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Logan Cale was doing his morning routine of sit ups and push ups, shower and breakfast, before he got around to checking anything on the news. He had just finished up his first set of sit ups when his phone rang from the other room. 3 months ago, he would have dashed to pick it up, hell, 2 months ago he still would've found a way to get the distance, even without the exoskeleton on. But now, Logan was beginning to lose hope, all hope, for everything, and continued into his second set of sit ups. As his answering machine beeped on, he sat up and sighed, giving up on the sit ups. What was the point of all this? Looking around, he gave a pathetic chuckle, and dragged himself into his wheelchair, positioning his useless dead-weights for legs on the foot rests. The rest of his workout could wait until tomorrow, skipping a day wouldn't hurt anything. It was the apartment that was making Logan crazy, being cooped up and all. Today, he would get some fresh air.
As he wheeled away, towards his bedroom, he caught the last of the message he didn't answer. It was crackled and the transmission was filled with static; this was obviously from a cell phone. He couldn't really make out who it was, but caught the phrase, "Ta..e ... are, Lo...an. Se... y... ...oon." It sounded familiar, and female. Probably Asha asking to come over with more S1W information for him to deal with. Joy, just what he needed, more work he didn't want to do. He let his head fall backwards and stare at the ceiling for a moment, before shaking his head and wheeling towards his bedroom to shower.
A while later, the tall, scruffy man emerged, exoskeleton attached securely to his legs, and an utterly exhausted look on his face. True, he had gotten nearly 10 hours of sleep the night before, but that didn't mean he had any energy. He emerged from the bedroom dressed, his hair messy, unbrushed, and still mildly damp from the shower, and his face unshaven, as it had been for over 2 weeks now. Slowly walking by the answering machine, he looked down at the little red blinking "1." He stared for a moment, laughed at himself, picked it up, and ripped the cord out of the wall. He threw the device as fast and as angrily as he possibly could at the wall in front of him, which happened to be one of his many glass divider panels. A small smile came to his face as he watched the glass shatter to the floor in little sparkling shards, and heard the clatter of the destruction echo in his ears. It was satisfying, to watch things break, Logan had recently discovered.
Logan decided he didn't really want to talk to Asha this early in the morning, if at all today, so he wouldn't be here when she arrived. He grabbed his backpack and put his laptop, cell phone, and necessary hacking devices into it, and left the penthouse apartment, locking the door securely behind him. Walking slowly down the stairs, for once not taking the elevator, Logan stopped to look out a window on one of the landings on his way. Everyone out there seemed so happy, so welcoming to the world, so alive, for it not even being 8am yet. Hell, the sun wasn't even out yet, and Logan didn't see what was so fantastic about a dull, dreary day with overcast cloud cover and no sun. Why were they all smiling? 'Because they actually have something to live for,' a voice in Logan's head rattled off, followed shortly by another, 'Aww, man Logan, I'm going to have to ask you to stop talking like that,' his own words echoed in his ears. Those words, said by himself, back when things were... normal certainly wasn't the word for it. Back when things were... stable, to Mrs. Moreno, just minutes after he had thought about ending it then. "And I thought things were bad back then..." he mumbled to himself miserably and continued down the stairs to the dull, ruined world known as Seattle, where his mood matched the weather.
Yeah, it's short, I know, but I hate switching scenes in the middle of chapters, and I had nothing else about Logan to reveal at the moment... so yeah. Enjoy. Opinions are always welcome, so please share!!
