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This chapter is a tribute to the man who created a team of the greatest mutant superheroes- X-Men and made our childhood awesome. We'll all always miss you, Mr. Lee.

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"So now we're gonna play Blindfold, okay? Grace, cover my eyes!"

Logan couldn't help but smirk at the amusing sight. Seeing Jade play with those little trolls seemed more entertaining than doing anything else at the moment. Her eyes were blindfolded by one of them so now her hands groping in the air, trying to catch them by following her ears. Logan's feet unconsciously advanced toward them.

All the kids fled the ground as they saw the scary feral approaching them. Jade heard his footsteps and instinctively stepped toward him. All the children giggled loudly when she mistakenly grabbed Logan's hand with a triumphant grin. "Gotcha!"

She hastily yanked the fold off but to her surprise and slight embarrassment, her little catch was actually the tall feral dude every kid of the planet was scared of. She released his hand immediately. "Logan? What are you doing here?"

Logan cleared his throat and quickly ran his brain's horses. "Uh-i was just...i was just passin' by and ya suddenly caught my hand so..."

"Oh I'm so sorry!" Jade apologized for her silly mistake. "I just get like, totally distracted when I'm playing with my little buddies."

"I can see that." Logan smirked with a scrunched up nose. "Ya like kids a lot, right?"

Jade nodded happily. "We live in a school, right? The place is full of them and they're all so adorable. Where were you going by the way? Ain't you gonna be here for the pool party?"

Logan shoved his hands into his pockets and shook his head. "Nah, I'd like ta avoid all that noise and yappin', darlin'."

"Oh." Jade's face fell. "It's okay if you don't want to. So where are you going then?"

"I'm just sick and tired of eatin' that plain crap of the cafeteria. Since today's Sunday, so I was just goin' out ta find some corner that serves a good tray in the morning."

"Oh I know one." Jade said excitedly. "Go to Wendy's around the corner. I, Jubes and our friends often go there. Their breaded chicken fillet sandwich is bombdigity!"

A great idea brightened his brain. "Would ya show me?"

Jade hesitated slightly, but then nodded. "Uh-okay."

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"Ya were right, darlin'." Logan muttered around large mouthful. "This shit is really good."

Jade chuckled in the next sip of her hot coffee. "Told ya."

Logan grinned with his last bite. "I think we should come here every Sunday."

"Okay, I'll try. By the way," biting her bottom lip, Jade put her mug down and placed the question that had been revolving around her brain since their last session on the table. "When I was reading your brain that night...Wolverine, he called me something. Would you like, tell me it means?"

"Yeah, sure." Logan picked another sandwich and shoved one-fourth of it into his mouth. "What was it?"

Jade let out a nervous laugh. "He called me...he called me Mate."

Logan choked on the half-chewed bite as he heard the damned word.

Wolverine is rolling on the floor laughing.

Someone got busted!

"Oh my god, are you okay?!" Jade tried to leave the chair but Logan stopped her.

"D-Don't worry, I'm fine." coughing loudly, he picked up his mug and swallowed a large gulp of his cooling coffee. "S-So did he really...call you Mate?"

"Uh-yeah," Jade nodded. "Do you know what it means?"

"Well..." Logan cleared his throat and tired to give a reply that wouldn't sound like complete bullshit. "A Mate is actually a feral term for a companion. It could be used for both a friend or a life-partner."

"Oh.." Jade proffered a comprehending nod. "The word actually confused me because..." her tongue hesitated before revealing the truth she didn't tell Logan last time. She didn't want to make him sadder than he already was.

Logan raised an eyebrow. "Because what?"

She let out a deep breath and finally unveiled the truth. "Because you called Kayla your Mate, too."

Logan's eyes broadened. "What?"

Jade nodded. "Yes. You guys didn't spend much time together but still, she meant a lot to you." a soft smile crossed her face. "And you'd be surprised to know that it was Kayla who gave you your other name, Wolverine."

"Oh really?" Logan had a curios smile.

"Yep." Jade nodded excitedly. "It actually came out of a folk tale. Would you like to hear it?"

Logan leaned back and crossed his arms with another curious smile. "Yeah, sure."

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Jade leaned forward and put her hands on the table. "Ok so listen. I'm gonna tell it in Kayla's words. One night, when you guys heard a wolf howl on a mountain, she told you a legend about wolves that was connected to the Moon. The moon is believed to be lonely because she used to have a lover. His name was Kuekuatsu and they lived in the spirit world together. Every night, they would wander the skies together, but one of the other spirits was jealous. Trickster wanted the Moon for himself. So he told Kuekuatsu that the Moon had asked for flowers; he told him to come to our world and pick her some wild roses. Kuekuatsu took his wolf form and came down, but he didn't know that once you leave the spirit world, you can never go back. And every night, he looks up in the sky and sees the Moon and howls her name, but he can never touch her again."

Jade paused to register Logan's reaction but he was speechless for a long unnerving minute. When he realized that Jade was waiting for a response, he smiled awkwardly. "Wow. Koo-koo-ka-choo got screwed."

Jade's eyes widened in slightly pleasant surprise. "Whoa, that was exactly what you said when Kayla finished her little story."

"Really?"

"Yep. And then she added that Kuekuatsu meant Wolverine, another name for Wolf among the Innu, the Indigenous inhabitants of Canada."

"Wow." Logan had a genuine smile on his lips. "That was...really an interesting story."

Chewing her bottom lip, Jade tucked a strand behind her ear. "I know you must be wondering why I didn't get Kayla's sketch ready along with Victor's. Well, I just thought it would make you feel sad about not being able to remember your time with her. I can still tell my friend to draw it on a paper if you-"

"Nah, it's okay." Logan shook his head. "That time's gone, Jade. There's no use mournin' the loss i don't even remember ta have so just let it go." Jade nodded and come back to her cooling coffee.

