Mutant Heart and Mutant Soul

by ZabuzasGirl

Heartbroken a young girl named Silverstream decides to run away from all she has known. She runs to an institute that takes in people like her with her gifts and abilities. Did I mention she's a mutant. Silverstream/Nightcrawler. Silverstream/Wolverine

9. Chapter 9

Mutant Heart and Mutant Soul Chapter 9

Winter was now over and spring was starting to emerge. The frost was starting to melt and all of the animals were starting to come out again.

While winter passed by Silverwings and I became very close. She hardly left my side or more precisely my shoulder. The only time she left me alone was when I was in the danger room training with the others.

My progress was now so much that I was even watching over Jubilee when she was doing her training. During winter I had moved my things into Logan's quarters and we've been quite comfortable since then.

I was doing the food shopping in down town New York City that day. I was in one of the few stores that actually welcomed mutants and the owner was a very kind, generous man to my people.

The owner was an Arabian man and he smiled at me when I went inside. I always did my food shopping here because of how he was with mutants. Fortunately, for us he could speak English and not any other language. Once I was done getting the food I needed I went over to the cash register and paid for it. He even helped me load it up in the jeep.

As I was driving through New York City I was moving closer to a construction site when I heard a lot of yelling and shouting. Curious, I pulled over the jeep to investigate. Most of the workers were grouped together arguing with each other.

"What's eating the hard hats," I said, going over and speaking to one of them.

One of the workers said "Looks like they got replaced by some foreign guy they think he's a mutant."

I turned my head in the direction he was pointing and saw what all of the fuss was about. Some of the others workers were making fun of the guy standing with their boss.

"Hey, Mike, you better make sure supper Russia here doesn't malfunction," one of them shouted.

The five employees that were in front burst out laughing when this was said. The boss named Mike finished giving the new guy direction about what to do so the new guy went into the worn out building he was supposed to knock down.

Silverwings was starting to get a little irritated on my shoulder. I couldn't blame her, I was starting to feel the same way she was. I stroked her neck trying to calm her down.

"I know girl," I said. "I know." I moved closer to the building to get a better look at this guy.

The worker I was talking to got a little nervous when he saw what I was doing. He said "Uh, Miss, I wouldn't do that."

"Don't worry," I said, calmly, "I'll be fine."

Then the construction workers seemed to stop laughing. We were seeing the exact same thing. The foreigner seemed to be transforming inside of the building.

I moved down even closer to it, but just as I reached its entrance there came three loud bangs coming from inside. Next thing I knew the building was starting to crumble down to the ground. I screamed and got out of the way with Silverwings twittering madly on my shoulder.

The construction workers were speechless a man that seemed to have his whole body made of steel walked out of the wreckage to make matters even more amazing he was 7.5 feet tall.

"What the heck," one of them shouted.

This stranger made of steel headed for the man in charge of the whole operation.

"Your building is crushed," he said. A moment later the man of steel transformed back into his regular self. His outer layer turned back into normal skin. "Anymore today?"

The boss Mike seemed to be very happy with his work.

Mike said "Great job. What did you say your name was again?" Mike gave this guy a pat on the shoulder and handed him a wrap of money from his pocket.

"I am Calluses from Russia," answered the mutant. Calluses took the money and pocketed it in his shirt. His chest and arm muscles stretched his white t-shirt and that made it the perfect place to stash the money.

The other workers weren't happy about their boss giving Calluses that wrap of cash. Looks of anger appeared on their faces.

"His name is mutant scam and that's our money," one shouted. His fellow workers made shouts of agreement at what their comrade said and went to gang up on Calluses.

As they were moving toward him I realized that the name Calluses rang a bell in my head.

"Where have I heard that name before," I said. A second later it came to me and my eyes widened when I realized who this guy was. "Oh man, now I remember."

Calluses was the mutant the others went to help out in Russia that one time months ago.

The construction workers were ready to raise their fists to Calluses when their boss Mike stepped in. He moved in front of his workers so that they wouldn't be able to lay a hand on Calluses. He raised his hands telling them to stay where they were.

Mike said "Leave him alone he got the job done. You guys can clean up."

"We're not working for any mutant lover," shouted the construction workers.

Calluses was getting very confused to him he hadn't done anything wrong.

He said "What's wrong? Was my job no good?"

The only thing that wasn't good here was these construction workers.

Mike gave him a reassuring look, saying "No, no they wanted to crush uh knock over the building."

Hearing this Calluses quickly tried to make peace with the other workers. He said "Comrades let us all work together."

Unfortunately, these guys weren't going to make things easy for him.

One of them who was already in a bulldozer oh wait scratch that last bit it was a cement truck started its engine and sped straight for Calluses. The other workers along with their boss got out of the way, but Calluses stayed where he was. The only thing he did was change back into his shining steel form.

The construction worker inside jumped out of his seat just as the truck was going to hit Calluses. But when it did hit him it settled the question I had of how string that armor of his was. As soon as the truck made contact with his body the whole front of the vehicle got completely destroyed and he didn't even move. The construction workers were just as amazed as I was.

