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Eloi Chapter Thirty Nine
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Wanda did
not know what to do, not that she would admit it to anyone. She was so close,
she knew it like she knew her own name. But she could not find Pietro, she could not find Tarot and she could not even
bring herself to go back to Tabby. She
felt stupid, she decided. She had turned this into some sort of a knight’s
quest, seeking to prove her worth not just to herself but to her girlfriend and
to prove that she was not like her father, not like anyone else in the
Brotherhood, no matter what her past was.
_And look at where it got me.
_
Bayville
Women’s Shelter smelled like dust and bleach, an odd combination, all things
considered. Wanda hated being there,
taking up space when she knew other women needed her bed, but she had no where
else to go. The apartment had been turned, their belongings strewn everywhere,
anything that could have hidden a tangible secret broken open. An eviction notice was on the door, along
with some snippy note from the management office referring to a supposed loud,
drug induced party. Wanda pulled the
pink blanket up to her chin and stared at the ceiling. _Life has a way of kicking you right in the
throat sometimes. All this time I
could’ve been doing X and holding wild orgies… much more fun way to get
evicted. _ She blinked as the fluorescent light
overhead flickered to life, the other women in the large room groaning as it
awakened them. The rubber-soled
footsteps of one of the hostel workers squeaked on the linoleum floor and Wanda
knew, without even looking, they were headed for her.
“Germaine[1]?”
She sighed
and pushed herself up onto her elbows, wishing she had chosen a less unusual
fake name. “Yeah?” She knew she looked like Hell: she had not
bathed in two or three days and her hair was going every which way. Her eyes were ringed with dark circles and
she was pretty certain that she stank to high heaven. “What?”
“Someone’s
on the phone for you. It’s a woman who
says she’s your sister.” The worker
paused, one brow quirking. “I thought
you said you were an only child. And your name was Germaine. She called you Wanda… described you to a T
though.”
Wanda
thought furiously. _It’s one of
Magneto’s lame ass ploys. _ “I am. I don’t have a sister or a brother.” Pointedly, she laid back, turning on her side
away from the worker and pulling the blanket up to cover her head. “Whoever it is, they’re full of shit.”
The worker
was quiet for a long moment, then sighed. “Fine. Not my business. But if you *did* have a sister and she *did*
pass on a message because she said she knew you wouldn’t come to the phone, it
might be something along the lines of ‘Lucas is back’.”
Wanda
sucked in a painful breath, her eyes flying open. Pink tinted light filtered through the
blanket, staining her hands where they lay near her face, making her look as if
she were blushing from head to toe. Her
heart raced and stomach churned. “If I
did have a sister, which I don’t, and she did say something like that, where
would I find the phone to tell her to stop lying to me?”
“Back at the front, in reception. Line three is your not-sister.”
Wanda
waited until she heard the squeaky footsteps fade and the light overhead turn
off before pushing the blanket away and standing. She knew it was not Tabby calling and she
ruled out most of the females that she *did* know. As she trudged down the hall
towards the front desk, done in colors of pink and red in some attempt to
convey female empowerment, her stomach churned acidly. Whoever was calling was either watching her
and knew her location or had made a really lucky guess. _Or they just called every possible shelter
and dwelling in Bayville…
_
“Just a
moment, miss!”
Wanda
paused, her hand inches from the receiver.
The tightly-curled hair of the woman behind the desk wobbled as she
hurried towards her. “Yeah?”
“You have
to sign this form before you can use the phone.
And initial here, here, here, sign there and put the
date next to your name on this pink sheet. And I need the key to your locker while you
talk.”
“Huh? What?
Why?” Wanda recoiled slightly. “This is fucked up. I’m not signing shit. You run a fucked up place here, lady. What if it was an emergency, huh? What if it IS an emergency?” Wanda grabbed the woman suddenly, jerking her
onto her toes and forcing her not to look away.
“I’m gonna use the phone, okay?
Keep your papers, keep your clipboard and if you fuck with me, you’re
gonna find out just how many places on the human body can be stapled
shut!” She shoved the woman away roughly
and grabbed the phone off the hook. The
urge to use her powers was nearly overwhelming.
She could feel it crackling through her, threatening to change
everything around her if she just let her control slip a fraction. “Who is this?” she barked into the receiver,
the receptionist behind her whimpering and no doubt pressing the security
button.
“Wanda,” a
slightly accented voice purred. “Today
was not a good day for me, I think. But
it is excellent for you. Lucas is
safe. He is at the school with those
pantywaist sorts.” A long pause ensued
where nothing but the sound of mutual breathing broke the silence. Finally, Tarot spoke again. “Aren’t you going to thank me?”
“If you’re
lying to me, you piece of trash,” Wanda said in a low, tight voice, “you’ll
wish you’d never been born.” She slammed the phone down and stalked out of the
reception area, avoiding the demands that she wait and ‘get back here.’ “Tell you what,” she called over her
shoulder, pushing the glass double doors open ahead of her. “You can come find me. Ask for The Scarlet Witch.” The doors slammed shut behind her, dissolving
into puddles of melted glass, tiny flames sparking through the droplets.
Wanda did not look back, pulling
her loose fitting shirt, stinking of sweat and dirt and worse, over her head
and throwing it into the first trash can she saw. She wanted to shed the vestiges of wandering,
get the stench from her body before she returned to the Institute and it’s attempt at shining white purity. She was barely aware of the rain that began
to fall and even less aware of causing it[2]. The darkness swallowed her, hiding her from
any eyes that would pry. It was late,
the streets empty save for her and one homeless woman sleeping next to the
bakery, but Wanda knew she was not alone.
The feeling clung to her, crawling over her skin until she was forced to
stop. She was at the park at the end of
Elm, an old and dilapidated setting for children to play. The feeling of being hunted was no less
severe and seemed to come from all around her.
“Show yourself,” she said quietly. “Show yourself to me.” She did not care that she was clad only in
her bra and pants, that her hair was plastered to her head with blood-warm
rain.
“You’ve grown since I last saw
you.”
Wanda’s hands clenched at her
sides. _Damn it! I’m too close for this!
Not now, goddamnit! _ She turned to face the owner of the
voice and found herself staring. “There’s laws about stalking, Essex.”
“You always did have a smart mouth.
No doubt from that Rom slut your father took up with.”
She started forward, her hands
coming up, power crackling through her fingers, but she found herself falling,
the concrete of the park’s sidewalk rising to meet her face. Bile flooded her throat and mouth and Wand
knew she was fainting. “Fuck you,” she
breathed, catching herself and roughing the skin on
her palms. “Fuck you and I hope you die.”
Essex rolled her onto her back with
the toe of his boot. “So do I, Wanda Maximoff,” he
murmured. “But not yet.” Bending to pick her up, he motioned to his
companion in the car. Tarot was safe
from him for now but he would find her again.
The tracking device did not lie.
[1]
Germaine, as in Germaine Greer…
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Germaine_Greer
[2] In the
old Marvel-verse, before they limited her power to hex bolts, Wanda could
manipulate forces of nature on a small scale, among other things.
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