Disclaimer: If I owned this, I wouldn't have credit debt. But I do owe buttloads,

so.. uhm, yea.


Authur's note: I wrote "The Writing On The Wall" so that anyone with

an idea about that story could use it as a template. It's not a "Who was

it?" kinda thing, it was a "Who could it be?". I hope to read much from

anybody who'd like to make this part of their own.

Have Fun!

Yer ol' pal, The Bud.

Ps.. I'm writing this for you, you know whom you are, because you asked,

not because of flattery.. so you esspeccially, have fun.. or soap on a rope.


Where She Lay So Frail.


Her broken wrists, so tightly bound now, not in rope, but in plaster and

wood. Her delicate face once framed by that beautiful hair, now lays under layers

of gauze and stiches as the ripped ragged wounds now heal into long, pink lines.


The black bruses have began ti fade to grey-green shades of olive, discolouring her skin.

I would do anything to kiss them better, but she is not a child and I

am not so stupid as to belive that a simple kiss could make her normal

again.

Her legs that used to grip my back so wonderfully tight, now lay cracked,

They lay useless, they just lay. There is so much she needs now, it makes me wonder

if she hates me for not being there when she needed me the most. She had

such beautiful legs. The kind you could run your hands over for hours,

well muscled, yet, so very feminin. Now, just mangled flesh, useless.


Beast says they will be fine again in time, she will live. I look at her and

wonder, does she want to live? Her sight hasn't retuned, I know she fears being a burdon.

She can be so stubborn! I swear! She can't walk, See, or even use her mutant

abilities, but she tries, every moment she's not in an induced sleep,

she's trying. Beast has had to sedate her many times, because the monitors

say every movement is nothing but mind numbing pain for her.


I watch her breasts heave as she sleeps through another surgery. I remember

the first time my lips ever graced them as Beast and Cecilia crack open

that sturnim to repair some new problems from the last surgery. I asked to

see this against their advice. I wanted to forever remember how angry

I am at whomever did this. No matter how many times I have heard bones break, I

find myself unprepared for the crack that fills the room from my own wife.


I throw up. No because of what I just saw, but because her attacker

must have loved that sound to do it to her so many times. I hear a sound

too much like a bowl of gelatin being swushed between hands to be anything less

than them moving around organs to get to the trouble spots.


What did he hit her with?! Did that man, if you can call him that just

completely beat her insides to sludge? Beast assured me she would be fine, may even

go on to give me children, but that sound, enough to make the toughest man cringe,

makes me wonder if he's not doing his Hank act to spare me.


The Professor and I have talked about all she might physically need, and she is

welcome to stay as long as she wants, for all she has done for the X-Men,

But not because, just because of that, we are her family, her children, her sisters

and brothers, and I, her lover. I dare to look through thst glass again and watch as the

bags of saline drain into her arm with the five other bags of mystery

fluid dissapearing as well.

I have to get the animal that did this, before he does this to somebody

who doesn't have access to Shi ar technology, someone who will die.


Professor surmises that that man targeted my wife because of how she looked,

Not too many people look like her.

And because he was prepared to handle a mutant, He had been studing her a long time.

Months, years to get her. Waited for us to leave, he lurked, he hunted and he placed all

his hate for everything in the worl on one person, one person who was

different and releved himself. This is what scared me, He'll do it again,

because he felt good and powerful to beat a mutant. He'll just keep doing this for

the rush, and when that rush fades, he'll do worse. Sometimes they visit the scenes of

past crimes to get that same feeling. Mansion security has been dramatically beefed up.

He asked me if anything had been found missing.

Nothing but the wife I knew was missing. How can I get her back

if none of us can find out anything she knows about this? Is she ashamed

that her body had been defiled? Does she think I can't love her anymore?

After all I've gone through, the battles, the wounds, the fustration, just

to help insure I had her to warm every night, how can she think I can't love her?


Another sickining snap resonates through the walls and brings me out of my rant.

So faint, and yet almost deafning. Then just the murmurings of Beast and Ceceila

only being cut by the beeping of machines. I remember that first

night after we found her. All the running and rushing around there was.

She was hooked up to that very machine and the beepings went slower and slower

untill it wouldn't cease being just one long ringing noise. I remember how they had to

hold me back fron running to her, everybody struggled with me,

when they, themselves had to press hard to keep from doing the same.


Beast performing mouth to mouth and nearly choking himself on the fluid

running from deep within her body. He got her breathing again, but I'd

never think I'd ever see him just start crying as hard as he did. Just

bawling about how sorry he was, that he wasn't there to stop this, that he

didn't know. I calmed him down as he regained composure enough to help Ceceila

and a few of the others who voulenteered. We X-Men, we stick together. I've knom

Hank for a long time, I know he's truthful, I couldn't be mad.


Professor was mad, It was obvious, even though he didn't say it, I kinda knew

what he was thinking. My wife and I moved out, even though it was right across

the way of the mansion, to our own place, to raise our children. He felt

it best to stay, for safety reasons, I didn't listen. After this, I should have.

I should have hung on to every verb, noun and adjective he said.


I thought my wife was tough, that she could kick the crap out of any man,

Myself included, I just never thought she'd be beaten down this way. What ever

she was struck with pack a wollup.


Police said the attack started

in the bathroom attached to the bedroom, glass everywhere and a strange powder.

Beast and a few of his computers are looking into the compisition of it though.

There was a bottle of ether and a rag found, as well as a torched spot near where

we found my poor darling. It wasn't enough to beat, rape and leave her for dead,

He'd intended upon burning the body too.


I thought back to the family that had owned the house before us, The guy

beat his wife all the time and his kids would sometimes spend time

picking flowers on the mansion property. We'd turn off the defense for them.

Anyways, he beat his wife to death one day and fled. The kids grandparents sold

the house to have money to raise them. Was it him? The light goes off

in my head as I put the situation together. We should have stopped him

when we had the chance! The Professor picks up my thoughts and visibly

has a hard time stopping his anger or his tears. The manhunt is on, and

I have every intention of making that man pay. I almost think I'm gonna enjoy this.