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Is This a Dream?
Chapter 1 – Boyfriend?
Logan tossed and turned restlessly in his bed. He was here in the same building as her after more than six months – six months of searching for the past he could not remember only to find the shell of an old compound and nothing but snow and the occasional wolf every now and again.
He had walked into the hall of the mansion and had been greeted by her smiling face and his name on her lips. He had seen some pretty great sunsets while he was away but nothing compared to the smile that had been on her face. Her smiles were contagious – he had learned that the day he had left – and he had soon felt his own small smile answering her wide one.
The first thing that he noticed was how much she had grown. She was taller and her face had lost some of the childish roundness. Her ears were pierced as well; she had been wearing great silver looped earrings in each ear and smaller studs at the top. She had also put on some of that much needed weight that she hadn't managed before he left but she had also lost some in places.
He also took in lots of other things within the first few seconds. Like she was wearing the gloves he had bought her all those months ago - the long green ones. And the other thing her noticed was his dog tags hanging around her neck. A feeling of possessiveness streaked through him.
Seeing the changes that had taken place with his Marie while he was away was enough to have the wolverine in him raise his head but he had pushed it down and concentrated in the all too fleeting feel of holding her close as she hugged him in welcome. Never before Marie could he remember being welcomed anywhere in such a way.
He tried to keep the smile that jumped to his lips small as students walked past them and his nose was assaulted with the scent of snow and ice but only in a more concentrated form that all the snow he had been around in Canada. Igloo Guy. Blue Boy...whatever the hell his name was was close behind her.
"Miss me kid?" he had smiled trying to filter her scent and her scent alone from the mixture of stale smells hovering in the lobby. It wasn't difficult and he felt a peace wash over him as it permeated his senses completely. It was clean and fresh just how he remembered it but that boy's scent was mingled far too closely with hers for Logan's peace of mind.
"No not really," she had joked in reply, still smiling broadly at him, her eyes dancing with merriment.
He had laughed inwardly at her answer knowing by her scent and expression that she was lying to him.
"How are you doing?" he had asked her praying that she had had no recurring nightmares since he had left. Come to think of it she did look a little pale?
"I'm OK," she had smiled nodding her head along with her words.
"How are you?" she asked him and that was when that other kids proximity had really started to bug him, his inner wolverine really wanting to know what the hell his problem was.
He made a face and shrugged his shoulders nodding towards the boy.
"Who's this?"
It wasn't that he didn't know but that wasn't what he was asking. What he was asking was "Why is he hovering and who is he to you and when and where do I have my little 'talk' with him?"
She spun about to look behind and turned back to face him.
"Oh, this is Bobby, he's my..." she began before Mr I've Got a Death Wish interrupted her. As if cutting Marie short was not bad enough the next words out of his mouth pretty much sealed the deal.
"I'm her boyfriend,"
What?
He noticed Maria throwing Bobby a very annoyed glance that he recognised all too well before the kid reached out a hand to shake. Out of habit Logan took it and felt his hand stiffen up as ice began to form.
Damn stupid, show of kid.
The metal lining the bones in his hand stiffened and he felt pins and needles momentarily through his skin until the kid released his grip and his healing ability quickly dealt with the ice not even leaving his hand red from the cold temperature.
Ha take that one Iceman.
Logan fought to remain calm not thinking that the professor would appreciate it if he skewered one of his students on his first day back and despite the annoyed look that had passed over Marie's face he could tell that she really did care for the kid.
He watched amused as Marie's elbow made contact with the boy's ribs and he flinched slightly, wincing in pain.
"Best friend," she ground out between her teeth and Logan had a feeling he didn't know everything that was going on. He remembered the interest Bobby had shown her before he had left and he had no doubt that the kid wanted it to be more that the friendship that Marie proclaimed it was.
"Boyfriend," Bobby hissed at her and Marie had shaken her head.
"We'll talk about it later," she snarled under her breath and Logan saw that his personality was just as prominent as ever within her.
Before he had managed to ask another question or even see if she could meet up with him later on Storm had shown up saying something about babysitting the kids while everyone else left. Then Scott had appeared asking him if he had found what he was looking for. Uhh...no.
He threw him the keys for his bike. Boy had stealing that been good – payback for all the looks and comments about Marie before he had left.
He was shown to his old room by Storm though they both knew that he had only been in it a few times during his last stay. He could smell Marie along the corridor and knew that she must still be in the teacher's wing of the school.
After dumping his bag he had gone in search of Xavier and had found him in Cerebro. He never again wanted to have to extinguish a cigar on his hand if he could help it. He asked him to have another look through his mind and was fed the 'know it all' speech that he had grown to expect from the mind reading mutant.
OK fine. So Logan quickly moved onto more pressing matters.
Marie.
"How is Marie doin' wheels?" he asked as they left Cerebro. It wasn't that he couldn't find out himself it was just that he knew Marie. If something was wrong with her it would take her forever to get round to telling him.
The professor smiled slightly.
