Time Stands Still
Chapter 4- Bring me to life...
Rayne stretched out on the firm mattress below her, thinking of the events that had happened in the past few days. The horrid attack at the warehouse, Logan saving her and a few other runaway mutants, coming to this school as sanctuary.it was all blissful-especially the whole Logan aspect.
The door to a connecting room opened, revealing an almost naked Logan standing on the threshold of the bathroom. He was clad in nothing but a towel-and he was practically dripping wet.
"Hey," she said, a sweet smile stretched across her lips. "Last night was amazing." The feral mutant took two steps forward, the white towel slipping a few inches off his waist each time he moved.
"You weren't so bad yourself," Logan lean across the bed and kissed Rayne passionately on the lips.
Knock, knock.
'Oh, no,' Rayne thought, wanting to go back to her dream, but was harshly forced back to the reality that she was all alone. Her eyes fluttered open and her foggy vision took in her surroundings. 'Still in Logan's room,' she thought with a giddy pleasure. After the tour of the mansion, Logan thought it best for her to just rest here in his room, rather than face the students in the midst of her fatigue. Rayne had a feeling it also had to do with these two girls who gave her the evil eye when seeing her arm-in-arm with Logan.
"Yeah," She sat up, and stretched her waking limbs. The door opened and it was a girl there around her age with elbow length gloves on and two distinguishable streaks of white hair in the front of her head.
"Rogue right?" Rayne got up to greet the girl who stood rigidly in the doorway.
"I'm Rayne, it's nice to meet you." Rayne offered her hand and smiled toothfully, trying to make peace with Rogue. The girl just stared at her hand as if it were diseased.
"That's nice, but Ah was lookin' for Logan. Bah." Rogue turned on her heel and stalked down the hallway.
"Well Rayne, that was an excellent start. I didn't know my social kills were that off." Rayne leaned against the doorway, a single tear falling out of her silvery eye.
She heard a 'BAMF' noise and a man who was slightly taller than her. He was covered from head to toe in a gorgeous blue fur, golden eyes, fanged teeth- and a certain charm that seemed to show through his looks, making him seem less like the first impression of a demon and more like a charming, flirty man who didn't seem to care what the world thought of his appearance.
"Guten Tag, Rayne. I am Kurt Wagner," He said bowing slightly. "I am here to see if you would like to meet some people, and possibly check up on your friend Joshua."
Rayne smiled. This guy was amazing. She new him for not even a minute and she liked him already. "That'd be great."
"All right. If you would just hold onto me, we'll be down there before you know it." Rayne complied and closed her eyes. She'd heard of mutants with teleportation powers but, she was a little afraid for it being her first time.
After a slight disorientation of adjusting to where she was, Rayne felt fine, normal. She hugged Kurt and thanked him before she allowed him to introduce her to the other teenagers in the medical labs.
"This, is Lyra Bloom," Kurt said notably with a smile. Rayne smiled at Lyra as she took in her appearance in full. The girl was covered in tawny colored fur, she looked mostly human apart from her pointed ears, feet which are paw-like (And are even equipped with retractable claws), fanged canine teeth, and tail which looked around 3 to 3 ½ feet long. Her hair was chin length and a dark reddish color and her eyes were an amber color. Rayne came to the conclusion quickly that this girl had the same kind of air about her as Kurt did-that she did not care what anyone else thought about her appearance.
"I'm Rayne, it's nice to meet you."
"Yeah, we sorta met before," Lyra said offering a toothy smile. "I was a little busy fighting off those hunters." Rayne titled her head slightly, and after a moment her eyes widened in dawning recognition.
"You're the one who started that fire!?!?! And-! I saw you fighting, you were amazing!" Lyra smiled again, and Rayne swore she saw a faint hint of color rise in her cheeks.
"Aw, it was nothing. It was pretty impressive how you took out a whole group of them with one surge of lightning--" Lyra stopped as she, Rayne and Kurt looked up at Scott who had just cleared his throat.
"Yes?" Lyra snarled almost in a growl at the interruption.
