A/N: Second chapter of the night. Be sure to read the previous one before this! Just like I did in the previous author's note with Eliza and Peter, I will attempt to explain the relationship between Eliza and Logan.
They met first during the Oblivion Crisis, when Logan led a group of Young Mutants from the X-Mansion to help assist the rest of Earth's Mightiest in defeating the armies of undead that Hela released on Earth. Paired with Eliza, he tried to observe her and get to know how she worked. This led to her confiding in him about a prophetic set of images she'd witnessed in Wakanda that prophesied her death in the coming battle. He didn't understand exactly what she was saying, but he felt it wasn't his business to prod. During the battle, their whole team was knocked out except the two of them and Logan witnessed Eliza's death at the hands of Hela's champion. Fast forward a little while to after Eliza's been brought back by Dr. Strange and Hnoss and some other adventures, and Eliza is asked, along with Hank Pym and Peter Parker, to investigate a mutant threat alongside Logan, Kitty Pryde, Bobby Drake, and Kurt Wagner. Hank is killed and Eliza feels responsible. Completely beside herself because of Jan's momentary anger and blame of Eliza, she is on the verge of a mental collapse, so Logan and the others have her come back to the X-Mansion for a few days while Jan calms down, mainly so that someone can keep an eye on the self-destructive Eliza. She begins spending more and more time with Kitty, and keeps up with Logan. Fast forward another several months and we come to the present.
All Anya Corazon knew about her powers was that the emanated from a tattoo she'd received and then she got her webbing abilities after getting a blood transfusion in a hospital.
She had secretly operated under the radar in her home area of Brooklyn for a few years, but obviously SHIELD had known about her because they offered her a choice after the Civil War: work with the new West Coast Avengers and become certified, or go into government custody. Well it was an obvious choice for her. She would take training and certification over jail time any day.
Now here she was, finally able to train with her idol, Spiderman. This morning would be her first class with him.
She arrived in Training Room 1 early and waited outside the door. Soon enough Peter Parker was waltzing down the hallway, whistling merrily.
"Good morning, Anya. I'm Peter." He shook her hand.
"Its so awesome to finally meet you!" She grinned widely, her brown ponytail bouncing up and down as she nodded vigorously.
"Hey same here. Nice to know I'm not the only spider in the world," he joked.
Turning to the door he punched his key into the pad and unlocked it. They went inside quickly.
"So," Peter began, "what can you do?"
Anya grinned and ran up to the wall. She began climbing up the sheer side with just her hands and feet. When she reached the top, she took one hand off the wall and shot a stream of organic webbing from her forearm to the ceiling where it stuck and she swung down to the ground.
"Plus I'm super flexible. And I have super strength, super speed. That kind of stuff," she added with a smile.
Peter nodded. "You're a regular Spider-Girl."
"That should be my codename!" She nodded intently. "Everyone else has been going over what they want their superhero names to be. Kate wants to be Hawkgirl or Hawkette. Something like that. Klara likes Rose Red. America wants to be Miss America. Teddy goes by Hulkling, Billy by Wiccan, Dante by Inferno. Even Laura and Kamala have names: X-23 and Ms. Marvel!"
"Spider-Girl it is, then!" Peter laughed.
"Are they here yet?" Eliza paced back and forth in the foyer of the Academy.
Jan laughed from where she sat on the couch in the main entrance area. "Not yet. Calm down!"
Eliza rolled her eyes and decided to check out the giant window. Suddenly she saw a black car driving up to the front.
"And there's the text," Jan said, getting up after her phone buzzed.
Eliza ran out the door and down the steps when she saw Kitty and Logan getting out of the SHIELD car. Logan was arguing with Mr. Dose, insisting he could carry his own luggage. In the meantime, Kitty saw Eliza and grinned widely.
"Liz!"
"Kitty!"
Eliza hugged Kitty and they laughed together. Meanwhile Logan watched in amusement as Jan walked more slowly down the steps and joined him leaning against the car.
"How was the flight?" she asked him.
Logan shrugged. "Good enough."
Kitty and Eliza were still talking and laughing as the SHIELD car drove away. Mr. Dose, insisting upon it, took Logan's and Kitty's luggage into the Academy. Finally Eliza turned to the Wolverine.
"Logan." She grinned at him. "I'm so glad you came."
"Good to see ya kid." He nodded and together the little group of four went inside.
"Kurt wanted to come," Kitty explained to Eliza. "But Storm only wanted to send two of us."
"Too bad." Eliza nodded. "But I'm sure he can come out sometime later."
"You two hungry?" Jan asked them. "Cause I'm starving. Though I suppose the time difference is rather strange."
"Yes! So hungry," Kitty told her.
Jan and Eliza led the way down to the cafeteria. Eliza dropped back, allowing Jan and Kitty to lead. Instead she wanted to talk to Logan.
"So Laura is doing well," she began. "At least, I think she is."
