I DO NOT KNOWN ANY OF THE X-MEN OR ANYTHING RELATED TO THEM.

Chapter 8

Even though Logan had spent three hours looking for Sarah, he didn't find his wife until he walked into the dining hall to get something to eat. He saw her on the other side of the hall looking for a place to sit down.

"Hey" he said when he finally made his way over to her. "Where have you been?"

"Around." Sarah said, her confidence and control once again back in her face and body posture.

"Where?" Logan relief and anger in his voice, "I looked all around this whole mansion and couldn't find you anywhere. What happened to you outside?"

"I'll explain later." Sarah said. "Can we please just sit and eat now I'm starving."

"Fine." Logan said the anger leaving his voice. "But you will explain later and I want the whole story, and," he said his voice softening, "I want to know where you hid, so I can go there next time Scott wants me to do a favor."

"Fine." Sarah said smiling.

"All right. Wait here a minute and then I'll show you where to sit." Logan said and then went to get his dinner.

Sarah was going to say that she did not need anyone to tell her where to sit, but she thought better of it. She did not what to upset Logan anymore than she had to.

Logan returned shortly and motioned for him to follow him. He led her over to where the professor, Jean, Scott, Storm, and Kurt were sitting. Normally he ate alone, but tonight he thought that if he sat with them he might find out more information from her than if they were alone.

When Logan approached the table they all looked up. They were not used to him sitting with them and wondered what he wanted.

"Uh, hey, got any extra room." Logan asked weakly.

Scott started to say no. But the professor spoke up before he could say anything. "Of course."

"Good." Logan said as he put his tray down then he turned around and grabbed two chairs from a neighboring table and put them between Scott and Storm.

While Logan was doing this Sarah noticed that Kurt was secretly motioning for her to sit next to Storm, so that Logan would be next to Scott. Why he was telling her this she had no idea, but she took his advice.

Logan was surprised by her action, he had intended to have her sit between him and Scott, to sort of keep the peace. However, not to give Scott the upper hand by saying anything and he sat down without saying a word.

Sarah noticed by the expressions on everyone's faces that something had happened, but she did not know what. She waited for someone to talk. To break the uneasy silence that had come over the table. Finally Kurt broke the silence.

"So," he said to Sarah, "where are you from?"

"Um, Joy, Nebraska."

"I've never heard of it." Jean said, "Is it a big town?"

"No, very small. I think only about 1,500 people."

"Have any brothers or sisters?" Kurt asked again

"No. No family," Sarah said. She silently hoped that they would leave her past along. That was one thing she did not want to discuss with them.

Storm was about to ask her how she and Logan had met when suddenly Logan's mashed potatoes hit Sarah's face.

"What the..." Sarah started looking at Logan. Unnoticed by her, and the others at the table, Logan and Scott had been having a mute fight about Logan's sitting next to him. The event that had finally drawn their attention had been the potatoes, but looking at the two it was clear that the two had been at it since Logan had first sat down. Scott's peas were all over Logan's plate and one of the legs of Scott's chair had been sliced off. They looked like a couple of two-year-olds.

Faced with questioning looks by everyone at the table they both gave a 'he-started-it-look' and started to explain. The professor just held up his hand. "I believe we have two volunteers to do dishes." He said angrily. Logan and Scott both looked at each other and then continued eating.

"Hold on." Kurt said to Sarah and then disappeared. When he returned he had a wet washcloth that he offered to Sarah.

"Thank you." Sarah replied, and wiped the potatoes off of her face.

After they where finished eating Jean turned to Sarah and said, "Well since it will take Logan and Scott awhile to do the dishes, why don't we get your examination out of the way?"

"Fine." Sarah said as she got up and followed Jean out of the room and down stairs.

"Now as for you two," the professor said to Logan and Scott. "I don't want to see this childish behavior ever again, understood?"

Both Logan and Scott nodded and then got up to do the dishes.