In the kitchen, late Saturday night Rita was waiting and thinking. Logan had left early in the morning to go to New York City, but it was already 1 A.M and he hadn't returned. All day and night Rita had wondered why Logan had to leave but he didn't tell her, and didn't say anything to any other x men.
Yawning Rita stood up and got herself another glass of water. When she heard a sound around the drive way Rita jumped up and walked outside only to find Remy coming home.
"Bonjour cher" Remy said, with a heavy southern accent, as he walked inside.
Rita sat
"Que amusant, un sud garçon démons parle français." Rita said as Remy walked inside.
Instantly Remy turned around and looked at Rita in shock. "Vous parle français, fille? " Remy asked.
"De cours, je habiter dans France pour dix année. " Rita said with an attitude.
"Remy non aimer démons attitude de vous. Alors arrêter être ainsi arrogant, belle. " Remy said with a smile as he walked into the kitchen and got a cup of coffee.
"Par le voie, vous petite amie avoir etre l'air pour vous entire jour." Rita said with a smile, happy she finally found someone she could talk to in French.
"Merde, je avoir à siège si elle être éveille." Remy said with a sigh, not wanting to answer to rogue at the moment about where he has been all day. "Je suis fatigue droit alors, bon soir enfer ange." Remy said as Rita sighed after hearing the last two words, as he referred to her code name.
Rita watched as Remy walked upstairs and disappeared into his room. Then Rita went back into the kitchen to wait once again for Logan.
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Rita waited for another four hours, trying to keep from falling asleep. At 5:30 A.M Logan walked in the front door and started up the stairs as Rita stepped out of the kitchen and looked at him. Logan thought someone was behind him and when he turned around he saw Rita.
"What are you doing up so early Rita?" Logan asked, dreading the question he knew was coming.
"Waiting for you to come home. Where have you been all day and why didn't you even call?" Rita asked Logan as he walked back downstairs and toward Rita.
"I was out buying some things, nothing big happen, just some things that could only be bought in New York City which is why I'm so late I had to go to a different city." Logan answered as he bent down and kisses Rita's beautiful lips.
Rita smiled as Logan put an arm around her and steered her upstairs to her room. When they walked in Jean moved but didn't wake up as Rita climbed into bed and fell asleep in minutes. After Logan was sure that Rita was asleep he left the room and walked down a flight of stairs to his own room.
Logan took his shirt off and looked at himself in the mirror. There were still traces of blood on his side where he had been cut. Logan ran a hand along his side and looked at the fresh blood that had rubbed off on his hand. He cleaned the blood away from his side and lay in bed for a few hours just thinking. Finally at 7 A.M he fell asleep.
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Rita woke up at 8, not getting much sleep. She stood up and got dressed and walked downstairs into the kitchen to find Logan, but he wasn't there. She looked around the kitchen, he was always there at 8, why isn't he here now?
"He is still sleeping. Why don't you go wake him up?" came the voice of Professor Xavier in her head.
"Ok Professor." Rita said and she walked up stairs and opened his door. Logan was sound asleep, but before Rita woke him up she caught sight of his shirt, there was blood on the side. "I must have been too tired to see that last night."
Rita sat on the edge of Logan's bed and pulled the cover back, looking at his right side. There was no cut or any blood, weird Rita thought. Right before she put her hand down his side he grabbed her wrist. "You're awake" Rita said after the shock of him being awake.
"Yes I am, is something wrong?" Logan asked as he sat up in bed and looked at Rita's worried, icy blue eyes.
"Yes, something is wrong. What happened yesterday that got your shit bloody? And why didn't you tell me, you lied to me." Rita said as a tear escaped her eye and rolled down her face.
"I'm sorry; I just didn't want you to worry about anything. I'm sorry that I had to lie to you." Logan said as he kissed Rita, but before he could deepen the kiss she pulled away. "Come on kid, forgive me. I'm sorry."
"I forgive you for not calling and coming home so late, and I can even forgive you for not telling me about the blood, but I cant forgive the fact that you would lie to me. I've had too many people lie to me in my life and I thought you would be different but your not." Rita said as she stood up and ran out of his room, down the stairs and out the front door. Scott watched Rita run out the door and followed her, he watched her wings come out and she took to the sky, flying out of sight and into the sun.
When Scott walked back inside Logan was standing at the top of the stairs, he didn't even take time to put his shirt on Scott thought to him self. "What did you do wolf boy?" Scott said with anger in his voice.
"Shut up summers, I'm not in the mood, now where did she go?" Logan asked.
"Don't know, she flew away. Must because of you." Scott said as he walked back to the rec room and sat next to Jean.
Logan sighed as he went back into his room and put on a shirt. All day Logan sat around waiting for Rita to come back. But she never did.
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Finally at 10 P.M Rita came back and landed on the balcony outside of Remy Lebeau's room. She knocked on the door and the door handle moved as Remy opened the door. "Bonjour, mon ami." Remy said as he stepped aside for Rita to walk in. "why do you come home to my balcony?" Remy asked, knowing this was no time for French.
"Logan lied to me last night, and I just couldn't face him right now. I can't forgive him for the fact that he lied to me." Rita said, holding back tears.
"I'm sorry cher." Remy said as he hugged Rita. "Why don't you stay here and sleep so you don't have to go in the hall and face Logan, Remy will sleep on the floor." The Cajun said with a smile that could melt your heart.
"Thank you Remy." Rita said as she hugged him and lay back on the bed. Instantly Rita fell asleep, knowing Logan couldn't find her in Remy's room. And Remy slept peacefully on the floor next to his bed.
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Not knowing that Rita was in Remy's room Logan waiting all through the night and early morning. When 10 A.M came along all the x men were awake except the Cajun. Logan usually woke the late sleepers. He walked up the stairs and opened the door to Remy's room, what he saw angered him immensely.
