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Cable was a patient man, he had to be in his line of work. Whenever there was something he wanted, he jumped time or killed whoever was in his way. Except when it came to Mina he wasn't able to do either of those. Had they not been under the watchful eye of the X-Men, he would have killed Colossus by now.
He was sure that blast he threw Colossus in front of would have ended him. If not instantly, he would have died before they got him the serious medical care he needed. That plan was shot to hell when Nightcrawler transported them back to the mansion.
Then she healed him.
All hail the Savior of Mutant-kind for curing the injured, he thought bitterly. He was so close to freedom that he could still feel it on his skin. Pressed against him and breathing his name.
Watching her run around with Colossus made him lose that small amount of patience he had left. Cable knew what he wanted, he just didn't know how to get it. Charles told him to wait, but for how long?
Cable headed to his room, only to find Charles waiting for him. "The fuck you want?" he growled as he threw his bloody gear on the workbench in the corner.
"You didn't come down for debriefing."
"Must 'a slipped my mind while I was trying to hold my guts in." Cable snarled sarcastically.
Charles' eyes went straight to Cable's abdomen, "She healed you."
"You sound surprised she did her job." Cable crossed his arms and leaned against the workbench, "Or disappointed."
"I'm surprised that she didn't heal you completely."
He remained surprisingly calm, "Don't deflect on me because you can't be healed by your creation."
Charles scowled, "You don't know that she couldn't, Nathan."
His hand was still covered in dry blood as he scratched at his chin, "I warned you that using your own DNA would backfire on you, Chuck. Guess I was right."
The poor nickname given made him grip the edge of his chair tightly, "If that's what you chose to believe, Nathan."
Cable sighed, "Get on with it already, what the hell do you want?"
"Did you accomplish the mission?"
"No."
Charles used both of his hands to rub his face, before putting his fingertips together and resting them against his lips, "So you have no cargo, and he still lives. What was it your brought to the table again?"
"Time." He grunted.
Ignoring his comment, "Three men left this morning to get my cargo. Two of them returned injured and empty handed. Not only that, the one man who can take my daughter and bring all of us down is still alive. Please, fill in the gaps."
"You think I planned on getting hit?"
"Nathan, a man of your talents doesn't fail a mission unless it was intentional."
He shook his head, "I didn't fail it by choice. The little blue piece of shit teleported us out without asking."
Charles looked away briefly, with a concerned tone he asked, "Does he know? Was there anything different?"
"He doesn't know. None of them do."
He worried face prompted Charles to ask, "Yet, something was off?"
Cable rubbed the back of his neck, "There was a civilian. He was… out of place."
Charles sat up straighter, "As in a casualty?"
"No, he was in the back of one of their trucks. He was just sitting there staring at me."
"What did he look like?"
Cable shrugged, "White guy, clean shaven with a black shirt and a black hat. Said 'Marvel' on it in red and white."
"The shirt?"
"That hat. That's not the point." He cut himself off. "He was just sitting there calm as day. Gunfire and shit everywhere but he didn't bat a fucking eye. He had this cold hard stare that told me he wasn't kidnapped."
Charles slowly nodded, "Tell me about Colossus getting injured."
Cable's entire demeanor changed upon hearing that name, "He lived." When Charles kept staring at him but didn't respond, he explained, "The target fired at me and the dumb son of a bitch thought he was indestructible."
"I want you to get with Hank, see if you can plug in and run a search for facial recognition on that civilian. I'll see what I can find in Cerebro."
Colossus came to fifteen minutes after Cable was healed and left the room. When he looked up, Mina was pulling up her shorts and had towel in her hand covered in blood. With just his eyes, he looked over and saw the other table with fresh blood on it and part of it bent in a way that, until now, only he could have made.
Colossus knew that only one other person who could get into the X-Mansion to do that. It was the man he had just been on a mission with, Cable. In instant anger he sat up and got off the table as he put all of his focus into not changing back to steel form.
Mina saw him get to his feet and walked over to him, "Are you alright?"
Leaning down to her height, he welcomed her embrace. "I am now." He closed his eyes when her hands touched the skin at the back of his neck. He buried his fingers in her still damp and sweaty hair, tilting her head up to kiss him. With the thought of Cable still in his mind, he kissed her more roughly than intended.
She moaned and pressed herself against him harder while tugging his hair, "Piotr…"
"Sorry I was rough." He stood up straight again and rubbed his forehead angrily. "I shouldn't have done that."
