Logan looked at Kristine for a moment not knowing what to say. The
woman obviously knew a great deal about his past, but was it genuine; that
was the question. He figured he would have to listen to what she had to
say before he made up his mind. She obviously went through a great deal to
get there.
"OUR?" Logan exasperated.
"Don't you remember?"
"I have no memory of my life before the experiment." Logan revealed to her. Kristine looked as though she stopped breathing as those words sunk into her. She looked down and away from Logan so that he could not see more tears fall from her eyes.
"Experiment?" Kristine questioned as she continued to look away.
"Yea," Logan grumbled as he extended his claws to show her. Scared, she jumped back.
"Who did this to you?" Kristine said with tears in her eyes.
"I don't know," Logan, told her. Kristine moved closer to him, took his hand, and examined the metal.
"Adamantium." Kristine said in shock.
"OK, I want you to start from the beginning," Logan insisted, "Who you are, what we were; everything." Kristine swallowed hard before taking a deep breath.
"I'm originally from Montana, but after a series of hate crimes against me, I moved into Alberta when I was 19. While I was applying for citizenship, I read on some job opportunities with their government. So, when I talked to someone about employment, they told me that they have wonderful opportunities for mutants." Kristine started.
"Canada's acceptance of mutants was always outstanding." Logan nodded, "Especially in government."
"Well, I was recruited for S.H.I.E.L.D."
"S.H.I.E.L.D?" Logan said in shock.
"It was just forming, Fury wasn't even in the picture, but you were." Kristine smiled, "I had never met someone so eager to beat the shit out of something." Logan laughed at her comment, "So we went through their extensive training regimen, and I emerged, what you called, The American Psycho." Again, Logan laughed out loud as Kristine opened her backpack and pulled out her cigarettes and lit one quickly, "We didn't see much of each other after that, until about 4 years later." She sighed, "Stuff happened and I fell in love with you."
"Stuff happened?" Logan eyed her, "I have no memory of my life before the experiment, and all you're going to tell me is stuff happened?"
"It's not important at this moment in time," Kristine snapped at him.
"Maybe not for you?" Logan told her.
"Ok, we hated each other, and when I say hate, I mean we wanted to kill each other." Kristine told him, "So when we were paired up for a project, we were less than thrilled, in fact you almost quit."
"I can't imagine why?" Logan growled.
"Well you didn't quit, and we made our way to Russia." She sighed as she continued to smoke, "We were trying to infiltrate their government agencies because our spies there informed us of Omega Red and his capabilities, and we, you and me, two people who would have taken delight in seeing the other bleed to death, went to stop a mad man."
"Why did we hate each other?"
"I don't know why you hated me, but I thought you were an arrogant, uncouth, mannerless mountain man." Kristine said with a bit of spite.
"So what happened then that lead to you and I having children together?" Logan asked with a half smile.
"When we were in Russia, I saw a different side of you." Kristine smiled, "We were undercover as a honeymooning couple. I think our superiors thought it'd be funny." She smirked spitefully, "But, I had gotten word, while we were there, that my parents and my sister had been murdered in Montana. Someone had chained them to the living room floors and set my family's home ablaze."
"Biggots." Logan growled.
"But we had to put our mission on hold for almost two weeks because I couldn't function." Kristine said, "I drank so much and I hoped for death. But it was you that beat some sense into me," Kristine smiled, "then cleaned my wounds and held me until I couldn't cry anymore. The next day we went back to work a better team."
"Did we get what went to Russia for?" Logan asked.
"We got more out of it than we even bargained for." Kristine replied, "Because not only did we get the information on Omega Red, we found a revolutionary new metal called Adamantium." Just then, the professor, in their heads, interrupted Kristine and Logan's time.
"Sorry for the interruption, but I need to see you both." The professor told them.
"Come on, I'll show you were to go." Logan said as he helped Kristine to her feet.
Logan walked with her to the professor's office. When Kristine walked into the office, she stopped in her tracks as she came face to face with the former X23 who was standing next to the professor. Kristine was breathless as she looked at the young woman before her. The eyes that she had only seen once in her life rendered the traveler speechless.
"Is there something wrong?" Charles asked her. Kristine blinked a few times before snapping out of it.
"Sorry, I just had déjà vu." Kristine lied, "Did you find them?" She choked out.
