Wolf: Let me apologize to begin with...
Bobby: What is it this time?
Kitty: Shut up and let her talk, Bobby! She's got something to say!
Wolf: Thanks, Kitty! hugs Kitty I want to apologize in advance for any mistakes that may appear in my story. I do try my best to keep all the characters and their facts about them right, as well as keep their appearances in this story as accurate as possible. And how anyone with an accent. Like since Kurt is German, I try very hard to spell the words he frequently uses with his accent. (W+V, T+Z). Or Gambit's infamous Cajun accent.)
And allow me to take the time to apologize about any grammar, punctuations, spelling as correct as possible. I do run my story through all my chapters through spell check if I haven't checked my spelling during writing my chapters. If there are any mistakes you'd find in my story, please let me know so I can keep myself from making the same mistakes again in future chapters. If this warning goes unheeded, then the same mistakes will occur all over again.
Kurt: Vow, Wolf! T.T Zat's such a heartvarming apology!
Wolf: Shrugs shoulders at Kurt It's OCD in the making. I used to have this third grade teacher that would always correct my mistakes and made me feel stupid, so I got better so I would hear her bull-crap. The worst thing that anyone could do to me is correct my mistakes and make me feel bad.
Logan: Tough it up!
Bobby: O0O What's his deal?
Kurt: Zat was mean, here Logan!
Beast: He's just mad because he has to do the disclaimer.
Logan: turns to the readers with his famous glare The Paper Wolf doesn't own Wolverine & The X-Men. She just owns Zero and whatever original characters she decides to throw into this is story. You won't get any money if you sue her, so save yourselves the headache and just enjoy the story and all it's stupid mistakes. And I'll come after you if you read and review. I don't want to be another dead end story like the other ones she has on her computer.
Wolf: T.T Thanks for the disclaimer, Logan... Please enjoy your stay in Zero Tolerance...
Kurt: Enjoy the story!
Chapter Two: Zero Tolerance Part Two
He just walked away...
Why could I tell him?
He was the first to lie,
when we were not alright!
He was the first to know,
when I wasn't okay!
He was the first to go!
I was the last to know...
… Once Allyce and her mom got home, Allyce went on upstairs to her room; saying she had a bad headache, and headed off to bed early. Her mother didn't think anything of it, and excused her; watching her rush off upstairs towards her room, and grabbed Rage as she went.
Allyce had closed the door, and placed her cat down on the bed, as she took off her jacket, and gloves. Her hands still bore those claws, and when she took off her sunglasses, she still had the same cat-like eyes as before. She began to panic, and closed her eyes shut; trying to calm herself down in hopes of things going back to normal on their own.
"This can't be happening!" She whispered in a harsh hiss. She yelped in pain when she realized a sharp fang had pierced her lower lip when she bit down. She gave up when she opened her eyes and looked in the mirror. Nothing had changed. She walked back to her bed with her face buried in her clawed hands. She knew she was mutant. There was no doubt about it now. At first, she just thought that she was just imagining things, but now that her appearance had changed, her suspicions were confirmed.
What was she going to do? She heard about mutants getting caught by the MRD and taken away from their families. She even heard of people killing mutants. Would someone try to kill her, too? Would anyone call the MRD and send them after her? Fears and worries like this were running wildly in her head. She didn't know what to do.
Allyce felt a furry body slide into her lap, and sighed. It was Rage wanting attention like she always did when she got home. She smiled weakly at the kitten in her lap, and began stroking her back; earning a rapid "meow" sound when she reached her tail.
"What am I going to do Rage?" She asked the kitten, as tears threatened to fall from her duo eyes. The kitten looked up at Allyce and meowed at her before burying her face into her stomach. "You're no help." She said in a playful glare.
Rage suddenly looked to the door, and arched her back with a nasty hiss. Allyce looked to the door, and saw her mother coming into her room. Allyce froze when she saw her mother standing in the door way. Allyce slowly rose up to her feet, and took a careful step towards the woman.
"Please, mother..." Allyce began in a fearful tone; holding her hands up in surrender, "I know what this looks like, but please..."
"I didn't want to believe the rumors that were going around at the rink..." Her mother said in a harsh tone; giving Allyce an ugly glare, "... but here you are... a mutant in my house. First Alexie and Ray had to die in that horrible accident... now this."
