Disciple- "AN: This chapter was a riot to write. I couldn't stop laughing."
SOTM- totes disappointment that no one has gotten any shout outs or references. Guess no write ins?
Mina was growing more and more frustrated with Colossus missing all her queues and hints that she was uncomfortable. Every time that she tried to talk to him about it, he would turn it into whatever he wanted to hear or say.
What pissed Mina off even more was him taking over her daily routines. She couldn't understand why anyone would want to wake up before the sun rose to exercise and read a book. Where the line was crossed when he started regulating her calorie intake.
"You want to die?" she threatened? "Then hand over the carbs and nobody gets hurt."
"But- "Colossus argued.
"GIVER HER THE DAMN PIZZA!" everyone in the living room yelled at him.
Except lately he was trying to give her more food. He was being overly sweet about it and she thought he was just sucking up to her by bringing her favorites. On days where his missions ran later than expected he would make sure to stop in the kitchen and get her a late-night snack, or he would bring her favorite candy bar. What threw her off was the random jar of spicy pickles, that was never something she was into. Mina thought this was Colossus trying to do better in their relationship. She just had to learn to be more patient with him.
For the record, she tried.
"Why don't we try something new?" Mina pulled back from his kiss.
"Hmm?" Colossus was more focused on her naked body before him.
"Doggie." She giggled.
He blinked and looked up at her, "What did you call me?"
"No, the position. You know…" she trailed her hand down his abs, "Where I get on all fours and you're behind- "
"No." he shook his head, pausing and grunting when she wrapped her hand around him, "I will never disrespect you like that."
Mina rolled her eyes in the dark, "Well then can we do something new? How about talking dirty? I'll start."
He let her push him back onto the bed as she did a slow crawl up the bed, "What are you doing?"
"I've been a bad girl… I didn't file my taxes in time." She said the first thing that came to her mind that would be relatable for him.
"Mina, I told you they were due on 15th." He said angrily, "Now you'll have to file extension!"
Thinking he was in character, "Are you going to spank me?"
"What? No! I would never lay hand on you!" he said defensively.
"Please?" she shrugged and made a face.
He rolled over onto his elbows and hovered over her, "My zhena..."
She quirked a brow at the unfamiliar Russian saying, "What?"
"I will never hurt you. I don't want to hurt you." He moved in between her legs, "Not in your physical condition, my little one."
Mina pushed him back, closing her legs and rolling off the bed. Thinking he was calling her weak and small, "Yeah, that's a mood killer."
He quickly sat up, "Mina. What's wrong?"
She started putting her clothes back on, "Lady boner is gone."
Not understanding the American slang, Piotr looked from her to her crotch, "What?!"
Mina threw her head back and laughed once she stood up straight, "You're adorable sometimes. Other times, complete turn off. Moment is gone, Colossus." She looked from him down to his crotch and back up again. "I'm not in the mood anymore."
His mouth opened and closed a few times, "But- why? What? I mean. I respect that."
Mina threw her blouse on over her head and pointed at him, "That. Ugh, you're such a beefcake too. It's a damn shame."
"Where are you going?" he pulled the blankets over himself as she reached the door.
"Pack of smokes and a lottery ticket." She said without looking over her shoulder, "Don't wait up!"
A long walk was is in order, Mina needed to clear her thoughts. That was, until her father rolled into her path.
"You're up late, daughter."
Sighing, she turned to look down at him, "Dad, I really don't want to play tea party right now."
"Trouble in paradise?" he gave her a knowing smirk.
She hated when he did that. He always wanted to prove her wrong and rub it in her face. Charles knew that Mina started dating Colossus to get back at him. He also knew that she went behind his back with Rogue, but he never said anything about it because it was all kept hushed. He made sure of that.
"You need to stop reading his thoughts. It isn't right." She crossed her arms and scowled at him.
He shrugged, "How else am I supposed to know how my daughter is doing?"
"You can ask me. I'll tell you how I'm doing. You just don't like not knowing who I'm doing." She rolled her eyes.
"You mean what you're doing?" he corrected.
"You heard me," she smirked.
Mina didn't expect him to smile back at her.
"Actually, you are quite correct." He gave her an affirming nod, "In more ways than one."
