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Logan, having trouble sleeping like every other night, was prowling the hallways when he heard the scream come from Liz's room. He paused in mid step and stared down the dimly lit hallway, another scream echoed down the hall. He could just feel the fear radiating off it, it lingered for another moment then died down. Silence swallowed the hallway soon after, Logan grit his teeth together and turned around and headed in the opposite direction. He paused again hearing a door open behind him; glancing over his shoulder he locked eyes with X-23. Neither said anything, they didn't need too, and he continued walking down the corridor rounding the corner.

He couldn't decide if he wanted to run a session in the Danger Room or a beer and a run through the woods to calm his nerves. He decided to skip the beer and go straight to running, silently he crept out the back door and sauntered over to the beginning of a trail leading into the woods. Taking a deep breath he sprinted forward, he went slow at first gradually picking up speed as he ran. His mind was a numb tangle of memories rushing throughout his brain making his head pound. As he ran, ducking low branches and weaving through trees and shrubs, it began to rain then pour with lightning and thunder. The rain felt good at first, but slowly it began to chill him to his adimantium-laced bones. Stopping, he trudged back to the mansion in the back door and through the kitchen where he found Liz sitting at the table with her head in her arms.

She looked up at him hearing him come in and quickly wiped at her eyes, "You're soaking wet." She commented raising her eyebrows.

Logan looked himself over and nodded, "Went fer a run," He said shrugging off his shirt, "What's up kid?" He asked setting the damp shirt down on the table before folding his arms across his chest.

"Nothing," She whispered shaking her head, "Just couldn't sleep is all."

Something else was bugging her but he wouldn't press the matter, "Nightmares?" He sat down in the chair next to hers and sighed watching the goose bumps on his arms retreat back into the flesh.

Liz hesitantly shook her head, "Reality," She smiled sadly, "I called my parents."

Logan's eyebrows shot up, "This early?" Then it all sank in, Liz's swollen red eyes and the reason for her being in the kitchen as 4 A.M, "Oh…" He nodded, "What happened?"

The smile fell from Liz's face, "They denied me…" No, not only that, he mother had told her father that she was dead! And not the real reason to her disappearance; was being a mutant that terrible?

"My father thinks I've been dead since I was five. Mother told him I was in a car accident and… and he bought it."

Logan snorted feeling that overprotective side of him surface, he knew betrayal and denial, but not from his own family. If he had, he didn't remember it.

"It's their loss then." He grunted running a hand through his hair, it was still damp from his run in the rain.

Liz nodded, "I just want to know why? Why would she hand me over to some strange man just because… because I had a chance of becoming a mutant?" Fresh tears sprang to her eyes but she held them back as she stared up at Logan.

He shrugged feeling slightly uneasy, he wasn't good at this sort of thing, "There are some sick people out there."

Liz dropped her eyes back to the table and sighed, "I think I've met enough for two life-times." She cocked her head to the side, "I heard some disturbing things while I was there… at HYDRA. They did some horrible things to that X-23 girl… you know if she really did escape?"

The question caught Logan off guard, he blinked then nodded slowly, "Yes… she lives here."

Liz's eyes widened in shock, "Really? Then she's okay…"

"Okay?" Logan furrowed his eyebrows in confusion, "What do you mean by that? What did they do to-"

"It's none of your business, Logan."

Logan and Liz's heads snapped up their eyes landing on the girl standing in the doorway.

"It's you… So you're X-23." Liz whispered watching the girl scowl then wander across the kitchen to the counter and sit down. Her legs swung twice before she stopped them and sent a scathing glare at Liz.

"What they did to me isn't any of your business, so you can just forget about it." She turned to Logan, "Did you tell her yet?"

Logan frowned, "No." He was now curious about what happened to X-23, he made a mental note to talk to Chuck about her later.

"Tell me what?"

X-23 locked eyes with Logan before turning to Liz, "They used your DNA and someone else's to create me." She said bluntly casting a glare Logan's way.

Liz's eyes widened, "You're… But I thought that all attempted cloning with my DNA and Weapon X's failed." The guards and scientists were none too pleased about these failures and made sure that Liz had known. She grimaced mentally at the memories X-23 brought back.

"You really are clueless," X-23 hissed hopping down off the counter and over to Liz, "He's Weapon X," She shouted pointing at Logan, "And it took twenty-two tries before they successfully created me!" She rambled angry at Liz for not recognizing her.

Logan stood up, "Knock it off!" He growled grabbing X-23 by the shoulders.

"Don't touch me!" X-23 shrieked breaking free from Logan's hold then ran from the room.

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A/N: Cookies to anyone who can guess, or who knows, who in Logan's family denied him!

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