Allyce gasped at the woman standing in her room. "But I'm still me, mother! I'm just different that's all!" She resistance in her voice.
The woman teased up and stood still; watching her daughter slowly walk towards her. "You-you're not my child!" She screamed in a shocked tone, shaking at Allyce in fear. "You're a monster!" And with that, the woman dashed out of the room; sobbing and upset about what had happened to Allyce. "Allyce died with the rest of this family!"
Allyce gasped at her mother's words. She was ready for any harsh words to come out of the woman's mouth, but she wasn't ready to hear something like that. It felt worse than any fall she had suffered during her training as a figure-skater or that car accident that took her father and brother away from her and changed her life from that point on...
She sighed and went over towards the kitten hiding in her laundry basket; picking her up, and walking over towards the window. "That could've gone better." She said in a bitter tone; scratching Rage's chin, as she looked out the window.
She looked out the window and down the street to find that skater from the rink walking across the street, and focused on her. If she was a mutant, then she would definitely put them to good use. She felt a smug feeling when she watched the girl walk across the street. Yeah, I got her good. Allyce imagined her thinking. That would be what she was thinking if she saw her situation now. She had a feeling that she was the one who told her mother that she was a mutant. It would make sense on the account that she hated her for being as talented as she was, or that she was always so high on herself. That girl even got the other girls to hate her when it wasn't required. Allyce worked just as hard as the other girls whenever they trained, Allyce just had more – motivation than they did.
Allyce came out of her thoughts when she heard banging on the door just below her window. There were a few angry people standing on the porch; trying to get into the house. She panicked and dashed out of the room to find her mother before their guests would let themselves in.
She ran down the hall and found her mother down in the kitchen. There, the woman had stood with her body shaking and a hateful glare in her eyes; pointing a gun at the girl.
"Wha-what's wrong, mom?" Allyce asked in a shaking tone; holding her hands up towards her mother. "Why are those people at our door?"
"You're not my daughter..." She said in a deranged tone; holding the knife out at arm's length at Allyce. "My daughter was human!" And with that, the woman had charged for Allyce; knife pointing directly at Allyce's stomach.
Allyce froze when she saw her mother coming after her with the knife screaming for blood to be drawn. 'I-I don't want to die!' She thought wildly through her mind, and just like magic, the papers from on the counter beside her had flew up just in time to block her mother's attack. Allyce looked up to that the papers had made a half dome shaped shield in front of her, and fell back on her rear.
"You freak! Get out of my house! I don't want you here anymore!" The woman barked in a dangerous tone; charging for Allyce once again.
Far in the distance,
this is the view from the other side...
How did I let this pass me by?
Unlike last time, the papers hadn't flown up to protect, had laid limp on the ground. Allyce began feeling an intense pain going through her left shoulder, and looked up to see her mother standing before her with a bloody knife. Her own flesh and blood had stabbed her in the shoulder with a kitchen knife.
"Mommy?" Allyce asked in a frightened tone; eyes shaking from the sight or her crazy mother standing above her. "Why are you doing this, mommy? Don't you love me anymore?" Allyce struggled to say, as she slowly got to her feet; holding herself up with the counter's assistance.
Took me for granted,
Planted thorns in this garden of mine.
What are the chances?
My hope has died...
The woman sneered and raised the knife back up in front of her. "I don't have a daughter! Not anymore!" And with those heart breaking words, the woman brought kitchen knife into Allyce's stomach. Allyce stepped out of the knife, and grabbed her stomach; preventing as much blood as she could from leaking out of her wound, and made a mad dash out of the room, and up the stairs.
She dashed into her room, and locked the door with bloody hands. She looked around, and grabbed a few of her belongings. A few packs of cards, a few changes of clothes, and a few of her personal belongings before she opened the window. There was a tree not too far from her window, and she figured she could make that jump even with the wounds she now had.
Just as she was about to jump out of the room, a few of the intruders burst into the room with guns and other weapons.
"There she is! Let's get her!" One of the men said in rage; charging for the girl.
Allyce gasped and jumped from the window; taking her things with her. She wasn't surprised when she actually made that jump to the tree. She looked back to the window, and saw a few men pointing guns at her, and jumped down from the tree; taking off down the street as fast as she could.
