Mordred
Mordred's head shot up.
"Gwen!"
He teleported to Gwen's side and took her to the infirmary.
"Dr McCoy!"
"Yes, what happened?" Hank came out as Mordred put Gwen carefully on the bed.
"I don't know. I felt she was angry, and then she was fighting and then she was out!" Mordred ran his hand down the side of Gwen's face. "I swear...when I find out who did this..."
"You should leave it for Scott and Jean to deal with," Hank said as he rolled Gwen's eyelid up to look at her pupil.
"Yeah, because they're doing such a f*cking excellent job as it is..."
"Language, Mr Lewllyn."
"Sorry, Dr McCoy. Gwen, Gwen love, wake up, please..."
Gwen
"Owwwwwww," Gwen moaned, rolling over slightly.
Pain, so much pain, just endless pain. Nameless faces, cutting her open, needles, scapels, anything they could take they were taking. She wasn't a human, so she didn't deserve to be treated like one, she was just filth, dirty, impure, wrong, a freak...
"Hurts," she whispered.
Mordred and Vortigern
"A telepath did this," Mordred hissed.
SCATHACH!
Vortigern stopped talking with Spike and pelted for the elevator to the medlabs.
"You called?"
"We need to fix Gwen..."
Vortigern came over and looked at Gwen. Both twins put their hands to Gwen's face and closed their eyes.
Here.
Yes, I see. Careful now...
Ahhh. Stop. Now here...
Hank watched as the pair went to work, carefully excising and healing the damge Kate had done to Gwen's mind.
"Gwen..."
Gwen
Gwen's eyes opened slowly.
"Why when I wake up, do I always seem to be in hospital?" she asked in confusion. "Speaking of which, why am I waking up? I just went to get food."
Mordred and Vortigern
"I know the signature of who did this," Mordred said in a deeply controlled voice. "And now I'm going to kill her."
"Who?" Vortigern asked, dark eyes burning with fury.
"Kate. That bloody bitch has done it for the last time...she's gone too far. Gwen could've died!"
Gwen
Gwen sat up slowly and lay a hand on Mordred's arm. "Darling, I'm ok. It doesn't matter. I guess... I don't know, I don't even remember what happened. I ran into her and she snapped."
She rubbed her head.
"Owwie."
Mordred and Vortigern
"Fine. I won't kill her." Mordred laid his hand on Vortigern's arm. "But I am going to hurt her a hell of a lot."
The twins disappeared.
Hank coughed slightly, as he removed his hands from his ears.
"I didn't hear it, I know nothing."
Mordred and Vortigern appearead in front of Kate and Mordred grabbed her shoulder, then 'ported again.
They appeared in the woods and Mordred shoved her away so she stumbled and fell.
"You hurt Gwen."
Kate and Gwen
"What are you, the narrator? Yeah, I did." Kate crossed her arms and raised an eyebrow. "And what exactly are you going to do about it?"
She laughed.
"She has you so whipped, what with the collar, and now you're fighting her battles for her."
Gwensighed and started to get off the bed. "Uh, Dr McCoy, this is gonna be a weird question, but do you have something that would..." Gwen proceeded to ask him if he could numb downstairs because her piercing was hurting.
Mordred and Vortigern
"It's easy. I told you once, you hurt Gwen, in any way and you'd pay." Mordred grinned ferally. "And guess what? Payback's a bitch."
"Do you want me to...?" Vortigern said, arms crossed.
"Oh no, Vort. This is just between me and her. She has no idea what she's done." Mordred laughed slightly. "And she's a fool."
Mordred stalked over to her.
"You could have killed Gwen."
His hand shot out and grasped her by the throat, squeezing hard.
"That's unforgiveable. And the only reason you're still alive? She asked me not to kill you."
Hank calmly went about his business of tending Gwen.
Kate
Kate coughed and choked slightly, then brought her hand up to touch his, burning it.
"F*ck you. And f*ck her."
She touched her other hand to his chest and burned again.
