Second Chances

Chapter 5

He woke up and groaned. He felt like he'd been hit by a steamroller and everything pushed out his hand. It hurt, all over and he couldn't understand it for a moment. The beast was back in its corner licking its wounds and he realized that whatever had hurt him had hurt it worse.

Leave me the fuck alone, frail.

Are you alright?

I hurt you shit...how did she do that?

She? Marie?

Rogue, yes. She took us down.

Her power is back...and more powerful, and evidently works faster.

She's mine.

She's ours.

What?

I love her.

FRAIL SHIT!

You want her, she's your mate, as close as you can get to feeling what I feel, but she's MINE! If she accepts you to fine, but you better fucking ask for permission because I'm keeping control.

When the fuck did you grow up and grow a pair.

While you were sleeping.

He felt it go back into the corner and lick its wounds again. He had control and he didn't think it would force him out any time soon. Jimmy was going to have to just deal with shit. He didn't know what was wrong with his brother, but by all that might be Holy, he was gonna snap the shit out of it and help him protect his girl.

"Rogue." He muttered

"She's still out." It was Storm and he just nodded.

"How long?"

"You've been out about three hours. She should be waking soon. We've got her and Leech here in the medical facility. He's giving her a break from your rather fractured mind."

"My mind is hurting her?"

"I don't know honestly, she's never been out like this except at the statue."

"The kid, Leech, you can't let them get their hands on him." He said as he sat up.

"Take it easy."

"I can't, I've got to keep her safe."

"Creed...Victor, we can protect her."

"Not against them you can't, they'll wait, they'll grab her after you've relaxed. They want her to be their executioner. They want him to suppress the mutations so they can implant them with the suppression chips."

"You remember?"

"Yeah, things have been a little rough the last couple years. They caught me after the statue, I was weak after the fall and they tortured me for whatever information I could give them. I told them about Rogue, I couldn't help it, I tried to protect her, but even I couldn't hold out...then they just did it for fun, and training...training the troops to come here and get them both."

"My Goddess..." She muttered.

"They thought they'd killed me...burned the body and left me in the woods near here, I think as a warning of what happens to mutants who get too powerful. I caught Jimmy's scent and crawled here through the forest, to warn you, and protect her."

"Why Rogue?"

"I touched her, by accident, before the statue...ever since she's been his...mine...ours." He snarled the last, the beast putting in his two cents.

"Victor...or Sabretooth."

"Both."

"I don't understand?"

"He and I have come to an agreement. I went through his memories, learned all I could about him - and me and how we work. He's not going to be out of control again, at least not unless something happens to her, and then I think I'd let him loose on anyone who hurt her."

"What about her?"

"That will depend on her, won't it." He snarled. He wasn't completely disgusted by what the beast had created, and there were times it had used things that could have only come from him to build its life, and he wasn't about to give any of it up...and he could see a purpose to what he did...he was just planning on changing a few minor things, only taking jobs where the target deserved to die...at least in his opinion.

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Her head was pounding. She could hear voices nearby but she couldn't understand what they were saying. The cure had removed all the voices in her head and now she had at least one back...and he was LOUD!

SHUT THE FUCK UP BOTH OF YOU!

The beast growled, and kept repeating one word. "Mine"

Leave her alone, the other voice said, she needs to rest and doesn't need us driving her insane.

Thank you Victor now shut the fuck up.

Marie, please, you didn't have to do this, I wouldn't have let him hurt you.

It wasn't him Ah was worried about.

What?

Jest get the hell in that box, this is MY mind, and AH'M in control.

They both retreated, allowing her head to stop pounding quite as much. She didn't exactly know what was going on, but having him in her head probably wasn't the smartest move she could have made, and now, knowing how he thought about her, she really didn't know what to make of the whole thing. He'd been burned alive just to escape to come and protect her, he'd crawled for miles through the wilderness, up the gravel drive way in excruciating pain just to warn her of the danger. She'd picked up far more than he'd ever wanted her to pick up and she had to sort through it.

Firstly, there was the whole concept of him being protective of her from the start; keeping Toad from harassing her, fighting with Erik…she actually knew what that fight was about, what he'd offered to do to keep her alive. He'd asked Eric to let her kill him; absorb his powers permanently so that she didn't have to die in the machine. She also knew his plan, interrupted by her friends, to take Erik out while he was weakened after the transfer and then give her his power.

She'd absorbed a whole lot more than just a casual touch, even more than she'd gotten from Logan the second time, when she nearly killed him. She had his memories, from childhood, being raised by a single father in the Canadian frontier, not always the best of situations, to his memories of growing up with James…Logan…James. God she was confused.

"Darlin'?" She heard a soft whisper. It wasn't the one she expected though.

"Ah'm awake, Logan." She whispered back.

"Good. I don't like this…that possessiveness he…" Logan whispered.

"It's fine…Ah can deal with it." She whispered back.

"Why are we whispering?" He asked

"Ah don't know, you started it." She said.

They both laughed, and she relaxed a bit.

They both jumped at the loud noise from the other side of the room and Ro trying to stop him.

"Victor you can't just get up and…." The curtain was ripped back and she looked up into his blue eyes.

"Just cuz you think you own me don't mean you do." She growled at him, letting his own Sabretooth out at him. "An' if you think Ah'm gonna just fall into your arms because Ah got a double dose of you in mah fuckin head you've got another thing comin, Mr. Creed."

By the point she said his name she was on her feet, poking him in the chest and had backed him against a wall with his hands up.

"I just want to keep you safe, that's all." He said.

"BULLSHIT!" She roared at him. "Ah got you in my head, remember and you can take some of those X rated ideas of yours and shove them where the sun don't shine. Mah mamma raise a lady and there's no way in hell Ah'm ever gonna…" He grabbed her by her upper arms and pulled her up, silencing her with his mouth. She wasn't sure if she wanted to kick him, or kiss him back, but at the moment kicking him was winning.

"Darlin' I just want to keep you safe right now, and you cannot condemn a man for THINKING can you, you are beautiful, and sexy and damn I'd like to do a hell of a lot of X rated things with you, but right now I'm more concerned with keeping you safe and out of those damned Genosian's hands. Fair."

She nodded. He was being fair, and she wasn't. She couldn't condemn him for thinking, he was right, his thoughts were his own, and just because she had a huge dose of him she didn't have the right to take that away from him.

"Now, we need to figure out what we can do to keep everyone safe, not just you, babe." He said, setting her down on the floor, and then pulling her close against him. She struggled for a moment and he just growled. "You're not leaving my side, kid. Live with it."