Marie Pov

"LOGAN!" Marie frantically screamed. She ran as fast as she could, but she couldn't get to him, and worse, he couldn't hear her. She watched in horror as she saw Victor rip him to shreds. She screamed Logan's name again, this time in anguish. She saw Victor look at her for the first time and she panicked. He stalked towards her menacingly, and to her horror, she couldn't move. He circled around her slowly and stopped directly behind her. He was so close that Marie could feel his breath against her neck. She felt his hands slowly trail down the length of her body and back up to her neck again. It revolted her, but she was helpless to stop it. He pulled her against him and buried his nose in her hair, in haling deeply. Then, he pulled the hair off her neck, almost like he was going to bite her. Victor leaned towards her and whispered in her hear.

"Your mine Princess, mine for forever."

"NO!" Marie cried out, shooting up in her bed and coming awake with a jolt. She panted heavily and her eyes searched the room wildly while she tried to get her bearings. A warm strong arm pulled her backwards and into a tight embrace. She calmed down and sighed in relief when she saw Logan's worried face staring at her.

"I thought I was supposed to be the one with nightmares. What's wrong darlin?" He whispered coaxingly. He ran a hand through her hair, silently reassuring her and reminding her that he was there and she was safe.

"I…I just had a bad dream that's all, I'll be alright." She mumbled, already falling asleep again. At least that's what she wanted Logan to think.

"Okay darlin, I'm here if you need me." Logan replied uncertainly. Marie smiled. Feelings were not Logan's strong suite, but it touched her that he was trying.

She hated lying to him like that, but she didn't want to alarm him. When Logan got angry, there wasn't anything that anyone could do to stop him from doing something rash or stupid….usually both. It had been 2 months since the kidnapping and Marie was still having nightmares. Every time she closed her eyes, she saw Victor's face. The dreams were getting steadily worse, now Logan died in almost all of them. As if that wasn't enough, Victor's actions towards her were frightening. It was almost as if he was attacking Logan for her. She saw Logan's memories before, she knew what Victor was like with woman and his brother, so this attitude he had in her dreams worried her. It didn't help that the X-men could not find any trace of Victor Creed or Stryker. The searched everywhere and not even the tiniest fingerprint or trail remained of the pair. With these troubling thoughts whirling around in her head, Marie buried herself in Logan's arms and fell into a troubled sleep.

The next day, Marie was woken up by a very hyper Jubilee and an amused Jean Grey.

"Come on Marie! Get up! We have to go pick out dresses today!" Jubilee shouted joyfully. She threw some clothes at Marie, waited for her to get dressed, and shoved Marie and Jean out of the room.

"Do you know what kind of dress you want?" Jean asked as they walked down the stairs and into the garage.

"Honestly I have no clue. I didn't want this big of a wedding in the first place." Marie grumbled sleepily. Thanks to the very large amount of Logan still residing in her head, she was no longer a morning person.

She smirked at the memory of the discussion that had happened last month about the ceremony. Logan and Marie had both agreed that they wanted a small, private, wedding with the x-team and a few of Marie's friends. Logan didn't have any family besides Victor, and Marie's family was pretty much dead to her. So, they had gone to the professor to ask for his permission to use the school grounds. He agreed on the conditions that he would give marie away, and that the entire school be allowed to attend. His exact words were

"This is the first time that a wedding will be held on the grounds. The students here need a reason to celebrate, to show them that the world isn't all bad. It will remind them that mutant s can still lead normal lives, and it will remind them of what they are trying to achieve at this school."

Marie had been surprised when Logan agreed without even the slightest grumble or complaint to the professor. Of course, he had plenty to say about it behind closed doors, but in public he didn't say a word. Marie suspected that it was because he secretly did want a big wedding. Once when they were discussing it, she had suggested that they go to Vegas and get it over with. He had shot the idea down by stating firmly

"Marie, I remember my last wedding. It was in a courthouse with a few buddies from work. I don't want that for you. I want to do this the right way. I want you to have your chance to walk down the aisle. Besides, Isn't that what every little girl dreams of?"

The plus side to the whole thing was that the professor was willing to pay for the whole thing. Something that Jean frequently teased her about. She and scot had gone the courthouse route.

