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"Jade!"
The warm embrace Jade was comfortably lost in was broken by her twin's loud screech from the door.
Jubilee rushed and threw an angry finger at her new teacher. "You! Get away from my sis, you weirdo!"
Logan could hear the crowd whispering gossips outside his ajar door. With a low growl he did as Jubilee said to let the elder sibling check on her younger on.
Jubilee hastily wrapped her protective arms around her slightly trembling sister. "You're okay, Jadie?" when the younger sister nodded shakily, Jubilee glared back at the feral man.
"What the hell were doing with my sis, huh?!" her bitter accusation caused Jade to pull back with narrowed eyes. "I just heard her scream! She was telling you to stay away from her. Were you like, trying to take advantage of he-"
"C-Cool out, Jubes," Jade defended her new teacher before he could himself. "Nothing like that's happened here. I was totally overwhelmed by our first session and Logan was just trying to comfort m-"
"Your first session?" Jubilee's eyebrows drew close together. "Your first session of what?"
Jade's face paled. "O-Our first session..." she looked back to Logan nervously and stuttered. "A-Actually, Jubes...Logan needs me to...i-i mean, I was just reading...his memories." she let the truth out hesitantly.
"You were WHAT?!" Jubilee gave a super shocked face. "Have you forgotten what happened last time, sis? You were in a week-long coma for god's sake! How could you be like, so careless about this and you," her glare returned to the feral dude.
"You almost got her killed today!"
"Look, chatterbox," now Logan also had a tightened jaw. "My reason fer comin' here and toleratin' all you teens was based on a deal with Chuck that one of his telepaths would help me with my lost past and-"
"And what?" Jubilee was even more furious now. "Haven't anyone told you Jade can't read anyone's brain? She has to suffer their traumatized past every time! Why the heck did you let her go into that dark cave and-"
"Oh c'mon, Jubes!" Jade shot of the protective nest of her twin's arms and crossed her arms with a stiff look. "I'm not like, five anymore, okay? I know you're my sister and care about my well-being but I totally know what I'm doing. You remember last time but can't you see I'm perfectly fine this time? It means that I'm finally learning to gain some control over my telepathic mutation! Isn't it totally awesome?"
Jubilee exhale sharply before sending both Jade and Logan a couple of more furious scowls. "Alright then, if you think you're like, all mature and capable of taking care of yourself on your own now, maybe I should just leave you two alone and resume your little session!" with that the elder twin stormed out of Logan's room.
Logan looked back to Jade and sighed. "It's all my fault.
Jade shook her head. "No, it's not. And don't worry, I know how to patch it up with my sista."
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"I know you're totally angry with me," Jubilee hardened her face even more as her sister approached her and sat down next to her. "But are you angry with this lovely Triple Chocolate Cupcake, too?"
Okay now that piece of chocolaty goodness was Jubilee's weak bone. The heavenly smell tingled her nostrils and forced her to give its beauty a quick glance but when she caught the knowing smile on her sister's face, she quickly wiped the busted look off her face and stiffened it again.
"Oh c'mon, sista," Jade put the cupcake aside with a soft sigh. "You know how important this is to me, right? I'm finally learning to control the power I've been totally afraid of since childhood. And Logan is the perfect table I can do all my experiments on because his healing factor will always take care of all the damage caused by my mental prodding."
Jubilee glowered at her sister." But couldn't you have told me all this stuff before? Do you know how insulted I felt in front of that outsider when you scolded me like a frikkin' five? That was a huge dis." she faced away from Jade and growled.
"As far as I remember, we'd promised each other that we would never hide anything from each other."
Jade hastily wrapped her arms around her sister's neck affectionately and gave a puppy dog face. "I'm so sorry if i hurt your feelings anyway, sis. I know my badass sister has always taken care of me like a mother hen after mom and dad's deaths. I didn't tell you about my sessions with Logan because I knew you'd get worried again and kirk out like you just did back there. But I promise you, I promise you that I will never ever hide anything from you again."
