Date: Fri, 7 Nov 2008 22:27:37 +1000
From: thothboi@hotmail.com
Subject: Weaver X: Chapter 5

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the story.

This is a work of Gay fiction, containing adult situations between
consenting males.  If you are under the legal age in your country, DO NOT
CONTINUE, otherwise, I hope you enjoy.


Weaver X

Chapter Five



Alex woke to dimness and sharp pain.  A groan escaped his
lips before he could stifle it.

"Alex!"  Dimitri's urgent, low voice stabbed into his
head.  A cool touch was followed by a sharp pricking
pain.  "I've injected you with a pain killer, it should
take effect soon."

"What happened?"  Alex forced his eyes open, the effort
made Alex see stars.

"They claim to be from the government, tracking down
mutant agitators."  Dimitri's voice sharpened with anger.
"It looks more like a witch hunt to me."

"Dimitri."  Alex moved his head experimentally.

"We're in my surgery."  He explained, having no idea that
Alex had ever seen the inside of it before.  "They locked
us in here and are taking my patients prisoner."

"I know one of them."  Alex struggled into an upright
position.  "He was one of the cops that came round the
house when that noise happened."  Alex referred
cautiously to the incident, and felt his head gingerly.
"I didn't think they found anything."

"It's alright Alex, I thought I was being followed for a
while now, this has nothing to do with you."  Dimitri
dismissed Alex's guilt out of hand.

Alex felt grim.  He hadn't mentioned his own feeling of
being followed, if he had.  "Help me stand up."  He
ordered.

Dimitri squinted at him in the dim light.  "What are you
planning on doing?"  He demanded.  "That pain killer
hasn't had nearly enough time to work."

"I'm going to get us out of this, all of us."  Alex said
grimly, wincing as he stood.

"I'm not going to let you die in some fool heroics."
Dimitri whispered furiously, grabbing Alex's arm.

Alex shook his arm free and instinct flashed through him.
Seizing his ability, he wove something entirely new.  For
a split second a shimmering curtain hung in the air
before it snapped together and somehow rotated.  Standing
in the middle of the room was a scene that Alex knew
well.

Dimitri stared, shocked.  "What.what is that?"  He
stammered, his grip on Alex's arm loosening as the night
sounds of the Australian outback filtered into the
examination room.

"It's my home, you'll be safe there."  Alex replied
tersely.  He'd had no idea what he was doing, but he
needed a way to keep Dimitri safe while he rescued the
mutants and seemingly discovered a way to travel vast
distances without  actually having to cross the
intervening space.  Cautiously he stepped through and
landed heavily, there was a slight drop on the Australian
side of the doorway.  Weaving once more, he lifted
Dimitri with flows of pure air and deposited him on
Australian soil.

"You're a mutant."  Dimitri accused.  "Why didn't you
tell me?"

"Can we go over this later?"  Alex asked wearily.  "Just
stay here, and I'll come and get you as soon as I can,
right now, I've got things to do."  He stepped back
through the gateway into Dimitri's basement on the other
side of the world.  "If I get into serious trouble, just
walk towards that."  Alex gestured at Ayers Rock, looming
in the background.  "There are tourist busses there
everyday, as well as water."

Dimitri nodded.  "Don't take too long."

Alex flashed him a quick grin and released the weave
holding the gateway open and watched it snap shut.
"Right."  He muttered to himself as he readied several
nasty weaves.  "So much for my secret."  And blew the
door open with an explosive weave of air.



***



In the end, it took about 5 minutes to subdue the 10 man
compliment that had invaded the practise.  Alex simply
blew the door open, and in the ensuing confusion, wove
bands of air stronger than steel around the soldiers,
binding their arms to their sides, and another weave of
air to take their weapons from their hands.

Alex glared at the soldiers and wove wards around the
sewer entrance and the stairs up into the house, anyone
trying to enter the waiting room or the examination room
now had to tunnel through the ground to get to them.
Satisfied with those precautions, Alex bent down to
examine the prisoners.  All of them were sleeping,
obviously drugged for transportation to somewhere.
Weaving the diagnostic weave Alex examined one of the
prisoners.  He had a cold, but, Alex had no idea how to
bring him around from the drug.  With a sigh, Alex
cleared a space and wove a gateway.  As it snapped into
being, he noticed the edges seemed to be sharper than a
razor, as the edge of the opening gate scythed through a
metal chair with no difficulties.

