Ch.2: Breakfast at Memories
Logan walked into the tower, ignoring the sound he was making. His eyes were cold, his hands were balled into fists and his teeth were crunching against each other in agony. He entered the main room and took a seat on the oval couch next to the window. He held his head in his hands and sobbed in his mind.
'Not again, not now, why, I have a son now, I can't let him fall into the same darkness I did, I don't want him to turn out like me! Please God, don't let this be true!' he screamed in his mind.
He sat there and looked into the distance, searching his mind for answers. Malice had told him someone had beaten Riku before, sealing him inside of a book, but how? That kind of magic had to be stronger than Raven's. He needed o find the Hero in White, and Nightwing would be able to help. He fought Riku the last time this happened. And he had told him that he had been able to strike Riku down and then he saw Riku's true form.
Logan got up to his feet and slowly walked back into his room. He couldn't stay awake with the pressure in his mind. He fell to sleep next to Raven and dreamt bad dreams.
When he awoke he nearly slammed his temple into the pointed end of the cabinet next to there bed. He slowly rubs his head and thinks about what had just happened. Had the conversation with Malice really happen? He looks over at the Massacre sitting there on the counter, collecting dust and aging every second. Yes it had happened. That blade will no longer collect the dust it should be, it will collect blood from each bastard that wore the sign. He had one week to solve his puzzle and then Malice would return, he couldn't tell everyone now, he had to wait. He needed to spend time with his son.
Logan walked down the hallway and looked into his son's room; the boy was lying on his bed watching a TV show.
"Hey dad!" smiled James.
"Hey kiddo, get up and get dressed were going out to eat." He smiled back.
"O.k. is mom coming with us?" the boy asked as he jumped out of the bed.
The boy had already picked up Garfield's lost energy, the raspy voice was dieing away and Raven's soft harmonic voice was forming with his in the boy's vocal cords. He took off his pajama top and slipped on a purple and green t-shirt and purple and green jogging pants. He slipped on his shoes and walked over to his father. He looked so much like himself with those clothes on.
"If mom wants to come she can." He smiled with a wink.
The boy followed his father into the elevator in the tower and leaned against the wall as the machine began to descend.
"Dad what were you doing up so early this morning?" he asked confused.
"Nothing really, just stretching out." He said calmly.
"Then who were you talking to on the roof? I heard voices."
"You followed me?" Logan asked raising an eyebrow.
"Mom always said I was like you right?" the boy giggled.
"It was no one son, just an old friend catching up with some unfinished business." He lied.
"O.k. so were is we going out to eat?" he asked rubbing his stomach as he walked out of the elevator door.
"A place with the best food I had ever eaten, you could say it would be the place that I found your mother." He said with a sly smile.
The two walked into the main room to see Cyborg flipping pancakes while Sarah and Kori talked and giggled at the small table. Richard was out of his Nightwing costume but instead of a mask he wore pitch black sun glasses.
"You know you like a pot head in those glasses right?" laughed Logan as he walked over to his friends.
"He's right man, it aint looking right wearing sunglasses inside of a building in the morning." laughed Cyborg as he tossed Logan a plate of tofu eggs and bacon and a glass of orange juice.
"Not today dude, me and James are going out to eat!" he called to the chef as he started throwing fat pieces of bacon into the skillet.
"Mommy? Do you want to go with us?" James asked Raven who was on the love seat with a cup of tea in her hands.
"No, not today Jamie, I think you should spend time with your dad today!" she smiled back as she picked him up and kissed him on the cheek.
Logan walked by and smiled to her.
"Do I get one to?" he asked with puppy dog eyes.
She laughed and kissed him on the lips lovingly. James giggled and pretended to throw up behind his dad's back.
The two of them left the tower and looked at the garage.
"What should we take today dad?" James asked looking at the different car's in the lot.
