AN: I own nothing.
Tinkerbell and Claws
The next morning Harry woke to Logan shaking his shoulders. Harry cracked an eye at him and grunted.
"Come on kid I got us the danger room. I want to see how you do hand to hand. You got five minutes to get up, before I come in and get you." Logan snickered, when Harry groaned and tried to get up.
Harry was trying but ended up just stumbling into the bathroom for a shower. It took him about five minutes to get through with his daily rituals. He dressed in a new black sleeveless shirt and his black jeans. He came out of his room to find that Logan already had a cup of coffee and was waiting for him. Harry sighed; he knew it was going to be a long morning.
Logan led Harry down past were the med unit was and down another hall just before the hanger. The panel over the door read Danger Room, on the door authorized personal only. Logan punched in the code and they walked into a large room that was devoid of anything in it. A control room sat above the room, with windows looking in. Harry could not help but look around in awe. Logan chuckled, as he watched Harry look around.
"So, there is nothing in here. How am I to train?" Harry said looking expectantly at Logan.
"You are not sparing with me just yet. But, the danger room can make anything out of holograms and it will feel just as real. Meaning you can get hurt in here." Logan said with a grin. "Across the hall is a locker room, you will find spare uniforms. Get one on and come right back here." Harry nodded and dashed out to get ready.
It had not escaped Logan attention that Harry looked disappointed that he would not be sparing with him today. Logan chuckled as he made his way to the control room.
Harry came jogging back into the room in one of the spare generic black uniforms. Logan smiled 'Damn he really does look just like me.'
Logan activated the com unit, "Alright kid, this is how this is going to work. I am going to set up, a basic combat scenario. We will start off slow and I do expect you to use your claws. Also we will start with one then slowly move up in number of opponents, alright?"
Harry nodded. He was nervous and was picking up a small tremor in his hands because of it. He took a deep steadying breath.
"Ok. I am ready."
"Good luck and 3, 2, 1."
Harry gasped as he was now in a forest. From how dense the trees were he knew that he was not in an English forest. His was observations were broken when he heard a footfall behind him. Harry quickly positioned himself behind a tree.
The sound of footstep came into the clearing; Harry quickly picked up a large rock and chucked it as far to his right side as he could. He could hear his opponent shifting his weight to follow the noise. The construct started forward in the direction that the rock sounded from, Harry waited till he could see its back and pounced.
Harry's claws shot through the constructs neck, taking its head clean off. He instantly started to look around to make sure it was clear. He sniffed the air, but smelt nothing. He stilled himself, listening to what was going on around him. He was rewarded when he heard the sound of two new attackers.
A feral grin spread of Harry's face as he stalked his prey. After about half an hour, Harry was up to seven constructs. Logan started to notice that Harry was getting slower, when two of the constructs got in a double blow, he stopped the sim.
Logan jogged in to check that Harry's wounds were healing. Harry growled at Logan as he checked him over.
"Ya did good, once you realized that ya had weapons." Logan smirked at him. Harry growled even more.
"You stopped it when I was just starting to have some fun."
"Getting yourself hurt is not fun. But, when you're a little more trained, I will let the sim go till ya pass out, Ok?"
Harry nodded with a big grin. Logan ruffled the young feral's hair, before leading him out.
"Shower, change and then breakfast. Hurry it up I am hungry." Logan said as he gave Harry a push toward the locker room. Harry grinned as he trotted in and disappeared.
"Thought I would find you down here. How did he do?" Jean asked.
"Better than I thought he would do. I honestly did not expect him to get past level four or five. He made it to level seven before I had to stop the sim."
"Really, his first time out. That is really good. Wait what do you mean you "had to stop the sim"?" Jean asked going into doctor mode.
"Two of the constructs got in blows at the same time. Nothing big he's fine. A little mad I stopped his fun." Logan said with a smirk.
"Logan he is just starting to recover from malnourishment, and you let him get hurt? What were you thinking?" Jean cried out. "I want you to take him by to see Hank as soon as he is done."