"I did, in a base in Northern Alberta." He revealed, "They're alright for the moment, their powers are hindered at the moment, but Cerebro found the boy when he tried to use his powers less than an hour ago. It didn't take me to much longer to find the girl. She seems a bit weak."
"Professor tells me that Hyrda," X23 growled out, "took your children. I want to help you get them back."
"Absolutely not, Kid," Logan cut in, "I'm not letting you walk back into their hands."
"I don't think there is anything you can do to stop me." X23 smirked back. Kristine watched the two argue with a confused look.
"Kristine," The professor started, "X23 was a project of Hyrda's for many years. She is an engineered clone, of sorts, of Logan."
"A clone?" Kristine asked, "So you're mutation is an exact replica of Logan? You'll get along with Lane." Kristine told her, "That's her ability."
"She's like me?" Logan cut in.
"Bone claws and all."
"What about the boy?" Charles asked.
"James is gifted with the ability to connect himself with any electronic device, like computers, and retrieve the information on them. He can also control them; bring them to life. He is able transfer himself from computer to computer, things like that, through the wiring."
"Interesting." Charles commented, "I'm anxious to meet him."
"Kristine, what is the full extent of your abilities?" Logan asked.
"I can synch onto any mutant ability I want, but the mutant has to be with in a mile of me." Kristine admitted.
"What wrong with Lane?" Logan asked.
"She's weak, from what I don't know. But, at current they are in no immediate danger. They are being held as captives in."
"Fort McMurry?" Kristine said as though she had a revealation.
"Yes."
"You don't think that they would be trying the Weapon X project on her do you?" Logan asked Charles.
"That I don't know."
"What's Weapon X?" Kristine asked. Logan, Charles and X23 looked at her not really knowing how to answer her question. Finally, X23 answered her.
"It was the process of experimentation that did this to me." The girl answered as she showed her own set of claws. Kristine covered her mouth with one hand as she took one of the girl's hands into her own.
"They did this to you too?" Kristine trembled. X23 looked confused at the emotion that Kristine was releasing, "I kill them for this." She growled a she stood up.
"Try and remain calm, we will help you, but you have to let me find more information." Charles assured her, "Perhaps you should rest for a while."
"I can't rest now. My children are in danger." Kristine cried out.
"Please, shower, rest, something, but remain calm." The professor told her, "Now if you'll excuse me, I have much to do." Kristine got up and walked out of the office, half tempted to just leave and get her children on her own.
"Don't even think about it." Logan said as he walked up behind her, with X23.
"What?" she replied.
"I've got this funny feeling that you're going to take off and go after them yourself." Logan smirked at her.
"The bulk of Hyrda is tough; even I couldn't take them alone." X23 admitted.
"I know, I already tried, that's how I ended up in a coma for a week." Kristine said, "I don't know who these people are, what they do, where they came from, and I don't care. What I do care about is that these people have ruined too many lives, I intend on repaying them for that pleasure."
Logan had found Kristine a room a few doors down from his own. After the hell she had been through in the past two weeks, she wanted to do nothing more than sleep. But every time she tried all she could think about was her children and the danger they could be in. Then there was X23, so familiar, the eyes of that child seemed to burn her heart. Sleep was not an option; so instead, she sat in a chair and watched as the sun set over the horizon and night cover the sky. It was nearing midnight now, and the waiting was killing her. She got up and finally left her room. She quietly walked around the mansion trying to clear her head. She walked into the kitchen to find X23 sitting at the table eating an apple.
"Hello." Kristine greeted, "What's your name?"
"I don't have one." The girl told her, "I was Hydra's weapon, so they called me X23."
"X23?" Kristine asked with angered eyes, "These people, who are they?"
"They're spies, but even to me, their true purpose goes unknown." The girl told her.
"Kristine," came a soft voice from behind them, Kristine's heart stopped at the sound of his voice, "how are you feeling?"
"No better, no worse." She replied, as X23 stood up.
"I'm going to bed," the girl told her, "Let me know if you need anything."
"We'll talk again soon." Kristine smiled as she watched the girl exit the kitchen, "She's like a daughter to you?"
"I'm the closest thing she has to family." Logan replied.
"A lot closer than you think." Kristine whispered to herself.
"Did you get any rest?"
"Logan, how can I sleep when Lane and James are where they are?" Kristine snapped at him.
"You hungry?"
"Yes." Kristine replied.
