Chapter- 3
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Logan opened the door of the tank and couldn't help but smile. Seeing Chuck take care of his little garden was always a pleasant sight.
"I like Roses." Xavier mumbled without turning his head towards the door. "They make you look younger."
Logan's phone clinked. Please hurry. It was Anna, she and her daughter were waiting for him outside the motel.
I'm on my way. He messaged back.
"Charles, I gotta go uh," Logan walked in. "I gotta go away for a few days. It will be alright, this will get money going. When I get back, we can get out of here."
"Oh." Xavier once again replied without looking at the other man.
Logan took the chair lying next to the old man. "Uh-yeah, we're gonna drive to Yelapa. First we're gonna get ourselves a boat, Ron still isn't ready on 60 but I'm sure I can convince him face to face. And then we will go on the ocean." he didn't know why he was trying to explain all these things to a man who'd forget everything in a few minutes.
Xavier looked up with narrowed eyebrows. "Will we be safe there?"
Logan nodded. "Yeah, we'll be safe." he got up and turned to leave. He nodded at Caliban coming in with breakfast for Xavier. "I be back in a few days."
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Logan pulled off the road and stopped the car outside the motel. he was Fifteen minutes late. He hastily opened the door. As he hopped out, his weak senses caught the sharp stink of gun powder in the air. He took in another sniff. Not one or two, but four, there were four men with heavy guns inside the motel. His brain was right, the woman was really a big trouble. He started having second thoughts about going in. He couldn't get into any kind of trouble until he and Chuck got out of that fucking shit hole. He already had the money in his pocket so what's the harm? But a part of him didn't want to ignore the woman really needed his help or she...
Wolverine snarled loudly.
Stop being so selfish, human!
Like always, he had to bow down to his animal side. The blades came out with a vicious snikt, streaks of blood trickling down his knives. He limped towards the building.
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The armed men snapped their neck towards the slammed open door. A strange old man with metal knives prodded out of his knuckles stormed in and glared at them all. They all pointed their guns at him.
"¿Quién eres tú, pendejo?" (Who the hell are you, asshole?) one of them howled.
Logan glanced at the dead body of a middle aged woman on the floor. Panting, he held the claws against his chest. "Where is the woman?"
"Él está con ella!" (He's with her!) they all started shooting at Logan as they heard the woman's mention they were here for from the mouth of the damned grey-beard. Logan snarled in great pain as the first bullet hit the shoulder. He surged forward and buried his left hand's claws into the stomach of their head while the other hand's blades slashed the chest of another soldier. The remaining two started firing at his back. Logan dropped to his knees with a loud snarl and picked the vase from the table to throw at one of them. He hit the ground with a loud roar. The last one raised his gun again and as he tried to shoot at the wounded man again, a bullet went right through his forehead from behind. It was Anna, with her daughter.
"Y-You okay?" she shot the unconscious soldier and looked back to him. She hurried to him. "Oh my god, you're bleeding!" she tried to touch the bleeding wound of his shoulder but he swatted her hand away with a snarl. Laura growled at the little action but her mother signaled her to keep calm.
"Come with me," he grabbed her wrist and dragged the duo out of the room before they had to face another bunch of armed assholes.
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Xavier spun his chair around as Logan opened the door of the tank and dragged Anna and her daughter in before slamming the door shut. The frown disappeared as the old telepath recognized the little girl darting her eyes around the dark tank.
He rolled ahead. The daylight coming through a small window in the ceiling revealed his face. "L-Laura? Is that you, my child?" Laura recognized the old man and gave a smiling nod. Anna also identified the face she'd seen in those files.
"Look Logan, this is Laura, the girl I was talking about yesterd-" Charles's eyes narrowed at Logan's severly wounded condition. "W-What happened to you?"
"You better ask her about this." Logan growled and limped over to the wooden chest in the corner. He pulled a drawer out and picked up the bottle of Ibuprofen before grabbing a nearby chair.
Xavier turned to Laura's mother. "And you're Anna, right? Laura told me about you-"
"The girl talked to you? She can speak?" Logan raised an angry eyebrow.
"Yes she can, I guess." Xavier mumbled, unsure. "We're actually communicating through minds so..." Xavier tried to explain.
"Yeah right." Logan grumbled before gulping down a couple of painkillers. He snapped his neck around to glared at the trio. He couldn't believe Xavier's mental powers were still working. He really needed to increase the dose. "And what are her superpowers? Makin' a fuckin' cavalry of bad guys chase after her?"
"No my daughter is...different, Mr. Logan." Anna almost hissed trough clenched teeth. "Her mutation is very strong and dangerous in the eyes of all those damn mutant haters, that's why they're after us."
"Yes, absolutely." Xavier turned to Anna again. "By the way, whatever you've been doing to save your daughter from those monsters is highly praisable."
Anna smiled weakly. "Laura told me about you too. We're really thankful for your help-"
"H-Help? What help?" Logan snapped over his bleeding shoulder at the trio again. The pain killers were trying their best but forcing the bullets out by tensing the muscles always hurt like a motherfucker.
