An X-Men What if...

[Felix80]

"James, there's someone here we'd like you to meet."

"This really isn't a great time Mom," James said from the other side of the door. He looked down at his hands. A foot long bone claw had erupted from between each finger on either hand. Six claws, all razor sharp. What a horrible birthday present.

James Logan Howlett had always been a sickly child. Anemic, with a weak immune system he'd spent over half of his childhood in bed. Until around the time he was fourteen. He just started feeling better, spending time outside, even going on hikes around the countryside. Then he got cut. It wasn't a bad cut really, just a shallow wound while cutting an apple. But he was anemic and instantly wrapped his finger, his mother got out her car keys. They were going to the doctor's office just in case. When they got there the wound was gone, completely healed. The heightened senses came shortly after.

Three days go he'd turned eighteen and that night his claws showed up in a burst of pain. They hadn't gone away. He'd destroyed three bedspreads, slicing up the sheets and himself. Of course, he'd healed. Bloodied up the sheets though.

"I know James, we'd like you to come down anyway. There's someone here who can help you."

James sighed and stood up, keeping his hands stretched out, careful not to touch anything. The claws really were razor sharp and bone is harder then most concrete. It didn't take alot of force to slice through something. James opened the door carefully and sidestepped past his mother and went down the stairs first. He wasn't taking any chances of getting her with the claws by accident.

In the living room sat a bald man in a wheelchair. His father sat in his usual recliner.

"Hello James," the man in the wheelchair said, "My name is Charles Xavier. I run a school for people with gifts like yours."

"You call this a gift, Chuck?" James said as he raised up his bone claws.

"James, have some respect!" his father said.

"It's alright Mr. Howlett," Xavier said, waving his hand in a calming gesture. "If you'd like James, I should be able to help you with those. Come sit on the couch."

James wasn't too sure but his parents seemed to think the parapalegic could help. He walked over and sat on the couch, carefully resting his claws on his lap.

"Just relax," Xavier said as he wheeled closer and tpuched James' forehead.

Yeah right, he hadn't been able to relax in three days. James felt something, a pressure of some sort on his head. He grimaced and let out a howl as his claws popped back into his hands.

"I, I, thank you," James said. He grinned. "I have my hands back."

"You'll find with practice that you'll be able to extend and retract them whenever you need them."

James glared at Xavier. "When am I ever going to need foot-long claws, Chuck?"

"I'm sorry Dr. Xavier," Mr. Howlett said, "He's usually a polite young man."

"Dad, this isn't happening to you, you're not the animal."

"No James, it is happening to you, but you don't have to be an animal." Xavier rolled back a few feet to a conversational distance. "As I was saying, I run a school for people gifted like you. I can help you master your abilities, give you enough control to live a normal life. If you want to."

James thought or a moment about the slashed sheets and all the damage he'd done to his legs just when he'd been asleep. What if his claws had shown up while he was at school? He was going to college next year, what if they showed up then?

"Yeah, I think that's a good idea."

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OOC:

This is a world where Wolverine just came into his powers and becomes one of the founding members of the X-Men. The initial team roster is up in the air.

What I'm looking for is a girl to be a classmate who ends up falling for the young Logan. Kitty, Storm, Jean, whomever you want to play send me a PM.

A few caveats. I'm not into anal, bdsm, scat, etc. No godmoding please.

Send me a PM with your character concepts, any characters you'd like to see on the team with us and anything you'd like to see happen down the line.

Thanks in advance.

 

[Felix80]

"What's the matter Jimmy-Jim-Jamie-James? Can't handle being a mutant?"

James' eyes narrowed into slits, glaring at the grinning white-haired idiot. Pietro Maximoff was more obnoxious then anyone he'd ever met. James was trying to see past that and find the decent person inside. If there was one.

Everything came easy to Pietro. Everything. Even control of his mutant powers. Pietro didn't have any problems with his abilities getting out of control. From the day James had come to the school Pietro had shown him up in everything the two did; and lorded it over the shorter Canadian mutant every chance he had. James wanted to show him up just once.

It wouldn't be on a raquetball court. Which is where they were. More specifically, James was on the floor after a spectacular dive that missed the ball by inches. Pietro was gloating about it.

James picked himself up, letting out a low growl. "One more game."

"That's what you said for the last three games," Pietro said as he twirled his racquet in his hand. He faked a sigh. "Just face facts James. Compared to me, you're a second class mutant."

James took a step closer to Pietro, looking up at the taller mutant. "One more game."

Pietro shook his head. "Sorry Jimmy-Jim-Jamie-James. You're just not enough of a challenge. See-ya!" Pietro was gone in the blink of an eye.

James growled again and then stopped himself. He could feel the rage building up inside himself, and that was dangerous. If he popped his claws he could do a world of damage. Fast as Pietro was it would only take one bad slice with his claws to do the speedster in.

It was a comforting thought. Not the image of Pietro dead at James' hands, that was disturbing. Rather, the knowledge that James could do something Pietro couldn't. It didn't seem like much, healing from injuries and having claws, but it was enough to salve his wounded pride. Oh, and senses. James had heightened senses.

James let out a sigh and went off to gather the mop. It was sort of a bet and sort of an agreement between the two of them that the loser cleaned the court at Xavier's school for gifted youngsters. James had been doing alot of cleaning since he got there.

