I personally think it's been too long for me to wait to update this. Frankie, or BeHPHappy, which is what you seem to be calling yourself these days, I'm sorry this was so late!
The Disney World Effect
Logan awoke with a yawn to see Mystique absentmindedly watching Disney movies. She currently was watching Disney's Tarzan, and Logan faintly heard her humming "Two Worlds." He made sure to store that information; could come in handy later on.
"Morning Logan." Mystique greeted. Her golden eyes remained glued to the TV. Logan stood up and stretched.
"What are you watching?" Logan asked, his eyes raised.
"That stupid Disney virus has got me. Please kill me." Mystique mumbled. She stood up, clad in white shorts that reached her knees, and a black tank top. Logan smiled.
"I think I might just let you live, just to watch you suffer." He grinned. He slid up closer to her and looked her straight in the eyes. He rested his hands on her shoulders, and got lost in her magical golden orbs…it wasn't until Mystique wriggled out of his grip and squirmed away that he noticed she was beginning to feel uncomfortable.
"Uh…" Mystique began. "We should go off and get breakfast, right?" She asked. Logan regained his bearings and sent an apologetic look Mystique's way.
"Raven, I don't want to make you feel uncomfort…" Logan began, but stopped and Mystique shook her head.
"Don't worry about it, Logan." She whispered. She checked she had her key, and began heading out the door, leaving it open for Logan. He hurried to get dressed and followed Mystique out the door.
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The cool bus rolled along the highway as Logan now took the window seat. He settled in as Mystique sat beside him, looking apprehensively around her surroundings.
"Relax a little, Raven." Logan soothed her. His gruff voice poured over her, and put her over-active nerves to rest.
Pushing her thoughts out of her mind, and turned her attention to some of the people around her.
She could easily tell the mutants apart from the humans. They too were squirming anxiously in their seats. They had apprehensive looks on their faces, and constantly looked around them. Mystique pitied them.
She saw that some of the mutants had physical mutations like her, but, unlike her, they were probably stuck that way. She had always thought that her gift, her mutation, was a curse, something that made her horrible and had broken her life. But now, in this place with different mutants who had similar physical mutations, she now thought herself as blessed. While the others could not change, she had the ability to look normal. She knew that they would kill for that power.
"What're ya thinkin' about?" Logan asked her quietly, leaning in to be heard over the racket of the bus' occupants.
"How lucky I am." Mystique whispered back absentmindedly, not even turning to look at Logan.
"Lucky about what? That you've got the Wolverine sitting beside you?" Logan smirked. Mystique turned to look at him.
"I hope that ego comes back to bite you one of these days." Mystique muttered, a faint sound of a giggle evident in her throat.
"We'll see about that." Logan mumbled amusedly, turning back to the window.
In the distance he saw the tip of something. What was it?
"Where…exactly are we going today?" Logan asked warily.
"Um…I think it's the Magic Kingdom." Mystique answered. Logan nodded. He may as well get used to it now; he was stuck here for two more days.
"Wait. Do we have any money?" Logan asked.
Mystique shrugged with a sheepish grin on her face. "Sorry, must've left it in my other identity." She replied.
Logan dug through his pockets and found his wallet. Luckily, he found two hundred dollars, approximately, sitting safely in the grubby leather. They'd just have to avoid spending money; Ororo, when Logan had left to go to Florida, joked that he should bring extra money in case he left to go to Disney World.
"Very expensive down there Logan. You better bring a bucket load of money." She had giggled before.
Logan chuckled to himself. If Ororo had just known…if Ororo had just known that Logan had ended up going to Disney World, with Mystique, no less, she would never let him hear the end of it.
The bus stopped and Logan playfully pushed Mystique out of the seat. Looking very disturbed, she turned around and punched him hard in the shoulder.
"OW!" Logan cried in pain. "Come on, that hurt!"
"Teach you to mess with a girl." Mystique winked before pulling Logan off the bus. She stretched, needing to get her lithe body moving after the fifteen minute long bus ride. Logan watched carefully, admiring how fit the blue woman was.
"Are you watching me, Logan?" Mystique asked coyly. Logan blushed and pulled his eyes away from her. There was an awkward silence.
