The moon was high as two young women walked down the street. The taller of the two constantly scanning their surroundings- people, rooftops, cars, even the ally cats were all on her radar. "I don't understand why you insist on being out like this. We're too-" but the black haired girl was cut off.

"Laura, can you relax for like, ten seconds? Think about it, between you and I, any non-super villain's gonna get his ass kicked. Besides, at this hour, the only people in this area are just the homeless and prostitutes." The girl brushed off the concern of her companion and continued to walk down the deserted street, not noticing her sudden stiffness at her last comment. "Come on, Logan should be just a few more blocks."

They walked in silence for the remainder of the trip. The diner was mostly empty, with buzzing neon signs and an over weight waitress with cigarette ash on her chest. "So can I get you girls something," she sighed and shifted her weight to the other foot, "or do you plan on sitting here for the rest of the night?"

"Oh yeah, let me see, uhhh… can I have a water? X, you want one?"

The green eyed girl simply shook her head, no. The waitress gave out an annoyed scoff, clearly wanting to be doing something else, anything else, than getting two teenagers a glass of water at four in the morning. Especially kids that don't have money.

Silence took over as the girls waited at the booth. An hour passed by, with no sign of Logan. "He's coming, right X? I mean, I told him we'd be here. You don't think he just blew us off, to go drinking or something, right?" She looked at her reflection, then to her friend. "I mean, it's not like him to just never show up, leave us hanging, right?" Her dark eyes seeking comfort in the green ones across from her.

"Jubilee… I do not…" She knew her words had to come out right, for everyones sake. "No, he would not… leave you here and go drinking." She looked down at her lap, flexing her hands in a nervous habit, still thinking about Wolverine pulling her aside, telling her to watch over Jubilee. "But no matter his location, the sun will be coming up soon. The most logical thing to do would be to get back to the apartment, get clothes, and try to contact Wolverine."

Jubilee sighed as she played with the melting ice cubes in her untouched water. "No, lets just wait here for a while more, okay?"

Against the clone's better judgment, they waited for another hour. Rain started to pour from patchy clouds. The sun was half up when the waitress came to them. "Okay, you two little punks need to get the hell out. It'd be one thing if you actually bought something, but your water was free. So unless your skinny, emo friend whips out some money, which by the looks of it, neither of you have, you need to leave or else I'll call the cops."

"Okay, jeeze, sorry. Come on, Laura, let's go home." Jubilee edged out of the booth, followed by Laura, who was receiving death glares from the bitter woman. "I didn't like this place anyways."

"The least you could have done was buy your girlfriend some fries, freak!"

The diner door closed with a swoosh as the two girls left. "Oh, I'm so stupid!" The short hair girl turned to her friend, "X, you haven't eaten since we got here! Shit, let's find you something to eat, you must be starving! Seriously, three days without food and you think you'd say something…" The rain came down harder and colder.

"No, I'm fine. Here, take this." She took off the long black leather jacket she wore and gave it to her short haired companion. "Rain or not, the sun is still going to rise." She watched as Jubilee put the coat on with a grimace. "Are you hungry?"

Jubilee looked up with surprise, not many people asked her in such a simple way. "I uhh, a little bit, but I can handle it. Jesus, X, you need new clothes." She tugged at the leather jacket, counting all the small holes, tears and parts that wore away with age. She looked at the owner of the jacket, and grimaced at the fact she was wearing a black tank top, torn jeans and shoes so worn down, the rain got in. But it's a fact that all of X-23's shoes will always have a thin vertical slit on the toe.

"I am fine," Laura commented, smelling the concern. "Let's go."

The two girls walked back to their home, which for now was a run down apartment that no one seemed to live in. The lights didn't work but the water did, and that's all anyone needed. They took the ally ways and less populated roads, if only for the sake of X-23's sanity. Passing by a homeless man sleeping under a makeshift tent, Jubilee's gut began to grow restless. Such actions never went unnoticed by Wolverine, so why should they pass X-23?

A block down the street Laura grabbed the short hair girl by the shoulder, forcing her to stop and look her in the eye. "You need to feed," she stated boldly and blankly, looking into the smaller girls eyes knowingly. It wasn't an accusation, or an insult, it was just as if she were telling a stranger the time.

