Skye: Chapter Seven. This one IS called Midnight Stroll. Haha. Not revealing anything else. Although I'll say this. We're going for a more modern approach. Logan can remember a little bit more about his past with Victor Creed than in the movies.

To lazy: I will be coming to that some of it in this chapter, some in the future ones. Trust moi, it's all planned. And thanks.

Kitty's birthday had been an eventful one. John's fireworks were interesting but not as good as Jubilee's. And Bobby's ice skating had turned out to be quite interesting, especially after both Elska and Rogue had had to drag Logan onto the makeshift ice rink and literally shove him forwards to make him move. And somebody had decided that including sweets would be a great idea which turned out to be a disaster after John lost his patience with the piñata and accidentally set it on fire. He received a detention for that.

The younger students we sent to bed at eight and the older students didn't trudge up the stairs until about midnight. Elska had already been in bed for the last two hours, but hadn't fallen asleep. She had been trying to change into something easy like a Harpy or the Sphinx or something but it still wasn't working, and she couldn't understand why.

She sat up when Rogue came in.

"Sorry, were we making too much noise?" she asked, seeing that Elska was still awake.

"No."

She explained to her about her powers and how worried she was that they weren't working.

Rogue was frowning.

"Maybe you should go see the professor," she said. "Something might be wrong."

Elska bit her lip.

"Yeah, I think I'll do that now."

The both left the room and whispered goodnights to Peter and Bobby and John and Kitty as they passed.

"What did you get Kitty?" Rogue asked.

"I just drew her a picture or a bird in a nest. Everything in town was cheap. She would have hated it."

"I know!" Rogue laughed. "I got her this silver necklace. As if she doesn't have enough already!"

Elska laughed, but inside, she felt pained. She didn't want to lie to Rogue but telling her the truth would only kick up a massive argument between herself and Logan which she'd rather avoid. She wasn't in any doubt that Rogue would not tell someone, but she knew that Rogue wouldn't be able to keep the mind blocks in her head to stop the professor and Jean finding out. And if they knew, they would tell Logan. Then Logan would go crazy because she hadn't told him.

Elska stopped at the top of the stairs. She could hear voices. One was the professor and the other was a gruff voice that sounded like Logan's. Only she knew it wasn't Logan's voice. It was his voice. Sabretooth.

She pulled Rogue back ad quietly as she could and sat down against the wall around the corner where he couldn't see them. They had been talking so loudly. Had he heard them?

"What-?"

Elska placed and finger over her own mouth to silence her. Adrenaline was pumping through her veins. She could feel fear in her heart. But she had to keep calm.

"You tell me what room she's in or I swear, I'll rip your throat out!" Sabretooth growled.

The professor remained silent, but Elska still heard his voice in her head.

Go and find Logan. Now. Tell him it's his brother. Do NOT tell him he is after you. I'll want a full explanation when this is over.

Elska nodded mentally, hoping that the professor had caught it. She got to her feet slowly and Rogue followed her. She tried to walk quietly and quickly.

"Elska, what's going on?" Rogue whispered.

Elska didn't say anything. She had to find Logan. If the professor died because of her…

She rounded a corner. Sabretooth was Logan's brother…that explained what Sabretooth had said to her in the alley. That explained it clearly.

"Elska, what-?"

Elska slammed her hand over Rogue's mouth, only to snatch it away again when an electric feelings shot up her arm and the image of black water below, Logan falling at her feet, popped into her mind.

"What's going on with your powers?" Rogue asked.

"Sshh," she replied.

Elska opened Logan's bedroom door. He was dreaming, having a nightmare. But beneath the mumbles of "Weapon X" and "Stryker" Elska caught words like "Professor" and "Sabretooth". The professor must have been trying his hardest to reach Logan while he slept.

"Logan," Elska whispered, shaking his arm.

Logan's eyes flew open and he sat bolt upright. Both sets of claws shot from between his knuckles. She jumped a little. Logan raised a finger to his lips and stood up. The girls followed him out of the room.

"…and I'll kill each and every one of them if you don't talk, old man," Sabretooth's voice floated to her ears.

"Creed!" Logan said loudly.

Elska flinched, hoping that none of the younger kids woke up.

"Logan!" he said happily. "And little Ellie and…I forget your name."

Sabretooth shrugged at Rogue and dropped the professor to the floor where he grunted to sit up and turn around. Elska wanted to run towards him and help him up but fear kept her rooted to the spot. Sabretooth walked towards them slowly.

"What do you want here?" Logan demanded.

