Chapter 3

"And that's all that we remember." Rogue explained to the professor and Hank as she tried her best to comfort an upset Jamie. They were all in the sitting room, Rogue and Jamie sitting on the dark blue sofa, looking distressed at the broken window and broken furniture and worried about their missing teammates. Charles and Hank were also distressed about this unforeseen turn of events.

"What are we going to do Professor?" Jamie asked in a small voice.

Charles looked over at Jamie and replied softly, "Don't worry Jamie, we'll find them."

Then Charles turned to Hank and requested, "Hank could you please call the rest of the team and inform them of the situation and ask them to return if they are able. I'll see if I can find Logan and Kurt with Cerebro."

Hank nodded and left and the Professor turned back to the teenagers and said, "Don't worry we will find them."

Rogue turned and looked the Professor right in the eyes and demanded in an upset tone, "But why were we attacked and what do they want with Logan and Kurt?"

Charles sighed as he turned his wheelchair and headed for Cerebro, "I don't know Rogue, but we will find out."

Charles really thought that he would find his missing X-Men with Cerebro but no matter how hard he concentrated Cerebro could not pick up their mutant signatures. An hour of trying and a massive headache later, Charles had to stop and give everyone the bad news. Jamie looked like he wanted to cry as Charles told them, while Rogue growled in frustration and Hank gave a disappointed and worried look.

"Did you inform everyone of Logan and Kurt's disappearance Hank?" Charles asked sadly.

Hank nodded his blue furry head while saying, "Yes, but Storm, Kitty, Iceman, Jean and Cyclopes are the only ones able to return to help."

Charles nodded and hoped that his missing X-Men would be all right until they could find them.

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Kurt didn't know how long Logan and he had been held captive but it had to have been days by now, and he wasn't holding up so well. Trask and his scientist had been anything but hospitable, forcing both Logan and him to give blood samples and urinal samples, much to Kurt's embarrassment, not to mention the x-rays, cat-scenes, eye tests and agility tests. Oh god the agility tests; the crazy scientists loved to see just how much Kurt could flex and twist his lean flexible body in order to keep out of harms way and also how the elf could cling to walls and use his tail. But the worst test of all and the one that was affecting the blue elf the most was the drug testing. Trask was very interested in finding out why any and all drugs acted so fast and so strongly on Kurt. The poor teen was constantly passing out or throwing up because of the drugs in his system and this made doing all the other tests so torturous, all Kurt wanted to do was sleep the drugs off.

Logan was also put though the all these test but because of his healing power even the drugs that were being forced into his system would wear off in an hour or less. The crazy scientists and their tests were not the worse of Kurt's problems, the crazy homicidal guards were. The guards could only be described as rednecks, they had taken a liking to trying to shoot 'the blue demon' as they called Kurt, while Kurt was locked in his cell, helpless. They always made sure that Logan wasn't in his cell next to Kurt when they did it, after hearing about what the gruff mutant did to their co-worker, the man lived but he was now suffering from amnesia, they were all scared of Logan's strength. They were scared of Kurt too but they knew that Kurt was too weakened by the drugs to be of any really threat. And they always made sure that they only ever nicked Kurt with the bullets, they knew that if they hurt Kurt too badly or killed him they would be fired.

Kurt honestly didn't know how much more of this he could take, if had just been the tests then he would have been able to cope but guards shooting games were almost too much for him. He would be in such a bad state of fear whenever he knew they were coming that he couldn't even scream for help.

The only thing keeping him from breaking was Logan. The older man was his rock, the person who helped him stay strong but Kurt knew that it was only a matter of time before even Logan wouldn't be able to stop him from breaking.

Logan was in a constant state of worry for his elf and a constant state of anger at their kidnappers. The gruff man didn't know about what the guard's had been doing; he just thought that his elf must fight the scientist too much and got punished for it, like himself, but he normally healed before they put him back in his cell. Though as he sat in his cell right then looking down at the teen in the cell next to him he couldn't see how his elf could put up much of a fight. The teen was leaning against the bars that separated them, hardly conscious.

Both of Logan's strong arms were reaching through the bars to hold his elf in an awkward embrace to try and warm the teen up; Logan was worried about his elf's violent shivering and the fact that his elf was so quiet had the gruff man worried too.

Though his elf hadn't been feeling well the teen still normally tried to joke around a little to lighten their moods but this afternoon Kurt just sat there trying to get as much of Logan's body warmth as possible; Logan seriously hoped that Kurt wasn't starting to break under the stress. Suddenly Logan heard someone approaching their cells and turned his attention to the two guards that brought them their only meal for the day.

It was the same routine as every other day, two guards would come, one with the food the other holding a gun ready to fire should he or Kurt make a threatening move on them. Logan just glared at them and growled in warning as their cell doors were unlocked and food was put in. But had Logan been paying attention to his elf he would have seen the way Kurt eyed the guards with terror.

After the guards had put their food in their cells and left Logan gently released Kurt and grabbed their food taking it back to their corner. He put one of his arms back through the bars and around Kurt's shoulders while his other hand grabbed his bowl of stew and took a large sip. Finished with his sip he noticed that Kurt was simple looking at his food, normally his elf would have shoveled his food in but right now he looked like he didn't even care that there was food there.

"Elf? Ya gonna eat that?" He asked gently.

Kurt looked up at Logan, and then turned back to his stew. Truthfully he didn't feel like eating, just looking at the thick brown coloured liquid with chunks of god knows what made him want to puke but he didn't want Logan to worry about him anymore then he already was. So picking up the bowl Kurt sipped it slowly.

After the first few sips Kurt started to realize just how empty his stomach was and made his nausea lessen. So he started to be more enthusiastic about eating. Seeing this Logan smirked gently and started sipping his stew again.

This time when he turned to Kurt all the teen's food was gone and he was looking at Logan's bowl longingly. Logan mentally growled at Trask, while their bowls of stew were not small; it was all they were given each day and with Kurt's super fast metabolism it wasn't enough for his elf to keep healthy. The blue furry teen's lean body was starting to become leaner each day. So Logan didn't think twice about handing Kurt the rest of his stew.

Kurt was surprised as Logan pushed his bowl toward him though the bars.

"Logan?"

"Go ahead elf, you need it more then me." Logan gently ordered.

"But Logan you're hungry too." Kurt insisted as he pushed the bowl back towards Logan.

Logan shook his head and said, "Look elf, the more food you have the less those drugs will affect you and besides I've got a normal metabolism. You are going to starve faster then me; you've already lost too much weight elf. Now eat it."

Kurt's golden eyes met Logan's dark eyes and the elf knew that Logan wasn't going to let him not eat the rest of the food, so with a grateful look Kurt took the ceramic bowl and finished off the stew.

"Thanks Logan." Kurt whispered as he leaned in closer to try and get more warmth, already feeling the extra food make a difference.

"That's ok elf, I'll take care of you." Logan whispered back as he saw that his elf was falling asleep. "I'll take care of you."