there together." Dru voiced deftly.
"What happened after the wedding?" Bobby expressed sincerely.
"I told Anabel and Juan I couldn't stay because they needed their honeymoon time and I just couldn't stay at the villa with their aunt. What would have happened if the aunt pulled a psycho on me while I taking a shower while the happy couple left for Vienna?" Dru asked a bit fearful.
"With what you have been telling us, I wouldn't be the least bit surprised if the aunt had burst into the wedding and shot Juan." Pyro responded back.
"When Anabel, Juan, and I went back to the villa, Anabel's aunt had taken her stuff and left." Dru answered.
"Ooooh." Rogue expressed interestingly.
"Yep. I packed my things and as a going away gift, Anabel gave me $3,000 American dollars and a ring that had the word Amor engraved on the band but on the inside the English version of Amor, which is Love also engraved." Dru showed the group the ring on her finger that she had kept after these years.
"The ring is beautiful." Rogue cooed.
"She got it done for me when I was discovering the city by myself." Dru stuttered a bit.
"Then that same day from what Dru told me was that she left the villa and went to France." Charlie answered.
"Yep. I went to France, Belgium, Netherlands, Germany, Switzerland, and so on. I went around Europe and then into it like Hungary, Austria. I finished my trip in about a year, I only stayed in each country for about three days to a week." Dru replied.
"In that time you called Anabel back?" voiced Rogue.
"Yes, whenever I was in a new country I would call Anabel to tell her how I was doing. I called her once I got settle into France which was three days later, seems she got pregnant." Dru accounted.
"That fast?!" uttered Pyro.
"Anabel said she had sex with Juan the day we met him. She thought he was the one and didn't used protection." Dru replied.
"That's why you have to use it unless you want a bun in the oven." Charlie expressed.
"True and so Anabel had herself a bun in the oven and I congratulated her. Afterwards I looked around France as quickly as my abilities could and then I left again without paying to Belgium. I always left before the room was up." Dru stated.
"Dru was and is always the bad girl." Charlie mentioned to the group.
"Of course and I like it that way. Anyways, I left France then went to Belgium, called Anabel again, and so on. But then the phone call that came from Juan after I got myself a cell phone was the one that hurt the most. I knew that Anabel was going to have a girl even though she didn't want to know the sex of the kid." Dru voiced.
"Anyone want some more pizza?" asked Charlie who had finished six slices by himself.
"Yeah, hand me some." Dru muttered a bit.
A huge juicy slice of mushroom and olive pizza set onto a paper plate was set in front of her. Dru picked at her pizza before taking a bite of it. Some cheese hung on her bottom lip and Dru licked at it. She caught Charlie's eyes watching her and swallowed her pizza.
"What happened when Juan phoned you?" Pyro asked interrupting the stare between Dru and Charlie.
Their stare was broken and Dru was brought back to reality.
"Oh yes, well let's see. Juan called to tell me that Anabel had died giving birth to their daughter Dru Mendoza. I was shocked to know that Anabel had died from giving birth and surprised that they named their kid after me." Dru took a deep breath from her talk.
"I am so sorry Dru." Bobby uttered a bit sad.
"Same here." Rogue replied.
"It alright, I got to see Anabel buried when I rushed from Italy back to Madrid where she was buried. Her aunt was there, cloaked in all black. She kept muttering to herself saying that Anabel deserved it." Dru tried to bite back the tears that threatened to spill.
No one in the group knew how hard it was for her to go to Anabel's funeral and see her lying in the casket. Not one of them knew, how horrible it felt that Anabel's own aunt was happy that Anabel had died. Only she felt heartache when she saw Juan crying after his love and holding baby Dru in his arms. Baby Dru was only a few days old and now she had lost her mother.
The priest said some nice things about Anabel, then Juan, and lastly Dru.
"I only knew Anabel for a bit but it felt like a lifetime. She was and will always be a good wife, friend, and mother when she cared for her unborn child. I know she is up in heaven right now looking over her daughter and beloved husband." Dru declared lovingly.