Logan sighed. "Are we gonna get going or what?"
Mystique rolled her eyes and began walking down to the beginning of Main Street U.S.A. Logan ran to catch up, and soon they were looking side to side at the different architectural greatnesses of the buildings. A trolley being pulled by a horse passed by, and that's when they saw it.
Cinderella's Castle.
The pair saw a photographer taking photos of people in front of the castle, creating a very picturesque postcard.
Logan and Mystique shared a look.
"One picture." Mystique said. Logan nodded. They ran up and paid the photographer. They posed in front of the castle, and bought the photo.
As they continued walking, Mystique sighed. "We're going soft." She sighed again.
"It's always so sad when these sort of things happen." Logan stated. He pulled Mystique closer to him, carefully, right to his side and held his arm around her neck.
"Logan…" Mystique ducked out from underneath his elbow. "Please…don't do this." Logan nodded sadly, and they awkwardly began walking again. They found their way to Adventureland, and found the Pirates of the Caribbean ride.
"Come on, Logan!" Mystique began getting excited again. "I loved this movie."
"Yeah, same. Who didn't?" Logan said. They sat down inside one of the boats and began setting off.
As their little boats pulled along through the water, they heard the sound of running water. They passed by a stranded, dilapidated ship with thunder clapping and lighting flashing behind it. They moved forward, and saw a trio of skeletons hanging off poles, with flashes of lighting still going in the background. Unexpectedly, the boat fell sharply, and many of the small children on the ride screamed. The sound of running water increased in volume and around a bend they saw a waterfall; With Davy Jones' face on it. "No fear of evil curses, says you. Haha, properly warned, ye be, says I." As they progressed, they passed a huge ship with none other than Captain Barbossa on it, screaming things like "Fire at will!" and things like that, and cannons shooting ammo off the side of his ship.
"I didn't like Barbossa at all in the movies." Mystique whispered to Logan. Logan agreed silently, and watched intently at his surroundings, his acute ears picking up sounds of parts yet to come.
As their ship lurched forward, they came into a town overrun with drunken pirates all looting and shooting their guns at one another and pillaging the town.
"Don't be chicken!" One man slurred.
Their boat pushed on, and they reached a part of town not in war. The pirates stood everywhere, with the ladies in old-fashioned dressed watching on. After several minutes of plain pirate antics, they began hearing "Yo-ho, yo-ho, a pirate's life for me…" and saw two pirates talking.
"More than that bloody Jack Sparrow ever did! If I ever see him around here again, I'll kill him!" One exclaimed. Suddenly, a grungy head poked around a barrel.
"Jack Sparrow!" Logan breathed.
"Yer right! Just shoot him right in the heart!" The other agreed. Jack pressed himself against the wall so as not to look conspicuous. Minutes later, the ride was nearly finished, and they saw Jack once more, in a throne surrounded by gold, singing "Yo ho, this IS the life for me."
Finally the ride was finished and Mystique and Logan stepped out from the cave, suddenly smothered by the Florida heat.
"Oh my God, it's positively boiling." Mystique remarked.
"Tell me about it." Logan said. They continued walking, and after going on several rides, which included the nice, cooling log ride/ roller coaster, Splash Mountain, they sat down at a fry stall for a snack. There, they sat down and two people sat at the table next to them.
"Uh...we couldn't help but notice you two. Are you both…er…mutants?" The man asked carefully.
"What does it look like?" Mystique said coldly enough to banish away the blistering temperature.
"No, no, no! You've got us all wrong. We're mutants too." The woman, who appeared to be the man's wife, explained. Mystique's tension lowered slightly, but she kept her guard up.
Noticing how apprehensive Mystique was, Logan accommodated.
"Prove it." He challenged.
The man sighed, and held up his arm. It instantly turned transparent.
The woman turned her gaze to the napkin sitting in front of her. Her glare intensified, and all of a sudden, the napkin ignited in a blaze of fire.
"What do you guys do?" The man asked.
Snikt.
Logan unsheathed his Adamantium claws for the couple to examine. "That, and I have a healing factor." Logan explained subtly. Everyone's gaze fell on Mystique, who was leaning on her chair with her sneakers on the table. She sat back down in a normal position.