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OOC:

I wanted a member of the team to have an adversarial role with James, someone who could compete with him for team leader. At first I was going to se Scott Summers but I have other plans for him. Rough ideas more then plans. Plus, it would be nice to see Scott without the stick up his ass for once.

Still looking for a co-author.

 

[Sexual_Muse]

Professor X guided Dani through the X-Mansion waiting for the young girl to speak. Even if Charles knew what had happened the child of William Lonestar, she was nothing like he had heard about. But then again after what had happened to her there was no blaming her for her reactions to things.

"My Grandfather said that you could help me control my powers." Dani quietly wondered, not taking her eyes off the ground. Grandfather had always said that they were a gift that could one day help people but at the moment and possibly for the rest of her life, she felt like a monster. She had killed her Grandfather and maybe even her parents. Eyes burning with unshed tears Dani vowed to never let her powers get the best of her, EVER.

"Your Grandfather was correct. I can help you." Charles kept his voice calm as he told Danielle how he could teach her to control her powers, learn to master them and even use them for good.

"This is never going to happen again." Dani told Professor X, voice as hard as steel. "I'm going to be the best. I have not choice."

Charles just looked at the young girl standing strong in front of him with a slight sadness. "It will take time but I believe that you will master all that you wish."

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Dani woke up with a blinding headache. She had been dreaming and this time it wasn't someone else's fear that she was living tho but one of her own. The first day she had come here, the day her Grandfather died. "Better mine then someone else's." She told herself as she got up from the vastly uncomfortable lounge chair. Okay, in truth the lounge chair was outrageously comfortable, if you wanted to curl up and read a book. Not if you curled up to read a book and ended up taking a three hour nap.

"Dani!" Robert shouted from across the common room. "Guess who's getting their ass handed to them again."

Cringing from the sound that made her ears ring and her head throb Dani took her time in answering. "Let me guess. James?" Dani croaked in pain, eyes squinting as she looked up at Robert once she got to him.

"Yeah and it's fantastically entertaining!" Robert punched at the air before realizing that there was something up with Dani. "Hey you okay?"

"Fine. Perfect. Peachy even." Dani lied with a transparent as glass smile.

"Yeah. Sure you are." Robert nodded going with the lie rather then fighting it. "I'm going back to watch the pulverization that James is getting. You coming?"

Dani sighed happy that Robert just let it go rather then call her bluff. "Yeah I'll meet you out there." She promised to the bad of Robert's head as he took off outside.

As she promised Dani made her way outside but it was at her own pace. A pace that involved a bottle of water and some pain pills. So of course she arrived just as the run was over."

"Sorry Jimmy-Jim-Jamie-James. You're just not enough of a challenge. See-ya!" Snickered Pietro as he raced off.

Dani rolled her eyes. Pietro was the definition of over inflated hot air balloon. And yet half the girls she knew thought he was dreamy. Pietro, Dreamy. The thought of it alone made her gag.

Across the court James had a mop in hand working his way down the court. His face not too pleased with the idea that he was once again cleaning. Either that or he was having some serious doubts about his sexuality and Dani was pretty sure it was the first option.

"You missed a spot." Hollered Dani only to cringe from the effort. Apparently the pain pills weren't working yet and anything close to yelling was out of the question.

 

[Felix80]

"You missed a spot!"

James hands clenched around the broom handle, forcing himself not to let his claws pop. Yoda's words echoed through his mind, "Control, control, you must learn control!" He let go of the breath he was holding. Not being able to keep his claws under control is what was keeping James from taking classes at the local school, Bayville High, like Pietro did. James was successful this time, which was becoming more and more common.

James glowered through the glass doors of the enclosed raquetball court, expecting to see the white-haired freak. Instead he found Dani standing outside the court. His face softened considerably. He gave her a wave before finishing up the patch of court he had left then stepped out of the court, pushing the mop bucket.

"Hey there Dani," James said as he came up to her. "How's it going?"

James stopped and sniffed the air. Something smelled odd. His nose was still filled with the smell of soap and bleach from the mop bucket, but something was still different in the air. He just couldn't identify what it was or where it was coming from. It was very faint and vaguely familiar.

 

[Sexual_Muse]

At James' question, Dani, couldn't help but roll her eyes. "Urg." the sigh was heavy as she rubbed at her temples. "Things could be worst so I guess all for all I'm peachy."

Little but little, which was far too slow for Dani, the thundering pulsing of her headache dulled a tad. So it wan't a complete lie that she told James. It could be worst, like ten minutes before she was out here talking to James. That was worst.

"And you I see," Dani waved her hand at the mop and bucket. "Still trying to best Pietro." Dani shook her head. "I don't know why you try so hard with it. Pietro is just a show off with a cocky attitude. Not worth all this effort for him just to give you a hard time."

James had stopped, nose flaring and she knew that he smelled something. A quick look to his hands told her it wasn't something that she had to worry about so following his lead she herself took a big deep breath in. Bleach quickly flooded her senses and went straight to her head, making her sway on her feet and wrinkle her nose.

"What is it?" Dani asked rubbing her nose it hopes to dislodging the smell of bleach. But like all things once you become aware of it, it's hard to ignore.