"Marie! Hello….anyone in there? We're here!" Jean joked. Marie snapped out of her thoughts and looked up to realize that they were in fact, at the bridal shop and that she had spent the whole car ride thinking about the wedding.

"What is going on in that brain of yours Marie? You were completely spaced out." Jean drilled with a smirk.

"I know what I would e thinking about if I had the wolverine in my bed." Jubilee exclaimed with a wink.

"I hear that!" Marie replied and quickly ducked into the shop.

The next few hours were spent trying on dress after dress, dealing with an obnoxious over-perfumed saleswoman, and getting the constant reassurance form the girls that she could take her time and that she didn't look fat. After the 50th dress she tried on, Marie gave up letting the saleswoman choose and randomly grabbed a dress of the rack, letting fate do the choosing. Without looking, she slipped it on and walked out of the stalls for approval.

"Well? How about this one? Is it any worse than the last billion I tried on?" she mumbled.

When silence answered her question, she turned to look at her friends. Jean's jaw had dropped in an unflattering way and she was frozen in place, Jubilee was nodding and practically clapping her hands in joy. Marie took this as a positive thing and whipped around in the mirror to see what they were gaping at, her jaw dropped too. It was sort of sleek, elegant looking, and it was one hundred percent her. The top was v-shaped, crisscrossing around the waist, and finally widening out at the hips to settle at a pool around her feet. It felt right, much better than the other dresses she had tried on. She quickly slipped out of the gown, afraid to ruin it before she even got out of the store. After that, the other girls were easy to shop for. It was decided that the colors were silver white and black, so the girls got silver and black cocktail dresses and they quickly paid and got out the door.

Marie was eager to see Logan again. For the past couple months he had been all but glued to her side. It was a running joke among the team that where one was, the other would be. Bets were frequently placed on how long they could stay away from each other. Whoever bet the shortest time usually won. Marie sighed and closed her eye as they went down the winding road that would take her to Logan…

Meanwhile at the mansion….

Logan Pov

"Come on! Come on! Dammit The goal is that big net!" Logan yelled at the T.V. He and Scott were and sitting in the recreation room watching a hockey game and throwing back a few beers while the girls went shopping. As the game went to commercial, the guys got up and headed to the kitchen to get a few beers out of Logans hidden stash. Ever since the kidnapping, Logan and Scott had somehow bonded and were now almost friends. At least, Scott was the closest thing to a friend Logan had. The man in question was tapping on the counter impatiently as Logan dug around for the two remaining beers.

"So Logan, Ready to take the plunge?"

"Ready as I'll ever be." Logan shot back quickly. This was not a new question to him.

"I never thought I'd see the day the wolverine was tamed." Scott joked shaking his head.

"Your wife said the same thing. I'm not tamed." Logan grumbled tossing scot a beer and walking back to the couch.

"Why are you doing this anyway? I mean, as Marie's friend I'm glad you're doing this, but she would be happy just being with you." He fished, looking at Logan expectantly. Logan knew that this answer was crucial. If he wasn't completely honest, Scot would probably cause a lot of problems that he didn't need or want.

"Look scooter" he started, using one of his nicknames unconsciously. " I love Marie. She loves me. I want to give her everything she's ever wanted, wedding included. What girl wants to stay with a guy unattached for the rest of her life which in our case could be a hell of a long time." He stated. Then he stared at his beer bottle a moment before continuing. "It's more than that though… I want this. I want Marie forever, and I want to prove that to her. I want the world to know that she belongs to me and no one else. I guess it's that primal part of me. I don't know though..." He trailed off shaking his head.

"Logan that is the best answer I could hope for. I felt the same way about Jean when we got married." Scot said beaming. Then, Logan watched as the Cheshire cat grin slid off his face and he fixed Logan in a stare. Logan could tell that it was a stare even with the glasses, because he could feel it.

"Logan. You're a roamer. Can you give that up for Marie? I know you have a job her and so does she, but you've never stayed in one place for long, are you sure you can do it?"

