Logan and Lyz walk into the dining room and Lyz instantly pulled herself closer to Logan with out actually touching him. Logan put his hand in between her shoulders and guided her through the buffet table, spotting Marie alone at a table, they make their way to her. Lyz gratefully sits down and hunches over whispering angrily to herself, "I hate it when everyone stares at me. They stared at home because of my momma and the bruises, now they still stare. There is a blue fur ball in the far corner, and yet, they stare at me!" Logan tries unsuccessfully to hold in a chuckle, "Sweetheart, they are staring because you are new, you were carried in by me, and you just so happen to be Marie's half sister. Everyone is probably wondering who you are and why I have taken an interest in you." Marie smiles, "People back home did not stare at you because of the bruises, heck, most of them were so well hidden that even I didn't see them. The boys stared because you are gorgeous, and the girls stared because they were jealous. Everyone here stares because they are anxious to know your powers so that they can avoid them, especially since you are my sister. Everyone here knows what my powers do."
"Rogue! Hey, there you are…." Looking between Rogue and Lyz, Bobby trailed off, Giving Logan a questioning glance, "Logan, hi how are you? Didn't know when you were getting in." Logan gives Bobby a nod, "I'm fine. Didn't know for sure when I was coming in myself, but then I found this one." Logan motions towards Lyz with his head, grinning. Looking at Lyz, Bobby held out his hand, "Hi, I'm Bobby, Rogue's boyfriend." Lyz just stared at his hand and introduced herself, "Lyz, Rogue's newly found-out-about half sister. I don't think you should shake my hand." With Bobby's look of confusion, she continues with a line very similar to what her sister once told Logan, "When people touch my skin, weird things happen." Bobby frowns and lowers his hand, and then raises one eyebrow, and with a challenge in his voice, he asks, "like what kind of weird things, because sometimes I freeze people when I touch them." Bobby just figured it was something small; he was very unprepared for what Lyz did next. Lyz decided she liked Marie's Bobby, he was fun, "things like this." Lyz answered while extending her new claws. She knew she shouldn't do it, but she wanted to see his reaction. Bobby jumped back a foot, and you could hear all the students and teachers in the dinning room gasp. Bobby swung his face to look at Logan, "Jesus Wolfman, what did you do to her?" Logan tilts his head, trying to decide if he likes this new nickname. He and Bobby were constantly trading insults just for fun. Lyz was looking back and forth and finally she spoke up to prevent a fight, she was not used to dealing with these two testosterone driven males, "He did nothing to me, he-" "save it kid, he is kidding around. Sit down, Frosty, we'll discuss the finer details later." "You got it 'Bub'" Bobby mocked Logan with a grin, knowing that Logan liked him just fine now a days and that he was in no danger from the wolverine.
Lyz was lying in her bad that night, totally exhausted from all the stress of the day. Luckily, she only had to meet and greet with a few of the other mutants today. She met Bobby of course, and decided that he was indeed good for Marie. He doted on her, it was very cute. Then came the bumble bee, as Logan called her; Jubilation Lee or Jubilee as she was known by everyone else as. When she asked Logan why he called her the bumble bee, he told her that Jubilee always wears yellow, and if you piss her off, she will give you an electric sting. She had to giggle at that one. Then came Kitty Pryde. Kitty can phase through walls and pretty much anything. Apparently, Marie, Jubilee, and Kitty got into all kinds of trouble over the past couple of years. Then there were Kitty and Jubilee's boyfriends, John 'Pyro', and Peter 'Colossus', and then came Professor Xavier, Scott Summers and his Fiancé, Dr. Jean Grey. Next came a proper introduction to Storm and Dr. Hank McCoy. Finally, Logan growled at everyone to leave her the hell alone; then he took her elbow and led her to her room.
"Here we are Darlin'. I am right next to you, and Marie is right next to me. If you need anything, come get me. Okay?" Lyz just nodded her head and walked into her room, but before closing her door, she turned and looked at Logan, "Thanks Logan, for everything, the clerk at the station, bringing me here, helping me, and protecting me. I don't know if I deserve it, but thank you all the same. It is nice to feel," she hesitated, looking for the right word, "safe." Then without waiting for a reply she shut her door. Logan shook his head, turned to walk to his room, muttering between the doors 'don't deserve it! Ha!'
That night Lyz had some really weird dreams, some of which were nice, some were scary, and all were not really hers. Luckily, Lyz learned early in life not to scream out loud unless Momma's customers wanted her to. How embarrassing would it have been to wake up the whole mansion on her first night? She woke up drenched in sweat, shaking, and on the verge of tears. After calming herself down she got up, took a shower, and got dressed. Logan must have good timing because he knocked on her door right as she was finishing.
"Morning Kid, you ready for breakfast?" Logan heard her almost silent screams last night, her tossing and turning. He knew they were his dreams and was quite shocked that she was able to keep quiet. "Not really. I don't know if I am ready to face all those people again." "I'll just go get Marie, send her in here, and I will get something for us all to eat. You two can catch up, and I can watch the hockey game on your T.V. What do you say?" Lyz looked up and nodded her head, "thanks Logan. I just need sometime to get used to being around all these people again." Logan nodded, he understood, he really did. Nobody knew how hard it was for him the first few days being here used to be for him. He was never around people unless he was in a bar or here at the mansion. Knocking on Marie's door, he told her the plan, and went on his way.
