Unbrake My Heart Chapter 1: A Perfect Opportunity, a x-men: the movie fanfic

Title: Unbrake My Heart

Author: PalisDelon

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Rating: for now PG - 13, but it might get higher as I go along.

Warnings: Um, Don't chase parked cars?

Genre: Romance

Parings: Logan / Marie

Summary: While on a mission, Rogue is kidnapped by a scientist trying to revive project 'Wolverine'.

Disclaimer: I own nothing, nothing at all. Poor me.

Archive: fanfiction.net, The Star Palace. Or if you want it, all you have to do is ask.

Authors notes: This is my first X-Men fiction so, please, be gentle.

Spoilers: Salad in a plastic bag at the back of the fridge. J

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Hunger called to Logan, forcing his thoughts to the here and now. "How stupid would that look? I wreck Scott's bike five hour away 'cus I passed out from hunger." When he went through the toll both, he asked the guy for some place to eat. "Bev's. Turn right, Stop Seven turns into Cider when you get to the end of Cider your gonna turn left, that'll be Utica St. You go a few blocks, turn left at Green." "Right, left, left. Bev's." Logan went over the directions. "Yeah. Her minestrone the best." The toll worker called as Logan pulled away.

"The both guy was right." Logan thought as he gulped down his third cup of coffee. "The minestrone is good." Shoving down two rolls Logan again reached for his cup then remembered it was empty. "I should have told her to leave the pot." He thought. "You need some help, sugar?" Logan looked at the girl sitting down the counter from him and almost choked. She stood up, walked behind the counter, and grabbed the coffeepot. "I didn't mean to scare you." She said as she filled his cup. Logan could here the laughter in her voice. He knew that his silence was rude, but his mind was working way to fast trying to tell that this wasn't, couldn't be Marie. "Naomi." The girl offered as she sat back down. "Logan." He managed to reply.

What was this? She had dark blond hair that came just past her shoulders; Marie's was so much darker, longer with the white streaks. Marie came to his chin; this girl might just have an inch or two on him. So, what was it about her that made his mind scream "Marie"?

"Logan." She almost rolled his name out. "What brings you to our little part of the world?" He looked at her, "Wadda mean, what brings me here?" he never like people who thought they knew every thing about him. It was one of the things that ranked him about Scott. The girl just gave a small laugh, "Well, crowded as Bev's can some times be, right now I know every one here but you. Also, I know every bike and rider in a 20-mile radius. I've never seen a bike like the one out there." The look that passed over her face was almost sexual. "That's a bike that you don't soon forget." Logan almost fell off the stool. That she could tell a new comer by his bike, impressive. Well, with a reason like that he should answer her question. "I was hungry."

Damn, she gave him the same look that Marie did when he said something obvious. The one that said, "what is wrong with you" but in a nice way. "I'm on my way down state. I have eaten since Canada, so…" She looked at him, almost giggling. "The eyes." He thought, glad to have something to put his finger on and say "Marie" "and that little laugh, like she's remembering a funny story about you." "Going home to your girl." The way she said it, like he had on a shirt that said "Goin' to get Jean" or something. It made him a little uncomfortable. "No, I've been working and have to report back." It was half the truth. She held her head to the side and looked at him for a second. "She ain't yours yet." He heard her laugh and knew it was from the way his mouth had fell open.

"Tell me about her."

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The X-Men were assembled in the conference room off of Prof. X's study. Scott was briefing the team on some new information that had just come in. "His name is Moore and he has been attached to several different cases of mutant experimentation. From the information we have it looks is if the, ah, 'good' doctor has retired from that branch of medicine and is starting a privet practice. We think that he might have records from the projects he worked on, records that could serve in locating other mutants." A quick look around the table told Scott that the others shared his opinion. "Also, since this is a simple task, I think we could give it to Rogue."

Jean spoke up; "Do you really think she's ready?" "Yes," Scott said without hesitation. "She has proven her desire to help, her studies are above average, she has been building up her time in the danger room. I think this would be a perfect way to say that we have seen her work and are willing to except her as part of the team." The room was silent until the voice they all looked to spoke "Expectance, it's something everyone craves." Charles said softly. "She can go."

