************WARNING***********
This chapter contains slightly squeemish material. Do not read if you are easily offended.
Just as Logan said, they hit the road the following day. Every now and then, Marie would feel a tickle in the back of her mind, but she fought against it just as the professor had taught her. Emma was obviously working to gain access to her mind, but she was too far away to overcome Marie's practiced telepathic blocks.
Marie watched Logan for a little while, then leaned over and kissed his neck as he drove.
He laughed a little and glanced at her, "What was that for?"
"If you knew how sexy you were, you wouldn't have to ask that question."
Logan smirked and raised a brow, "You keep that up and I'm gonna have to pull over."
They made it to the next safe house just before midnight. It was a beautiful, yet tiny, cabin in the woods. It only had one large living space with a kitchen and a bathroom.
Marie noticed the lack of a bedroom and raised a brow to Logan, who smirked, "I'm sure the sofa folds out into a bed.
When they got settled in, Logan worked to light a fireplace while Marie heated up a can of soup for their dinner. After eating, Marie cleared the dishes and began washing them in the sink. She was drying off the pot when she felt Logan's hands slowly move to the front of her jeans and open the button.
Butterflies erupted in her stomach as she bit her bottom lip. He slowly leaned forward and began kissing her neck, "I want you, Marie..."
Marie shuddered as he slid her zipper down and pushed his hand inside of her panties. She knew that if she hadn't put down the pot and grabbed a hold of the sink, she would have sunk to the ground in a quivering pile of mush.
After gently teasing her clit and nibbling on her ear, he turned her around and pulled down her jeans and underwear before helping her step out of them. He picked her up and sat her on the edge of the counter, then knelt in front of her and pushed her knees apart.
He unexpectedly slid his tongue up the entire length of her slit, causing her to almost fall backwards against the cabinets and make her grab a hold of his head. He inadvertently pressed his face harder against her pussy, eliciting a lust filled moan from her lips.
He murmured in approval and began lapping at her hungrily, much to her satisfaction.
Marie arched and gasped, "Oh god...wait...wait...I'm gonna...I'm gonna...OH YES!"
Her entire body convulsed as he came hard, crying out his name through her blinding orgasm.
Logan stood up and smirked, "You ready for more baby?"
She nodded and hopped down off of the counter before he turned her around and bent her over the counter. Within seconds, he'd buried his entire length beside her.
He moaned as he thrust into her, fucking her as deep as he possibly could. Marie gasped and gripped onto the counter as her body jerked from his movements.
Soon, they were both cumming and crying out in unified pleasure.
After their steamy kitchen encounter, they showered together, then laid down with his arm protectively holding her close.
"What if it's all bullshit?" she suddenly asked.
"What is?"
She turned to look into his eyes, "The prophecy...the cult...everything."
Logan let out a breath and kissed her forehead, "Then I'll be really fuckin' happy."
"Why? Everything you worked for this past year or so woulda been a lie."
He nodded, "Yeah...but you'd be safe and I wouldn't have to worry about that sick bastard comin' after you."
Marie smiled and turned to nuzzle into him, "This is turnin' out to be quite a road trip."
Logan softly caressed her arm and sighed, "You're tellin' me."
After a few moments of cuddling, they got dressed in a few, choice articles of clothing and broke out their only unopened board game, Clue.
For some reason, when it came down to it, neither of them could correctly guess the right killer, weapon or location.
They decided to call it a draw and save it for another day.
Victor growled in frustration as Raven returned to the limo with no information after questioning gas station attendants about Marie's whereabouts.
Emma sat on the opposite side of the car, eyes closed in determination as she continued trying to break into Marie's mind.
She groaned and sighed, "This would be so much easier if I had Cerebro..."
Raven perked up slightly, "You think we-"
"Not even possible", said Emma.
Victor furrowed his eyebrows, "If you think you have a plan, I'm all ears."
Raven shifted into her natural blue state, then suddenly shifted into Storm's form, "Fire drill anyone?"
The next night, Victor, Emma and Raven snuck onto the west end of the professor's expansive estate. Emma looked at Raven, who had just shifted into Storm, "Remember, don't project. As long as you remain calm, you'll be fine."
An evil smirk appeared on Raven's borrowed face, "This ain't my first rodeo, sister."
Raven made her way into the mansion, stealthily sneaking through halls and dodging security cameras before making her way into Storm's room to chloroform the sleeping weather goddess.
When that deed was done, she snuck over to the nearest fire alarm and pulled it, making loud beeping noises echo throughout the entire school. Soon, children began pouring into the halls and she played the roll of dutiful teacher, directing kids out of the school's main entrance in a calm, peaceful manner.
Thankfully, she managed to avoid the professor and Jean since they were busy getting their own wings cleared. As the last of the children left her hallway, she motioned toward the stairs, "I'm going to go make sure the upstairs is clear. Tell Jean and Scott I'll be out in a second."
The last of the children nodded before obediently rushing out of the door and out of sight. As soon as the coast was clear, she rushed to the back entrance of the mansion, where Emma was waiting.