As Allyce was running for her life, Bobby, Logan, Kitty, and Kurt had just landed outside of town with curious looks on their faces. The trio were filled in when Logan had gotten the Blackbird airborne, and had just landed to find their target. They had only hoped that they weren't too late and the MRD hadn't gotten to her before they had. They had been dressed in normal clothes to help blend in better. Kurt had worn his hologram projector* to hide his appearance where the others just simply wore their normal street clothes.
Kitty looked around and shivered at the dull sight of the town. It wasn't as bright and colorful as other places in New York she's visited. "This place feels so cold here..." She said in a depressed tone; looking around at all the houses as they went.
Kurt looked back at Kitty, and gave her an understanding look. "Humans must've found out zat zey have a mutant in town..." He answered in a serious tone; ending the conversation however short-lived it was.
Kurt was showing signs of worry for other reasons. He was worried that the citizens had realized she was a mutant, and had tried to hurt her. He hoped that none of the folks living there had realized the girl in question wasn't a mutant, and had tried to hurt her yet. Too bad no one was listening to his prayers...
They had come across an abandoned house a way's away from their aircraft. And saw a few people leaving the house. Logan had pulled the others into an alley beside the house nearby, and waited for a woman to pass them by before they moved inside the house. Logan had told the blue elf to go inside the house and let them in.
When Kurt did as he was told, he opened the back door, and allowed the others to enter the house. Logan sniffed the air, and gagged at the heavy scent he knew as blood. He found his way into the kitchen and heard Kitty gasp at the messy scene in the room.
It was mostly near the entrance, and saw a fair amount of blood all over the floor and the counter. It looked like a domestic disturbance that would been shown on television, with a lot of bloody papers on the floor and seeped onto the floor. Logan had mentally guessed that it was no doubt Allyce's blood that had been spilled. And why wouldn't he assume that? People had been known to attack helpless mutants for no good reason. He and Kurt knew all too well on what that was like...
Logan sighed and ran a hand through his hair and turned towards his friends. "It's clear that Allyce isn't here." He said in a firm tone. "Let's split up and look for her. She's probably hurt, so she couldn't have gone too far."
"It shouldn't be too hard. All we have to do is follow the screams." Kitty said in a bitter tone
The others nodded and took directions; leaving the bloody room as quietly as they could in case anyone might be passing by.
While the X-Men were out looking for Allyce, The girl had been running from all the other people that she used to grow up with. They had successfully thrown several bricks and sticks at her; injuring her further. She had been able to make her cards to create a shield between her and the others, but more times than one, her powers wouldn't work when she needed them to. It was clear that she had no control over them. She had escaped to the cemetery; giving the others the slip, and had been hiding out amongst the graves.
Please have mercy...
You've unnerved me...
I don't deserve this pain!
She hadn't no idea how long she had been hiding there, and was thankful that no one had bothered to look for her there so far. She only prayed that her luck wouldn't run out any time soon. She looked up at the sky, and noticed that it had already started it's twilight cycle, and had guessed that she had been there for a while; giving herself think about all the things that were playing out throughout her life.
The other girls would tease her and intimidate her during competition. She even got the same treatment from her mother. She didn't even come to her practices or competitions. Why should she have to hold back on everything she does and no one else had to? The more Allyce used to think about that, she'd feel so hurt and angry. It just wasn't fair!
She leaned forward, and began crawling away from her brother's grave; praying that no one could hear her moving around. After a few seconds of catching her breath, she began thinking about all of the things that has happened to her since she was a child. She was just a child back then. No child should have to go through what she did. No one.
She looked back at her brother's grave, and read the description: Raymond "Ray" L'Orange. Fighter, Son, Brother, and Friend. She smiled faintly at the description, and used some of her own blood to write a description of her own: Here lies someone who died of a broken heart. Those words were more true than anything that anybody could've wrote for him.
Don't break my heart!
I ain't never done,
nothing to deserve this!
I'm torn apart!
You've had your fun!
Do you suppose I earned it?
Do you not see,
how I'm begging on my knees?
