Pink Robe Chronicles
Chapter 9
An Alteration Finds
Logan sat in the small hospital room with Dustin the sun flooding threw the window gilding the boy. He stirred and tried to sit up; Logan put a firm hand on his chest and guided him back down.
"Why can't I open my eyes?"
"The bandages," Logan said softly brushing hair out of Dustin's face.
"You're that man! That man from the sidewalk, I thought you were an angel."
Logan raised an eyebrow and shook his head, "no… I'm no angel." Dustin's smile widened and his hand searched for Logan's. Logan offered it slowly and the boy felt it her felt the large expanse and the boney knuckles and the strong forearm and the muscled upper arm and shoulder and neck. Logan pushed him back down in bed, "you're sitting up too much again."
Dustin grinned in a impish manner and held out his hands again Logan placed his face in the palms and submitted to the inquisitive fingers. The brushed over his nose and down across his cheeks fingers dragged threw his sideburns then came to his chin going over his lips and then sweeping back up to his forehead then his eyes gently ever so gently brushing over his closed lids feeling the feathery touch of Logan's thick lashes. Dustin let his hands fall back at his side a smile playing on his lips, "you're just how I imagined."
"Pardon?" Logan said leaning back in his chair.
"My mother always told me that I had a guardian angel… and someday when I needed him he would come and save me…"
Logan sat silent for a moment trying to think of a way to breach the subject, "Speaking of your mother… that's why I'm here. See kid, I need to know who she is, where she is so we can tell her we found you, tell her you're ok."
Dustin's face fell, "I don't know where my mother is… I think she's dead…"
"You're father maybe?"
"I never knew my father… he ran out on my mother when he found out she was pregnant." Logan blinked what a clam voice to come form a 14 year old boy about his complete aloneness in the world. He had nowhere to go and no one to see.
"Well then," Logan said with a heavy sigh, "looks like you'll get to stay with us."
"Really?" Dustin asked trying once again to sit up.
"Yeah." Logan pushed the boy back down gently and brushed hair out of his face, "Now get some sleep you've got to heal up so we can play basketball or something when you get better."
Dustin beamed, "I like basketball."
"Good." Logan stood and walked to the door, "then we'll play that when you get out." Logan closed the door quietly and nodded to the Professor, "no parents and no place to go."
The Professor frowned but nodded beginning to move down the hall, "they have Scott stabilized in room 131 but I wouldn't advise talking to him Logan, he's very angry at you."
Logan stood in the middle of the hall his hands in his pockets and his eyes fixed on the back of the professors head.
"You didn't think he wouldn't tell me did you?" the Professor asked from down the hall.
Logan shrugged, "What should I do?"
The Professor smiled, "That's your own decision Logan. You're not one of my students I can't give you all the answers."
Logan nodded and moved down the hall, "I think I want to go get some pizza with Storm."
"Why is that?"
"She loves to tell people what to do."
"Ah."
"I think its part of that goddess complex she's got." Logan said smirking.
The Professor chuckled and rolled his way over to speak to the receptionist. Logan moved close to storm and hank who were talking in hushed voices.
"So who wants pizza?" Logan asked quietly holding out a wallet, "my treat."
Storm jumped up and grabbed Logan's arm Hank took the other and they marched out into the parking lot and down the street to a little pizza shop on the corner.
"How much do you like Scott?" Storm asked nibbling on a piece of crust.
Logan shrugged, "I don'know."
"Well that's a bit of a problem" Hank said sitting with his head on his fist, "after all isn't a relationship supposed to be based on affection?"
Logan shrugged again this was all over his head, he fixed his eyes on a piece of sausage, "So… I'm wrong aren't I?"
"Personally?" Hank asked, Logan nodded, "No, but I think you go about it wrong. True there are plenty of attractive people in the world but when you're in a relationship… it… that attraction can't be so overt."
Storm raised an eyebrow at Hank and shrugged, "I think Scott made you happy."
Logan smirked and picked off the sausage and tossed it at Storm, he stood and left a 20 dollar bill on the table, "tip well ok?" he jumped over the small fence and started back towards the hospital.
Logan sat silent in Scott's room watching him sleep. A nurse moved in and looked from Logan to Scott.
"Sir, do you know him well?"
Logan looked up and nodded gently, "yeah… not as well as we should but pretty well."
"It always brings family's closer when someone gets hurt, terribly ironic don't you think."
Logan nodded, "Yeah… says soemthin' about humans don't it?"
The nurse nodded and checked the IV on Scott then left them alone in the room again. The sun set and Logan watched Scott sleep until the same nurse came in, "Sir, visiting hours are ending soon… I'm going to have to ask you to leave." Logan nodded and stood he walked to the bed and looked at Scott's face silver and pale in the moonlight he stooped and kissed Scott on the forehead, "you get better you hear me Scott, you have to live so I can apologies to you." Logan picked up his coat and fallowed the nurse out to the parking lot. His breath came out in clouds it was a cold night.
"You can come back at 9:00 am tomorrow," the nurse said waving to Logan as she walked to her car. Logan started to walk down the road, car after car passed him as he trudged threw the night, until one stopped.
"Logan!" Rogue's soft southern accent wafted threw the night air, "darlin' get in the car I'll drive you home."
Logan climbed into the car and they drove in silents except for the Dixie Chicks Singing about murder and the low hum of the engine.
Ok so funny story, the reason you're getting updates so fast is that I've caught a nasty cold and am home bound so all I've got to do is read novels and write this fan fiction… funny yeah?