"I would really rather have breakfast. I hate hospital wings of schools and I have spent the last part of every school year for the last five year in one. I don't fancy being in one when I have no reason to be." Harry said as firmly, but politely as he could.
Jean just stammered at Harry, before stomping of in a huff. They both heard her muttering about Harry being as bad as Logan.
"Is that supposed to be a bad thing?" Harry asked.
Logan was about to answer when they heard Jean from down the hall shout. "Yes it is!"
Both ferals started laughing and did not stop till they got to the main level of the mansion.
"I think that is the maddest I have seen Jeanine in, hell I don't know how long." Logan said as they entered the kitchen.
Remus woke to a light tapping on his door. He groaned before he got up and answered the door with a glare. He quickly changed his expression when he saw Hank standing there with a hot cup of tea.
"Oh bless you Hank." he said as he took the cup from the large feral. Hank grinned at how quickly his cousin had changed is mood.
"You are welcome. Get dressed and meet me down stairs. We will get everything out of the way, so you can relax." Hank said as he turned to walk down the hall. Remus just nodded, before heading for the bathroom.
After he was presentable, Remus went down stairs to meet with Hank.
"Ah good, I was about to come up and make sure you did not get lost." Hank patted Remus' shoulder.
"You know I am really glad I called you." he said with tears in his eyes "I really missed you Hank."
"And I you. But, let us get the business end of things done alright."
Remus nodded, and followed Hank to the Professor's office.
"Gentlemen, come in." the Professor called from behind the closed door. Remus gasped, and looked at Hank in shock.
"He is a telepath Remus. I should have warned you I'm sorry." Hank said with a small smile, before opening the door.
Remus looked into the room and saw Storm and Scott, whom he nodded to. Sitting at a large mahogany desk was an older bald man, with bright blue eyes.
"Oh, good morning, you must be Professor Xavier, pleasure to meet you finally. Hank had has told me much about you."
"All good things I hope?" Charles said shaking the werewolf's hand.
"Glowing really." Remus said with a large smile.
"Hank has been lax in his duties, and has only told us of you recently." Hank looked down and blushed in embarrassment. Remus chuckled, patting Hank on the shoulder.
"That would be because of the Secrecy Statute. If Hank had said anything about me or wizards, and the ministry had found out. Memory charms would be the least you could expect."
"I see well the rest of the staff will be warned not to speak of it in public." Remus nodded happily.
"Now, I believe a condition of my stay is that I make an unbreakable vow. So if Hank has not told you, we will need me, the one the vow is made to, and what is called a "Bonder" who acts as a witness, now this person must be a witch or wizard."
"I think the Professor, should be on the receiving end of the vow. We would have to ask Claws or Tinkerbell to be "Bonder"." Hank said pulling at his lower lip, Charles nodded.
"Get Logan and see who he is more comfortable with being the "Bonder".
"Certainly, Professor. I think I heard him in the kitchen."
Logan was currently busy making Harry and himself a large breakfast. The smell of bacon, eggs, hash and steak could be smelled in the hall. The sent was very inviting, Harry's mouth was watering. Logan chuckled at how Harry was watching him cook the bacon and steaks.
"You want to get some plates down for us?"
"Yeah." Harry said practically jumping over the kitchen table to get the plates and silverware out. Logan arched a brow at him.
"You would think that you were hungry the way you're acting."
"Hummm...One, it smells really good, and two, I didn't eat before we went to the danger room. So yes I am hungry." Harry grinned gathering the silverware to set out on the table for them. Logan turned back to the stove, sniffed to see how done the meats were and pulled all of it off the fire. Logan hated over cooked meat, to him the bloodier the better. He finished with adding the hash and at least three to four eggs each.
Harry came over and got both plates, while Logan grabbed their drinks. Harry sniffed his plate, which started a rumble in his chest.
"This smells so good." he started to dig in with vigor.
"Glad you like the cooking kid." Logan smirked before digging into his own plate. After a few minutes of quite eating he sighed.