Victor stayed behind to be a lookout.
Raven and Emma made their way down to the lower levels and got Cerebro's chamber open with Raven briefly transforming into the professor.
She waited outside while Emma activated Cerebro and began working to find Marie.
As she floated through red, shining dots that represented the mutants of the world, she was guided to the form that was Marie. She appeared to be standing in a kitchen, drinking a glass of water.
After memorizing Marie's coordinates, Emma deactivated Cerebro, then opened its operational compartment and yanked out several cords, deeming the machine useless for anyone who may try to use it after her. She rushed out just in time to hear the 'all clear' bell ring.
As Emma and Raven slipped out the way they came in, Emma smirked at her partner in crime, "You've got a useful gift there, Raven."
"You know I'm thinkin' of goin' by Mystique..."
Emma raised a brow, "Hmmm...suits you."
After a day of exploring the woods around the cabin, Marie and Logan returned to eat dinner, play a game of Monopoly, have sex and go to sleep. Some time during the night, Marie thought she heard something outside, she she woke Logan up.
He got dressed and went outside to check the perimeter of the cabin and the surrounding property.
As she sat there waiting for him to come back, she suddenly heard a voice in her mind that was bone chillingly familiar. Before she could stop herself, her limbs had taken on a mind of their own. She stood and walked out of the cabin, then through the woods.
The entire time she tried to stop herself...even as she scraped her legs on sharp branches and cut her feet on jagged rocks, she continued walking closer and closer toward that voice...his voice...
She couldn't cry. She couldn't scream for Logan...she was a puppet and she knew she was no longer under her own control.
When she finally got to the main road, Victor stood there grinning sinisterly at her. He was flanked by two women. One, she recognized as his secretary, Raven, and the other, was vaguely familiar.
Marie guessed that was the telepath.
Victor held out a hand to her and the telepath used her powers to make Marie walk right over to him. He yanked her close and favored her with a hungry, invasive kiss before squeezing her tight, "I've gone through quite a lot to get you back...don't you worry...we won't be apart...ever again..."
Suddenly, all four of them heard Logan yelling her name in the distance. Victor pushed Marie toward Raven and Emma, "Get her in the car...I'll deal with him."
Marie's eyes widened, but that's all she could do in reaction to the impending fight between the man she loved and the man she hated.
As Emma and Raven shoved her in the car, they instructed the limo driver to start the engine and keep it idling.
Out the window, Marie saw Logan run from the woods with unsheathed claws. He barely had time to react before Victor caught him in the chest with a large, clawed hand, sending him sailing into a tree.
Logan slowly stood, then charged at Victor, successfully impaling his bicep on three of his large claws.
Victor hissed in pain, but grabbed Logan's wrist and yanked him closer, then slashed at his throat.
Marie watched in horror as giant spurts of blood sprang from Logan's neck.
His jugular had been severed...
She knew that, even with Logan's healing factor, that was an injury he might die from since he was losing blood quicker than he could recover it.
Logan grabbed his throat as Victor took the opportunity to pick him up and throw him into a tree.
The horror, sorrow and pain she felt overrode any psychic manipulations Emma held her under, which enabled her to finally take a hold of her own facilities just enough to scream bloody murder as she watched Logan's blood pool around his lifeless body.
Victor returned to the car and told the driver to leave before yelling at Emma to shut Marie up.
The telepath pushed Marie into a deep sleep, successfully ending her screams.
He sighed and began wiping blood off of him, "Welp...so much for doin' this the easy way. Emma, I need you to poke around in her mind...find out how to make the whole process as pleasant as it can be for her. When it's time, I want you to make her think she's experiencing her ultimate fantasy come true when she's with me. I don't feel like havin' to fight her throughout the entire thing...there's really no enjoyment in that."
She nodded, "Yes sir."
During the car ride to the air strip, Emma began moving through Marie's memory and personality...her wants, her desires, her likes and dislikes...
For some reason, Emma couldn't tell whether the vivid visions of her having sex with Logan were sheer fantasy or real.
Either way, she had found a way to make Marie's experience more enjoyable...only, she couldn't tell her boss the specifics. If he knew what she was going to do in order to get Marie into this whole experience, he'd flip out...
When Marie came to, she was lying on the sofa bed in the cabin.
A familiar voice called her name, causing her to immediately sit up and look toward the door...it was Logan. He was half naked, looking like he was about to come to bed.
"Hey beautiful...miss me?"
She smiled and rushed over to him, before jumping into his arms, "Is this a dream?"
He kissed her, shook his head and let out a brief chuckle, "No...it's all real...I can promise you that."
"I thought-I thought-"
Logan put a gentle finger on her lips, "Shhh...no more thinking, alright?"
Marie took his face in her hands and lovingly kissed him, making him moan into her mouth. She backed him up to the bed and began fiddling with the tie on his pants, "Fine...no more thinking...let's just do."
He smirked and pushed her back onto the bed before yanking open her robe and roughly grasping her breast.
