Chapter 2:I Didn't Want To

"Professor, why do you say that?" Kurt asked. The professor had been so
into watching Logan with happiness he had never felt before, that he
failed to sense Kurt enter the study. He turned from the window and wheeled over to his desk as Kurt sat down by it.

"Kurt, remember a couple months ago when Logan's clone came into the mansion and incapacitated every student and staff member?" Kurt nodded his head not knowing exactly where the professor was going with this. "Well, Nick Fury was just here and explained to Logan and myself that she is out there now
and she has no mission so she will be out there all alone. Logan wants to
like a father to this girl since he is the closest she has to family. He is
out there now, on his way to look for her near the scene of her latest
murder."

"Wait professor, you mean your going to let a murderer attend this school?"
Kurt asked with a worried expression on his face. He had matured a little
bit since he first started attending the institute. And since the defeat of
Apocalypse he had grown to look over the younger members of the institute
and he was starting to worry with this new development.

"Well yes Kurt, I do intend to let her come here. I think with Logan
guiding her along, maybe she can come around and actually enjoy staying
here. Who knows she may become a valuable member of the team."

"Maybe your right professor, I'm just trying to look out for the New
Mutants."

"I understand that Kurt, but I wouldn't put them in any immediate danger,
besides I was thinking of putting her with the X-men." Kurt looked up
surprised that the professor would allow someone that once acted as an enemy
to them, become one of them so easily. "I sense what your thinking Kurt,
but, as you know she is very well trained and I believe her skills would be
wasted with the New Mutants."

This was it. This was where the newspapers said that the forest rangers had
found the body of Dr. Kinney. Sniff Sniff She was still here. It
would take a little while to find her but he knew she wasn't too far away.
He started inspecting the site and found that there wasn't too much blood
spilt. That was strange because all the other murders were more like
massacres. He decided to start looking around to see if he could find her.

He had been at it for about 30 minutes when he decided to return back to the
site of the murder and camp out for the night. He set up his tent and
started a fire. He started to roast a rabbit he caught while looking for
X23. The out of nowhere he heard her voice, "She was the first person that
cared about me. She looked out for me when no one else would. I thought
she would have gotten me out of there somehow but she didn't. I don't
really think she could have." Logan could feel the girls pain but at the
same time, he understood why she went through with killing the doctor. He
kept his back to her so that she wouldn't spook and run off.

"I knew you would come for me," she continued. "What, did some other
organization send you here to recover me for them. Give me one reason why I
shouldn't kill you right now."

"Kid, I…"

"Don't call me kid!" She shouted back unsheathing her claws.

"Listen, I know you've been through a lot lately. I understand what your
going through…" she tried to interrupt but Logan continued on. "I do,
whether you want to believe it or not. I'm not here because Fury or any of
those other assholes sent me here for you. I'm here to take you home."

"Home? I have no home. I have no family. Nothing, I have nothing."

"Kid… X23, let me tell you something. When that craft exploded last time I
saw you, for the first time in my life, I actually felt heartbroken. Then
I sensed that you were near. You're the first person I've ever had that
kind of connection with. We may not be real family but we're pretty damn
close," Logan got up and turned around. There she was, still as beautiful
to him as he remembered. He walked up to her and put his hands on both her
shoulders. "I want to be like a father to you and be there for you. I want
you to be able to come to me. You have nothing left out here. You've
completed your little self-appointed mission. Come back to Xaviers'
Institute with me. Lets me and you be family."

"I don't know, last time I was there I hurt all of the students there. I
don't know if that would be a great idea."

Logan pulled her into a hug, "Kid, I wouldn't let that happen besides they
wouldn't do anything to piss me off, trust me on that." He still wasn't
convincing her. They stood there for a second without realizing how long
they had actually been like that. Logan backed away and said, "Look, how
bout you stay here with me tonight and think about it. If not, we'll just
spend some time together. A lot of time."

"Alright I'll think about it." She said. Then she joined him by the fire and
ate with him.

"Oh and kid…" she growled at him. He knew she hated being called that and he had almost forgot to tell her that she had a name. "Your name is Laura, Laura Kinney."

She didn't say a word, she just hugged him a little tighter. A little further on into the night she finally fell asleep but Logan stayed up a little longer just watching her. He didn't know how it would turn out but he liked a challenge.

"Hey guys, whats up?" Kurt asked as he walked into the den area and sat with
Bobby, Alex, and Jamie.

"Not much, just trying to find something good on TV. What have you been up
to, fuzzy?" Bobby asked, getting a laugh out of Alex. Alex was still kind of new around here and the idea of calling Kurt fuzzy was still pretty funny to him.

"Nothing just talking to the professor about some things."

"Oh, about what?" Asked Jamie, always the nosy one.

"I don't think I should be the one to tell you. But, I'm sure we'll know by
tomorrow evening whether it happens or not." He didn't like being the bearer of bad news and he certainly didn't want to be the one to tell everyone that X23 was going to be living with them.

"Come on bra, just tell us, we won't tell anyone." Alex put in. He knew Kurt broke easy when it came to secrets. In fact he figured that out about a week after moving int

"Ok, Logan went out to find X23 and bring her back here. She's going to
start attending the institute." Kurt broke.

"What the hell, Is that what the helicopters were here for earlier? Has the
professor lost his mind, that girl took out every person here last time she
was here." Bobby complained, knowing full well that the girl was no one to
mess around with.

"Haha sound's like my kind of girl." Alex said.

Kurt butted in annoyed now, "Shut up Alex!" The three boys looked at Kurt
surprised that he was getting upset over their banter. "I'm going to go
upstairs and go to bed. I promised Scott to train with him in the danger
room tomorrow morning."

"What's with him?" Bobby asked.

"Who knows, maybe he wants first dibs on the new girl." Alex replied.

They both looked at each other and simultaneously said "Nah" while Jamie was sitting not too far away thinking 'And the say I'm immature.'