A/N My First FanFic, please give any suggestions or tell me if I should continue. If you flame please tell me why you think it was awful. I already have chapter 2 written, if this has a positive effect I will post it.
Disclaimer: All credit for X-men should be given to Marvel and Stan Lee, not me.
The distant rumble of a very expensive, custom motorcycle let everyone at the Xavier's mansion know that the big bad Wolverine had finally returned after four years of mindless wandering across the vast area that is Canada. It had been a very interesting four years that the wolf man had missed but he was going to be informed of that soon enough. It was the longest time he had ever left for, and it was the first time he did it without ever contacting the mansion.
Jean was the first to be in the lobby waiting for Logan to walk in the great oak doors, then followed by Scott, then Ororo ( the professor wouldn't get there till several seconds after Logan had entered). "Logan, so nice of you to finally come back" Jeans voice dripped with sarcasm.
"It's nice to be back Red" He answered not caring about her attitude, then turned to nod at Scott. "Hey 'Ro" He added on to the women with the shockingly white hair.
"Logan I am glad your back" Storm answered genuinely.
"I am too" Jean added softening up.
"Glad to hear it. " Logan stated with one of his side ways grins. " Where's Rogue?" He asked she usually ran out to greet him before he even got in the doors.
"Wolverine so nice of you to come back." The professor rolled in, just at the right moment.
"Where is she?" He asked again starting to get impatient.
"It's been four years Logan a lot has happened." The professor stated with calmness that masked the seriousness of the issue at hand.
"What exactly 'has happened'?" Logan said putting a little bit of a growl into his words.
The rest of the team was all standing watching this unfold, unsure weather or not to chime in, deciding not to.
"Well for starters Rogue joined the team" The Professor informed him keeping up the bravado of calmness.
"She did what!" Logan yelled "Just what place exactly does a 19 year old have on a mutant fighting team?"
"Logan she's 25, she hasn't been 19 since the second time you left." The Professor reminded him. "Logan walk with me, you will get to see Rogue in good time."
"Well what If I want to see her now?'' Logan asked challenging him.
"Then I guess that you will just have to be disappointed." The Professor started to wheel away leaving a space for Logan to walk besides him, and away form the others in the entrance hall.
Logan clenched his teeth in defeat, and fiddled in his pocket with the gift he had planned on giving Marie. He grumbled as he went to join the professor on what looked like to be a very informative walk.
They wheeled and walked in silence for nearly ten minutes with only the wheelchairs silent humming. Then the professor started "She's quite the fighter you know?"
"Yeah I know." He remembered the one year he had stayed for the whole year, and had spent much of that time training her, what Scooter was teaching her wasn't gonna keep her safe from an average mugger. "That's no excuse to put a teenag- young woman with her life ahead of her in a fucking super hero team." He stated reasonably calmly, after snapping out of his memories that he did have.
"Logan there are some things you need to learn about."
Logan only grunted with agreement.
"About a month after you left there was an accident involving Rouge and another student."
Logan gripped his fist together, trying to keep the claws in. "Yeah well, you gonna tell me what happened or am I gonna have to gut someone Chuck."
"As I was saying Logan, the other girl's name was Carol Danvers."
"Was?"
"Logan please let me finish." The professor commanded, " There had been a car accident, the car flipped and the two of them were stuck, only the bottom of Rouge's shirt had come up, just enough for Carols arm to be stuck on it. Neither of them could move, and Rouge was forced to lay there and watch while she drained the life away from one of her best friends."
A strangled "shit" was all that Logan could muster.
"Logan I am sorry to say but there is more." Logan, worried what more could have happened just dropped his head a little lower.
"Carol was very strong, had the ability to fly, and not to mention she was nearly invulnerable." Xavier stalled for a moment "The accident was nearly four years ago, yet Rogue still seems to have these abilities."
"And this is bad because...?" Logan asked.
"Logan let me finish or you will never be able to give her that gift that you have been fiddling with." The Professor almost snapped, this wasn't a conversation he had not been looking forward to, and with all of Logan's questions he would never be able to end it. "Because of these new gifts" the older man began again "Scott and I both thought It would be a good idea to put her on the team. Rogue was more than happy to be on the team from being cooped up in the mansion with people even more scared of her than before because of the accident."
Logan let out a growl towards all the little fuckers who made his Marie feel uncomfortable.
"When we let her on her first mission she slightly absorbed a particularly sadistic mutant, and although she didn't get that much from him it turns out that young Carol had a violent side to herself that was opened on that connection."
"What exactly does that mean?" Logan growled out.
"It means that you must let me finish, Logan I understand this is difficult but you have to let me talk."
He was wrong Logan thought to himself, Xavier had no idea what was going through his mind right now, even though he was a telepath.
"As I was saying" The previously mention telepath continued. " I am sorry to say that no one saw the change in Rogues demeanor till it was to late, by the time we saw what was going on she had already absorbed and killed and absorbed over 40 humans a mutants, because of the influence that Ms. Danvers still had and has over Rogue."
At this point Wolverine couldn't hold them in any longer and the claws were released. And what theses murders with no cause's of death just slid under your radar?" Logan yelled at the only physically handicapped man.
"Logan, can you think of one reason why you would have assumed the murders to have been done by Rogue?"
Logan merely growled in silent defeat. "How is she now professor?" He finally asked knowing the outcome couldn't be good.
"Logan because off the many large personalities she has in her head Rogue had to be put in a place where she could no longer hurt herself you others."
"What kind if place are we talking about Charles?"
'We are speaking about a cell Logan we had to confine her."
Although Logan hated the very thought of it, he didn't have it in him to argue and just stated "I want to see her."
"Logan I don't-"
"I don't care what you think Chuck I want to see her now." Although it was only spoken you could hear the unwillingness to take no for an answer in the mans voice.
"Alright Logan but I am not going to allow you to go in with her, at least not today not when you are tired, and she's been rowdy. Now follow me I will lead the way."
They walked down a series of corridors, that Logan noticed to be new since the last time he was there four years ago, in complete silence Xavier letting things sink in for Logan, and Logan trying to let things sink in. They stepped into a room and Logan stopped dead at what he saw a glass wall that allows vision into a room that was all white, and except for that one wall with glass all the others were padded, with nothing in it except for this girl huddled in the far right corner wearing a white night gown that had many stains on it, which Logan didn't want to know what they were. It was a scene right out of a cliché insanity ward. "Holy fuck, Marie?" Logan yelled.
"She can't hear you Logan, or see you."
"Get out." Logan said pointing to the doorway.
"Logan-" The professor started.
" I said get out." Logan interrupted the powerful man in a voice that masked his true rage.
The professor wheeled away silently knowing that Logan was going to be in that room for a long time.