"We are going to have to let Hank look at you. Jeanine is not the mother hen you want after you."
"Madam Pomfrey is the same way. If she had her way I would not have left the Hospital wing a couple dozen times." Harry said in between mouthfuls. Logan grunted in response.
Hank came in looking about, before settling on the pair at the kitchen table.
"Ah, just the gentlemen I was looking for. We need a "Bonder" for the vow, Claws and Tinkerbell are the only ones that qualify for the spot."
"You feel up to it cub?"
"Yeah, but Hank will have to do the question part. I will just hold the wand."
"Great whenever you are ready."
"After he's finished. Oh, Hank would you take a look at his sides? Jean is going to be all over us if you don't."
"Mishap in the danger room?" Hank asked arching a brow at the two. They both smirked back at Hank. "Ok what happened?"
"Nothing, two constructs got in hits at the same time, kid when down, and I stopped the sim."
"You really are a kill joy." Harry groused.
"I see. Lift the shirt please?"
Harry sighed and lifted his shirt to show both sides. Hank crouched down to look at both sides.
"See not even a mark." he said snarkily at Hank.
"Yes, seems your healing factor has done its job. Now finish eating." Hank said "Also it looks like you are putting on a bit of weight. I would have thought that it would take weeks for that to happen."
"Logan keeps stuffing me silly."
"Ah, following Logan's diet will do that. We will be in the Professor's office when you are done." Hank said as he turned to leave.
"You ok doing this?"
"My end is not the hard part." Logan simply nodded.
"Well it seems our newest resident mutant wizard will be the "Bonder". Also he had a bit of a mishap in the danger room this morning." Hank said as he entered the office. Storm gasped, as her eyes started to turn white. Hank held up his hands.
"Now Storm, you know he is just like Logan. His healing factor took care of the injuries. All he was left with was an increased appetite. I am also happy to report that thanks to Logan taking over preparation of meals for him, Claws is starting to gain a bit of healthy weight." Hank beamed at Storm and the Professor.
"Wonderful, were they eating when you went in?"
"Yes and I dare say that they may have ruffled Jean's feathers a bit already this morning."
Storm giggled, knowing exactly how her friend was about the welfare of the students. Scott groaned, and his shoulders slumped, he knew he would never hear the end of it. The Professor just smiled and looked at Remus.
"So Mr. Lupin do you have any questions while we are waiting?"
"Please call me Remus or Moony. I do have one question. I was wondering if you would be willing to help me find someone. His name is Harry Potter, I absolutely must find him."
"We would be glad to help in any way that we can."
"Thank you professor Xavier." Remus said looking very relieved.
Remus was a bit startled when the man from the bank came in followed by the boy he saw.
"Ah, good morning Logan, Claws. We already heard about your mishap in the danger room." Professor Xavier said with a smile. Harry decided to take a page out of Logan's book, and just raised an eyebrow at him.
"Made it all the way to level seven." Logan said with a smirk. The other x-men in the room all looked surprised, and Harry grinned like the cat that ate the canary.
"You were at Gringotts in London a few days back?" Remus asked. Logan threw him a suspicious look, as he pulled Harry closer to him.
"Yeah, got a problem with that?" Logan growled at the werewolf, his eye quickly going gold. Hank quickly stepped in between Logan and his cousin.
"Now, Logan he is looking for someone, who may have been in the bank. Right Remus?" Remus nodded.
"Yeah, well let's get this vow thingy over with. You got your stick kid?"
Harry huffed *Yes* and nodded at Logan.
Logan huffed back *Good*
"Are the two of you trying to clear you sinuses?" Remus looked at them like they had lost their minds.
"No, Remus many feral mutants can communicate with howls, grunts, Logan's favorite growling," Hank smirked at Logan, who growled at him "huffs, and body posture, much like when you are in your werewolf form. So they were talking to each other."
"Fascinating! But, Mr. Logan is right we should get the vow out of the way." He looked at the Professor. "Ready?"
"Certainly." Charles moved his chair forward to the front of the desk. Remus stood to the side just a bit and grasped Charles' wrist.
