Tainted Love
By: Huntress-X and LostLittleGirl90
Authors Note: This is a long story sequel to a series of Jubilee/Pietro between me and LostLittleGirl90. The chapters will be marked so you will know which one of us has done it or which part we have written.
For parts 1 and 4 and 5 go to my page and for parts 2 and 3 go to LostLittleGirl90.
Part one: Insatiable
Part two: Easy Breezy
Part three: 30 Minutes
Part four: Poison
Part five: Loves me, Loves me not
Chapter 1
Forgotten Past
"Deep in your mind there is another side
A morbid truth one cannot hide
Unimaginable gore was your past time high
To hear people scream, to watch them die…"
Jubilation Lee´s life had started out almost perfect. She had been born the third child to the Lee's, a loving and very rich family that had lived in America for just about ten years when she came along.
She lived with her parents and two older brothers in a big mansion in Beverly Hills, she went to the best school, she played the piano, she loved riding horses at the country club and she was a straight A student.
She was being raised to be a loving and happy person, and that she was. She had a lot of friends and found life to be just easy and fun, like a child should.
Yes, life was as close to perfect as it could be for a young girl who could get almost everything she wanted.
But just by the actions of two men everything would be taken away.
One night, three months after her tenth birthday, she was woken up by the sound of gunshots… four of them to be correct. She had gotten out of her bed and wandered through the large corridor, down the big stair and walked until she reached the TV- room where the rest of her family had been watching a movie that she had been too tired to see.
"Mom?" she had asked when she walked in and then only her scream was heard.
In front of her in the couch she saw her mother, father and brothers, all dead…they were all bleeding from different places making the floor look like a red sea. Their eyes were still open, filled with fear and you could see how the Lee´s had desperately tried to protect their sons from the shots.
"Mom!" Jubilation screamed and rushed over to the lifeless bodies. "Dad!" she started to shake them begging them to wake up. "Joshua! Jin!" she cried trying to make her brothers talk to her.
Her bare feet were covered in blood along with her white nightgown and the tears had started to run down her face.
Why wouldn't they wake up? Why didn't they stop bleeding? Why didn't anybody help them?
"Oh, my lord!" she heard her father's butler say somewhere in the distance, but she was to busy trying to bring her family back. "Mary, call the police and an ambulance!"
Then suddenly a pair of strong arms grabbed her and pulled her from her mother.
"Miss Lee, please calm down, there nothing you can do," The butler told her. "We have to wait for the ambulance."
Jubilee tried to get loose, but George was too strong. He turned her away from the messy scene and took her out to the kitchen were Mary, the cook, had just called the police and Lily, the nanny just came down stairs.
"George, what on earth has happened?!" she asked when she saw Jubilation´s bloody clothes.
Jubilation blocked everything out. Time just seemed to move without her; she heard the police and the ambulance come, she heard people trying to talk to her but she didn't care. All she wanted to do was rush out to her family and hope that everything was okay again, that they would sit there and watch the movie, smiling at her.
The next few days were like a blur. After the police had taken the bodies from the house a woman had come and taken her to the hospital. They had looked her over and washed her, and then she had been taken to a police station were a man and a woman from the CSI had asked her questions.
She had answered the ones she could without taking her eyes from the wall.
Then she had been taken to a place were they told her she would be staying for a few days, since she didn't have any family that could take care of her.
Those days turned into a month, and then she was placed in a foster home. She still saw a shrink everyday but she hadn't said a word since her family´s murder. She stayed with the first family for two months, than they gave up on her. The second family kept her for four months then they gave up on her as well. The third family Jubilation couldn't stand and right after her 11 birthday, and after her move in with her seventh family, she took her things and took of.
Barely 11 years old, and already out on the streets of L.A, that's when her not so perfect life really started.
She was pushed around and often beaten up by older street kids, that's how she learned how to fight. She had to live without proper food for weeks, that how she learned how to steal. And she had no one but herself, and that's how she learned how to survive.
Jubilation Lee, aka Jubilee, lived in a world of violence, drugs and everything you try to keep your kids away from. When she was 13 she followed a couple of other street kids to New York, stealing the money for the tickets, hoping for a better life over there.
Although the streets of New York were as bad as in L.A, Jubilee liked the city, especially the night clubs. Her powers seemed to evolved faster than normal, another reason why she had left L.A. Not that she knew what "normal" was suppose to be, but they seemed to grow fast. Before she had left for New York she had actually blown up a house. Well, not a house, more like an 20 floor building. Nothing had been left, it was like it had just disappeared, she hadn't meant to do it, it had just happened.
One year in New York passed by slowly and the winter seemed extra long, and extra cold. When summer finally came Jubilee turned 14, still alone and still by herself. She looked older than she was, many people mistook her for 15 or 16 and if she looked deep in her big blue eyes her soul seemed even older.
It was that summer that the cops finally caught her. Well, actually she was shot in the shoulder, taken to a hospital and that´s were they took her. She was sent to juvie, but the same day she had been planning on taking off she got a visit.
It was Professor Charles Xavier, he told her about his school, about mutants and that if she wanted to he could arrange for her to get out of juvie and come to his school instead.
Now Jubilee´s trust wasn't something you got easily. You have to earn it and even if you think that she might trust you, she doesn't, not even when she needs you. But she decided that at the moment anything was better then the streets and juvie.
That's how she ended up at the Xavier School for Gifted Youngsters, and that's how she ended up with the X-men. Training with the X-men wasn't hard at all, all those years with the gymnastic troupe back in L.A and all those years on the streets had thought her a lot.
She kept how strong her powers really were and what she really could do with them a secret though, just shooting out some fireworks to pass a normal training session with Logan. Why she kept it a secret, she didn't really know…
"Images of the forgotten past…
Your first life revealed at last
Now you'll find to your surprise
All the corpses you left behind…"