 

[Felix80]

It was anti-perspirant. The bleach had masked the smell, but it was definitely female anti-perspirant. It had been activated by sweat. Dani had been sweating. And she was rubbing her temple; she seemed to have a headache. It had been a free period in their day, hence James' own poor showing against Pietro in raquetball. Mimic was working with someone else, so Dani wouldn't have been training. Which meant she had been sweating for other reasons.

If she hadn't had the headache James would have dismissed the scent without questioning it. But with Dani, well, she was special. That was an understatement, they were all special. That's why they were at the school after all.

"It's nothing," James waved his head dismissively as he turned, pushing the mop bucket to the janitor closet. "My senses keep getting sharper, or my sessions with Mimic are just honing them." James shrugged then lifted the mop bucket and poured the water into the large sink in the closet.

"Pietro," James shook his head, "I can beat him. In something. I gotta be beat him at something. He's a better athlete, he gets better grades, he even kicks my ass in video games. Being faster at everything is a huge advantage. And the worst part is he's holding back. Seriously holding back. He'd really kick my ass if we went all out. And Xavier hasn't chosen a field commander for the X-Men yet." James shrugged again. "I don't know." He left the mop and the bucket turned upside-down in the sink to drain.

James turned back to Dani and smiled. "You know, when I first got these," James popped the claws on his right hand, "I cut myself up like you wouldn't believe. Hurt like hell too."

He retracted the claws and turned to the sink, washing the blood off his knuckles. He turned back to Dani and put his hand ever so gently on her shoulder.

"You hit yourself with your power again." It was a question in James' mind but he spoke it with the surety of a statement. "Who's fear did you see this time?"

 

[Sexual_Muse]

"And your control is getting better." Dani remarked remembering how just minutes before when she had called out, he hadn't lost his cool and clawed his anger out. Literally. "The way I see it thats something that Pietro can't do. There's no way from him to get better at what he does if he believes that he's already the best. You can. Meaning that in time you will get better and beat him. It'll just take time." Dani's eyebrow crinkled as she realized that what she had just said rang a little to close to an Xavier-speech.

Dani could see a hunger in James that reminded her of wolf pups. There is always an alpha and to be it you must fight for it. Not matter that the other pups are stronger, faster or just better at the game you'll still try to be the best. "But there is one thing that you don't have to worry about, James." A minx smile flirted across her face. "Field commander for the X-Men." Dani shrugged. "It's going to be me." She was trying to loosen up the mode, drag that hopeless look from James' eyes. Maybe distracting him from Pietro and causing him to focus on another target would ease him a bit.

Dani had always wondered if they hurt. She knew that caused pain but with the way that he healed was he able to feel it? Then it struck her. She had never had a nightmare about James. Staring at his hands Dani began to speculate that maybe he didn't have nightmares because it was all physical for him. Or maybe like James she was getting better at control. A question asked is an answered known. "So they don't hurt anymore?"

Watching the blood wash away and leave behind no trace at all that claws had just ripped through his flesh tightened a knot of envy in Dani's belly. She could envision everyone's pain, fears and death, but healing. That was something beyond Dani that she wished she had.

When James turned back to her he rested his hands on her shoulder. The movement shocked Dani. James wasn't one to be touchy-feely, even if it was only one hand. And as touched as Dani was that he would trust not only her but himself with contact she didn't watch her mouth. "I'm glad that you washed your hands but I am not a towel." In her mind she smacked herself. She didn't really want him to move his hand but with a comment like that who wouldn't?

As James acknowledged the fact that Dani's powers got the better of her, she could feel her eyes tighten in a angry glare. It wasn't so much James that she was shooting daggers at, even tho it was, but more the fact that she was still a step behind her powers when she should be in front of it at all time. "No. No one's." Dani snapped, only to regret it.

James didn't deserve her anger. She was the one she was pissed at. Like James' battle against Pietro, her battle was against herself. Yet she could see hope and growth in James' fight, for her all she saw was failure. Maybe it was one of the reasons she wasn't sleeping at night when everyone else was. Why she was sleep in her free periods so escape all the sleeping dreams she could walk into.

 

[Felix80]

When Dani slapped his hand away she may as well have growled at him. James stared at her for a long moment, as she lied to him. He could hear her heartrate jump, smell her scent change and see the anger on her face. James' face remained impassive. It was another moment before he raised both fists and popped his claws.

"It feels like having three knives rammed through each hand." James shrugged and retracted his claws. "It is what it is. I can't change it so I have to deal with it. And I'm not slicing the rest of me into little pieces anymore."

James shrugged again and turned, giving his hands a quick rinse with a bit of soap. He walked just past Danielle before he turned, wiping both of his hands down the back of her shirt and gave her ass a quick slap before he started running.

"Tag you're it, Field Commander!" James shouted without looking back. It was childish, and he'd been spending too much time with Bobby, no doubt about it, but he'd have a good laugh.

Until she caught him.

 

[Sexual_Muse]

The snap of James' claws jolted a slight jump from Dani. She didn't expect James to show her again if it caused such pain. "Does it hurt just as bad when it heals?" There was a strange want in Dani to hug James at the moment. She figured that it was his open truth about his pain that his mutation brought him. And just as she was about to be nice without a note of teasing in her tone he wiped his hands down her shirt.

