Just a short thing that was on my mind. For cuteness.
Wolverine found himself in the tv room once more. The others had settled down to board game, except Laura, who had gone out to play in the snow. Several snowman statues and ornaments had piqued her interest.
"There is no way that's a word!" Tabitha argued, pointing at a row of small, wooden tiles.
"It's a spice from Asia," Hank said, tapping the three volume dictionary set.
Logan smiled and looked out the window.
The view sapped the happiness from his face.
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"So, what's a pretty girl like you hanging around a place like this for?" The blond teenager tried his best to give a winning grin. His friends, watching from behind a stand of trees, elbowed each other and laughed.
Laura lifted his hand from her shoulder over her head and knelt down to pack her ball of show tighter. He looked back to the trees, receiving thumbs-up and other gestures of encouragement.
"Hey you!"
The boy turned as the doors slammed open and Logan came running out. His smile turned to a sneer. "You don't scare me, mutie."
Logan stopped a few feet away and leaned in to look the boy in the eyes. "She's my daughter."
"Oh." He turned to his friends, but saw they had already taken off across the lawn. "I just remembered I left a...look! A distraction!" And he was gone as well.
Laura looked up at her father, amusement and confusion battling for her expression. He sighed. "You're too young to date." Thankfully, she didn't put up any resistance.
A tingling in his toes made him remember he had neglected to put boots on. Satisfied she understood, he went back inside.
"Now you're just messing with us."
Beast flipped open one of the dictionaries and paged through. One of his blue, furry fingers ran down the page until it stopped. The players leaned forward as one and stared.
"I'm never playing against you again," Boom Boom muttered.