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Post by Kerri on Jan 3, 2006 17:17:57 GMT -5
(A simple yes would have sufficed. No mater.) Cat steeped off the plane and looked around for a moment then looked at the crumbling mansion open mouthed. "Wha" Her expression was a stunned look.
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Post by Chance on Jan 3, 2006 17:24:29 GMT -5
"It's not over yet..." Patrick said eyeing Syphon as the dark smoke infultrated her pale skin, staining it a strange shade of gray. "What's going to happen to her?"
Insdie Caity was screaming. Her eyes had changed totally black, and her chestnut colored hair, always so shiney and bouncy in the past, was jet-black and pin straight, laying on her back like a dead animal.
But worst of all was the immense pain that Caity was experiencing, the wrenching sting as her DNA rearranged itself to deal with the new mutation. She whimpered as the stinging loneliness of the darkness infultrated her memories, and as all the mistakes of her past flew to the top.
<NO!> Professor Xavier yelled. <You can fight this Caitlyn! Just give me a few more minutes, a few more seconds to deal with this...we need to filter out all the people that Midnigth has killed.>
<Hang in Caity...You can fight this!> Mike reassured her. But he could feel the darkness consuming her, eating away at her like it had done to Midnight. He wasn't sure if she was strong enough...
<Just save Eric and yourselves...and get out! I'm done...we can never delete the darkness, it's always going to be there. There's only one way...>
She knew what had to be done. The darkness was from another dimension, and that other dimension was where it belonged!
<I love you Michael,> she whispered telepathically. <And I love you too Professor...> she turned to face the others on the lawn, and through a ring of darkness that circled her vision, she could see her children, her babies, walking out of the X-Jet.
<Tabby...baby Chris, I love you. Take care of each other...Mommy is always with you!>
Then, with a nod to Midnight, she mustered up all the energy she had left. With a final release of darkness the lawn around her exploded and a cloud of black smoke left the Xavier Institute coated in a dark shroud.
<Radial...I'll miss you.> Caity spoke as she faded from existance...
A moment passed, and then the darkness disappeared, spiraling into a small ripple in space and disappearing forever into the world from which it came from.
There, on the lawn in front of the institute, in a crater the size of a lake, layed Professor Xavier, Michael Brosley, Eric James and random men from Weapon X.
"Caity?" Mike cried softly as he gazed about the bodies. "Caity?"
"She's gone Michael," Professor Xavier said quietly, his hand on his shoulder. "She's not in this world any longer."
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Post by Kerri on Jan 3, 2006 17:49:17 GMT -5
"But there had to have been another way." Cat looked around then sighs. "There had to have been"
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Post by Radial on Jan 3, 2006 19:02:32 GMT -5
Cammy shut her eyes tight, a few tears streamed off her face. She took off her thin mint green cap and held it to her chest and tried not to break down.
Radial on the other hand grew red in the face. Anger and sadness filled him. He collapsed to the floor screaming for her to come back. Small light explosions surrounded him blowing chunks of the grass upward and making it impossible to get near him. He tried to deny that those where her last words to him, but he couldn't.
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Post by Midnight on Jan 4, 2006 11:35:35 GMT -5
"No, Caity!" Midnight screamed, throwing herself forward, hand outstreached, just as the darkness exploded on the lawn. Midnight couldn't see. She had been able to see in the dark since she was fifteen, and now it shrouded and blinded her like it had everyone else, but she had been aquainted with this personal hell before. Her breath came in short gasps as she started to panic. Then it was gone. A smoking crator lay on the lawn and she could see people laying down there... and there he was. Chance. "Eric!" she screamed, running towards him. She knew she was no longer a mutant and he might not love her anymore because of that, but she loved him, and needed to reassure herself that he was alive and whole.
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Post by xt on Jan 4, 2006 17:48:04 GMT -5
X-T looked down at her feet, keeping emotions inside of her, but she could feel tears in her eyes. Both happy... and sad... Suddenly, little voices were heard by them. The surviving students paraded onto the lawn and ran towards them. With a smile and tears in her eyes, X-T embraced her class with hugs. She looked over at the others and smiled as she sat on the ground as a couple of eight year olds grasped her neck with hugs. She looked at the others, seeing them sadden She stood up, one still hanging off of her. She looked over at the boy, took him off sadly, and set him on the ground.
"Not now, Johnny," X-T said sadly, walking over next to Fallback, "This ain't a happy meetin' no more,"
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Post by Chance on Jan 4, 2006 19:29:23 GMT -5
Patrick stood stoney faced, staring at the gigantic hole.
"She did what had to be done." And with that he turned to X-T and looked deep into her eyes.
"But at least we're all still here, you, me and all the kids. Maybe joining the military was a mistake. I think I've spent all my life running from the Institute, from the fact that I was a mutant. But now...I feel at peace." He smiled at X-T,
"With you I feel at peace."
Mindwarp stared at the hole that he lay in. Caity...his one and only...she was gone. Flashes of memory darted through his mind as tears rolled down his face. He could hear Evan screaming and suddenly he knew.
"I forgive you Caitlyn. I know you did love me...but deep down I always knew where your heart truely lied." He choked out a tired laugh, a laugh riddled with tears and pain,
"Can't hide anything when you're married to a telepath." But then Tabby and Chris ran down into the chasm. Mike reached and drew them into a tight embrace. There, on the spot where their wife and their mother had disappered, they wept.
Where am I? Eric James wondered as his hazy mind attempted to focus. His green eyes opened and then closed again as the bright light drew tears to them.
