After Logan, Remy and I had fed the kids and got them all to bed I fell into my own bed and slept fitfully for a few hours. My dreams were the same as always. Logan was there just out of eyeshot or behind me. I didn't know how I knew that it was him but I did. There was pain and a woman screaming and then the dreams changed into my memories. Darkness, and then the fires; always the fires. My skin blistered and the pain became white hot until I couldn't feel it anymore. Bullets tore through my flesh and electricity cut through all thought, all feeling, leaving me numb as the darkness came down to strangle me.
I bolted upright in my bed cutting off a scream before anyone heard. My heart was pounding and my chest heaved as I tried to control the panic building in my chest. And then Remy was there pulling me into his arms as I started shaking.
He didn't say anything just held me close and hummed a tuneless melody against my hair. Slowly, I started to calm down, my body tingling and then feeling heavy.
"Cheri?" Remy's voice shook me out of the dark thoughts in my head.
I turned and hugged him, pressing my face to his bare shoulder before I slowly pulled away, "I'm sorry, Remy."
His eyebrows pulled together over his red eyes, "Yah don't have ta 'pologize, amore," he said tucking my hair behind my ear. "Ah just wanna make sure yah ain't hurtin' yourself."
I swallowed hard before nodding, "I'm fine. But maybe I should go and make myself some tea, and try and calm down a little."
He stood up with me, "Tea sounds good."
I laughed shaking my head, "I'm glad you're here Remy." As he smiled in self-satisfaction I added, "Who else would I laugh at if you weren't?"
His smile fell as he followed me out of my room, "Ah'll have yah know, cheri, if ah weren't here you'd be lonelier than eva."
Letting him grumble as we walked through the mansion I slipped my arm into the crook of his and promised to verse him in a game of poker if he'd stop whining.
"Hey Bobby," I said with a smile as we walked into the kitchen to find the young mutant sitting at the island bench in the middle of the room eating ice cream right from the tub with a spoon.
"Hey Jenna," he smiled giving Remy a challenging glare before going back to his ice cream.
I shook my head and moved to the kettle as Remy took a seat opposite Bobby smirking from behind a curtain of his hair while he picked a packet of sweetener out of one of the baskets on the bench in front of him. I knew he and Bobby weren't going to be friends anytime soon because of the way Remy had acted around Rogue earlier that day and she and Bobby had started dating a few months before.
Pulling two mugs out of the kitchen cupboard I filled them with the boiled water and seeped a tea bag in each. The tea made, I put Remy's mug down in front of him, leaned back against the kitchen bench beside the fridge, and watched with my mug cupped between both my hands as he ripped open five packets of sweetener and dumped their contents into his cup.
Bobby and I both winced as the red eyed mutant stirred his tea and sipped at the liquid. "You're disgusting," I said with a smile of disbelief. I had seen Remy drink his tea this way before but I was horrified every time.
He threw a grin at me over his shoulder and proceeded to take a very noisy sip from his mug. "Ah like things sweet, cheri," he said stirring his tea again.
I snorted and sipped at my own drink and Bobby went back to his ice cream. "I noticed," I said sharing a small laugh with Bobby at the expense of my friend.
Suddenly Bobby changed topics and looked up at me. "Why do your eyes do that?"
I blushed and put down my mug of tea beside Remy, leaning my forearms on the bench and rested against Remy's shoulder. I had been asked the same question about my strange coloured eyes by Jean a few weeks after I had come to the school. I shrugged. "My mutation makes them this colour," I said knowing that the vibrant aqua colour and the white striations around my pupils scared some people. That, coupled with my raven coloured hair and creamy sun kissed skin meant that my eyes always stood out.
"Was the first thing ah noticed 'bout her," Remy added, "That 'nd the fact that she was facin' ten thugs alone on the streets a New Orleans."
I bumped his shoulder with mine. "And you thought I needed saving big softy that you are," I grinned at Bobby.
