Daken had patiently waited for Rictor to heal. There was no point in murdering someone as they slept in their bed. Any common criminal could do that. But to be a true assassin, to take it to the next level and turn it into an art form, that required a certain level of skill and finesse one could only come by after years of training. Now that the
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She was still angry over the issues with Mark, but not so angry as to leave.
When the scene started to play out, she was grateful that she hadn't. Strangely, rather than throw a punch or take the weapon or anything that might help in that manner, Rogue used her chair. Throwing it. Sort of.
With a hold on the back of the chair, Rogue stood while smoothly and swung, the back of the chair colliding solidly with the new person -or potentially just the recent nutjob of the month.
Rictor, it seemed, attracted nutjobs.
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Daken felt more than he saw the chair as it collided with him. Apparently this camp did have some competent fighters among the idiots that populated their ranks. It crashed into him, sending the feral mutant flying into a nearby table, which collapsed under his weight.
With an snarl more animal than human, he got back up, brushing debris off his shoulders. As the other occupants of the room fled, a quick scan showed he had two opponents, the white-streaked brunette and-- Of course. Logan. Clearly, luck was on his side, to have made sure he would be able kill two birds with one stone.
The gun had been lost during his crash, but Daken was never unarmed. With a smirk, his own claws slid out. Two on either side of his hands while the third came out from under his wrists. "Shall we dance?" He leaped at his two opponents, slashing out with his favorite weapons.
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Managing to stay out of the way wasn't difficult. The second she'd stepped into the room she'd been assaulted by the uncontrolled wave of emotion from every which angle. She recognised the usual ones easily; Rictor's fear and frustration and worry, Rogue's concern and determination and fury, Logan's barely controlled anger and pain and wonder. It was the pure hatred and murderous rage that shocked her into non-reaction.
It just swam around and clouded everything and sept into her mind like water into a sponge. Only it was thicker and heavier and suffocating; like treacle, and Ophelia was just left, standing there, staring ahead and shaking with small tremors as the fight raged on and then ended.
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