A/N: Heres the second chapter!

Disclaimer: Lin and I don't own any characters but Lin and Lena, so don't sue.

The second Call

The ringing of the phone suddenly called out in the living room, causing Lin to stop hammering a nail into one of the planks on his porch. Lin Liu Waddell had been doing some minor repair to his home, which was completely remote from anyone else. So it was unlikely it was the neighbors calling.

Lin was shirtless in the blazing sun, so his tattoos gave glistening sheen with all the sweat that ran down his back. His arms flexed with untold power as he walked into the house. His jaw was covered in a faint but thickening beard and his hair had lengthened into long spikes. His ice blue eyes flashed with golden stripes encircleing the rim. The unusual eye style nearly touching his pupils. Lin picked up the phone and answered with his normal welcoming.

"This is Lin speaking." Lin said, opening the fridge door.

"I know it's you, bub." A voice growled well naturedly. "How are you kid?"

Lin froze with his hand on the fridge handle and blinked a few times before giving a good natured laugh. The sound of soft padding down the stairs went unobserved and Lin nearly completely ignored the giant silver blue wolf that walked into the kitchen.

It looks like a massive gray wolf with a large amount of fur around its forelegs and neck which acted like a mane. Its fur was like a blend of silver and glacier blue. Its soft yellow eyes and black nose stood out on the wolfs face being the only attributes that were a different color.

"I'm fine, Logan." Lin said, opening the door and pulling out two Coronas, pinned the phone to his neck. "How on earth did you find me? I mean, you had to have gotten it from Fury." Lin picked up a large bowl from the counter and poured one of the beers into it. Kneeling down as he spoke, Lin set the bowl on the floor. The wolf came over and began to happily lap it up.

"Yeah, Fury gave me the number when I called looking for you and…" Logan paused on the other end of the phone and Lin hung his head and sighed. "He also told me told what happened, with Marcus Godspeed…Vampire."

Had anyone seen Lin, they would have backed away when they saw his tendons and veins in his neck rise up. The large wolf stopped drinking to growl as his friend's eyes golden sparks went off in his eyes.

Lin nodded and took a deep breath before asking, "And what do you think?"

"I think Fury is full of shit for firing you. You guys had the Intel you needed and your superiors stopped you because it was some judge's son." Logan spat, the disapproval clear in his voice. "You had every right to kill him, using your powers and being a mutant should have never been a part of the equation."

"But it was, and now I have been relocated to the most rural area of Canada. The nearest town is two miles away." Lin said as he sat cross-legged on the floor, "My team is forbidden to contact me, my relatives aren't allowed to know where I am, and I have the chance of a snowball in hell of finding anywhere else to live." The silence that followed hung heavily in the air and the wolf lay down, resting his head on Lin's knee. Lin scratched him behind his ears, the large animal heaving a sigh.

"Hey kid, you got any kind a work going on up there?" Logan asked.

"Nah, I haven't had anything since SHEILD fired me." Lin said, popping the top of his beer of with his thumb. "I just…haven't had the heart. I can't bring myself to do anything, Logan."

"Is that Logan?" The massive creature asked in surprise

The wolf's voice was almost ethereal; it had the vocal mix of an old man and a teenager, so it was like two simultaneous voices talking.

Lin nodded absent mindedly. His wolf, Lycurgus, had appeared when he gained his last mutant power and a wolf tattoo appeared on his stomach. The animals had powers like him, speaking was a minor ability he had, but he had others since he was made from pure light energy.

"Yeah, it's him Lycurgus." Lin said, looking at he wolf.

"You still have that young pup?" Logan's voice asked making the two crack up. "I thought he would have found a nice little wolf."

Lycurgus grabbed the phone in his mouth and put it on the floor, speaking into the mouth of it while Lin took a swing from his beer and stood up. As he held the bottle up, a streak of gold swiped it from his hands. Kale looked up at the roof and growled at the long dragon that was clinging to the roof.

"Always too slow to stop me, Lin." The gold dragon known as Seraph said.