"Come on then, I know a diner with killer Fish n' Chips." Logan smirked at her.
"How did you.." Kristine started, but stopped herself with a smile.
"What?"
"Nothing." She laughed as she stood up and followed Logan out of the kitchen, "Do they have malt vinegar?"
A few hours later Kristine and Logan found themselves at an all night diner in town. Logan spent a good part of the time asking Kristine about their children and what they were like. Kristine's laughter at some of the stories she relayed was contagious, because Logan too had found himself laughing.
"Logan, when I met you, you didn't trust anyone, not even me. Why is that you're trusting me now?" Kristine asked, "I could be full of shit."
"Generally, when someone is lying, they're a bit tense, and I can smell it." Logan relayed, "You're not tense from lying, you're tense with worry. I don't know if what you've told me is true or not, but I'd like to find out."
"That's right." Kristine nodded as she remembered his abilities, "You can sense it."
"Are you up to finishing where we left our conversation earlier?" Logan asked, "If you're not ready to, I understand."
"I supposed," Kristine sighed, "So where were we?"
"Discovery of Adamantium."
"Right," Kristine sighed with a heavy heart, "We found this metal. Our government starting working on ways to manipulate this metal. We were the first to test it with bulletproof vests and other weapons. Somewhere in all this, I fell in love with you."
"You fell in love with me?"
"I know it sounds stupid," Kristine half smiled, "I was 23 years old, you were twice my age, maybe older, who knows, I didn't even care. But, we had finally become friends and I was enjoying just being your friend, your lack of manners didn't even bother me any more. I didn't know what was wrong with me. But it's funny what liquor and lack of inhibitions can do to a couple of friends." She sighed
"I can only imagine." Logan smirked, Kristine smiled and looked into her coffee.
"Later that year, I found out I was 3 months pregnant." Kristine told him as she lit a cigarette.
"Not to sound rude, but you're sure they're mine?" Logan asked her. Kristine smiled at him.
"There wasn't anyone else, and there hasn't been since you left." Kristine replied sadly.
"You loved me that much?"
"Our relationship was something that just happened, we couldn't even explain it." Kristine smiled, "I know you thought of it as a friends with benefits situation, but I told you not too long after it started that I was in love with you." Kristine sighed again, "When I told you I was pregnant, you were so excited. You demanded that I quit my job, which I would not do, at least not right away." Kristine said, "Towards the end of my pregnancy, while I was on maternity leave, you moved into my apartment. One morning you left for work and never came back. It wasn't uncommon for this to happen, but after three weeks of sleeping alone, I started to worry. I went to headquarters to find out what was going on and our offices were in chaos. I really wasn't sure what was going on, but I was told that you were MIA and our commander, along with the rest of our full team, had been killed."
"I guess I was captured," Logan answered her, "I really don't know."
"I was a week over due when I went back to work. S.H.I.E.L.D brought in Fury and I was supposed to show him the ropes. He helped me deliver James and Lane. After they were born, I quit my job in government, severed my ties with S.H.I.E.L.D. and moved to Windsor to become a waitress. The first year or two after you were gone, are a big haze for me. Between raising my children and my own issues, I don't remember a lot." Kristine sighed.
"I don't know what to say," Logan said, "This is the first thing I've ever learned about my life and I don't know whether or not to believe you."
"I understand," Kristine said.
"What brought you to the school?" Logan asked.
"After the kids were taken, I tried to break into an old military base that Hydra operates out of north of Toronto." Kristine said, "but I was unsuccessful."
"I guess so."
"I knew I needed help, I couldn't go to S.H.I.E.L.D. and I'll be damned if I'm going to ask Vindicator and his gang of schmucks for help, but I had heard about Xavier and his school and I thought maybe he could help me." Kristine smiled, "I never thought in my life I would find you there and alive."
"I've been having dreams about you for the past 3 weeks." Logan revealed, "I had one the night you showed up on our door."
"Me?"
"Yes, dreams about you fighting for your life, dreams about you crying, and none of them made any sense." Logan told her.
"I've cried for you for every night for 15 years, Logan." Kristine admitted, "I wanted so hard to believe that you were alive but, if you were, I was sure that you would have found me." A few stray tears found their way to her cheeks as she bared her soul to her former lover. But, a warm hand found its way to her cheek to wipe them away.