"I am?" Mina was never a fan of his mind games. He would ask her to pick a number 1- 10 and she would never guess right. Because the answer was green. Nothing made sense to her when it came to her father.
"Oh yes… you see, I was quick to judge when it came to Colossus." He started, noticing her eyes narrow suspiciously, "I was against it and I wanted to keep you two away from each other no matter what. Now look at you two, getting along so famously and having everyone else look up to you two as a model couple."
"Model couple? There's like a 3-foot height difference between us. I have to jog to keep pace with him." Mina snorted, "One time he and Logan lost me at a festival. They made me wear a hat so they could keep track of me."
Charles paused his train of thought, "What was Logan doing at a festival?"
"It was Oktoberfest, and it was a beer hat, crazy straws and all." She laughed.
It was his turn to roll his eyes, "I should have known…"
"Still think we're the model couple?" she raised a brow and put a hand on her hip.
"With the alternative being Scott and Jean?" he shot back.
"Got me there."
"I'm happy that I was wrong about him. I think he will make a great husband and father. That's why I gave him my blessing." Charles had a knowing twinkle in his eye and a shit eating smirk on is face.
Mina stopped laughing immediately, "Wut."
"You heard me." It was his turn to smirk.
He slapped his hand against the arm of his chair, acting upset and shaking his head, "Oh, I shouldn't have said anything. I thought he already popped the question. It has been a month now. Very well, do act surprised when he asks you. I hate to be the one who ruined it. It should be any time now; I'd like to think."
Mina stood there staring at him with her mouth opened. She couldn't say anything, she was in shock.
"Well, it is late. Do get some rest, dearest daughter."
She didn't know how long she stood there in the empty hallway. When her mind finally caught up, she started running. There were a few stragglers in the hall that she passed, saying goodnight as she passed or called out to her.
"Run. Run. Run." She kept repeating.
After realizing she was basically running in a large circle, she finally slowed down in their hallway. She paced back and forth in front of the door and rubbed her forehead, "Think. Think. Think. Fuck. Fuck. Fuck."
She heard someone down the hall. So, she quickly, yet quietly snuck into the room and closed the door shut behind her. Colossus was in bed, sleeping peacefully with his sketchbook resting on his bedside table. Mina walked around and picked it up, flipping it open to take a blank page. She opened it to his most recent work.
'Mina will you marry me?'
The words drawn out in perfect calligraphy with his favorite color red. Surrounded by filigree and flowers that had yet to be colored.
She winced and whined under her breath, "I'm going to hell."
He started to stir, "Little One?"
Her hand shot out to his forehead, using her powers to lull him back to sleep, "Shh… you're gonna be better off, Big Guy."
She turned the page; it was a list of both boys' names and girls' names. She mumbled through grit teeth angrily "Mother fucker is seven-foot-tall thinking I'm gonna have his giant headed Russian babies…"
When she knew he was asleep for certain, she quickly ran around the room and started throwing whatever clothes of her that she could find. Cursing the whole time while trying not to make any noise. After she changed and put her sneakers on, she sat at his desk staring at the page she tore out.
When she was done, she folded it up neatly and laid it on his sleeping chest.
"I'm the biggest mistake of your life." She whispered before kissing him on the forehead and quietly leaving the room.
Once the door shut and she could still hear his deep breathing keep and even pace, she ran for her life.
Domino was standing outside the mansion with her packed bags piled up on the gravel next to her. She was waiting for Cable to come pick her up with the van she arranged for them. Not hearing from Mina again, she assumed she changed her mind and decided to stay and work things out with Colossus.
A dark green van pulled up, its brakes loudly screeching as it stopped in front of Domino. Cable jumped out of the driver seat, leaving it running with the lights on, and walked around to meet Domino.
"This all you're taking?" he grunted as he opened the back hatch of the van.
She threw her first bag at him, "Yeah, ready when you are."
When they tossed the last bag in, he looked from her to the Mansion, "Ain't you missing a body?"
Domino looked around her and patted her pockets, "Nope. Just the one I got."
Cable slammed the hatch shut angrily, taking in a deep breath and walking around to open the door for her, "What about Savior?"
Mina looked outside and recognized the ugly green van sitting in front of the mansion. She ran faster and nearly tripped down the large staircase. She heard one of the doors shut outside as she got closer to the front door.