"Nah, that simple line won't work this time." Jubilee stealthily looked here and there before raising her pinky with a mischievous smile. "You gotta make a pinky promise."
"Really, Jubes?" Jade laughed. "Are we like, five again?"
"For today, yes, we are!" Jubilee grinned.
Jade grinned back and stood her left pinky up. "Okay. I pinky promise."
And then the twins entwined their pinkies and recited the sacred vow.
"Pinky, pinky bow-bell,
Whoever tells a lie
Will sink down to the bad place
And never rise up again"
"Okay so can I take a bite of that cupcake?"
"Forget it little sista, it's only mine!"
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"I'm sorry, babe."
Logan whispered softly, looking at Jade's peacefully slumbering frame. He hadn't seen her since afternoon and needed to make sure she was okay. Her careless yearner position, Her raven strands messed up by the sleep, her calmly rising and falling chest and slightly parted lips revealed she was in a deep sleep she definitely needed after all the mind-exhausting stuff she'd absorbed from him.
He couldn't help but feel guilty about the whole thing. If he hadn't forced Xavier to tell her to help him, she didn't have to face all that shit. He was going to forbid her for the next session.
On the other hand, Logan almost had a heart attack when he found her sister's face covered in the same greeny shit she was rummaging through the fridge with in the morning.
All hail the Gremlin Queen!
His gaze came back to his doll. In spite of knowing that she needed some undisturbed rest, Wolverine was thrashing inside his mind, screaming at him to slam the door open and check on their slumbering Mate. Like a puppet on string, his feet unconsciously walked up to the door and prodded out a claw to work the lock. He quietly snuck in and approached Jade's bed. A relieved smile touched his face when his eyes ran over her beautiful body so closely.
Like most of red blooded men in the world, he usually preferred the tanned blondes with heavy assets but there was something about this pale brown Asian beauty that made his fingers ache to hold her body and mark every inch of it with his scent and seed. He also knew that thinking something like that about a teenager/his student was wrong on every possible level but Wolverine, who had already seen a potential Mate in this young female wasn't ready to listen.
Wolverine growls.
Believe it or not, but ya also wanna mate with her as much as i want!
Unconsciously agreeing with his animal, Logan raked his eyes over Jade's body again. His fingers mindlessly reached over and tucked a strand behind her ear. His forefinger then reached over to trace down her cheeks gently. God, her skin was so soft! His finger glided over the smooth surface like a hot knife did on butter. It now turned left to trace her lips. Before he could even realize what he was doing, Jade's eyes jerked open. She almost shouted in mild horror when she saw a dark silhouette hovering over her but Logan clamped his hand over her mouth rapidly.
"Shh! It's me!"
"Wogan?" she mumbled against his palm with strait eyes. "Wat da ell a u doin ere?!"
"What?"
Jade rolled her eyes and pointed her index finger at the clamp. "Oh sorry!" he pulled his hand back.
"What the hell are you doing here?" she gritted through her clenched teeth. "And...how the hell did you even get in here?"
Logan had a busted thief's face at the moment. He quickly thought of an excuse. "U-Uh I was...actually i am...actually the door of yer room...i-i was-"
"You know what," Jade cut the stammer off, looking at her sister groggily rubbing her eye mask. "Let's rap outside or we're gonna face my sister's hulky fury for breaking her beauty sleep."
"Okay."
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"So, again," Jade took another warm sip from her mug of hot chocolate. She always needed one whenever her slumber was disturbed. "What were you doing in our room at one frickin' am in the morning, Mr. Logan?"
Logan swallowed a warm sup from his offered mug and tried to complete his interrupted excuse. "Well, I found the door of yer room left open so I just went in to check on ya if you're okay or not." this was perhaps, Logan's first lie of this known life.
"Oh..." Jade believed him without another question and smiled softly. "Thanks for your genuine concern Logan, but I'm totally fine now."
"I can see that." Logan smiled back before abruptly turning serious. "By the way, I was thinkin' about cancelin' our sessions."
