When they got to the hut where Lee's grandfather lived the new mutant stopped and glared at the door. Ray touched his shoulder and Lee looked at him, "Tell him what you want and don't back down. You have stronger willed than he does."
Lee nodded and walked in with the mutants, Ray staying out of it but not leaving either. "I need to leave and I am going to leave with or without you blessing.", Lee said bluntly, his eyes leveling with his grandfathers.
"Excuse me Lee, but we came to an understanding that you were to stay here and learn what you need to do to take my place.", his grandfather countered, not turning to look at his grandson.
Lee growled softly at the clear disrespect to him and his pride, "I don't want it and you know I don't, what I want to be is…"
"What you want to be has nothing to do with this, you can do that here as well as be a village elder.", his grandfather interrupted.
"But I don't want to teach it here, I want to teach the people outside the stuffy village.", Lee argued, the mutants stayed silent.
The elder finally turned around and looked at his grandson, "Lee you let the outside corrupt you teachings. You know the tradition of this position why are you fighting this. Perhaps it is your wretched fathers that runs through you."
Lee let out an angry growl at the old man, "Don't you dare insult my father, my mother said nothing but good things about my dad before she met that asshole you set her up with by force."
"Of course your mother would say nothing but good things about him, she had feeling for him before he up and left her. My daughter was a fool for believing that Canadian still had any feelings for her after he left and never came back.", the elder looked at over his growling grandson. "What are you doing back here abandoner? Come to give you own son lost hope too?"
Lee stopped growling and looked at his grandfather confused, "What are you talking about?"
"Ahhhh, so you didn't even tell him you were his father Logan.", the elder snidely remarked.
Lee froze before he turned to look at Logan like everyone else was, "Is what he saying true?" It was Scott who had asked this question. "Are you really a dad?"
Logan suddenly glared at elder suddenly and growled out angrily, "Now I know why this village seemed so familiar. You made it quite clear that you didn't want me back in the village and I remember telling Liling that I would send her a letter when I got a home set up in Canada. I never knew why she didn't reply now I know that you never let the letter get to her and why I never knew she was pregnant." 'Now I know why Lee looks so familiar to me.'
Lee was staring at Logan in shock, 'That is my dad?'
Logan took a closer look at and Lee and his scent, "Where is you mother?"
"She died in a rock slide with my step father.", Lee answered, his voice sounded very confused. "She never told me what you looked like."
Ray suddenly came in, "Raymond Kon get out of here you have no business in this meeting."
Ray glared at the elder and then looked at Lee, "By the law you have to go with the other living parent if they will take you. Being only fifteen years old you have to live with you dad, there is your way out. Take it!"
"Raymond don't you dare encourage him."
"Sorry sir, I back my best friend not the man he calls his grandfather.", Ray said pulling out his cell phone. "Hello…hi Kai you have great timing…yea I have everything packed…I will be right over there.", Ray hung up. "Good luck Lee.", Ray then ran out and back to his house to get his things.
"Well Logan are you just going to stare or are you going to take him with us.", Storm giggled out. 'I can't wait till the others realize that these two are father and son.'
"He looks just like her.", was all Logan could say.
Storm looked at Lee as he looked down from the complement, "Would you like to be with you dad instead of here, this way you can practice in the control of your powers?"
"Wait what powers?", Lee's grandfather asked.
Lee rolled his eyes, "The powers I tried to explain to you earlier today, you wouldn't listen because I said I need to go somewhere to get control of them. You told me to get out and not bother you till it was deemed important. Stupid old man."
Lee got bopped on the head with a staff, "Respect your elders boy."
"Yea right like you deserve it.", Lee growled out and jumped out of the way of the staffs reach. Unfortunately for Lee he cut himself jumping out of the way on his arm again and his grandfather saw him heal right before his eyes.
The elder gave a glare at Logan, "You turned my grandson into a freak."
Lee looked surprised at his grandfather and then angry as anger started to build in his chest. He knew what it was but it was already too late, "Excuse me, I am still me…" Lee would have continued and lunged at the elder but Logan held him back from punching the old man. "Let go of me that bastard needs to be taught a lesson. I am not a freak."
