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Feedback: To paraphrase something..."I'm not worthy"...
Author's notes: An answer to that movie-line challenge. It's rather silly though...
Logan was annoyed. Well, much more than that to tell the truth. Mere mortals got annoyed. The wolverine is something else entirely. He gets uber-pissed in the "I can't stand you for two consecutive seconds and if I see you once more I'll gut you" kind of way. It passes eventually but until it does, you better be on another continent or preferably another planet. Not living in the room next door to his.
Scott Summers knows this perfectly well but damn if he can understand what he did to piss Logan off. They'd started off badly on their first meeting but over the years they'd grown into being good friends, even if neither could resist some smart-ass comments or a man-to-man in the dangerroom every now and then. Nothing with any side to it though.
Scott thinks through what's happened between them lately. Sure, he did tell Logan to be more careful in his combat-lessons but that happens on an almost weekly basis so he doubts that's it. Once he would have thought Logan was jealous of his marriage to Jean but that's way back. Not only is Logan engaged to be married to Marie (with Scott as best-man no less), no. He had never been serious with Jean in the first place. It had merely been for fun and to see how far he could push Scott.
Still, since he couldn't figure out what he had done he might as well go directly to the source. What harm could it do? Come to think of it, a lot. But a man's gotta do what a man's gotta do.
Once he found Logan he made sure to get him cornered (wise or not remains to be seen) and asked bluntly
"What's crawled up your ass, Logan?"
"Shut up!"
"No, not until I get an answer. And the claw won't do as an answer."
"Fine. Shut up and serve your purpose!"
"Huh?"
"What part of shut up did you fail to understand?"
"None. I'll shut up if you tell me what your problem is. And what my purpose is."
"I have no problem, and your purpose is to be a dick, have that stick firmly wedged
up your ass, be a bore and whatever."
Scott left at that. He wasn't insulted but now he clearly knew what's eating Logan. He's in one of his "needing to prove I'm the big badass loner of this outfit" moods. Nothing to worry about but very very annoying.
Scott makes a mental note to himself to be away from the mansion next time it happens...before he realizes he said that the last time too.
He sighs and wonders how much money the winner of Bobby's betting-pool will get this time. All of the kids are probably in on it, betting on what day Logan will have his own personal type of mood-swing.
Most of the staff are in on it too and they're all having way too much fun over the fact that Scott is always the last one to see it.
Oh well. That turbo-button on the bike will come in handy now and he's running to get down to the garage.
He suddenly stops. He can't go running away today. It's the big one-year anniversary of his and Jean's wedding-day. He can't or won't miss that and Jean would kill him if he did.
Another sigh. One that goes together with a wish that Logan won't try to prove his the big alpha-male by screwing the anniversary up in some way or the other.
Probably a humiliating way.