"Oh fuck- don't leave me!" she panted as she ran.
She jumped over the top steps leading down to the driveway, she could see Domino and Cable's silhouette's in the darkness, they were contrast to the dim yellow headlights. Mina looked over her shoulder, feeling something behind her. She looked up to see the light now on in Colossus' window, and his massive shadow block out the window. He'd seen her. Possibly. She couldn't take that chance.
She saw Domino jump in the back seat and Cable start to slide the door closed. "CABLE!"
He spun around, lucky that it was dark, and no one could see his smile. "Hey- "
Mina yelled as she continued to run. "WHY THE FUCK DID YOU PARK AT THE VERY FUCKING END OF THE DRIVEWAY?!"
"WHAT?!" He called back.
"RUN! GO! GO! FUCKING GO!"
Cable looked over his shoulder to Domino, "I can't hear shit with this fucked up exhaust. Kill the engine."
She was already in the driver seat, grabbing the shifter and throwing it into drive.
He looked past her out the window, the same guy from their last failed mission was standing on the corner across the street. "Hey- what the hell are you- "
"FUCKING PUNCH IT CHEWY!" Mina screeched at the top of her lungs before tackling Cable at full speed and sending both headfirst into the van.
He didn't have time to brace due to his distraction. She hit him so hard that his back and head hit the other side of the van before his ass hit the seat or floor. One would expect that kind of force from a grown man, not a five-foot woman with a love for puppies and pink sprinkled donuts.
Domino had already taken her foot off the brake, slamming it back down on the gas. The old tread on the tires not able to catch any traction for a few moments, sending gravel in all directions before grabbing dirt and taking off.
Anyone outside of that moment saw everything happen in real time. Which wasn't very fast at all. But those in the moment lived a cool slow-motion action movie scene. That's the story Domino would tell at least.
Mina landed on Cable, damn near over him when she flew into the van. She hit the top of her head on the same interior panel that he did, snapping the small plastic clips behind it and connecting it to the door.
"Hold on!" Domino called out over her shoulder as she jerked on the wheel suddenly.
Mina and Cable started to roll towards the still open door. "Oh, fuck me." They both said as they realized they were holding onto each other instead of the van itself.
Cable's hand shot out and he grabbed one of the metal brackets under the seat, with the other arm wrapped tightly around Mina. Domino slammed hard on the brakes and the door slammed shut hard, catching Cable's ankle that was still sticking out of the van.
He didn't curse or yell in pain. Mina knew it hurt, because it hurt her just hearing it crunch in the door of the van. Domino took off again, "Alright we're about to hit the freeway! Close the door!"
"I'll get right on that." Cable growled and moved his leg out of the way so the door could finish closing.
Her instincts kicking in and still tangled against him, Mina cupped his cheeks and healed him. "My bad." She whispered.
Domino finally hit cruising speed and saw whatever threat there was hadn't followed them, she turned and looked down at Mina on top of Cable, "What the fuck, yo?!"
Mina climbed off him and sat down in a proper seat, "Uh… I changed my mind."
Cable sat up, still on the floor, "What are you running from?"
Domino snapped, "Cable, I'll ask the questions here. Get up here and drive."
Once swapped, with Cable driving and Domino sitting behind him next to Mina, "What the hell are you running from?"
"Hold on," Mina said as she looked around, "This is our transportation?"
Domino threw her hands up. "What? It's good on gas and brand new. Was brand new, until your Krogan head broke the door." She referenced the interior panel now hanging.
Mina rolled her eyes. "It's the van that Logan calls the transport van. I know why it's here. Tell me he's not coming with us the entire fucking trip?"
Domino sighed, "Unfortunately he is."
Mina grew angry. "Fuck, that! I might as well go to Atlantic City instead!"
"Keep your voice down, Mina." Domino hissed, knowing Cable heard that.
"No. I could understand dropping him off at his location but why is he going to fucking Vegas with us?"
"Because he found out what we're up to and said that the only way he wouldn't narc on us is if we let him tag along. Then he'll back our alibi."
"God damn it. Then what's our alibi, Dom?"
"That I'm dropping Cable off where he's going to meet up with Siryn and leave without being seen since he's been banned from the mansion again. You're coming with me because we're doing a wellness check on Gambit because we heard he got sick and is refusing to go to the hospital. So, we have taken a few days to go to Canada and might as well remain concealed and driving."