"Well, I'm here now, and I promise you, we're going to get back our children." Logan said as he took hold of her hand and held it tightly in his own. Kristine did not tell him, but her heart melted as she heard him refer to James and Lane as their children.
"OUR?" Logan exasperated.
"Don't you remember?"
"I have no memory of my life before the experiment." Logan revealed to her. Kristine looked as though she stopped breathing as those words sunk into her. She looked down and away from Logan so that he could not see more tears fall from her eyes.
"Experiment?" Kristine questioned as she continued to look away.
"Yea," Logan grumbled as he extended his claws to show her. Scared, she jumped back.
"Who did this to you?" Kristine said with tears in her eyes.
"I don't know," Logan, told her. Kristine moved closer to him, took his hand, and examined the metal.
"Adamantium." Kristine said in shock.
"OK, I want you to start from the beginning," Logan insisted, "Who you are, what we were; everything." Kristine swallowed hard before taking a deep breath.
"I'm originally from Montana, but after a series of hate crimes against me, I moved into Alberta when I was 19. While I was applying for citizenship, I read on some job opportunities with their government. So, when I talked to someone about employment, they told me that they have wonderful opportunities for mutants." Kristine started.
"Canada's acceptance of mutants was always outstanding." Logan nodded, "Especially in government."
"Well, I was recruited for S.H.I.E.L.D."
"S.H.I.E.L.D?" Logan said in shock.
"It was just forming, Fury wasn't even in the picture, but you were." Kristine smiled, "I had never met someone so eager to beat the shit out of something." Logan laughed at her comment, "So we went through their extensive training regimen, and I emerged, what you called, The American Psycho." Again, Logan laughed out loud as Kristine opened her backpack and pulled out her cigarettes and lit one quickly, "We didn't see much of each other after that, until about 4 years later." She sighed, "Stuff happened and I fell in love with you."
"Stuff happened?" Logan eyed her, "I have no memory of my life before the experiment, and all you're going to tell me is stuff happened?"
"It's not important at this moment in time," Kristine snapped at him.
"Maybe not for you?" Logan told her.
"Ok, we hated each other, and when I say hate, I mean we wanted to kill each other." Kristine told him, "So when we were paired up for a project, we were less than thrilled, in fact you almost quit."
"I can't imagine why?" Logan growled.
"Well you didn't quit, and we made our way to Russia." She sighed as she continued to smoke, "We were trying to infiltrate their government agencies because our spies there informed us of Omega Red and his capabilities, and we, you and me, two people who would have taken delight in seeing the other bleed to death, went to stop a mad man."
"Why did we hate each other?"
"I don't know why you hated me, but I thought you were an arrogant, uncouth, mannerless mountain man." Kristine said with a bit of spite.
"So what happened then that lead to you and I having children together?" Logan asked with a half smile.
"When we were in Russia, I saw a different side of you." Kristine smiled, "We were undercover as a honeymooning couple. I think our superiors thought it'd be funny." She smirked spitefully, "But, I had gotten word, while we were there, that my parents and my sister had been murdered in Montana. Someone had chained them to the living room floors and set my family's home ablaze."
"Biggots." Logan growled.
"But we had to put our mission on hold for almost two weeks because I couldn't function." Kristine said, "I drank so much and I hoped for death. But it was you that beat some sense into me," Kristine smiled, "then cleaned my wounds and held me until I couldn't cry anymore. The next day we went back to work a better team."
"Did we get what went to Russia for?" Logan asked.
"We got more out of it than we even bargained for." Kristine replied, "Because not only did we get the information on Omega Red, we found a revolutionary new metal called Adamantium." Just then, the professor, in their heads, interrupted Kristine and Logan's time.
"Sorry for the interruption, but I need to see you both." The professor told them.
"Come on, I'll show you were to go." Logan said as he helped Kristine to her feet.
Logan walked with her to the professor's office. When Kristine walked into the office, she stopped in her tracks as she came face to face with the former X23 who was standing next to the professor. Kristine was breathless as she looked at the young woman before her. The eyes that she had only seen once in her life rendered the traveler speechless.
"Is there something wrong?" Charles asked her. Kristine blinked a few times before snapping out of it.
"Sorry, I just had déjà vu." Kristine lied, "Did you find them?" She choked out.
"I did, in a base in Northern Alberta." He revealed, "They're alright for the moment, their powers are hindered at the moment, but Cerebro found the boy when he tried to use his powers less than an hour ago. It didn't take me to much longer to find the girl. She seems a bit weak."