"Did you see that," said one man.

"Didn't even faze him," another said.

Calluses moved closer to the one that had jumped out of the truck to see if he was injured.

The guy was now too scared to let Calluses even get near him. "Ah, let me go," he screamed, getting up and running away.

Now Calluses was very confused he couldn't see what the problem was. He lifted his arms a little bit in his confusion. He said "Now you run away. What I have done wrong?"

Mike put a hand on his shoulder, saying "You didn't do anything wrong, my friend. But maybe you should call it a day."

"Idea is good, don't want to cause no trouble," agreed Calluses.

So Calluses walked away from the construction site and the other workers. A thought now occurred to me seeing it as good one I went put into action my plan. Calluses had gone back to his usual form without all of the steel.

Reaching him I tapped him on the back. I wasn't tall enough to reach his entire shoulder he was so big that I only just made it.

"Excuse me," I said.

Calluses stopped walking and turned to me when I spoke to him. "Yes," he said.

I said "I saw what happened back there."

Calluses was shaking his head at my words, saying "These Americans are very strange people."

"Not all Americans are like that," I said. Now my face turned serious and I asked him the question that was on my mind. "Listen Calluses, do you know a group of mutants called the x-men?"

A look of surprise appeared on his face when I said this to him.

He said "Yes, I do, but how would you know that?"

Smiling, I said "Because I'm friends with them actually I'm one of them. If you like I can take you to go see them they live just outside the city."

Now it was his turn to smile down at me.

He said "I'd very much like that, thank you."

So I let him over to the jeep and I drove us back to the mansion.

Once we got there I parked the jeep inside the garage and took the groceries out of the back. Calluses took the bags out of my hands and took them in his. "Let me help you with this," he said.

"Thank you, I'd appreciate that," I said.

The two of us went inside and walked into the kitchen. When we did I took the groceries, put them down on the counter, and I started putting them into the refrigerator.

"Where is everybody," asked Calluses, looking around the place.

I said "They're probably around there were here when I left for the city."

Right on cue Nightcrawler appeared in the kitchen. This caused me to scream and Silverwings to fly away from me and onto Calluses.

"Silverstream, I didn't know you were back," said Nightcrawler.

I said "I'm not surprised. Do you know if the Professor is home?"

"As a matter of fact I do he's up in his study," answered Nightcrawler.

It was then that Nightcrawler noticed Calluses in the room. "What's he doing here," he asked, surprised.

I said "Calluses will tell you while you're taking him up to see the Professor. Xavier must've sensed his presence by now and wants to see him."

Nightcrawler let out a sigh of defeat, he knew when he was beaten. "Let's go Calluses," he said.

Nightcrawler put his hand on his shoulder, but just when he did Silverwings went into action. She went into the air and attacked Nightcrawler. Nightcrawler had to defend himself with his arms.

"Owe," said Nightcrawler, "I said I was sorry, Silverwings stop. Silverstream call her off."

"Silverwings come here," I said. Silverwings did as I said and I gave her a small piece of bread to reward her. "There you go, that's a good girl." I now gently stroked her back and she arched it so that I could scratch her favorite spot there.

Nightcrawler said "You always spoil her, Silverstream, you really shouldn't be doing that."

"Say that again Nightcrawler and I'll just have to set her on you again," I warned.

Nightcrawler knew that I meant it so he left with Calluses. I now went back to putting the groceries away.

Silverwings pecked at the window to go outside.

"Ok, Silverwings, just give me a minute," I said.

But Silverwings wouldn't have any of this she hopped away from the window and moved over to me. When she did she started to peck at my hand.

I immediately yanked my hand away from her in order to keep it away from her beak. I said "Hey now stop that." Next moment I had opened the window for her and she flew right out. "You're welcome," I said. I left the window open just in case she wanted to come back in while I was still in there.

I finished putting the groceries away so I took out the soda. I closed the window and left the kitchen all together.

I went to look for Logan. I eventually found him on the basket ball course. He was shooting some hoops with Gambit and Jubilee.

Jubilee was in possession of the ball at the time. She said "You guys can't catch me." She dribbled the ball around them and headed for the basket.

But Logan managed to take it away from her. He said "Nice try, half pint."

A stubborn look appeared on Jubilees face and she went to try to get the ball back. Logan passed the ball and now Gambit went to shoot the ball in the basket. He made a clean shot into it. Gambit made a fist and punched it into the air. The two of them gave each other high fives.

Jubilee wasn't happy about this. She said "Not fair, it's two against one."

"Sorry Jubilee, but you're just going to have to deal with it," said Gambit.

Gambit threw the ball at Jubilee and the game started all over again. This time Jubilee shot the ball at the basket but unfortunately it bounced off and missed it. Instead of going in it bounced into the hands of Logan and he headed for the other side of the court. Jubilee went chasing after him to get that ball.