"Just letting you all know," Cyclops gave a significant yet unnecessary look at Kurt. "That the professor said that dinner will be ready at exactly seven o'clock so do not-I repeat, do not be late." With that, the X-men's 'leader' left the room.
"Okay, there goes Xavier's little bitch," a voice said from behind Rayne that startled her. She turned around fully and saw a boy that was taller than she with short spikey black hair and bright hazel eyes.
"Ja," Kurt said followed by a slight cough. "And this here fellow is Jarrod."
"Nice to meet you," Rayne said.
"Ditto," Jarrod said rather half-mindedly before glancing back at the door. "Just wondering, has anyone else noticed that he spends way too much time alone with the professor? I mean, whenever he leaves, he's always going to 'meet' the professor in his office."
They all burst into laughter, Rayne couldn't remember when she was happier. A few minutes later they all went upstairs to the living room where a few people where watching television.
"Hey," a man with blondish-brown hair and icy blue eyes around Rayne's own age said as the four of them entered the room, irrevocably forcing everyone else to look up as well. Next to the welcomer (who was of course Bobby Drake, the ice-wielder of whom Logan had introduced her to) was Rogue, her face souring as she laid eyes upon Rayne and almost protectively grabbed Bobby. There where only two other people in the room, one being Ororo Monroe who sat on the edge of the arm chair to the same couch that Bobby and Rogue sat, and the other was Rayne's own personal hero (duh, Logan).
"Hey," Logan said, his gaze not shifting from Rayne's as she felt herself blush. She walked over and sat next Bobby since Logan was sitting in a recliner where she would not have been able to have found a place to sit ('beside his lap.' Rayne thought with a smirk curling the edges of her lips). Her other three companions sat on an unoccupied couch with Kurt and Lyra quite close together on one end while Jarrod sat spaced away at the other end.
"How was your rest?" Logan's gruff voice was once again lowered with a touch of softness that made Rayne's heart flutter with sickening delight.
"It was great, your room is so comfortable," Rayne leaned forward, sitting upon the edge of the couch.
"You know what else is comfortable?" Bobby said, apparently trying to be the little jokester once more. Everyone looked over from their conversations in muted silence as Bobby's brow furrowed, apparently he didn't think his joke through. They sat there for about five minutes waiting for him to finish his attempted joke.
"Robert," Hank said from the doorway. "I am ashamed to say that I ever shared a box of Twinkies with you." Everyone, even those who did not know that Twinkies where a large favorite with Robert Drake and Henry McCoy, burst out in almost hysterical laughter. Behind Hank, another girl in her late teens began to enter the room and stopped after seeing the new mutants. After a moment of glaring at Lyra and Rayne, apparently she didn't mind Jarrod being there, the girl walked over so that she was standing beside Rogue who had gotten up after Hank's retort.
Logan leaned over, "That's Kitty Pryde. She's not among one of the favorites around here considering how she blew the elf off." Logan chucked his thumb over to his right to indicate that he was talking about Kurt.
"Was it because how he looks? 'Cause I think he looks fine."
Logan arched an eyebrow, "Well, I know where I stand don't I?"
"No, No I didn't mean it like that! I meant he looks great and it shouldn't bother him if someone could be that stupid not to look below the surface- and you don't stand behind anyone with me."Rayne's eyes got wide and she was talking in such a manner that all her words ran together so even if they did make any sense, no one would understand what she was saying.
Logan laughed. "So, what can you do?" Rayne looked puzzled for a moment and looked a little taken aback. "Your powers?"
"Oh! Sorry, I thought." Rayne took in a measured look of Logan and continued. "Never mind that. Um, I can produce and control electricity, turn invisible.nothing special really."
"Okay, Sparks," Logan said with a smile.
"Sparks?"
"Yeah," Logan took a swing from his coke can. "That's what I'm going to call you. I have this thing where I call people different names.like I call Kurt elf, Professor Chuck.get it? And I thought that Sparks was cute."
"You know, there are at least five other girls here from the 'rescue' mission," Rogue said loudly, arms folded over her chest.