"Alright, now I am assuming that you have not done this before. So, Hank will ask the questions that are part of the vow and you will of course hold your wand as witness. Now you will see three lines of fire wrap our hands but, it will of course not burn. Understood." Everyone nodded.
"Claws, if you would." Harry nodded as he pulled his wand. Remus nodded at Hank to begin
"Will you Remus John Lupin, watch over the present and future students of Xavier's School for Gifted Youngsters, as they prepare for life outside of these walls?"
"I will" the first line of fire, wrapped both of their hands. The rest of the adults in the room shifted trying to see, the lines form.
"Will you, to the best of your ability, protect them from harm?"
"I will." the second wrapped under the bottom of their hands. Charles looked curiously at the lines, Storm looked on worriedly; while Scott was watching Remus waiting for his answers.
"And will you, should the teachers and founder of this school fall, continue with the principles and spirit of the school to the best of your abilities?"
"I will." the last line formed and glowed for several seconds before dissipating into the two men hands.
As soon as it disappeared completely, Harry had his wand away.
He let out a low whine over his shoulder to Logan *Tell him now?*.
Logan huffed *Might as well.*
"Storm, why don't you go get Tink please. Lupin should meet his other student." Storm nodded, and left to get Hermione.
Storm quickly made her way to the cafeteria. She found that some of the children were just waking up. Rogue, Kitty and Hermione were all sitting at the same table, and unless Storm missed her guess, they were up to planning a prank. She sighed, as she headed toward their table.
"Hermione, it's time to meet your new professor." Hermione beamed at Storm, before jumping up to follow her back to the Professor's office.
"He took the Vow?" Hermione asked as they walked down the hall. Storm smiled and nodded.
They entered the room, to see Hank, Scott and Remus, speaking about the wards they would need around the school.
Hermione jumped when she heard a rumble behind her. Harry chuckled and whispered in her ear.
"I got to go into the Danger Room."
"Oh! What was it like?" Harry grinned.
"Well you had fun, didn't you?" she said turning to hug Harry.
"Hermione, what are you doing here? Do you know where Harry is?" Remus asked in quick succession. Hermione grinned at Harry.
"I have been here the whole time Moony." Harry said with a smirk.
Remus gaped in surprise, while Hank chuckled.
"I thought that might be who you are."
"Harry, why do you look like Mr. Logan?"
"Well you might want to sit down for that one."
"Alright." Remus sat down and looked expectantly at him. "I should have known by the eyes."
"They change color now. So, I guess we should just do this like taking a band-aid off?" Remus looked at him in surprise. "Don't freak out alright?"
"Harry I doubt what you have to tell me is going to make me care about you any less."
"James Potter was not my biological father. James Howlett is." Remus blinked and looked down with a slight frown.
"That must have been what Padfoot wanted to tell me." Remus humphed, he then looked back at Harry with a bemused smile. "Is that it?"
"Well, I have the same mutation as Logan."
"I guessed that from the growling." Remus smiled and stood up, holding arms out to the two teens. Harry and Hermione looked at each other for a few seconds. Harry just shrugged, before giving the werewolf a hug. "Next time you want to run cub, tell me. I was worried; you are all I have left of your parents."
"Moony, you are such a mother hen. I have faced the dark lord four times, and you were worried about me being on the streets?" Harry said chuckling and shaking his head in disbelief. Hermione giggled at Harry, before giving Remus a big hug.
"And you young lady never answered me. What are you doing here? Why aren't you with your parents?"
"Remus I am a mutant as well." Hermione said with a grin.
"Oh. And what is it that you can do?" Hermione smiled at Remus proudly
"Right now I float, and I may with time be able to fly."
"My dear I thought you were scared of heights." Remus said cocking his head to the side. Hermione blushed which caused her to drift up. Remus smiled at her in wonder, while everyone else chuckled.
An: I hope this ch. does not feel rushed. also sorry about the Danger Room, I know I can do better but it is the first battle scene I have ever written. R&R :) and cookies