Just as Allyce was thinking about the events that were playing out before her, Kurt was jumping and teleporting all over town. He stopped to rest close to the cemetery, and looked around his own surroundings in hopes of finding anything that might point him in the right direction where the girl could be. He finally looked to the cemetery, and felt a violent shiver run down his spine. He felt something was there, and given the way the air shifted towards that direction, he knew exactly what it was.
Making his mind up quickly, he shifted his weight to his legs under him, and jumped into the air. He waited until he was high enough before he teleported onto the nearby rooftop; repeating the process while trying to keep most of his energy and strength up should he need to ready for a fight.**
What had she done to deserve any of this again? Why wasn't she the one to die instead of him? He was always the better sibling; even if they were twins, and had the same skills as the other, he was still better than she was. Everyone that the same way she did. She wasn't deaf, and after hearing it for so long, she started to believe it. She missed her brother so much whenever she thought of him, she would break down every time.
Her mother wasn't much help to her, either. She always like Ray better, anyway. No, that wasn't some childish thinking on Allyce's part, her mother really did like her brother more than she liked Allyce. She would always tell Allyce that she wasn't good enough, and even Allyce herself had started to believe that as well.
Sometimes, her mother would ask her why she even bothers trying. Trying to be like her brother, trying to compete in figure-skating, trying to do well in school, or trying to do anything for that matter. Allyce would look to her brother.
After awhile of thinking about why she was trying so hard, she finally looked up at the woman and simply reply, "Because I no one believes in me, I can make it to the top.". She may have earned a slap across the face for that answer, but it was well worth it to see the look on her face.
Don't speak, don't breathe!
You bring out the devil in me...
It wasn't long until she made a struggled move before she found someone else moving around in the cemetery. Not doubt the others had begun their search there. She made it a way's away from the noise and looked around the large stone to see a few MRD soldiers had been looking for her. She gasped, and began moving away from them as quickly as she could. Her wounds had been aching for a while now that she's relaxed and her adrenalin had run out; proving to be more of a challenge than when she had started out from her house.
'Someone help me!' She thought wildly, as she kept moving from her position.
"There she is!" Someone called out; startling her out of her thoughts.
"Oh, no!" She cried out in panic; scooting away from the voices that were quickly gaining on her.
Thinking it over.
Those were days dark as ebony nights.
The end of October felt like a lifetime...
I had a suspicion,
but I didn't want to believe you a liar.
You had a mission to prove me right...
She backed up, and hit her head on nearby gravestone. She closed her eyes against the pain that itched her head, and waited for the pain to subside. She looked up to see to find herself staring into the barrel of one of the MRD's guns.
She began to shake violently at the sight of the gun in her face. She soon began to cry; tears running down her face, as she waited for her fate...
Just as Allyce was starting to think that there was no other way out, Kurt landed on the entrance gate, and looked inside; hoping his gut feeling was right, and Allyce was inside there. He strained his eyes, and saw a pair of MRD troops walking further into the graveyard.
'Vhy would ze MRD be walking into a cemetery?' Kurt thought to himself, as he teleported safely into the shadows; keeping out of sight from any lingering MRD troopers. His answer was answered when he heard a scream further into the hollowed grounds. 'Vell, I guess zat must be vhy zey are here.' He thought bitterly to himself. He looked down at his belt, and quickly pressed his locator device; turning it on before he went off towards the scream. He only hoped that it wasn't too late...
He arrived at the scene, and found Allyce jumping away from the men. Allyce let loose a cat like hiss. It was clear to Nightcrawler that she wasn't very happy seeing the MRD. He took in his surroundings, and found that there was a reasonable amount of blood on the ground and all over the surrounding graves. It wasn't looking good for the girl. So, Kurt decided to take charge, and jump right into the fight; teleporting himself between the Allyce and the MRD; letting his existence be known. He would do his best to hold them off long enough for the others to come to his location.
"You vill not be zaking her novere!" He declared in a dangerous tone; keeping his eyes trained on the men.
"It's another mutant! Get him, too!" Said the MRD Trooper closest to Kurt.
A few men have charged for Kurt, but Kurt grabbed them both by the shoulder, and threw them towards the other remaining MRD soldiers. He teleported around the few that dodged the ones flying towards them, and went after Kurt. Kurt grinned and punched them in the face; sending them to the ground with loud thuds. He threw one of the MRD into a stoned statue and knocked him out, and repeated that action until the rest of them were unconscious.