"No! It's alright, I like that. A lot, actually." She smiled and tried to reinitiate by letting one of her hands wander towards his crotch.
Colossus shook his head and grabbed her wandering hands, "No, Little One. I won't chance hurting you."
"But that's the point!" Mina whined, "I like that- hell you could say I love that."
"We'll talk about that later, my Little One." He said firmly but not before smiling at her choice of words.
"Are you sure you're alright, Big Guy? Your body is telling me it's stressed." Mina used her powers to try and calm him down but he stopped her.
"I need to brief your Papa on what happen on mission then take shower," he answered. He hoped she didn't know that he used his native names for parents and only spoke broken English when he was overly stressed, anxious or angry about something.
"Can we at least shower together?" she said with hopeful eyes.
He didn't acknowledge her sexual advance the second time, "Go home and wait for me, I won't be long."
As he left the room, Mina spoke out loud to herself. "Shit, he's upset about that mission and now I won't stop hearing about it when he finally decides to tell me." She sighed and continued to clean up the Medical Room.
Knowing that Cable was moving in on what was his, Colossus stomped off to Professor Xavier's office. He knocked on the door, a little rougher than he should have and waited for it to open. Once he walked in, Charles looked slightly surprised before greeting him.
"Colossus, what brings you to my office? Especially given your injuries. You should be resting."
Colossus shook his head and stepped forward. "I'm fine, Professor. As I always am after Mina heal me."
Charles sat confused for a moment. "Well you know that I don't need a briefing from you regarding the mission because you were injured. We'll discuss your end of that later."
"I here to talk about Mina," he admitted nervously. He stepped forward towards one of the chairs in front of Charles' desk but did not sit. A man had to stand up and look the other in the eye when talking about such things.
Charles leaned forward. "Seeing as you are not sitting, I gather this is serious. Is everything alright with her?"
"Everything fine," Colossus quickly answered. "I come here to... to ah..." he couldn't get the words to come out.
"Take a moment Piotr, and take a breath. Let it come out naturally," Charles coached. He was worried that Cable had already done something stupid to hurt her, or worse, tell her the truth.
The use of Colossus' real name seemed to calm him. Letting him know the work barrier had been lifted. After a couple of deep breaths, Colossus continued. "After nearly being killed by that blast, I see what miss from life. I want your permission to make Mina… wife."
He was sweating and breathing hard. Colossus hadn't been this nervous since he first asked Mina out. With fists and teeth clenched tightly, he kept his head high and shoulders straight, as if he were a soldier undergoing inspection.
Charles kept his composure and didn't suddenly react, as a father would when another man wanted to take his little girl from him. He remained quiet as he thought of the pros and cons, making Colossus fidget where he stood.
"Wife?"
"Yes, sir."
On one hand, having Colossus in his pocket might give him some leverage on Mina. The other options weren't as favorable. Either Aleksander would take her back to Germany and breed her, or Cable would disappear into time with her. Mina needed to stay here, in the mansion close to him. He thought of the possibility of grandchildren, and how they would possess their mother's Weapon X genes and Colossus' brute size, strength and potential to also have steel forms. The testing and research alone would be such a rare opportunity to not take advantage of. Up until very recently, he thought that cloning her was the key, but he should be breeding her instead. Charles had been thinking small the whole time!
"Tell me, Piotr… what are your plans if I were to say yes? Certainly you have a plan." Charles asked him calmly as he rested his chin in his hand. Very discretely putting two fingers to his temple.
"Uh… course. Plan to give her ring-"
"Oh, you have a ring already?" Charles cut him off. He was making him nervous intentionally. What loving father wouldn't?
"It mother's ring."
Charles cleared his throat, "Then what is the plan?"
Colossus was sweating profusely, "To get house. Find place to start home and build family." Charles looked at the Russian with a raised brow. He quickly corrected himself, "I mean build home and start family."
"So you plan to take my little girl from me." He said as a matter of fact.
His eyes went wide, "No! I don't mean that- I swear. It is custom where I come from to ask for daughter's hand in marriage."
"What wasn't what I meant. You plan to take her out of the Mansion?" Charles' tone and look in his eyes scared him.
He didn't know how to respond, "I thought it was custom to move out of family home and start own. Apologies Professor…." He looked to his feet sadly, "I should have researched more about your traditions before coming to you."