Mina grunted and whispered, "Shit." After another moment of thought she looked at Domino with a stern expression. "Keep him from hitting on me too much or too aggressively. He's fun to flirt with but he's kind of scared me."
Domino put a hand on her shoulder. "I'll make sure luck is in your favor while we're driving. I can't promise it will be for the whole trip."
"Good enough. Let's go get our slots on."
"First you're gonna tell me what the hell that was about."
"Fuck."
They remained in silence until they were on the I-95. Cable would occasionally look at Mina in the overhead mirror. After too long of a silence, Cable decided to speak first.
"I know I was a jerk earlier today, Savior. I'm sorry. I was wrong."
Mina looked up and then back at her phone without responding. Domino shrugged up at the mirror before putting on her headphones and started watching Firefly on her tablet. Cable would ever so often make noises to get Mina to look at him if even for a moment. It was better than nothing.
Five hours into the drive, they heard what sounded like something shouting, "Bbrrrrrtttt," followed by the squeaking sound of air escaping a balloon.
Immediately Domino and Mina began to gag. The smell made Cable curse and roll down the windows.
"Cable, what the shit?" Mina shouted.
"What the hell did you run over?" Domino asked.
Before Cable could answer Mina screamed at the top of her lungs. The kind of scream that meant true terror. Domino and Cable looked back just as Deadpool jumped out of the hatch and onto their bags in the far backseat while waving his hands back and forth.
"Woo! I tried my best my best to hold it in but those gas station Chimichangas make your ass potent. Literally! Oh yea, IT WAS ME!"
Cable had stopped the van and pulled over. Deadpool just stared back while the three of them stared at him disgusted and baffled. He held arms up and asked, "What?"
Mina couldn't take the smell anymore, she opened the sliding door and jumped out, "Your ass needs an exorcist, because it smells like something died up there."
Deadpool made the sign of the cross over his ass, "I need an old priest and a young priest. Or was it an alter boy? I can't remember."
Mina snapped, "What the fuck are you doing here?"
Deadpool cocked his head. "That is so unlike you to say that so often." Her brows furrowed when he said that and shook his head remembering something. "Oh yea. Never mind. GrandSon will explain that later. Anyways, I was hiding from your dad because he caught me and Rogue in the laundry room with her pants down and got insanely jealous that my, 'Giant Chimichanga,' works. Or the fact it was used in his house, I mean could be either one really. I hid for a little bit and then fell asleep. I woke myself up from that very relieving fart I just let out."
Cable was standing next to Mina at this point with a lot look on his face. He looked from Deadpool to Mina and grunted, "I got nothing. Too easy."
"You hid from the Professor, in this van?" Domino asked.
"Wait," Mina shouted. "You fucked, Rogue?"
"You fucked her – fucked her?" Cable asked baffled.
"To answer your questions in order; Yes, he would have expected me to be in a dumpster or his bedroom not a vehicle. Yes, I fucked Rogue and before you wonder, her powers have a different effect on me as they only make me temporarily black out instead of killing me since I can't die. And yes, fucked her – fucked her. She was tight as a virgin. That's because she was one until now. I still have the evidence. Wanna see?" he asked and grabbed the front of his tights.
Mina and Domino shouted, "NO!"
Cable groaned and ran a hand through his hair, "The list, Wade. Remember the list?"
Mina looked at Cable, "What list?"
"List of things I didn't need to know about him. It's a lot longer than you think." He was surprised that she started giggling, and quickly turning it into a full-on laugh. He felt the corner of his mouth tug upwards.
"Cable." His head snapped to Domino, "Check the van for anymore stowaways, would you?"
He nodded, "We need to get this freak show on the road."
"I think you meant to say, 'Shit Show'."
Cable stopped in is tracks, his shoulders squaring up and fists clenching at his side, "What did you say?"
He turned around slowly to face the other man, instead he saw Mina looking at him with a glossy look in her eye. "I said… Welcome to the- "
Cable's hand shot out to grab him by the throat. The other two already gotten back in the van. Cable could hear Mina over his shoulder, "I think I heard that before."
"This is your only fucking warning." Cable threatened before shoving him towards the waiting van.
"Suck a cock," Deadpool muttered.