"What's happening?" His voice came out hoarse, like it hadn't been used in decades. All he could remember was an eternal darkness, a black that was so deep, so bottomless that all he could do was count the seconds away, silently entombed in the mind of his lover...
"Midnight!" He jolted upright as the memory of his beautiful fiance sprang into his head. "What's happened, where are you?"
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Post by Kerri on Jan 4, 2006 19:56:51 GMT -5
Cat clenched her fists and teeth and as a pare of tear ran down her face she started to telekinetically punch a tree.
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Post by xt on Jan 4, 2006 20:17:23 GMT -5
X-T blushed a bright red. She could feel her heart pace.
"I-I," She stuttered, "I don' know what ta say. How could ya be at peace with me when I almost risked yer neck?" X-T bit her lip in nervousness as she scratched her neck. Her heart began to be faster than before. She looked up at Fallback and smiled.
"I'm too much of a pain fer yer sack," X-T said with a smile. There was a tug on her leg. X-T looked down to see kids gathered around them.
"I did what ya told me to, Miss T! I wasn't a hero! I wanted to help, but I didn't!" A little girl with blonde pigtails said with a smile. X-T smiled and bent down at her level.
"Trust me, Cindy. One day you'll be a hero like Mr. Fallback here," X-T said picking her up and holding her up on her hip. X-T looked from her with a smile, then to Fallback, "We all need a hero like him these days. From my class and me, is there anythin' we can do?"
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Post by Chance on Jan 5, 2006 14:58:06 GMT -5
Fallback smiled and reached down, taking X-T's hand. "You can give me a place here at the Institute." He knew that liking X-T was so new, so strange and so fast. But being an X-Man, or even a soldier, he knew that there was never time to second guess an emotion. He had to do what he felt was right, and what felt right was being with X-T.
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Post by xt on Jan 6, 2006 18:14:31 GMT -5
((squee!))
X-T stared deep in Fallback's eyes. She couldn't believe what she was hearing. All here life, she had never had heard anything so beautiful in her life. Her heart skip a beat, she was ten feet in the air.
"Oh Fallback..." X-T said softly with a smile. She set down the child in her arms, then stood back up. She could take her eyes off of him. What he was saying. Him smiling made her have a warm feeling inside of her, that made her smile to.
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Post by Midnight on Jan 7, 2006 7:45:15 GMT -5
Midnight practically flew into Chance's arms, clean tears rolling down her face. "Eric, I'm right here," she said softly into his ear. He was warm and alive, something that she had never dreamed she would see again.
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Post by xt on Jan 10, 2006 19:24:08 GMT -5
((oh la la... everyone died...))
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Post by Midnight on Jan 11, 2006 1:35:29 GMT -5
((Not everybody I don't think. I haven't seen Mike around for a while and that is who I'm waiting for.))
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Post by xt on Jan 11, 2006 16:14:49 GMT -5
((same here. wonder where he went...))
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Post by Chance on Jan 14, 2006 13:37:23 GMT -5
((okay, sorry, Midterms. I'm back! Okay here we go...))
Patrick smiled and hugged X-T close. He liked the way her warm body felt against his. Smiling he moved down to meet her kiss.
Through the haze that was gently floating around the crater Eric could make out the form of a woman running towards him. As she flew to him, he couldn't help but allow tears to trickle out of the sides of his eyes.
"Midnight," he whispered, taking in the scent of her hair as she wrapped her arms around him. Had it really been so long?
"Midnight...I can't believe it, I can't...I can't..." He was moving his hands all over her, feeling her face, her hips, her neck, anything and everything to know that she was really here. Finally he mashed his lips into her's, kissing his finance that he thought was gone forever.
"I love you," he whispered between breaths. "I love you so much."
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Post by xt on Jan 15, 2006 0:50:42 GMT -5
X-T was shocked at first. She had a hundred different feelings running through her, like a waterfall. She liked it. She put her arms on his shoulders as they continued to kiss.
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Post by Midnight on Jan 15, 2006 2:26:01 GMT -5
Midnight's brown eyes were filled with tears as well and she could barely keep from smiling. She met his kiss, holding onto him. Oh, she loved him too. And that is why she forced herself away. She stood a foot from him, looking down. Once she had been afraid to show her red-on-black eyes, but now it was the normal brown ones she hid. She wasn't a mutant, and she had killed him. "Eric," she whispered. "I... I don't deserve you. I am not a mutant and I sent you to hell..." The tears continued to trickle down her face. "I should go. You deserve better."
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Post by Chance on Jan 15, 2006 12:11:38 GMT -5
Patrick felt X-T curling into him, and he pushed back. Finally, when the kiss was done he smiled, and held her close, brushing his lips across her forehead.
"Are you kidding?" Eric shouted, moving to his feet. Although the pain in his legs was excruciating, he still managed to stand.
"So what you aren't a mutant, that's not why I loved you in the first place. I loved you for you, not for your powers!" He moved towards her, tried to wrap her in another hug, but it was clear that she was determined to push him away.
"You didn't kill me Marie, the Darkness did. Just like it stole Syphon away from Mindwarp, the Darkness stole me away from you. I love you Marie. Where you sent me wasn't hell. But if you leave me, then, it may as well have been."
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Post by xt on Jan 15, 2006 14:42:46 GMT -5
X-T couldn't stop smiling. She was flying, no, she was soaring. She looked up at Fallback and smiled.
"You gotta stay, after tha'," X-T said with a laugh. Her face was stilling steaming red, but she was alright with it. Nothing could bring her low. Nothing.
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