"She is doing well Logan. She is sleeping well, not every night but most nights and she is doing excellently in her classes. She had drifted away from the girls that she was friends with when you left and seems to prefer the company of Bobby and John. When I asked her about this she told me that the girls were both too loud for Erik and you in her head and that the boys were more sedate,"
Logan smirked at the thought of that, remembering what some of the girls had been like in his danger room classes. He would rather face Magneto any day of the week than the hormonally charged teenage mutants in the mansion. But the fact that she was with the two boys most of the time frankly worried him and one of them was definitely interested in more than friendship.
"What about Jean?" he asked. If he found out that the women had caused any trouble at all – even coughing wrong – he'd keep that promise he gave her.
The professor sighed from beside him and glanced up.
"Jean has left the mansion for the time being Logan. She left some months ago,"
Logan accepted the professor's words and didn't go any further into it. Logan never pretended to be a guy in touch with his finer emotions (unless Marie was involved of course) but he did know that Xavier had viewed the doctor as a daughter and he did not want to bring anything up that perhaps would be better left alone – as long as she stayed away he would stay quiet.
After being told once again if his baby sitting duties while the professor went to visit "an old friend" – yeah like he didn't know who that was - he made his way back to his room and lay on his bed staring at the ceiling. He had already missed dinner so he didn't bother going down the stairs. His sensitive hearing picked up the professor informing the students that 'Professor Logan' would be taking care of things for the night. This had been closely followed by the sound of the jet taking of and the professor and Scott driving away.
Logan had leapt from his bed when he heard a nervous tap on his door and the scent of Marie drifted to him. He ran a hand quickly through his hair and tugged on his shirt collar before tugging the door open to reveal a smiling Marie.
"Hey darlin'," he greeted, smiling at her.
He watched confused as Marie leaned back and looked to the right and to the left before her smile widened and she leapt into his arms. Logan's arms automatically wrapped around her and he held her close as he quickly regained his balance.
With his arms still wrapped about her small frame holding her firmly to him he stepped back wards and the door swung shut.
"I missed you so much sugar," she breathed into his ear as he spun her about. It felt so good to have her in his arms again and to hold her and to be alone with her like they used to be.
He put her down and she hugged him again before stepping away from him slowly.
"So what's up with you and the human Icicle?" he asked her lightly, trying to make it sound like he didn't really care what he answer was while inside he was snarling.
"Umm nothing," she mumbled, tucking a strand of hair behind her ear and looking at the floor, her lids dropping and hiding her eyes from him.
"Mmhmm,"
Ok so he knew his reaction to her answer was kind of childish but he didn't care. He was desperate.
"Fine," she huffed looking up from the floor.
"He wants to be my boyfriend," she told him softly.
"And,"
Yeah. Like I'm going to let you leave it there Marie. NOT!
"Well...I like him...love him even,"
Logan's chest clenched.
"But not like that," she said softly and he felt the iron grip that had suddenly formed on his chest loosen.
"Besides I couldn't do that to anyone. I could never expect someone to stay in a relationship with me," she trailed of sadly and he wrapped his arms around her and hugged her to him yet again, he could hear the longing in her voice.
Stupid kids. He knew how they viewed relationships. He remembered over hearing a conversation when the kids had started to accept her. They had been shocked that there was absolutely NO TOUCHING and viewed it as a bit of a downer where getting into a relationship came into play. Being around that kind of influence would not do her any good.
"Darlin' anyone would be lucky to have you in their life," he whispered to her softly.
He held her for a few more minutes before she pulled away, chuckling under her breath.
"You just got back Logan and you're already involved in all of my drama," she laughed as she drew back from him a raising one gloved hand she stroked some nonexistent hair away from his face and behind his ear – he fought to keep his eyes from shutting at her gentle touch.
"How did Canada go sugar?" she asked him softly and he reached for her hand that was cupping the side of his face and held it gently in his own, amazed at the difference in size. She was so small.
"It didn't," he answered her stroking her hand.
"Didn't find anything," he breathed. He still felt disappointed about his lack of discoveries about his past especially since that was his only reason for leaving her for so long.
"Nothing but ruins and snow..." he trailed off.
"I'm sorry Logan. Has the professor found anything else out?" she asked him softly.
Only Marie had ever asked about him and her care for him only made his feelings for her stronger. No one had ever cared about him before she came into his life.
He shook his head to answer her question. Since the professor had refused to read his mind again he probably wouldn't discover anything else either - damned telepath.
Silence fell over them and Logan lost himself in the comfortable silence that they shared just listening to her breathing and the sound of her heart beating steadily.
She had left not long after that and he was left with that familiar hollow feeling within him that had filled him the day he had left the mansion and so now he was laying awake in his bed. She was near him and he was back. He closed his eyes in preparation for sleeping. His nightmares had become less even when he had left and he was sleeping without Marie. They had not stopped but they were less frequent. Now he had better things to take their place.
Hey guys. So here is chapter one of part 2.
I found it so hard to come up with this after my first story since I actually have real events (well...you know what I mean :-)) to base things of this time.
If you could let me know what you think that would be great thank you and I may or may not change some bits.
Next chapter will be up to this point but from Marie's point of view.
Thanks.