Authors Notes: See I can be quick and good at updating sometimes lol. This is part 2...
X-men the real story - chapter 25, part 2
The team arrived and immediately stormed into action, including the Brotherhood
The team arrived and immediately stormed into action, including the Brotherhood.
Charles was still Erik's best friend, he would have helped him no matter what, but the rest of the Brotherhood knew that they owed the X-men too; they had helped to save Amara.
The mansion was quiet and empty with no signs of distress or destruction.
They rushed from room to room, wondering what had happened here; they all got into the main hall and saw Carol slumped on the floor.
"Oh my God – Carol!" Jean cried and rushed to her friend's side.
"She's dead." Jean whispered horrified.
There was no time to mourn; they still had to find the Professor and Rogue.
Remy took off at run; he had to see that Rogue was ok.
The rest of the team followed Remy; they ran to Professor Xavier's office.
It was there that they found both Rogue and the Professor.
Charles was sitting at his desk, completely catatonic, Rogue's lethal bare hand reaching toward him.
Logan read the situation the quickest and threw himself onto Rogue, knocking her to the ground and putting his claws to her throat.
"Logan Stop!" Jean cried out, horrified, the whole situation was like a nightmare that she couldn't wake up from.
Logan kept his claws where they were, just exerting enough pressure to draw blood from her pale throat.
"Logan what're y' doing?" Rogue blinked up in confusion.
"Don't open your fucking mouth! I am this close to gutting you!" Logan roared; pure animalistic rage contorting his features.
Rogue's wide green eyes filled with terror.
"What's goin' on?" Rogue implored trying to look at her friends.
Everyone just stood frozen, surveying the scene in front of them.
"Wolverine, get off of her." It was Mystique who unexpectedly spoke out.
"Shut the fuck up!" Logan snapped at her.
"Watch your mouth runt!" Sabretooth growled and took a step forward.
"Enough!" Magneto said and Mystique and Sabretooth reluctantly stopped.
"What's happening?" Rogue asked again.
"You killed Carol!" Logan screamed in her face, his face purple, spittle hit Rogue in the face.
"What?" Rogue cried bewildered.
"Logan enough!" Scott said tiredly.
"Take her to the holding cell." Scott continued.
Logan roughly hauled Rogue to her feet.
"What! No! I didn't do anything!" Rogue screamed pure fear in her eyes.
"Remy please, don' let them take me away!" Rogue implored looking at him desperately.
"'M sorry Rogue." Remy said and looked away.
"Remy! Y' don' believe I could do this do y'?" Rogue begged.
"Remy don' know what t' believe." Remy said sadly, his eyes downcast.
Rogue slumped at his words, and allowed Logan to drag her brutally down to the holding area.
"The Professor seems catatonic; let's get him to the med-bay." Hank said breaking the awkward silence and he and Jean took the Professor to the infirmary.
Scott took Bobby to take the body of Carol Danvers to the infirmary too, not that anything could now be done for her.
"What the hell do we do now?" Victor asked, knowing that the crisis was over; there wasn't anything else that they could do.
"Victor you, John and Amara go back to base. Raven, Mortimer and I will stay here for a while." Erik said looking grave.
"Jeez, this is one fucked up place." Amara sighed.
"Yeah, and I thought we were bad." John nodded.
"I feel bad for the Southern chick." Amara frowned as they walked from the mansion.
"Really?" John asked.
"Yeah, did you see her face? She is obviously in love with the Cajun and when he didn't stick up for her, she just crumpled." Amara frowned.
"Oh Johnny, I just want to go home." Amara felt deflated.
"Shut up you pansies! Let's just get home." Victor sighed.
Once back at the base Victor gave Amara one last hug, kissed her forehead and loped off.
"Did he just kiss you?" John asked bewildered.
"Yeah." Amara said looking freaked out.
"This day just keeps getting weirder." John stated and Amara smirked.
"Let's just go to bed, I feel like I could sleep for a million years." Amara stated.
Once the two fire-bug mutants were bed together John wrapped his arms around Amara and rested his head in her hair.
"'Mara baby. I'm so sorry." John whispered brokenly.
"It's ok, Johnny." Amara said quietly.
"I didn't mean what I said; I don't even know why I said it!" John stated honestly.
"I know." Amara replied and the two drifted off to sleep, knowing that all was right in their little world once more.
Sabretooth lay in bed staring up at the ceiling, today had stressed him out. For years the only person he had cared about was himself, but then he had fallen in love with Raven, it wasn't conventional love, but it was true. He had struggled so hard with letting Raven in, and today he realized that Amara had somehow wormed her way into his heart too.
"Who next, John?" He asked himself and then huffed out a laugh; he turned to his side and turned his lamp off, allowing the darkness to bring with it a sense of peace.
Gambit sat in Rogue's room, shuffling a pack of cards, his mind trying to process what the hell had happened at the mansion when they had been gone.
He remembered Rogue's rescue.
"It ain't that Cajun, it's m' skin, it's toxic – you touch m' skin with yours y' die – or get hurt and I get y' in m' head."
"So why don' y' like Rogue?" "I don't know, there's just something not right about her."
"Do ya miss Mattie and y' pere an' brothers?" "Remy didn't think he told y' 'bout his family."
And suddenly it all clicked into place for Remy, he hadn't told her about his family, she had taken his powers.
The day when all of the males felt ill, she had drained them all!
Remy got to his feet, if she had all of their powers, the holding cell wouldn't hold her for long, and is if by magic a blast shook the mansion and alarm bells began to ring.
Authors Note: I do realise I always leave off on a cliffhanger, it's mean but I hope it keeps interest lol. I'll post again tonight. Feedback as always feeds my muse and makes me very, very happy, so please drop me a line ;) xoxox