"Tag you're it, Field Commander!" James yelled playfully smacking her ass before he ran off.

"James!!!" Dani growled, glad that her pain pills had at last kicked in. "I'm so going to get you!!"

As she took off after James she wondered where this had come from. Mr dark, angry and over dramatic about the negative had just engaged in a childhood game of tag.

Not one to lose Dani kicked up her speed a bit and over guessing the space between James and herself and the change in speed needed to tag and dart off the other direction, a simple tag back ended up being more of a full body slam.

"It." Dani tried to recover breathlessly. Unfortunately the turn and run didn't go as smooth as she liked but well enough that she had at least a arm span or two from James when he recovered.

 

[Felix80]

His recovery wasn't instantaneous, but it was close. All part of the wonder of being a mutant. Well, a mutant with a healing factor.

James took one long stride toward Danielle that turned into a leaping tackle, catching her around the waist and turning the two of them into a tumbling tangle of arms and legs. When they came to rest she was on top of him, and James was acutely aware of ofne of his hands being on his own chest, palm up, with one of Dani's breasts in it. All of his senses were focused on that hand and its precious cargo. Right now his hand was wide open and it was taking all his self control not to squeeze his hand closed.

In the seconds it would take for Dani to catch her breath James could feel her body on his, especially her hand theat had somehow managed to end up between their crotches. If she saqueezed her fingers or stroked him James didn't know what he'd do.

James had focused on mastering his powers since he came to Xavier's; almost in exclusion to everything else. He had always known Dani was a girl, but thhis tackle made him aware that she was a woman, a desirable woman.

"Tag, you're it."

 

[Sexual_Muse]

"Cheater!!" Dani screeched as she fell.

As much as Dani would like to lie about it the fall wan't graceful or pretty. She felt her elbow hit James somewhere, a rock rammed her ribs and she was pretty sure she head butted him somewhere in the tumble.

"Owww." Dani moaned happy at least that James had fallen on the bottom, a pillow for herself. "We're not the graceful one are we." Dani asked turning her free elbow to inspect the small bleeding cut. "And heal." But as she watched the cut blood kept coming. "Drat."


The "Tag, you're it." of James' voice brought Dani back to the game at hand.

"Well you're a cheater and that didn't count." Huffed Dani, slowly becoming aware of how their bodies were tangled about each other.

James had on of her boobs in his hand and her hand was pressed firmly against his... thingie.

"Ah!" As smoothly as she could, which wasn't very, Dani jumped up and blushed. 'How elementary am I. A Thingie?!?! Really Dani?' She shouted to herself. "Tag no tag backs." Dani immaturity countered as she kicked James' foot and back up a few steps. "Yeah. So see ya." Dani called as she turned and ran away.

That was the first time Dani had even come close to a... a, she didn't want to call it a thingie again but she lacked the courage to call it anything else. Running a hand through her hair she blushed again. James had touched, well grasped, her boob. A giggle fought it's way out and it got her a weird look from Bobby.

"Giggling?" Bobby asked with a raised brow.

"Shut it Robert!" Dani snipped sticking her tongue out.

"And you call me the child!" He sighed. "And the name is BOBBY!!!" He called after her watching her run toward the way to the danger room. "Girl!" He gritted his teeth, throwing up his hands. "And we're the complicated ones."

 

[Felix80]

Dani kicked his shin, called no tag backs and ran off. James laughed to himself. Things had been awkward for a minute there but now they were back to normal.

He sprung to his feet and was about to take off when he smelled something. James aniffed a few times and took in a large breath through his nose, trying to analyse it, but he couldn't place it. There was something different in Dani's scent and it was starting to make James feel a it warmer.

He took off running, following the scent and almost ran into Bobby who was muttering something about girls. James slapped the icy mutant on the shoulder and said, "I know, great aren't they?" He sniffed the aiir and took off running toward the danger room.

Catching up to Dani, James came up behind her and poked her sides below her ribs. "Tag, cheater." He poured on the speed and gave her a slap on the ass as he ran past her, turning to run backwards for a minute to say, "You can't call no tag backs in a two-man game. Catch me if you can!" James winked as he started to turn around to run forward again.

He slammed into a tree and fell down backwards, like Daffy Duck in a cartoon.

 

[Sexual_Muse]

"Stop smacking my ASS!" Dani yelled chasing after James.

"Hahahahahahaha!!!" Dani cracked up doubling over in a fit of laughter. James had just ran into a tree and while she would have been worried for anyone else, it was James and he'd heal. "And I'm not a cheater."

Dani walked over to where James was sprawled out on the ground and sat on his chest. "As field commander I say that no tags back are fair. So that makes you the cheater cheater pumpkin eater." Dani stuck out her tongue at him and bounced a little, just to be a pain.

"Why did you follow me?" A serious tone came over her voice as she asked the question.

James' chest was solid and warm. There was a flash of quick heat as she remembered the tumble and touch that they had before.

 

[Felix80]

It took James a moment to recover enough to start to get up, and by then Dani was already sitting on him. He had huffed out a breath when she flopped on his chest. She wasn't heavy, but she was heavy enough.

"Even if you were field commander, which you're not, you can't change the rules of a game. You're still it."