"But the way," smirking, Logan leaned forward to change the topic. "What would ya like ta see in your Mate?"

Wolverine leers at Jade lustfully.

Now that's something we both want ta know, doll.

Jade laughed lightly. "Well that depends on which type of Mate you are talking about here, a friend...or a boyfriend?"

Logan rolled his eyes. "Of course it's about a boyfriend."

Jade flashed a blushing smile. "I don't know, I never thought about all that much. After all, every guy is unique in himself."

"That's true, but still..." he insisted. "What's the first thing that attracts ya about a guy?"

Jade replied after a long contemplated minute. "Look I won't be a hypocrite about this one, the first thing that attracts both me and Jubes about a man is a sturdy, muscular physique. So yeah, like the most of female population of this world, I'd also love to see some meat on my man when I find him."

Logan leaned back and smiled wickedly.

"Some meat on yer man, huh?"

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"Nothing can be better than a warm Sunday pool party." Jubilee murmured lazily, rubbing a thick blob of Coppertone lotion on her arm.

Kurt crossed his arms behind his head. "Zhis iz zhe biggest advantage of being an X-Man."

Jubilee turned to her sister. "I need a mocktail."

Jade lowered the magazine she was reading and scowled at her sis. "Forget it, Jubes. I'm aint playing your waitress today."

"Hey," Jubilee threw a demanding forefinger at her younger sister. "You borrowed my jeans this morning."

Jade rolled her eyes. "But I'll be paying off that debt in History's test tomorrow so I'm not gonna do anything else for you today."

Jubilee crossed her arms with a soft pout. "You're really so mean, little sis."

Jade gave a larger roll of eyes this time. "Wow, look who's talking."

Jean sighed behind her sunglasses. "They got started again."

Ororo growled at their childish argument. "Shut all that shrieking, drama queens! Someone is trying to...Oh. My. GOD!"

All the girls turned their heads to where the weather witch was gawking. All the lovely jaws touched the floor as the hottest teacher of the planet, professor Logan's chiseled body advanced toward them in nothing but black swimming shorts.

Jean hastily sat up. She raised her sunglasses and set them on top of her hair with a totally impressed expression. "Wow..."

Jubilee's eyes appreciatively scanned every sculpted inch of those thick arms, biceps and abs. "Whoa... Is this dude a stripper in his spare time?"

All the leers being thrown at Logan tightened Jade's jaw for no reason.

From the teachers to students, every female present in the party was literally drooling over their feral heart-throb but unfortunately, the girl Logan was here for, Jade was combusting from pure jealousy—along with every male present in the party.

Scott gritted his teeth. "This man is a pure show-off!"

Logan approached Jade's group. His eyes appreciatively raked over Jade's blue strappy one-piece swimsuit.

Wolverine whistles loudly.

Damn, Mate's increasin' the goddamn Global Warming!

Keeping his lustful gaze fixed on his insanely cute doll, Logan flashed a sexy smile to everyone. "Hello ladies."

Before Jade could scold him for his foolish display, all her friends surrounded Logan like bees and began to shower praises over him. Jade rolled her eyes furiously and looked around. All the balls were on fire right now. She particularly felt bad for the poor Scott who was hurt by Jean's stupid reaction toward Logan's little show. Everybody knew that he had a huge crush on the redhead but could never say anything due to his shy nature. Seeing Jean running after the feral jerk like a bimbette, he stormed back into the mansion without saying anything to anybody. Jade felt really bad for her friend and rushed after him, leaving Logan stuck among his goddamn skeezers.

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"Scott! SCOTT!" Jade ran after her fuming friend, trying to stop him. "Just listen to me, buddy! Sco-"

"Hey Jade, listen!" Jade spun around only to find Logan chasing after her. "Where the hell are ya goin'?"

Jade locked her arms stiffly. "Why are following me?"

Smirking at the explosive jealousy rolling off of his little doll, Logan approached her lazily. "I just saw ya leavin' the party so-"

"So what?" Jade gritted through her clenched teeth. "You decided to leave your fanflies behind for a minute and jam after your little friend? That's really so schweet of you, Mr. Logan."

Logan smirked again. "Looks like someone's burnin' up with jealousy."

Jade shook her head exasperatedly. "NOBODY is jealous here, okay? And you think this is funny, huh? Whatever just happened is just a joke to you?"

Logan rolled his eyes. "And what just happened exactly?"

Jade let out a sharp exhale. "Scott, that's what happened! You know he likes Jean, right? The poor guy literally adores that girl but is too shy to say it to her face but Jean...she's like, circling you with her damn tongue hanging out these days and it broke his heart today."

Logan tried to justify his actions. "But whatever I just did was not fer Jean or any other girl out there, it was fer-"

Jade cut his off with a raised palm, something that never worked on the badass feral before. "I just don't care who it was for, Logan. The point is, you really disappointed me today."

Logan sighed with an apologetic look and prepared himself to say the three words nobody'd ever heard from his mouth before. "Okay...I'm sorry...for whatever I just did outside."

Jade shook her head. "I don't want your sorry, Logan. If there is anyone you need to say sorry to, it's Scott." with that Jade twirled around to stomp off to her room.

Wolverine smacks his forehead.

Way to go, dumbass, ya screwed everythin' up!

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Glossary of Eighties Terms

Bimbette- A bimbo

Bombdigity- Something really good!

Jam- To leave, usually abruptly.

schweet- sweet

Skeezer- A girl who's all over popular and handsome guys.

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