Charles Xavier wasn't ready to let his little girl go, and knowing she possessed her mother's stubbornness he knew what he had to do. "I just don't see why you have to leave when you're married."
His head shot up, the hope in his eyes returning, "Sir? You mean…"
"Come." He rolled his chair from behind his desk and moved it towards the large window and looked out on the grounds. Colossus followed cautiously and stood next to him. "Over there, do you see it?"
There was a large house on the other side of the lake. It was two stories, white with red trim and had a picturesque white picket fence. There was a long dock that went out into the water where one could tie a boat, fish or swim.
"That house was used as staff quarters, but it has been a long time since there has been anyone in it. Do you think Mina would like it?"
The other man could only nod.
"I know it isn't much, but perhaps it will be for the time being. At least until I'm gone, then all of this…." Charles looked up at the ceiling and waved his hand.
He swallowed the lump in his throat, "Are you saying…."
"That it would be a good place to start a family. It has been a long time since those walls heard the sound of a child's laughter."
Colossus' mind went back to when Mina told him that she wanted kids. His heart was about to burst with joy, "Professor, I am man of word. I promise to love and care for your daughter as I would want someone to do for my own daughter."
After another moment Charles smiled and nodded. "That it would be splendid Piotr, to have a mutant with your stature and abilities to be my son in law. You have my blessing."
"Tha-thank you!" Colossus replied happily, before quickly adding his title, "Professor."
"Call me, Father," Charles joked before Colossus happily turned, accidentally went to steel form and broke through the office door.
Charles pinched the bridge of his nose and yelled out, "That's strike two on the door breaking rule!"
"I fix later!" he called out over his shoulder happily.
As Mina came walking into the T.V. Room, Domino was pacing back and forth on her cell phone seeming anxious, confused and slightly irritated while talking to whoever it was on the other line.
"No," Domino said quickly. "Who told you that? That never happened. I can't believe you would even believe that for a second."
She paused to listen to whoever was on the other end before responding back angrily and disgusted, "I never did anything with him. Especially with Cable. Ew!"
Mina stopped in her tracks when she heard that. Carefully and quietly stepping back out of the room. She stood in the hallway where she couldn't be seen to eavesdrop on Domino's conversation. Hearing the Mercenary's name peaked her interest.
It was obvious Domino was cutting the other person off. "No! I'm hurt you would even entertain that idea for a second. I don't know where you think you remember that..."
She trailed off as the other person went on to speak. She stopped pacing suddenly, "It was just a fucking picture. We were fucking around after a mission to piss off Logan... Oh my God. No, I dated Wade for a little bit. Yes, I was drunk the whole time- that's not the point! Cable would never be that lucky!"
Mina cupped her hand over her mouth to cover a gagging noise. She couldn't believe Domino had been with Deadpool of all people! She knew about her and Logan's on again and off again flings. What Mina wanted to know was what picture she was talking about. Was there more to her history with Cable than just X Force?
Domino's tone suddenly changed, lowering her volume and speaking slower, "You're overreacting. I'm sorry it's been so long. I want to come see you."
Who the hell was she talking to? As far as Mina knew, Dom wasn't involved with anyone. She would have told her, right?
Domino suddenly threw her free hand in the air dramatically, "What do you mean recent? Send it to me so I can look at it... Then how do I know?"
"I swear on the life of my deceased husband and my daughter that I haven't been with anyone else." She sighed at whatever the person on the other line said.
'Bitch, what?' Mina mouthed with a shocked look on her face. Don't bring me into this shit, she thought.
"You know I would never do that. I am only in love with one person." Domino said lovingly. "I can prove it. You need to know that-"
The bell rang that dismissed all of the students for the end of the day, causing Domino to quickly look at the clock and mouth 'fuck', before whispering in a hushed tone, "We'll discuss this on Skype later. I'll luck in a Wi-Fi connection on the plane. I gotta go... I love you."
Mina quickly slipped back into the hallway and disappeared into the crowd of students. She obviously had walked in on something personal but the information she heard was far too shocking to her. Who was she talking to? Domino never talked lovingly to Logan or to that one waiter in Applebee's who gave her two extra cheese sticks than usually came with her order. Whoever she was talking to was someone she didn't know.
'Why the fuck does she want to see him after THAT conversation. Whoever that was sounded like a complete douche.' Mina thought to herself as she went back to Piotr's room which was now called 'home.'