"I'm a shapeshifter." She said lamely.
"Could you…show us?" The woman asked slowly. Mystique sighed, and instantly shifted to appear like Logan, claws and all. As quickly as she had first done it, she returned to normal. "Amazing…"
"Oh, how rude of us. My name is Connor, and this is my wife Alithia. Are you two married?" Connor asked.
Logan and Mystique shared one look at each other, and burst out laughing. "What's so funny?" Alithia asked.
"You…said…me…and…Logan…were…HAHAHAHAHA!!" Mystique managed to gasp before throwing back into fits of laughter.
"Me and Raven married?! That's ridiculous!" Logan laughed hysterically. On the inside though, he felt that couldn't be too crazy.
Wait, Logan thought. That is NOT true!
At least, he thought it wasn't.
"My name's Raven, and his is Logan." Mystique introduced. There was a round of hand shaking, and they soon began talking about Disney World, what rides were good, and how their lives were.
About an hour later, they were finally talked out, and melting in the steady sunlight they'd been sitting in all day.
"Wanna go on some rides with us?" Connor asked. Logan and Mystique considered it, and agreed. They continued going through Disney World, talking while on rides and walking.
"So how'd you two meet?" Alithia asked as they got off of Peter Pan's Flight (which, by the way, wasn't worth the Fastpass we wasted on it).
"We're mortal enemies." Mystique replied. Connor and Alithia shared a look of confusion.
"Then why are you in Disney World together?" Connor asked.
"It was all a mistake." Logan explained. Alithia and Connor shrugged and left it at that.
Later that night…
"Are you guys staying for the fireworks?" Connor asked Logan and Mystique as they sat at their table eating dinner. They were currently dining at the Liberty Tree in Liberty Square. Mystique and Logan had decided to invite their newfound mutant friends to come join them for dinner.
"We never planned on it." Logan replied idly.
"You can't miss it! They're supposed to be the most amazing fireworks how on Earth!" Alithia said.
Logan sent her a look. "In the house I live in, there's a mutant who creates fireworks. I know fireworks." Logan replied.
"It's true." Mystique backed him up.
"Well, just come with us okay?" Connor pleaded.
"Well, fine." Mystique agreed.
"They're starting now! All the lights are going out!" Alithia cried. They rushed to finish and were outside by the time they were just starting.
Alithia was right; they were the most beautiful things they'd ever seen. Fireworks of different colour, shape, and size shot off. Disney music accompanied it, and Mystique was so breathtaken that she accidentily backed into Logan.
"Raven… I don't want to make you uncomfortable." Logan sighed again. Mystique shook her head. "Logan, I think…this experience…has brought us closer together." Mystique tried to word it. As the huge, booming finale shot off, Logan pulled Mystique into him. Recklessly, he pulled her head closer to his cautiously, and her eyes grew more closed. Their lips connected, and the booming missiles blew up in a fiery shower of colour behind the two. The moment seemed perfect.
Connor and Alithia turned to look at Logan and Raven who hadn't answered their comment about the fireworks. They watched, dumfounded and smiling, as the two enemies locked in a passionate kiss.
Mystique's head was completely clear, except for one song she could remember.
Come stop your crying
It'll be all right.
Just take my hand; hold it tight.
I will protect you from all around you.
I will be here,
Don't you cry.
Logan remembered when Mystique had been watching Tarzan this morning, how beautiful she looked, and how beautiful the song was. He raised his voice over the noise of the dying fireworks.
For one so small, you seem so strong.
My arms will hold you, keep you safe and warm
This bond between us cannot be broken
I will be here, don't you cry.
Mystique joined in, tears of joy evident in her golden eyes.
You'll be in my heart
Yes, you'll be in my heart
From this day on,
Now and forever more…
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Well, that's the end of a long chapter. I loved the ending. Some Wolvertique fluff, FINALLY! Logan and Raven admit their feelings for each, make new friends, and actually let the magic of Disney into their hearts and minds! Please review!
I didn't want to describe rides in so much detail because that gets reallly boring and away from the story, so I only described PotC because i love that ride.