The T-Car was next to its little brother the T-Car 2 and then there was the lady bug which was Sarah's and Kori's, it was a bright pink slug bug with 160 horse powers. Next to that was Richard's motorcycle, and then there was a covered up car in the corner. Logan walked over to it and pulled the tarp off the top to reveal the black motorcycle that he had borrowed from Raven so long ago. He himself had supped it up with spider web graphics on the body and on the tail was a small green Raven that he had found cheap and cheesy but Raven had liked it so he put it on the fender. The chopper was given a new name, the Black Widow.
"Hope on, it's been a while sense I used it but I think I can still handle this baby!" he laughed as he helped James on the machine and had him hold onto his sides as he started the Motorcycle up.
The machine rambled and sputtered to life and soon sounded like a normal motorcycle as he drove off of Titan's Tower. He slowly ran threw the heart of Jump City, remembering every twist and turn to the dinner he had never forgotten. Slowly it appeared, the small side pocket building dwarfed by the surrounding others lay still, calm, peaceful, and as clean as he had left it 5 years ago. The bright red boomerang sign glowed with a mysterious yellow light with the original words.
'Mr. D's Diner'
He calmly parked the black widow in the corner spot and helped little James off of the bike.
"Come on kid, let's get some grub." He laughed.
The door opened with a casual ding on the bell and he looked around. It seemed the same people still sat at there usual spots talking and laughing and drinking the coffee or eating there meals. The two went to the same booth Logan had sat before and looked at the starring people. They weren't staring because of his clothes this time it was his skin, and his son.
Then a girl walked up to them, she was busy watching the other customers to look at the two sitting there. She was tall, thin, and familiar; her long blonde hair curled at the tip and left itself still in the breeze. Her eyes were hazel and bright with the cheer of usual high school cheerleaders. Her lips were bright red with the sticky lipstick placed upon them and her nose ring gleamed in the bright light of the rising sun.
"Hello, welcome to D's Dinner, what can I get you to drink?" she asked with a smile still not paying attention to the two sitting there.
"Can I have a cup of hot Cocoa?" asked James.
"Sure sweetie!" she smiled still looking for something not there.
"I'll have a large cup of coffee, black, with a glass of whiskey." said Logan calmly having the coldest tone he ever showed in front of his son.
The women froze in her place, her lips curled into a smile, and slowly her face turned towards Logan and James.
"Hey Tina, long time no see!" he said with a laugh.
"Logan! Oh god it's good to see you!" she said with a high pitch giggle.
She latched onto his arms and gave him a large hug, Logan could hardly breathe. She let go of him and kept her smile on straight. Behind the open steel window a tubby cook appeared. He had long black hair and a small stub beard on his chin. He wore a comical cook hat large and goofy and had an apron on saying 'I spit in your onion rings'. His eyes were still laid back and calm with the same blue color to them.
"Tina! Stop that squealing you'll break my new windows!" he yelled back with a laugh, his voice soft and loving.
"David! Look who has come back for another shot!" she yelled back as she stepped back to reveal Logan sitting near his son.
David looked at him and his eyes widened with joy the spatula he held was flipped so hard a hamburger was sent to the ceiling and stuck there do to the cheese. He waddled out of the kitchen and approached Logan with a large smile. But as he reached him he whacked him on the head with his spatula.
"That's for not leaving a tip before!" he laughed as he gave the man a hug.
"Please let go of me, I'm turning purple!" Logan yelled out in laughter.
"So is this your kid?" asked David as he shook the little boy's hand.
"Yes this is James." He said with a smile.
"He's so cute, looks like you but the skin of his mommy!" laughed Tina as she pinched the boy's cheeks.
"Be right back with your orders boys." She smiled as David flew back into the counter and began to stir a cup of coffee and make the drinks.
As they left James whispered to Logan.
"You know they didn't get our orders right." He giggled as he watched the cooks go to work.
Logan laughed to himself and sat back in his chair and took a good hard look at his boy.
'Yeah he is just like me.'