"Dimitri!"  Alex called softly.

"Alex, that didn't take long."  Dimitri's voice came
closer as he stepped into view.

"I need your help, they've all been given some kind of
drug, I don't know how to help them."  Alex called
urgently.

Dimitri raced over and stepped through the gateway, and
quickly bent over to examine the first prisoner he got
to.  After a moment he straightened up.  "As far as I can
tell, they've be given anaesthetic, but what type and
what effect that will have on them?  I don't know.  I
need some help with this."  He shook with helpless
frustration.

Alex let the gateway close.  "I don't know how to help
them with my ability.I'm coming up with a blank."  He
glanced at the soldiers.  "And we need to consider what
to do with them."

Dimitri looked darkly at the soldiers.  "If it weren't
for my oath, I'd kill them all myself."  He muttered.  "I
need a telephone."

"And we need to get out of here."  Alex felt the urgent
tingling of wards in the tunnel to the sewers tingling.
"Now."  He wove another gateway urgently and grabbed
everyone in flows of air as it snapped open and threw
them gently through as he unravelled the wards to the
entrances, stepped through the gate and closed the
gateway behind him.

"Golden Gate park?  This is where you send us?"  Dimitri
asked incredulously, scanning the area for people running
and screaming.

"I don't think anyone saw us."  Alex replied.  "Besides,
I made us all invisible the moment I stepped through the
gate, anyone who saw it will just think they were seeing
things for a moment."  Alex glanced at the still bound
soldiers, making sure they were all there.  "You need to
use a phone, there are more than a few here, go, make
your call, I'll wait here for you."  Alex threw Dimitri
his wallet.

Dimitri grabbed the wallet.  "How can I make calls when
I'm invisible?  And how will I find you afterwards?"

Alex sighed.  "I made the area invisible, sort of, it's
not an individual thing, you're fine to go and make a
call.  And as for finding us again, just walk back here
and I'll guide you back through, ok?"

Dimitri looked suspiciously at him.  "Alright, just don't
go anywhere, I'm calling for help, for all of us."

Alex nodded wearily, the dull throbbing of his head
warning him that the painkillers were beginning to wear
off, they'd never had much effect on him.  "Just go
Dimitri.  I'm not going anywhere."

Dimitri nodded and set off at a trot, heading for a
payphone somewhere.  Alex sighed again, holding the
weaves wasn't making him feel any better, without
thinking, he tied off the invisibility weave.  Alex froze
as he realised what he'd just done.  Quickly he walked
across the boundary of the weave and looked back,
everything was still invisible.tying off the weave seemed
to maintain it without need for his continued effort.
Smiling grimly, Alex re-entered the warded area and tied
off the weave holding the soldiers and Parkman and
relaxed as much as he could.

Alex woke to the sound of Dimitri calling his name, he
must have slept for some time, afternoon had turned to
night.  Sitting up he realised Dimitri was accompanied by
two other people.  Not knowing whether they were friends
or not, Alex seized his ability and wove the disabling
bands of air around them both before stepping out and
crossing the grass rapidly to Dimitri's side.

"Ah, there you are, this is."  Dimitri trailed off as he
realised his companions were frozen mid step.  "Alex,
this is our help."

Alex swiftly unravelled the bonds of air.  "I'm so sorry,
I didn't mean to."  Alex sputtered.

"Better safe than dead kid."  One of them said,
stretching slightly.

"This is Wolverine and Beast, they've come to help us."
Dimitri introduced them.  "It turns out that they were
here looking for a mutant they detected coming here from
the other side of the world a few weeks ago."  Dimitri
said meaningfully to him.

"It is indeed a pleasure to meet you at last, you gave us
some difficulty in locating you."  The one named Beast
stepped out of the shadows.

"I'm sorry."  Alex replied, somewhat confused.

"It's quite alright, Dimitri tells us that you need some
assistance?"



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