"Professor tells me that Hyrda," X23 growled out, "took your children. I want to help you get them back."
"Absolutely not, Kid," Logan cut in, "I'm not letting you walk back into their hands."
"I don't think there is anything you can do to stop me." X23 smirked back. Kristine watched the two argue with a confused look.
"Kristine," The professor started, "X23 was a project of Hyrda's for many years. She is an engineered clone, of sorts, of Logan."
"A clone?" Kristine asked, "So you're mutation is an exact replica of Logan? You'll get along with Lane." Kristine told her, "That's her ability."
"She's like me?" Logan cut in.
"Bone claws and all."
"What about the boy?" Charles asked.
"James is gifted with the ability to connect himself with any electronic device, like computers, and retrieve the information on them. He can also control them; bring them to life. He is able transfer himself from computer to computer, things like that, through the wiring."
"Interesting." Charles commented, "I'm anxious to meet him."
"Kristine, what is the full extent of your abilities?" Logan asked.
"I can synch onto any mutant ability I want, but the mutant has to be with in a mile of me." Kristine admitted.
"What wrong with Lane?" Logan asked.
"She's weak, from what I don't know. But, at current they are in no immediate danger. They are being held as captives in."
"Fort McMurry?" Kristine said as though she had a revealation.
"Yes."
"You don't think that they would be trying the Weapon X project on her do you?" Logan asked Charles.
"That I don't know."
"What's Weapon X?" Kristine asked. Logan, Charles and X23 looked at her not really knowing how to answer her question. Finally, X23 answered her.
"It was the process of experimentation that did this to me." The girl answered as she showed her own set of claws. Kristine covered her mouth with one hand as she took one of the girl's hands into her own.
"They did this to you too?" Kristine trembled. X23 looked confused at the emotion that Kristine was releasing, "I kill them for this." She growled a she stood up.
"Try and remain calm, we will help you, but you have to let me find more information." Charles assured her, "Perhaps you should rest for a while."
"I can't rest now. My children are in danger." Kristine cried out.
"Please, shower, rest, something, but remain calm." The professor told her, "Now if you'll excuse me, I have much to do." Kristine got up and walked out of the office, half tempted to just leave and get her children on her own.
"Don't even think about it." Logan said as he walked up behind her, with X23.
"What?" she replied.
"I've got this funny feeling that you're going to take off and go after them yourself." Logan smirked at her.
"The bulk of Hyrda is tough; even I couldn't take them alone." X23 admitted.
"I know, I already tried, that's how I ended up in a coma for a week." Kristine said, "I don't know who these people are, what they do, where they came from, and I don't care. What I do care about is that these people have ruined too many lives, I intend on repaying them for that pleasure."
Logan had found Kristine a room a few doors down from his own. After the hell she had been through in the past two weeks, she wanted to do nothing more than sleep. But every time she tried all she could think about was her children and the danger they could be in. Then there was X23, so familiar, the eyes of that child seemed to burn her heart. Sleep was not an option; so instead, she sat in a chair and watched as the sun set over the horizon and night cover the sky. It was nearing midnight now, and the waiting was killing her. She got up and finally left her room. She quietly walked around the mansion trying to clear her head. She walked into the kitchen to find X23 sitting at the table eating an apple.
"Hello." Kristine greeted, "What's your name?"
"I don't have one." The girl told her, "I was Hydra's weapon, so they called me X23."
"X23?" Kristine asked with angered eyes, "These people, who are they?"
"They're spies, but even to me, their true purpose goes unknown." The girl told her.
"Kristine," came a soft voice from behind them, Kristine's heart stopped at the sound of his voice, "how are you feeling?"
"No better, no worse." She replied, as X23 stood up.
"I'm going to bed," the girl told her, "Let me know if you need anything."
"We'll talk again soon." Kristine smiled as she watched the girl exit the kitchen, "She's like a daughter to you?"
"I'm the closest thing she has to family." Logan replied.
"A lot closer than you think." Kristine whispered to herself.
"Did you get any rest?"
"Logan, how can I sleep when Lane and James are where they are?" Kristine snapped at him.
"You hungry?"
"Yes." Kristine replied.
"Come on then, I know a diner with killer Fish n' Chips." Logan smirked at her.
"How did you.." Kristine started, but stopped herself with a smile.