"Yeah I know, what do they think they're going to do? Steal all our guys like these two?" Kitty Pryde returned with the corners of her lips twitching with a smile.
Rayne could hear the faint growl from Lyra across the room where she sat hand in hand with Kurt. Rayne stood up, stretched, and produced a fake yawn.
"Jeez, I'm tired. I don't think I'm all that hungry." Rayne yawned again and turned to Logan, winking once at him. "Would you mind showing me were I can sleep tonight, please?" Rayne toyed with a strand of her hair and bit her lower lip, while Logan just kind of sat there with his right eye brow arched in it's usual manner. Just when Rayne thought that he didn't understand, Logan stood up and lunged at her, seizing her around the waist and hoisted her over his shoulder. Rayne let out a little squeal, almost purely out of delight.
"Hey elf, make sure that no one wake me up in the morning," Logan glanced over his shoulder at Rayne. "I'll be up very, very late tonight."
Hearing a few stifled laughs, Logan marched out of the living room and down the hallway. After he was sure that they were out of hearing range, he placed Rayne back on her feet, and they both burst out in laughter. Rayne stopped, noticing the short distance between them and the fact that Logan didn't remove his hands from her hips.
Logan raised his left hand to brush a few strands of hair out of her face, his hand left stranded, cupping her cheek. 'If this is another dream I'm going to shoot myself,' Rayne managed to think as she looked up slightly into a pair of hazel eyes.
Logan leaned closer to her until their lips met.
sorry 'bout that, didn't really get to edit it I just really wanted to post something and I guess this'll have to do.
To the Reviewers: Eamane-Calmcacil- that was as close as I could get to him being naked.for now he-he!
Jhdafqfeqkafhkdsafnzksdfjaskfhaskjf- Don't worry, they'll be knockin' boots in no time ::wink:: just kidding. PG13 fic!
LadyMorgaine- More Kurt okay? Lol I'll try to work him in more. And not to mention your cameo!!
Also: Lunawolf, Guin, kristendotcom, Thank you for reviewing!!
Chapter 4- Bring me to life...
Rayne stretched out on the firm mattress below her, thinking of the events that had happened in the past few days. The horrid attack at the warehouse, Logan saving her and a few other runaway mutants, coming to this school as sanctuary.it was all blissful-especially the whole Logan aspect.
The door to a connecting room opened, revealing an almost naked Logan standing on the threshold of the bathroom. He was clad in nothing but a towel-and he was practically dripping wet.
"Hey," she said, a sweet smile stretched across her lips. "Last night was amazing." The feral mutant took two steps forward, the white towel slipping a few inches off his waist each time he moved.
"You weren't so bad yourself," Logan lean across the bed and kissed Rayne passionately on the lips.
Knock, knock.
'Oh, no,' Rayne thought, wanting to go back to her dream, but was harshly forced back to the reality that she was all alone. Her eyes fluttered open and her foggy vision took in her surroundings. 'Still in Logan's room,' she thought with a giddy pleasure. After the tour of the mansion, Logan thought it best for her to just rest here in his room, rather than face the students in the midst of her fatigue. Rayne had a feeling it also had to do with these two girls who gave her the evil eye when seeing her arm-in-arm with Logan.
"Yeah," She sat up, and stretched her waking limbs. The door opened and it was a girl there around her age with elbow length gloves on and two distinguishable streaks of white hair in the front of her head.
"Rogue right?" Rayne got up to greet the girl who stood rigidly in the doorway.
"I'm Rayne, it's nice to meet you." Rayne offered her hand and smiled toothfully, trying to make peace with Rogue. The girl just stared at her hand as if it were diseased.
"That's nice, but Ah was lookin' for Logan. Bah." Rogue turned on her heel and stalked down the hallway.
"Well Rayne, that was an excellent start. I didn't know my social kills were that off." Rayne leaned against the doorway, a single tear falling out of her silvery eye.