He considered his options. He wasn't going to stab her, though that would be the fastest way to get her off him. Normally he'd rock his body a bit and grab her neck with his ankles and send her flying, but there was a tree in the way. He didn't mind hurting Dani a bit, she was an X-Man and one of his sparring partners, but he didn't want to do permanent damage. Or he could just lay there. Danielle was pleasant to look at and she smelled very nice right now.

 

[Sexual_Muse]

OOC: OMG I just read that Wolverine has an 11 inch penis!?!?!

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Dani pouted and jutted out her bottom lip.

"Good way to pop a girl's bubble, James." Dani sobbed at his obvious point out that she was not the field commander.

Reaching down to fuss James' hair Dani officially called out, obnoxiously loud "Your it!!" She grinned turning the hair fuss into a quick noogie.

Sitting on James like this gave Dani an idea and she swirled around so that she was now straddling James' stomach. "You know..." An eyebrow raised as she looked down at James. "I always wanted to know if you were ticklish." Making sure she asked the question after she was already in position Dani went all out and attacked James in a vicious tickle attack.

No matter that before she tickle attacked him, straddling him, a picture of them popped up in her mind just as they were. If anyone were to round a corner and see them they were sure to be the latest gossip of the school. Yet the thought didn't bother her. Instead she found herself staring at James with new eyes, James was kind of cute. In a gruff, dark and sexy kind of way. Opps. Dani squinted her eyes trying to see James as her team mate again instead of a beef cake.

 

[Felix80]

When Dani tousled his hair James felt a definite stirring in his loins. James was starting to turn beat red when she started noogie-ing him. James let it go for a moment, considering his reenge when the girl switched tactics and slid her hips down over his own. Her warmth was no longer over his chest ut was over his growing bulge.

Dani felt good. Really good. He wanted her. Then and there, he couldn't resist temptation a moment longer, he had to have her and James didn't car who saw.

Then she tickled him and James burst out laughing. He was gyrating and spasming under her for a few minutes efore he caught his breath enough to realize she had shifted her weight. James reached up and grabbed Dani by the ribs, one thumb rubbing against a boob, and pulled her to him. He rolled over so he was on top of her and grinned into her eyes.

"I wonder how you taste."

James closed his eyes and leaned in, pressing his lips to hers.

She was delicious.

 

[Sexual_Muse]

"James!" Dani shrieked in laughter as he rolled her over. Unaware of his meaning behind the move. She was still under the understanding that they were just playing.

"I wonder how you taste."

Startled by the deep husky tone of his voice Dani was about to question what he meant by that when he kissed her.

"Oh!" Dani pulled back red to the rots. "James." A hand reached up to brush against her lips. "I... ah..." Dani was lost for words. Wiggling to get out form under James shocked her even more. "James!" Now pressed into her side was James' hard on.

"Um, wow." Dani giggled and blushed. "Yeah that's all I can say, WOW." She spoke about the feel of James' length and size pressed against her.

Hands on James' chest Dani shifted a little to put a little space between James' member and herself. "We're on the same team."

 

[Felix80]

Dani squirmed under him after the kiss and James found himself growling out a groan as her body rubbed the length of his bulge. He heard her stuttering and James growl turned into a smile. He bent down and was about to kiss her neck when Dani said they were on the samme team. James didn't know what she meant so he kissed the nape of her neck, taking time to suckle and nibble as he mulled it over.

Did she mean that he should be finding someone not on the team to kiss? Maybe a human or one of the theoretical evil mutants the professor was always going on about? Or did she mean that this would complicate things because they were on the same team?

James decided to ignore it and kissed a shor trail up Dani's neck to her ear and whispered, "I want you"

 

[Sexual_Muse]

Dani felt so lost. This wasn't something that she saw coming up between James and herself. And she meant coming up between them and resting against her outer thigh. She was barely over what had happened to her, the powers that always just seemed out of her reach and now this. Men!

"I feel that." Mumbled Dani pushing up with her arms against James' chest. She could also feel his lips running over her skin. The tingling shivers it sent coursing through her body. The silky caress of his breath against her ear. Well at least he had that down, being able to strike a spark.

"You know you never did answer my question, Why did you follow me?" Subtly, sly, uber cool way to change to subject and hopefully the mood.

Not that laying under James this way, his hard body pressed into hers, his devilish lips charging her skin didn't make her thing about the could bes. On the flip side they were just a stone throw from one of the many entrances to the X-Mansion, Professor X saw and knew way more then he should and to top it off there was at least Bobby, oh Robert, here if not more.

"Challenge you to a danger room exercise." Dani tried again to disinterest James in herself but the look of blatant want in his eyes were still there.

"I just think this is a bad idea." A sigh escaped as she gave up and let her arms fall to her side. James didn't look it but he was solid and without using force there was no way James was going to move if he didn't want to . And right now it looked like he didn't want to. "We're on the same team, I don't want this to get weird." And no matter how much it was bothering Dani as to how James looked without clothes on, she didn't want to risk the chance of this breaking the team.

Giving in a little to her dirty guttered mind, Dani reached up and brought her lips up to James' in a sweet soft kiss. Her hands reached up and tangled in his hair, bring them closer. A stupid move on her part when she was trying to get James over and off of her but she wanted a little something from this. Sure it was selfish but the more she looked, felt and was completely surround by James the more she noticed how off handily handsome he was. Great.

