"Another mall?" Rouge said surprised

Logan looked through the department store, "It's not finished yet" he said peering through the blue tarps at the construction work.

"The Macy's is open, I stayed there for a few nights while security did a few all nighters at the other one" Jubilee shrugged,

"I doubt Eric will go looking for us at another shopping centre" Rachel said

"Probably figures we're headed back to the mansion" Logan said. He couldn't tear his eyes away from Rachel after that ordeal. Seeing Chamber hit her with his fire, fear washed over him at the thought of losing her.

We were all almost goners there for a minute Rachel was starting to hear again. She looked at Jubilee in agreement, they were almost.

I hope Remy's alright, he's bleeding

Relief washed over Rachel. She looked at Logan We can't loose her. I can't loose her.

"We'll camp here for the night and in the morning head out" Logan decided

Rachel nodded wondering what was blocking her telekinetic ability. "sure" she said "Everyone stay close" she said heading off to find a quiet place.

Logan watched as Rachel thought to herself. He looked at Rouge for an answer, but Rouge shrugged, "She said something was blocking her out"

Logan rested his hands on his hips "Watch the kid will ya?" he looked at Remy, "You keep to yourself bub"

Remy raised his hands with a smirk and watched Logan take off after Rachel.

Logan found Rachel in a bedroom fixture sitting on the bed looking down at her hands. He stared at her for a moment wondering if she knew he was there. "Rachel" he finally said

She looked up tiredly. She almost lost him a second time tonight. "Are you alright?" he asked

The memories of the machine ripping through him haunted her, she tried to nod, "Just a close call"

It hit Logan "I died…"

He was right. Rachel looked down, "Don't" She didn't want to get into it.

"Rachel if we're supposed to change the future, we need to know what it is we're supposed to be changing" Logan argued

She shook her head, "What is the point, none of it matters, it's all going to turn out the same in the end, you saw it, you tried to stop it yourself and look, here I am having seen it come anyways" She was ready to give up. It didn't matter. It was too much for her.

Logan wasn't buying it, "We can still stop it"

She shook her head, "No, you can't. It'll just turn out slightly different, but in the end we're going to end up hunted, mutilated, turning on each other" she was slipping "Eric is always near by god knows how he's doing it, but it's different now, he's not going to help us" she waved up her hands, "We're just fighting each other instead of Trask"

What do you know of it, you're just a kid still" Logan said frustrated, if only she had seen what he'd seen in his lifetime.

Rachel shook her head in frustration, it wasn't fair, to discount her like he was. He didn't know. "I know plenty" she said through her teeth "and a kid is the last thing you think of me"

"Well you're not acting like any of it" Logan said stepping towards her, "You say you know what I've seen and done, and let me tell you it's probably not even a fraction of what you've seen Rachel, if this is the worst of it then I'll take it"

But it wasn't he didn't want this life, "You have no idea"

"let me tell you" he pointed, "I watched as the woman I loved die because I killed her, I saw the world turn into a pretty dark place during that time and then after, and I nearly died trying to stop it. And this is what came of it, seeing the people I came to call family again, to see the professor again, to see" he stopped

Rachel motioned for him to continue, she knew who he meant. "To see Jean alive, and happy, to be able to control herself, her power. This is the life I fought for"

Rachel shook her head. It wasn't though. "It's not, it doesn't stay like this"

"Then I'll fight harder" he said certain "For her, for everyone else, I'll fight harder"

"But you die" She blurted out with tears streaming down her face, "You're right, you die" she had had it. If he wanted to know, he was going to know all of it.

"This future you fought so hard for, for her. It happens anyways" she said, "She killed the professor, she killed my dad Logan" Rachel cried, "But this time it was me who put a stop to her" she looked down, "I killed my own mother"

He tried to vision how he'd die, but Rachel couldn't hold it in, "You protected me while I went back, I watched as you told me you loved me before you were ripped threw the wall" she cried

Logan didn't expect any of what Rachel had said. But he took it as he stepped closer again running his hand down her head certain know what he had thought he felt. He knew deep down he loved this girl.

Logan knew the feelings he had were more than just an attraction, that they ran deeper. Wanting to protect her even though he knew she could take care of herself, the willingness to lay down his life for hers. But Rachel cried, she couldn't bare the thought of Logan giving up his life for her, she couldn't watch him do it again. She couldn't let herself feel that way about him again.

He was speechless. "You told me the same thing, to go fight for a better future because ours wasn't set, but you know what none of it matters because somehow it always ends up the way it was supposed to" Rachel said with certainly.

But Logan pulled her towards him while holding her face, "I don't care what I said in the future, and I don't care what happened in the past. I'm going to stick with what's in front of me right now, and I'm going to fight now matter how many times someone has to time travel in order to fix it"

Rachel sobbed feeling the emotions she did that night in the bunker. Logan still didn't know it all, "It doesn't matter"

Logan wiped the tears away and kissed her, "I don't care" he kissed her again