I agreed with Jubilee when it came to this game the boys definitely had an unfair advantage. I drank the rest if my soda and threw it into the recycle. A moment later I had run onto the basket ball court to help Jubilee out.

Right when Logan was about to slam dunk the ball into the basket I took it from him. "Hey," he said.

I dribbled the ball down the court and easily got it around Gambit. I passed it to Jubilee and she shot it inside of the basket. Jubilee and I gave each other high fives.

I turned to the boys, saying "Now it's a fair game."

We finished the rest of the game and because it was now a two on two game it was a lot more fun. We still lost but we weren't far behind the boys. Jubilee and I made faces at the boys when they won. The two of us came up with an idea to get back at them.

I said "Fine then you has won, but you have to cook us lunch."

There was silence for a few seconds and then the boys thought I was joking so they burst out laughing. They didn't think I was serious about this, but then they saw my face that all changed.

"You're serious," Logan said.

I said "Yes, I am."

"Sorry ladies, no way," Gambit said.

Logan said "We won the game so you have to cook for us."

We both said "No way!"

The four of us now got into an argument and this time Jubilee and I eventually won out. So the four of us went inside and the guys were the ones that made lunch.

While we were eating Logan looked up from his food. He said "So how was the city today?"

"The same as usual, but I did meet somebody near a construction site," I said.

This caught their interest.

"Really, who was it," asked Jubilee.

"If I remember correctly I think his name is Calluses," I said.

Logan and Jubilee choked on their food and Gambit spat out his soda. I had to duck to make sure it wouldn't be able to hit me. I patted Logans back trying to help get that clump of food out of his throat. Jubilee said "Calluses, you saw Calluses?"

I nodded my head and said "Not only that, but I brought him here to the mansion. He's up stairs with Nightcrawler talking to the Professor right now."

As fast as lightning the three of them were out of their seats and they all ran out of the kitchen. I stayed where I was eating the rest of my lunch. I didn't know that the window was open until Silverwings appeared on my shoulder.

"There you are, Silverwings, I was wondering where you were," I said, softly.

I gave Silverwings a piece of small left over bread as a treat. She ate it with pleasure as I was throwing the rest of it into the garbage and the plates into the sink.

I was calm about Calluses being her, but the three of them were going crazy about it.

Jubilee said "Why didn't he tell us he was here?"

"I don't know," said Gambit.

"We're his friends he should have told us when he was in the city," said Jubilee.

"Well we're about to find out," Gambit said. He was the one that knocked on the door to get inside. Without even an answer the three of them burst into the room.

Inside they saw the Professor, Calluses, and Nightcrawler looking right at them.

Hands on hips, Jubilee said "And when were you going to tell us that you were coming to visit?"

Calluses held up his hands in defense. He said "I call you, but Silverstream found me first."

This caused Jubilee to relax her face and position. Logan now turned to the Professor with a questioning look and the Professor responded with a simple nod. Logan turned to Calluses while the Professor turned to Nightcrawler. The Professor gave him a hand signal and Nightcrawler used his power to disappear from the room.

Logan said "Calluses, we have a lot to talk about."

Calluses didn't protest, he just followed the three of them out of the room while the Professor stayed where he was he had some things that needed to be done.

As soon as the four of them were out of there Calluses was bombarded with questions and he answered them.

Calluses said "Well things are going well in Russia only that my family had money problems back home. So to help my family I needed to come to America to get work. I found job as construction worker here in the city. Doing job when I ran into your friend."

"A construction worker," questioned Jubilee. "That sounds like a good job for you, Calluses."

Calluses nodded at what Jubilee said, saying "That was when I met your friend Silverstream. She is nice girl."

Logan said "Yes, she is."

"She got me out of how you say a jam. Some of the other workers were saying that I take their money. But I didn't do anything wrong I did what I was told," Calluses said.

Logan said "By the sound of things you didn't do anything wrong."

"I agree," Jubilee said.

Gambit said "It sounds like those other workers were the ones in the wrong here."

It was then that Logan got to thinking and he was rubbing his chin in great thought. He said "Do you have any place to stay, Calluses?"

Calluses was somewhat surprised by this, but he still answered the question. He said "I have gotten an apartment somewhere in Brooklyn downtown New York. It's close to where my job is so it is easier for me to get there. Also, with a much shorter time limit."

"If you had called us we would have let you have one of our spare rooms," said Jubilee. "There's always some around here."

"She's right you know," Gambit said. Then suddenly Gambits eyes widened and he looked at the watch on his arm. "Oh no, Rogue is going to kill me." Gambit ran down the corridor.

"Gambit, where are you going," asked Jubilee.

"I'm late I need to find Rogue," answered Gambit.

Jubilee didn't get to say anything else because Gambit ran around a corner and out of sight.

Jubilee was shaking her head with a smile on her face. A minute later she turned to the others. She said "Well I'd better go, too, I need to go into the city for a new CD player."

"Do you mind taking me to Brooklyn, Jubilee? I need to head home anyway," Calluses said.