She heard a 'BAMF' noise and a man who was slightly taller than her. He was covered from head to toe in a gorgeous blue fur, golden eyes, fanged teeth- and a certain charm that seemed to show through his looks, making him seem less like the first impression of a demon and more like a charming, flirty man who didn't seem to care what the world thought of his appearance.
"Guten Tag, Rayne. I am Kurt Wagner," He said bowing slightly. "I am here to see if you would like to meet some people, and possibly check up on your friend Joshua."
Rayne smiled. This guy was amazing. She new him for not even a minute and she liked him already. "That'd be great."
"All right. If you would just hold onto me, we'll be down there before you know it." Rayne complied and closed her eyes. She'd heard of mutants with teleportation powers but, she was a little afraid for it being her first time.
After a slight disorientation of adjusting to where she was, Rayne felt fine, normal. She hugged Kurt and thanked him before she allowed him to introduce her to the other teenagers in the medical labs.
"This, is Lyra Bloom," Kurt said notably with a smile. Rayne smiled at Lyra as she took in her appearance in full. The girl was covered in tawny colored fur, she looked mostly human apart from her pointed ears, feet which are paw-like (And are even equipped with retractable claws), fanged canine teeth, and tail which looked around 3 to 3 ½ feet long. Her hair was chin length and a dark reddish color and her eyes were an amber color. Rayne came to the conclusion quickly that this girl had the same kind of air about her as Kurt did-that she did not care what anyone else thought about her appearance.
"I'm Rayne, it's nice to meet you."
"Yeah, we sorta met before," Lyra said offering a toothy smile. "I was a little busy fighting off those hunters." Rayne titled her head slightly, and after a moment her eyes widened in dawning recognition.
"You're the one who started that fire!?!?! And-! I saw you fighting, you were amazing!" Lyra smiled again, and Rayne swore she saw a faint hint of color rise in her cheeks.
"Aw, it was nothing. It was pretty impressive how you took out a whole group of them with one surge of lightning--" Lyra stopped as she, Rayne and Kurt looked up at Scott who had just cleared his throat.
"Yes?" Lyra snarled almost in a growl at the interruption.
"Just letting you all know," Cyclops gave a significant yet unnecessary look at Kurt. "That the professor said that dinner will be ready at exactly seven o'clock so do not-I repeat, do not be late." With that, the X-men's 'leader' left the room.
"Okay, there goes Xavier's little bitch," a voice said from behind Rayne that startled her. She turned around fully and saw a boy that was taller than she with short spikey black hair and bright hazel eyes.
"Ja," Kurt said followed by a slight cough. "And this here fellow is Jarrod."
"Nice to meet you," Rayne said.
"Ditto," Jarrod said rather half-mindedly before glancing back at the door. "Just wondering, has anyone else noticed that he spends way too much time alone with the professor? I mean, whenever he leaves, he's always going to 'meet' the professor in his office."
They all burst into laughter, Rayne couldn't remember when she was happier. A few minutes later they all went upstairs to the living room where a few people where watching television.
"Hey," a man with blondish-brown hair and icy blue eyes around Rayne's own age said as the four of them entered the room, irrevocably forcing everyone else to look up as well. Next to the welcomer (who was of course Bobby Drake, the ice-wielder of whom Logan had introduced her to) was Rogue, her face souring as she laid eyes upon Rayne and almost protectively grabbed Bobby. There where only two other people in the room, one being Ororo Monroe who sat on the edge of the arm chair to the same couch that Bobby and Rogue sat, and the other was Rayne's own personal hero (duh, Logan).
"Hey," Logan said, his gaze not shifting from Rayne's as she felt herself blush. She walked over and sat next Bobby since Logan was sitting in a recliner where she would not have been able to have found a place to sit ('beside his lap.' Rayne thought with a smirk curling the edges of her lips). Her other three companions sat on an unoccupied couch with Kurt and Lyra quite close together on one end while Jarrod sat spaced away at the other end.
"How was your rest?" Logan's gruff voice was once again lowered with a touch of softness that made Rayne's heart flutter with sickening delight.
"It was great, your room is so comfortable," Rayne leaned forward, sitting upon the edge of the couch.
