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  Thaddeus has a solid pair of chats.

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  “… I killed a man on Friday.”

  He doesn’t just e out and say that right off the rip, to be fair. But Rogue probably knew something was wrong when he didn’t immediately leap at accepting her overtures for sex when they first got together. Instead, Thaddeus had suggested a movie and a cuddle, and that’s what they’d been doing for some time now.

  It was Sunday now and Thaddeus had ultimately decided to have Sage, or rather ‘Tessa’ pencil in Rogue for the day. It had been a while since he and the gothic mutant had st ied. Not too long, but it certainly felt like ay. Still, Rogue more than anything deserved to know what Thaddeus had done. Because…

  “I had to use your power to do it. To drain him of his vitality. It was the only way.”

  Teically, Rogue had no cim over the version of her mutation that Thaddeus had developed. However, that was a very bd white view of things. It cked nua the end of the day, Thaddeus didn’t regret killing Shaw the way he did. But Rogue still deserved to know what had e of their intimacy just in case she never wao see him again. She deserved the right to make an informed choice. She-

  “I’m sure he didn’t leave you much option.”

  Blinking, Thaddeus looks down at where Rogue is looking up at him. They’re cuddling together on the couch where she could rest her head on his chest and run her fingers over his bared abs as they watched the movie. Now, she’s tilted her head back so she look him in the eye, her distinct Southern Twang giving her words more fvor even as she stares at him without a single ounce of judgment in her eyes.

  … He’d been expeg anger, really. But in the face of her certainty, he swallows dryly, finding that he ’t exactly lie to her.

  “He didn’t. It was self-defense.”

  And really, it was. Even if one could argue that Thaddeus had known Shaw’s personality and known he rovoking him when he refused to hand over Natasha… the very act of demanding his date in the first pce was itself an act of aggression. Shaw had made his decisions, he had initiated the flict, and he had brutally tried to end it. Only Thaddeus’ immense healing factor had allowed him to survive when Shaw had tried to make an example of him. Otherwise, he’d be dead right now.

  Rogue hums knowingly.

  “He was a bad man, wasn’t he?”

  Uatement of the tury. But Thaddeus just nods, letting out a low sigh.

  “Yes. He was.”

  Suddenly smirking, Rogue pats his chest.

  “Then why are y to vince me you’re a monster for removing a stain from the world?”

  … You know, sometimes he fot that Rogue was teically part of the Brotherhood of Mutants. Sure, he’d maybe kind of sort of bullied Mystique into letting Rogue stay behind and attend ESU when the shapeshifter had finally left to return to her duties, but that didn’t ge much did it? Rogue still thought of herself as part of the Brotherhood. He’d just… seen her as more ihan anything else, Thaddeus supposed.

  But her words also resohin him and make him realize that she’s right. That’s exactly what he was doing, albeit subsciously. Maybe part of him felt some level of guilt over Shaw’s death after all. Not because Shaw died, but because Thaddeus had to kill someone, even if it was an utter shit stain like their te Bck King.

  He wasn’t going to beat himself up over it, but maybe some part of him felt like he deserved to be punished all the same, and so he was trying to get Rogue to beat him up over it instead. Either that or leave him entirely.

  Opening and closing his mouth a couple times, Thaddeus finally just chuckles and shakes his head ruefully.

  “You’re right. Sorry.”

  Rogue hums in a satisfied manner and goes to y her head back down on his chest. Just like that, she sidered the matter closed. Except it wasn’t… irely.

  “Sorry, there is something else. He was a mutant too. And I got his power.”

  He hadn’t been sure initially if he did, but Thaddeus had done some tests and discovered that yes, he did in fact have Shaw’s mutation now. He hadn’t just draihe Bck King’s life force; he’d quite literally drained his everything… including his powers. Thaddeus didn’t know how long it was supposed to st though, truth be told. Normally, he got powers from having sex and when that happened, it was sort of… intuitive in a way. He automatically uood what he had.

  The same couldn’t be said for how he’d drained Shaw. He was basically having to figure things out as he went along.

  Of course, Rogue doesn’t know what’s on his mind, she’s not psychic. All she has to go off of is his words, which cause her to look up at him with wide eyes. Now there’s a hint of judgment in her voice alongside the massive incredulity.

  “You… had sex with him before you killed him?”

  Blinking, Thaddeus lets out a shocked ugh before shaking his head.

  “Oh! No, no I did not. There was… no sexual intercourse between us.”

  Good lord. The very thought made him sick to his stomach. Rogue, meanwhile, looks relieved but also fused. She really doesn’t know. But then, why would she?

  “Rogue… I absorbed his powers. I drained him of his mutation alongside his vitality.”

  Thaddeus makes sure to deliver the news in a gentle, careful tone. Rogue has to take a moment to parse his words and uand what he’s saying. When she finally figures out what the hell he’s talking about, she jerks more violently then wheold her he killed a man on Friday. Staring up at him with wide eyes now, she gapes.

  “You mean…”

  Slowly nodding, Thaddeus makes sure to hold her close, hugging her gently but firmly to provide as mufort as he .

  “… Yeah. If you ever have cause to drain someone like that… to the point of death or even just near death, you o be ready for… additional elements t up. Because… it’s not just his powers I gue. I also have some of his memories.”

  This wasn’t something Thaddeus had told a. Not even any of the women who had been there Friday Night. Not even Emma. He wasn’t sure how they would react, frankly. And now that he said it out loud, it led him to wonder if that part of Shaw that was inside of him had been what had him feeling so guilty over killing the bastard.

