The next day started off with a beautiful Saturday morning. Most of the mansion's residents took advantage of the opportunity to sleep late, but there were a select few who were already up, making use of the school's massive training complex.

"Guten Morgen, Herr Logan! A pleasure to see you this fine day." Kurt Wagner greeted Logan while he paused on the Olympic still rings he had been working out on.

"Mornin' Elf." Logan replied as he walked into the school's giant gymnasium, holding a rather large duffle bag.

"What is that you are carrying?" Kurt inquired as he jumped down to the mat that covered a good portion of the floor in gym #3.

"This? It's for the lessons I'm givin' Rogue on small arms and weapons training." Logan answered as he took a large pair of swords out of the bag.

"Is that not a bit…extreme?" Kurt asked him.

"Everything we do around here has to be extreme, especially when you consider the kinda scraps that we get into. Rogue's powers don't give her much in the way of offense like some of the other kids. I'm just tryin' to give her an edge when it comes to hand-to-hand fighting." Logan explained, as he held an unlit cigar up to his face in between his fingers.

"Sometimes you act as an over-protective father would when it comes to her." Kurt said as he joked with Logan.

"That's the way it seems, doesn't it? Who would've expected that coming from me, of all people?" Logan replied.

"I think it is very admirable. I just hope that you remember not to push her too hard." Kurt told him.

"Actually, Rogue's surprised me on how fast of a learner she is. She's picking up all of the different types of fightin' techniques I've been showin' her with hardly any problems." Logan explained.

"And that begs the question, where did you learn all of those things?" Kurt continued.

"That's what I've been trying to figure out myself, bub. The Prof's been working with this mess o' memories in my head, but so far all I got is bunch of flashes and glimpses, with no real connection to one another. I can see myself in a variety of places around the world, but it feels like I'm lookin' at postcards from somebody else's vacation." Logan revealed to him.

"That must be very frustrating for you." Kurt replied as he leapt over to the balance beam, with what seemed to be little effort on his part.

"You're tellin' me." Logan agreed.

Over the last few months Logan had opened up to Kurt about his life, telling him things that he hadn't told anyone else, not even Rogue. Logan thought of himself as a loner in life. But he figured that Kurt understood, better than anybody else, what it was like to feel isolated. Logan sensed a kindred spirit in Kurt and he felt that the blue-skinned mutant could understand him in a way that few others could. The two men would spend countless hours training together in the mansion's Danger Room or just sitting around and talking. They discussed Kurt's life growing up in the circus and they talked about the few fragments of Logan's life that he was able to recall. Even though Kurt wasn't much of a drinker, he would on occasion share a beer with Logan. In short, the two men had become friends. As they continued to talk in the training room, they were joined by one of the students of the school, dressed in a sweatshirt and a pair of sweatpants.

"Good Morning Katzen." Kurt greeted her.

"Good Morning Kurt." Kitty replied.

"I didn't expect to see up this early kid?" Logan said to her, "You and Pete were still talkin' in one of the rec rooms when I got in last night, and I know I got in pretty late."

"Yeah, I know. It's just that I wanted to get down here and get my workout over with before everybody else got up and overran this place." Kitty said to Logan and Kurt as she kept walking towards the weight room.

After taking a few more steps, Kitty stopped to look down at the objects that were lying on the floor next to the duffle bag.

"What're these swords doing in here?" She asked.

"I've been givin' Rogue lessons in close-range combat. If you want, I could probably give you some pointers that might come in pretty handy during a fight?" Logan asked her.

"I've already had self-defense lessons, and some other martial arts training." Kitty responded.

"Really? And where'd you get all this heavy training from?" Logan curiously asked her.

"Scott taught me." Kitty replied.

"The Boy-Scout!" Logan exclaimed, "This I gotta see."

Logan then stood back and gave Kitty room so that she could show him what she had learned.

"Okay, here goes!" Kitty said as she got into a traditional fighting stance.

