A/N: Shockingly, the X-Men belong to Stan Lee, Marvel and 20th Century Fox, NOT ME.
Chapter 12
Sweet Sleep
The next month or so went by fairly smoothly. Rogue was progressing extremely well in our private self defense lessons and she'd even agreed to sit in on one of my Junior X-Men classes next week. She made me promise not to partner her with anyone but myself, though, something me and The Wolverine had no problem with. Neither of us liked the idea of someone else laying hands on our girl, even if it is just play fighting. So The Rogue was gonna be my demonstration partner, which worked out well actually, since Marie was a little more advanced than my other students. What? I work out with her a couple hours a night, seven days a week. Showed her some dirty tricks, too, ones Scooter wouldn't let me teach the brats. Plus she's gotten some of my skills and instincts from absorbing me so much, usually once or twice a week. So sue me if I took a little more care and effort training my mate than with the other kids. She's my fucking mate.
Since my first couple weeks at the mansion, I'd been going out with the team. It'd been part of the deal I'd made with Chuck: I join the X-Men and teach the kiddies how to stay alive, and he looks into my past. Checks to see if he can dig anything up with all his fancy resources. I get paid a pretty decent salary and free room and board, too. Mostly the missions so far had been basic pick ups and boring recon work. No real action, nothing to satisfy The Wolverine. Then one night, me, Rogue and Muddy were walking in the garden when all of a sudden 'Ro came running out to us.
"Logan, the team has a mission, we must go."
"What's goin' on?"
Storm looked over at Marie real quick and I could tell she was wondering if she should say anything in front of her.
"Spit it out, Stormy." I'm just gonna tell her anyway.
"It is the Brotherhood, they are attacking an anti-mutant rally in Atlanta. We need to go now, Logan."
I quickly looked over at Marie and could literally see the blood drain from her face. The Wolverine snarled when he caught the scent of her fear. The Brotherhood meant Magneto and Sabertooth, two fuckers who terrified the shit outta her. Two fuckers me and my beast were just dying to meet. They hurt our mate and now we're gonna make their blood rain.
"I'll meet you at the Blackbird, 'Ro."
"Hurry, Logan," Storm warned before she ran off.
I face my girl and grab her hands with mine, "Marie darlin', I want you to promise me you'll stay inside the mansion 'til I get back. I don't want you wandering outside jus' in case. Can ya do that for me?"
Shit, she looks so damn earnest right now, nodding her head, all serious and worried. She's looking up at me with those big sad eyes of hers and they're practically screaming out all her fears to me. She's scared that I'll get hurt. That I won't come back. That Mags and 'Tooth will take me away from her.
How the hell does she do that?
"I'll be careful, Marie." I swear I can almost hear her asking me if I promise. "I promise, darlin'. I promise I'll come back to you."
Just gonna give her a little kiss on top of her head and now I've really gotta go. I can hear Chuck calling for me on the brain phone now. One quick look back at her before I turn the corner, I got time for that... Damn she looks so beautiful standing there. So mine.
No fucking way could anything keep me away from her.
oOo
Well that was a barrel of fucking laughs. A Goddamn catastrophe. Toad nearly suffocated Hank with a nice big gob of mucus to the face, Jeannie got her ass handed to her by Mystique, Sabertooth knocked out One-Eye in the first 10 minutes and Magneto nearly bent me in half before a concussed Scooter woke up and managed to blast him. All the fuckers got away, too. I didn't even get to take on 'Tooth, the bastard who slit my girl's throat and stole her voice. Only "good" thing was we managed to keep the ungrateful mutie haters from getting hurt. I'm not even sure that's a good thing. Probably won't be getting any fan mail or thank you notes from them anytime soon.
It's past midnight and all I want to do is take a hot shower, collapse in bed with my girl and wrap myself around her. 'Course we can't have everything so I'll just have to settle for the shower and an empty bed. Rogue's probably been asleep for a couple hours by now and I can't exactly see myself knocking on her door and asking for a snuggle buddy or something. I mean, 'Hey Marie, wanna sleep with me tonight?' probably wouldn't go over so well.
Huh, I can smell Marie and Muddy pretty strong out here in the hallway... The two of them must of come to check on me earlier, stopped by to see if I'd gotten back from the mission yet.
That's a little weird. Standing right outside my door like this, it's almost like their scents are coming from inside my room, like they've been in there recently... Well maybe they went inside when she came to check on me and I didn't answer. Looked in to see if I was asleep or something. Or maybe it's just from when they were in my room yesterday... Whatever, that shower's calling my name right now.
Oh.
Oh!
Well, it's not left over scent from the last time we hung out. She's here. Fast asleep, all curled up on my bed with that damn mutt drooling down by her feet. She looks fucking gorgeous, like a fallen angel almost. Smooth, pale skin and that mass of dark curly hair spread out every which way on my pillow. Those two sexy white streaks resting against her cheeks. She's got this cute expression on her face and all I wanna do is kiss that pout right off those pink lips of hers.
She's hugging my other pillow real tight to her chest and The Wolverine purrs, pleased she's comforted by our scent. That she's here, waiting for us. I can feel his bone-deep satisfaction in our young mate. How proud he is to be able to claim her as ours.
I took a quick shower to scrub off all the blood, sweat and dirt from the mission and let the hot water pound down on my tight muscles. When I got out, Rogue was still asleep but Muddy had relocated to the floor. Smart dog, knows I ain't gonna share my bed with anybody but my girl. I made sure to put on sweatpants, gloves, socks and a long sleeved shirt (don't want to have Marie wake up to a corpse after all) 'cause there's no way in hell she's leaving my bed tonight. She's covered up good, too, so I'm not that worried. We should be good. Just gonna take off her shoes and pull her under the covers with me real smooth and easy so she doesn't wake up...
Perfect.
Now this, this is fucking nice. Best thing I think I've ever felt, Marie all warm and soft, sleeping right next to me. My scent all over her, marking her, and her amazing scent settling into my pillows and blankets. Will you look at that, she's snuggling up even closer to me, resting her head on my chest, right over my heart. Don't think she'll mind if I put my arm around her, I mean, she did cuddle up to me first...
There. That feels good, right, her nice and tight up against me. Now, she's smiling some and just let out the fucking sweetest little sigh. Fuck, can't help but wear a shit-eating grin at that. She even recognizes me in her sleep.
oOo
A/N: OK, so this one's short and sweet but I figured we could all use some Rogan fluffiness. Am I right, or am I right? Plus, I wanted to start working on the romantic element of their relationship which will really start to develop next chappie when they wake up in the morning. Remember to check out my LiveJournal page (link on profile) to see story art!
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