Unlike the couple of other times they had sex, Logan didn't really bother with foreplay this time. He kissed her neck and bit at her skin before yanking his cock out and unceremoniously thrusting himself inside of her.
He didn't make eye contact, he didn't favor her with kisses, he just closed his eyes and began rutting on top of her, fucking her so hard, she could barely get the words out when she finally tried to speak, "B-b-baby...s-s-sl-slow d-d-d-own..."
Logan completely ignored her as his hips slammed down into hers, making her cry out from the pain filled pleasure he was inflicting.
His pace grew even more erratic as he growled, "Here it comes...you ready?"
"W-w-what?"
He slammed into her one last time and threw his head back, howling like a wild beast at the moon.
As soon as he finished cumming, the cabin began slowly fading away, giving way to unfamiliar walls covered in grand paintings.
Marie blinked and shook her head as she looked around, "What's-"
Her voice broke off when she turned her eyes back to the man who still hovered above her. Just as she no longer saw the cozy cabin, she no longer saw Logan...she saw where she really was and who she was really with.
She saw Victor...
Panicking, she began desperately screaming and fighting against him, but he just laughed and clamped a hand over her mouth to keep her from screaming, "I don't know what Emma was doin' in your head, but she sure did do a number on you, huh?"
Marie tried to push against his chest with her fists, but her tiny frame was no match against him.
He looked down into her eyes, "I gotta say...you definitely lived up to all the hype. I just think it's sad you didn't have a hymen...woulda loved to pop it. What did ya do? Break it while horseback riding? Wearin' tampons?"
A tear streaked down her face as he finally removed his hand from her mouth, slipped out of her and moved from atop her trembling body. She quickly sat up, snatched up the nearest blanket and covered herself as she slowly rocked back and forth, weeping softly.
Victor quickly shook his head and pushed her back down, "Lay back...relax...need to give the swimmers time to reach their destination..."
She closed her eyes and made her mind up. The next time he touches her...she's going to drain him.
Letting out a deep breath, Marie dug deep, searching for her internal switch that turned her mutation on and off...but, for some reason, she couldn't find it.
Marie's eyes popped open to find Victor laughing at her, "Emma's really a brilliant telepath...more brilliant than Xavier and Jean Grey combined...she was able to conveniently help you misplace the switch to your mutation, so I don't have to worry about it."
She suddenly jumped up and made to slap him, but he grabbed her wrist in mid swing, "Every time you misbehave, it'll equal one round in the sack with me, beautiful."
Marie cried out in anger and snatched away from him as her laughing captor left, shutting and locking the door behind him.
Logan woke up in a puddle of his own sticky pool of drying blood.
"Marie!" was the first word he managed to cough out as he stumbled to his feet and rushed toward the road. He had no idea how long he'd been out for, but he knew it was almost sunrise.
Logan helplessly looked up and down the road, screaming her name. When it was apparent she was long gone, he dropped to his knees and cried out in agony, "MAAAARIIIIIEE!" He lowered his head, "I...I love you..."
He suddenly looked up and realized he needed help...he needed the professor to find her for him so that he could save her. Logan began rushing back to the cabin to get the communicator Storm gave him before they hit the road.
As soon as he activated it, Jean's panicked voice was on the other end, "Logan? Is everything alright? We think we've had a breach in security here. Cerebro's not working and Storm was chloroformed in her sleep. We think Victor was here..."
Logan rushed around the cabin, washing the blood off of him and changing shirts as he talked on the communicator, "Yeah, I'm sure he was. They...they have her...I don't know how they found her or for how long they've had her. Victor ripped open my jugular during a fight and I just came to..."
Jean's voice shook, "Without Cerebro we won't be able to find her...he's got so much money and so many resources at his disposal...she could be anywhere by now, I-"
Her voice broke off as he heard the professor come on the line, "Logan...come back to the school."
"Hell no! Marie's out there and I'm going to find her!"
As usual, the professor's voice was even and comforting, "There's no way to even begin performing a foot search for her Logan. If we're going to be of any help to Marie at all, this is where you should be."
Logan didn't realize he had tears in his eyes until his gruff voice cracked slightly, "I-I was s'posed to protect her from him...now he has her...and she's all alone while he's doin' god knows what to her."
"Marie is a strong young woman. I assure you, she'll get through this."
He ran a hand down his face, roughly wiping the tears away before promising the professor he'd be back in Westchester the next day.
Logan quickly packed up both he and Marie's belongings before tossing them into the SUV. He was almost ready to pull away when he stopped, turned the engine back off and ran back into the cabin.
After some searching, he found what he was looking for...the three board games they'd faithfully played since the start of their road trip.
Hopefully, they'd play again one day...
I know many of you will be upset/feel strongly about that last part, as well you should. No flames please people. There IS a method to my madness! DO give constructive feedback though! REVIEW REVIEW REVIEW!
Coming up next...
Marie discovers what life is like as an important member of the Brethren Court.
Cerebro's damage is analyzed.
Logan returns to Westchester.
Marie makes a startling discovery.