Sovereign-Chapter 10

There was a different sound to the clanging of staffs in the morning just outside the mansion. Many of the inhabitants came to see our matches, but I only kept my eyes on my opponent. He was smarter than Remy with this particular weapon, so quick that no one could see it, it was but a black blur swinging through the air. I had only just time to block it. Sweat dripped down both our faces and necks, and our staffs clashed in both harmony and conflict. I was doing well then I was on the ground. I had forgotten his move. I had forgotten the one thing that I could never master in all the training he gave me. The ways he used his staff, every pattern of attack and defense he could utilize that I couldn't imagine using myself. He helped me up, pulling me close, staff to his side, mine thrown by a move of his about 10 feet away.

"Match over," his words were sweet before he kissed my head and pulled away. Remy and Mikey needed space, so we went over to the crowd and watched although both of us I'm sure were wrapped up in another world.

"Kid," the word, although growled above us, got my attention. I turned up and saw Logan, looking at Perry with a look that only spelled out trouble.

"Yeah Logan?" I poked my boyfriend, who looked up as well, and the fear was evident both in his emotions and in his eyes.

"Need to talk to you," Perry immediately got up, following Logan inside the mansion. I was nervous, but I watched them leave before turning my attention back to the sparring matches.

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"Hey," I looked up from my work to see Perry standing in the doorway, half smiling at me.

"Hey," I stood and embraced him; an action he returned, pulling me as close to him as possible. We somehow got to the bed where I ended up sitting next to him, pressed against his side. I felt his body heat through my blood red halter and his white t-shirt.

"Logan gave me the speech," the fear was evident; I was guessing the 2 hours he had spent with Logan weren't the happiest of his life.

"And?" I knew my fear was evident to him. I was sure that Logan wouldn't like me dating someone who was of legal age.

"He said in many, many more words that if we kept it legal, we could stay together," I sighed in relief. We both knew that my limits were a bit before legal standards, so we'd be okay for the time.

"Wait. He actually thought that I wouldn't keep any relationship I had legal?" I was suddenly angry. Logan knew more about me than even Remy and Rogue did here at the mansion.

"He never said that directly, but he did imply that he thought we had before," he said solemnly, watching my face go from angry to pissed.

"I'll kill him!" Perry's arms hindered my quest to get to the door and find Logan and kill him. He pulled me onto his lap, holding my wrists against my hips the way he had when he had discovered my tattoo and began whispering in my ear.

"Now, you don't want to kill your father figure. He didn't know everything about you. Heck, I don't know everything about you. I doubt even you know everything about yourself. No one knows everything about themselves, and no one knows everything about anyone else," came his soothing voice. I stopped struggling and fell limp against his chest. He held me close, kissed my hair and then turned me on his lap so I was facing him.

"I love you," he said firmly. That was all I needed to calm down fully. I smiled.

"Je t'aime," he tilted his head to the side slightly in question.

"It means 'I love you' in French. My brother taught me," my response was a kiss on the head before he lay down, pulling me next to him. I wondered why I suddenly felt so tired and fell asleep almost immediately, but not before I heard a whispered "Je t'aime" in my ear.

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I knew the warmth would end eventually.

I turned in his arms to see him smiling at me, holding me to his body as if willing me to stay in existence, as if I would disappear at any moment.

"Good Evening lovebirds," Rogue said without looking away from the ceiling.

"What's up with you?" I asked, looking from my boyfriend to my best friend and back again.

"Yah brotha's being yah brotha," she said in an annoyed tone. "He insisted that Ah sit in here until ya two woke up an' 'den kick mignonne's boyfrien' outta de room," she said, mimicking my brother's accent almost perfectly.

"Ugh. Can I kill him now Rogue?" I asked, snuggling closer to Perry, if that is even possible.

"No shugah. I love the guy ya know," she said with a small smile, looking at me in Perry's arms.

"Ah'm sorry, Perry, but Ah'm gonna have ta send ya back to yoah room," He just nodded and gave me a lingering kiss on my lips before getting up and exiting the room, turning right and going down the hall to the room he was sharing with Remy. I turned and gave her a nasty look.

"Now why'd you do that? You could have just told him we never woke up," I said, rolling onto the warm spot where Perry had been laying moments before.

"Damn. Ah shoulda done that just ta annoy him," she said, looking at me, yawning.

"Yeah," I said, curling up in a small ball. "Damn, do you know how lonely it feels to have to go back to sleep after having been in his arms?"

"Yes I do, Ada. Now please…go to sleep," she said, turning towards the wall, willing herself to sleep.

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