My idea of how Logan was found after Weapon X. I don't own him. If there are any spelling errors, sorry. Song in here belongs to Billy Joel. This is not a songfic.
Alex woke up to a noise. There was something banging outside. She looked at the clock. 4:14 am. Alex hopped out of bed and tried looking out the window. She didn't see anything because there was no moon out. But there was defiantly something out there. Alex went down the stairs, turned the outside light on, and went outside.
"Hello?" she asked. "Is anyone there?"
Something emerged from the darkness. The body was sagging, covered in blood with gashes all over the body. It was also freezing out with the snow fall that happened a while ago. She covered her mouth in shock and started backing off. Who wouldn't? Then the body collapsed. Something made this guy pass out. She stepped closer and saw a couple darts sticking out of his neck and he was buck naked. She looked around then back down at this man with wild hair.
Alex has never seen this man around here before. She got down on her knees and put his arm around her neck and her other arm around his waist and hauled him inside. She set him on the couch next to the wood stove and put two blankets on him. Alex grabbed the pillow from the recliner that was next to the couch and put it under his head. She felt his forehead. Burning hot. Alex went over to the kitchen that was ten feet from the couch and got a washcloth and a freezer pack. She wrapped the washcloth around the freezer pack and put it on the man's forehead.
Alex decided to make herself some tea. She didn't dare to go back asleep. As Alex waited for the water, she sat down in the recliner and watch the strange man sleep. Where did he come from? How did he get here? She looked closer at this man and his wounds were knitting back together. On their own. Within seconds the gashes were gone. She wasn't surprised. Alex has heard rumors of these kind of mutants. Could this mutant be a feral?
Alex heard the kettle whistle and got up. She was grabbing a mug when she heard a groan and then a yell. She let out a cry and jumped, nearly dropping the mug full of tea. Alex set it down and went over to the couch to find it empty. She looked around and found the man in a corner, crouched. His eyes were darting all over the place. She walked to him with her arms out. The man jumped at her with claws popping out of his hands. She screamed and fell back against the floor. The next thing Alex knew, the man's face was right in front of hers.
Alex gasped, his claws were three inches from her face. He growled.
"Easy," she said. "It's okay. You're safe. Let me up."
He looked at her, not sure like an animal not being sure. He sniffed her. He slowly got up off from her and backed off. Alex got up and extended her hand. He growled.
"It's okay," Alex whispered as she moved closer. "It's okay."
He moved closer then held his head, wincing. She helped him to his feet and to the couch. He continued holding his head. Alex felt his forehead and he flinched. It was hot still.
"Lay back down," she said. "I'll get something to bring that fever down."
She went back to the fridge and got another ice pack. She found him laying down on the floor curled up. She knelt beside him.
"Put this to your forehead," she said, giving him the ice pack.
He gave her a strange look.
"It's to used to get rid of pain," she said. "It's to also get rid-" Alex touched his forehead again. The fever was gone. "-fevers. Looks like the fever is gone."
Alex went back to the kitchen and put away the ice pack. "What's your name, fuzzy?"
He didn't speak.
"Where you from?"
He didn't speak.
"How did you get here?"
He didn't speak.
Alex walked over to him and sat right in front of him. "Do you understand the words that I'm saying?"
"Yes," he said.
"So, you do speak," she said. "When you want to."
"Yes," he said.
She got up and looked at him. She started giggling. He looked awfully funny sitting there on the floor buck naked for some reason.
He scowled at Alex. "What?"
"You're naked," she said. "Get up, fuzzy, and come with me."
He did. He got up wincing and groaning in pain and followed her into the bathroom that was twenty feet from the living room. Alex grabbed the bath mat that was hanging over the shower/tub and put it on the floor, pulled the curtain back, revealing the tile shower wall, grabbed a towel, and set it on the counter by the sink.
"You can shower or take a bath and I'll give you some clothes that you can wear."
