"Wolf, Johnny, get over here!" Logan called them a few days later.
They looked at each other, then walked over.
"Yeah?" Pyro asked.
"I've been hearing bad reports about you two from your teachers. Explain." He crossed his arms.
"Uh… well," Pyro started, rubbing the back of his head.
"Which bad reports exactly are you referring to?" Wolf asked.
Logan gave him the look. "Any bad report."
"Well, that's sorta hard to narrow down…"
Logan rolled his eyes, then looked at Pyro. "I've been told that you haven't been handing in your homework again. We've had this talk before, haven't we? If I keep hearing these reports I'm gonna take away your lighter for a week, understand?"
Pyro's eyes got wide and he nodded. His lighter was his source of fire to fuel his gift. Taking that away was basically grounding him from using his power. Not only that, but Pyro was constantly flicking it on and off and he held it when he got stressed or upset. It was like his security blanket.
"Alright," Logan said, tousling his hair, "Go to class now."
Then he turned to Wolf. "Look at me."
Wolf looked up at Logan, but started to look down again. Logan gently held his chin and forced him too look in his eyes.
"You know better too. I just spanked you for your behavior the other day. Why are you acting up?"
"I dunno," Wolf mumbled, trying to look away again.
"Well, you'd better straighten up soon. If you keep behaving this way I'm gonna tell your teachers to start using corporal punishment on you as a first choice of punishment, instead of detentions or extra homework or whatever."
"What?!" Wolf said, pulling back and out of arm's reach. "No way I'm gonna let them do anything to me!" He was glaring at Logan.
"Wolf," Logan growled, keeping his voice low as the alpha male would, "I'm the one who's gonna let them! If you disobey them, then you are disobeying me!"
Wolf calmed a little and looked down. Logan took a step forward and held his chin up again.
"If I hear that you are giving your other teachers trouble when they are trying to correct you, then I will give you a second dose right after theirs. Do you understand?"
Wolf nodded.
"Good. Go to class." He gave him a pat on the back as Wolf turned to go to American History with Ororo.
"When did you learn how to read?"
Logan looked up to see Scott smirking at him from the entrance to his office.
"Long before you learned to crawl, kid," he smirked back, "What do you want?
"Forge asked me to look for you. He says it's ready, whatever 'it' is."
Logan gave a half smile. "Good. Thanks for telling me."
"No problem. Hey, what're you reading?" Scott asked, peering at the book in Logan's hand.
He held it up. "Nothing, really. Just more animal psychology."
"Again? Aren't you some kind of expert by now?"
Logan laughed. "Not quite. By the way, how are Wolf and Johnny behaving in your class now?"
"Much better, actually. Johnny's handing in his homework now, and Wolf is somewhat paying attention. He still doesn't agree with everything, but at least now he stays quiet about it. And when those two are behaving, Kurt doesn't act up either."
"Good," Logan said.
"So, why are you looking up animal psychology again? Whatever you did seems to have worked.
Logan leaned back in his chair. "I want to try a new method to see if I can get him some table manners."
Scott grimaced. "Please do. It's disgusting the way he eats. I think he does it on purpose, too. There's no way someone can eat like that unless it's on purpose. And every single meal this week you've told him to use table manners and every single time he just keeps on eating the way he was. I don't know why you didn't just spank him the first time he ignored you like that."
"I haven't spanked him for it yet because I don't think he even knows what table manners are," Logan said, "I mean, to a wolf it's only natural to gulp down food and barely use utensils. You should be happy that he's using his hands instead of shoving his face into his food."
Scott laughed. "Thanks for the mental image."
"No problem. Chuck says that Wolf never knew his parents, right? I don't think he's had anyone looking after him. So who would be the one to teach him manners?"
Scott nodded. "I guess that's true."
"See, I don't want to spank him for something he doesn't know he's doing. Now, if he was just rebelling, that would be different. But then I'd know 'cause he'd be glaring at me the whole time, but he's still avoiding looking directly at me."
"So then, what's this 'new method' you want to try?"
Logan stood. "Come with me to visit Forge and I'll show you."