Rita lay on the Cajun's bed and slept peacefully. Logan saw Remy next to the bed and picked him up by his shirt collar. "What is she doing in here?" Logan yelled.
"She came to Remy last night and Remy let her sleep." Remy replied as he withdrew the ace of spades from his pocket and charged it up. Remy let the card go and it exploded at Logan's feet causing Logan to drop the Cajun.
"You're lying!" Logan yelled again as Rita woke up and looked at Logan. Before Logan could say anything Rita flew out the balcony door and left the institute once again.
Logan, leave Remy alone. He was just helping out Rita last night, nothing more. Charles said as he sent the thought into Logan's mind. Sighing Logan walked out of Remy's room and into his room. For hours Logan lay looking up at the ceiling, thinking about the conversation between him and Rita the morning before. "It seems I've lost her for good" Logan sat aloud to himself.
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Logan spent the night thinking about the things he had done with Rita over the past few months, and the fact that he had indeed lied to her. What Rita didn't know was that he had lied twice. He didn't go to New York City he went to New Jersey to see an old computer hacker he used to know. Logan wanted more back ground information on Rita, where she came from, if she was born in New York City where they found her. He had found out that she was born in Hyères, France and had lived there for eight years. On her eighth birthday her parents died and so did her twin sister, and two other brothers. They were both twins, it said that her family died in an assault from a nearby gang. Shortly after Rita moved to Paris for two years to be with foster parents but when she was ten her foster parents had died in a car accident. From there Rita moved to New York City to live with other foster parents where she must have met her best friend, Logan figured. Six years later Rita's powers began to show the first was a day a few weeks before Christmas her alarm clock had just suddenly set fire when Rita woke up, even though she wanted to sleep more. A year after that was when they found her and there was no more information after that.
"Her life was so messed up, then she trusted me and I let her down." Logan said more to himself then thin air. "I need to learn more about her life, more then I found out before."
Logan stood up and walked to the study, sitting down at the computer. The dead silence of the night was broken by the sound of the internet dial up. 'You are now connected' brought Logan to life as he turned to face the screen of the computer.
Logan remembered a few hacking tricks that his friend had showed him days before. Logan did as his friend had done and a list of names came up for back ground info. To narrow down the search Logan entered Cromwell, Rita, and told the computer to look only for living people. What he found was more then even he wanted to find about her. The people who had died on Rita's eighth birthday weren't even her real parents. Her real parents had died when she was 2; her brothers were only 3 months old. The foster parents that had died when she was eight were just people who had taken her, her sister, and her brothers into their house. When Rita moved to New York to live with new foster parents her sister and brothers stayed behind in France. The newest foster parents were badly in debt when Rita was 15 but they never told her. One day when Rita got home from school she found her foster parents dead in the living room. Parents had never been good for her and yet again she got new parents because she was under the age of 18. Finally after real parents and 4 sets of foster parents, people from the Xavier School for Gifted Youngsters took her away to the school, after that no more information was found. Logan then looked in the DMV records, assuming she got a drivers license, he found her record. She got a license when she turned 17, Rita got into one accident but it was another driver's fault. She crash was sever and broke her left arm and fractured her right wrist. She healed right before Logan had brought her back to the institute.
Logan began to drift off to sleep by the time his search was done. He had found out so much about her that he never would have known. He could also figure out why she was so mad about what he did. She was hurt all those times and he hurt her again. Logan realized why she made such a big deal about one little lie. It was because people lied and withheld information from her all her life, how could she not be mad this time. Logan walked back to his room, he had never understood his past therefore he didn't tell it to her but her past hurt so much she wouldn't tell him. Losing so many people who cared about her.
But he had indeed looked for her brothers and sister. Her twin sister Julie had died two years ago, Rita was never told about the death of her sister and both her brothers Josh, and Jack were dead as well. He had found out that they had been given new American names because the first foster parents used to live in America and moved to France.
So many deaths in her life, more then needed for a young 17 year old girl could ever handle. Logan didn't even have to deal with that many deaths and he didn't want to lose Rita either. Plus he didn't want Rita to lose him. All night Logan waited for any sound but none came. At 6:21 A.M he heard a noise on the roof. Logan jumped off his bed and climbed to the roof, there he saw Rita sitting on the edge of the roof right over Logan's room, she hugged herself tightly with her arms and wrapped her delicate wings around her body, thought she still wept. "You came back" Logan said, startling her, Rita fell off the edge of the roof and her wings opened up and kept her safe.
"I didn't come back for you, I came back for a bed to sleep in" Rita said as she glared at Logan. She tried to fly past him to her own balcony but Logan's strong arms caught her.
"Please don't leave again, I'm sorry about what I did but I couldn't tell you the truth, I still can't tell you now." Logan said but Rita still got away from his grip and flew away again, not stopping at the balcony. Logan sighed knowing that he drove her away again. Logan feared for her health and the baby's health. Rita hadn't slept for at least 30 hours Logan knew that and went back to his room, sleeping against his own will.
Translations- (French to English)
Bonjour cher- hello dear
Que amusant, un sud garçon démons parle français- how amusing, a southern boy that speaks french
Vous parle français, fille- you speak french, girl ?
De cours, je habiter dans France pour dix année- of course, i lived in France for ten years.
Remy non aimer démons attitude de vous. Alors arrêter être ainsi arrogant, belle- Remy no like that attitude of yours. Now stop being so arrogant.
Par le voie, vous petite amie avoir etre l'air pour vous entire jour- by the way, your girlfriend has been looking for you all day
Merde, je avoir à siege si elle etre eveille- shit, I have to see if she is awake
Je suis fatigue droit alors, bon soir enfer ange- I am tired right now, good night hell angel