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9.
Logan was the last one to leave the office, he wanted to ask Xavier about his latest dreams but when he was alone with the Professor he felt
stupid and decided that a Wolverine did not wear his feelings on his shoulder, it was a sign of weakness he could not afford. He was the muscle
of the team, well, Colossus was a lot more of muscle but he was just a kid. Xavier was the brain, Kurt the ethics, Storm the decision-making
temperamental side, Scott was the leader, Hank the scientist, Warren was innocence and Rogue was the beauty of the impossibilities, Jean was
the heart that made it all work, of maybe she was just his heart, sometimes it was hard to distinguish these things.
-"Can I hep you Logan?"- Xavier felt his uneasiness.
-"No, I am fine, I better get a look around, you know just to be sure there are no monsters under the beds"- Logan faked a smile and left the
room. Once on the corridor he erase the smile from his face, he heard Xavier´s voice inside his brain.
-"If you want to talk, you know I always have time for you"
-"Thanks Chuck but not on this lifetime"- Logan asnwered a bit embarrashed, were his feelings so obvious to the beholder?
Logan opened the door of Rogue´s room trying not make much noise, he saw Bobby dozing on the armchair and moved towards the young man.
-"Hey kid, this is a decent school, you know, we have rules here about boys staying out late in his girlfriend´s room"- Said Logan waking Bobby
-"What, Logan, sorry, I was tired, wanted to close my eyes a second, I guess I was too tired"- Bobby shaked his head
-"Go to bed, she is fine, the furball said there is nothing wrong with her besides a bad case of conjunctivitis."- Logan help him on his feet-"Come
on, tomorrow you will need to be in one piece to teach the little monsters"
-"You can joke all you want, Logan, everyone knows you love it here"- Bobby left him in the room
-"There are some nice persons living here apart from the monsters"- Logan casted a worried glance at Rogue-"Come on Kid, I know you are
awake, ice-cream boy is gone, talk to me"
-"Go away, Logan, I mean it"- Rogue remained where she was, not moving a muscle
-"You are looking for trouble, you have two options: talk to me or face the consequences"- Logan warned her-"I heard that you are ticklish"
-"You cannot touch me unless you have a strong deah wish"- Rogue snapped back
-"That is me, bub"- he sat on the armchair-"I know how you are feeling"
-"Yes, sure, everyone says that but ...What do they know?"- Rogue started to move-"I was so happy"
-"Were you, really?"- Logan asked her-"You did not look like it"
-"Bobby was not…well, he prefer a mutant girlfriend, but I did not take the cure for a boy, I did it because I wanted a better life"- Rogue was
almost crying
-"You have a place to live, where you are safe and loved, people care for you, some of us are ready to lay our lifes for you, I think your life is
quite good considering the options, kid"- Logan answered her-"Sometimes life is not fair, everyone has dreams, ambitions, but that is all they are,
illusions, reality is harsh and difficult but that is the fun of it."
-"You have no idea what it was like, to be able to touch, to be free of the fear, the pain. My dream had come true, I was happy"- Rogue
punched Logan on the chest with her gloved hands
-"Calm down, Rogue"- logan embraced her taking care of not touching her skin-"I know the feeling, believe me. I had my dream come true, I
did, but it was not real, it was not meant to be and I am here, still fighting"
-"How can you continue after losing…losing her? If she was your dream?"- Rogue looked at him through Scott´s glasses
-"I do not want to discuss Jean with you while you are wearing his glasses, it just too weird"-Logan smirked. Rogue smiled back.-"Why don´t
you sleep a bit? I´ll come to see you tomorrow morning when your boyfriend is teaching"
-"Thanks"- She whispered
-"What are friends for?"- Logan exited the room.
Rogue got out of bed and looked herself in the mirror, she removed the glasses, her eyes were still burning but they did not shot beams anymore.
She left the glasses on the table and moved back to her bed.
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Logan entered the Danger Room, he was tired but he wasn´t tired enough to avoid another night full of nightmares that break his heart each time.
His healing power could not help him there. It was something he had to do for himself. He programmed a fighting routine, he left the leather
jacket and the blue shirt on the floor, he wanted to sweat a bit before sleeping. As he was alone he lighted a cigar.
-"Alcatraz scenery"- he ordered the machine
The island suddenly surrounded him, the Worthington complex at his back, some soldiers nearby and a bunch of mutants ready to attack him,
Logan turned around and stared at the slight rise in the ground where she was standing back then. Nobody was there this time. Flaming cars
started falling around him, Logan snappedout ofhis daydream with an angry growl.
-"Johny, I am teaching you not to throw things at your teachers once and for all"- He shouted and started fighting.
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Storm was in the lab with Scott and Hank. She had noticed Logan walking towards the danger room
-"He spends more time there than anywhere else"- She sighed
-"He need tolet go ofall that steam"- Hank was running some tests on Scott-"He will be fine tomorrow, what intrigues me is the effect Rogue
had on him, Kitty said that she touched his skin just a mere second"
-"You think her powers are stronger now?"- Storm was a bit distracted, her thoughts full of Logan
-"I hope is just a simple evolution of her mutation, because it could be bad news if the cure had such side effects, I am not even going to mention
Magneto again"-Hank looked at Storm-"Am I boring you, darling?"
-"What, Ups, sorry Hank, you are never boring, sweetheart"- She smiled at him with all the tenderness she could muster-"I am
worried. He is probably using a level 5 simulation again. He often goes to the Alcatraz simulation, I think is insane, definitely not healthy"
-"Maybe, but each one has its own ways to cope with pain. Leave him"- Hank touch her shoulder-"Sometimes I wish we could go back to our
irresponsible teenage past, we were always gossiping, just like the students now. Have your heard the last one?"
-"Fill me in"- Storm opened the lab door and followed Hank along the corridor
-"The students thinks that Kurt likes you"- Hank grinned as if he was still a schoolboy
-"You are lying….furball"- she laughed, the sound of her laughter was carried through the corridor, ending near the danger room where the only
sounds were those of Logan battling his inner demons
(I am planning to include more action soon, but as X3 was full of action I decided to let the characters speak before the figthing began)