"I was just teaching her a lesson."
Mordred and Vortigern
"Lesson?"
Mordred shook his head, ignoring the burning in his hand and chest.
"You are such a weak, pitiful excuse for a mutant."
Vort?
Yeah?
Help me out here.
Ok.
The twins dove into Kate's mind and found the source for her pyrokinesis. If she used it, she'd burn just as badly.
Kate
Kate struggled to fight against the thing they'd done to her powers. She dropped her hands and gave Mordred a slight smile.
"Yeah, she deserved it."
She grinned.
"You know she has a history of cheating, don't you? It's just gonna end so badly."
Mordred
"Not with us," Mordred said softly.
"You're not aware of what happened, are you? Of course not. The only time anyone can actually tolerate your prescence is when they want to f*ck you. You have no friends. You have no one who cares about you."
He shook his head slightly.
"I almost pity you, because you're not even human enough to realise what you're missing."
He punched her across the face, splitting her lip.
Kate
Kate shrugged slightly, licking the blood from her lip.
"Don't care."
She let out a laugh.
"And you honestly don't think she'll cheat? Or has she already? Heard she took the werewolf for a spin, until he howled."
Mordred
Mordred punched her in the kidneys, then as she started to crumple, delivered a perfect Liverpool kiss.
"We've already talked about that. And it was at a point when we weren't going out. Bitch. But that's an insult to werewolves."
Mordred kicked her in the side as she lay at his feet.
Kate
Kate curled up and spat out some blood.
"Don't care. If she'd stayed out of my way, this wouldn't have been an issue. But no, she had to annoy me. And I warned her."
She coughed.
"It's not like I didn't warn her, so why don't you tell her to come and fight her own god damn battles? Or is the princess too weak after being crippled?"
Mordred
Mordred dragged her up and threw her into a tree, lips drawn back from his teeth in a snarl.
"You don't nearly kill someone for annoying you, you spoiled little brat."
He picked her up and threw her into another tree like she was a straw doll, before shaking her violently and slamming the back of her head into it again and again.
"You've annoyed me time and time again. You need to learn some selfcontrol."
Kate
"Oh I wasn't going to kill her."
Kate let out a little laugh, then spat some blood to the side.
"I was just trying to bring the princess back down to earth. And have you looked inside your little princess's mind? She ain't too happy with you about a lot of things."
She reached a hand up to the back of her head and when she pulled it away, it was covered in blood.
"So I suggest you look inside your little bitch's mind. She don't even wanna live."
Mordred and Vortigern
"I don't peek."
Mordred punched her across the face again, breaking her nose.
"And you shouldn't either, or me and Vort will tie off all your powers. And not even the professor will be able to make us bring them back."
Vortigern looked up from where he'd been studying his nails. "Need my help?"
"No. She doesn't train, she doesn't exercise, she only uses her telepathy against people with little or no telepathic ability and she's a pot smoker. Kicking her ass is almost ridicouslously easy."
Kate
Kate grinned weakly.
"Well, maybe you should have a peek one day. Go on, get her to let you in behind the barriers."
She spat in Mordred's face.
"You may be shocked at what you see."
Mordred
"She;s already invited me too," Mordred said as he wiped her spittle from his face, then backhanded her, sending her head slamming into the treetrunk again.
"The basis behind any good relationship is trust. I trust her. So I don't need to look."
Kate
"Well, I'm glad you guys have such a loving relationship."
Kate closed her eyes for a second.
"Or you think you do. No, it's nice really. If that helps you sleep at night."
Mordred and Vortigern
"You are so completely pathetic..."
Mordred shook his head slowly as he looked at her. He dropped her on the ground and kicked her in the ribs once more.
"Do anything to Gwen again, and I will kill you."
"He will, you know," Vortigern drawled.
"And if he doesn't, I will. Let's go, Wolf."
The twins left without one more backward look.
Kate
Kate coughed and let herself curl up in a ball.
She'd deal with them later... right now... it was time to pass out.