One MRD soldier had gotten up, and aimed his gun at Allyce, and quickly pulled the trigger; knocking her off the cliff, and into the freezing river just at the bottom of the hill. (TPW: Great place to put a cemetery, right?)
Kurt turned around, and gasped at the sight of Allyce falling into the river, and kicked the soldier across the face; knocking him into a large grave with such a force, it broke the stone, and knocked him out. He quickly looked down into the waters in hopes of finding Allyce. He sighed in relief when he saw her break the surface of the freezing waters, and began coughing and sputtering out the water she had swallowed upon impact.
Without hesitation, he jumped into the water, and began swimming after her; fighting against the current that was dragging him further away from her.
"Please help me!" Allyce screamed in panic just before she went under the water again.
Kurt gasped and dove under the water; hoping to reach her before the current pulled him further away from his target. He finally found her, and teleported just in front of her; grabbing her hand, and teleported once again – this time appearing safely on the shore.
When he finally got enough strength to lift his head up, he looked over at the girl, and found her unconscious. He rolled her over to look at her injuries, and found that they were worse than he originally thought.
She had suffered a stabbing of some kind to the stomach and shoulder as well as some minor defensive wounds on her arms and legs. It was probably from running around and avoiding any contact from humans.
You took my trust,
Ground it to dust...
Found out I knew better...
Kurt noticed that Allyce's mouth was closed but something was trying to come out. He quickly (but carefully) moved her face to the side, and probed her mouth open to let whatever it was that was trying to get out of her mouth. Her eyes flew open, and the water that she had swallowed while she went under the icy waters had spilled out and onto the ground. She coughed and sputtered; rolling over to her to cough up the rest of whatever was left inside of her. Kurt began to rub her back when he realized she was throwing up blood.
He heard some commotion from the cemetery, and looked up to see his team mates up there looking for him. He called out to them, and looked down to see Allyce had fallen out of conscience once again. He pulled her into his lap, and waited for the others to reach him; doing his best to keep Allyce warm in hopes of her not going into shock from her injuries and loss of blood.
Don't break my heart!
I ain't never done,
nothing to deserve this!
I'm torn apart!
You've had your fun!
Do you suppose I earned it?
Do you not see,
how I'm begging on my knees?
The others had finally made their way towards the two, and Kitty gasped at the sight before her. The two were completely drenched and shivering from the cold. Kurt was trying to keep a bloodied Allyce from going into shock, but failing drastically due to his own furry body being soaked, and slightly holding back his ragged coughs. Everyone could see his strength was failing, and wasn't long until he would meet the same fate as the girl in his arms.
"I did it..." Kurt said in a weakened tone; sending himself into a coughing fit. "I saved her from ze river..."
Kitty fell to her knees in front of the two on the ground, and looked Allyce over. Once she placed a gentle hand on her throat, she realized the situation was dark for the new girl. She gasped and noticed Allyce's breathing was shallow and growing fainter as each second passed by. She looked up at Logan with pleading eyes.
Don't speak, don't breathe!
You bring out the devil of...
"She's in shock! We have to get her out of here!" She cried out in panic, as she pulled out her rescue kit, and proceeded to tend to Allyce's wounds.
Logan growled, and knelt down before the two; looking Allyce over. "It looks like we really screwed up this time, huh, elf?" He asked in a rough tone; showing a small sign of remorse. "You did good, Kurt. Now, let's get you two out of here." He said in a gentle tone; picking Allyce up.
And with that, they rushed out of gloomy grounds; glaring warningly at whoever would dare try to stop them. Kitty noticed that Allyce's bag had been left abandoned from who knows what exactly happened at the cemetery, and snatched it up before Logan held the girl in his arms, and felt each struggled cough that her body would force out of her mouth. Bobby and Kitty helped Kurt along as fast as they could; activating his projector upon his request once they made it out of the cemetery.
Once they were in the blackbird, Logan had made contact with Beast, and told him to ready the medical wing for their arrival. Bobby had helped Kurt get warm by giving him a few blankets, and did the same with Allyce after Kitty had tended to Allyce's wounds as best as she could. Everyone on board had hoped it would be enough to help her until they got her back to the institute...
And I don't wanna feel the pain...
