Chapter Eight:

Logan took Marie's case down to his new truck (which was much cleaner than the old one, but Marie knew this wouldn't last long) and they both sat in the front, ready to go.

"Decided where you wanna go?" Logan asked putting his customary cigar in his mouth, Marie considered, where did she wanna go? All she really wanted was quality time with Logan.

"Lets just stop somewhere. Have pizza" she said, Logan looked a bit surprised but he nodded obligingly and started the engine.

"I know a place" he said simply, "they do nice pizza"

The first hour of the journey wasn't all that eventful. Marie knew Logan wasn't good at small talk and she didn't want to push a pointless conversation. So when Logan suddenly announced that "we're here" she jumped in surprise.

She got out the truck to see quite a seedy looking bar before them, was this where Logan meant? She wondered why he would bring her here when he was so concerned with "protecting her" from things like this.

"It don't look like much. But you won't get nicer pizza anywhere" he stated and trusting him, she followed him inside.

Inside was a bit better than the outside, it was clean at least. And there were only a few trucker like men at the bar, Marie noticed that there was only one waitress around and she was quite an attractive blonde woman slightly younger than Logan (or the age Logan looked, anyway) who was wearing quite a revealing waitress uniform.

They took seats at a cubicle near the window, even though the view wasn't much. Marie felt as if she didn't know what to say to Logan so busied herself looking at the menu, even though she knew what she wanted - pepperoni and mushrooms.

"You okay?" Logan asked.

"Yeah!" She said hurriedly, "hungry" it wasn't exactly a lie, she was hungry. But she couldn't figure out exactly what was wrong, but this whole situation seemed a little odd to her.

"Can I take your order?" The attractive blonde waitress asked in what Marie supposed was meant to be a seductive manner,

"Sure" Logan said, not taking his eyes off her. He seemed to be drooling over her, which Marie found oddly horrifying

Was Logan hitting on a girl in front of me? Is that the reason he bought me here - to pick up some slut!

He told her what they wanted and the blonde waitress left, Logan exhaled deeply once she left and Marie looked at him in a disgusted manner which she knew he couldn't miss, but he acted as though he hadn't noticed.

"You okay, Kid?"

"Fine" she replied stonily, and they waited in silence until the pizza arrived, Logan gave the waitress another lingering, lustful look before she strutted back to the bar. Marie (who was rather annoyed by this point) ate in silence and Logan followed this lead.

"Do you want me to get drinks?" Logan asked once they had finished, Marie made a non committal noise but Logan was already headed to the bar leaving Marie sitting alone.

About twenty minutes had passed and Logan still hadn't returned with the drinks, so Marie decided to go and find him herself, heading to the bar however she didn't like what she saw.

Logan was sharing a drink with the blonde waitress and they looked to be in a private conversation, and from the look on her face the conversation seemed to be very suggestive.

What the fuck!

Marie was incensed, she had never been so angry in her entire life. A part of her thought Logan had bought her here to take her mind off things, to show her a good time before she had to go back to Xavier's. Instead, he really had just brought her here so he could get laid!

Marie cleared her throat rather loudly to get Logan's attention, he turned to face her looking rather annoyed before realising who it was.

"Marie!" He said, obviously taken aback, she didn't wait for him to reply, but stormed off back to the van. To her surprise he actually followed her.

"What is it, Kid?" He demanded, "that wasn't what it looked like" Marie decided she wasn't going to hold back. She cared about Logan but she wasn't about to become his doormat, she was well over that.

"It never is, is it?" She shouted, "I get it, Logan. I completely get it. But next time you wanna get laid, don't act like your doing it to help me!"

"What are you talking about?" He sounded rather exasperated,

"You!" She screamed, "you bought me here so you could get laid! And there was me thinking you were actually trying to help me!" And with that she got back in the van, Logan was still standing outside looking a bit dumbstruck, "oh, don't mind me!" She continued a bit hysterically, "you go, go have sex!"

"You know what, Kid" Logan shouted, "I'll go do that!" And to Marie's horror, he actually headed back inside leaving her sitting in his van on her own.

What have I done?