Logan woke up several hours later his head pounding as he looked around the room. It was dark outside as he slowly sat up on the bed holding his head. 'God…it feels like she almost killed me.' Logan thinks to himself before he notices Marie's absence from the room. Getting up slowly he went to the bathroom door and knocked softly.

"Marie…you in there." No response, holding the handle Logan already knew she wasn't in there she'd run away he didn't have to look into the bathroom to know she wasn't there. But still hope was lingering in his chest when he through the door open, the pale light coming in from the window lighting the bathroom somewhat for his eyes.

Sighing Logan turned away from the bathroom wondering why he should care if that kid took off, she'd damn near killed him with that mutation of hers. And then the vague memory of what had happened came back to him. He'd stabbed Marie through the chest it was just like he'd dreamt it only a few nights before after the first time he'd seen her. 'What have you done you animal.' Logan sat back down at the foot of her bed holding his head in his hands.

"What have you done?" He asked himself out loud.

Looking back up the sudden thought of Marie out there on her own, if she hadn't taken his truck. But seeing his keys on the night table the thought was whipped away from his mind. Getting his clothes on in record time Logan through the hotel door open and walked out to his truck looking around for any foot prints near the truck Marie had been long gone for a long time because any signs of her foot prints had already been covered over by at least six more inch's of snow. Getting into the truck Logan shoved the key into the ignition turning the key the truck wouldn't start for him it was too cold. Trying it again the engine revved to life along with a great many tinks and clanks as the engine whined and Logan slammed the truck into gear. He was determined to find Marie.

Driving until the sun rose Logan was beginning to lose all hope that he would find Marie, what if someone had picked her up and she was half way across Canada by now. He couldn't blame her if Logan was Marie he would've run away too.

As Logan began to turn a curve in the road a tree trunk feel across the road, Logan couldn't swerve around it his truck ran head on into it sending Logan flying through the windshield just as Marie had predicted only a few days before. Landing in the snow a few feet away it was a moment or two before Logan regained his ability to move and picked himself up off the ground. Standing again he wobbled on his feet a little bit a large gash on his forehead healing as he walked back to his totaled truck.

The wind began to blow carrying with it the stench of another presence with him on the road. Extending his claws a large creature pounced from the brush along the side of the road. Logan got a good swipe at the man before he punched Logan. Turning around Logan was barreling back at him but the large man had the branch of a tree in his hand and struck Logan with it sending him flying backwards into another small tree snapping the trunk in half like it was a twig. Scrawling up from the ground Logan lunged at the man being knocked back by another blow knocking him out as he hit his truck. Laying there Logan's claws extracted back into his hand.

While Logan lay knocked out on the hood of his truck the creature known as Sabertooth stalked up to the truck and wrenched the door open and looked inside the truck. The mutant wasn't there.

Feeling the wind beginning to pick up Sabertooth looked around and there stood two of Xavier's men, the X-Men as they called themselves one male one female the female could control the weather and she was whipping up a snow storm with high winds that sent Sabertooth flying off into the distance passing where Mystique had landed the helicopter.

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Marie hitched her way into the next town where she found a bank that would actually take her ATM card and took three hundred dollar's from her account. Looking around she walked to the nearest hotel and got a room hauling herself up there for the rest of the night Marie huddled up in the bed her back against the head board crying. She could still feel Logan inside of her head. God he was so messed up from that lab she couldn't understand how he staid sane and then maybe he wasn't half sane traveling around Canada to get the pulp beat out of him in fight bars just for money. Marie was sure that there was something more that Logan could do to get money from the Logan inside of her head she knew he was smart he just would never let anyone see that side of him.

Finally crying herself to sleep she feel into a deep dreamless sleep that seemed to last for ages and ages. Waking again in the morning she rolled over half expecting to see Logan in the other bed, but she was still thinking of the last hotel room that she'd been in and then it all came back to her of what had happened the night before. Fighting back her tears Marie hoped that Logan was okay and that when he'd awakened he wasn't terribly mad with her, she'd had to do what she did…she would've died if she hadn't.

Getting out of bed Marie took a quick shower and went back out into the freezing cold she didn't know where to go. Walking to the train station Marie bought a ticket for the first train that was leaving. It was headed for Anchorage, Alaska.

Sitting there she looked out of the window watching the steadily falling snow, ignoring the glances that people kept giving her as she wore a mans clothes none of them actually fitting, Logan's boots, Logan's jacket, pants and shirt she could smell him all around her and it ripped something apart inside of her. She was stupid to have believed that she would be safe with someone like her, another mutant. She didn't belong with anyone and humans well that was a lost cause who would ever believe that she didn't want to hurt anyone when the world was filled with people who hated and feared mutants. Marie hadn't wanted to hurt Logan, she knew that he hadn't meant to stab her he was having a horrific nightmare he was protecting himself running on instinct as he had for so many long years still not knowing who he really was, where he came from or how he came to be the man that he was now. The Wolverine. Her bottom lip quivered gently as she closed her eyes tightly pushing back the tears that wanted release so badly. No, not know she wouldn't cry here in front of all these people, she would wait until she was alone as she would always be to cry Marie had all of her life to cry for her mutation for the people who had been damaged by it, her parents, Cody and his family, for the nameless faceless men on the road who had gotten just a little too friendly and she had been forced to use her power against them. And now Logan. Logan was inside of her head now and he was so much different from the man she had traveled with. The Wolverine was there, but there was a kindness and tenderness about him inside of her head that spoke to her, that made the rip in her heart gap open and swell up with all the pain of the world.