And I don't want another day,
Shackled to your ball and chain!
You're entirely to blame!
In a quiet misery,
all I can is wait...
All I can do is wait!
Kurt coughed a little, and looked over at Kitty in time for her to stop working on Allyce's wounds. "How is she doing, Kitty?" He asked weakly; trying not to have another fit.
Kitty sighed and tucked the blankets around Allyce's tiny body as tight as she could, and made her way over to him. "I've done what I could to patch up her wounds, but there's not a whole lot I can do." She answered in a sad tone; looking back to the girl lying on a makeshift stretcher. "I just hope we get back in time. Those wounds are pretty serious."
Bobby growled and frost began to freeze the area around him. "How could someone do something like that to a mutant much less a little girl like her? It's just stupid!"
Kitty sent Bobby a death glare, and folded her arms over her chest. "Logan wasn't kidding when he said that stupidity hurts." She growled out in disdain; not looking anyone in the eye as her anger rolled off of her.
Kurt looked over at Allyce, and noticed that she was squirming on the stretcher, and looked back at Kitty; holding up a hand to stop her.
"Please, calm down you two." He said in a quiet tone; pleading with the girl in front of him. "I zink Allyce can feel your anger, and it's making her uncomfortable."
Kitty blinked down at the blue elf, and looked back at Allyce to see that Kurt was right. Allyce was shifting around on the stretcher behind them.
Logan growled and looked back at the trio behind him. "The elf is right. She may be knocked out, but she can still feel emotions." He advised in a rough tone. "Getting mad won't help her now. So, sit down and shut up."
So I don't have a prayer,
if there is no charity in your heart!
Couldn't you spare me?
I've done my part!
It felt like a long flight back to the institute. It may have been an hour or so, but to the trio, it felt like it took forever just to see the mansion. Logan tried to land the Blackbird as softly as he could so he wouldn't irritate the two wounded mutants, but it proved to be in vain. The jet had jerked, and if Kitty wasn't beside Allyce, she would've fallen off the stretcher. Logan unbuckled himself from his restraints after he got the hatch open, and went over towards the sleeping girl; carefully picking her up, and making his way out of the blackbird as quickly as he could with the Bobby and Kitty helping Kurt out. He may not have been injured as much as Allyce, but he still needed help getting up and around until Beast took a look at him as well.
Don't break my heart!
I ain't never done,
nothing to deserve this!
And I'm torn apart!
You've had your fun!
Do you suppose I earned it?
Do you know see how I'm begging on my knees?
Don't speak, don't breathe!
You bring out the devil-
Once Logan made it to the infirmary, he was instructed to place Allyce on the bed that was ready for her. Beast had made Bobby and Kitty leave, and began finishing up where Kitty left off in patching Allyce up. Logan had stayed to help out in any way Beast wished. Ororo had been there to help Kurt feel better. She was startled to see Allyce's condition, and helped Beast along with Logan. She was ready for any minor injuries that Allyce had suffered, but she wasn't ready for what she saw. Much like Kitty's reaction, she was disgusted in the display humanity offered the poor girl.
Emma came into the room when she learned that the team had arrived, and did her best to keep the girl calm long enough for the others to patch up her wounds. It wasn't easy to keep her hands on the girl with her struggling, but Logan was told to hold her down and keep her from squirming; making it easy for the diamond skinned woman to calm Allyce's struggles.
"No! Stay away from me!" Allyce screamed out in her sleep; shocking everyone in the room. "It's not fair!"
Emma looked up at Beast and Logan with a sympathetic look in her eyes. "She's reliving the events that happened today." She spoke up in a quiet tone; looking back down at the girl, and focusing her power on Allyce's trouble mind.
"I didn't do anything to you!" Allyce screamed in an inhuman roar; making her body sizzle with white electricity jumping off her body.
Emma blinked down at the sight before her. "I knew she was an empath, but I didn't know she was this powerful." She said in a surprised tone. "It would seem that she's saying things she couldn't earlier."
"Zat is because she vas too busy running from everyvon." Kurt said in a bitter tone from his place on the bed not too far from the girl. "I was just like that before ze professor found me."
