What if Apocalypse had won?
Bored by the mindless squabbles and weak fighting that the other three horsemen constantly enacted, Cable, Horseman of War, ignored them and walked to his room. He had other, more pleasing company he could indulge in.
The other horsemen made remarks of course, as could be expected. But Apocalypse had given his almighty permission, so Cable was satisfied.
His captive looked up with a wary expression when he closed the door. A few strides and Nate was kneeling besides his pet. “The X-Men fell today. That was your last hope, wasn’t it? That they would win, take pity on you and release you back into the wild?”
“Yep, I dreamt of frolicking with gazelles,” Wade quipped with a sigh.
Cable grabbed Wade’s jaw and kissed him roughly, possessively. He pulled away to stare into Wade’s eyes. “You think for a moment I would let them get you? The idea that they might try was the very thing that motivated me to grind Charles Xavier’s skull beneath my boot.”
Wade looked relieved. “Oh, his skull. I was worried for a second there that you’d been grinding with Xavier.”
Cable smirked. “If I thought for one second that your nonchalance was genuine, I would take off these binds,” he fingered the adamantium manacles. “You could be the blood-soaked creature of war we both know you to be. You could fight beside me, glory in my battles.” The gleam of lust and insanity in Cable’s eyes faded and he sighed heavily. “But I feel your rage. Your resentment. And until I can bend that into unswerving loyalty, I cannot free you. I can only try and tame you.”
He waved a hand slightly and the manacles shifted, separated so that Wade’s legs were spread. Wade struggled unintentionally, belatedly remembering that it was the struggle, the conflict, that aroused Cable so much. Nate lived for a fight now, whatever context it was in.
Wade didn’t actually mind being used in kinky sexual perversions. It was the highlight of his day. It was the temptation that bothered him. The fact that this was a taming process, designed to make him a devoted psychopath. The way it was almost succeeding.
But he would escape. He didn’t need the X-Men. He would get out of this and get revenge upon Cable, Horseman of Apocalypse.
Revenge for destroying Nate, the man he’d loved.