When Anita Met Jubilee...

chapter two

I entered my apartment slowly and walked steadily towards the couch. My feet were killing me. I was halfway there when I felt eyes on my back. I grabbed my gun and flipped the light. Directly afterwards I found myself pinned to the floor and my gun across the room.

I looked up into greyish green eyes. Jason. He stared down at me with heavy eyes full of arousal. I moaned and he moved against my center. Pushing against his chest I flipped him over in a firm, rapid movement.

He laughed from under me. His mouth turned up in a cocky smile.

"Welcome home, honey", he replied while kissing down my throat.

I emitted a sound that was supposed to be "hi" but it sounded more like a sigh than anything. His hands crawled to my shirt and ripped it in two.

"I liked that shirt", I complained.

"I'll by ya another one, hush", he answered back and I found myself on bottom again. It was like that sometimes, both of us fighting for dominance. In the end I gave over to him. I mean afterall he's werewolf....it's his nature to be in charge. I felt the slight pressure of claws in between my breasts and hissed a dropped of blood appeared on the smooth surface. Jason bent down and lapped at it. The combination of pain and wetness caused me to gasp in shock.

I grabbed his hair and drug his face to mine. His tongue probed at my lips and I allowed him to french kiss me deeply. The smooth copper taste of blood mingled with the taste of his mouth. Mmm, peppermint and scotch. Strange combination. Kinda tasty though.

He was fumbling my jeans when a loud knock erupted from the door. Jason growled.

"Go the fuck away", he shouted. Then he sniffed the air a little harder.

"Anita...and Richard, they smell furious...somethings wrong", he was immediatly off of me and opening the door. Oblivious to his naked state and me topless state. I hurriedly threw on my jacket and buttoned it up.

"What's up?", I asked as Richard and Anita walked through our door.

Anita looked puffy...like she'd been crying. Her eyes were scary though. Dark and menacing. She was ready to kill. Her hand rested on her hip, giving her the easiest access to her shoulder hoister.

"Cherry's dead", Richard stated blandly. I winced. Cherry was a wereleopard, one of Anita's pard. Anita was like my sister, family, the closest I had. That made Cherry mine too. Someone was gonna get gutted and I couldn't wait to find out who.

"What happened", Jason remarked softly as we sat down. I noticed Richard's eyes see my ripped shirt. Then he sniffed the air. If possible he looked even more upset. Richard doesn't like Jason and I dating. He's afraid Jason will hurt me, because of my humanity.

Now, don't get me wrong Jason is very rough...but he wouldn't hurt me. We have sex all the way to the lupanar and he doesn't shift. I think it's part of my powers to keep him from doing it.

"Dolph called me in. He said they found a woman's body, badly mutilated, the usual stuff. Except for the claw marks. He'd seen pard and lukoi marking before, he said these were different. I went and looked and he was right. I've never seen anything like it. Their are five marks, equally spaced. It was formed like a huge human hand with monstrous claws did it though. Richard was near and got close enough to catch a scent. He said it smelled like another cat, but very different. A mutant maybe. The only evidence they found was a piece of leopard fur. It seems to have been a skin someone was wearing from the way it snagged the tree", Anita actually sniffled as she thought about Cherry's appearance again.

I had gotten very quite during Anita's explanation. I knew of someone who could have done this. In fact they fit the bill to the T. I grimaced. I had left the X-Men to get away from that sort of bad guys. I guess being a good guy means you never really get away from the bad guys. Well, I can take my punches...unfortunatly, so can Sabretooth.

"I know who did it", the words were out of my mouth before I even thought them. Everyone stared at me. Richard and Jason's eyes burned like embers. The wolves were coming closer to the surface. What really scared me though was the dead look Anita had. It was her killing face. The look she got when she was ready to pull her firestar and start shooting.

"And he's not someone to fuck with...we need help".