"Wow. You have really soft hair." Remarked Dani breaking the kiss. A kiss that may have just pulled her into something that she may or may not want to do. "But like I was saying." Dani cleared her throat and changed the subject back to the danger room. "Danger room. You never know I may give you a chance this time and you may even win." Dani teased knowing that the last time she had gone one on one with James she had won that round by pure luck.

 

[Felix80]

"I feel that."

James didn't answer directly, instead he rocked his hips, thrusting a bit, letting her feel his need against her thigh. Meanwhile his lips found her earlobe, suckling gently as his hand moved to her stomach, cxaressing her. James wanted Dani. He didnyt know why and he didn't understand it, ut his mind was consumed by an overwhelming need to take her. To rut with her. To fuck her. It almost felt like his higher brain functions had been cut off and all he was, was an animal.

And he was wallowing in the needs he had.

"You know you never did answer my question, Why did you follow me?"

James didn't use his words. His lips were buried in her neck, his nose drinkng deep of her scent, a drink more potent than any wine. His hand slipped up and caressed, cupped her breast through her shirt.

"You feel amazing," he whispered in her ear, his voice a growl.

"Challenge you to a danger room exercise."

James lifted himself from her neck, faced her, gave her boob a squeeeze as he grinned and moved to the other side of her neck.

"I just think this is a bad idea."

James grinned as he paid special attention to her jawline. Kissing down it and up to her ear. His hips thrust against her again, letting Dani feel his need his urgency. Which seemed to e the right thing to do because she kissed him. It was a sweet, slow kiss that left James longing for more with trembling lips. His hand was slipping down her ody now when she interrupted him with an odd comment.

"Wow. You have really soft hair. But like I was saying. Danger room. You never know I may give you a chance this time and you may even win."

James gae a short laugh and kissed Danielle again, a longer, deeper kiss, his hands exploring her body, teasing breasts and nipples, bulges rocking against her and his thigh grinding down over her crotch, rocking gently back and forth.

Eventually James broke the kiss with these words, "You keep screaming yes, Darlin', with everything but your words."

He kissed her again, longer and deeper. James rolled over and broke the kiss so Dani was sitting on his bulge, his hands on her breasts, squeezing them over the nipple through the bra and shirt, then letting his hands trail down, cupping her breasts before caressing her stomach.

"I want you. I'm gonna take you. But if you want out you've got ten seconds to walk away."

 

[Sexual_Muse]

James was avoiding her question and it was enough to make her in turn growl. It wasn't that the question matter all that much but it was more the need to focus on something other then James' body.

"You feel amazing,"

How was it that just before this James was one of the most approachable members on the team? James, Mr. Don't Touch Me, was now laid over her hard ready and hungry for the touch, taste and feel of her skin. It was a puzzle that Dani preferred to unravel, instead of acknowledging the fact that James' breath rose goosebumps on her skin and set a shiver down her spine. Yes, milling over James' sudden change in heart was much safer.

Yet no matter how hard she tried to think in place of feeling, Dani couldn't stop the reaction she was having to James' hands on her breasts and his mouth on her neck. When he came up to face her with a smile on his lips, Dani was almost tempted to smack the look off his cocky little face. He was almost as bad as Pietro, in a very good sort of way.

"James!" Dani growled in frustration through clenched teeth. The way he had just kissed her, the fell of his hands, the rocking of his already obvious thickness even more apparent, if it was even possible, was driving her crazy.

"You keep screaming yes, Darlin', with everything but your words."

"Maybe that's because everything but my words are stupid and wrong!" Dani was falling back on anger to run away from the very pleasurable sensations that James was causing. It was hard for her to admit that James was a very 'do-able' person but the whole 'doing IT' with a 'do-able' person was a different story completely. Don't get her wrong, while her and Angelica, even tho they weren't the best of friends, had talked about all the boy's possible 'do-ability' and if they would or would not, doing the 'would be' on her list was strange. And yes, James was on her 'list of would do'.

A tiny, yet very girlish yelp spilled from Dani at James' sudden movement and roll over. Now placing her seated on his crotch with his manhood twitching and pulsing under her.

"I want you. I'm gonna take you. But if you want out you've got ten seconds to walk away."

Dani squeezed her eyes shut and bit her lip. Ten seconds wasn't enough time to weigh the pro and the cons, she wasn't even sure if her even had the brain power left to weigh anything even if she were given an hour. James' hands kept playing at her boobs and caressing her skin and it was distracting.

Taking a deep breath in Dani opened her eyes almost sure that she was going through with this before she locked eyes with James. And in that moment her heart rate picked up to near unhealthy rate. All the air in her lungs escaped her and left her gasping for breath and she ran. Not just walked like James had offered but jumped up and ran as fast as she ever had.

Through the doors, up a flight of stairs, across the hall and back down the a different set of stairs on the other side of the building was when Dani finally stopped and found her breath again. Once she was sure she wasn't going to have a panic attack Dani looked around at where she was. The blind terror run around that she did end her up in the dining room. A dining room that unfortunatly housed a Mr. Robert Drake.

