Skies of Blue
Chapter 1
Freezing Heater
Logan lay awake in his room, it was small and cramped it always smelled like dust no matter how long he left the window open and the heater to this hall was eternally breaking in the middle of the night. This was the fact now that had woken Logan to the near zero tempter in his room. He lay marshaling his strength to move and with a grumble rolled out of bed and trudged down the hall.
There had been a time when Logan would have had to have gotten dressed before leaving his room but in the subzero winter nights of the Canadian north he went to bed dressed as if he were going for a hike.
The heater was at the end of the hall and Logan kicked it in frustration, it made an evil hissing noise. Logan growled back and picked up his tools beginning to reconnect the tubes that had fallen loose. His cell phone vibrated in his room Logan could hear it clattering and then the pitiful thud of it falling of the bedside table. Logan put down his wrench and walked back to his room picked up his battered cell phone and walked back to his work.
"Hello?"
"Logan, you up." It was Scott his concerned tones told Logan two things: Scott was lonely and Scott was worried that Logan was lonely too.
"Yeah I'm up Dam heater broke again. I keep telling Rose to pick a new one up in town but no she's too busy to get a dam heater."
Scott chuckled over the phone. A small smile crossed Logan's face as he bent back to his work and listened to Scott tell him about the new laws being passed about mutant regulations.
The Canadian Fort was a good one bought in full and big enough to house all of the students, even if a bit less comfortably than before. Logan had been sent to help with the repairs and making the defenses for the arrival of the students, now refugees from the law. In the six months it has taken Rose and Dog to go threw the 30 different possible relocation sites the political climate has become a never ending hurricane for mutants. No mutant could go to a public school or any school that serviced 'normal' children. No mutant could own a gun of any sort, or be out past midnight. It was as if the US had become Nazi Germany.
"The fort's almost ready we can start bringing kids in tomorrow." Logan said as the heater whirred back into life.
"That's good to know." Scott sighed slumping into a chair, the truth was he hated to be apart from Logan, it was a stressful time here and it was only made harder by the insecurity of knowing Logan was just as alone. Logan had gotten better; much better, Scott could hardly tell when Logan was attracted to some one now but at the same time there was still that fear of unfaithfulness. Scott could hear the smile in Logan's voice when he mentioned Scott being there soon.
"Yeah, I'm coming with the first group of students we should be there in, 3 or four days."
"Good." Logan grunted rolling back into bed and wrapping his blankets around him. It was getting steadily warmer in Logan's room and his eye lids were growing steadily harder to keep open. Scott's voice was distant now and Logan mumbled something about getting up early the next day. He could hear Scott laughing and something about love but then the line was dead and Logan fumbled with his phone trying to turn it off.
The frozen sun laughed at Logan as he shoveled snow, Logan loved snow but right now it was his mortal enemy. He heard a van coming and looked up to see Scott rolling in with his cart load of children. Scott parked and got out helping the students out and passing them off to Rose whom would fairy them each to their rooms. When the students were safely in the fort Scott sprinted across the walk and jumped on Logan's back. Logan had retuned to shoveling snow and was thrown into the large bank of snow he had created it was cold against his face and he struggled to get turned around under Scott.
"Don't turn your back on me." Scott said kissing Logan as they lay in the snow. Logan chuckled and pulled Scott close, "I missed you too."