Logan watched the water ripple as they passed over the Atlantic Ocean. He wasn't keen on heights and really had never flown before but next to him Carmen sat calmly as she listened to music on a stolen i-phone. He found it wrong that she was doing that but also knew better than to judge her.
"Why don't you tell me about your time in Russia?" Logan asked trying to get his mind off the heights.
She pulled out her headphones. "I came over with my mother who was a slave from South America. She was pregnant then and I was born in Siberia. I was enslaved by a young king at the time," she said plainly. She couldn't hide the fact that her walls were going up from Logan however.
"If we're going to work together you need to trust me," Logan sighed in frustration.
Carmen pursed her lips. " When I was sixteen and I had eyes following me wherever I went. I hated it. The girls would get jealous and get their guards to beat me up," she breathed in. "That was the first time I had ever been attacked. That was also the first time I changed my age. Suddenly I was an eight year-old who when I was being beaten up, the surrounding people suddenly protected me while he guards looked at me in horror. I remember looking at my small hands and then running away while they fought. I forced myself back to my normal age. By the time I got back to the kingdom word had gotten around about what had happened. The court was disgusted. Everyone but the King who was curious and excited to use me. From then on I was trained like none other as a soldier and spy. When I was still 16 and the young king was 89 we knew I was immortal too. I was a legend in my kingdom," she stated bitterly. "Everywhere I walked people bowed like I was the queen. At the time it felt good. Like I wasn't a freak. Then I realized they were bowing because they were terrified of me. I'll never forget the look on their faces. A few weeks passed and the kingdom was attacked. I fought with the soldiers but the king called me back to hide me. 'They want you,' he said. I remember the guilt I felt of having put this kingdom through fear and disaster," she swallowed.
"So I ran. I remember grabbing supplies and running. Away from the kingdom. I hid in caves throughout my journey through Siberia. Killing wolves who attacked me with a single knife," she stopped and reached for her knife, but realized it was in the cargo. She frowned but continued. "My eyes freaked every traveler I passed. A year later I made my way back to the kingdom. There was nothing there. The whole place was demolished and in rubble. There was no one there. No one. The graveyard where my mother was buried; was destroyed. The castle gone. I then made my way to he nearest kingdom. I am not gong to tell you my whole life story for that would literally centuries but that was my main time in Siberia. The people who attacked my kingdom eventually developed into the Vipers and would hunt me down for my immortality. I know you're thinking why haven't they been looking for you and the answer is you have always hidden in the background until you saved the mutants. I have been to every country to search for a home. I have helped in many wars on the side I thought was right. The American Civil War, both world wars and even current wars. I know everything about everyone. You could say I'm a weapon of mass destruction for if I went to one counter any gave them the knowledge they would power over the rest and conquer everything. The Vipers want me. I don't know what else they have done for I have stayed as far away as possible. There you have it Wolverine." Carmen sighed sleepily.
"When is the last time you slept?" Logan asked.
Carmen snorted. "Out of all the things I just told you, you don't run away or think of using me or ask questions but you ask if I've slept recently?" Carmen asked.
Logan leaned against the side of the airplane and thought about how much more lonely Carmen was then him. He drifted off and slept with a plenty full of dreams. In the mean time Carmen waited until he was fully asleep and curled up in her chair. She rested her head on Logan's shoulder and thanked god silently for putting someone in her life that understood her.