"A-Actually," Anna stuttered, nervously stealing quick glances at 'Logan's way' of taking the bullets out. "Actually Charles is the one who sent us to you, he said only you could help us."
"What the fuck?!" Logan surged up and spun around to glare at the whacky, old man. "Are you fuckin' serious, Charles? I'm here trying to keep both of us alive and hidden and you're throwing a walking fuckin' load of trouble on me? How can you just-hey put that back down!" Logan snarled at the little girl who'd silently tiptoed to the table and picked up Xavier's bowl of corn flakes. Laura threw him a murderous scowl before started cramming spoon after spoon into her mouth.
"Laura, come back here sweetie," Anna called her daughter with a slightly apologizing look on her face.
Xavier chuckled softly. "It's okay, Logan. The girl is hungry."
Logan crossed his arms. "The dead woman in the motel, who was she?"
"She was the owner, a very nice lady." a soft hint of grief and regret in her tone. "When those men came, she told us to hide in her room and went to send'em off but they-" her sentence was interrupted by the sound of stopping wheels. Both Laura and Logan's nostrils flared as he recognized the damned scent, Donald Pierce.
Anna panicked. "Is it-"
"Yes." Logan gave a growling nod. "Stay in and keep him quiet. I just be back."
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"Turn around asshole," Logan slammed the door shut and stood with his friend, Caliban. "It's a private property."
"Yes it is." Donald jumped out of the military Ford with a wide smirk and ran his searching eyes around. "In fact, I believe it belongs to a multinational smelting company...based in Shanghai. Where are you keepin' the old man by the way ? Is it over there or..." he lowered his glasses slightly and smirkingly pointed his chin at the old tank Logan just came out of. "Over there? That would be smart. I would like to meet him. The agency classifies his brain is a weapon of mass destruction. Damn shame what happened back in east."
"He's been dead for years." Caliban growled through his well-covered mouth.
"Yeah right, Dracula." the young man smirked with a roll of eyes. "By the way I'm here for the girl."
"What girl?" Logan snapped.
"The girl Anna's been hidin' behind her ass for the past one month." Pierce snapped back. "The slashed open dead bodies of my Four men say you went to the motel."
"Because I was called there." Logan growled back. "And your men attacked me first."
Donald smirked again. "So you did see the bitch but did not call me. That really hurts."
He walked over to the old man and glared into his eyes. "I wish you would call me, Logan." Logan caught his extending gloved hand coming to grab his shoulder in the middle. The glove came off unintentionally and revealed an robotic hand. Logan's eyebrows touched the hairline.
Pierce gave a wicked side smile. "See? You are not the only one who's been enhanced." the damned smile broadened when he saw his men reach the ground over Logan's shoulder.
"Just one last time Wolvie," he almost whispered into Logan's ear. "Where are they?"
Logan huffed out a pissed breath. "I told you-" Pierce's metal fist sank into Logan's gut a good couple of inches before he could repeat the lie, Logan hit the ground with a loud groan and coughed out a gob of blood. Caliban surged forward to help his friend but a couple of Pierce's men caught him.
Smirking viciously, Donald glared down at Logan. "See, Mr. Wolverine, seein' you like this just breaks my damn heart but you don't tell me the truth so..." he looked up and threw a pair of handcuffs to one of his butt boys and pointed at the tank. "Go get her."
"N-No!" Logan snarled from the ground.
"I know you're afraid for the old bones." another smirk from Donald. "Ya shoulda thought that before double-crossin' me."
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Pierce waited a long minute. After the short-lived noise of 'bullet rain', the door of the tank finally opened again and the girl and her mother they were here for walked out. Logan lifted his head and saw the mother and daughter approach through teary eyes.
"D-Don't.." Logan groaned weakly and received another kick in the gut from the man standing tall.
Pierce widened his arms and flashed his gold tooth in a broad grin. "Anna! Laura! My two little bad girls!" Anna and Laura momentarily looked at each other and then caught hold of each other's hand before glaring back at Donald and his goons. When they came closer, Donald noticed the pair of handcuffs his man went in with in Anna's free hand and Laura had a giant 'dripping' ball like thing in hers.
He waggled his fingers. "Hey baby."
Anna tossed the handcuffs aside and Laura let out a vicious growl before throwing the ball down that wheeled over to Donald's feet and to his and Logan's biggest shock, the ball was nothing but his soldier's severed head.
Donald huffed out an irritated breath and shook his head. "Laura..." he looked at her mother. "Is that what you taught her in my absence, honey?"
Both Laura and Anna stalked towards him slowly. Donald held out a warning finger. "Laura, Anna, just stay where you are, girls. Laura, you want to see your friends, right?" ignoring the threat, both females kept advancing and widening everyone's eyes, a pair of shinning Adamantium-plated claws slowly came out of the knuckles of each hand of Laura.
With a great struggle, Logan finally sat up and dragged himself to the door of his car. He couldn't believe what his eyes were seeing. His dying senses, his critter, they were all right, she is...
"Holy fuck!"
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