"Kid doesn't talk much," Logan nodded. "Surprised she took this job in the first place. She was starting to make friends back at the School. Now. What about you?"
"Me?" Eliza tried to brush it off. "I've been alright."
Logan stared at her in skepticism. He snorted, turning away. "Sure, kid. Sure. You can fool the others maybe but you can't fool me."
Eliza shrugged. "Peter's working here now."
Logan looked at her in surprise. "The kid you broke up with?"
Eliza rolled her eyes. Nice way to put it. "I didn't break up with him. He broke up with me. But thanks."
Logan shrugged. "Makes no difference t' me."
They finally reached the cafeteria. Most of the kids and teachers were on their lunch break. Clint waved the group over to where he and Bobbi had grabbed a big table.
"Figured you guys would be down soon," Clint said. "Nice to see you Logan, Kitty."
"Thanks Agent Barton!" Kitty smiled.
"Thanks for the invite, Clint, Agent Morse," Logan nodded, taking a seat next to Eliza who in turn sat next to Bobbi.
"Please, Bobbi is fine," the SHIELD agent insisted.
"Logan for me, then."
"So how was the flight?" Bobbi asked them.
Eliza and Kitty left the older people to talk while they went to grab food.
"The pizza is really good," Eliza told her.
Kitty laughed. "Eliza, you always think pizza is good!"
Eliza considered this. "True. Very true."
In the end, they both got the spaghetti. Eliza commented that it looked appetizing today. They also grabbed giant chocolate chip cookies for dessert. As they went back to their seats they passed Jan leaving. She told them that she had an important phone call she couldn't miss. But she wouldn't tell anyone what it was about.
Kitty and Eliza rejoined the table. Logan was off getting food now and Clint and Bobbi had left to return to teaching. Each had a class now.
"So I had a good idea for tomorrow evening," Eliza told Kitty. "I want to go see that new Disney-Pixar movie that just came out. You up for it?"
"Of course! I'm so excited!" Kitty grinned between bites.
Logan came back with a hotdog and fries. "Big cafeteria you have here for such a small number of people."
"Well there are plenty of workers here. We have medical agents, grounds keepers, guards, housekeeping, etc," Eliza explained. "They all need feeding too."
Logan shrugged and dug into his food.
Kitty and Eliza hung the rest of the day, sometimes training students, other times playing in the game room. Kitty seemed to be a master at air hockey. Eliza, for her part, was better at pool. Neither of them kept track of where Logan was.
For his part, Logan was alternating between training Laura with Clint's permission and doing research into the vampires. Clint and Bobbi had brought him up to speed after their post-lunch lessons.
Now it was after dinner and Eliza couldn't help but feel a little down. Kitty had gone to bed because she was tired from the time change. She didn't know where Logan was. She had a feeling Peter knew better than to press two nights in a row. Clint and Bobbi were likely busy. Clint spent less time with her now, but she didn't blame him for it. He had a life, and he was busy now that he was the head of the Avengers.
At the moment, Eliza sat in her room, changed into her pjs. She sat atop her bed, glancing every so often at the knife on her desk. It called to her. It wanted her. She glared at it in anger. Why did she feel this way? She'd had an amazing day. She'd seen some of her best friends for the first time in almost three months. She'd had a good strong day of training. And her afternoon therapy session hadn't gone poorly. So why was her depression seeping in?
A knock sounded on her door. She looked up in surprise after glancing at her clock. It was past midnight! Who would be at her door at this hour?
She got up and opened her door, peeking out.
"Logan?"
"Yeah."
Eliza looked at the short, stout man in confusion. "Why you knocking?"
"You never told me what's been troublin' yah." He shrugged. "I was gonna leave it alone, but Laura brought it up with me. She seems to be concerned you might do something."
Eliza sighed but let him come in. Logan nodded and sat down at her desk. She sighed again and sat down. Logan didn't miss the knife that sat on her desk but he didn't comment.
"I'm not suicidal," Eliza clarified. "I've been suicidal plenty of times in my life. That is not what's going on right now."
Logan smirked. "Good. 'Cause I can't deal with a suicidal teenage girl."
Eliza rolled her eyes. "Just wanted to make sure you understood that."
"Already saw you die once. Let's not do it again," Logan said in all seriousness.
Eliza closed her eyes as she remembered, painfully, her death at the hands of Hela about a year ago.
"You won't be rid of me any time soon," she assured him.
Logan grunted. "So. What's wrong then."
Eliza frowned. What was wrong? She didn't really know. She just felt… sad… when she wasn't busy training the kids. She was lonely. She had no friends. And she told Logan this.
"Friends are overrated," he shrugged.
Eliza frowned. Maybe Logan was fine as a loner, but Eliza wasn't. Community was too important to her. Suddenly she started tearing up.
"I miss Nat," she sobbed. "And Steve. I miss Bruce, I miss Darcy, I miss Bucky and Jane and Thor and Loki and Leah and Tony."