"No I'm fine I can… wait, no. X, no!" She tore away from the girls' grip, "I can't do what you're asking me to do!"

"I'm not asking, Jubilee, it is an offer. You will agree with me when I say that taking my blood is better than killing a random person, or robbing a blood bank." They stood in the rain, Jubilee staring in shock and shame, as Laura looked on with serious eyes.

A blood deprived vampire was not only a useless teammate, but also a danger to any bleeding animal within her radius. "I can sense your longing for it, so do it. You're not going to kill me, so just do it." She pulled her long, now soaking hair away from her neck. "Or would you rather have me return to that sleeping man and kill him?"

Between the deadpan voice, stone cold eyes, and years of being used as nothing more than a tool, Jubilee knew that Laura wasn't joking about killing that poor guy. She looked at her feet, then into deep green eyes.

"X, I can't just-"

"Then I will get you the blood of another." X-23's claws came tearing through her skin,

letting out the smallest trickle of blood run down her fingers.

"No, wait, X. It's just that I-"

"Choose." Her voice was cold and pointed.

"But what if-"

"Choose!"

They stood at ends with each other in the freezing rain. Laura lifted her chin and turned on her heel. "Very well, wait here and I will-"

"X!"

In an instant Jubilee had grabbed Laura's shoulder and shoved her into the wet brick wall of the ally. With the pressure of teeth digging into her neck, the rain soaked girl looked up to the sky feeling pain and relief. Her claws slowly retracted as the vampires hands settled on her hips, pushing her farther into the wall. The quiet sound of retracting claws, like swords into a sheath, forced a smile of pure joy from the vampire's mouth.

Time seemed to stop, if it wasn't for the continuously falling rain to convince them otherwise. Jubilee bit X out of defense, to save an innocent person, but as she gingerly began to drink, she wanted more and more. There was no denying that this blood was better than any other. Guilt, shame and pleasure- all in one bite, as her tongue hungrily licked Laura's neck, impatient for more blood. Tears streamed from her eyes and mixed with the rain as she saw Laura's memories, but she could only suck harder, wanting all of her. Her left hand went to the clone's ribcage and side, feeling her bones and curves, while her right hand stayed planted at her hip.

She felt Laura's blood pressure drop, and her knees begin to lose their strength. She softened her sucking until it was nothing more than a kiss. She licked the remaining blood off her neck as the healing factor kicked in. The clone let out a small dazed moan as she continued to look to the sky.

Although the deed was done, they stayed in position, with Jubilee's warm body pressed up against X-23's freezing, rain soaked one. The sun was up and the rain lightened, Laura began to shake beneath Jubilee's grip. But the vampire couldn't let go, not yet. She closed in on her neck, taking in Laura's scent mixed with rain and blood. She breathed hevily as she grazed her teeth over the poor girls neck, forcing shivers down her frozen spine.

A particularly cold drop from a fire escape landed on her head, and snapped the young vampire back into reality; back to where she more or less just assaulted Wolverine's sister. Her eyes widened when she felt X shaking beneath her and just how cold her small body became. Panic flooded her brain and her blood lust seemed to disappear.

She had taken too much blood; she didn't need all that blood. She should have just bitten her forearm, not the neck. Jubilee cursed herself as she slowly pulled away from her volunteer victim.

"X… Laura, I'm sorry, I just. Oh fuck are you alright? Jesus Christ…" Her guilt was momentarily replaced with fear. Laura was too pale, and too weak to stand. Her eyes were only half opened as she nodded.

"The sun is up… we have been here for too long. We need to retu-"

"Yeah yeah, get back to the apartment so no one tries to kill us." She pulled Laura's arm over her own shoulders, "That could have gotten really out of hand, and you're still trying to keep us safe. Damnit, Laura… you really are part Wolverine."

The rest of the walk was silent, save for Laura's random protests of "being carried by a vampire in the daylight", but she could only take six steps without falling over or blacking out. A smile spread across the girls' lips as she put Laura down on their makeshift bed, which only really Jubilee used.

To see such a beautiful young woman, with so much blood stained on her hands, laying helpless and exposed after giving probably more than half her blood supply, was surprisingly adorable.