I DO NOT KNOWN ANY OF THE X-MEN OR ANYTHING RELATED TO THEM.
Chapter 13
After Logan left, Sarah climbed into bed, pulled the covers up and started to weep. Why, she thought, why doesn't he remember me? The one person, the only person I love, doesn't remember me? Why? She racked her brain trying to figure it out until finally cried herself to sleep. Thankfully she did not dream.
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In the next room sleep was not coming easy for Logan either. He lay on his bed staring and the ceiling. She is my wife? How can that be? No, it's not possible, but she is here and the professor says she is telling the truth. There is something familiar about her. But that could be Stryker's doing. But the professor says we met after Stryker. Uh, this is too complicated. Maybe I should sleep? It might make more sense then. Logan got up and turned off the light and then went to sleep.
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Sarah slept for most of the next day. Jean had wanted to wake her up so she could eat, but Logan told her to let Sarah sleep. He said he doubted missing two meals would kill her, and besides there was nothing for her to do. Jean reluctantly let Sarah sleep, but told Logan that she would wake her if she was not up by dinner, and there was nothing he could do about it. Logan had agreed, and then spent most of the day, when he was not teaching, trying to remember something about her, anything about her, but couldn't. By mid-afternoon he found himself alone in the main room starring out the window extremely frustrated. He found in a welcome sight to see Sarah coming up to him around 3 in the afternoon.
"Morning." She said.
"Afternoon." Logan corrected.
"Really," Sarah winced she hadn't meant to sleep that late. "What time is it?"
"About 3."
"Uh," Sarah groaned, "Why did you let me sleep so long?"
"You would have been bored. There's not much going on during the day. Expect for classes. I figured you might as well sleep."
"Thank. I don't remember... Uh, did you sleep well?"
"Yeah, I slept fine." Logan answered, "What don't you remember?"
"It's nothing." Sarah said looking away.
"No, What is it?"
"I was going to say I don't remember when the last time I slept so well but..." Sarah let her voice trail off and looked out the window.
"Oh, I just you didn't get much sleep with Stryker, Huh?"
"No," Sarah answered then looking back to Logan, "Logan?"
"Yeah..."
"Who's Stryker?"
"What?"
"Who's Stryker?" Sarah asked again her voice calm, "I remember hearing the soldiers talking about him and remember then talking about how he was dead. But I never meet him. Who was he?"
"He's the guy who did this." Logan said holding up his fist.
"Oh, sorry." Sarah said then turned to look out the window again.
"It's OK." Logan said, "So if not Stryker, who's waiting for you to return?"
"General Rancor."
"Nice guy?" Logan asked.
"Oh yeah," Sarah said sarcastically, "real nice guy?"
"What did he do?" Logan asked causally
"Hurt me." Her voice low, but steady.
"How?"
"Logan," she said looking at him, "I really don't want to talk about this. Not now."
"O.K. So how did we meet?"
"What?"
"How did we meet? What part of the experiment? Some where else?"
"That's for you to remember. I need someway to know when you remember me."
"I've tried I can't." Logan said Sarah could hear his frustration.
"Give it time." She said calmly.
"How much time." Logan said angrily.
"How should I know?" Sarah shot back, then calming down again. "Sorry, I'm frustrated too."
"I know it's OK...."
"Logan," Scott said entering the room. "Don't you have a class?"
"Yeah, yeah, I'm going. See you later."
"Bye." Sarah said as Logan left the room, then looking at Scott, "Don't you have a class too?"
"No, I'm finished for today."
"Oh," Sarah said then after a few seconds of unsettling silence. "I'm sorry about last night. I..."
Scott cut her off. "It's OK. Logan's first night, he stabbed Rogue through the chest. Luckily, her abilities let her to take Logan's healing abilities for a while and she recovered."
"Rogue?"
"Marie, when she touches someone she takes their abilities and their memories, remember last night. If she holds on too long however she could kill the person."
"Their memories?" Sarah said worried, Was Marie OK?
"Yeah, don't worry. Rumor is she slept last night with no nightmares, so I think she will be OK. How is your wrist?"
"Uh, fine." Sarah said glancing down at it, "Advanced healing remember. You sure Marie will be OK?"
"Yeah she is fine, don't worry." Scott said reassuringly, then turning serious, "Do you have any idea what you are going to do about these soldiers who sent you?"
"No, but I don't think it's me they really want. I think it is Logan."
"What makes you say that?"
"Everything they did to me was so they could get Logan back. They seemed to want him more and I was just a way to get him."
"Why do they want Logan so much?"
"His skeleton." Sarah said bitterly, "They put a lot of money into him and they want to make sure they get their money back."
"Do you know where they are?"
"No," Sarah said sadly, "but maybe there is something in my bag. A bus ticket or something."
"OK, check your bag. The professor wants to have a meeting after dinner bring it to the meeting."
"OK, I'll check later." Sarah said and started to leave the room.
"Check it now!" Scott ordered.
"Why now?" Sarah said she could tell by the shocked look on Scott face that not many people talked back to him, and that he hadn't expected Sarah to be one of them, "The meeting not for a few hours, and besides I'm hungry. I going to find something to eat."
"Fine." Scott said, a little shock, as Sarah left the room.