"Ah ain't a softy, cheri. Just couldn't let a pretty one like yah go killin' my men," Remy said enjoying the surprised and slightly horrified look on Bobby's face a little more than he should have.
"Wait, so you met because you killed his men?" The young mutant asked me.
I sighed and glared at Remy for telling Bobby that I had blood on my hands. "No. We met because he decided to grow a conscience and not kill the girl who had just stolen most of his casino's profits for the month to give to the needy of New Orleans," I looked at Bobby again. "He got slapped for it too."
Bobby smirked as he went back to eating his ice cream a new respect in his eyes that I knew wasn't for Remy.
"Got anythin' with chocolate, cheri?" Remy asked me a few moments later, his sugary tea not enough to curb his sweet tooth.
I rolled my eyes but went to the cupboard knowing I'd get no peace until the man-child was fed his allotment of sugar for the night. I was reaching up into the top cupboard knowing I had seen a stash of chocolate bars there as I was cleaning up after dinner, when Logan's voice came from the doorway.
"Doesn't anybody sleep around here?"
I heard him walk into the room as Bobby answered. "Apparently not," he said glancing at Remy.
I jumped as Logan was suddenly behind me. "What're you lookin' for?" he asked.
My heart in my throat I stepped back from the cupboard "Chocolate. I know I saw some in here at dinner I just…"
I watched fascinated as Logan sniffed at the air for a moment before he reached around me to the cupboard over my head and pulled open the door. A moment later he handed me a chocolate bar he had found there.
"Th-thank you," I muttered wanting to kick myself for being so jumpy around the man.
Knowing by the set of Remy's shoulders that he was laughing silently at me I narrowed my eyes and stepped up behind him, dropping the bar of chocolate in front of him and then smacking him up the back of the head as punishment. All that achieved was that the Cajun's hidden smirk bloomed across his face.
I went back to leaning against the bench beside the fridge trying in vain not to watch Logan move around the kitchen out of the corner of my eye.
"Got any beer?" He asked opening the fridge's double doors and looking inside.
Bobby stared at him. "This is a school," he said a small smile on his face.
"So that's a no?" Logan asked looking at him over his shoulder.
"Yeah, that's a no," Bobby reiterated.
Logan closed the fridge. "Got anything other than chocolate milk?"
I spoke up making sure to look him in the eye and not get distracted by the fact that he was only wearing a white wife beater and jeans. "There should be some soda in that small cupboard," I said pointing to the row of cupboards on the other side of the kitchen.
Logan pulled out a cola and twisted off the cap throwing it down on the island bench beside Remy's now empty mug. Logan lifted the bottle to his lips but then thought better of it and held it out to Bobby. The mutant blew into the bottle and it chilled, ice forming on the sides.
"Thanks," Logan said impressed.
"No problem," was his answer.
Logan made himself comfortable, sitting on the stool beside Remy. Both seemed to tense at the same time before Logan turned to Remy. "You got somethin' to say, bub?" He asked a dangerous tone to the question.
Remy turned his whole body on the stool and pushed his hair back from his face. "Ah heard yah used my cheri tah try 'nd get your memories back," he said his voice low. "Heard it nearly killed her."
Logan's hazel eyes flicked to me and I ignored the accusation in his gaze letting my hair fall across my face like a shield.
"So?" The man said and I felt his eyes still on me. "She can handle it."
Through my hair I saw Remy's hand hover over the bottle top on the counter his fingertips glowing red as his power built up. I knew the destruction his manipulation of kinetic energy could cause and moved quickly. I was between him and Logan in three steps, my back to the larger of the two men as I put my hand over Remy's.
"You don't need to fight my battles for me," I told him before glancing at Logan over my shoulder noticing that Bobby was halfway out of his chair as I did. "And you," I said looking down at the large man. "Don't make me have to use my powers. You haven't seen the extent of them and I wouldn't want to scare you," I added baiting him just as he had done to me.