"Did I miss anything?" Bobby asked putting down the fork that was hanging there half way to his mouth. Apparently it was that interesting to watch Dani stand there and control her breathing, after running into the room like the devil himself was after her.

Blushing Dani straightened herself and taking a deep relaxing breath just shook her head no.

Abandoning his plate Bobby stood up and walked over to Dani and looked behind her. Face still twisted in confusion. "Are you sure?"

"Nope, yup. Hi!" Dani smiled and waved. 'Smooth.' Dani sighed to herself in her mind. "Danger room?" She asked weakly.

There were two places in the X-Mansion that Dani felt comfortable. One being the Danger Room where she could work out her problems, emotional issues and powers. And the library were she could drown herself in the all too fake world of perfection. Of course if Dani wasn't there she was more then likely outside wondering the grounds and it was all the power to you if you could find her outside.

"I was heading there as we speak." Dani lied, again to Bobby. "I need to work out a few things." This time the blush was followed with a touch of anger, desire and frustration. "Wanna come?" Dani had wanted to be alone but the sudden picture of James just following her gave her chills in a way that was not any of Bobby's business.

"On the other side of the institute?" Bobby asked, face worn like he knew something was up. "You know if you're going to lie you should practice before hand because you really suck at it." He half smiled and patted Dani's back. "I'll go with you tho."

Dani almost hugged him then but her skin still tingled and her nipples were still hard and sensitive. "Thanks Bobby." Dani sighed hanging her head, making her way slowly to the danger room.

"Wow my name. Something must be wrong. Did you kill James or something?"

The sound of James' name snapped her head up and brought a deep blush to her cheeks. "I..." Sigh. "No, he's still alive." Dani shoved her hands in her pocket and picked up her speed.

Bobby kept pace and just looked down at Dani, concern etched in his face. For the wise ass class clown he knew when to shut up.

"Thanks Robert." The thank you was said without even looking at him. Him being silent told her that Bobby had enough sense to keep his mouth shut and that he understood, for what little he knew.

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"Dani I have to go. I got my class with Mimic now." Bobby shouted ending the danger room session. "Heck I think I may already be late." He checked his arm, which was strange. He didn't have a watch on but Dani knew he was right. With one last smile, a good job and a wave he left.

"Yeah okay." Dani forced a smile as Bobby turned and jogged out of the room. "Good practice." She mumbled to his already disappearing back. It was a good thing too that Bobby ended the session when he did. She didn't show it in front of Bobby but she was dieing.

On shaky knees Dani stumbled out of the danger room only to fall to the ground outside of the closed doors. If she had ever met Thor she would have blamed him for the split in her head and the thundering hammer poundings that washed over each other in a continuous sound. But that's not all folks! There was swirling darkening vision, twisting rolling nausea and dry heaves.

A weak pitiful moan of pain sounded far off and it took Dani a second or two to realized the sad dieing animal sounds were her. She had never pushed herself so hard in her life. Mimic was a hard ass but next to the drilling she gave herself to escape from her troubling feelings about James, Mimic was a cuddly teddy bear and nap time.

Dani tried to stand and made a few steps before she once again crumpled to the ground. Without the distraction of the danger room she drain that her powers had on her was really starting to hit her hard. "Aaaa." Dani sighed flatting herself to the cold metal walls. A cold sweat broke out on her skin and she was starting to shiver quite violently.

"F.M.L." Dani croaked dryly.

Using the wall as a crutch Dani made it step my slow step up to the ground floor. Cursing every step that she triumphed over. Now that she had made up the stairs Dani was feeling even worst. The dry heaves were tearing up her already blurry vision and was tearing her throat raw. 'If I ever want to kill somebody I'm throwing them in the Danger Room for a 90 min work out from hell.'

Weakly Dani pushed off the wall and tittered towards yet another set of stairs to her room. Where she planned on falling into her bed and dieing.

'I'm going to start praying.' She told herself when she surprisingly made it to banister. A feat that she had put beyond her ability as she was. When she looked up the stairs her eyes once again watered but this time with tears of hopelessness. It was like a mountain in the winter, icy, dangerous and all the willing the kill you. 'I'm never going to make it.' She mewed.

And she was right. Dani had given up half way up the stairs and was curled into a tight ball. Sweat made her shirt cling to her body. Shivers so fierce rack her entire body and jolted her to and fro as if she were a left being taken down the rapids and a pain that no words could explain threatened to black her out. She was so drained that she didn't even have it in her to tease herself about what a sad little thing she must look like right now.

 

[Felix80]

Something snapped inside him when Dani ran away. His intellect was slipping away and being replaced pure animal instincts. Mating was a strong instinct and Dani's scent had all but possessed him.

James rolled his legs up so they were over his torso, his body forming a 'C' shape before he swung them back, uncoiling like a spring and landing on his feet. His throat released a growl and he took a step toward Danielle before the residuals of his intellect pulled him back with a loud NO. Instincts or no James was a moral man and he wouldn't rape Danielle. Instead he turned and ran for the woods.

He was getting more feral with each step. Soon he was deep inside the woods on the Xavier grounds, his mind consumed with the moment. He moved through the woods silently, aware of everything around him, a hunter seeking...

Rest? Solace? Prey?