"I thought about that a lot, but I'm willing to do what it takes to stay with her. We talked about it, and Marie said that she would go with me if I ever got that itch that couldn't be scratched here. She said that when it happened, she'd drag me off on the bike and we would just go somewhere for a while, however long it takes. That's why I love her, she accepts me for me and takes all my bullshit in stride." He admitted before downing his beer.

"Alright, enough of this crap. Let's watch some guys beat the ever loving crap out of each other." Scot exclaimed.

"Sounds good to me." Logan agreed, but his mind soon strayed from the game. He was worried. He had searched for Victor for weeks, and he had failed. He had a score to settle with the feral and he wanted to do it soon. Marie thought that he didn't know about her nightmares, but she talked in her sleep. Some nights he could hear her crying out and calling his name in pain, but she never said anything. He also heard her tell victor to stop. It made his blood boil to know that the feral still had some kind of sick hold over Marie, even if it was just in her dreams. He WOULD get to the bottom of it and he would make Victor Creed wish he had never been born….

Some secret base not too far away…

Victor pov

Victor leered in his sleep while he dreamed. He was lounging in a tattered chair asleep when someone tossed some papers on his lap waking him up. His eyes popped open instantly and he snarled at the unwanted interruption. He looked up at the muscle head that brought him the papers. It was one of Stryker's lackeys. Since he killed the last one, Stryker had 'forbid' him from touching them.

"What the hell do you want? This had better be important too, because I was having a very good dream." He growled menacingly. Lately his dreams had been very good. His whelp of a brother had died in most of them, leaving Marie helpless to his advances, and what advances they would be if it happened in reality. Te thought of reality brought victor to the manila folder in his hand. With a quick glance at the lackey still waiting for him, he opened the folder with mild intrest.

Inside the folder were the locations of several "useful" mutants that he would have to meet with, the usual boring duties, and towards the back something much more interesting. In the back were pictures of Marie taken at random over the last few months. Apparently, Stryker had someone tailing her. Victor went through them with reverence, and then he noticed something that made his inner feral roar with fury. Marie had a ring on her finger. His bastard brother was planning to socially claim what by all rights should have been his. He rapidly flipped through the rest of the pictures with no interest until he came on one that was dated with the days date. It was Marie in a wedding gown at some bridal shop. It enraged him and gave him feelings that he tried to squash down for the moment. He crumbled one of the pictures into his pocket for later. Then, he shoved past the lackey and into the room where Stryker was currently experimenting in. He shoved the picture of Marie on the cold metal table.

"WHAT THE HELL IS THIS?" he bellowed.

"That Victor is our perfect opportunity." Stryker said calmly. When Victor growled in response, he saw Stryker flinch but continue resolutely. "You see, our reports show that they are having the wedding on school grounds. It will be the perfect time to attack because their guard will be down. They will be too busy preparing things for the wedding to guard Marie. You can slip in just before the wedding and slip out before anyone notices." Stryker finished.

Victor let the words sink in and he gave Stryker a curt nod before turning and walking out the door. He went back to his chair and flopped into it absently. He wanted to get a hold of Marie much sooner than that, waiting was never his strong suit. He realized that if he wanted to get her, he would have to bid his time and wait. He also had a score to settle with his little brother. He thought about different ways to do that without alerting the whelp to Stryker's plans. Of course, he didn't really know what they were beyond getting Marie, but that didn't matter. What mattered was his intense need to confront his brother. He thought about it for what seemed like hours until he shoved himself out of the chair and into the night.

Alright Jimmy, I've hidden long enough. I think it's time that we had a little family reunion, just you and me…

AN: Okay lots of things to say... First off, I'm sorry the chapter took so long, I was in a computer deadzone for the past three days and had no time to work on it. Second, obviously this is the new story! Thank you all for stickin with me, or if your new, thanks for joinin the crew =). Um…Oh! Okay so not a whole lot of action in this chap, but you need to have some calm before the storm right? I actually like to give Logan and Marie a little time together before I screw their lives all to hell for a while. As for victor, I know he's a little weird but you'll get more clarification later and I've got big plans for my favorite feral! Here is a pic of marie's dress if anyone is interested, I know I was when I wrote it lol.

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Next chapter will have some fluff and maybe a fight scene…you never know! Reviews are love! Thanks and meat pies to all!