Logan studied me for a moment before turning back to his cola, "You'll have to show me someday, darlin'. I've been wonderin' how much of it's all bark and no bite."
I relaxed a little only to shoot Remy with a dirty look as he quipped, "No pun intended then, Wolverine?"
The bottle Logan had just lifted to his lips stopped in mid air and I braced myself to break up a fight only to see Logan grin before he tipped more cola into his mouth.
And just like that the tension in the air disappeared. Remy withdrew his hand from under mine and I relaxed letting him pull me to his side with an arm around my waist.
Logan also acted as if he was trying to make an effort. He started a conversation with Bobby, "How long you been here?" he asked putting his bottle down on the bench as I moved around the kitchen cleaning up.
Bobby started pushing his ice cream around the tub. "Couple years," was his vague answer.
Logan didn't seem to mind. "Your parents just sent you off to mutant school?" he asked.
I took Remy's mug from his hand when he held it out to me as he watched Logan and Bobby talk.
"Actually, my parents think this is a prep school," Bobby said hesitantly clearly ashamed of the fact that he was lying to them.
"Oh, I see," Logan nodded. "Well, I suppose lots of schools have their own dorms, campuses -."
"Jets?" Bobby interrupted him.
Shrugging Logan changed the subject, "So, you and Rogue, huh?"
I saw Remy stiffen as Logan said that and knew he was angry again. He was taking too much interest in a girl that was too young for him and already in a relationship. Sighing I walked over to him and pulled him from his stool to the sink handing him a tea-towel and making him wipe the dishes I was washing before he started another fight.
Bobby was distracted by my quick movements and seemed confused before he focused back on his and Logan's conversation, "Yeah. I mean, it's not what you think. I'd like it to be but it's just…" He stopped talking when he saw the look Logan was giving him realising he was about to cross a line he wasn't meant to cross. "I mean, it's not easy when you want to be closer to someone but you just…can't," he finished slowly looking back down at his rapidly melting ice cream. "You know, I've seen how you look at Miss Hughes," he added suddenly.
"Excuse me?" Logan asked dangerously.
Bobby shrugged, "Nothin'."
I was so shocked that the mug I had been scrubbing for too long slipped into the soapy water in the sink in front of me and smashed. Swearing in Latin under my breath I reached into the water before Remy could stop me and got a sliver of the ceramic stuck in my palm.
"Damn it!" I yelled pulling my hand from the water, sloshing soap suds over the bench.
Remy stared at me wide eyed as I whimpered holding my hand away from my body when blood welled around the wound.
With an exasperated sigh the tall mutant grabbed my wrist and plucked the shard of broken mug from my hand. I looked up at him with tear filled eyes as the cut knit itself back together. He understood the fear he could see there and pulled me into a hug.
"I thought you could heal," Logan said gruffly having watched the exchange.
I pulled away from Remy and washed my blood off of my hand. "I can. Doesn't mean I can't feel pain though," I told him as I used my powers to reform the mug and put it carefully onto the draining board before letting the now dirty water out of the sink.
Logan grunted as a reply before going back to his cola.
Wiping the already drying tears from my eyes I pushed Remy toward the door taking the tea towel from him. "Go back to bed. I'll put away the rest of the dishes," I told him.
He smirked. "You're gonna make a man a good little wife someday, cheri," he teased ducking my newly acquired tea towel as I chucked it at his head before he walked out of the room.
"I'm gonna kill him one day, I swear. Stupid Cajun," I muttered under my breath before I turned back to the dishes he had put onto the bench. I was so focused on putting away the dishes that I didn't see Logan get up from his chair.
"What is it?" Bobby's question made me turn to see Logan at the door to the kitchen listening for something.
"Shh-shh," was the swift reply. Without another word the dark haired mutant walked out of the room off to investigate whatever he had heard.
And that's when I heard the whirring sound. Bobby had heard it too and walked to the large bay window to check what was outside.
My eyebrows pulled together as I followed him, the whirring beat dredging up dark memories.