He walked over to where Alex was standing. Alex was leaving the room when he grabbed her arm. She jumped a little.
"What?" she asked.
"Can you. . .?"
Alex walked started filling the tub. About fifteen minutes later the tub was filled and hot.
"Go on," she said.
He stared wide eyed at the tub.
"What's wrong?" she asked him, putting her hand on his shoulder. He was a little taller than her. "Is it the water? Is there too much water?"
What ever happened to him must have been related to something filled with water.
She went over to the tub and drained it halfway. "There. Is that better?" He nodded and Alex helped him into the tub. He winced as she helped him. The first thing she wanted to do so bad was wash that almost black greasy head of his. Hell, his whole body needed cleaning. She looked at him trying to wet his hair, but his arms were extremely stiff. She got a cup from the sink and filled it from the tub facet.
"Let me." She poured the water over his head. Alex repeated this two times and grabbed her shampoo. "Turn, so that the back of your head is to me."
He did so and she squirted a lot of shampoo onto his hair and started scrubbing it. He relaxed some as Alex washed his hair. She wondered what happened to this man and why he didn't like the tub being filled all the way. She rinsed his hair and got up. She dried her hands on a hand towel and looked back at the man.
"You feel any better?" Alex asked him.
He nodded.
"What's your name?"
"I think it's Logan" he said. "What is yours?"
"Alexandra," She said. "But you can call me Alex."
He nodded as he leaned against the back of the tub.
That's when she noticed dog tags around his neck. "Where'd you get those dog tags? They don't look like army tags."
"I dunno. . ." he said. "Can't remember. Can't remember anything."
"That's okay. We'll take this slowly. It looks like you remember some things, like walking and talking. We can try reading a little bit later."
"Can I ask you. . .?"
"Ask me anything. I won't be offended."
"How old are you?"
Alex laughed. "It's not very polite to ask a woman her age, but I don't mind. I'm twenty-six. Do you know your manners?"
"Manners?"
"You know, manners. Like polite and social behavior."
Logan shrugged.
This is going to be hard, she thought. "You know saying please and thank you when you want or receive something."
"Yeah, I think, so."
"Good, we'll work on that later." Alex yawned. "Damn, I'm tired. Shit."
"What?"
"I don't have any men's clothes. Have to go to Ellsworth to get some for you along with some PJ's, too. But we'll do that later in the morning."
Logan nodded.
Alex looked at her watch and her brows raised. "Wow. It's fifteen minutes till six. Are you hungry?"
Logan nodded his head. He was starving.
"Okay, I'll make us some breakfast. Towel's on the counter by the sink."
He nodded and she left.
Logan watched her leave and climbed out and groaned as he did. It still hurt everywhere. He walked to the sink and grabbed the towel, dried his hair, then himself, and then wrapped it around his waist. He looked at himself in the mirror and sighed. He was extremely thin. He didn't know how long they starved him and his healing factor fed on his body to keep him alive. He ran his hands over his ribs that were showing real well. His stomach growled and he winced at the hunger pain. He sniffed the air and a scent reached his nose. His mouth watered at the scent of food. He walked out to kitchen and stood in his towel a few feet from Alex, watching the cooking food in the pan sizzle and snap.
"You like bacon and eggs?" Alex asked.
"Yeah."
Alex turned to him and the smile faded and she stared wide eyed at him.
"What?"
"I don't know how I didn't notice how thin your are! Good thing I've got plenty of breakfast stuff."
Logan nodded and sat at the table and waited for the food. A few minutes later Alex came over with two plates, forks, and napkins. Logan watched as she set down his loaded plate and handed him a napkin and fork. Alex sat down and looked at him.
"Go on. Eat."
Logan stab his fork in the egg and put it in his mouth. He knew the girl was watching him cram the food in his mouth, but he didn't care. He was starving. In under a minute the plate was empty and Alex wasn't even half down with her plate. Logan put the fork back on his plate and looked at Alex who was staring at him. He looked down, blushing. He knew better than to just down it at once, but who could blame him? He hadn't eaten in what felt like months. He still felt like he shouldn't have done that in front of a lady.
