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Hey guys! I hope everyone likes my first fanfic. I worked really hard to write it. Sorry if it's short and horribly written. No flames please. Reviews and constructive criticism make me better!

I'm sorry but I can't write everyone's accents very well. The imagination works better than my awful spelling anyway!

~11 years ago~

Logan was glad he got away from that facility in Canada. Plus he went somewhere that they would never look for him. Logan went deep in the boonies, and along the river of Mississippi. The facility he had escaped was where they take regular people and turn them into weapons. Mutants. Monsters. That was all we ever were. Logan's ability is that he had adamantium surgically fused to his bones. Those metal claws can sometimes come out of his knuckles. He also has accelerated healing capabilities. The facility used his and others' powers for a revolution against humans. Thankfully he had escaped from that place! Now, grateful that he was, Logan was stuck in a rinkey-dink hillbilly town with the "River Rats" of Mississippi.

'At least Louisiana is close,' he thought.

'Maybe I'll be able to see Mardi gras!' Logan was just about to head back into Meridian, Mississippi when a cry pulled him out of his thoughts. He spun away from his stolen motorcycle and ran toward the riverbank. There, barely hanging on to the bank, was a little girl. Logan swiftly got down on his stomach and pulled the semi-unconcious little girl out of the freezing cold water. Logan then proceeded to take his jacket and wrap it around her. He slowly warmed her and tried to ask her questions. "Hey little girl! What's your name?" he whispered urgently.

She whispered back in a tiny croaking voice, "Anna-Marie."

'Okay,' he thought, 'now I need an age!' "OK Anna-Marie, can you tell me how old you are?"

She shakily held up five fingers in response. 'Shit! I need to get her to a far away hospital so she can get help and I won't draw attention to myself!' Logan cried in his head.

Out loud he said,"Anna-Marie? I'm gonna pick you up and-"

"NO!" she screamed, finally coming out of her daze. "Don't touch me! Everyone I touch gets hurt! My momma said me and my brother were demons and then she threw me in the river! Please Mister! Don't touch me!" With that she started to cry.

Logan was surprised when she said this. He began to wonder if she was a mutant too. Then he had an idea. Back at the facility everyone told him he had regenerative healing capabilities along with the adamantium in his body. If she touches him, then whatever her power is, she can't hurt him terribly bad. He then said something to Anna-Marie. "I'm like you. We're mutants. I have different powers than you do though. The only way I can help you is to pick you up. I promise that we'll be OK! Okay?"

Marie couldn't help but feel relaxed at his deep soothing tone that a father would've had if she had a father. All she'd ever known was her horrible mother and her wonderful baby brother, Graydon. She sighed and slightly nodded her head up and down at this nice stranger. Marie asked his name as he stuck his hand near her arm. He said his name was James Howlett. He goes by Logan. She said for him to call her Marie. Then he lifted her up. Too bad for him though, as he got halfway to the motorcycle, she slipped a little. Without thinking, he lifted her back up by touching her arm.

For her it was as if she was unwillingly growing stronger. At first. Then searing pain coursed through her hands as metal claws dug their way slowly out of her skin. They slowly retracted after a while, and the holes in her knuckles sealed as another weird sensation rocked through her. She felt her lungs, which were filled with water, empty out as she coughed violently. Her throat stopped burning, cuts were being cleaned and sealed, and the pounding in her head stopped. It was as if she was never thrown off a bridge into the Mississippi River by their mother! She was healed. For Logan it felt as if his life was being sucked away.

After about ten seconds he let go and everything went black. Marie staggered around as she gained her equilibrium back. Once she stopped seeing spots, Marie walked over to Logan who was unconscious. She quickly lay down and propped up her back on the nearby tree. For now she would rest and try to block out the foreign thoughts coursing through her mind. The last thing she heard was a voice in her head telling her that she was a demon.

When she woke up, it was dark out. Logan was still unconscious and Marie was worried. "Maybe I should wake him up…" she wondered aloud. As she was pondering on how to wake him up, a groan pulled her out of her head.

"W…what happened?" Logan asked.

"Ummmm…My power happened. I'm sorry! I told you I'm dangerous!" Marie cried, as tears streamed down her face. "When I touch people they pass out and I feel stronger! My momma says that I have a demon inside me and my brother. I know she's right, now!"

"Wait, what happened to your brother?" Logan asked.

"I don't know. Momma grabbed me and dragged me down to the bridge. She said that if she throws me down to the water, that the demon will be washed out of me. I didn't see Gray anywhere. I did hear him crying though."

"Do you want to go find him? I can take you to child services. 'Cause I am not letting you go back to that harpy woman you call a mother. It goes against my morals!"

"I want to go get him, but momma said that if she sees me near the house again she'll….kill me! And you can't leave me in the same town as her or she'll find me and kill me!" Marie sobbed out.

"Listen kid, I understand how lonely you must feel but trust me when I say that you don't want me taking care of you! I'm a loner! Someone that wanders by themselves! I can't spend time taking care of a little kid!"

"Please Logan! I don't have any other place to go! I'm small, so I don't take up much room! I don't complain and I love traveling! Pleeeaaase!"

"Aghhh….Alright kid. But you're pulling your own weight. Just 'cause you're five doesn't mean that you need to be babied!" Grumbled Logan.

"Yay! We are gonna have so much fun going places Logan!" yelled a suddenly happy Marie.

"Yeah. Soooo much fun! Shoot me now" Logan murmured under his breath as he pulled Marie onto the bike. "Hold on kid, it's gonna get bumpy from now on."

A/N: YAY my first Chapter! I hope you guys like it! PM me if you have suggestions and tips for me! I would greatly appreciate it.

I'm trying to make them as in-character as I can but forgive me if they are a little ooc.

Farewell, until my next chappie! XD