#cable fluff

You’re waiting for him outside his room. And you can’t help but be a bit nervous. Finally you hear him come down the hall. He comes up behind you and gets right up against you.

His breath is in your ear. “Ready for bed, doll?”

You nod, unable to answer. Your heart is hammering in your chest.

“You know you could have waited for me inside?”

You feel his hands on your hips, his thumbs rubbing in gentle circles. His nose starts to nuzzle your ear.

Drabble challenge: @themotherofnerd requested #136.

“Aaaahhh!!” You woke up screaming and in a cold sweat. The sounds of gunshots still rang in your ears. Your bedroom door flew open and someone came in. Someone large. “Y/N?” You knew that gruff voice. “Cable?” Your hand was shaking as you lifted it to wipe the tears that had already started to fall. “Shit, what the fuck? I could hear you down the hall.” Cable’s voice was a mix of demanding and concern. “I’m fine.” You adjusted the sheets. “The hell you are. What happened?” Cable sat on the edge of your bed. “I said I’m fine,” you shot back. Cable’s closeness was making you uncomfortable, though you couldn’t exactly say why. “Anything you want to talk about?” “Not with you,” you said unconvincingly. You pulled your legs up. Cable moved more onto the bed. “You had a nightmare. Tell me what it was about so I can fix it.” You grunted and then sighed, finally allowing yourself to relax. “Fix it how?” “Fuck, I don’t know, doll.” Cable scratched his head. “I don’t usually deal with shit like this.” You wrapped your arms around your knees. “Do you ever have nightmares?” Cable sighed. “Sometimes.” “And what do you usually do?” Cable waved his metal hand about. “Turn on a light. Dick around with my guns. Sometimes go downstairs for a drink.” Your eyes were wanting to close now. Just listening to him talk, having him here. “I would love to try to go back to sleep. But I...” you straightened your legs out until they hit Cable’s leg. “But what?” You could feel his gaze on you. Should you tell him? Or would he think you were just being childish? “I don’t think I could fall asleep alone.” There. The truth. You sighed deeply. “You want me to stay with you?” That sure woke you up. “Oh...I...I guess...I don’t know.” Cable leaned in towards you. “Darlin’...you didn’t just bring that up for nothing.” “I don’t want to make you uncomfortable,” you said in a breathy voice. Cable sighed. “Come on.” He stood and patted you knee. You stared at him. “Come on, what?” “I can’t leave you like this.” “Cable...” “Cable, nothing. Let’s go,” he commanded. You furrowed your brow and threw your covers back. You followed Cable out of your room, quietly closing your door behind you. “Hey how did you hear me anyway?” you asked in a hushed voice. “Your room is further down the hall.” “Had to take a piss.” You gave a nod of understanding even though you knew Cable couldn’t see you. You followed him. Soon you neared a corner and stopped in your tracks as you neared a lamp. It had been pitch black in your room. So you hadn’t seen that Cable was shirtless. You slowed your steps and let Cable walk a little further ahead of you so that you could admire the view. You had always known the half metal man was jacked, but his muscles were so defined, you could see the contour of them in the lamp light. “Fuck me,” you said under your breath. You just wanted to run your hands up and down his back. As he passed by the lamp, you let out an audible gasp, luckily not a loud one though. Literally almost half of the left side of Cable’s torso was metal, including his spine. You had seen hints of it before from the couple of times you had seen him wearing a muscle shirt, but to actually fully see metal and flesh molded together… You felt your face flush, not exactly the first time that had happened around Cable for the several weeks you had been at the X-Mansion. Your eyes traveled down to his lose fitting pants. That ass. So round and sculpted.

Your blush intensified when Cable finally stopped.

You pointed at the open door before you. “Your room.”

“Yeah.” Cable turned to face you. “You said you didn’t want to spend the rest of the night alone. Your bed’s not exactly big enough for the two of us.”

You made a noise in your throat and then shifted your stance. You cleared your throat. “Um…sure. That’ll work. I mean, that’s really…nice of you.” You gave him a nod, not quite meeting his gaze.

“Where’d you think I was taking you, doll?” Cable asked with a gruff chuckle.

You waved your arm to the side, feeling like an idiot. “I don’t know. I wasn’t thinking I guess.”

Cable pointed to the open doorway. As you passed him, you could almost feel his body heat radiating off of him.

