Hayley was glad to be alone
for the first time in a long time. She
sighed and turned the shower on to think, and sighed as she disrobed and pinned
her hair on top of her head. She eyed the scale wearily and felt ill and before
she knew it she was throwing up in the toilet.
She groaned and went to the
sink to get some cold water to splash in her face. Funny Ally didn’t seem to
have the morning sickness like she did but she also didn’t think Ally was as
far as she was.
She sighed and climbed into
the shower. She wondered where Remy was
all this time as she let the water hit her and wet her hair. She felt better
feeling the warm water stream against her and finally she let her tears fall.
Tears for her pain Sabretooth left her with, tears for confused state she was
in, but most of all tears for her brother.
She didn’t want to leave him because she felt like he needed her. She
wasn’t sure why he felt like that but she needed to be there for him even if
she was an anchor for him so he didn’t leave.
She lathered up and ignored
the tears determined to get them out before Remy came back because she had
cried enough to him. He was more than a shoulder to cry on and Hayley would
have to prove she still was a strong woman despite the loss of her power.
She lathered her stomach
and smiled at Remy’s request for a child. She was scared of giving birth at all
and how she might change with a child. She began to cry harder as she scrubbed
her pubic area. She hadn’t healed enough and she could still feel the soreness
Sabretooth had left her with and it reminded her of the rape.
She wanted to forget what
he had done to her and this soreness wasn’t helping the fact. She wanted to
make love to Remy and knew he needed her too but she wasn’t very comfortable
with the idea yet. She felt if she could push past her uncomfortable feelings
she would begin to erase the memory of the rapes.
She rinsed the lather from
her body feeling too warm from her shower. She had began to sweat a little when
she had gotten out of the shower but she was always cold at least ever since
she had become a fire mutant. She grabbed a light towel and looked into the
bedroom to see it was still empty and she sighed to herself and grabbed the
lotion applying it slowly.
She wondered if she should
go in search of Remy but also knew he wanted some time alone and just found a
very light night gown pacing the floor lightly.
She climbed into the warm
bed and it’s crisp sheets. She sat up
watching television waiting for Remy but soon fell asleep.
Remy kept his frown as he
and Rayne left the infirmary.
Rayne touched his back
lightly worried why he looked so upset, “Rem?”
“Hayley’s my femme,”
he said quickly with his hot temper rising.
Rayne nodded, “Oui, so?”
“Dat mem’ry bothered me,
Chere,” he admitted as he pushed his hair back. “Ah saw her with him before me.”
“You know he must feel de
same way,” Rayne sighed, “Bet dat’s why he acts like he does towards yo’.”
“But Ah saw dem….”
he trailed, “Ah saw her…”
“It was a long time ago,”
Rayne sighed. “Are ya gonna stay in your room tonight den?”
He shook his head, “Ah
don’ know.” He exhaled loudly, “Ah
think Ah should talk ta her but Ah just don’t know.”
He kissed her head
quick, “Ah’m goin’ for a walk ta clear ma head.” He stopped to light a cigarette. “Ah need some time alone,
ok? Jetaime petite,” he said as he
turned to meet her eye. “Ah’ll meet yo’ in da kitchen later, alright?”
“Fine.” Rayne sighed and growled, watching her
beleaguered brother’s back as Hayley left him in conflict once again. She made her way to the kitchen to ready
things for cooking the big meal.
Alex was on her way
back to the infirmary to be with Beast and she saw Remy walking strong and
quick. She ran to catch up with him wondering what was wrong.
“Remy?” Alex asked
quickly and he turned with a slight smile but then it faded. “Ah thought you
were Hayley.” He plucked the cigarette from his mouth after taking a hard drag.
“Sorry,” Alex whispered.
“It’s not you, Hayley an Ah have ta talk is all,” he looked
at the floor.
“Do you want to talk to
me about anything?”
“Can Ah ask you a
question or two?”
“Sure.”
“Was Hayley happy wit’
Logan? Why’d dey break up?”
“Hayley broke up with
him, but I don’t know why,” she sighed.
“I suppose you would have to ask Hayley if they were happy. I mean, I
guess they were happy, but then they couldn’t have been truly happy if they
broke up.” She sighed again, not
wanting to be Hayley’s keeper right now.
He sighed it wasn’t much
more than he knew already and he felt bad for asking her now. “How’re yo’
feelin’ now Alex? You better?”
“Better than what?”
“Yo’ been through a lot,
non?” He raised an eyebrow, “you should be restin’.”