Jade's eyebrows drew close immediately. "But Why?"
"Ya know why," Logan sighed and put his mug aside, remembering yesterday's incident. "After whatever happened yesterday, I really don't wanna-"
"Oh c'mon, Logan..." Jade threw her head back with a loud groan. "At least you don't try to treat me like a damn porcelain doll, okay? I can understand Jubilee's overreaction but now you, too? Why don't y'all understand these sessions are gonna help me control my own fear I have against my power?"
Logan smirked at the growl. "Sorry for my overreaction. I just thought ya would want to step back yourself."
"No, I ain't stepping back this time." Jade shook her head determinedly. "I'm sick and tired of being afraid of my unique ability. I wanna learn how to control it and I want your help in that, Logan."
Logan smiled genuinely and picked up the hot liquid again. "Ya always have me on yer plate, darlin'. By the way..." he hesitated before his next question. He wasn't sure if he would get an answer or not.
"Would ya like ta tell me about what ya saw in my memories that scared you so much?"
Jade internally shuddered as she heard the question. Logan wanted to know about all those horrific memories. Remembering all those dark visions was going to haunt her mind again, but since she'd decided to continue their sessions, she couldn't say no now.
Jade took in a large gulp before responding without trying to sugarcoat things. "I saw all the physical and mental torture Wolverine'd endured in the lab where he'd gotten his blades, Logan."
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"T-Torture?" Logan's eyes widened in slight shock and disbelief. "What do ya mean by torture, Jade? And what do you mean by Wolverine had endured all that? It was me who'll have suffered all that shit, right?"
"No, it wasn't you, Logan." Jade said certainly. "In that lab, you were just Wolverine, not Logan. Those people wanted to keep you in your animalistic state all the time so they could use you as a fierce but mindless weapon of theirs whenever they wanted."
"What?" the whole new piece of information was stunning to Logan's ears.
"Yeah." Jade nodded. "And you'd be surprised to know that your animal spirit- Wolverine, it has an appearance of his own. In that appearance, you have amber eyes, sharp canines and pointed ears."
Logan almost laughed this time. "I'm sorry Jade, but are ya serious? I mean, do I really look like real-life Dracula when I'm the great Wolverine?"
"I knew you wouldn't believe me." Jade sighed and put her mug aside. "But that's the truth, Logan. Wolverine is you animal spirit and it wants you to remember it completely. That's why it helped me regain those memories."
"And what exactly did ya see in 'em all?" Logan asked through his narrowed gaze.
"I saw..." Jade let out a shuddering exhale before resuming. "I saw Wolverine chained in the cell of a lab. They treated it like a dumb pet all the time. And whenever it got out of control, they would punish it horrifically. Their head, a military guy named Stryker was the one who put covered your entire bone structure with a strange metal and changed your bone claws into those blades."
Stryker?!
The name hit Logan like a ton of bricks.
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"Stryker..." Logan looked to Jade in shock. "I know this name. I don't remember the face, but this name has always been echoing in my mind since I escaped that lab. After running from the facility, I'd been looking for my identity for months and one day I met another escapee of his, a girl named Angela. She told me about an island where Stryker was preparing another perfect weapon named Weapon- XI. I reached there and freed all the locked up mutants but before I could get my claws into that fuckin' flatscan, I had to-"
"Face a mouthless man a strange dude in red costume killed before you could." Jade smiled softly. "I saw them, too."
"Yeah, that one." Logan nodded. "Angela had told me about the guy being used as the lab rat- Wade Wilson. After the mouthless experiment's death, I reached Stryker's underground lab but he was nowhere to be found."
"That hoser, he's the one who's responsible for your memory loss, Logan. He often..." she momentarily paused, remembering the most agonizing vision.
"He often planted brainwashing images and visions of war and violence in your brain and since sedatives left no effect on you, he just...cut your head open and did whatever he wanted to do to you. A-And whenever he's really angry at your violent behavior, he just ordered his men to...drown you into icy water and electrocute you until you're unconscious."
