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-My head it hurts
Each day its getting worse
No sun, my room
Has now become my hearse
Cold sores, I'm beat
Got bruises on my feet
My pride, these men
Have taken it from me-
-Standing in The Rain by Billy Talent.
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Something had caught their attention, a noise that sounded like a cross between a growl of some kind of wild animal and a human. The group stopped each looking over their shoulders seeing nothing but the deserted alley they had just walked out of. Another howl startled them all, this time from above, "On the roof!" Scott shouted pointing to the shadowy figure standing on the rooftop of an abandoned building.
"It's Logan!" Jean gasped.
'SNIKT!'
Kitty screamed jumping out of the way of Logan's claws as he jumped at her from the top of the building, "Mr. Logan!?" She cried, "It's me, Kitty!!" He leapt at her again but was hit in the air by one of Scott's optic blasts.
Snarling Logan jumped to his feet and lunged for Scott getting hit with another optic blast and thrown against a brick wall. Burt and sliced up skin began to heal as he stood up growling at the group of X-men scattered about. He let out a throaty howl and lunged at the nearest person near him, which was Kurt. He managed to catch the blue elf-like kid off guard and tackle him to the ground.
Kurt let out a startled yelp as he hit the ground, his yellow eyes wide with fear as he stared into the blood red ones in his face. Logan pushed his claws up against Kurt's cheek and growled when suddenly he was lifted up off of Kurt and thrown back into the wall he had hit earlier.
Jean closed her eyes as she entered Logan's mind and was quickly forced back out.
She fell to her knees panting, "His mind's a mess!" She shouted in between breaths as the others watched as Logan climbed to his feet again.
He looked like a trapped animal as he paced back and forth; he bared his teeth at the group and narrowed his eyes suddenly stopping dead in his tracks.
"Logan?" Everyone looked over their shoulders as Rogue walked up to the group, her eyes focused on Logan.
"Rogue?" Kurt 'ported over to his sister, "You should leave, it's not safe."
Rogue shook her head walking passed Kurt and stopped about a foot away from Logan, "He's helped me so many times, and now ah have ta help him." She said softly.
Logan growled squatting down into a fighting stance then jumped at Rogue knocking her to the ground.
"Oh my God, Rogue!!" Kitty screamed and Hank McCoy started towards Rogue but was stopped when Logan jumped to his feet holding Rogue up by her collar.
"Logan! Think about what you're doing!" Ororo shouted frightened for both her friends.
Rogue slipped off her glove and reached up touching Logan's face. He let out a started yelp letting go of Rogue as he quickly lost consciousness and fell to the ground with a hard 'Thump'.
Rogue screamed grabbing onto her head and fell to her knees, her shoulders shook with every shuddering breath she took and tears streamed down her cheeks. She let out one last strained scream and collapsed on the cold concrete ground.
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"Logan, listen to me!" The Professor shouted through the bars of the cage Logan was pacing in.
Logan snarled striking out against the bars doing little damage to them, "No!" He shouted in a throaty growl and grabbed onto his head dropping down to his knees.
The Professor sighed and began massaging his temples in an attempt to stop the surfacing migraine.
"How's he doing?" Ororo walked up beside the Professor and glanced into the cage, "You sure that's going to hold him?"
"Yes, it should. It's laced with the same substance as his claws. I'm not sure how to answer your first question, he still won't speak but one or two words," He sighed folding his hands in his lap, "So, how's Rogue doing?"
Ororo tilted her head to the side, "Why don't you ask her yourself?" She motioned towards the door where Rogue stood staring at the floor.
"Ah, Rogue," The Professor greeted her turning his chair to face her, "How have you been feeling?"
Rogue looked up at him and frowned, "Okay, ah guess," She shrugged glancing at Logan then back to the Professor and Ororo, "You know… he thinks he's an animal but… but his mind keeps telling him he's not," She sighed rubbing the back of her neck, "Ah can't explain it really… but ah think he's scared."
The Professor and Ororo exchanged glances then turned back to Rogue who had walked up to the cage. Logan narrowed his eyes at her and growled.
"Been treated like crap all his life… caged and treated like an… animal."
"No!" Logan snarled throwing himself at the bars causing Rogue to jump back in shock, "I'm not an animal! I'm Logan! I'M LOGAN!"
"Ah know." Rogue whispered stepping back up to the bars.
Logan squeezed his eyes shut and slid down to the floor still holding onto the bars, "I'm not an animal…" He repeated over and over again to himself as tears streamed down his cheeks, "not an animal…"
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