Chapter Seven
"Professor?"
"Yes, Logan. Come in."
"Hey, uh, so how's it going?"
"Quite alright, Logan. Did your guest enjoy her dinner?"
"Mmhmm."
"Good. She was quite a charmer. Very nice young woman. Perhaps you'll invite her more often?"
"Heh yeah…well that's what I wanted to talk to you about."
"Oh? What is it?"
"Natalie…I uh…well I told her to stay here…"
"I see…"
"Because see she lives with that bastard of a boyfriend and he…I just don't think…she's not safe with him."
"Why is that?"
"He…well he's dangerous. That's all I'm gonna say."
"Dangerous…well Logan, consider for a moment. Is that your decision to make, him being too dangerous for her to live with? Do you have responsibility for this woman? You only just met her…"
"I know…"
"Logan?"
"She's different. She is. And the things I've seen so far, the things she's told me…she has to stay here with me…"
"With you?"
"…yeah."
"Why?"
"Because..."
"...Logan, don't be evasive."
"I just think she would be safer here with me. That's all. Ain't nothing else to think about it."
"Are you sure?"
"Chuck, you're really testing me."
"I'm aware."
"..."
"Well?"
"...I might feel...something for her..."
"I see."
"Something...a lot different than I've ever felt. I don't wanna say it outright-not my way-but I think I know what it is. If she stays here with me, I can figure it out...I can figure her out...figure myself out..."
"Yourself?"
"Yeah...my mind's been kinda messy."
"So I've observed. Perhaps it's the memories?"
"Don't know what it is. Like...well like half the people I know are callin' me by a name I never knew I had...but the only time it sounds right is when she says it..."
"Well, perhaps she should stay. Then she might be able to help you rediscover yourself."
"Rediscover, right. That's what I was trying to say."
"I know, Logan."
"...James."
"Pardon?"
"James, call me James."
"...alright."