A bang behind us made Bobby and I whorl around to see a masked soldier in the kitchen, Logan had grabbed his arms from behind and the gun in his hand had gone off alerting us to his presence.
"You picked the wrong house, bub," Logan growled as the soldier struggled in his arms.
I grabbed Bobby and pushed him down behind the island bench a moment before an awful high pitched screaming rent the air. Distracted by the painful screaming, Logan's hold on the soldier weakened and the soldier lifted his gun and pulled the trigger. I fell down beside Bobby my arm bloody with a bullet graze as we covered our ears from the noise. Suddenly it ended, and I was on my feet in time to see Logan cut across the cheek by the soldier who lunged at him with a knife in his hand.
Logan held back his arm as the man tried to stab him and that was when I first saw Logan use his adamantium claws. They exploded from between his knuckles and he pushed the soldier back against the fridge stabbing him through the chest with a loud yell.
Breathing hard Wolverine stepped back from his kill and turned to Bobby and I. "You alright?" he asked us.
Bobby was crouched behind the bench and nodded. But I just stared at Logan. "Are you?" I asked him.
He gave me a confused look but I didn't have time to explain. Hearing the children screaming upstairs I ran to the door planning to help them.
I didn't realise how many soldiers there were and I didn't realise how close one of them was to the kitchen. He must have heard Logan's yell because he pulled a gun on me as soon as he saw me even though we were only standing a foot or two apart.
The feel of the cold metal mouth of the gun at my chest snapped something inside of me. The soldier hesitated and, before Logan could make it the few steps to my side to stop him, I had raised my hand to his cheek.
His memories flowed into me filling my mind but I only took the ones I needed. Channelling all his echoes back into his mind I brought the ones he felt most guilty about to the forefront. He cringed as memory after memory plagued him eating away at his conscience. I was too lost in my power to notice when he lowered and then dropped his gun his whole body shaking with sobs. He fell to his knees at my feet and pulled out his knife. Slicing across his own throat he fell to the ground with a bloody gurgle. I stared at his body feeling numb.
Logan's hands where on my shoulders then, he shook me, making me look up at him, "Jenna."
The sound of my name coming from him made me feel weak. He pinned me against the doorway when my legs gave way.
"Snap out of it," he commanded but I shook my head.
"The blood won't come off," I muttered faintly, having felt the soldier's blood spray against my hand as I touched him.
Logan glanced down at my bloody skin. "It doesn't stick when you're protectin' the ones you care about," he said gruffly as he grabbed the tea towel that I had dropped near the door when I had heard the helicopters. He wiped the blood from my fingers and then looked at Bobby who had disappeared behind the bench as soon as the soldier had appeared. I was thankful the young mutant hadn't seen what I'd done.
"Let's go," Logan ordered keeping a hold on me as Bobby nearly ran to us not looking at either body on the floor.
Logan pulled us out of the kitchen only to stop when he saw that there were more soldiers in the hallway.
He pushed Bobby and I back into the kitchen roughly with an order to, "Stay here."
He left us and methodically made his way down the hall killing enemy soldiers as he went.
Bobby grabbed my sleeve when Logan had disappeared around the corner. "I need to find Rogue," he told me.
"Bobby, you shouldn't go off by yourself, it's…" the words died on my tongue when I saw the fear and determination in his eyes.
"I have to try and save her," he told me.
We both jumped as more screams came from the upper levels of the mansion. I turned to Bobby and nodded. I led him to a hidden elevator and we rode it up to the higher levels. I blocked each bullet that was fired at us leading Bobby through the maze of dormitory hallways. I found Jeff cowering beside a stone soldier and lost Bobby when he kept running. Knowing that he was more able to take care of himself than the five year old I turned to help the small boy. When he realised who I was he wrapped his arms around my neck and let me carry him through the mansion. I prayed I would be able to find an escape tunnel before any more soldiers tried to shoot at us. As I ran a few of the children who saw me fell into line behind me and started running with me as I turned down corridors getting closer and closer to the hidden escape tunnel I knew was in that wing of the mansion.