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Marie was coming out of lunch when Scott came up her. "Rogue, I need to talk to you." As she said a quick "Bye" to the kids that were with her, she wondered what was happening. "The team has been talking, and we have seen how much effort you've been giving. And, well, a run has come up that we want to come on. Nothing to…" She cut Scott off by a sharp "What?!" Taking a quick breath, she want on, "You mean I'm coming, I can, you want me to help." Marie was trying her hardest not to jump up and down. "Now Rogue, it's just a document retrieval." Scott voice took a sheltering tone. "But yes, we think this would be perfect for your first, 'official' mission." Marie shook her head; she didn't care what it was. The X-men wanted her. She looked to see Scott smiling, "Get a suite and meet me in the garage in an hour." "Oh, yeah. I mean yes, I'll be there." Scott walked away. "My first mission." Marie couldn't help it. She started run down the hall to get her suite.

Fifteen minutes found Marie in her room; she had put the suite on and was braiding her hair. "So I'll be a little early." She thought, "Scott won't say anything, but he'll get that "trying not to laugh" look." Marie sighed, "I'll just wait here until its time." "Who cares? Scott's a pansy anyway." The last thought had a different sound in her head. "God Logan, even when your not here you can be a pain in the ass."

Marie stood up and look herself over in the mirror, "Well, at lest I look like one of the

X-Men." After putting away her hair thing and grabbing her Walkman, she said to herself, "If anyone asks, I'm doing some relaxation techniques."

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Logan sat in the garage, trying to finish off his cigar, when he heard someone come in, singing.

"I need your arms to hold me now, the nights are so unkind. Bring back that night when you held me beside you."

Logan wasn't ready to see anyone just yet, and he didn't think that whoever was singing wanted to see anyone ether. "Just don't turn on the lights." He slid onto the floor next to the bike. The lights stayed off. "Good." No one could see him now unless they stepped on him.

"Unbrake my heart, say you love me again. Undo this hurt you caused, when you walked out the door, and walked out of my life. Uncry these tears, I've cried so many nights. Unbrake my heart. My heart."

"Damn, whoever that is must really be hurtin'." Logan thought. He turned his head around the back of the bike, trying to see who it was.

"Take back that sad word 'good-bye', bring back the joy to my life. Don't leave me here with these tears, come, and kiss this pain away. I can't forget the day we laughed, time is so unkind. And life is so cruel without you here, beside me."

She was in the X-Men uniform, but Logan knew that it wasn't Jean, or Ororo. "Must have added some new blood." Logan could see a Walkman in her hand, "Off in her own little world."

She stopped singing and started a dance. One of her twists brought her face into the sunlight and Logan's cigar fell on the floor. The woman poring herself into the song, the one who was dancing so seductively, the one in the X-men uniform, was Marie.

"Don't leave me in all this pain. Don't leave me out in the rain. Bring back that night when you held me beside you."

Logan stood up, he had run through this meeting several times in the last five hours, and never had he thought it would be like this. He had thought of a few different things to say, but now the all fled from him at the sight of Marie like this.

"Unbrake my heart, say you love me again. Undo this hurt you caused, when you walked out the door, and walked out of my life. Uncry these tears, I've cried so many, many nights. Oh, Unbrake my, unbrake my heart. Oh baby, come back and say you love me. Unbrake my heart, sweat darling. Without you I just a can't go on."

Marie loved this song, it expressed her feelings so perfectly. As good as life at the school is, without Logan it was just missing something. She knew that Jean thought it was just a crush, hero worship, and it might have been, at first. But after the nightmares, the memories, finding out all he had dealt with in the last few years. It took her breath away. Also, Marie had Logan's first impression of her the day they met in the bar, and, well…

Marie thought about how she had first seen Logan, what had attracted her to him. His eyes had to be the first, the way they are so dark they sparkle. Then his hair, his facial hair to be precise. Marie loved it. She could almost imagine that he was standing right in front of her, his hair mused from the wind, his jacket dusty, the ever-permanent cigar shoved to one side of his mouth causing a lop-sided grin. Scott's voice cut into her daydream, "Baby, your back!"

Marie looked behind her to see Scott in the door; he quickly ran past her and knelt by his bike, lovingly wiping some dirt off the fender. Marie turned back to Logan, the real, flesh and blood Logan. "Hey kid."