The room was somewhat bigger than yours. Cable walked passed you and turned on a lamp.

“Wow!”

Guns. There were guns everywhere. On the desk. Leaning against the walls. And some pretty high tech looking gadgets as well.

You let out a laugh. “Well if anyone ever breaks into the mansion to hurt us, I know whose room I’m coming to.”

Cable grunted. “I’ll take that as a compliment.”

You crossed your arms over your chest. “Please do. I always wondered where you kept all of this.”

“So you like what you see?”

It wasn’t a question.

You raised an eyebrow. “So far yeah.”

“Good. Maybe one day I can let you have a more…hands on approach.”

Was if just you, or had Cable’s gaze flicked up and down your body as he had said that?

You licked your lips. “Maybe,” you said coyly.

Cable cleared his throat. “Ready to go to bed?”

You stood blinking at him. He was talking about sleeping right? Sure you had been finding Cable sinfully and deliciously attractive, but the older man from the future had hardly spared you a second glance since you’d come to the mansion. Which had just made it all the more surprising that he was willing to be this nice and share his bed with you to help you fall back to sleep.

You eyed the queen-sized bed. “Which side you sleep on?”

“This one.”

Without hesitation, you crawled in and settled yourself under the covers on the other side. Cable went and turned off the lamp and then you felt a pressure as he crawled in. You froze but then started to relax when you saw that he was staying way on his side. You heard him sigh as he relaxed. A minute passed.

“You know you didn’t have to do this, Cable. Thank you. I appreciate it.”

Silence. “Nathan.”

You blinked. “What?”

“My name’s Nathan.”

“Nathan,” you whispered. You smiled, then in a normal voice said, “Thank you, Nathan.”

You turned over on your side, facing away from him. As you started to doze off, you heard him reply, “Any time, doll.”

You woke up during the middle of the night to an increasing pressure on your chest. Your eyes flew open, heart pounding. Oh there was a pressure on your chest alright.

Somehow, in his sleep, Cable had rolled over…

And was using your chest as a pillow. You heard him moan and then he started nuzzling his cheek against your breast. You stayed stock still, not that you could have moved if you’d wanted to. His metal arm was completely draped over you. And then Cable shocked you even further by wrapping it around your waist. You wanted to say his name, to wake him, but you were pretty sure you would embarrass him and you didn’t want to ruin the moment.

Somehow you managed to fall back to sleep. When you woke in the morning, Cable had already left. You got out of bed and left, closing the door quietly. Luckily no one was around, so you didn’t have to worry about looking conspicuous. You made your way to your room and threw on a light robe.

Cable and Colossus were already in the kitchen. Cable was fixing himself some coffee while Colossus was at the table eating a bowl of cereal. Cable did a double take when he saw you.

You smiled. “Hey.”

“Mornin’” Cable responded.

You grabbed a box of cereal out the cabinet. “You uh…slept good last night?”

“Pretty good.”  Cable leaned back against the counter, his coffee in his hand. “You?”

You tried to hide a grin. “Pretty good.”

“You want to check out my guns today?”

You opened the box of cereal. There was no fighting the grin that spread across your face.

Cable quirked an eyebrow as he sipped his coffee. “What?”

“Nothing. I think I uh…got pretty close enough to them last night. Besides,” you shrugged, “I would probably break something anyway.”

“Give yourself some credit. You’re better than you think.”

You wanted so so badly to ask Cable about last night. But you decided to drop it for now. Besides, as much as your past still haunted you, there would probably be more nights like the last one.

You poured your cereal. “If you say so,” you said in a singsong voice.

“Get your ass moving,” Cable walked past you and you jumped as he slapped you on the ass. “I’ll see you up in my room in a few.”

Damn. This was a total turn around. From barely talking to Cable letting you share his bed with him. And wanting to hang out. You turned around. Colossus was staring at you, his spoon halfway to his mouth.

“What?” you asked.

You had never eaten cereal so fast in your life.

Drabble challenge: @pinoflicious requested #4 and #43.

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Burgers sizzled on the grill. The sun shown brightly and a cool breeze blew on this fine 4th of July day. You glanced around at your small group of friends. You and Domino each drank a margarita and Wade had a coke and rum, which surprised you. The foul mouth merc usually opted for something stronger, but even he was taking it easy today. In fact the only one missing was Cable. You sighed and took a sip of your drink.

“Something wrong?” Domino asked you.