I heard a thud the next corridor over and turned down it to see Peter, one of the older students at the school whose power gave him strength and metal skin when he needed it, herding a large group of children into the hidden tunnel I had been looking for.
"Peter!" I called out running to him and making sure all the children I had found went into the tunnel. I gently pried Jeff's arms from around my neck and kissed his forehead. "Go with Rose." I said, gently trying to hand him to a tall girl of about thirteen who could jump ten stories into the air.
"No," the little boy clung stubbornly to me his tears wetting the shoulder of my long sleeved black pyjama top.
"Hey," I looked up to see Logan striding along the hall from the opposite direction I had just come, an unconscious boy called Jones in his arms. "Take him, he's stunned," he handed the boy to Peter before turning to leave again.
I rubbed Jeff's back scared that he would be in danger if he stayed with me much longer. "Please, little one," I whispered in his ear. "I'll come find you when all the bad men are gone. I promise."
He looked up at me with tear filled black eyes before bursting into another fit of tears and letting Rose take him from my arms.
I looked up at Logan tears blurring my vision as he caught my arm and lead me away from the tunnel.
"I can help you," Peter called after us.
Logan turned and pointed to the tunnel. "Help them," he ordered before looking down at me. "You ready to go help some more kids?" he asked.
I wiped the tears from my eyes and nodded, hearing the tunnel's door close behind the children who had escaped already.
We moved quickly intending to go down the hall Logan had just left only to hear movement. Logan pressed himself back against the wall just before the turn, but with Jeff's cries still ringing in my ears I wasn't about to wait for the soldiers to come to me. Before Logan could stop me I had stepped around the corner stopping a spray of bullets as the soldiers who had been startled fired at me. As the bullets fell at my feet and their guns disintegrated in their hands I glared at them. "You shouldn't have come here. Now you're going to pay," I hissed. Logan took my words as the threat they were meant to be and lunged from behind me quickly killing the three soldiers in the hallway.
We heard an explosion one level down and I ran towards it, Logan at my side. I found Remy standing at the edge of the damage a staff in his hands.
Before I could check if he was alright Logan had grabbed my arm and motioned to the Cajun to follow him. I knew he had heard something neither Remy nor I had heard and that he was leading us toward more of the soldiers. We made it to the landing above the north entrance in time to see eight soldiers burst through the door and aim their guns at Rogue, John and Bobby.
Letting go of me Logan threw himself over the landing railing with an animal like roar. I grinned at Remy as he grabbed me around the waist and we jumped down into the fight on the ground level. I grabbed a soldier's arm and slammed my fist into his face as Logan cut down two and Remy swung his staff into another's face with a sickening crack. I was grabbed from behind only to have the soldier scream as I turned on him and forced him to his knees with a hand to his forehead showing him his guilt and letting it kill him. I turned again as the last soldier still standing pulled a gun. It exploded in his hand when a red, glowing playing card hit it, the force of the explosion killing him instantly.
Seeing that we were all alright Logan drew his claws back into his arms and nodded to the three kids. "Let's go." We turned to follow him to the door only to have it open before anyone touched it, air hitting us as the beating whir of a helicopter's rotors meant that there were too many soldiers outside for us to fight our way out. "Come on, this way." Logan said leading us away from the door and back into the mansion.
Bobby ran passed all of us and led the way to the nearest escape tunnel. "This is it." He said pushing against a panel on the wall and opening the door. The three youngest mutants ran in first and then Remy and I did. I froze at the sound of the door closing behind me. I turned to see that Logan was still in the hallway.
"No!" I cried out only to have Remy grab me around the waist as I tried to get to the door.
"He's buyin' us time to get out, Cheri." He told me. "We gotta get these kids out."
I pushed his arm away. "Then get them out." I said before letting my body slide through the wall before Remy could stop me.