Jubilee said "Of course I can, come on." Jubilee made a gesture with her arm and she went down the other end of the corridor with Calluses leaving Logan there standing all alone.

Instead of leaving the mansion himself he went to go see what I was doing. I was in the library reading one of my favorite books and Silverwings was flying around the room looking at everything. Right now she was perched on one of the shelves grooming her wings. She was the first one to hear Logan coming before he even reached the door. When it opened Silverwings flew down from her perch on the shelf and went down to meet Logan as he walked in.

Logan actually had to duck in order to make sure that he wouldn't get hit on the head by her. "Whoa, watch it there," he said. Logan held out his hand and let her flutter down onto his fingers.

I was watching this from an arm chair with a smile on my face. Logan looked back at me with that same smile. Slowly he came over to me with Silverwings still on his hand but not for long. Once they were close enough Silverwings flew off of Logan's fingers and onto my shoulder.

"That's a good girl," I said.

Silverwings then went back to grooming her feathers. I smiled down at her as Logan took the seat opposite me.

Without looking up, I said "Where has Calluses gone?"

"He's gone back to the city with Jubilee," said Logan. "He needed a ride back to his apartment and she need to get a new CD player so she offered to give him a ride." After a slight pause he said something else with a smile. "He has a death wish."

I let out a giggle at what he said and he let out a chuckle when he heard me giggle. He loved the sound of my voice whenever I laughed out loud. Logan let out a slight yawn and used one of his hands to cover it. Unfortunately for him he couldn't hide anything from my eyes.

"Are you tired," I asked.

Logan shook his head, saying "No, it must have been from the entire basket ball we played outside."

"I'm surprised at you Logan out of all of the fights you get into I never expected you to get tired from a single basket ball game," I said, eyes twinkling.

"That's only sometimes, Silverstream," Logan said.

I said "Only when you wear yourself out." Silverwings bobbed her head up and down. I let out another giggle when she did, saying "And Silverwings agrees with me." Silverwings let out a little peep as if to say "yes" to me.

Logan now got out of the chair. He said "Well I'm going to have a little work out in the gym you know where to find me." Logan now left the library and I went back to my book.

Silverwings decided to take a nap so she put her head under her wing and went to sleep. When she woke up she found herself inside a bush on a small branch inside Storms greenhouse.

I was around the mansion looking for Logan. I had put some bird food inside the room for her so that she would be able to eat if she got hungry. I was checking for Logan in every place in the mansion that I could think of. I couldn't even find him in out room he usually lifted some of his weights in there. But like he said before he was in the gym working out.

Logan was using one of his punching bags for his work out. He was punching it so hard that it looked like he was trying to kill it.

I covered my mouth with my hands to cover my giggles. Only when I had them under control did I take my hand from my mouth and spoke up. I said "Logan stop punching the bag so hard you're going to kill it."

Logan held the bag in place as it swung toward him. He was catching his breath from all of the punching he was doing before I came in. He said "I have to stay in shape Silverstream you don't want me to get hurt or worse killed in battle now do you."

I gaped at him and rushed to his side. I gave him a hard slap on the arm when I reached him. "How dare you say that to me you know I don't want either of those things to happen," I said.

"I know that, Silver, you really shouldn't take these things so seriously," said Logan.

"If I wasn't so serious then where would you be," I retorted. "Probably lying in the hospital I bet."

"Well then let's find out shall we," said Logan.

The two of us had a fencing match together and I was the one that claimed victory in our match. I had gotten Logan in perfect position and I used my sword to trip him up. Caught in an unfortunate state Logan wasn't expecting how good I was at this so he was easy to get onto one of the mats on the floor. Right when that happened I brought the point of my sword to the tip of his nose. A look of astonishment was on his face as he looked up at me.

I had a huge grin on my face looking down at him with a raised eyebrow. I said "It seems that I have won." My voice almost broke with laughter, but I managed to hold it in.

I sheathed my sword and helped Logan back onto his feet.

Logan said "I never knew you could do that with a sword."

"You'd be surprised of what I can do, Logan," I said.

Logan looked outside and saw the sun was nearly set. He took a towel and laid it over his shoulders and wrapped one of his arms around my own. "Come on, Silver, let's go down to dinner," he said. Logan walked me out of the gym.

Since most of us were already out in the city except for the other couple Jean and Scott along with the Professor and Storm the dinner we had that night was smaller than usual. Logan was starting to smell a little bit since he hadn't taken a shower after his work out in the gym. The rest of us weren't happy by it because it interfered with our meal. I put a napkin to my nose a couple of times to try and block the smell from my own nostrils. The others tried to do the same and keep Logan from noticing it at the same time.

I was heading up the stairs in the entrance hall when the door opened and Jubilee came waltzing in. Actually I wouldn't say waltzing in it was more like dancing in. Jubilee was listening to her CD player through her head phones and she was dancing also jumping to its music as she came in. She used a foot to kick the door shut.

