Chapter 4

A/N: See first chapter for summery and disclaimer.


Marie walked up the stairs with Logan's hand in hers and had to smile at the look at Jubes face as she studied her room decorations. " Oh, sweetie! I know you said you were helpless when it came to decorating, but this is beyond helpless." She said pitifully.

Marie wanted to laugh, to Jubes there was no greater sin than a bland house or an over-decorated one. It stood next to the one that said ' All fashion victims must be helped even if they don't want it.' Like she said earlier: she tends to grow on you.

"What's wrong with my room?" She heard Logan chuckle as they both looked at the surprised look on her face and Marie almost busted out laughing when she realized that Jubilation Lee was sputtering with disbelief.

" Yeah. I think it looks fine. It's got all you need: a bed and bathroom." Logan said. Jubes gave him a look. " Yeah okay, to you its perfect. You're a guy; you're used to living Spartan like. But she is a girl. Her room is supposed to reflect her personality and loves and likes. This room says ' Hello, I'm boring'."

Kitty sat on the chair at the vanity table and shook her head in amusement. If they thought this was bad try rooming with her for the last three years. Rogue got lucky, after several weeks at the mansion she was moved and she now lived with another female mutant that was furry and green so she didn't have to worry about her skin.

" I like my room." Marie said as she crossed the room to Wolverine, sat on his lap and wrapped one arm around his shoulders. His arm moved around her waist, locking her to him. Kitty and Jubes ignored it, after two years they were used to it.

Jubes gave another exasperated sigh. " You two are pointless."

Logan moved his head and whispered into Marie's ear. " Your Aunt is in the hallway."

Meredith Sands stood in the hallway, staring between the crack of an half way closed door and the space it was from the door frame, outside of her niece's room, who was related by marriage. ' Thank God," she thought, ' I don't think I could stand having that brat in my family.' When she saw Marie at the funeral she thought she had come alone, but then a girl in yellow came up, followed by a brunette and then Him.

She thought that he was just a stranger that had just come up on the funeral and then she saw him saddle up to Marie. Meredith didn't know who he was but she was determined to learn his name. Then she did, the yellow one was across from her, and she was one hell of a loud mouth, She called him 'Wolvie'. A bit weird, but it seemed to fit him. Wild hair, ridiculously long sideburns, and an animal appeal to him. In those jeans, they looked like they were painted on. She tried making little sound as possible. It would be embarrassing to have to explain why she was eavesdropping outside of Marie's room. She saw the man, Wolvie, lean into Marie and whisper in her ear. She watched as she called friends over and whispered into their ears.

" I can't wait to get back the Mansion!" Jubilee declared. " I promise to never, ever whine when Storm causes a cold front." Marie looked over at her, "Why? What's wrong with this weather?" She looked innocently at her friends and she felt Logan's chest rumble with laughter.

" It's to damn hot! In cold weather you can always put on more clothes, in hot weather you can't take any off without being ticketed for being indecent." She said as if she was talking to Marie for the first time. Logan got a sly look on his face and said loud enough for Jubilee to hear, " I wouldn't mind seeing you without any clothes on." He said to Marie.

They heard Jubes groan from inside Marie's closet, how she got there with out her noticing, she'll never know. " Oh, okay guys, that was an over share. I didn't need to know that." Marie held back her laughter as she watched Kitty roll on the floor in a laughing fit.

From outside they heard a loud thump; Marie shared a knowing smile with Logan. "Speaking of over share what do you plan on saying to the dick weed once we get back home?" Logan asked the girls. Jubes said she'd fry him, Kitty said she was gonna drag him to the room at the mansion that only opened from the outside, Marie said she was going to drain him dry after Logan. Logan said he was going to hurt him good for hurting the only other person he could stand.

Logan liked Storm, she never pried or nit picked until YOU felt like talking. Plus she never tried to talk him out of the weird relationship he had going with Marie. Never asked what it was about, hell half the time neither he nor Marie knew what it was about. To them it just felt right to be together.

Kitty cleared her throat, " So you never did tell us what Magneto said to you when you visited him." Marie's gloved hand worked its way into Logan's hair as she played with the strands. " Oh yeah about that. I was going to wait until my mom got here. She said she wanted to know about you guys and I figured that I might as well kill two birds with one stone. When we first got here, she had asked about my hair." Marie felt Logan's arms tighten around her.

Meredith slowly backed away from the door and walking quietly down the stairs. So he was a mutant, they all were mutants. And Wolvie and Marie were closer than she thought. ' How old is she again?' She thought. When she meet her three years ago she was sixteen. She cleared her head when she heard someone call her name.