  To be clear, the moment Thaddeus had realized what happened, he’d sequestered Shaw’s memories rather brutally. g down on them, gathering them up into a tight little ball, and smming them into a nice bck box that he’d closed shut. But he hadn’t thrown away the proverbial key, so to speak. He’d kept options open, just in case he o access the brutish Bck King’s memories at any point.

  That said, Thaddeus sychic. Rogue was not. She looks at him in horror, seemingly more worried for him than anything else, but Thaddeus just shakes his head, giving her a smile.

  “I’m fine, Rogue. I have the tools to ha, thankfully. But you still o know. You o be warned.”

  He definitely didn’t wao be blindsided by that aspect of her powers down the road. Admittedly, it was far less likely to happen actally now that Rogue had an on and off switch for her powers. However, that also meant the ces were that if she ever did have to purposefully use her mutation to kill someo would be a very, very bad person indeed.

  “... Thanks for letting me know, Thad. I guess it makes sense… aer to know ahead of time. Forewarned is forearmed and all that…”

  Thaddeus swallows and nods but doesn’t quite know what else to say. What do you say when you’ve just informed someohat they’re capable of not just putting people into a a with a siouch, but also capable of draining everything from superpowers to memories from them as well?

  In the end, Rogue ys her head back down on his chest, her ear pressed against his skin so she listen to his heart beat in his ribcage. Its then that Thaddeus realizes Rogue doesn’t need him to say anything else. She just needs him to be there for her… just as he needs her to be there for him.

  Together, they watch the rest of the movie with one another in panionable silence.

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  WHAM! WHAM! WHAM!

  “Nnngh! H-Harder!”

  He’d had ‘Tessa’ pencil in Rogue for him. Laura though… well, Laura had just shown up after he’d finally left a sleeping Rogue in her dorm room and headed back to his own. Ohing had led to another, and soon enough he and the ferocious female mutant were going at it. On her hands and knees, Laura calls for him to fuck her harder even as Thaddeus rails her from behind doggystyle, pounding into her g t with all his might.

  Thankfully both the bedframe and the wall behind it were reinforma’s dime ba the very first days he’d moved into the dorm, because Thaddeus isn’t holding much baow… and Laura clearly doesn’t want him to either. He’s fug into her so hard that it goes beyond bruising… he’s probably creating micro-fractures in her pelvis with every st thrust.

  But such things don’t matter when you have a healing factor as strong as Laura’s. And it’d only gotten strohanks to how much sex they’d had. At this point, any damage that Thaddeus was doing with each smming motion into Laura’s t was pletely healed by the time he pulled out and did it again, even though each of his thrusts was happening in mere fras of a sed.

  “Yes! Fuck! FUCK!”

  Tipping over the edge, Laura cries out as she cums all over his cock for what feels like the sixth time sihey started. Thaddeus groans and joihis time around, her insides milking him rather effusively and fully bringing him to pletion finally. He cums and cums for what feels like ay before he’s finally done.

  A full body shudder runs through Laura’s figure, her back muscles rippling before his eyes in an absolutely stunning fashion until finally, they both slump down onto the bed together, finally spent. And food reason too… they’ve been going at it for over an hour now, Thaddeus notes wryly.

  Finally, he rolls off of Laura and onto his back while Laura herself rolls onto her side fag him. Silence reigns for a moment before she finally breaks it.

  “You didn’t just do what you had to. You did the right thing.”

  Thaddeus looks over at her quietly, just… soaking in her words as Laura tinues on.

  “Some people don’t deserve life. Simple as that.”

  And really, for her it would be that simple, wouldn’t it? Thaddeus’ mind goes to Kimura for a moment. Laura had made sure the merary died like a dog. No muss, no fuss. And from what he knew, Kimura deserved it. But then, if Kimura deserved it… so did Sebastian Shaw. The man was just as bad as Laura’s Chief Tormentor had been, if not more so. He was a monster pin and simple.

  “Not everyone has it io kill. And some will tell you that nobody should be capable of ending someone else’s life. It took me a long time to realize those people are wrong. Sometimes, there’s someone who o die. And people like us are necessary, to deal with people like that.”

  As far as pep talks go, it might not be the very best. A… at the same time, it works. Laura’s words successfully loosen something in Thaddeus’ chest that he hadn’t even known was there. With Rogue, he’d been more worried about telling her what happened aing her know what he’d discovered about her mutation. He wasn’t looking for ao throw him a pity party, or to pat him on the head and tell him he was a ‘good boy’ for ‘doing what o be done’.

  A, even though he hadn’t been looking for it, Laura had known what he needed all the same. With a rueful chuckle, he reaches out and grabs hold of the naked, sweaty ulling her into his side. Laura doesn’t resist, cuddling into him quite tently even as he pces a kiss atop her head.

  “… Thank you.”

  “Mm.”

  He’s gd he took a moment to really process things this weekend. He’s gd he didn’t just gloss over it all or shut himself off from the women in his life. The future is still somewhat dark and uain. And he’s well aware that his new role as a White Knight in the Hellfire Club will e with far more responsibilities then he had previously when he was a retive unknown and just a ‘pawn’.

  But those responsibilities were still a little ways off. For now, Thaddeus really was looking forward to just going to css tomorrow and having a bit of normalcy for once. College had admittedly taken a backseat for him so far. Maybe it was time to focus on his time at Empire State Uy a bit more…

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