Leaning on the railing I watched her make a fool of herself since she thought no one was watching. Eventually she did and Jubilee immediately turned scarlet when she saw me. I was doing my best to keep a straight face with her. The humor in this situation was almost unbearable.

"You missed dinner," I said. Jubilee said "I ate out."

"Next time tell us when you're going to be late, Jubilee," I said.

"Sorry, just didn't think about it," she said.

I said "Then next time tell us, you had me worried when you didn't show up."

"All right, I'm going to have a snack," said Jubilee. She then headed for the kitchen to get something to eat while I headed the rest of the way up and headed for my quarters.

Logan and I got to our room at the same time. He was in his robe it seems that he did take a shower after all.

"Jubilees back," I said.

"That's good," stated Logan, "she shouldn't have stayed out so late."

"That's what I told her," I said.

The two of us now went into our room and changed into our pajamas. For Logan it was his boxers and for me it was my nightgown. Logan did a loud yawn when he got into bed next to me. I smiled at him and said "Told you, you were tired."

"All right, I can't argue with that," said Logan.

I said "At least try to sleep late for once you need your rest."

"Don't count on it," said Logan, grinning. He turned off his light and mine as well. Next moment we were kissing lying down in our bed together.

Summer was now here and so was my birthday. I was now twenty two and Logan was going to take me somewhere special for the occasion. That morning Logan said that he had a little surprise for me so I asked him what it was. He wouldn't tell me, he only said that I'd have to wait and see. We took his new car he had bought it only a few days ago. He said that he had bought it just for what he was about to do.

So that morning Logan packed our bags into the trunk of his car and the two of us were driving away.

Half of the day passed by when we were almost there we were driving through a road that was going through a large forest area. Logan was the one driving the entire time. I brought my hand to the opposite side of his face and gave him a kiss on the cheek. Logan caste a sidelong glance at me with a smile on my face when I kissed him. After that I closed my eyes and put my head on his shoulder the rest of the way with a hand on his chest. After a few more minutes Logan turned into a dirt road that brought us deeper into the forest.

"Logan, where are we going," I said.

He said "You'll see." Logan just drove up the road and through the trees.

It wasn't long before we came to our destination.

My eyes widened when I saw it. I said "Oh Logan it's beautiful." What I was looking at was a beautiful cabin. It was just the right size for the two of us. I turned to Logan and said "So this is what you've been hiding from me."

"I was saving it as a surprise for you," he said.

I said "That's so sweet." I gave him another kiss on the cheek when I said this to him.

Logan parked the car just a couple of feet away from the cabin and the two of us got out of the car. Logan went to get our bags while I took a look outside the cabin. By the look of things this cabin was here a while, but still in good shape.

"Do you like it, darling," asked Logan, hesitant.

"Oh I love it," I said.

He said "Well you're going to love it even more."

I turned to him with a questioning look on my face.

Logan took a pocket knife out of his pocket and walked over to the door. When he did he started to carve something into its wood. It took me a moment to realize what it was and when I did a smile was on my face. Logan was done in less than a minute. He took a step back and I was able to see what he had carved on the door. It was a heart and inside of it was our names Logan and Silverstream. Logan turned to me his arms held out and I jumped straight into them. Once that happened we kissed each other's arms.

Unfortunately, this happy moment wasn't going to last.

Suddenly the door opened wide and the person we least expected was standing in the doorway, it was Sabertooth. With a roar he grabbed my arm and pulled me inside. I yelped when he grabbed me his grip was that hard. This was unexpected so Logan wasn't able to hang onto me.

When Sabertooth was pulling me away inside the cabin Logan tried to take my other arm but missed by a mile. Lucky for us that Silverwings wasn't here because I wouldn't want her getting hurt by this guy.

Logan tried to get me away from Sabertooth. but it didn't work. To make things even worse Sabertooth used his other arm to shove Logan into the air and he landed on a wooden table. The table broke on impact because of the strength behind it.

"Logan," I shrieked. I turned to Sabertooth but as I was about to use my power on him he stopped me before I could do it. He threw me into the air and I hit one of the logged walls. I hit the floor a second later, but I couldn't get up the wind was knocked out of me.

Logan had gotten back into his feet ready to fight Sabertooth and defend me his claws were now out.

Sabertooth had a very wicked grin on his face. He said "What's the matter, Wolverine, can't take care of your woman."

Logan was at his edge now he didn't know how much longer he could hold back his anger.

I was trying to crawl over to the door, but I only made it behind Sabertooth. "Logan, he's crazy," I said. I passed out just after I said that.

Logan let out a loud growl when he saw that I had passed out. He said "You're gonna pay for hurting her Creed."

"Fat chance runt and when I'm done with you I'll finish off you little girlfriend here," said Sabertooth.

That did it for Logan and with a roar he attacked.

Sabertooth managed to dodge out of the way of Wolverines claws. Fortunately, he wasn't able to evade them for long. Logan managed to get the best of Sabertooth at one point and he made his mark on his chest. Sabertooth only flinched a little bit when this happened but he fought back.