Alex blushed being
reminded of her slight attraction to him and the uncomfortable moment with
Bobby. “I’m fine, but I need to find Hank.”
She started off and then turned back to him, “I hope you feel better
too.” Then she wandered off to find the same Alex who was in love with Hank and
didn’t look at every man who had less hair on his body.
Beast found Jean and
Charles and began to speak with them after he moved Justice to the infirmary.
“He did what?” Jean said
as she looked upon a sleeping Justice. Then she too felt him tugging at her
mind and look to Charles to confirm he found the same.
“I don’t believe he means
any malice by it,” Charles said and looked at his nephew, “he seems to be
searching for something.”
“Memories of Jordan?”
Beast guessed.
Jean perked up, “how did
you know?”
“Allyson thought that is was
what he wanted,” he sighed.
“Can we give it to him so
we don’t have him wandering through other’s minds?” Jean asked.
“I would rather not,”
Charles sighed. “I want him to recover and his telepathic search for Jordan and
her young memories might keep him motivated.”
“So you believe his search
for Jordan will help him get well,” Beast asked and Charles nodded, “A father’s
love that may save his life.” He smiled and saw Alex walk in slowly.
The three ushered her out
and kept their own distance but they all stopped in their tracks.
They could all see the
images and could only observe as they could see the stately Adams mansion and a
very young Justice standing in the living room with Oliver and with an
exhausted looking triplets who sat on the couch listening to the bantering.
“Justice you have a very
promising career ahead of you here with me,” Oliver insisted gesturing
pointedly.
Justice kept his ground, “Dad, I appreciate your offer but Bob and I have a great opportunity too.”
“Son, you are an asset in
the labs and you are only surpassed by your sisters,” he reasoned quickly.
Hayley stood, “I don’t want
to be stuck in those labs either,” Hayley said quickly and faced the cold stare
of their father, “they creep me out.”
“Not surprising since your
sisters are far beyond you,” Oliver scoffed.
“It’s not out calling,”
Justice said calmly.
Oliver looked to Allyson
and Alex, “And what is your calling pray tell?”
“I am fine in the labs for
now but if there was something more I would like to be able to choose it for
myself,” Ally argued.
Oliver glared at Alex,
“and you?”
“I would prefer to stay in
the labs,” Alex said watching the stares of her siblings, “I am very interested
in it and would like to stay on.”
“Spoken like my favorite,”
Oliver chuckled.
Hayley narrowed her eyes,
“more like a traitor.”
“Look,” Justice jumped in
the middle again, “Nobody is leaving tomorrow but we want to follow our own
lives, father,” Justice took a deep breath, “and not your expectations of us.”
Oliver cut the trio a
hateful look and gathered his newspaper as he met Justice’s eye, “So be it,” he
spat in his son’s face, “and don’t be expecting me to fund these new careers.”
He left the room swiftly.
They were pulled into
another vision and they could see the labs much like the ones they had found
Rayne in and fought Oliver Adams in.
They could hear the noises and soon they could all see Hayley and Logan
caught against a table and tied down as Justice entered.
Justice slowly sat down
his coffee and went to them struggling with their binds. He groaned against the
restraints and made very little leeway freeing them. He turned quickly and met
his father’s eyes, “Father, I need to get Hayley loose,” he turned back to his
sister, “she’s gotten herself trapped somehow.”
A loud hearty laugh caught
Justice’s attention and he turned to see the amusement on Oliver’s face, “My
son, just who do you think put them there?”
Justice felt weak, “I don’t
understand.”
Oliver came closer and
grabbed Hayley’s face by the jaw and shook it with a grin, “defiant at times
isn’t she?”
Justice didn’t back down
and tried to feel his father with his telepathy.
“Justice, your little
telepathy isn’t going to hurt me,” Oliver sighed, “stay with me son and I will
assure you have abilities to put others in awe.”
Justice scoffed, “Never!”
“Just as well,” Oliver
sighed and turned to the other table he had been standing at, “Allyson was just
as adamant.”
Justice pushed his father
and made way to his sister he could now see on the table, “Ally,” Justice
touched her curls gently and she opened her eyes weakly and shut them just as
quickly, “ALLY!” He looked at his father with hatred. “What did you do?”
Oliver watched Justice
approach him. He knew his son worked out with weights and was a strong young
man but he was undaunted by this and stayed firmly in his place. He sighed, “I
had hoped you would be their voice of reason.” He held out a small tube and
sprayed Justice in the face with it and watched as Justice fell to the table.
