They hadn't gone far in the growing darkness before Calvin woke up again and when he did he was angry, enraged was more the word. Logan silenced Calvin's angry scream by throwing him to the ground. The man was on his feet a moment later charging at Logan, screaming, "You can't keep my daughter from me!"

Logan's claws came out and ended Calvin's charge by hitting him in the chest and the belly. Calvin screamed and pulled himself free. He was healing rather rapidly and preparing to charge again.

Daisy raised her hand. "Dad stop this! I'll quake you again. I'll do it over and over again tonight if I have to. You can't win."

Calvin ignored her and Daisy went ahead and quaked him for the third time. When he fell to the ground Logan grabbed him up again. "We gotta find something strong enough to tie him up. The only thing we've got are shoelaces and that's not gonna do it. He's pretty strong."

Daisy agreed but she really didn't have any ideas of what they could use without returning to the village. They weren't going to get back there very fast if he kept waking up and fighting them every five minutes. "Maybe we should just tie him to a tree while he's out and then let him look for us. By the time he finds us again we'll have something to restrain him."

Logan looked hesitant to do that though. "Won't he kill more people trying to find you?"

"He might, but if those soldiers hear him screaming then more people are gonna get killed anyway," Daisy said. She really didn't like the idea anymore than he did. It would technically be disobeying their orders to arrest Calvin but she couldn't think of anything better. And they could always arrest him later when he caught up to them again.

"I need a shoelace," Logan said, putting Calvin on the ground with his back against a tree. Daisy took a shoelace out of one of her own boots. Logan tied Calvin's hands securely behind the tree trunk. It was a lot tighter than she could have tied it herself, probably so tight that it had broken bones. "This isn't gonna hold him for long. We gotta get moving...and you're gonna have to ditch your cell phone."

Daisy tossed the phone. It hurt to run. She hadn't been in this much pain for a long time. The pain had spread into more bones than had been hurting that morning. By the time they had gone half a mile she was in agony. She needed to stop but she refused to ask for that. If he could keep running then so could she. Then he suddenly stopped. If he had stopped to give her a break she was gonna kill him.

"Hear that?" Logan said.

Daisy slowed her ragged breathing so she could listen. It was some sort of siren or alarm in the distance. "That's from back at the facility isn't it?"

"Yeah. It's not gonna be just your Dad looking for us anymore," he said.

"Great," Daisy muttered. "That's just what we need."

"We can't go back to the village," Logan told her. "Everyone in that village knows we were SHIELD. That's the first place they're gonna look."

"So where do we go?" Daisy asked a little worried.

"I'd say we should just keep moving but I'm not sure you can."

"I can…" Daisy tried to protest but she knew it wasn't even a believable lie.

"I can move faster if I just carry you," Logan said and before she could protest he had picked her up and started moving again. It turned out he was a lot faster carrying her than he had been running before. They were probably moving at twenty five miles an hour while he carried her. He had apparently been going slow so she could keep up. He went to the northwest, around the village. The strain on her bones was greatly eased by not having to run. Almost three hours later, probably seventy from where they'd started, Logan stopped. There was a frozen lake nearby and a cave. Logan set Daisy on her feet and went to check out the cave.

"Cave is clear. We should rest here for the night and tomorrow start heading back towards Omsk," Logan told her.

Daisy helped him to gather wood for a fire and once it was started she sat down next to it in the mouth of of the cave, in too much pain to do anything else. Logan disappeared for a short time and returned with a large fish. She didn't ask him how he'd caught it.

"You doing okay?" Logan asked as they ate a meal of fish.

"I'm fine," Daisy said, though it wasn't strictly true. He knew that though.

"How fast is Calvin? Is he gonna catch up to us?"

"I don't know," Daisy said, quite honestly. "If he has superhuman strength then I imagine he can travel pretty fast too."

"How about you get some sleep and I'll keep watch for a while," He suggested.

"You just ran for three hours. Don't you need sleep?"

"Not as much as you do. You've got new fractures that need healing. Just sleep. I'll be fine."

Daisy wanted to argue with him but she was just too exhausted to bother. She soon fell into an uncomfortable and cold sleep.

Daisy awoke the next morning with a cold throbbing ache in her bones. The fire was nearly out and Logan was asleep where he sat nearby. Daisy dragged herself to her feet and headed for the woods. She came back with a little dead wood for the fire.

"Sleep okay?" he asked as she placed her wood on the fire.

"Alright I suppose," she said, deciding not to complain about the cold or the pain, or all the stress on her mind. "You didn't hear or smell anything during the night? No signs we were followed?"

Logan shook his head. "Nope. Maybe those military guys got your father before he could come after us. Someone went out to check out the gunshot and found him. Maybe that's why the alarms went off."

Daisy sat down next to him with a sigh. "My father ruined this whole mission. He's always ruining things."

"What else is family good for?" he commented. "Besides trying to kill you and fucking up your life?"

"Your father too?"

"My brother," Logan told her. Then he stood. "Keep an eye on the fire. I'm gonna get some food."

A short time later he came back with more fish. "There's a town across the lake," Logan told her. "I could see some smoke from chimneys on the other side."

"We should probably go there then. Someone might have a phone."

They took their time crossing the lake. Logan didn't want Daisy to accidentally crack the ice with her powers. They found a narrow road on the other side leading past a gas station and a few houses. The first two houses had no one at home. The third allowed them to use the phone.

Daisy dialed Phil's number and got an error tone and a message saying the number she had reached was no longer in service. She tried the SHIELD office directly. "Hi, this is Agent Daisy Johnson. ID number 124363. I need to speak with Phil Coulson please."

"I'm sorry, we have no record of any agents with that identification." A female voice on the line replied.

"No record? That's impossible. What about agent…?" Daisy looked at Logan questioningly, realizing she didn't know his full name.

"James Logan Howlett." he said.

She repeated the name and ID number. "I'm sorry we have no record of that agent either."

"There has to be a record…" Daisy started to argue.

"I know what happened," Logan said. "No point in staying here. Let's go."

"We've been disavowed haven't we?" Daisy said as they went back outside to the narrow road.

"Yeah. We have."

"Okay, but Coulson will send help. He wouldn't just abandon me," Daisy said, sure that it was the truth.

"I'm sure he will if he can," Logan said, starting to follow the road south.

"You don't think he can?"

"Probably not. Whatever was going on back there at that military place wasn't something we were supposed to be involved with. Coulson is gonna be under a lot of pressure about now. No matter his personal feelings, he'll be watched pretty closely. He's not gonna be able to send help. We're on our own." Logan said.

"Okay… so where do we go? What do we do?" Daisy asked, hardly able to believe what was happening.

"We keep moving until this starts to blow over."

"And after that?" Daisy asked, afraid of what the answer might be.

"After that we start over."