" what's wrong with her?" Logan asked Ororo, as she sat on her bedroom floor, practicing one of her meditation exercises.

" with who?" she asked, concentrating on the stick of insence burning in front of her.

" Rogue."

" there's nothing 'wrong' with her." she replied grinning up at him s if she knew something.

" The hell there isn't. Something happened, I know it. Everyone knows what it is except for me." he said angrily.

" trust me Logan, it's nothing bad. I wouldn't worry if I were you. That girl has a lot to worry about, without having you on her case all the time. Just let it go ok?" she said.

" whatever." Logan muttered grimly. He tried to take her advice. It wasn't working. He still had a nagging voice in his head, telling him something was wrong.

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Throughout the next few months, things changed. Logan and Marie's coveted willow tree meeting had thinned down from every night, to a few times a month. If he was lucky. Logan tried to stay out of her business, and act as if her being away so much didn't bother him, but inside, he couldn't stop thinking about it. It was killing him. She was rarely even at the Mansion, and her best friends, Kitty and Jubilee, refused to tell him where she was, despite his most intimidating threats.


One October night, just as the sun was setting, Logan climbed far up the willow tree, this time to the branch that Marie had usually sat in. He watched as the red and brown colored leaves blew softly in the wind. He remebered Marie, three years ago, on a night much like this one.

~~~~~~ " Logan, do you think I'll ever get away from this, do you think I'll ever just be normal, with a family, and little house with a picket fence, and a flower garden, and a minivan." she asked with her sweet southern accent, and a far away look in her eyes.


" I don't know kid." he replied thoughtfully. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~



" Logan!!" Marie shouted up at him excitedly, causing Logan to jump out of his memories, and look down at her with confusion.

" what is it?!" he asked, it had been so long since he had talked to her. He wondered what the excitement was about.

" I have something really important to ask of you!" she said smiling joyfully.

The radiance of her smile brought a small smile to his usually scowling face. He loved to see her happy.

" Name it, I'm there." he said.

Marie raised her left hand in front of his face. There was a band around her index finger, with a very large diamond on it. Logan simply stared at it, puzzled.

" Will you give me away?" she asked gleefully.

The smile drained from logans face, and an expression of pure shock, and hurt replaced it.

" what's wrong?" Marie asked in worry.

Logans eyes scanned the rest of her body. He noticed that her once girlish body, had developed into a more mature, grown up, womanly sexy figure. He realized that the time she had spent away the past few months had been with another man. He realized that although her large, brown eyes still held a deep sense of innocence, they appeared much much more knowledgable, and much less naive. And for the first time since he had met her, she no longer seemed seventeen.

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