“What did you do to me?”
Justice groaned.
“I wanted you awake to see
what your defiance has created for Logan and your sisters,” Oliver
growled, pushed Justice on to the table and secured his arms and legs quickly.
Justice looked around for
the room, “Where is Alex?”
“My faithful child,”
Oliver sneered, “I have her finishing the paper work of this experiment.” He chuckled, “Currently, she is unaware it
will be done to humans and to herself.”
Justice grunted trying to
get his body to move, “you can’t do this.”
“Oh yes I can, and I
shall,” Oliver smiled and rubbed his chin, “I wonder if Logan will live through
the process I have in store for him.”
Oliver moved the table
with Allyson to the one next Hayley and locked them into the mechanism that
pushed both women up right position as their heads hung down sadly. He smiled
seeing Logan’s eyes opened to watch as well. He placed a mask over their faces
and smiled evilly as he readied the needle. “This is what you get mister Logan
for snooping around my labs.”
Justice looked to Logan
who was as helpless as he was. He could see the needle administered and both
women moved slightly at the needle’s touch.
Oliver pulled a long tube over Hayley and Ally’s body locking them
inside like an oxygen tent.
A noise stopped them all
and they looked to see Alex at the doorway with the files in her hand and her
mouth agape. She ran to her sisters and screamed seeing a bloodied figure near
by, Amber.
Justice and Logan struggled
to break free. “RUN!” Justice yelled but the warning came too later and Oliver
hit Alex in the face.
“Sorry this happens to you
too but how could I leave you out?” Oliver laughed at Alex grasping her
bloodied lip. Then backed her into a table already upright as the restraints
snapped around her body. “Don’t struggle my sweet it will only make it worse,”
he sighed. “I will leave you awake to show you what is written on paper really
does work.”
“Dad,” Alex cried, “I don’t
understand.”
“I am sorry Alex but I
can’t allow all of you to leave me. As
punishment for trying to leave you will be punished along with your friends and
siblings.” Oliver sighed.
The words weren’t lost on
Logan and Justice, “Friends?” Justice grunted.
“I am sorry son,” Oliver
laughed as he met Logan’s snarling face and placed a mask over his mouth and
watched him slide into unconsciousness.
Other scientist, clad in surgical gowns, began filing into the room.
One joined his side,
“Which one is getting the skeletal procedure?”
He asked and Justice’s face panicked.
Oliver pointed to Logan,
“that one,” he hissed. “I tried it on
the other one but it failed,” he sighed as he marched over to where the others
in surgical gowns were removing Amber’s limp body, “needless to say she didn’t
survive.”
Alex and Justice went nuts
watching her corpse carted away and discarded like a mannequin.
“I want that one,” he pointed
to Alex, “awake for her procedure.”
They nodded as he marched up
to Alex and administered a shot and placed her in the same confinement as her
sisters, ignoring the cries of “NO”
The others and Justice
watched as they were all encased by a gas and their screams could be heard and
were almost unbearable to those who stood by and watched. The triplet’s bodies
flew forward and their eyes glowed wildly as they began to scream from the
pain. Soon Ally and Hayley lay there like limp dolls and Alex groaned watching
as a voyeur from her place as she could see Justice being treated the same as
they had been but for some reason Oliver didn’t do the honors and Alex realized
he couldn’t do it to Justice, his only son.
She did see her father
chuckle as he helped them place Logan inside of a fluid filled tube and held a
tray of instruments. He made his way to Alex and grabbed her by the chin as one
of the other scientists put Justice out for the count.
Olive shook Alex’s chin
meanly, “watch your brother become stronger too.”
Alex groaned, “Too?”
“I have helped you to
evolve,” Oliver smiled, “soon you will see you were a mere telepath before, but
now,” he gestured to labs, “you will surpass everything you ever wanted.”
“You are mad,” Alex said
hardly believing it her words.
She saw him turn and
produce another tray of instruments and knew they were to be used on her
sisters and herself and cringed.
“I am not mad or angry but
I will ensure you will be part of these labs with the procedures,” Oliver
laughed, “Nobody would befriend such freaks of nature. Perhaps as telepaths you could hide your
mutations but I doubt it will be so easy now.”
Alex began to scream wildly watching Justice being put through
what she had been through. His body jumped involuntarily and his eyes turned
into sapphires as he screamed under the equipment.
Alex screamed louder as the
tear ran down her cheeks.