Beast looked back at the blue elf with a serious nod before he turned his attention back to the girl. He looked up at Emma and gave her a similar look. "I'm sure there was a lot going on back there, but we need to keep her still so I can tend to her injuries." He advised in an urgent tone; going back to work, as Emma and Logan returned to their previous task: Keeping Allyce calm and still long enough for him to do what was needed to be done.
Don't break my heart!
I ain't never done,
nothing to deserve this!
And I'm torn apart!
You've had your fun!
Do you suppose I earned it?
Do you not see how I'm begging on my knees?
Don't speak, don't breathe...
You bring out the devil in me!
Devil in me... Devil in me...
After a few long hours of treating Allyce, they were finally done. Logan had released the girl from his firm hold on the girl's biceps; leaving dark bruises in his wake. Beast finished wrapping the girl's stitches and placed his gloves on the tray with the rest of his tools. He had given her a seditive to keep her calm so Emma could take a break from exhausting her powers keeping the girl calm from all the emotions that were flying around the room. Kurt was relieved to know that she was going to be okay thanks to Beasts expert care. He ended up hooking Logan for a blood transfusion to speed up her healing process.
"So she'll be okay now, right, Hank?" Logan asked in a tired tone; looking down at the girl lying on the bed.
Beast sighed and ran a furry hand through his hair. "She should be fine in a few days, but what she needs now is a lot of rest and recovery."
"Vill she be done here long?" Kurt asked in a curious tone; looking the girl over from his bed.
Allyce was covered in bandages from the waist up. Her arms were bandaged from the wrists to elbows. Her hands were also bandaged. It broke his heart to see her in that state, and he prayed to whatever God that was listening that she'd never have to suffer a fate like this again.
"It all depends on how well she stays still." Beast replied in a gentle tone. "I expect a full recovery in a week tops." He answered in a proud tone. "Should she not put any strain on her body while she's healing, she may even recover sooner."
"Zat is good zu know." Kurt said in a relieved tone; giving the sleeping girl a small smile.
"She had better make a good recovery with all the blood you took from me." Logan said in a grumpy tone; folding his sore arms over his chest.
Emma gave Logan a sly smile. "It would seem that you might have another child to care for, Logan." She said in a teasing tone; poking Logan in the chest; earning a chuckle from the other men in the room.
She looked back down at Allyce to see that her head had fallen to the side, and some of her had covered her face. She smiled motherly at her, and pulled her hair to the side before she made her leave.
Once she was outside the room, she was bombarded with questions from Bobby, Forge, and Kitty. She told them of Allyce's condition, and told them to leave her alone for the time being before she left for her own room; but not before asking Kitty to lend Allyce some extra clothes for Allyce...
*I know the hologram thingy Kurt used in this chapter goes with the one he uses in the Evolution series, but I wanted him there to save Allyce. Please disregard that fact.
** I know that scene was from Kurt's past, but if you think about Allyce's new appearance, it would match her as well as it did for him. She DOES look like a cat demon now.
Wolf: I'm going to leave this chapter as it is.
Kurt: Ja, it is very long!
Bobby: How long did it take you to finish this one?
Wolf: Oh, I'd say about a good few days. I stayed up pretty late to finish.
Logan: What's with the song?
Wolf: I wanted to make this story a song fic type. I've seen a lot of those around ff, and wanted to see if I can do it, too, but it's proving to be very troublesome, so I think I won't put anymore songs in this story. It took FOREVER to pick out a song that would match this chapter.
Logan: crosses arms over his chest so you're telling me that you're giving up on the songs?
Kitty: And here I thought it was a good idea. What was that song you used anyway?
Wolf: The song that was used in this chapter was the acoustic version of "Devil in Me" by Kate Voegele. I couldn't find a better song and believe me when I say that I couldn't.
Wolf: It's too hard, and besides, it makes my chapters longer than I wanted them to.
Bobby: Quitter.
Wolf: glares at Bobby Do you want to stay alive in this story?
Bobby: yelps and hides behind Logan
Wolf: That's what I thought! Now, shut up and leave me alone so I can get started on the next chapter!
Wolf: smiles sweetly at the readers I'm sorry for Bobby's bad manners. He's still young. Please review and send any ideas you might have and I'll do my best to put them in future chapters. If you send flames, I'll either use them to make my dinner or let the over grown ice maker melt them.
And remember: smile until you stop.