"Don't be embarrassed, Logan. I don't mind. I just haven't seen anyone that hungry before. You still hungry?"
Logan nodded.
"Alright." Alex quickly finished her breakfast and got Logan some more food.
Logan watched her and after four more plates Logan was full. He leaned back in his chair and smiled. That was the best food he ever had. Logan watched as she took the plate and put it in the sink.
"Thank you," he said.
"Your welcome. Now, you can read, can't you?"
"Yeah, I think so."
Logan followed Alex to a book shelf that was next to the recliner. She pulled out a book and sat on the couch. She patted the other side and Logan sat down. She opened the book and read the cover. She then started reading aloud the book. It was a book with vampires, Dracula, werewolves, and a vampire slayer. Logan sat there and listened to her reading aloud. It was full of emotion and excitement. Logan saw her smile at parts of the book. Then she came to an end.
"'He held her close to him as he threw his head back and howled in anger. Tears ran down his cheeks and he set her down gently on the ground. He stood up and picked up his weapon and walked to the mountains where Dracula's lair was. He would pay dearly for killing his love'. I think that's a good place to stop." she folded the corner of the page to mark it.
"What? That's a bad place to stop!" Logan protested.
"We've been reading for two hours, Logan. My throat is starting to hurt."
"Fine."
"I already know what happens at the end, so you can finish reading it." she handed him the book. "I'm gonna go find some clothes for you."
Logan nodded and opened the book. She stopped halfway through the thick book. He began reading.
Will swung his silver stakes and stabbed the vampire in the heart. He was surrounded by hundreds of vampires. He was quick and avoided their attacks. He killed almost a hundred vampires, but they kept coming at him. He was now panting and was getting tired. He didn't know how much longer he could fight them. Then more came from the ceiling. They were protecting the babies. He needed to kill them before they were released into the world.
Logan stopped there. He could read. He was about to continue reading, but stopped when he smelled Alex's scent. He marked the book like Alex did and turned to her. She handed him a T-shirt that said Brazil soccer on it, a pair of tan shorts, boxers, and sandals.
"These should fit you. They were my dad's. He was about the same size you are."
Logan nodded and took them into the bathroom. He closed the door and removed the dampish towel. He pulled on the boxers. They fit nicely. Then the shorts. They went to his knees and fit too. He put on the shirt and it fit perfectly. Then he put on the sandals and they fit too. He looked at his reflection and saw how wild his hair was. He ran a hand over his sideburns and sighed. He needed a shave. Just shave a little bit off. He walked out and saw Alex was already dressed and had her car keys in her hand.
"You ready?"
Logan nodded and grabbed his book from the couch. He followed her to her 2006 Jeep Wrangler. She got to the driver's side and looked at him. He had stopped walking.
"You have been in a car before, haven't you?" she asked.
"Car?"
"Get in the other side," Alex said.
She opened her door and got in. Logan opened the door and climbed in. He sat in the seat and closed the door. He looked around the jeep, examining the glove compartment, radio, and heater.
"Can you put on the seatbelt?" Alex asked.
Logan cocked his head.
"Watch me." Alex pulled on her seatbelt and clicked it in. "Now you try."
Logan looked to the side of his seat and saw the seat belt. He grabbed it and pulled it over his chest and clicked it in. Alex nodded and started the Jeep. Soon they were on the main road. Logan had put his book aside and examined more of the car. He played with the radio and the CD player. He turned on the CD player and pressed a button. Billy Joel started playing from the speakers. His song, We Didn't Start The Fire was playing and Alex tapped the steering wheel to the music.
"This is a great song," Alex said.
"What is it called?"
"We Didn't Start The Fire," Alex said. "It'a about all the big things that has happened during Billy Joel's life or somethin'. It's a great song. It might jog your memory."