"What?"
"Nothing." She laughed as she stood up and followed Logan out of the kitchen, "Do they have malt vinegar?"
A few hours later Kristine and Logan found themselves at an all night diner in town. Logan spent a good part of the time asking Kristine about their children and what they were like. Kristine's laughter at some of the stories she relayed was contagious, because Logan too had found himself laughing.
"Logan, when I met you, you didn't trust anyone, not even me. Why is that you're trusting me now?" Kristine asked, "I could be full of shit."
"Generally, when someone is lying, they're a bit tense, and I can smell it." Logan relayed, "You're not tense from lying, you're tense with worry. I don't know if what you've told me is true or not, but I'd like to find out."
"That's right." Kristine nodded as she remembered his abilities, "You can sense it."
"Are you up to finishing where we left our conversation earlier?" Logan asked, "If you're not ready to, I understand."
"I supposed," Kristine sighed, "So where were we?"
"Discovery of Adamantium."
"Right," Kristine sighed with a heavy heart, "We found this metal. Our government starting working on ways to manipulate this metal. We were the first to test it with bulletproof vests and other weapons. Somewhere in all this, I fell in love with you."
"You fell in love with me?"
"I know it sounds stupid," Kristine half smiled, "I was 23 years old, you were twice my age, maybe older, who knows, I didn't even care. But, we had finally become friends and I was enjoying just being your friend, your lack of manners didn't even bother me any more. I didn't know what was wrong with me. But it's funny what liquor and lack of inhibitions can do to a couple of friends." She sighed
"I can only imagine." Logan smirked, Kristine smiled and looked into her coffee.
"Later that year, I found out I was 3 months pregnant." Kristine told him as she lit a cigarette.
"Not to sound rude, but you're sure they're mine?" Logan asked her. Kristine smiled at him.
"There wasn't anyone else, and there hasn't been since you left." Kristine replied sadly.
"You loved me that much?"
"Our relationship was something that just happened, we couldn't even explain it." Kristine smiled, "I know you thought of it as a friends with benefits situation, but I told you not too long after it started that I was in love with you." Kristine sighed again, "When I told you I was pregnant, you were so excited. You demanded that I quit my job, which I would not do, at least not right away." Kristine said, "Towards the end of my pregnancy, while I was on maternity leave, you moved into my apartment. One morning you left for work and never came back. It wasn't uncommon for this to happen, but after three weeks of sleeping alone, I started to worry. I went to headquarters to find out what was going on and our offices were in chaos. I really wasn't sure what was going on, but I was told that you were MIA and our commander, along with the rest of our full team, had been killed."
"I guess I was captured," Logan answered her, "I really don't know."
"I was a week over due when I went back to work. S.H.I.E.L.D brought in Fury and I was supposed to show him the ropes. He helped me deliver James and Lane. After they were born, I quit my job in government, severed my ties with S.H.I.E.L.D. and moved to Windsor to become a waitress. The first year or two after you were gone, are a big haze for me. Between raising my children and my own issues, I don't remember a lot." Kristine sighed.
"I don't know what to say," Logan said, "This is the first thing I've ever learned about my life and I don't know whether or not to believe you."
"I understand," Kristine said.
"What brought you to the school?" Logan asked.
"After the kids were taken, I tried to break into an old military base that Hydra operates out of north of Toronto." Kristine said, "but I was unsuccessful."
"I guess so."
"I knew I needed help, I couldn't go to S.H.I.E.L.D. and I'll be damned if I'm going to ask Vindicator and his gang of schmucks for help, but I had heard about Xavier and his school and I thought maybe he could help me." Kristine smiled, "I never thought in my life I would find you there and alive."
"I've been having dreams about you for the past 3 weeks." Logan revealed, "I had one the night you showed up on our door."
"Me?"
"Yes, dreams about you fighting for your life, dreams about you crying, and none of them made any sense." Logan told her.
"I've cried for you for every night for 15 years, Logan." Kristine admitted, "I wanted so hard to believe that you were alive but, if you were, I was sure that you would have found me." A few stray tears found their way to her cheeks as she bared her soul to her former lover. But, a warm hand found its way to her cheek to wipe them away.
"Well, I'm here now, and I promise you, we're going to get back our children." Logan said as he took hold of her hand and held it tightly in his own. Kristine did not tell him, but her heart melted as she heard him refer to James and Lane as their children.