Promises

STORY: PROMISES (2/?)
TITLE: Things don’t go according to plan
AUTHOR: Alex
EMAIL: alex@graham160.freeserve.co.uk
DISCLAIMERS: Nope not mine, they belong to Fox and Marvel
ARCHIVE RIGHTS: just ask
RATING: R (for now may change later on)
SUMMARY: Things heat up for Marie, and Logan finds himself a new friend who has a calming effect on him (think X2)


Chapter Two

Marie realized that this man was a feral mutant, and he was in full feral mode, the human part of his personality was on the back burner. She knew this because her mutation enabled her to absorb people, their life memories and in the case of mutants, their mutations. Two years ago, she had fully absorbed her second mutant, Sabretooth. It had been him or her, like in the case of Ms Marvel. She had made the decision to end their miserable existence. With Ms Marvel it was because she was dying of cancer and she had decided to go out with a bang so to speak. She had gone on a killing spree in the hope that someone would find a way to get past her invulnerability.
Marie had, now Carol Danvers was a mere whisper in the back of her mind where as with Sabretooth, she had to totally squash both memories and personality, but had managed to keep his mutation, enhanced senses and healing factor, he had been a feral. She knew enough that she was in deep shit if he decided to attack; she still wore her collar, so she couldn’t rely on her healing factor or strength if he started a fight. So she did the only thing left, she submitted to him.

Dropping her arms to her side, Marie then lowered her head and tilted it to one side, showing her neck.
Marie knew he would recognize this move as the submission it was meant to be, she could only hope that he would not decide to show her just how dominant he could be. Marie had seen this part of being a feral from some of Sabretooth’s memories before she had slammed the lid on all things appertaining to the old man; he had been somewhere over a hundred years old when she ended his life.
None of it had been nice. He had been a sadist to the full extent of his capabilities.

Dragging her mind pack to the present, Marie became aware of the man in front of her, he was sniffing the air looking at her with a confused expression on his face.

Obviously no one had ever submitted to him in the past.
Thanking her lucky stars, Marie was deeply surprised when the man sank down onto his knees in front of her and nuzzled against her face. He slowly began to push Marie onto her back, he was going to rape her anyway, and she would have no say in the matter.

Thinking quickly, Marie whispered in his ear, “No, you don’t want to do that.”
The man pulled back sharply and stared at her. Marie enforced what she wanted by shaking her head sadly at the man.
He was puzzled by her behavior, anyone could see that, so she carried on gently, trying to get him back from his feral state.
Continuing to shake her head no, she also made shushing noises like you would make to calm down an upset child. He finally backed away from Marie and sat back on his heels.
He tilted his head to one side with an expression of pain and disgust on his face. He shook his head from side to side a few times, and then there was intelligence in his eyes. The man had conquered the beast.

Logan finally got a grip on his beast. Just in time too from the looks of things, they had thrown another woman in his cell, all in the hopes he would get them pregnant.
Sighing to himself, he ran his hand through his long hair, and took stock of the situation.
There was no denying the fact that this was a beautiful woman who sat naked in front of him. She seemed to be waiting for him to come to grips with himself. Finally no longer able to stand her quiet contemplation of him he whispered at her, “Sorry.”
She smiled at him.
“Hey, my name is Marie; I kinda accepted a ride from someone I shouldn’t have. Now I’m stuck in here with you, guess they don’t like letting a girl have some modesty.”
Marie was trying to hide her ‘generous assets’ behind crossed arms, and she had managed to get one of her legs to hide her pelvic area. Boy was she glad that she had taken yoga classes all those years ago.
Cursing a blue streak under his breath, Logan took off the army issue shirt he wore and handed it to Marie, “Sorry it’s not too clean but it’s better than nothing. Name’s Logan … I think, been here quite a while.”

His voice was raspy and gruff; obviously he hadn’t had to use it for some time.
Accepting the proffered shirt, Marie turned her back to Logan and put it on buttoning it up nearly to her neck.
“Hey, is it safe to talk or do they monitor everything that goes on in here?” Marie asked in a curious tone.
“Not any more, got fed up of replacing the cameras,” Logan told her with a smirk.
“Good, don’t want them knowing all my secrets,” Marie told him with a wink.
Logan stood up and offered Marie his hand; she accepted the help in standing.
Both walked over to the corner and sat down on the pallet.
Looking at Logan, Marie decided to ask a few questions.
“How long have you been here?” Logan’s expression turned sour. “Not sure, been stuck here a while. They wiped my memories about six years ago I think. I heal real fast so things sorta came back, enough for me to keep track. Once a month I get sent out to do jobs for them.” Logan dropped his head down to his chest. “They use the implants in my skull to control me, I’m their assassin.”
Marie gasped in shock at this admission. The poor man. Looks like Charles Xavier had it all wrong because, apparently, instead of him being a willing participant, he was merely a puppet. Marie was rapidly getting pissed at this. Thinking quickly, she added up how long she would be here for(remove) until the Professor contacted her. She had another five days or so till Charles established contact using his telepathy. Marie was his ace in the hole. His star warrior.
Taking a risk, she decided to tell him more about herself.
“Well, sugar, I’m twenty-two, I originally come from Mississippi. I have poisonous skin, when I touch someone I suck out their memories and life-force, and in the case of mutants, their gifts as well.”
Logan looked shocked at this, then puzzled. “I’ve touched you though.”
Marie smiled, “I can control it now. I was fifteen when I kissed my boyfriend David and put him in a coma for three weeks. Needless to say I wasn’t welcome at home anymore, people were scared of me, so I ran away. I was spent eight months on the road, and then I met a wonderful man who adopted me and gave me a home. He helped me get control.” Marie decided to leave out about her invulnerability, strength, flight and healing, it could cause problems for her in the near future, especially if the bozo’s running this lab found out about it.
Dropping her voice down to a whisper, Marie told him about Xavier.
“My adoptive father is a telepath, a very powerful one. He knew that a mutant was being held here, but not who. He asked me to come up here and see what I could find out. I opted to do this the hard way and hitch hike all the way here. I don’t live with my father; I move around a lot. I bring in the runaways I find on the street, dad runs a school for the gifted.”
Logan nodded his head in agreement, then a thought struck him, “So, if your dad is a telepath, does that mean he keeps tabs on you? Does this mean he is going to get you out?”
Marie smiled at the large man sitting next to her. “Yes it does. I’ve got maybe five days till he gets in contact again, and then the shit will hit the fan so to speak.” Marie told him this with a large grin on her face.
Suddenly, they both heard the soldiers marching feet return to their cell.
The soldiers deactivated the force field on the cell, and aimed their guns at Logan.
The captain walked in behind the soldiers, his expression wasn’t a pleased one.
“So, I see you’ve failed us yet again, Wolverine. No matter. This little prize will bear us a child of your progeny; we will just have to do it another way.”
With this said two guards rushed forward and grabbed Marie’s arms.
“Come along, Rogue, you have an appointment with the doctors.”
They dragged Marie screaming from the cell and re-activated the force field.
Logan was bewildered. He liked this new woman, all he could do was hope they didn’t decide to do to her like they did to him, and hope that he would see her again.

AN. Things will be explained in the next chapter.


Thank's again to Karen for the Beta.