Adamantium Kiss
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Author's Notes at the end to explain some things, oh and this is a pretty long chapter so you know just warning y'all in advance. Enjoy.
Chapter 1
Upstate New York, Marty's Rage Cage.
Thursday, December 20th 2007 -
Logan or as he's known to the world as Wolverine, has just finished his last cage fight of the night. As he walks out of the cage he is greeted by the owner, a balding man who appears to be at least forty years of age, and has a nice roll of fifties in his hands."Here you go Wolverine, your cut of the money." "Thanks Marty" says Logan while grabs the money and puts it in the back pocket of his jeans.
As they start walking back to the bar Logan lights up a cigar and then sits on a bar-stool."Give me a shot of rum, will ya Marty." Marty nods and goes to pour a shot of rum. As he comes to put the shot glass down Logan's nose flairs with the familiar scent of his favorite drink."Here you go." He downs the shot and asks for another one. When Marty hands him another shot he curiously asks, "You sure you have to go tomorrow? You usually stay for the Christmas rush of assholes and tough guys trying to prove something."
Logan grins at his friend's thoughts on the upcoming holiday season. "Sorry, but this year I have somewhere important to be, maybe next year." Marty thinks on friend's words and soon remembers the stories he's been told. "Oh yeah, that school that you're always going on about. You must have someone important there." Logan thinks about for a second before answering "Yeah, I made a promise to her two years ago, and she's probably the one person I would never try to disappoint." The middle aged man sees a twinkle in Logan's eye as he answers the question and grins at the side of his friend that he could only guess very few people get to see.
"Oh, it's a her is it? Is it that hot red head you were talking about last time you were in here?"
Logan realized who he was talking about and answered with a small chuckle and a head shake "No, I knew the second day there that she was in love with someone else." Marty was confused by his friend's answer and quickly asked "I thought you said that you could feel that she was attracted to you?" Logan downed another shot and replied "She was, I mean look at me who wouldn't, but there's a difference between lust and love. Even I know that, and besides I'm not the type of guy who would try to make a move on another man's girl. Even if that guy was a one-eyed, goody two-shoes all the time." Logan gave a sour look as he remembered the X-Man known as Cyclops a.k.a. Scott Summers.
"So if it ain't her, then who you going back for?" Broken from his train of thought on Cyclops Logan asked "Well remember the hitchhiker that I was telling you about before?"
Marty thought about it for a moment and then said with a tone of realization "Ah yes , the poor young lady who was thrown out on the streets by her parents just because of what she is, is that the one?" Logan's face turned into a slight frown at the thought of her story, but he refocused on Marty when he spoke again. "Yeah, her."
While he answers his friend he starts think about all that happened on Ellis Island until his train of thought is once again broken by Marty's voice asking "What was her name again?" Logan quickly and easily answers "Marie." Marty noted the smile on Logan's face when he said her name and answer with a smile of his own. "Well she must be a strong one to not be intimidated by the big, bad Wolverine." Without even noticing that he has a smile on his face Logan thinks on their first encounter and answers "Hehe yeah, here was this little seventeen year old southern brunette who wasn't afraid to hitchhike with a complete stranger that she met in a bar that she wasn't supposed to be in." Logan drinks another shot of rum before going on.
"Can you believe that she was actually afraid that because of her powers that she would hurt me? That was the first time anyone other than you were afraid for me and not of me." Marty lets out a hearty chuckle at the memory of the first time he met the Wolverine. "I remember the first time you came in here. You were tired, low on money, and may I say VERY hungry." Logan gave a small chuckle at the memory of Marty complaining and then offering him a chance to pay back all the food he ate by fighting in the cage. "You've been one of the few people that I could truly call my friend, if only because you never hated me for what I am."
Marty trying to liven up the mood comes back with "C'mon, if anything I should hate you for having so much damn hair on your head."As he says this he runs his hand over his balding head and they both burst out in laughter. Logan's voice then turns serious for a moment. "Seriously though, thank you for caring about me when no one else would." Marty mouth then turns into a grin and says "Well apparently I ain't the only one who cares about you anymore and from the sounds of it you care about her quite a bit too." Logan can;t help but smile at his friend's words.
"Yeah, I guess it was because we were both alone and had no-one else to go to. Granted my reason is because I can't remember anything from my past, but I still felt that we had a connection. I guess that's why it hurt when I had to leave her there at the school." Marty saw a pained look in Logan's eyes as he recalled the day he left. "When I told her that I got a lead on some possible answers about my past and that I would probably be gone for a long while, she looked at me with those big brown puppy dog eyes and told me that she didn't want me to go."
Logan closed his eyes and let out a long sigh before going on.
"I could tell that she was scared to be left in a place with nobody she knew, but I needed to find out more about my past before I could come back and stay. So I gave her my the only piece of my past that I had, my dog tags, and promised her that I would come back for them as soon as I found anything about my past." Marty trying to change the subject asked Logan"And did you?"
Logan gave out a tired sigh and answered. "Nothing but more nightmares." Marty looked at the clock and saw that it was late and suggested to Logan "It's late so why don't you just go ahead and hit the couch."