“Not really. I just wished Cable was out here.”

Wade snorted into his glass.

“What?” you retorted.

“Oh come on, you think we haven’t noticed, Y/N?” Wade rolled his eyes dramatically. “We’ve been having to wipe up your drool for weeks now.”

Colossus turned around from the grill. “Wade, get off of Y/N’s back,” he scolded.

“Oh I don’t think I’m the one she wants hovering over her back.” Wade raised his eyebrows at you as he sipped his drink.

You frowned. “Wade, you’re such an ass.”

At that moment, your timer went off. Time to take out your cupcakes. You grabbed your timer and got up from your seat.

“Saved by the bell,” Domino muttered as you walked between her and Wade to go back into the mansion.

You slammed the door shut behind you. You should have been more discreet about your crush on Cable. It’s not like the older man liked you like that anyway. And if he did, he was sure doing a damn good job of hiding it. You pulled the cupcakes out of the oven and placed them on the stovetop. You would have to let them sit for a while before you started icing them. You started digging around in the cupboard for the frosting.

“Idiot. Such a fucking idiot.”

“What did that shithead Wilson do this time?”

You jumped at the unexpected voice behind you.

“Oh. Cable. You’re out.”

“Thanks, doll, you make me sound like a fucking caveman.”

You chuckled. “No, I was just...” you shrugged and went back to pulling out your icing. “I was just worried. You haven’t been out of your room much since your last mission.”

Cable was standing at the refrigerator. He stood and turned, a beer in his hand. You winced at the shiner on his right eye, his human eye. Someone must have punched him hard.

“So uh,” you set your two containers of red and blue icing on the counter. Time to find the white one. “Who gave you that black eye? I hadn’t really asked you about it since you got back.”

Cable’s eyes flashed up and down your body. “You worried about me, darlin’?” He took a swig if his beer.

You started to blush. “Maybe,” you replied quietly. You turned back to the counter.

“Good.”

Your hand paused on the icing lid. Good?

“What do you mean, good?”

You took the lid off and set it down. You heard footsteps behind you.

“Maybe I like having you worried.”

You froze as you felt something hard idly run up the middle of your back. Cable set his beer down on the counter next to you.

“You uh...” you licked your lips which had suddenly become dry. “You want to add that to the icing?”

Cable grunted. “Such a tease.” He leaned down over your shoulder. “Red and blue huh?”

“It’s for the 4th.” Your heart was pounding. Cable had never been this close to you before. “I have some white one too, but I can’t find it.”

“I’m sure it’s in there somewhere.”

There was no mistaking the double entendre in his words. Did Cable really like you after all And was just waiting for the opportune moment to make his move? Ok. Your move apparently.

“Maybe I should just find someone to help me ease it out.”

Your face was beet red now. It had to be.

Cable grunted. He backed away from you and popped you on the butt. You jumped with a gasp.

“Frost the damn cupcakes, darlin’.” Cable grabbed his beer. “And don’t worry about that white icing.”

You slowly turned to face him. The lustful look in his eyes spoke volumes.

“I’ll take care of that for you later.”

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One morning you make your way to the kitchen to get breakfast. Wade and Domino are already in there. You fix a glass of milk and take a sip. Then you make a face because the milk tastes funny.

“How old is this?” you ask.

“We just got it yesterday,” Domino replies.

Sure enough, you check the date. You take another sip.

“Something wrong?” Domino asks.

“I think somethings’s wrong with my taste buds.”

You don’t quite catch the look that Domino throws at Wade. And for once, the smart mouthed mutant doesn’t respond.

“I think we have some orange juice,” Domino replies.

So you pour out your milk and fix yourself a bagel. You decide to bring your breakfast in the den as you’ve been feeling tired lately and don’t really feel up for talking.

You run into Cable along the way, who’s just come back from a morning workout.

You smile at him. “Hey, baby.”

“Mornin’, darlin’.” He plants you a quick peck on the cheek as he’s all sweaty and doesn’t want to get any on you.

“Did you have a nice workout?”

He gives a nod. “Yes, ma’am. You not eating in the kitchen?”

You sigh. “Not today. I’m just gonna eat in the den.”

“You tired?”

You give him a small smile and nod.

Cable gives you a concerned look. “Maybe after breakfast we can go relax. Watch a movie.”

You beam at him. “You’re so good to me. What would I do without you?”

