"You know, I think I like you better when you can't talk and are begging me to kill you," I say.

It's true. Key word is better. Can't stand him either way, but at least one way he shuts up.

"How would you know, runt?" he says. "You ain't never seen it."

I smirk. It gets him, that smirk, I can tell. It's a smirk that says yes I have. "I know a lot of things you don't, Creed," I say. "Like Romulus."

Funny thing is, he doesn't blink. Can't say when he found out about it, but he knew longer than I did, but here we are: nothing. Just comes at me again, backs me past Rogue.

Hope she doesn't just jump up and go for something easy like putting him through a wall. That's not what we're here for.