Logan had his claws out and was facing down a group of six armed soldiers an unarmed man standing in the middle of them. I took a step forward and placed my body in front of Logan's only to have him snake an arm around my waist and pull me back against his chest. Before he could push me behind him the unarmed man stepped forward.
"Wolverine?" He called and I felt Logan tense. "Well I certainly must admit that this is the last place I would expect to find you." He said as he walked forward. "How long has it been, fifteen years? You haven't changed one bit. Me, on the other hand." He stepped into the dim light cast from the flash lights on top of his soldier's guns and touched his face. "Nature." He said with a smile that made my skin crawl. I jumped as I felt Logan's claws retract into his arms my hands on the one around my waist. The man continued. "And it seems Xavier is taking in all the strays." His gaze dropped to me. "It's quite an honour to be in the same room as one of Doctor Mortimer's greatest projects. Hello Genesis."
My body went cold and my stomach dropped at his words.
"How do you know her?" Logan growled from behind me sensing my reaction to the man's words.
With a smile the man who was obviously the leader of these soldiers glanced between the two of us. "Well now, that would be telling, wouldn't it?" A chill went down my spine at the cold, calculating look he had on his face. And then it was gone and he turned his attention back to Logan. "I didn't realise that Xavier was taking in animals, even animals as unique as you."
Logan's chest rose and fell against my back and I felt his words rumble through me as he asked, "Who are you?"
The man smiled taking great pleasure in the fact that Logan had had to ask. "Don't you remember?"
Walking forward Logan stepped out from behind me not even noticing as I grabbed his hand trying to keep him away from the man that sent fearful chills through me.
Out of nowhere an ice wall formed between Logan and I, and the soldiers and their leader.
Pulling his hand from mine Logan stepped forward putting his hands to the ice. "No, no!" he yelled desperate to know how the man had known who he was.
"Logan, come on, let's go." Rogue called from the now open escape door. I couldn't even turn as Remy put his hands on my shoulders intending to lead me to the tunnel.
"He knew me." I whispered my body starting to tremble. "He knew what I was to Him."
"Cheri." Remy said gently as he tried to get me to focus on his face. "We've gotta go, amore."
I stared at the shadow of the man through the ice as he reached up to touch it. A shiver wracked my body when Logan pressed his hand to the ice wall in the same place.
"Logan." Bobby called him again.
The tall man glanced back at us before turning his gaze back onto the wall again. "Go. I'll be fine."
"But we won't." Rogue said softly.
Logan turned back to us and I felt his eyes land on me. The air left my lungs and I started to gasp for breath as I realised that now He would know I was there. Logan walked to me and swung me up into his arms glancing back only once before telling the others, "Go." And following them into the tunnel closing the door and putting me down on my feet as I fisted his wife beater and tried to stave off the panic attack that was making my chest tight. "Keep goin'." He snapped at Remy who was lagging behind to try and see if I was okay. He pulled me against his side and wrapped an arm around my waist so that we could run together down into the dark tunnels below the school and even below the X-Men bunker.
"We should go to the garage and get a car, get as far away from here as we can." John said once we were able to stop for a moment at a fork in the tunnel.
Logan glanced down at me as I stared at the wall opposite us still shaking. Making a decision he nodded and lifted me in his arms again before leading the way to the ladder that led up through the garage floor. Remy pulled me away from Logan's hold as soon as we got to the foot of the ladder.
"Sorry, Cheri." Was all he said before he slapped my across the cheek pulling me from my stupor even as Logan slammed him back against the wall with a low growl.
I shook myself seeing how scared Rogue, John and Bobby were and grabbed Logan's arm as he lifted a fist to Remy's face. "We don't have time for this." I said sounding pitifully scared.
Logan's jaw clenched but he stepped back from Remy and we all climbed up the ladder and into the garage.
Bobby switched on the light and we hurried to what I knew was the fastest car in the room as well as being the only one that was not blocked in by other cars. It was small but it was the only one that could get us out of the area fast and without raising too much suspicion.
