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His blurred vision cleared at once and the first thing he saw was enough to blow his mind. "M-Marie..?"

He couldn't believe his eyes .

He was lying in his Marie's arms...

His own Marie...

She was alive...

But how's that possible...

Marie started rubbing Logan's cold palms. "Logan, baby, please breath slow, sugah," she sniffled, tears of happiness and relief running down her eyes. Her words sounded heavy and drowned to the drugged man. "The serum needs a few minutes ta show its effects properly, just stay calm and breathe slow."

Assuming it was all a beautiful dream that would break soon, Logan closed his tired eyes and let out a slow shuddering breath. He could still feel warm hands stroke his forehead and shoulders. Both the effect of 'the serum' running through his veins and the soothing touch of his Southern woman slowly sent him into a deep sleep he desperately needed.

"Sleep Logan, yah need it." it was the last thing his intoxicated mind heard before his senses entered the La-la land.

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T-Take your friends and hide..

No...

Listen, y-you don't have to fight anymore.

Don't be what they made you.

L-Laura...

Daddy...

His eyes once again snapped open with a loud gasp when his relaxed body felt a sharp jerk from the last speed breaker. The ghosts of memories still echoing in his head. He looked down at himself, wrapped in a heavy blanket.

The driver mouthed a silent sorry before handing him a couple of packets and a bottle of water.

"W-Wha..what's this?" he asked through his heavy-lidded eyes, his words still coming out with a slight slur.

"Beef jerky, that's all I have right now." Marie said with a short smile. "You've exhausted your HF completely today. You need to eat something to fuel your recently 'healed' healing."

Logan leaned back and narrowed his eyes at the woman in the driver's seat. He really felt like a sharp pinch or something to believe he wasn't dreaming. The woman, she really looked just his Marie. The same Auburn hair with a couple of shiny white stripes, the same deep chocolate eyes, the same heart-shaped pink lips and the same sweet scent of Vanilla and Pine. The only thing that was missing was the light whiteness on the sides of her reddish-brown threads and soft wrinkles at the corners of her eyes. She was Marie, but not aged one he'd spent the last Seventeen years of his life with. This one was the younger version of his Marie, from the times before that goddamn Legacy Virus attack.

"Who are you?" Logan asked with a warning growl that said lying was pointless.

Marie exhaled a deep sigh and gripped the wheel tightly before replying. "I'm Mar-"

"No, you're not!" a confused and pissed off Logan roared and grabbed her throat before she could even finish her litter introduction. "My Marie is dead! I have seen her dead body myself so ya better not waste your fuckin' energy and my time on another lie and start speaking truth, woman!"

Marie exhaled through her nostrils sharply and growled, desperately trying to rip his hands off her neck. "Look ah know yer not gonna believe me that easy but that's the truth! Ah didn't die that night, Logan! Ah was saved by the healing yah gave meh years ago, dammit!" the Southern tone laced with anger and frustration jumped out.

The grip around her slender neck loosened as soon as he heard her. "M-My healing?"

Marie nodded shakily. "Yes. It was the dose of yer goddamn healing factor that saved mah life that night. i'll tell yah everything but first," she abruptly pulled over and switched off the engine before looking back to him.

"I want yah to look at yourself in rear-view mirror."

Her enigmatic words confused the feral man even more. He slowly leaned back and shifted his gaze from her face to the dust covered rear-view. Marie's left hand hastily reached over to wipe the dirt off it to let her best friend meet the new and jaw-dropping reality of his life.

Logan's eyes widened in the biggest shock he'd ever gotten. His trembling fingers reached up to touch the young, wrinkleless skin and thick dark lambchops he once had and all the fresh wounds and old scars were nowhere to be seen.

With an awful shock mixed with heavy confusion in his eyes, he looked at his palms. The calloused surface had lost the hardness his old age had given him and the hairy veiny skin over his hand had regained the tanned tightness he had in his mid-thirties. His trembling, nervous fingers flexed to let his personal weapons come out with a sharp metallic hiss. To his biggest amazement, his blades had also retrieved the razor-sharp edge they had years ago but their arrival didn't draw the fresh streaks of blood this time like it'd done every time for the past so many years.

But...

How the hell did it happen...?

Shaking his head, his dumbstruck face looked back to Marie. "H-How...?"

Marie caught his shaking hand in hers and whispered softly. "C'mon, time for some soul-shaking truth."

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"Well, you are half-right," Marie sighed, remembering that horrific night. "I was dead by the time you came back that night, but it wasn't permanent."

Logan arched an eyebrow. His eyes not getting off Marie's face for even a second as if she would disappear if they did. "What do you mean it wasn't permanent?"

Marie looked back to him and pursed her lips. "The small dose of your healing factor that has been inside me since you saved me on Liberty, it'd weakened after the Legacy Virus attack but never died completely. We were all captured by Xavier's stroke that night, but your healing didn't let me die. The next time I opened my eyes, I found myself on a damn gurney of Transigen's med-lab and to my biggest surprise, they'd injected something into me that had enhanced my wasted healing factor. I'd regained my youth and powers I had before the attack and the biggest relief was that my healing now made me able to control my skin.