The two of them were now locked hand to hand with each other. Somehow Logan was able to get Sabertooth outside of the cabin which was good for Logan this put them on equal ground. They were trying to kill each other. At one point Sabertooth had Logan completely at his mercy.

Sabertooth held up his hand and flexed his fingers ready to strike. He said "Good bye, Wolverine."

Suddenly, just as he was about to strike, Silverwings came out of nowhere and attacked Sabertooth in the face with her talons. Sabertooth let out a howl of pain and got off of Logan. Logan couldn't believe his eyes Silverwings had followed us all the way from the mansion and now she was defending us.

While Sabertooth was distracted Logan took his chance to attack again. But this time he used a more hands on approach. He jabbed his claws into Sabertooths belly with all of his might. Sabertooth let out a howl of pain even greater than before. Logan gave him a punch and sent him flying. Logan's regeneration powers were now working over time in his body. He needed all of his strength to keep on fighting.

This fight eventually brought them into parts of the forest away from the cabin. The place this fight brought them was at the top of a waterfall. Seeing that Logan was now handling the situation Silverwings flew off to look for me. As Sabertooth and Logan reached the edge of the water fall the unexpected happened. The edge of it couldn't support their weight so it crumbled beneath them.

Letting out yells the two of them fell off the cliff. Logan grabbed onto a branch just a second after he started to fall. Sabertooth just clung onto the side of the falls with his fingers he had nothing to hang onto. Today just wasn't his day the piece of the cliff he was hanging onto broke under his grip.

"Ah," shouted Sabertooth. He fell a hundred feet and into the falls.

Logan didn't know where Sabertooth landed only that he was gone. Logan now had a problem of his own the branch was starting to break his weight was too much for it. There wasn't anything else for him to hang onto he was a goner in his eyes.

A moment later the branch broke and he was falling down to his death or so he thought.

A hand shot out of nowhere and grabbed his wrist just as the branch broke in his hands. Logan looked up and saw with astonishment on his face that his savior was me. "Silverstream," he said.

I was hanging onto him with all my might and with a great effort I pulled him back up. Logan had to help me out a little bit there by pushing up with his feet. When I pulled him up and away from the edge we were both out of breath.

Logan turned to me with a wary look on his face. He said "But I saw you pass out."

"I did, but I woke up to Silverwings pecking at my face she was the one that led me to you," I said.

Right on cue Silverwings flew down to us and landed on my chest. She peeped in order to get our attention.

This caused us to laugh and we couldn't stop for a few seconds. Once we got ourselves under control we headed back to the cabin. When we got there we checked out the damage. There wasn't much there only the table was broken.

Logan said "A nice start to our vacation now wasn't it?"

The gloomy look on my face changed to one with a smile.

Logan picked up our bags that were sitting outside our door and walked inside. He put them down next to the dresser and went to see if he'd be able to fix the table. He knelt down in front of it to see if he would be able to fix it.

I went up behind him and waited for him to finish. "How bad is it," I said.

Logan let out a sigh and turned to me. He said "It's bad but I think I can fix it. I'm just happy nothing else got broken."

"How long will it take to fix," I asked.

"I don't know it might take a few hours or a day or two," answered Logan.

I said "Well the sooner you finished it the sooner we can have some fun." I leaned down and gave Logan a kiss on the forehead. "You should get started." I moved away from him and over to our suitcases to start unpacking our things.

It took Logan nearly three hours to fix the table. It took me less than half that time to unpack our belongings. Once I was done with my job I put together one of our fishing poles and went to go fishing. There was food and a stove for the food we already had, but I decided to go out fishing anyway.

I went back down to the river that was connected to the water fall. I went to the top of it to try out my luck there instead of going down to the bottom. Just to be safe I stayed well away from the edge of the falls we didn't want another repeat of what had happened this morning.

For the next hour a half I was fishing there by myself with only Silverwings for company. Unfortunately, the only thing I was able to catch was a few miniature sized flounder. I had put them in a small basket Logan had brought with us and I tried to catch some more. It wasn't long before I gave up and headed back with the fish I had already caught.

Logan was done making the table by then he was carving something from a piece of wood with his claws well one of them at least. When I entered the cabin I looked at the table and saw that it was almost as good as it was before. You could hardly see the damaged spots anymore.

"That was quick," I said.

He said "It was easier than I thought even without my tools I finished quickly."

I brought my basket of fish over to the stove and put it down next to it.

"What did you catch," he said.

I said "Not much just some small flounder."

"We have food in the refrigerator and cabinets, it'll last us," said Logan. He didn't even look up as he said this to me. His attention was focused on the object he was carving in the wood.

I cocked my head in interest wondering what he was making. It was going to have to wait because I have to write to them as soon as we got here and that was what I was going to do.

There was a small deck by the window with a pen and some paper on it. A corner of my mouth went out in half a smile when I saw this. It seemed that Logan brought out some other things from our bags while I was gone. I took up the pen and started writing the letter. It didn't take me long to do so. I was a fast writer and the letter was a full page long. Only when it was done did I put down the pen.

