Chapter five
I woke up lying on a bio bed in sickbay. Henry was standing over me looking at monitors built into the walls.
"What happened?" I sat up on the bed rubbing my temples. "I feel like I was hit by a Double Decker"
"I'm not surprised, you banged your head up pretty bad. I'm going to have to talk to Charles about those steel floors." He placed his hand on my shoulder and let a small smile escape on his face. "You may be slightly off balance for a few days, but you'll be fine."
"You're the best Henry" getting off the table I reached up and gave him a peck on the cheek. "I'll see you at dinner."
I had reached the door to sickbay before I remembered what had happened in the danger room. I froze not sure what to do. Finally deciding that I needed to ask Henry about Logan I turned around.
"Henry is Logan ok." I lowered my head afraid of what he might tell me.
"Oh he's fine. Logan can survive just about anything" to my surprise Henry had the largest grin on his face.
"Thanks, Henry" I turned and left sickbay.
On leaving sickbay I was greeted by the same metal hallway Logan and I had passed through earlier this morning. I stood still not sure of what to do. Finally deciding I was not ready to face what rogue and the others would say about what happened I walked down the hall back to the danger room.
I walked into the danger room and stood at the center of the room. Looking down I could see a stain of Logan's blood still on the floor. I looked up at the control room and heaved a breath.
"Cerebro activate wolverine training level 1"
"Acknowledged" came a cold metallic voice "beginning training exercise".
Instantly I was back in the temple. I sat in the center and crossed my legs. I sat and meditated for at least an hour before realizing that some one was behind me. The smell of aftershave was unmistakable.
"Back for a rematch old man" I remained sitting not even opening an eye.
"I haven't been caught off guard like that for some time." I could feel him walk past me to the other end of the room. "Where did you learn how to use a katana.'
"You know, here and there" I remained in my place with out flinching.
"That's bull. It would take years of training to become good enough to strike that fast without thinking. Trust me I have fought the best and only one of them was fast enough to strike me like that. But he's dead. Rogue told me that you had learned bushido from a book. But not even Sage could learn the way of a sword like that from a book."
"Who is Sage"? I said in a tone that was completely devoid of emotion
"That's not the point runt. The point is that you have been lying to all of us since you got here two days ago."
"Have I now?" at that I opened my eyes and stared at him. "Care to test that theory".
I got up and headed past him to the ornate box holding the two katana. Removing them both I tossed one in Logan's direction. He caught it easily and walked to the other end of the mat. It was clear that he had, had enough of playing around as he angrily throw the scabbard of his katana from the blade in a quick twist of his wrist. He drew up with his sword parallel to his torso and his waist slightly bent. I slowly removed my scabbard and let it bounce on the floor. I spread my legs apart and set the hilt of my sword at eye level with the blade parallel to my face. The stance was similar to that of a baseball player preparing for a pitch. What happened next went by so fast I could hardly remember moving. In a flurry of steel we clashed forward and back each thrust we made was met by a defensive strike. This continued for what seemed like seconds but in reality was more like hours. In the end we were not stopped by any effort of our own but instead by the voice of the professor. Lowering our swords we looked up to see the professor in the control room above.
"I hope you are satisfied with your selves" came his voice sounding slightly metallic through the intercom. "The two of you have wasted an entire day slashing at each other with swords. Miss frost's class had taken a tour through the control room. And upon seeing your fight her class lost complete control. It took our combined effort to pry them from the glass. The school has become a beehive of gossip over the two of you. Much to Dr. McCoy's embarrassment the most popular of these rumors is that the two of you are quarrelling lovers. Now I expect the two of you to desist this behavior and report to me when you have cooled down."
I didn't even bother to see if he had left. I dropped my sword and stalked out of the room.
I stepped out of the lift depositing me in the main hall of the school. Trying to ignore glances from the students I walked off to my room. When I arrived at Rogues room and mine I found it empty. The clothes had been picked up and put away in their drawers and my bed had been made. I plopped down on my bed and fell asleep.
When I came to, Rogue was sitting on her bed looking at me.
"You scared me girl." Rogue seemed calm and supportive.
"What do you mean" I looked at her with a confused look on my face.
"What do I mean? You fought against Logan. That's what I mean. No one I know of has ever fought him and lived." Her warm smile stated to quiver. "What the hell were you thinking doll. You could have gotten very dead."
"I appreciate the concern but I had everything under control" I buried my head in my pillow.
"God you need to learn to lie better hun because I am not buying that for a second. I snuck into the control room this morning. You seemed to completely change like something switched on and turned you into some sort of animal." She looked more intense now like she was on the verge of crying. "All I could think of was that I was going to lose my sister and I had only just started to get to know her." at that bean to cry and shiver uncontrollably. I got out of my bed and wrapped my arms around her.
"There, there I'm not going anywhere ok. What happened with Logan this morning was inevitable. I have been running from my past for far to long. Its time I came clean to you and told you everything." I pulled away and stared right into her eyes and smiled.