Logan listened to the words of the music.
Harry Truman, Doris Day, Red China, Johnny Ray
South Pacific, Walter Winchell, Joe DiMaggio
Joe McCarthy, Richard Nixon, Studebaker, Television
North Korea, South Korea, Marilyn Monroe
Rosenbergs, H Bomb, Sugar Ray, Panmunjom
Brando, The King And I, and The Catcher In The Rye
Eisenhower, Vaccine, England's got a new queen
Marciano, Liberace, Santayana goodbye
We didn't start the fire
It was always burning
Since the world's been turning
We didn't start the fire
No, we didn't light it
But we tried to fight it
Joseph Stalin, Malenkov, Nasser and Prokofiov
Rockefeller, Campanella, Communist Bloc
Roy Cohn, Juan Peron, Toscanini, Dacron
Dien Bien Phu Falls, Rock Around the Clock
Einstein, James Dean, Brooklyn's got a winning team
Davy Crockett, Peter Pan, Elvis Presley, Disneyland
Bardot, Budapest, Alabama, Khrushchev
Princess Grace, Peyton Place, Trouble in the Suez
We didn't start the fire
It was always burning
Since the world's been turning
We didn't start the fire
No, we didn't light it
But we tried to fight it
Little Rock, Pasternak, Mickey Mantle, Kerouac
Sputnik, Chou En-Lai, Bridge On The River Kwai
Lebanon, Charles de Gaulle, California baseball
Starkweather, Homicide, Children of Thalidomide
Buddy Holly, Ben Hur, Space Monkey, Mafia
Hula Hoops, Castro, Edsel is a no-go
U2, Syngman Rhee, payola and Kennedy
Chubby Checker, Psycho, Belgians in the Congo
We didn't start the fire
It was always burning
Since the world's been turning
We didn't start the fire
No, we didn't light it
But we tried to fight it
Hemingway, Eichmann, Stranger in a Strange Land
Dylan, Berlin, Bay of Pigs invasion
Lawrence of Arabia, British Beatle mania
Ole Miss, John Glenn, Liston beats Patterson
Pope Paul, Malcolm X, British Politician sex
J.F.K. blown away, what else do I have to say
We didn't start the fire
It was always burning
Since the world's been turning
We didn't start the fire
No, we didn't light it
But we tried to fight it
Birth control, Ho Chi Minh, Richard Nixon back again
Moonshot, Woodstock, Watergate, punk rock
Begin, Reagan, Palestine, Terror on the airline
Ayatollah's in Iran, Russians in Afghanistan
Wheel of Fortune, Sally Ride, heavy metal, suicide
Foreign debts, homeless Vets, AIDS, Crack, Bernie Goetz
Hypodermics on the shores, China's under martial law
Rock and Roller cola wars, I can't take it anymore
We didn't start the fire
It was always burning since the world's been turning.
We didn't start the fire
But when we are gone
It will still burn on, and on, and on, and on...
We didn't start the fire
It was always burning
Since the world's been turning
We didn't start the fire
No, we didn't light it
But we tried to fight it
We didn't start the fire
It was always burning
Since the world's been turning
We didn't start the fire
No, we didn't light it
But we tried to fight it
We didn't start the fire
It was always burning
Since the world's been turning
We didn't start the fire...
Logan was staring into space, thinking.
"Logan?" Alex asked. "Did the song help?"
His eyes moved from the road ahead of him and looked at Alex who was looking at him while keeping an eye on the road. He slowly shook his head.
"Do you want to listen to it again?"
"Yeah."
"'Kay, see this button here?" She had a finger on the repeat song button. "It repeats the song. Press it twice and it will leave it on that song." She pressed it twice. "There."
"You don't mind listenin' to it over and over?"
"No. It is one of my favorite songs of all time."
Logan nodded and listened to the words. He was liking this song a lot. Hopefully it would jog his memory. If not now then maybe and hopefully later.
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