After the eulogy, they buried Anabel in a private cemetery and Juan came up with Baby Dru in his arms towards Dru.
"Hello, Dru." Juan said once again in his deep accent.
"Hello Juan, how are you and baby Dru holding up?" Dru asked sincerely.
"Chiquita (Little) Dru and I are doing a bit well, I can't believe my love is gone." Juan broke down a started to cry.
Taking the baby from Juan's arms, she let Juan cry into his hands.
"I miss her too."
"She was my love and everything!" Juan cried out.
"But what about Baby Dru? She lost her mother and now she needs you more than ever. You didn't lose you love because you had two loves. Anabel and your baby."
Juan looked at his baby, the baby Anabel and him had created. It was all that connected him with Anabel.
"You're right. Mi bebe (My daughter)." Juan looked at his daughter who had fallen asleep cradled in Dru's arms.
Like tending mother to her pups, Juan held out his arms to take his precious daughter's from Dru. He looked at his precious bundle of joy and kisses her sleeping figure on the forehead.
"Thank you, Dru."
"No problem Juan."
"Dru."
She stopped walking away and looked back at Juan.
"Yes?"
"Thank you for introducing me to Anabel, I will never forget that." Juan smiled at Dru.
"No problem." Dru said before walking to the taxi that would take her back to the Aeropuerto of Madrid. She was going back home.
"I came home two days later and came back to Charlie's apartment which had been cleaned out. Found out that Charlie had been evicted and had found himself sleeping in his car." Dru replied.
"Yeah, I lost the apartment when I used my money for transportation to the AA." Charlie took a sip of his soda.
"So I helped him out and took him to a strip club where they were looking for male and female exotic dancers. When we got there Charlie and I were both given jobs without interviews or anything but I turned it down and asked the manager not to give Charlie alcohol." Dru replied back a bit embarrassed.
"Yeah, she helped me get the job and helped me find a new apartment. We talked things over for hours and had her tell me what happened and I told her what happened with me." Charlie said.
After taking another bite of her pizza, Dru continued, "After many boxes of tissues and pizzas, we forgave each other."
"That's deep." Rogue said a bit out of character.
"Do you still keep in contact with Juan?" asked Bobby.
Yawning a bit, she replied, "Yes, Baby Dru is now two years and he sent over some pictures."
Pulls out of her back pocket a wallet with the words LOSER in white on the wallet. She opens it to reveal a couple of picture and pulls out a worn picture of a girl with dark long hair, big cheshire smile, black eyes, and skin like bronze.
"She is beautiful." cooed Rogue.
"Just like her mother except her skin was a bit lighter." replied Dru a bit somberly.
A couple of yawns came from Bobby, Rogue, and Pyro.
"Guess it's time for sleep, it's almost morning."
"Come on Dru." whined Pyro.
"No, besides we gotta get some rest before all of us head back to school and face the music." Dru imitated a bugle singing the Death March.
"Du de du dum de dum, dum de dum, dum de dum, dum de dum!"
"Stop it, Dru. Don't scare them."
"I can't help it Charlie. It's too easy and beside I'm still on that sugar high while they are burning and crashing over the sugar." Dru walked around the room to prepare the gang for their sleep.
"Alright, Rogue, you can take the guest room which you already know where it is and you two will sleep in the other guestroom, and Charlie will sleep on the couch, while I sleep in his King-sized bed." Dru said this all in one breath.
"How come I sleep on the couch?!"
"Because my dear Charlie, we are guests in your home and the host should always put the guests before themselves." Dru replied knowingly.
"No and besides I pull my back out when I sleep on the couch from coming home from work. Ouch!" Charlie pretended he pulled his back out.
"Alright, you can sleep in the bed and I'll sleep on the couch." Dru went over to the couch and situated herself on it.
"No, don't want you to put yourself through the torture of it so I can share the bed with you." Charlie helped Dru get off the couch.
"You're right, you can pull your back out sleeping on the couch." Dru said as she massaged her back.