Suddenly, I then realized that I didn't have a way to send the letter and then it hit me. I turned to Silverwings with the same smile I had before. My idea was to give the letter to Silverwings and have her fly it back to the mansion.

I held out my hand to her, saying "Come here, girl." Immediately she jumped off of my shoulder and onto my hand a moment later I had brought him down onto the desk. "Stay girl." She did what she was told and stayed where she was she didn't even move. I folded the letter up and put it in a small envelope. Next I tied it onto one of her legs and opened the window. I stroked her back and gave her a kiss on the head. "You know where to do," I said. Silverwings let out a peep and flew into the air heading back to the mansion.

Once she was out of sight I closed the window and went to see how Logan was doing. Logan was almost finished with his carving and I could finally tell what the image he was making. The object was a small falcon or some kind of bird I couldn't tell what kind it was but it was still beautiful.

"Oh, a falcon," I said.

Logan finished putting the finishing touches on the carving and handed it to me. "For you," he said.

I took the falcon into my hands and looked it over. The details on it were just magnificent. I didn't know Logan was capable of making anything like this. "Logan it's beautiful," I said.

He smiled up at me, saying "I knew you'd love it."

Logan now started to notice something, the sun was starting to get lower in the sky. A moment later he had gone outside to check something. Next thing I knew Logan was shouting at me from outside.

He shouted "Silverstream better start cooking dinner I'm going out for some more firewood I'll be back soon!"

"How much is left," I asked.

"Just enough to cook our dinner," answered Logan.

"All right, come back soon," I said. I could hear him walking away as he was heading into the forest.

While he was getting more wood I was making dinner. I took the fish out of the basket that I had them in. Next I started cutting them up getting them ready to be cooked. It took me a long time to get them ready for the frying pan. I had started cooking when I heard some noise coming from outside. It took me only a second to figure out it was Logan. He must've been bringing back the firewood that he gathered up. During this time I was adding some radishes to the fish to give it some more taste. I had only finished when Logan came in. He was carrying a few pieces of firewood.

I turned to him, saying "Dinner's almost ready."

"Good," said Logan, "I finished piling up the wood. I brought some in for when we need more for the stove."

"That was thoughtful of you, Logan," I said.

He now put them done in a corner of the cabin in case we needed them later on. Logan took his seat as I was setting the table for the two of us. He was looking down at his plate surprised at what I made.

Logan said "You made this, Silverstream?"

Hands on hips I raised my eyebrows at his words. "Do you see anyone else here," I said.

Logan let out a chuckle and we started eating our dinner. We didn't have any sweets with us so we couldn't have any desert. Instead I was checking the injuries that he had gotten while fighting Sabertooth. I shook my head when I saw them his healing powers were taking slower than usual.

Logan said "It's not that serious, Silverstream."

I slapped one of the large cuts that he had on his back as hard as I could. He let out a yelp when I did this to him. "Hey, what did you do that for," exclaimed Logan.

"I want you to stop taking these risks. Not even I'm worth it sometimes," I said.

"Don't say that, Silver," said Logan, "of course you are."

"I don't know," I said.

We both slept late the next day, we were that tired. I woke up and found that the sun was already high in the sky. I turned my head to Logan next to me and saw that he was still sleeping.

"Typical guy," I whispered. I moved a little closer to him and gave him a gentle kiss on the side of his face.

A moment later I took one of the sheets to cover my body as I got out of bed and went over to the window. By the suns position it wasn't even noon yet. I decided to go for a walk since he wasn't awake. I dropped the blanket and put it at the edge of the bed and went over to the dresser. I picked out some clothes and quickly put them on. Few minutes later I was outside waling on a path away from the cabin. The animal life was just starting to wake up even though it was almost the middle of the day.

Birds were chirping and chasing each other in the trees. I even saw some deer running through the woods. I thought that I saw Silverwings once or twice but it was only my imagination. Once time my stomach started growling so I turned around and headed back the way I came. Close to an hour later I reached the cabin.

I found Logan out of bed and fully dressed standing in the middle of the room with Silverwings staring at me on his shoulder. He was reading a piece of paper in his hand which I suspected was a response from someone back at the mansion. I closed the door behind me as I entered the room.

"From the mansion," I said.

Logan nodded his head at my question. He said "Yes it is." Then as he read deeper into the letter a shocked expression appeared on his face. Suddenly he let out a yell "Oh no!"

Logan dropped the letter and went straight for our bags. He opened them up and started throwing our stuff back into them.

"Logan, what are you doing," I said.

He said "We have to go now."

"Why," I asked.

"Read the letter and find out," said Logan.

Logan kept packing our things back into our bags. So since he was busy I picked up the letter and started reading it. It took me a few minutes to do so. Right when I was finished I wore the same expression Logan had on before.

I said "Oh my god." I then started packing with Logan.

Startled of my sudden movement Silverwings flew off of my shoulder and onto a chair. She was flapping her wings in distain at me.

