Fresh off the presses
| So I got dressed into something nice. My short black velvet dress, the back-less one. I had my hair pinned up with ringlets of curls framing my face and dangling on my neck… Scott took me to a really nice restaurant… In the beginning everything was going nice… he opened the car door, the restaurant door and pulled out my chair… Then for some reason he decided to order for me… Of all things he ordered aperitifs, I shook my head as I mumble lowly, "Well that answers that question." I had wondered how much of Logan's off handed remarks Scott had heard or if he had told Scott about my little problem. If Logan did, then how much did he tell Scott? I tried to avoid an unpleasant scene, "Scott, I think we shouldn't drink." "Why not, I mean we aren't going to get smashed just have a little with dinner. Come on it will loosen you up. The Professor has a drink all the time." Scott nodded to the waiter to proceed. I grabbed the waiter, "NO drinks! Scott I am serious…. I will just have a coke." The waiter gave me a dirty look and Scott began whining, "Oh I see you can drinks with Logan but not me? This is a classy restaurant you can't just have a coke…" He then continued about Logan knocking him out, Storm disrespecting him and so on… Anymore of his whining and I may have caved in and had a drink… Luckily I was saved, the phone rang… It was a nurse, he had asked her to call him if Danny's condition changed. Scott wanted to go to the hospital to see him… "Mr. Summers?" The nurse asked hearing the a click on the other line "Hello? Yeah Mr. Summers.." Scott stated "Nurse Kingsly, Mr. Bailey, he had to go back into surgery. He is bleeding pretty bad." She said with a great deal of concern… After Scott hung up, he paid for me a taxi and left to the Hospital… I decided to go with him and met him as he was rushing into the emergency room… I sat holding Scott's hand as the Dr explain that Danny had been beaten severely and they could stabilize him, this was the 3rd surgery and it didn't look like he would make it… I thought Scott would break down and cry. The Dr let him See Danny. It was sad to see Scott's friend like that… Being Super Heroes and Mutants, well we may not have Logan's healing factor but we can take blows better that simple human beings… I reached out and caressed Scott's back. He turned and began to cry in my arms.. Holding him I tried to find the words that might comfort him, "You like him a lot don't you?" Scott sobbed, "He's my friend, the only decent guy that treats me with respect." Scott sat with him for a while and I went to get us some 'it's going to be a long night' special coffee… When I walked I saw Scott Standing over Danny and crouched down, Hearing me he snapped to at attention… "I was.. uh… I was just…" Scott said was he kissing him? Scott then looked at me and stuttered, "I thought I saw him breathing on his own, I ad to get close enough to see.." I smiled, "Is he breathing on his own?" A few hours past and Scott fell asleep, I laid his head in my lap. I think I was about to drift off too when I heard a gurgling sound "Scott, " I shook him… Scott sat up and then rushed to Danny, "Danny? Come on Pal you can't die on me… Who is going to get me in to see all those baseball games for free…" I went to get the Drs who rushed in and began pulling tubes from Danny's mouth, throat and nose… Danny cough and sputtered, "Sssss….tttt.." He seemed to be having trouble talking swallowing hard as if he had something in his throat still… "Easy don't talk… Get some sleep." Scott said as his smiled at Danny The Dr gave Danny a shot and he drifted off. The Nurse then looked at Scott, "You know that is good advice. You should follow it yourself.." Scott didn’t want to go but I talked him into going… "I will come by tomorrow ," Scott whispered to Danny who was asleep… I drove Scott's car and dropped him off at the Mansion and stayed myself since it was late… Scott went to bed and I crashed on Logan's bed… "Is somebody going to get that?!" I heard someone shout followed by a knock… It was Scott…I peeked out and saw him in his boxers carrying a cosmopolitan magazine… I wonder if that is the current issue with…. Nah…. |














