"Any luck yet?" Logan asked as he found Aliana sitting on the beam in the gym, staring around the room.
"A little bit. I got some small flashbacks… one in this room. I was actually fighting you and well… you were losing," She said, looking at him and smiling.
"That had to be something you remember didn't it," He said, smiling as he walked over to her perch.
"I like it, it was quite funny, I got other bits too. My mum singing a song to me, my sensei teaching me meditation… it's strange how much I could have forgotten," she explained as she smiled.
"It's good to hear. Maybe you'll start remembering things on your own now. So, why the fascination with the beam all of a sudden?" He asked, having found her near the beam every time he'd come in.
"I learnt some gymnastics. Stryker assumed it would help with my training. I personally found the experience of flying quite enjoyable," She replied, swinging herself on to the beam and doing a handstand on it.
"Did he know you enjoyed it so much?" He asked, watching her right herself and do a cartwheel.
"No, if he knew I enjoyed it he'd stop me from doing it. I made out it was a chore," She replied, jumping off one side of the beam.
"I thought he'd have wanted to keep you as happy as possible," Logan replied, leaning on the beam as Aliana pulled on a jacket.
"I never particularly trusted him anyway; think he caught on to that when I tried to sneak off about a week in to training. I do however now know how to pick locks, and jump out of 3rd floor windows," she said, smiling as she headed out of the gym with Logan, aiming on grabbing some lunch.
"Good to know," He replied, walking with her until Scott appeared in the corridor in front of them.
"The professor wants the two of you in his office now," he said nodding to Aliana in greeting.
"Nice glasses," she said as she nodded back at him.
"Nice eyes," Scott replied to which she smiled before heading with Logan to the professor's office, hoping her grumbling stomach could wait for a few minutes.
The two of them entered the office and paused as the man in the middle of the room turned to look at Aliana, looking instantly relieved to see her.
"What's going on?" She asked, looking between the man in front of her and the professor.
"This is Eric, he didn't believe you were safe so I had to send for you," The professor replied.
"And that should make a difference how?" She asked simply.
"He's your father," Logan said, causing Aliana's eyebrows to raise as she looked at the man in front of her.
"He's my father?" Aliana asked, looking at Magneto and folding her arms as if judging him.
"What's she doing?" He asked, turning to the professor before turning to look back at his daughter.
"Judging you I think," He replied simply.
"I don't make judgements. I make intelligent guesses," She said simply before adding, "and my intelligent guess isn't letting me trust you… yet."
She turned and headed out the office and back to the kitchen, needing something to eat. She didn't quite understand why but she just didn't like the idea of her father being there, let alone getting to know him.
"Aliana Alexis Davenport you do not walk away from your father like that!" Eric shouted, walking in to the corridor.
Aliana paused and turned to face him, one eyebrow raised. "Alexis Davenport? Wow I really don't like hearing my name," she said simply.
"You took your mother's name. Now all I want is to talk to you," He said. Aliana stood there for a moment before nodding and allowing him to lead her outside.
Logan watched from the window as Aliana sat in the grounds with Magneto. The two of them had been out there for an hour, apparently just chatting. He watched as Magneto stood up, kissed Aliana on the head and walked inside leaving her where she was.
"I won't take her with me, she appears to be happy here," He said to the professor who was with Logan.
"That's good to hear," The professor replied.
"But, as soon as that changes, I'll come and get her, know that," He added before sweeping out of the building.
"Don't worry, there's no chance of that," Aliana said as she appeared in the doorway once Magneto was gone, a smile on her face.
"So how are you two then? Planning any father daughter days out?" Logan asked, glancing back out the window.
"It takes more than an hour long chat to make me trust someone. I'm happy to let him try and be a father but just because he's trying doesn't mean he will be," Aliana explained as the professor left the room, giving the two of them some space to talk.
"Logan, you know, just because he's in my life now doesn't change anything, I'm not gonna change," She said, walking over to the window.
"You're gonna become like him. He twists his own words so they sound amazing but he'll try and take you from us," Logan said, turning and looking at her.
"I'm not foolish. I may not remember my past but I'm not an idiot. I just want to know my father. If you had that chance wouldn't you want exactly the same thing?" She asked.
"No," Logan replied simply before going back to staring out the window.
"I thought you were at least slightly human… turns out you're not," Aliana said, before turning and walking out the room, her hands balled in to fists, her anger causing the lamp to fly against the wall near to Logan's head as she went.