The thing that got the two of us so startled is that the mansion was attacked by the Juggernaut. The worst part was that the Professor was terribly injured and unconscious, he still wasn't up yet.

"This is bad and just as we left too," I said.

He said "Looks like we're going to have to postpone our vacation."

"I'll second that," I said.

When we were done packing up our stuff again we put them back into the car. Later we were driving away as fast as we could. We drove this car this fast the entire way home Silverwings had to go under the seat so she wouldn't get blown away. We were lucky we didn't get a speed ticket on the way home. Because of how fast we were going we made it home in record time.

What we saw there really surprised us. We skidded to a stop in front of the mansions gates. Our mouth's dropped when we saw what had happened to the mansion.

Logan said "What the hell!"

The mansion was a wreck it was almost completely destroyed.

I put my hand on his shoulder, saying "There's not tome to lose."

Logan nodded and went through the gates. He moved the car closer to the mansion and he stopped a couple of feet in front of it.

Calluses was already started to repair the parts of the mansion that were destroyed. Right now he was repairing the front of it most of its led walls had to be put back up before the bricks. He was in his steel form using the strength that he got from it to put up the led walls. He heard us driving toward him and he moved over to us with the wall still in his hands. Logan and I got out of the car as soon as the car came to a stop a couple of feet away from Calluses.

I said "How bad is it?"

"Not good," said Calluses, "many parts of this place have been damaged will take much repair to fix it."

"Was anything damaged underground," I said.

He just shook his head. He said "No nothing is touched down there."

Now it was Logans turn to ask something. He said "What about the Professor? How is he?"

"There is no improvement in his condition," Calluses said.

Logan and I looked at each other and I knew that we were both thinking the same thing. We went back to the car and took out the bags that we had in the trunk.

"Come on Silverwings," I said.

Silverwings came out of her hiding place and flew around us stretching her wings while Logan and I went inside. Fortunately, the sleeping quarters of everyone in the mansion was undamaged so went to put our stuff back into our room. We dropped our bags there and went over to the infirmary.

The two of us found the Professor lying in one of the beds in the room. He was in the one all the way at the end of the infirmary.

Beast was standing next to the Professor looking at a piece of paper. He saw us as soon as we appeared in the doorway. "Ah you're back," he said.

Logan and I walked over to the Professor and Beast. We looked down at the Professors still form hoping that he would wake up right in front of us.

Logan turned to Beast, saying "Anything?"

Beast only shook his head. He said "There isn't any change he's the same as he was yesterday."

"How did Juggernaut get passed the security," asked Logan.

"Same as usual he just blasted right through it," said Beast.

While Beast and Logan were talking I couldn't take my eyes off of the Professor. To me it was hard to believe that someone so powerful could go down so easily. The urge to touch him was nearly unbearable so I gently brought one of my hands down onto his skin. The Professor didn't react when my hand touched his, he was definitely out of it. Thankfully he was still warm which meant that he wasn't dead.

"Professor, what did he do to you," I said. I moved my hand over to his head and put it to the side of his face. It was my turn to speak up to Beast. I said "How did this happen to him?"

Beast now turned to me. He said "The Professor was trying to reach into his brother. You know how he is he tries to reach into certain mutants and bring them over to our side. You know turn them into an x-man."

"Juggernaut is a bad case he shouldn't have bothered with him if you ask me," Logan said.

I said "He had to have his reasons Logan."

Logan let out a deep sigh, saying "If you say so Silver."

I said "How long will it take for him to recover?"

"I don't know," said Beast, "something like this is impossible to figure out his condition is very advanced. If it wasn't for his mind powers he'd be dead by now but there's one little problem."

"Really, what's that," I asked.

"Juggernaut is still loose somewhere we don't know where he is. Not even Cerebro can find him," he said.

Logan said "He must've gone back to Magneto. He's far too stupid to have come up with this alone."

"I agree he must've attacked us by Magnetos orders," I said.

Beast said "That is a possibility but right now we can't be sure."

"We should go after him," said Logan.

"No what, you need to do is help with the repairs," said Beast.

"What about the others," Logan said.

Beast said "They're out getting more material I want you two to go back up and help Calluses. Even though he's made of steel he still needs a hand."

Logan was about to protest again when I put a hand on his shoulder and steered him away from Beast.

On our way back out Silverwings could feel my discomfort so she tried to soothe me by rubbing her head against my neck. I cocked my head over her body giving her a huge with my head. "I know, girl, thank you," I said.

Once we were outside Logan let out his anger. He let out a loud tell and punched his fist into the ground. Logan just knelt there staring at the ground after a few seconds I thought I heard his sobbing. Hearing this I knelt down beside him wrapping my arms around his body to comfort him.

I said "He'll be all right, Logan. The Professor has always come back to us."

"I know that Silver," said Logan. Wolverine looked into the horizon toward the sun. He said "Juggernaut is gonna pay one way or another."

"We'll get him, dear, I just know we will," I said.

"And when we do I'll tear him to pieces," growled Logan.