Reference: 'Sabre' is our Gatorade.
Chapter 10: Finishing up Unfinished Business
Logan sat down back at the bar, with a smug grin on his face. 'I have got to be the luckiest guy on earth.' He thought. He was bobbing his head to the beat of the music. The robot came over to him, remembering his drink he had last time, gave him one of the exact same. He maintained his smug grin when he took a drink. He felt a hand slam into his left, and the body the arm was attached to swing to his right.
"Holy shit! I saw the whole thing! Didn't think you'd actually do it though!" Only Joey would comment like this. Logan couldn't force himself to remove his smug grin. He took another drink. Joey slapped his friends shoulder, and laughed. "Very nice!" He took a seat next to him, "Hey bartender, get me a Sabre would you? Red if you don't mind." The robot reached into the counter and pulled out his drink, and using his hand made the drink cold, then unscrewed the cap for him. Joey took a large drink out of it. "Tell me, you seen Allie around here?" Logan took another drink, maintaining his smug grin, he couldn't answer, for some reason he had gone mute. Joey finished his drink, "Fine, but don't think your big and bad JUST because you kissed a girl finally." Joey got up and left, and about 30 seconds later Allie took his seat.
"Bartender get me what he's having." The bartender gave her a soft drink exactly like Logan's. "So, is is true? Did you and Aaron actually kiss?" Logan nodded his head, it seemed the whole damn Lylat System knew he had. He still had his smug grin on his face, he just couldn't pull himself to wipe it off his stupid face. She then asked him a question he didn't hear.
He finally wiped his smile off, relieved he had managed too, "You say somethin'?"
She asked a little louder, "Y-you seen Joey here anywhere?"
"Oh! Yeah, I saw him, you actually took his seat. He actually left lookin for you, if I remember right." He finished his drink, "Lemme go find him."
"O... o-ok, I'll wait here I guess..." Her voice trailed into indistinguishable muttering. Logan got up and went on his search for Joey, he bumped into him at the window he kissed Aaron at. "Yo! Joey! What you doin over here?"
He shrugged, "Hopin the good karma of this place rubs off on me." He leaned against the railing, "'cause it sure as hell gave you some insane luck."
Logan grinned slyly, "You hopin you can have the same luck I did with Allie?"
He turned around and punched him in the arm playfully, "Tell anyone and I swear you will not see tomorrow."
He laughed, "I swear, I won't tell anyone, but it looks like karma is workin for you."
"Oh yeah? How would you know?" He lifted his eyebrow.
Logan used his thumb to point at the bar, "She is lookin for you, believe it or not."
"Cool, I guess I'll go see her, might I suggest you go find Aaron and talk to her?" Logan opened his mouth, "Talk about anything, the party, or about the battle." Joey began to leave, when he stopped and said, "Maybe talk about a date? Just a suggestion."
"What you mean?" Joey took his index finger and middle together, put his hand over his head, and flicked his wrist to the right. Silently saying 'Not now, maybe later.' He rubbed the back of his neck, "So much for help, thanks for nothin'." He leaned against the window, this spot had more karma than Buddha did. (No flames for using him).
He waited for something to happen, he leaned against the rail again, and sighed. 'Jeez, this better not be the sign of depression, I've sighed more here than I do in a month.' He chuckled to himself, 'Then again, after what I pulled I guess I have a right to sigh like this.' He got off of the rail, the thing held some real sentimental value now. 'Of all the things to tell my kids, Son, my first kiss was next to a window near a rail.' When he thought kids his mind immediately jumped to Aaron, he shook the thought out quickly.
Apparently Joey took all the karma from the spot, nothing happened. He began to start a sigh, but stopped it. He turned around and saw Aaron getting ready to say something, but she closed her mouth, he smiled at her. "You wanted to say something?"
She smiled back, "Yeah, but not here." She paused, and asked her next question quietly. "Care to go for a walk down the corridors?"
He began walking away from the window and the rail, apparently it still had enough karma left in it. "Sure, lets go."
They walked in an awkward silence for a little bit, Logan looked at Aaron. Something was eating her alive, he could see it the way she looked at the ground, and when he could get a glimpse of her eyes, they showed something was eating her. He finally got the nerve to ask, "Somethin wrong?"
She maintained her eyes locked onto the ground, "Why did you save me at Sector Y?"
He was caught off guard, but he had an answer at least. "Because, I do everything in my power to ensure more people come home." He thought about his next phrase carefully, "Even if it means throwing my life away. If more people come home if I die, even if it's just one, then I would die for them."
Aaron got slightly weepy eyed at the last statement, "So, you saved me because it was one more person that would live?" Logan nodded his head, "Would you throw your life away if you knew that you'd be leaving people behind that cared for you?"
Logan was shocked at this question, did she actually share feelings for him? And why was she all of a sudden open about them? Was it his kiss that he unconsciously did? "I... well... I never thought about that." He stopped and Aaron did too, he took her and spun her towards him. He was acting strange, he seemed to be out of his mind, on a normal occasion he wouldn't even dare touch them, let alone spin them to face him. "But I promise you this, as long as I fly with you, I'll return every time." He didn't even know if she was talking about him when she said 'people', but he assumed. He took a huge gamble on these lines. He brought her into a hug.
Lasting for about a minute, she pulled away from the embrace, but maintained a close proximity to Logan, "I believe I have some unfinished business to do."
Logan cocked his eye brow, same way he did before at the window, "What would that be?" She stood for a second, then leaned towards his face, and he leaned towards hers, slowly, they inched closer and closer. Finally their mussels met for a second time that day. This one however, was more expected, Aaron had shoved her tongue into Logan's mouth.
'That rail is by far the most luckiest thing I have ever touched.' He thought to himself, as they continued kissing in the corridor.
A/N: I'm sure someone was waiting for this, please R&R everyone, but that's not a big crowd that has actually followed this for so long, remember every review counts.