Logan grinned and said "You mean that old, dirty, smelly green couch?" Marty pointed at him with a fake angry face and answered back playfully "Hey, you better watch it or I'm gonna have to charge you a hefty price for the stay." Logan held his hands up in mock surrender and chuckled. "Alright alright, just make sure you wake me up at dawn 'cause I don't want to be late." Marty dropped the act and chuckled "Of course, I wouldn't want the wrath of a petite southern girl on my head." Logan couldn't help but laugh at Marty's description of Marie. "No you wouldn't. Alright g'night Marty." "Alright, see you in the morning, old friend."
As Marty walks to his room the familiar words "old friend" stay in Logan's head. He shakes off the feeling and tries to get to sleep hoping that he doesn't have another nightmare.
Logan finds himself in a tank full of liquid that feels like water but doesn't smell like it. He feels strangely at peace but also feels a sharp pain in his bones. As he tries to remember where he is he starts to hear voices. The first voice sounds familiar, the rest are unknown.
"Come on old friend, come back."
"Heart rate rising."
"Adamantium reservoir is depleted."
"No rejection. Procedure completed." As this is going on he struggles to regain consciousness, but to no avail.
"We did it" Says the familiar voice and then another voice also says "We did it."
Logan can feel himself very slowly coming into consciousness until another male voice asks "We taking him to the island?"
"The island? No. Bonding works, we'll use his DNA for the eleven." After a couple seconds of silence the familiar voice says "Erase his memories."
For some reason this enrages Logan and then he sees flashes of a woman he thinks he remembers but they disappear as fast as they appear. Suddenly he feels himself burst out of the tank with an animalistic roar. "Grrrrraaaah!"
Logan yells as he wakes up from the nightmare that he's been having the past few weeks since he's been to Alkali Lake. Panting heavily he looks at the clock in corner of the room on a table which read 4:45 a.m. At that moment Marty ran in with a baseball bat in his hand looking ready to beat the hell out of whoever caused his friend to yell. "Logan you ok?" As Logan rubs a hand over his face he answers "Yeah Marty, sorry about that, just one of my nightmares. I had hoped that they wouldn't get this bad this close to going back to the school."
Relief washed over Marty which soon became concern as he sat next to Logan on the couch. "It seems to me that spending all this time obsessing over your past has messed with your head a bit. Maybe going back to the school will help your stressed mind." As Logan slowly nods his head Marty looks at the clock and decides that they should just stay awake seeing as it was almost dawn. "Well at least now I won't have to wake you up. I'm gonna go make some coffee and maybe some eggs. You gonna want some?" Logan slowly gets up and says "Yeah I'll be there in a sec I'm just gonna hit the john and put some water on my face, alright?" As Marty looks over his friend still concerned, but knowing when not to push the situation any further just says "Sure"
After a nice, filling breakfast Marty and Logan are outside as Logan gets everything ready on his, or should he say Scott' motorcycle, but then a thought comes to Logan's mind. "Hey Marty, did you get those things that I asked you to get for me a couple days ago?" Marty gave Logan a puzzled face until he quickly realized what he was talking about and said "Sorry, totally slipped my mind, be right back." Logan shook his head in amusement at his friend's forgetful mind as he checks a medium sized gift bag and smiles at what's inside. After a couple of minutes Marty came back with a large box and hands it over to Logan. As he inspects the contents of what's inside he tells Marty "Thanks Marty, you are a lifesaver, everything here is perfect."
Marty just smiled and said "No problem at all. Well, I had a little trouble getting that last item, but only because it took a while to make and get it delivered." Logan nodded and secured the box and bag to the back of the bike and got on. "Well Marty, you probably won't see me for a while, but I promise to come back and I'll try to call you, alright?" Marty shook his head in amusement and said "Don't worry about it, but if you do come back, try to bring that little southern fireball so I can meet her." Logan just laughed, started his bike and rode off with only one thought in his mind now. Don't worry Marie, I'll be there soon.
AN- Ok I hope you all enjoyed the first chapter of my first fanfic Adamantium Kiss, and whew what a long chapter it was. Now I can't promise that every chapter will be that long so, sorry in advance. Also, I will update the story every two weeks due to all the stuff that is going on in my life right now, so again sorry about that, but I will try to post the next chapter early. Now onto some of the conditions of this story.
1. Marie/Rogue will indeed be 19 in this fic. The reasons for this will be explained further in the next chapter as we go into her introduction into this story.
2.I am a heterosexual male and I love smut, so there will be some Rogan smut in later chapters, hence the M rating. That does not mean that there will not be fluff, because I love that too, and there will be a lot of it. This also means that characters like Logan will appear OoC, but this will be only be when he's around Rogue. So don't worry there will be time for the Wolverine to come out and play.
, everything is canon from X-Men:Origins and the first X-Men movie. Don't worry I already have a plan for bridging the two for those of you who are skeptical.
Remember to review if you can 'cause it would seriously boost my ego :) Thanks again,
Steele Xeno