"Come on. Get in. Get in." Logan said gruffly knowing we were running out of time and probably hearing the soldiers on the mansion grounds looking for us.
"I'm drivin'." John said opening the driver door as Bobby got into the back on the other side of the car and Rogue got into the front passenger seat so that she wouldn't touch anyone.
"Hey." Logan grabbed John's shoulder and pushed him away from the door. "Maybe next time."
John didn't argue with the taller and stronger man and got into the back sliding over into the middle so that Remy could get in as well and then I could squeeze myself onto my adoptive brother's lap, grateful that I was short enough not to have to squish too much.
"This is Cyclops's car." Bobby said as Logan sat up from trying to open the box under the staring wheel to try and hotwire the car.
"Oh, yeah?" Logan smirked before unsheathing the middle claw on his right hand and sticking it into the ignition.
The car started with a growl and Logan sent it skidding out of the garage when the door automatically opened.
We were lucky that none of the soldiers or helicopters seemed to be in the area as we drove at top speed out of the mansion gate and out of Westchester. Once we were driving in the forest outside of the city limits Logan slowed the car down minutely taking notice of the fact that there were others in the car that weren't going to walk away if the car was wrecked.
"What the hell was that back there?" John finally asked from where he was squeezed into the back seat between Bobby and Remy and I.
Logan was silent for the moment before a name came to him. "Stryker. His name is Stryker." He said and I bit my lip knowing Remy was about to explode angrily.
"Who is he?" Rogue asked gently.
"I can't remember." Logan growled frustrated at how much he still couldn't recall.
I jumped as Remy finally lost it. "Yah were s'pposed tah kill that evil years ago." He snarled. "Ah risked my life getting' yah to the island 'nd yah didn't even finish the job?"
"What the hell d'you mean kill him?" Logan nearly shouted.
Remy leaned around me and I caught his hand as he reached out to grab Logan's shoulder and use his ability to hurt him. "Ah flew yah to that hell hole of an island so that yah would kill Stryker 'nd every other scientist there. Yah helped all the mutants escape then yah went after him. Why'd yah not finish it?"
The echoes of Logan's last pain-filled memories before he lost his memory made my breath catch when I recalled them. "He couldn't stop Stryker because Stryker took his memories." I said quietly. "Stryker hurt him as much as he hurt you Remy. Let it go."
The Cajun glared at me before sitting back still darkly angry but not about to hurt Logan for the moment and I relaxed turning my eyes out onto the trees streaming passed us knowing that Logan would have some more questions for me when he got a chance to corner me.
I heard Rogue move as she pulled off the pair of dog tags that she always wore around her wrist and handed them to Logan. "Here. This is yours." She said softly.
Logan took the chain and tags and glanced at them before looking at Rogue for a moment.
I saw the look Bobby gave them and so did John apparently.
"I don't like uncomfortable silences." He said moving to lean between the front seats.
"What are you doin'?" Rogue asked.
John pushed the power button for the radio and we all winced as a boy band song came blaring out of the speakers.
Logan groaned as I put my hands over my ears, Rogue rubbed her temple her face scrunched up in disgust, Bobby's nose wrinkled in distaste, John made a disgusted face, and Remy gritted his teeth. Needing the song to stop John pushed one of the other buttons. The music shut off and then we all stared as the front of the radio opened and a small silver oval object with an 'x' on the back, slid out.
"I don't think that's the c.d. player." John said.
Logan picked it up and pushed on the sides. It lengthened with an electronic beep and I realised it was a phone of some sort. Logan must have realised the same as he put it to his ear for a moment.
"Sit back." He told John who did just that making the rest of us in the back seat squash up again.
"Where we goin'?" Remy asked still sounding angry.
"Storm and Jean are in Boston. We'll head that way." Logan told us.
Bobby suddenly spoke up. "My parents live in Boston."
"Good." Logan said before putting his foot down on the accelerator again.