"Logan!" He turned to see Bobby walking towards him, "am I invited to breakfast this morning?" Bobby knew Logan would be extra clingy to Marie, he always was when he first came home, but this time would be worse because of the girl, Lyz. Bobby had no problem with it; he knew Marie and Logan's relationship was far from romantic. He also knew that Logan was very protective and that he had to make sure Marie was happy and safe. They always had a private breakfast on Logan's first few mornings back, the guy had to re adjust to being around people. "Of course you're invited Kid, aren't you always?" Logan figured Lyz would have to get used to the ice boy soon enough.
Marie and Lyz were sitting on Lyz's bed just talking about different things, "Lyz, when you touched Logan, did you get any memories or nightmares?" Lyz looked up, "yeah, I was up all night. I hope I didn't wake anyone." Marie laughed, "I am sure Logan heard you, or smelled you." Lyz blinked a couple of times, "smelled me?" "He can smell fear, arousal, tears, pregnancy, sick, death… everything." Marie finished with a laugh. "Nice to know, don't get turned on around Logan." Both girls laughed. "We did." Lyz raised an eyebrow so Marie continued, "you know, wake up the entire school on our first night." Marie continued after looking at Lyz's confused face, "Logan was having a nightmare, I came into his room to wake him up and he panicked. His claws came out and he roared. The next thing either of us knew, he had stabbed me through the chest." Lyz was in shock for about a minute, "What did you do?" "I screamed and then I touched him and stole his healing for a little bit. Then I ran out of the room." Lyz did not know what to say, so she changed the subject. "Did you?" Marie looked up in confusion, "Get turned on around him? Yeah, that is how he found out about me and Bobby. He almost killed Bobby." Lyz frowned and rolled her eyes, "No, dumbass, did you get any nightmares and memories?" "Oh," Marie giggled. "Yeah, but I only remember what he remembers, why?" "Because I have memories of wars, brothers, fathers, childhood, things his other memories tell me he doesn't remember." Marie gasped, "You got all of his memories?!" "I think so. I mean I remember how he took the name of the Wolverine, it was an Indian story. I remember childhood." The door flew open with a thud, leaving a dent in the wall, and the door hanging on one hinge. "You remember my past?" There stood Logan and Bobby, both had a tray of food, but Logan was about to drop his. Marie stood up and took it out of his hands, setting the tray on the bed next to Lyz, "Bobby and I will eat in my room. I think you two need to talk," turning to Logan, "Be patient, it will be hard to separate your memories from her own." Bobby and Marie left the room, Bobby tried to shut the door behind him, but it just fell off, Logan looked at the door as it hit the ground, "Oops." Suddenly a wall of ice formed over the door and Bobby could be heard trying to stifle his laughter all the way back to Marie's room. "Well, I guess we are going to need to go somewhere else if we want privacy." Lyz said with a chuckle made of shock and amusement as she watched her new icy door begin to melt onto her carpet. Logan lowered his head, "Sorry about your door Darlin'. I will get that fixed as soon as I can." Lyz shook her head, " Lets go on a picnic, are there any nice, secluded spots around here?" Logan nodded, cut through the ice, grabbed the food and led the way to the garage, stopping by Marie's room to tell Bobby that he had better clean the water and ice up before it ruins the carpet. Bobby was still laughing.
Soon, Lyz was sitting behind Logan on a four-wheeler, flying through the trees towards a quiet spot out by the lake where the two could talk about Logan's past.
She told him about the wars, about the program with Styker. She told him about how he and Victor were found by Styker.
William Stryker: [to Logan and Victor] I heard you were supposed to
be executed by a firing squad at 1000 hours. How did that go?
Logan: It tickled.
Logan had to chuckle at that, "Even then I was a smart ass, ha."
She told him about Kayla, and how she was the one who gave him the name Wolverine. "Tell me the story, the Indian one. The one that says how I got my name."
Lyz asks him, "Why the moon is so lonely?"
Logan narrows his eyes in confusion, wondering why she was asking a stupid question when she was supposed to be telling him a story, shrugging his shoulders he played along, "Why?"
"Because she used to have a lover."
Logan raises an eyebrow.
"His name was Kuekuatsu and they lived in the spirit
world together. Every night, they would wander the skies
together. But, one of the other spirits was jealous. Trickster
wanted the Moon for himself. So he told Kuekuatsu that the Moon had
asked for flowers; he told him to come to our world and pick her
some wild roses. But Kuekuatsu didnt know that once you leave the
spirit world, you can never go back. And every night, he looks up
in the sky and sees the Moon and howls her name. But... he can
never touch her again."
Logan looked at Lyz, "Wow... Koo-koo-katchoo got screwed." Lyz just fell over with laughter, all the while Logan just grinned, "well, what the hell does Koo-koo-katchoo have to do with me being Wolverine?" Lyz calmed down enough to explain that Kuekuatsu meant Wolverine. "After her death, you asked that they put Wolverine on your tags rather than James."