"You know what else is comfortable?" Bobby said, apparently trying to be the little jokester once more. Everyone looked over from their conversations in muted silence as Bobby's brow furrowed, apparently he didn't think his joke through. They sat there for about five minutes waiting for him to finish his attempted joke.
"Robert," Hank said from the doorway. "I am ashamed to say that I ever shared a box of Twinkies with you." Everyone, even those who did not know that Twinkies where a large favorite with Robert Drake and Henry McCoy, burst out in almost hysterical laughter. Behind Hank, another girl in her late teens began to enter the room and stopped after seeing the new mutants. After a moment of glaring at Lyra and Rayne, apparently she didn't mind Jarrod being there, the girl walked over so that she was standing beside Rogue who had gotten up after Hank's retort.
Logan leaned over, "That's Kitty Pryde. She's not among one of the favorites around here considering how she blew the elf off." Logan chucked his thumb over to his right to indicate that he was talking about Kurt.
"Was it because how he looks? 'Cause I think he looks fine."
Logan arched an eyebrow, "Well, I know where I stand don't I?"
"No, No I didn't mean it like that! I meant he looks great and it shouldn't bother him if someone could be that stupid not to look below the surface- and you don't stand behind anyone with me."Rayne's eyes got wide and she was talking in such a manner that all her words ran together so even if they did make any sense, no one would understand what she was saying.
Logan laughed. "So, what can you do?" Rayne looked puzzled for a moment and looked a little taken aback. "Your powers?"
"Oh! Sorry, I thought." Rayne took in a measured look of Logan and continued. "Never mind that. Um, I can produce and control electricity, turn invisible.nothing special really."
"Okay, Sparks," Logan said with a smile.
"Sparks?"
"Yeah," Logan took a swing from his coke can. "That's what I'm going to call you. I have this thing where I call people different names.like I call Kurt elf, Professor Chuck.get it? And I thought that Sparks was cute."
"You know, there are at least five other girls here from the 'rescue' mission," Rogue said loudly, arms folded over her chest.
"Yeah I know, what do they think they're going to do? Steal all our guys like these two?" Kitty Pryde returned with the corners of her lips twitching with a smile.
Rayne could hear the faint growl from Lyra across the room where she sat hand in hand with Kurt. Rayne stood up, stretched, and produced a fake yawn.
"Jeez, I'm tired. I don't think I'm all that hungry." Rayne yawned again and turned to Logan, winking once at him. "Would you mind showing me were I can sleep tonight, please?" Rayne toyed with a strand of her hair and bit her lower lip, while Logan just kind of sat there with his right eye brow arched in it's usual manner. Just when Rayne thought that he didn't understand, Logan stood up and lunged at her, seizing her around the waist and hoisted her over his shoulder. Rayne let out a little squeal, almost purely out of delight.
"Hey elf, make sure that no one wake me up in the morning," Logan glanced over his shoulder at Rayne. "I'll be up very, very late tonight."
Hearing a few stifled laughs, Logan marched out of the living room and down the hallway. After he was sure that they were out of hearing range, he placed Rayne back on her feet, and they both burst out in laughter. Rayne stopped, noticing the short distance between them and the fact that Logan didn't remove his hands from her hips.
Logan raised his left hand to brush a few strands of hair out of her face, his hand left stranded, cupping her cheek. 'If this is another dream I'm going to shoot myself,' Rayne managed to think as she looked up slightly into a pair of hazel eyes.
Logan leaned closer to her until their lips met.
sorry 'bout that, didn't really get to edit it I just really wanted to post something and I guess this'll have to do.
To the Reviewers: Eamane-Calmcacil- that was as close as I could get to him being naked.for now he-he!
Jhdafqfeqkafhkdsafnzksdfjaskfhaskjf- Don't worry, they'll be knockin' boots in no time ::wink:: just kidding. PG13 fic!
LadyMorgaine- More Kurt okay? Lol I'll try to work him in more. And not to mention your cameo!!
Also: Lunawolf, Guin, kristendotcom, Thank you for reviewing!!
