Changes Chapter 20
After two days of recovering, Logan and Jean were finally on their way back to normal. The holidays were also finally over and the school had its old routine back. While Storm, Hank and the Professor still held their classes, Logan was in the basement to gain his old form back and Jean was just having a bath.
When Logan came out of the Dangerroom with a towel around his neck and his shirt definitely showing that he'd trained, he bumped into Scott. Frustrated, he snorted and walked past the other X-Men.
"Hey!", Scott said and grabbed his wet arm to make him stop.
"What!", Logan grunted and turned around, immediately feeling how his blood started to boil.
"We've to talk."
"Do we?"
Scott sighed. "Logan, it can't go on like this…"
"Well, I'm not the troublemaker here, bub!", Logan said and wanted to walk away as Scott stopped him again.
"Do you love her?"
With an eyebrow raised, he turned around again, looking at the man in front of him in confusion. "What?"
"You understood me, Logan…", Scott said completely serious. "Do you LOVE her?"
"I doubt that I am accountable to you…", Logan grunted and narrowed his eyes.
Scott shook his head and put his hands to his hips. "It's a simple question!"
"But I don't give YOU an answer!"
"Don't… or maybe can't?", Scott shot back angrily.
"Pick one! What is it to you anyway?", Logan hissed and stepped closer.
"A lot, cause I care about her!"
Logan smirked. "And now you're pissed because you're not longer the alpha-male, eh?"
"No…", his opposite said threatening folded his arms in front of his chest. "I'm pissed that a loner like you took advantage of the situation…"
Logan nodded playfully while he chuckled and pretended that he was thinking. "I see…", he said. "So the boy's crying that he lost his girl to a man, huh?"
Scott snorted. "I really don't know what she wants with you!"
"Same thing I always asked myself about you", Logan shot back, fighting his desire to bury his claws in him. "Maybe you just weren't good enough for her…"
Scott smirked. "I watched you in the Dangerroom, Logan…", he aid and looked as arrogantly into the face of his opposite as he was staring back. "Has she every met the real you?"
"Wanna meet him?", Logan grunted, while losing his temper with the boy.
"No thanks!", Scott waved off. "I've already seen the animal in you…"
"Then better hope you won't see it again!", Logan hissed and moved away towards the elevators. He fought hard against the beast within who wanted to smash the boy into pieces…
"Does she love you, by the way?", Scott called after him, when he waited for the doors to open. Logan turned around and shot a deadly look at him, nevertheless, he had found a way to hit him… "You're not someone to raise kids, Logan… If you get bored of her you drop her, no matter what…", Scott shot angrily at him.
His opposite smirked and tried to stay calm from the outside. Despite this, his inner parts were boiling like hellfire. Finally, the elevator doors opened and Logan stepped in. Still facing Scott and shooting cold looks at him. "Come over it, boy!", he hissed.
"You were an animal then and you're an animal now. People like you never change…", Scott said barely audible, but still Logan understood every single word. With clenched fists he watched the doors closing, before he hit the wall with all his strength.
Jean turned around as she heard the door open. She smiled happily and watched Logan close the door again. "Already back? I thought you'd be gone until dinner." She stepped forward and wanted to kiss him, but he pushed her aside. Confused, Jean frowned and looked at him completely speechlessly. "What's wrong?"
He shrugged. "Nothing…"
Still puzzles, she looked into his cold and distant eyes. She new something was wrong. He was somehow different… But still she couldn't tell what might have caused the change… "Logan, what happened?", Jean asked again and folded her arms in front of her chest.
Logan tilted his head from one side to the other. "I'm just getting tired…"
"Of what?"
He shot a look at her and made his way to the bathroom. "Of you…"
Shocked, Jean lowered her arms and stared at him with a complete blank expression, while her heart was racing in her chest. "W…what?", she asked confused and thought that she hasn't understood him correctly.
"Just pack your things, okay?", Logan said and stepped into the bathroom. "I'll shower and when I come out, you're gone. Got that?", he asked coldly and closed the door behind him.