He gives you a lopsided grin. “Don’t ever find out.”

Then he kisses you and makes his way to the kitchen. Negasonic and Yukio are in there also.

“She’s been so tired lately. She doesn’t even do anything. I hope nothing’s wrong with her.”

Domino shuts up as soon as Cable walks in. He starts pouring himself some coffee, lost in his own thoughts. He is worried about you as well.

“Uh...Cable...I’m not trying to be nosy, but have you uh..noticed anything strange about Y/N?” Domino idly runs her finger around the rim of her coffee mug.

“You mean besides the fact that she’s even more quiet than usual?” Wade piped up. “What’s so strange about that?”

Domino places her hand on her hip. “Wade? Seriously? You just saw her. That milk is what, two days old and she’s acting like it’s turned into cottage cheese or something.”

Cable’s got his back to the room, but his hand freezes as he stirs his coffee.

“Messed up taste buds? Isn’t that an early sign of pregnancy?” Yukio chirps.

Cable’s whole body stiffens. Pregnant? Could you possibly be pregnant? You had been very tired lately. And now your taste buds were off. And now that Cable thought about it, so had been your appetite. His heart starts pounding and he doesn’t even realize how tightly he’s holding his mug with his metal hand until it breaks, coffee spilling out.

He needed to find you and talk to you. The two of you had only been together for several months and just a few months ago finally told each other I love you.

You had just taken a sip of your orange juice when Cable stepped into the doorway of the den. His hands were empty and you shot him a questioning look.

“You ate already?”

Cable walked into the room, his eyes on the floor. “Nah. Not really hungry.”

“Well you should eat something. You just worked out,” you told him gently.

Cable let out a gruff chuckle. “Always a mother hen.”

“You know I gotta look after my man.” You patted the seat next to you on the couch and scooted over so Cable could sit down. He still didn’t look at you at first.

“At least you’re eating something. That’s the important thing.”

“Yeah. My appetite’s been really finicky lately.” You took a bite of your blueberry bagel. “Sucks that I couldn’t drink any milk though. Orange juice isn’t the best thing to drink with bagels.”

“I heard about that.” He leaned forward and laced his hands together. Finally he looked over at you. “You have anything you need to talk about?”

You tilted your head sideways at him. “I don’t think so. Why is something wrong?”

You were starting to get worried. Something was definitely off about your boyfriend. Within minutes the atmosphere between the two of you had shifted. Cable bowed his head with a sigh.

“Babe?” You reached out and started rubbing his shoulder. “Please tell me what’s wrong. You were fine just a few minutes ago.”

“I’m just worried about you.” Cable placed his hand on your knee and started rubbing your lower thigh. “Tired. Don’t eat much half the time. I’m just worried about your health, darlin’.”

“Baby…”

You placed your plate on the coffee table next to your juice and snuggled against Cable’s side. He placed his arm around you and pulled you against him.

“You know I can’t even tell you how much you’ve come to mean to me. Like I would be lost without you.”

You smiled at him. “I feel the same.”

Cable leaned over and tenderly kissed your forehead. Then he pulled back. When your eyes met his, it was like seeing the sunrise for the first time. You leaned in to kiss him and when Cable pressed his firm lips against yours, you let out a sigh. You and Cable still had a long way to go in your relationship, or at least you hoped so. You had never had feelings like this for anyone before and even though the fact that he was a good bit older than you and from the future had been somewhat awkward to deal with at first, the two of you had made a fast connection.

One that you weren’t willing to break anytime soon.

After you ate, you and Cable lay down on the couch to watch Die Hard, one of your favorite action movies of all time. You were laying between his legs, lacing the curvatures of his metal hand with his fingers. He grabbed your hand and brought it to his lips, kissing the back of your hand. You smiled contently. As much as you loved Cable’s tough side, especially in the bedroom, it was tender moments like this that made you love him all the more. Soon you found yourself drifting off to sleep. And it was because you were asleep that you didn’t feel Cable place his right hand on your belly, like he could already feel if there was life growing inside you. 

Cable laid there, listening to your even breathing. His human hand lightly caressed your flat belly. He would have to be extra careful with you from now on. At least until the two of you knew for sure if you were pregnant or not. He might have been half made of metal, but to him it was like you had suddenly turned to glass. And then his stomach started to twist into knots. Not at the idea of being a father again.

But that your child would carry the same virus that he had.