He sniffed the air twice and cocked his head toward the scent. Sniff. It was blood. James flew through the woods. He didn't touch a single dry leave or brittle twig, moving surprisingly silently for a man. He came up on the scene and slowed down. Other scents were filtering in. There were two animals. One was a deer, the other...

He'd never smelled it before. Dried blood, the smell of raw meat, and berries? James approached the scene slowly and carefully. He moved easily around a tree to get a look. It was a bear. He recognized it from the discovery channel. So that's what they smelled like. Too bad it was on his territory.

James stepped out from behind the tree, his claws popping out of his outstretched hands. The bear looked at him and James growled. The bear growled back. James grinned and approached. If it wanted a scrap it was in for one, but this was his territory. He would defend it.

The bear growled and stood on it's hind legs as James approached. James roared at it once more and then charged, leaping into the air. The bear's clawed hands caught him in mid-air and sent the feral mutant sprawling. Five large claw marks tore through his shirt, soaking it in blood. James didn't falter. He was back on his feet in seconds, circling around the larger beast, looking for a new angle of attack. The bear turned on its hind legs then dropped to all fours and growled at James, trying to scare him off. It wouldn't give up its food and James wouldn't give up his territory.

He charged again, this time keeping his feet on the ground. When the bear started to swing James backpedaled and swung himself, his bone claws tearing into the animal's forearm. The bear pulled back and roared again, showcasing its massive jaws. James took the opportunity to charge. The bear caught him again, this time in the head, knocking the young mutant out, but not before James' claws found the bear's face, making three distinct scars across its snout and sending the beast running. James lay there unconscious for almost an hour.

He woke up as himself again. Not that he wasn't himself before, but that wasn't a self he had ever been before. James picked himself up and retracted his claws. Sure enough he had three slashes through his shirt. Which meant everything else he'd done...

Danielle. He'd nearly... But he hadn't. He hadn't. It wasn't that Dani wasn't attractive, she was, but he wasn't that kind of guy. James stood there for a moment. Maybe he was that kind of guy. Part of him was definitely that kind of guy.

James started the walk back to the mansion. Then he remembered what had happened to Dani and began to run. She was probably fine, she'd survived using her powers before, but he needed to be sure.

He hit the mansion running and called out for the Professor. No wait, he was leaving campus this afternoon to give a guest lecture at Worcester Polytechinic Institute tonight. It was nearly a three hour drive to the middle of Massachusettes, and he was staying at a hotel, so the Professor wouldn't be home. Mimic would be in his training session with Bobby. Pietro had a game tonight at Bayville and Angelica was cheering, of course. That meant he was the only one who could check on Danielle.

He sniffed the air. If he could find her scent... she reeked of sweat. He wondered what she had done to herself to get her sweat everywhere. It was coming from the stairs that lead down to the danger room. She wasn't that stupid was she? Maybe, she could be that bull headed.

He broke into the doorway and then stopped. The scent went both up and down. James had to sniff the air for a minute or two before he realized the scent was vaguely stronger going up. She probably went that way. Hopefully she was safe in bed.

James raced up the stairs and almost tripped over her body curled into the fetal position. He shook his head and checked her pulse. It was weak, but strong enough and her breathing was ragged but constant. Wait, did she just move?

"Dani, are you awake?"

 

[Sexual_Muse]

At the horrible sound of noise Dani curled tighter to herself and squeezed her eyes shut so tightly that she could see little balls of floating white light. Then James spoke and she realized that the noise had been his footsteps. Oh how she wished for the footsteps.

James' voice echoed in her head, bouncing off and becoming louder. Dani flinched at the pain. She wasn't sure as to what James had said because the words just flowed into each other in a seamless ramble of useless static.

Dani opened her mouth slowly and tried to speak only to cringe at the effort and well up in tears. The dry heaving had left her throat rendered asunder. A single tear ran down Dani's cheek and even the touch of that left her shuddering.

Instead Dani raised her hand and succeeded in only wiggling a finger. 'THIS IS THE STUPIDEST THING YOU HAVE EVER DONE!' Dani yelled at herself miserably. It wasn't bad enough that her head was being torn by just the sound of James' voice but even she was against herself, yelling.

Taking a slow shallow breath Dani gathered her strength and reached out to pat James in comfort. "I. Okay." The words came out feeling like sandpaper sending deep fingered chills up and down her spine. She didn't want to open her eyes but she hoped that her feeble pat of assurance was good enough for James because that was all he was going to get from her right now.

Weakly Dani opened her eyes and looked up at James. The bright light swirled her vision for a second before it cleared and she could see James' face. "What are you," Deep breath. "Doing here?" She asked the question as if it was normal to be laying in the middle of the stair case in the fetal position.

As much as she wanted to just lay in the painful throb of nothingness, with James now here Dani felt as if she had to do something more then just lay there. Part of her cursed James as she slowly crawled out of the ball she was in but she knew that all in all it was better for James to have found her then Pietro or Angelica.

"Can I borrow your arm?" The more she used her voice the easier the pain was to ignore when she spoke. Dani was on her knees now with her arm raised, just barely off the floor, asking for help. And as much as Dani hated to ask for it, she was smart enough to know that she kind of needed it right now. 'You're smart enough to know at least that much.' She bitched to herself.