Jean had her eyes fixed on the door. She was unable to move or to think. Her heart was beating strongly in her chest, so strong in shock that she thought it would explode any second…
Slowly, she stepped backwards until her back touched the wall. Her eyes sank to the ground, when she slipped to the ground. Her mind still couldn't understand what her ears had just heard… Jean didn't even see hoe the door on her right opened.
"Hey…", Storm said softly. "Why are you sitting on…", she broke off when she saw the confused and shocked expression on her friend's face. "What happened!"
Jean looked up, barely able to see anything because of the hot tears that were unstoppable running down her cheeks. Heavily breathing she jumped up and ran sobbing out of the room.
Confused, Storm looked towards the door and frowned.
"Hey…"
"What happened?", Storm asked as Logan stepped closer with his eyes fixed on her.
"Nothing…"
"Nothing!", Ororo asked eying him skeptically and put her hands to her hips.
He closed the door and stopped in front of her, only with a towel covering his hips. "Yeah…"
"That's why Jean stormed out of the room…? Because of nothing!", she asked again, emphasizing each part.
He only shrugged. "Well, she decided to go back to Scooterboy, so I threw her out…"
Storm was aware of the fact that his eyes were scanning her body. "She did what?" She frowned. It couldn't be true… Jean would never do this…
"New dress?", Logan asked, changing the subject and smirking, while he looked at her closely.
"Uh,…yeah…", she gave back in confusion, feeling her heart racing. Something made her feel very uncomfortable just now. "Why did she go back to Scott? I mean,…that's not like her…"
"Whatever…", he said, pining her more and more to the wall.
"Logan…", Storm said confused and backed off. "Are you alright?"
"Never better!", he said in his husky voice, which immediately made her shiver.
"Stop it!", she demanded and put her hands in his naked chest to push him away.
He smirked and bent forward until she could feel his breath on her neck. "Make me…"
Storm breathed in sharply when he pushed her against the wall and licked the sensitive spot on her neck again. One hand had grabbed her right leg, while he pushed his loin against hers. She gasped for air again, closing her eyes for a brief moment as the heat within her took over. "Logan…", she barely managed to say and laid her hands on his chest again, while he pulled up her skirt. "Stop it!" Breathlessly, she looked up into his foggy eyes. "What's wrong with you!", Ororo asked after a few moments, desperately trying to calm her racing heart.
He sighed. "You're no fun, you know that?"
"Fun!", she asked and put her hands to her hips. "Logan,…I thought you loved her? That are your kids she's carrying…"
"Who cares?", Logan gave back shrugging. "She wanted to go back to him, fine with me…" He tilted his head and watched her again. "And besides…", he said and stepped closer again, causing her to stop breathing. "…I know you liked it…"
Scott looked up when he heard the doors to the garden open. He saw Jean running down the stairs towards the pond and stopping there breathlessly. He immediately sensed that something was wrong, when she collapsed to the ground. In an instant, he was at her side. "Jean?", Scott asked and kneeled down beside her. "What happened?"
Jean breathed irregularly, while tears were still running down her cheeks. Without thinking, she clung to him and sobbed.
Scott pulled her close and suddenly he seemed to know who caused this mess. "What did he do?", he asked angrily.
Storm still tried to calm her racing heart when he let go of her. Her head rested against the wall while he breathed heavily, her eyes closed. Logan didn't take any further notice of her. Confused, Ororo opened her eyes, watching him when he got dressed. "What now?", she asked and waited for an answer.
"What now?", he asked in return and raised an eyebrow.
"I mean…", she began ad he chuckled.
"What did you think? That we built a house and live happily ever after?", he asked and shook his head smirking, while heading towards the door. "I was bored, that's all…", he said before he left.
Ororo swallowed and looked at the door with tears in her eyes, while she breathed hard because of her upcoming anger. Her mind still couldn't realize or believe what just happened, nor how she let it happen… She took a deep breath and looked around to calm herself again. She couldn't believe that she had been so wrong in her judgment about him… It ached her a lot to know that he used her to get over his boredom for a few minute. She couldn't even tell why she had let it come so far…
"All X-Men, please come to my office immediately!", echoed the voice of the Professor through the entire mansion.
Again, Storm breathed loudly, before she smoothed out her clothe and wiped away her tears. Then, she, too, left the room and headed downstairs…