Rogue, Bobby, and Pyro had gone to the guestrooms. Charlie and Dru walked out to the balcony where they could get some more privacy.
"I missed having you around. How's the dad thing going on?" asked Charlie as he pulled the jacket he brought out with him on the balcony tighter around him.
"Found him." Dru took out her lighter from her black jacket and a packet of cigarettes.
"Thought you quit smoking." Charlie observed.
"I did but started once I met my dad."
Dru lit her cigarette and let out a long draw above her head.
"He's that bad?"
"Not really, but once I saw him all this anger that I pent up because of him came out." She took another puff of cigarette and passes it to Charlie.
"I bet you kicked his ass." Charlie said as he grabbed the cigarette from Dru and took a draw from it.
"I did and I also thought you quit smoking."
"I did until you came back." Charlie smirked at Dru.
Slightly shoving Charlie a bit, Dru smiled at his comment.
"Am I really that bad?" seriously asked Dru. She took another puff of her cigarette and looked at the morning sky. By her account, it could have been 6AM.
"Sometimes but people need to get to know you better." Charlie too looked out over the horizon of the city.
"You know how I am with people. I can't stand people criticizing me. I'm much better off playing the bitch." Dru smiled at herself.
"You do work it very well." Charlie smirked at Dru.
"Thank you. You know I might not be able to see you for a while after tonight." Dru took another draw of her cigarette and looked at Charlie.
"Why?" Charlie looked into Dru's face for the answer.
"Do you remember the school that accepted me in Massachusetts out of the blue?"
"Yeah, I remember you said you might check it out after you found your pops." Charlie looked into Dru's eyes which were glazed over with guilt.
"I found him there when I had given up and he's a teacher there. I took the gang out of school without permission, who knows I might get into a lot of trouble." Dru replied a bit dreary.
"You never did think of the consequences and that's what I always love about you. Take life by the balls, that's what you did." Charlie laughed at his comment and took another draw of Dru's cigarette.
"I know, Charlie. Sometimes I still regret not leaving you behind when you needed me."
"You had to do it. If you've had stayed I would have always clung onto as a lifesaver. I needed to do this own my own and you needed to see the world."
"I know but sometimes the "what ifs" pop into my head." Dru took a look at the sun which had started to come up over the horizon.
"What time is it?" Charlie asked.
"I don't know." Dru looked around and saw through the balcony window that it was 6:49 AM.
"Looks like its time for the gang and I to head back and face the music." Dru took one last puff of her cigarette before putting it out with her boot.
"Let's rest for a bit before you head back, okay" Charlie took Dru's hand and walked her to his bedroom.
"What are you thinking, Charlie?" Dru asked curiously.
"Nothing bad unless you want it to be." Charlie smirked a bit deviously.
"We are not the "friend with benefits", alright Charlie?" Dru replied.
"I know besides we can just cuddle."
"Alright."
They both retired to the bedroom and slept in each other's arms. Unknowingly, Dru had let down her mind barrier for everyone and the Professor got wind of her location.
"She is at 489 W. Allison Boulevard in West Soho." the Professor said.
"We got her." Logan replied triumphantly.
A/N: Woo! This chappie took me a two weeks and a half to finish this. Hope you like this chapter again, I put all lot into this baby and give me some more reviews! Sorry, it took me a while to write the first draft then I change it all lot so that it makes sense and long to read. I also had a bit of writer's block for two days.
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, Chibi Chingo (love your praise), Sue F. (I tried not to put a lot of he, she's, Dru and all and I have tried to use less subjects, and last but not least, mystery-child-001 for putting me on your author alert list. :Kisses:
It might take more than 3 weeks to do my next chapter because I have school and being a sophomore/junior, I'll tell you later about it I have more homework and quizzes to worry about. If you can get me past 20 or 25 reviews than I will try my hardest to upload. No flaming and please nice constructive criticism and I do appreciate praise.
Next Chapter: The jig is up and the group is forced to go back to school to face the music. Will Dru be expelled?! Will she rebel back?! Who knows?! Tune in next time.