Storm held her hands in front of Lee, "You right you are not, don't listen when people say stuff like that. The last thing you want to do is prove them right by attacking them." Lee wasn't listening as his primal instincts came out in full and all he wanted to do was attack. "Logan?"
"It is his primal instincts; the closer the Nekojin is in anger the more they go into cat mode. In other words he didn't hear a thing you said.", Logan explained, holding his son back from attacking. "It also can happen if they are frightened enough, that is when they are the hardest to drag them out of it. We are lucky this is just anger."
"If anything he got that from you Logan.", Ice Man said with a laughing tone.
"Yea yea, quit your jokes we need to get Lee away from him. My son is coming with me whether you like it or not and I am not bringing him back here unless he tells me too.", Logan said, dragging the angry Lee out of the hut. The people of the village watched in aw as Logan easily handled Lee, even though Lee was scratching him with his claws. Logan didn't even bother trying to hide the fact the he was a mutant from the people of he village as he healed from the wounds his son made on him.
"You look like you have handled this before.", Scott said, watching as Logan held the struggling Lee to his chest.
"Yea, his mom got mad at her father a lot when I was dating her. I had to prevent her from doing something she would regret a lot. You think I can be angry you should have see Liling, that woman had some anger in her. He will calm down eventually; he lives here so pack what you can so that he doesn't have to worry about it when he comes out of this. We are not leaving till he calms down.", Logan said. Lee did calm down eventually, and that eventually was three hours later and he was now asleep against his dad's chest.
"Is that normal for it to last that long?", Storm asked, tucking hair behind Lee's ear.
"He probably has more cat instincts than his mother did, she did tell me sometimes they are born with a little bit more at times and at other times a little bit less. Thus their anger state last longer than usual, it is only supposed to be an hour.", Logan said.
Storm smiled at him, "He looks like you."
Logan cocked an eyebrow, "How so?"
"Well he has you strong jaw line, your anger, and his body shape reminds me of you.", Storm said with a smile. Wolverine smiled when Storm kissed him, "How are you going to explain us to him."
"Bluntly, he has to know.", Logan said, looking down at his fully grown son as he moved to get more comfortable against his chest. Storm rubbed the Chinese arm gently and Lee started giving a deep loud purr startling the weather witch. Logan chuckled, "That was my favorite part about his mom being part cat, she purred when she was content and that happened a lot."
Lee groaned and slowly opened his eyes, "Ugg, what happened?"
Logan chuckled, startling Lee who was still leaning against his chest. "You went primal; I had to take you away before you tried to kill him."
Lee groaned and moved to curl up next to Logan, "You should have let me, I would love to have him out of my hair."
Logan chuckled again and let Lee lean against his shoulder as his son held his head in pain, "Well you don't have to worry about it anymore, you are coming with me to New York where you can learn to control you new powers."
Lee looked up at him shocked, "How did you manage to convince the elder?"
"I didn't, you village laws do say that you have to live with the remaining parent. So you mother is dead you are now going to live with me in Xavier's school, you grandfather can't fight the law.", Logan explained.
Lee got up from his dad's shoulder making Logan cock an eyebrow at him, "Sorry, it is weird having a real dad now. I…I'm not used to it."
"Join the club, I have no idea what to do with a child I wasn't part of raising.", Logan said, gripping Lee's shoulder. "Now I had some of the students pack some of your things how about you go and make sure we didn't miss anything."
Lee nodded and got up. When Lee was out of the room Storm said to Logan, "You know for someone who isn't used to being a dad, you are doing remarkably well."
Logan smiled and replied as Storm sat next to him, "Well, you are going to help right. I honestly have no idea what he needs."
Storm kissed him on the cheek, "Of course, I know what he will need. And first and for most he needs a dad in his life and that is all you."
Wolverine rolled his eyes and looked at Lee in the doorway, "How long have you been standing there?"
Lee looked away, "Long enough, so how long?"
"I think just a couple of months, but we knew each other a little longer before he asked.", Storm explained.
"I loved your mom Lee…"
"No I get that; Mom told me what had happened. She would be happy to know that you are happy.", Lee said, still not looking at them.
"Do you want me to back off Lee?", Storm asked softly.
Lee shook his head and finally looked at them with a small smile, "No, I just keep trying to imagine mom with him that's all."