Her demonstration only lasted for a couple of minutes, but once she had finished, Kurt made a comment on her ability.

"Logan, it appears she has taken the words right out of your mouth." Kurt remarked as he crouched down on the balance beam.

"Was that good enough?" Kitty asked Logan. She held her foot completely still, a couple of inches away from Logan's face. She had used perfect form in demonstrating how to deliver a high kick.

"Fine, darlin'. I suppose next time we can spar together, and I can see how good you really are." Logan replied as Kitty lowered her leg back down to the ground. "So, you mean to tell me Summers taught you all of that?"

"Yeah, but you don't have to take my word for it, just ask Scott whenever he comes back. I'm sure he'd be more than happy to give you a personal exhibition." Kitty stated as she confidently continued her journey to the weight room.

Kitty worked out for about an hour and a half and then she made her way back to the girls' wing. She was ready to relax for a while and maybe do some more of her homework, which she was already ahead on. As she walked down the corridor to her room, she stopped when she heard her name being called out.

"Hey Kit-Cat! Why don't cha stop and hang with us for a minute?" Jubilee asked her from her room.

"Okay." Kitty replied as she turned and went inside, "So what's up?"

"You should tell us. How'd everything go last night with you and Peter?" Jubilee asked her.

"It was so amazing. We literally talked for hours and hours, about everything." Kitty replied as the vibrance in her voice shone through.

"Sounds really awesome. It must be nice to have a conversation with a guy and he actually says something back to you." Jubilee's roommate Rogue said as she lay on her bed, staring straight up at the ceiling. "So Kitty, why are you up so early anyways?"

"I went down to the gym so I could go ahead and get my training session over with." Kitty answered, "But I got held up while I was down there by the other guy in your life." Kitty answered Rogue.

"What 'other' guy?" Rogue asked.

"Logan." Kitty said as she smiled while teasing Rogue.

"Oooh, an older guy too." Jubilee said as she joined in with Kitty.

"Just for that wisecrack 'Mall-rat', Ah guess I'll have to tell Kitty about your new man." Rogue replied.

"This I gotta hear. Who is it?" Kitty asked as she listened intensely for Rogue's response.

"It's a guy that showed up last night while a couple of thugs were harassing us. He risked life and limb just to rescue his damsel in distress over there." Rogue said as she turned the tables on Jubilee, who was normally the one who made smart-mouthed comments about everyone else.

"Just because I think he's a decent guy, doesn't mean that he's my boyfriend all of a sudden." Jubilee replied, trying to play off Rogue's comments, "Besides, I doubt he's gonna want to hang around with me once he sees all the weirdness that goes on around this place."

"I don't know, he seemed really into you; judging by the way you two talked the whole ride from the mall to his house." Rogue continued.

"Sounds majorly serious…" Kitty continued, enjoying the hard time that she and Rogue were giving Jubilee.

"And you should be the expert. You get this glazed over look whenever 'Russian Picasso' walks by." Jubilee replied.

"At least I'm not afraid to admit I actually like him. You act like being in love is some kind of disease or something." Kitty said.

"I do not." Jubilee quickly challenged, "I'm just selective is all."

"Whatever." Rogue said to Jubilee as she sat up on her bed, "I guess I'd better follow Kitty's example and get up too. After I get finished training with Logan, I have another therapy session scheduled with the Professor this afternoon.

"Is the Professor helping you learn how to control your powers any better?" Kitty asked her.

"Yeah, he's gotten me to where I can touch someone for almost a minute, but any longer than that is too much of a strain for me right now. He said that it's just going to take time for me to be able to control them on my own." Rogue replied, "I'm just glad that at least it gives me something to look forward to."

"Well, send Wolvie and the Professor my regards. I'm going roller-blading with Theresa, you want to join us Kitty?" Jubilee asked her.

"Maybe later, I have some homework that I have to finish first." Kitty said as she got up from Rogue's bed.

"Okay, catch ya later." Jubilee replied as Kitty left the bedroom.

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