A couple of tears sprang out of her eyes. "How could anyone...be so ruthless, Logan? You were a human for god's sake! How could they..."
Jade, baby..." Logan wrapped his arms around her. Jade absentmindedly buried her face in his clothed chest. "Forget about 'em, darlin'. They thought they could control me but it was a foolish mistake of theirs. By the way, is that all ya found out in the first proddin'?"
"No, actually." Jade slowly pulled back, wiping her tears. "When I falling weak continuously and I thought I couldn't take it anymore, Wolverine whispered a name right before you pulled me back."
"A name?"
"Yeah, it was Victor."
Victor...
The name sent a tingle through his brain.
"I think...I know this name, too." Logan had a distant look on his face. "It never echoed in my mind like Stryker did, but I think I know this one deeply."
Jade rubbed her chin. "I think Wolverine was giving us a hint about this man. Maybe this Victor dude has a huge role in your past. I'm definitely gonna focus on trying to find his identity next time."
Logan gave a grateful nod. "I'm not used to say this much, but thanks fer everything you've taken out of my brain and told me, Jade. Now I at least know that there's someone named Victor out there who knows me."
"You're totally welcome, but..." Jade smiled brightly. "Except for that someone, we're also your family now."
"Ya guys are?" Logan gave a playful brow.
"Yep." she nodded excitedly. "This school is a family for all of us mutants and you're also a part of it now."
Logan smirked at her innocent answer. "And what am I in this family? Uncle Logan?"
Her cute nose scrunched up. "Well that would sound totally awkward to all your fangirls in the school."
Logan chuckled. "Okay so let's just be...friends, alright?"
He was surprised at his own suggestion.
He just banged broads, not chooses a goddamn friend outta 'em!
"Friends?" she contemplated over the word. "Hmmm. I think it's a great idea. C'mon," smiling broadly, she extended her fist. "Let's be spanglers. Hello, I'm Jade."
Logan laughed. "What's this?"
Jade grinned. "No simple handshakes for a diesel friend like ya. We need a greeting both I and your 'rough-and-tough' persona are gonna approve. So how about a fist-bump?" and with that she abruptly grabbed Logan's hand, folded his fingers and bumped her fist into Logan's.
"OUCH!" Jade pulled back her hand with a sharp whimper and started jerking it vigorously. "Those metal knuckles hurt like hell, dude!"
Logan laughed loudly. "What else had ya expected?"
Jade also joined the laugh after a whining moment. She suddenly had a mischievous smile om her lips this time. "By the way Victor isn't the only thing I've taken out of your past, Mr. Logan."
Smiling wickedly, she slowly took her lips very close to Logan's ear. Logan had no idea what she had in her mind but it caused him to swallow hard at the intimacy between their faces.
"I didn't wanna see it, but the overwhelming flow of your memories forced me to watch the huge list of all the women that have come into your life so far." she whispered in his ear before pulling back with a wide grin. "From all those fine colds to your golden 'porn career', I've seen that all."
Wolverine's jaw tastes the floor.
"HOLY-we-are-officially-screwed-SHIT!"
Logan unsuccessfully tried to wipe the busted look off his face. "U-Uhm...y-ya saw that all?"
"Yep." Jade grinned again. "But don't worry, I won't tell anyone about this."
"Can I trust ya?" Logan raised a playful brow.
"Yes , you can." Jade gave an assuring smile. "Because we're friends now, right?"
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Note:- Wolverine's animalistic appearance is my own imagination. He's been shown with fang-like canines in the comics but amber eyes and pointed ears are just fictional.
Glossary of Eighties Terms
Cold- A very bad fine sexy woman.
Cool out- Calm down
Diesel- Cool, awesome, radical, basically something very good
Dis- Disrespect, insult
Hoser- Jerk
Kirk Out- To really freak out, get super angry or crazy about something.
Rap- talk
Spangler- friend, bud.
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