I know I suck. Im a horrible person I haven't given you a chapter in so long but Im reeeeaaaalllllyyyyy going to try and give you a chapter and least once a month starting from now. I also started a new story that you guys may like so go check that out. Im gonna try and update that once a week.
Laura looked at Julian as he fumbled with the keys to open the baby blue door in front of them. "Julian whose apartment is this?"
"A friends of mine. I check up on her every other day."
Laura felt jealousy rise up within her. However she didn't let her emotions show.
As they entered the apartment Laura looked around the room trying to figure out what kind of woman lived here. She picked up a small teacup, running her fingers over it and feeling the cold porcelain.
"Hey beautiful. How are you today?" Laura heard Julian say from the other room.
She slowly walked into the room and saw Julian placing an elderly woman into a wheel chair. "Laura meet Ms. Gibson. I come and check on her all the time and help her around her house. Ms. Gibson meet Laura."
"Julian is this you new girlfriend. She's a cute one,you better make sure to hold on to her." The old woman said.
"Laura is my friend Ms. Gibson." Julian said as he pushed the wheel chair out of the room and to a small table.
"How many times have I told you to call me Martha." Julian smiled at the woman's sassy attitude and headed to the kitchen to make her tea.
"Young woman come and sit by me." called out to Laura.
Laura sat across the woman and the woman quickly grabbed her hands, placing them in her own. Laura could see the woman's eyes begin to cloud over . Laura began to feel a tingling sensation in her hands. She wasn't sure what the woman was doing but she could tell the woman didn't have bad intentions.
Julian came back over with a cup of tea and several pills . "By touching you she can see where you have been, where you are, and where you are going." Julian explained to Laura as he put the tea and pills on the table.
"I don't think she will like what she sees." Laura replied. As she said this 's eyes cleared up. Laura searched her eyes to see no judgement.
"You'll be fine sweetheart." The old woman said kindly.
"Thank you." Laura said giving a small smile as she examined her hands, still feeling tingles within them.
"Hey Ms. Gibson, Laura and I have somewhere else to go. But I'm gonna send a kid over here to check on you. Okay?" Julian said to the older woman
"Oh one of the children from your little army."
"Yes."
"Send the little green haired one. I like her Julian."
"Whatever makes you happy Ms. Gibson."
...
"Julian what was Ms Gibson talking about?"
"About what?" Julian asked as he guided Laura and himself through the streets of mutant town.
"About a army?"
"Its just a group of people I kind of gathered…"
"For what purpose?" Laura asked
"To try and stop mutants from getting treated like shit!"
Laura quickly halted and stood still. Thoughts flooded back to her, of Julian back at the Xavier Institute. With every death Julian became angrier. When Laura saw Julian after all these years it seemed that he had put the past behind him. But now it occurred to Laura that he may have just learned to hide his emotions better.
Julian turned around when he realized Laura stopped walking.
"I know what you're thinking Laura and it not like that." Julian said as he interlocked his fingers with Laura's in an effort to get her walking with him again.
"I guess when the group came together I was just trying to create another X-men. I had my issues with the X-men but since they disbanded I realized that they were a necessary evil."
"Can I meet them." Laura asked as she tried to wrap her mind around the information Julian has just shared with her.
"Huh yea, of course. I wanted to actually ask you if you would be willing to help train some of them. Some of them are so dependent on their mutations and I wanna change that. You don't have to if you don't want to though…"
"I would love to help, Julian" Laura said cutting Julian off.
Smiling, Julian leaned into Laura giving her a quick kiss before leading her into a electronics store. As the couple walked into the store Laura caught a scent that she recognized and quickly looked in the direction of the cash register. Buying items at the register was Sofia.
"Oh hey Julian" Sofia said, spotting the couple and walking over to them. "Oh hey Laura. What have you two been up to today?"
"We just came from seeing Ms. Gibson." Julian informed Sofia.
"Really well I was just about to grab lunch. Do you guys want to join me."
"Yea sure. Laura are you ok with that?"
"Yes." Laura said nodding her head.
…..
Laura ran her fingers though her hair as she looked into the mirror of the public bathroom. She had left Julian and Sofia at the table after she ordered her food. She felt uncomfortable at the table. She still didn't know how she felt about Julian's ex. Lately Laura felt jealously within her more and more and she wasn't sure how to handle this. Laura took a deep breath and headed back out the bathroom to the table.
"Sofia stop this. I don't wanna hear it."
"Please Julian, I still love you."
Laura halted as she started to overhear the conversation between Julian and Sofia. She moved back into a position where she wouldn't be spotted by the couple.
"If you loved me you wouldn't have cheated. And lets be honest no one believes that b.s story about you finding Evie behind your job. Everyone knows its his daughter. I'm tired of the lies Sofia. I just want to start fresh."
Laura could see that Julian appeared emotionally drained.
"Julian please, just let me see you tonight, I'll set he record straight once and for all."
From her position Laura was able to see Sofia reach over and place her hands upon Julian's hands. An intimate gesture usually used to get a man's attention. Laura was familiar with such gestures.
Hearing enough Laura headed back to the table.
"Hi, Julian I have to go, something came up." Laura said as she quickly headed in the direction of the door.
"What wait, Laura. Hold up." Julian rushed after her and grabbed Laura's arm just as she was about to exit the restaurant. "Whats going on Laura. Talk to me."
Laura couldn't bring herself to look Julian in the eyes. "I just have to go, ok."
"Ok, do you need me to drop you somewhere?"
"No I can find my way." Laura quickly detached her arm and headed out the restaurant.
...
Laura sat at the bar of her workplace counting how much money she had made for the night. It was significantly less than usual and Laura felt like hurting herself for getting so distracted. All she could think of was Julian and Sofia's conversation that she overheard. She had known that Julian and Sofia had some sort of romantic relationship before she started going to the Xavier Institute and according to Cessily they rekindled their romance after the X-men broke up. But Laura had thought that this was her and Julian's second chance. Laura lay her head in her hands unsure of what to do at this point.
"Hey girl. Off night?"
Laura looked up to see the bartender put a drink down next to her. Picking up the glass, Laura quickly downed the drink."I didn't make much tonight."
"Well I see a very handsome guy and he's checking you out maybe he'll be willing to pay a little extra for some private time with you."
Laura didn't have to turn around to know who she was talking about. The guy had already propositioned Laura but she had turned him down. At the moment she couldn't imagine touching another guy. Feeling a bit frustrated Laura grabbed her jacket and headed out the club. As she exited the club she felt the cold air hit her face. She started walking, knowing where she was going, knowing she should stop, but not wanting too.
One hour later Laura found herself on the roof of the building across from Julian's, she had been sitting there for a little over thirty minutes staring at the windows of his apartment. The curtains were pulled but the lights were off and it was obvious that he wasn't home. Just as Laura was about to leave she heard the sound of Sofia's laugh. As she looked down towards the street she could see Sofia and Julian heading into his building. Ten minutes later the lights flickered on in Julian's apartment and Laura could see Julian enter his apartment, Sofia right behind him. Laura felt her claws quickly pop out of her skin. Looking down at the shiny blades, she knew she had to leave. She quickly retracted her claws and headed back to the club.
...
Laura slowly trailed her hand up the back of the guy who had propositioned her earlier. He mind was completely blank, her wall was up, and yet she could feel a slight emotion try to creep up on her. But she pushed it back and closed her eyes, and relaxed into what was about to happen, what she was about to do. Completely pushing Julian out of her mind.