Sabretooth smiled and pulled a switch casually. The loud ringing of the fire alarm shook Elska's head roughly. She heard several screams from upstairs and heavy feet as the students started to run. Unfortunately they were met by someone they had all come to fear standing ever so casually at the bottom of the stairs, blocking their path. And Logan was grimacing, gritting his teeth and moaning. Elska was alarmed to see the whites of his eyes going red. She put a hand on his shoulder.

"Turn it off," he grunted to her.

Elska looked at Sabretooth.

"Turn it off!" she shouted as Logan fell to his knees. "Please!"

He held his arms open wide as if surrendering to something.

"Why don't you come and do it?" he asked.

Elska opened her mouth slightly, frowning. He was testing her. She took a hesitant step towards the stairs.

"Turn it off!" Logan screamed.

Without a second thought, she marched down the stairs and reached for the switch. Sabretooth pulled it down before the touched it. Her ears were filled with an odd ringing now that it was silent. She took a step back from Sabretooth but he raised his hand, nails growing swiftly, threatening her.

"Ah, ah, ah," he said silkily. "You stay right there."

She turned to look up and Logan and Rogue and all the students whose faces were now filled with worry and fear. She saw John's face, filled with rage, ready to kill. She shook her head at him.

She felt Sabretooth grab her shoulder and hold on tightly.

"I asked you why you were here!" Logan snarled, picking himself up.

"Oh, just checking in on Ellie," he said, shaking her a little.

She saw Logan look confused.

"What?"

Oh no. This was it. Her secret – which had taken so much emotional and mental strength to keep in – was going to spill out. And everyone was going to know.

"She didn't tell you?" Sabretooth asked in mock surprise.

"Say nothing!" Xavier yelled from the ground suddenly.

Elska glanced at him. There was blood dripping onto his shoe and sock from his leg and it looked oddly disfigured. She reached towards him and to her surprise, he released her. She knelt down at the professor's side and looked up at Sabretooth.

I've just read his mind. I know what happened between you and him. I can't get him to stop!

Elska glanced helplessly at the professor.

"Then again, I did tell her not to. She's been a good girl," he smiled.

Elska felt her skin crawl. Not only was he about to reveal her secret, he was humiliating her completely.

"Ellie here was out buying Kitty's present when I caught her. We had a nice little chat, didn't we?" he asked.

"Pfft, if that's what you wanna call it," she mumbled.

"So, it's like that is it?" Sabretooth asked, his tone changing. "I told her all about your past, Logan. All those women…"

Elska felt bad for him. Now it was his turn to be ridiculed.

"And then I felt like we were that little bit closer…so did she apparently. Didn't even pull away," he smiled nastily.

Several people gasped. Logan roared loudly and leapt down the stairs at him. Elska saw blood fly and spray her face but the wounds were instantly healing.

"Get those children out of here," Xavier grunted over his pain.

Elska didn't want to leave him but she could feel every fibre of his urgency and had the feeling that none of them wanted the younger children to witness the vicious fight that was going on behind her. She didn't really want to see it herself.

She jumped up and turned around, heading for the stairs when the professor's voice echoed in her head again: Check behind your right ear.

She made a mental note to check there when the kids were safe.

"Come on kids," she said loudly to them, trying to ignore the clatters and squelches coming from Logan and Sabretooth.

Elska ushered their terrified faces down the corridor and out of sight, praying that Sabretooth would just die.

Logan couldn't help himself. Sabretooth was just asking for it. He was probably totally desperate to get Logan to fight with him. And he should have known better that to bite back and attack him. But Elska was his. And there was no way that Sabretooth was going to get away with that, whether he was telling the truth or not.

So Logan leapt for him. He could smell the fear of the children in the background as he slashed at Sabretooth and he clawed back. He saw blood spray Elska. Some was Logan's and some was Creed's. Either way, it was increasingly frustrating when the wounds were healing on his enemy. Although, he was glad that his own were healing…because the battle was feral, purely instinctual. He realised that. If someone had tried to intervene, even Rogue or Elska, Logan would probably kill them. It was the berserk rage that stopped him from thinking clearly. All he could see was red. And Sabretooth was going to pay.

Logan trust his claws towards Creed's chest only to have his arm grabbed and twisted around.

"You're unhappy, Jimmy. Maybe a little jealous. She did taste so sweet."

Logan growled and yanked his arm away, aiming for his chest again. This was going to end in bloodshed.

Skye: DUN DUN DUN. Sorry, I felt that this chapter was getting too long so I stopped there. Will be continued after I receive reviews. ^^