Superman Strong
Reading back on this, Logan is beyond OOC, but I typed most of this up in the wee hours of the morning so I cannot be held accountable. And there's a bit of Orolo (Ororo/Logan?) and a tastful touch of Evan bashing. Anyway, here's part deux. And the reason Rogue left in the first place is explained in other upcoming songfics and fics, not this one. But I'll give you a hint, Wolvie's instincts are right.
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It'd been roughly a week since Rogue ran away from home. He had made no attempts to find her and kept anyone else from doing so either. At first this brought protests down on him, from student and teacher alike. But eventually Xavier got them off his case somehow, and he was only mildly curious as to what kinda BS he had dished out.
[They don't ask,
'Cause they know I'll say,
"It ain't nothin',
Just another woman done walk away."]
Life as he knew it carried on. The Danger Room sessions were equally as spine breaking as ever, he was as hard on the Cajun brat as ever, and he was as demeaning as he had ever been while Rogue was still around.
After a while some of the kids had tried searching for her online, but that stopped as soon as he threatened to pull the plug on their net access. People started to think of him as uncaring, and he never made it a point, from the day she left, to prove any of them wrong.
[Still on track,
No I ain't fazed,
I rock on, all night long,
Just playin' this masquerade.]
But if anyone noticed his Danger Room sessions steadily increasing in difficulty when it wasn't needed, no one dared complain. If anyone noticed he was harder on Remy, even slashing flesh when the kid pushed him past the limit, no one but Remy brought it up to anyone. And if said limit coming quicker and quicker until almost anything set him off was thought strange by anyone else on the team, it was ignored.
[I got everybody thinking,
I'm Superman strong,
But that big old 'S' ain't on my chest,
At night when I get home.
Well, one look at my reflection,
And lonely's all I see.
I can tell them all I'm glad you're gone,
But the truth is,
I can't lie to me.]
But no matter what he did to hide his pain from the others, it always ended up being shown. At the bar, when silent tears mixed in his whisky in one of the darkened corners. Or when he went out all night just to walk the route of the bus stops he hoped she would someday step off onto.
He may seem like steel, but even he missed his little girl.
[Call you up,
To get shot down.
Throw my pride aside,
And I just cry aloud.]
Ororo had actually caught him crying out in the garage one night, huddled on the cement beside his bike with his buddy Jack Daniels. He hadn't been proud of this capture, but he had gotten a lot more off his chest than he thought he had been keeping.
This event triggered a few dates with the weather witch, which triggered him to let up a little. He was still rough on LeBeau though. He didn't know how he knew, but he figured he was somehow responsible for the loss of his may-as-well-be-a-daughter.
[Call my bluff,
Oh just look at me.
A fool in love, I'm not so rough,
Down here on my knees.]
He figured the reason he and Stormy were getting on so well probably had to do with her own loss of Evan to the Morlocks. She had taken it pretty rough, but he had never been able to relate to her until now. He had always thought of the kid as too headstrong for his own good, also explaining his rivalry towards Maximoff. Clash of the Egos, you could say. He always figured the Morlocks were just a phase he was going through and was too stubborn to come out of.
But if that was the case with Evan, was it with Rogue too? She could be just as pigheaded as Evan most times, so did people think the same of her as he did of Porcupine?
[I got everybody thinking,
I'm Superman strong,
But that big old 'S' ain't on my chest,
At night when I get home.
Well, one look at my reflection,
And lonely's all I see.
I can tell them all I'm glad you're gone,
But the truth is,
I can't lie to me.]
It was an insult to her how people started to talk about her in hushed whispers around him, and how they muttered her name as if it were a curse. It was all too much and he ended up spending less time around the kids for it.
He found it funny how he was some kinda superhero, but he couldn't get over the loss of a teammate who wasn't even dead or anything. He knew he was considered a 'role model' by some of the younger kids, and maybe even a few older ones, but he wasn't the Superman they saw him as.
[I got everybody thinking,
I'm Superman strong,
But that big old 'S' ain't on my chest,
At night when I get home.
Well, one look at my reflection,
And lonely's all I see.
I can tell them all I'm glad you're gone,
But the truth is,
I can't lie to me.]
He missed how she was always up and waiting for him in the morning, with fresh coffee waiting. He missed how she always came to him to rant for a solid hour at most about anything and everything. He missed how she never complained behind his back about his DR sessions. He missed how she always had the nerve to complain to his face instead.
[Oh, the truth is,
I can't lie to me.]
He just missed the kid.
Man, this thing was a pain to upload. My com crashed earlier (I thought it might so I already had everything saved to cd, no fear) and I still haven't reinstalled all my progs. It took me ages to find a prog this story could be uploaded with. So until my MSWorks is reinstalled, I'll be holding off the fics. Pity, I have another two almost done. TT