A/N: Okay so the last chapter was left on kind of a cliffhanger, but I didn't know whether or not to make another chapter. I didn't get a lot of feedback from the first chapter so I couldn't tell if it was any good, so wasn't sure if I should do another chapter. Well I did and here it is. I'm so sorry this took forever this is like the first time in four months I've had a computer to work with so I haven't been able to upload anything. This chapter is still based on My Immortal. So this takes place after the explosion, the words that were italic in the last chapter was based on the future (in case you didn't get that). This is just more on Logan after the explosion.
Disclaimer: I do not own X-Men evolution or any other rendition of X-Men (Days of Future Past was great by the way, go watch it. ;3)
Logan woke up in rubble, there was heat everywhere. Logan staggered to get to his feet, he shook his head as he was trying to get his bearings.
"Daddy!" He heard a shriek. He looked around, there was too much fire, too much smoke, his senses were failing him. Looking down he noticed a few cuts and bruises that weren't healing quickly enough. "Not again," he muttered when he heard another shriek.
"Laura!" He screamed at the thickness of smoke, he couldn't smell anything or see anything. The fire was getting hotter and the compound was starting to cave in. "James!" This time the scream was more desperate and choked out, like someone who was suffocating in smoke. "Laura!" He ran through the smoke, but couldn't find her. He looked up and saw the ceiling cracking, he heard a scream right before a large piece of rubble knocked him out cold.
Damn Fury, why couldn't he just let her go, no he just had to keep and keep.
Damn it kid, hang in there, just hang in there.
I didn't get you back just to loose you again.
Come on where the hell are you Laura?
It doesn't matter if I'm tired, if she's not here, I'm not sleeping.
I need her, she needs me.
I swear to any entity Fury, I will kill you if it's the last thing I do.
I'm all she's got left, she's practically all I've really got.
It's all my fault, I should've been there with you.
I'm sorry Laura, X-23, I shouldn't've of ignored you.
A year had passed, and nothing. Logan had woken up in a hospital at the Institute. He asked about what happened. Apparently when Laura and Logan didn't come back after 12 hours Gambit called a few others to go investigate. They had found the burning compound, Bobby did what he could to the flames and they ran in. They found Logan and had to dig him out of rubble, they found a few soldiers who hadn't evacuated, but no Fury and no Laura.
After his healing factor started functioning normally he left the school, he had to find her, he was the only one who could. He had been gone for six months before coming back to the Institute, with nothing to go on. "I just don't understand it Charles. She's strong, really strong, she's gotta be out there." Logan was talking to Professor Charles Xavier in his office, his hands in her pocket as he looked out the window. "But I've got nothing, nada, zilch. I couldn't even pick up a scent at the compound, all I could smell was fire, ash, smoke, and blood. But past the compound nothing, no scent, nothing to go on. I talked to questioned everyone I could think of. I even found Toad and tried to squeeze S.H.I. . information. I'm not proud of it, and while he did tell me a lot, he didn't tell me anything about her." He tightened his fists.
"Logan, I understand your distress." Xavier rolled up to his friend. "If you need more time feel free, I don't want to keep you here when you want to be out there. But Logan as much as I want to help, maybe you should just consider the fact that we may have lost one of our own." Seeing the hard look Xavier continued. "These things happen, there was nothing you could've done."
Logan looked down at Xavier. "Can you try Cerebro one last time?" Xavier sighed as Logan began walking out of the office. "Please Chuck, just one last time, for me?"
The wind blew around him as Logan stood at the cliff over looking the water. He was so tired of being here already, two days and he was just itching to get back out there. He swallowed down the fear when Xavier said he couldn't find her. He refused to believe that she would be dead, she had to be out there. On a hunch Wolverine left that same day for another two months, before coming back to the school. He couldn't handle this empty feeling.
Late at night he laid wide awake, staring at the ceiling. "If you're really gone kid, I mean really gone, please just go." He couldn't take this constant feeling in his gut. Every time he turned a corner he expected to see her, late at night he thought he would see her in the Danger Room, he saw her everywhere and she wasn't even here.
He fought through the tears threatening to spill. He remembered the nightmares she used to have, the way he was always there for her. To hold her when she cried, to be there to protect her from her fears. He missed her, it was like a hole in his life.
He eventually felt into a fitful sleep.
"The thing about our healing factor, it only heals physical wounds. So let's be strong enough to fight, not fix, but fight the other kinds."
"Actually I wanted to ask you about this guy."