As far as I overheard from those doctors, they'd found only two survivors, me and Hank. The rest of the victims were either dead or comatose. I was going to be used for a breeding program and they'd something big and dangerous planned for Hank. I pretended to be unconscious until the guards got sloppy. I used my skin on them both to sneak out and find Hank but before I could save him, their CCTVs caught me and I had to escape without our furry friend."

"And what's the thing you injected into me?"

Marie pulled a transparent plastic box containing five small bottles filled with some kind of light green serum out of her backpack and showed it to Logan. "Byrolaxine. I had four of them before I gave you a dose of two at a time because your trashed HF."

Logan recognized the bottle. "I've tasted one of them before. Did you steal'em from their lab?"

Marie nodded. "I'd seen it in the hands of one of their nurses and before fleeing outta that fucking place I luckily burst into a storeroom like place where hundreds of bottles were kept. I grabbed as many as my palms could, in case I found you or someone else who needed it."

Logan smiled gratefully. His Marie always had a big heart that cared about everybody. "Thanks for everything, darlin'."

Marie returned the smile. "You don't know how much I missed that D word, sugah. No one drawls it out better than you."

Logan chuckled weakly before shooting another question. "So how did you find me?"

"I'd been looking for you and professor since I escaped the lab but you were both like...off the map until I saw you two with a little girl on a news channel a few days ago. You guys were on the top of 'Most Wanteds' of Transigen, why?"

"Because.." Logan rubbed his forehead with a tired sigh. "That's a long story, darlin'. All I can tell you for now is that girl needed to reach across the border where a group of people is running a shelter for the survivors of Legacy attack."

"And Xavier.." Marie dropped her gaze and whispered softly. "I was right behind you guys until Oklahoma City. The disaster his seizure had left behind caused a delay and by the time I caught up with you three again, he was..." she sighed deeply. "I visited his grave. Honestly, the man deserved something better than that."

"I know." Logan exhaled a cold sigh. "He wanted to die in a boat, so those fuckers couldn't get their dirty hands on his brain but i couldn't even fulfill such a small wish of his."

Marie placed her hand on his, squeezing gently with a slight smile. "You did what you could, sugah. By the way, I've heard about that shelter house, too. I don't know their exact location but it's somewhere near Yukon. In fact before I caught you guys on tv, I was thinking about heading North. Did the girl get there safely?"

"I..i don't know.." Logan sighed before looking back to her. "But I'd like to make sure she did."

"Okay then," Marie smiled softly. "We head for Yukon from tomorrow. Roads're gonna take a long time but that's the safest mean of transportation for mutants these days. I've talked to a friend of mine who'll get our papers ready by tomorrow. We'll grab'em on the road. Now c'mon, you're still looking a little bit tired. Have some rest." Marie said, trying to get up but Logan grabbed her wrist and pulled her back down.

"Logan-"

"Shhh..." Logan's forefinger shushed her. The thick stick of flesh traced her plump bottom lip possessively. His darkening gaze making her very uneasy. "Lemme believe my eyes you've really come back to me."

The pink petal trembled under his touch. "L-Logan..."

Before she could say anything else, Logan groaned and hauled her into his strong arms for the most passionate kiss of his life. They both need to feel it, live it and believe it. His arms wrapped around her small waist and pulled her down with him on the petty single bed of the trailer to deepen the heating battle of the lips. His tongue slid into her mouth after months and snaked around Marie's awaiting one, making her shudder with heavy desire. Her honey-sweet taste intoxicated Wolverine and encouraged him to make her realize his presence. His deep amber irises rapidly darkened as Wolverine's hungry tongue completely possessed hers and demanded it respond back. Marie wrapped her trembling hands around his wide back and tossed her head back with a soft whimper to let her Mate's animalistic side dominate her mouth. She'd also missed this ferally passionate touch for a whole goddamn year and wanted to enjoy every damned second of it.

When the kiss finally came to a sweet sensual end, panting, Marie cupped his cheeks and rested her forehead against Logan's, their noses nuzzling together for a long sweet moment. "Yah don't know how much i missed yah, Logan." tears started forming in her big eyes as she began to express the pain of loneliness she'd been carrying around for months. "A-Ah been looking for yah everywhere for the past one year. A-Ah felt so alone everyday and..."

"Shhh..." Logan silenced her again before brushing her tears away. He wrapped his arms around in a protective manner. "I'm back baby, forever. And I'm never going away from you ever again."

Marie looked up into his eyes, smiling. "Yah promise?"

He smiled back down at her as he placed a feathery kiss on her forehead. "Yeah, I promise."

Chewing her bottom lip, Marie once again gazed up into Logan's eyes to let him read the desire to have him inside her she'd confined inside her for the past so many months. "Logan...a-ah..."

Logan read her surging impulse and stroked her cheek with the back of his fingers, smiling. "Just say it once, darlin'."

Marie licked her lips and whispered softly. "A-Ah..ah need yah, Logan."

That was all the encouragement he needed.

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I know I know, it is the crappiest time to end a chapter when the a big dose of smutty-wutty Roganess is knocking at the door but the good things come to those who wait so have some patience, my Roganers ;-}

Next time:- I don't think I need to explain what's going to come next time, right ;-}?