Home in the Woods

by ktrhyne

This story is a sequel to "The Island." The continuation of Logan and Lorelei's story: someone from Logan's past comes back to turn his life upside down. Rated M for language, violence, and adult/sexual content. Mature readers only. **Ficlet spinoff to this story now posted, entitled "After the Woods."

1. Prologue

AN: I do not own Marvel's X-men, its comics or characters, or films based on them, and I do not make any profit off of this story or its content and characters.

This story is part of a series I have written, and I hope you enjoy my work. The series stories, in order, are: Sensory Projections, The Island, and Home in the Woods. Happy reading!

Prologue

Two Decades Ago

"Nobody kills you but me." Victor Creed grasped Logan's arm with a clawed hand, hoisting his brother back up onto the lip of the nuclear reactor. Deadpool teleported suddenly between them, whirling and kicking with flashing katana blades protruding from his arms, then disappeared again.

"Back to back!" shouted Logan, throwing himself at his older brother as they faced opposite directions to do battle against their common foe. Deadpool teleported and flipped all around them, the two men barely keeping up with his torrent of assault before suddenly he was far away, across the diameter of open expanse of the reactor. Deadpool's eyes turned black, then red, as he shot huge crimson beams of light directly at Logan, who held them at bay with his indestructible adamantium claws.

Victor bounded around to where Deadpool stood, laser stare still trained on Logan, and leapt through the air to slash and kill. Deadpool turned and blasted Victor, shattering the concrete surface all around him as Victor crashed and began to fall. Logan ran up behind, his twin trios of blades glowing from the intense heat that he'd been fending off, and he launched himself high, swinging across Deadpool's neck and slicing it through completely. Victor watched as Logan took a breath, lifted one heavy boot, and viciously kicked the now-beheaded Deadpool off the edge he was standing on, the mutant's decapitated body plummeting to the ground hundreds of feet below while his laser eyes still blasted apart the circumference of the reactor.

Logan reached out, gripping his brother's arm and helping him up to his feet, doing him the same turn that Victor had done for him, but wanting no more. "We're done," Logan said to him bitterly. "Nothing's changed."

Victor curled up his lip at the Wolverine. "Brothers always look out for each other," he said, and turning from Logan, he leapt off of the reactor, disappearing into the dusty clouds below.