Lin back flipped as the dragon lifted the beer to his lips and kicked it out of his tail, landing in a crouch in time to catch his beer. Seraph growled at the super mutant and tackled Lin on to the floor. The massive silver wolf see them coming and blurred out of the way, reappearing on the table with the phone. Lin and Seraph rolled on the floor while Lycurgus watched the two, commenting to Logan.

"Yeah, we still goof around. I mean, Lin is trying to save his beer from Seraph." Lycurgus said, his breath becoming frost as he breathed on the beer.

"Why am I not surprised?" Logan said with a laugh. "Hey, ask Lin if he wants a job."

Lin froze on the ground, pinning Seraph and flew across the roof in a second. Knocking the massive wolf off the table and snatching the phone up, Lin was just stared at by the two super powered creatures.

"What kind of job? Where?" Lin asked, a resounding laugh coming from his sensei and his two pets.

"Up where I'm working up, Xavier Institute for Gifted Children, around Westchester New York, we need more teachers. "The kids are little….." Logan trailed off at a description.

"Free spirited? Wild? Challenged? Ignorant?" Lin asked, waving with his hand. "Psychotic?"

"Nah, kid, their mutants and they got some crazy ideas at times that drive me up the walls." Logan growled, making Lin chuckle. "I mean, compared to you, it's a cake walk and you only shook the foundations of buildings. These kids destroy em'"

"Teaching…I don't know, Logan." Lin said, making Logan growl in frustration.

"Damn it, Lin, you need to get over this lack of confidence." Logan said annoyed. "It's just like when you chat up the women; your great with just talking to them but anything else and you leave it to chance. Mind you, Japan didn't help you much"

Lin sighed; it was no secret that the man's youth to his teenage years had been demoralizing. An American growing up in Japan was not exactly welcome with open arms, especial when he had four different bloods in his veins and was taught by one of the most powerful men in the world. Growing up had been interesting to say the least.

"Fuck, you make this sound so easy." Lin said softly, the power in his voice making the animals back up as cosmic fire curled around him. "I am afraid to be near kids because that's what Vampire's last victim killed. I can't help but see her face every night I close my eyes."

Lin stopped to breathe, his fire dispersing as he took deep breath and Lycurgus walked up to Lin while Seraph wrapped around his shoulders.

"Plus, we only got here a month ago and nothing has been unpacked and…" Lin sighed. "I just don't know."

"Look Lin, I wouldn't ask you if I didn't know you could handle it, or if I didn't need you and as it turns out, I need you for both counts. It would help you bury the past." Logan said, the young man rubbing his forehead. "Besides, it would be good for you and…I miss you, kid."

Lin hung his head and let the phone drop to his side while the silver wolf leaned against Lin's leg. Seraph wrapped around Lin's shoulder like a snake and opened their mental connection.

Well, what do you guys think? Lin asked, through his mind to the two.

Take it man; you could help someone with your knowledge. Seraph mentally said. Plus you might actually meet someone you can date. Unlike in the middle of nowhere.

Lin snort with laughter, as did Lycurgus while Seraph just shrugged since he really didn't care. Seraph already had a mate and had substituted his well fare so she wouldn't' have to face the challenge of training Lin.

Between him and Lycurgus, it had been extremely interesting…..especially with Lin's iron will and fire like anger that blazed when it got started.

Lycurgus? What's your say? Lin asked looking down at the massive animal.

I say we should go; we have nothing to really gain out here and helping these kids might be enough of redemption for you. Lycurgus said, his eyes sparkling ice blue with mischief. Plus, the lizard has a point; you do need to be with people.

"Fine" Lin said with smile, making his supposed two pets grin at him as he lifted the phone. "Hey Logan?"

"Yeah kid?" The older man had hope in his voice and that made Lin's reply mean that much more

"If you want me, then you've got me. I'll be there in a week." Lin said, with a grin.

They spent the next five hours remembering the past, their meeting, their training, the journeys that had made them stronger and the things they were up to at the moment.

Lin did only one thing while he spoke: pack, pack for a chance of redemption.

To Be Continued...

A/N: How did you like it? R&R please...gives big cat eyes