"Get that camera away from me Nightcrawler."
A light laugh could be heard in the distance.
"Well hi to you too pops."
"Come on pops, one more round. I'm not even tired."
A young woman could be seen in the danger room, gracefully cutting flips and dodging machines. Her claw glittering in the light.
"What?" X-23 asked as she looked at Wolverine, who was staring at her. "Nothing kid, I'm just glad you're alright."
"You knew I was alive, right?" She whispered to him. "Oh course kid, just never thought I'd see you again."
"You know Petite isn't as broken as everyone thinks she is."
"DADDY!"
Logan woke with a start, he was drenched in sweat. He brushed his ringers through his hair. These wounds weren't physical, they were mental, and as much as he hated to admit it, emotional. These wounds wouldn't heal, at least, not as quickly as a physical wound.
He stood up and headed down to the Danger Room, he wasn't going back to sleep anytime soon. He didn't matter how hard he fought he could still see her, still hear her, could still sense her scent.
"She's haunting me Charles, I can't get her out of my head." He angrily threw something across the room. "I feel so lost and alone Chuck, I feel like I've lost..." He trailed off, not knowing how to word it.
"You feel as if you have lost a part of yourself." Xavier finished for him. "And in a way my friend you have, Laura was one of us, a part of the family. But she was closer to you than anyone else. In ways she is in fact, your daughter. I can understand the pain Logan, in fact you're practically screaming it."
Logan slumped his shoulders. "I'm sorry about that Chuck." He didn't know that how he was feeling was affecting the Professor. Xavier chuckled at his friend. "No need to apologize Wolverine, I understand your grieving." Logan nodded and walked out of the office.
"She's really gone isn't she." Wolverine looked up and saw a man sitting on a window sill, flipping cards around. He put the deck back together and put them in his jacket pocket. "You must finally think she's gone if you're trying to find me."
Logan looked into the red eyes of Gambit and nodded. "It's taken me almost a year but maybe it's supposed to be this way."
Gambit gave a slow clap, both surprising and irritating the older man. "Bravo Pointy, you've finally come around." Logan rolled his eyes and stalked away, he should've known this was a mistake. "Hey listen mate, she was my friend you know. And I miss her just as much," Gambit didn't expect the claws that pinned him to the wall.
"Don't you dare say you miss her nearly as much as me. You remember when we lost Jean, or what about that episode with you and Rogue, remember how you felt. Like a hole was punched through your soul, because you know you could've done something, anything to change things. That sick feeling you still get in your gut when you think about it. Do you remember that feeling?" Gambit was silent a bit before slowly nodding. Logan dropped the man. "Now times that by 10 and maybe you'll have a chance of understanding how I feel." With that he stalked away, leaving the Cajun to his thoughts.
Standing at the crater that once was a S.H.I.E.L.D. compound Logan crouched on the top of the hill. Almost exactly a year ago he had stood at this same spot, on his way to save X-23, now he stood there mourning her.
It had taken awhile to get over the pain of the life she left behind. To finally tell himself that she wasn't coming back. He had felt stupid purchasing them but started picking at the black roses he had brought. He grabbed the buds and pulled the petals off, letting them fly through the wind.
"I miss you kid," he whispered as he grabbed the last rose. The wind started picking up and changed direction. Logan's eyes grew wide when he inhaled, expecting the scent of woods and roses, but there was another, familiar scent.
"I missed you too pops." Logan slowly turned. He looked at the girl standing a few feet away from him. "Think that since I'm dead again they'll finally let me just stay dead?" She had a sly smirk on her face as she walked up to the man she knew as friend. She hugged him, breathing in his comforting scent. "I'm sorry it took so long, but I had to make sure they stopped observing you. While you were looking for me you were occasionally followed, they now know that you believe I'm dead." She tightened her hold. "I'm finally free dad."
Logan held her back, she was really here, not just a figment or a dream, it was real. Breaking from the hug Logan noticed a familiar duffle bag on her shoulder. "Wanna go on a field trip?" The asked with a smirk.
Logan gave a similar smirk. "Where did you have in mind?"
Laura shrugged. "Canadian Alps maybe?"
A/N: So like I said I wasn't really confident in doing this chapter so it probably sucked. If you liked it great, I'm glad (*cough* please review *cough*). After listening to this song a couple times I'm thinking of probably doing a "My Immortal" series from different stories. Please read and review, I appreciate feedback. So that's it for this story, unless you guys want more then I could try and do another chapter, like an epilogue or something.