When Logan told Marie he was seeing someone, she never ever expected that "someone" to be his therapist. Warren had randomly mentioned that his new girlfriend was a counselor and Logan took the initiative to contact her. He knew he had issues and didn't want Taylor to suffer because of them.
Very impressive.
Dr. Guthrie sat up, "I've been trying to get Logan to bring you to a session since a lot of the issues we tackle directly concern you."
Marie looked between Logan and Dr. Guthrie, "You...you're in therapy? How long has this been goin' on?"
"Few months...Dr. Guthrie here is a mutant, too. Show her what you can do, Husk."
Marie raised a brow, "Husk?"
Dr. Guthrie rolled her eyes and gave Logan a look, "It's what Warren calls me...not my patients...and Logan, you know I'm not gonna just shed my skin for the hell of it. It's terribly inconvenient." Paige adjusted her glasses, "Are we ready to start?"
He nodded, but Marie looked unsure, "Um...you want me to be here for this?"
Paige leaned over and clasped her hands together, "The reason why Logan is even here is because of you and Taylor."
Marie looked at Logan as he draped an arm across the back of the couch, "But...why?"
Paige smiled knowingly at Logan, "Now would be a good time to express yourself."
He ran a hand through his hair and sat forward, "I didn't wanna stay stuck in the same cycle. I wanted to learn how to deal with my Jean issues so I could fully let her go...that way, I'd be fully open to you."
Marie looked at him sideways, "Is that why you didn't wanna...ya know..."
Logan sighed and looked down. She could tell it was hard for him to admit his feelings, but he did so with some encouraging hand motions from Dr. Guthrie. He clasped his hands together, "Sex was a little dysfunctional between us. Whenever we had an issue, I'd use sex to keep us from actually having to talk or deal with any of our issues."
"Great Logan. Since you're here, Marie...could you start off by telling me what you hoped to accomplish by keeping Taylor a secret?"
Marie's mouth dropped open a little. It was kind of a shock to realize that a total stranger knew her darkest secrets. She cleared her throat and spoke slowly, "Well...I thought he would treat her as badly as he treated me. I wanted better for her."
Paige nodded a little, "And you thought that his preoccupation with Jean would make him an unfit father?"
Marie ran a hand through her hair, "It made him an unfit partner..."
Logan crossed his arms and started to say something, but Paige held up a hand, "Let her finish...what did he do that made him unfit?"
Marie's eyes grew wet, "I gave him my all...I gave him every bit of me. In return, I just wanted to be his one and only...he couldn't give that to me. Like he mentioned before, if we ever had any issues, he'd use sex to distract me and that frustrated me soooo much! I'd end up laying in bed afterwards, kickin' myself for not bein' strong enough to resist him...I started hatin' myself for bein' so weak."
Logan looked at her and furrowed his eyebrows. He had no idea he made her hate herself.
Over the next hour, Paige got Marie and Logan to reveal to each other the feelings they should have been expressing during their 4 year relationship. At the end of the hour, Logan admitted that he had finally begun forgiving Marie for lying to him about Taylor.
Marie, in turn, was beginning to trust that he loved her more than dead Jean.
Two weeks later, Logan walked into the room holding Taylor. Marie looked up and smiled brightly, "Hey you two...how's it goin'?"
She hopped up from where she sat and bounded over to them, kissing Taylor on the head before she took her out of her father's arms. Logan stared back at her for a few moments and let a rare smile creep across his face.
Marie looked up at him, "What?"
"Nothin'...you look good today."
She blushed, "Thanks..."
Jubilee walked in and cleared her throat, breaking them out of their deep gaze. Logan leaned down and kissed Taylor before looking at Marie, "I gotta get goin', but...you wanna maybe eat dinner together later?"
Marie nodded, "Yeah..that'd be great. What time?"
"After we put Taylor down...meet me in the kitchen."
"Cool..."
Logan nodded and left the room as Jubilee smiled at Marie stupidly. Marie bounced her daughter on her hip, "What?"
"Remember how you said you didn't think you guys looked at each other the same anymore?" Marie nodded as Jubilee continued, "I think you both just got your mojo back."
After putting Taylor to bed for the evening, Marie freshened up and changed into a shirt that wasn't covered in strained peas and milk before meeting Logan in the empty kitchen.
She knew it wasn't a date...it was just two friend/parents meeting for a casual dinner of leftovers. She set the monitor speaker on the counter and smiled as he piled some food from takeout boxes onto their plates, "Hey kid...they had meatloaf for dinner. I know you don't like that, so I got us some Chinese from that crappy little restaurant you like so much."
Marie laughed a little and thanked him before grabbing a couple of beers from the refrigerator and opening them. They ate, laughed and talked just like old times.
As they opened their fortune cookies, Marie cocked her head to the side, admiring his profile. He glanced over, "What's on your mind?"
She blushed a little and shrugged, "I was just thinkin'...what we had wasn't perfect, but it was pretty good...you took good care of me and the sex..."
Logan took a long swig on his beer and shook his head, "The sex was..."
"Oh it was..."
Silence settled over them as Logan sat his beer down and looked at her. Within seconds, they had thrown themselves into each other's arms and were kissing passionately. Logan quickly picked her up and put her on the counter, pushing himself between her open legs as his hands ran up her thighs.
She moaned into his lips and whispered between kisses, "Maybe...we should go somewhere private?"
Logan broke the kiss and looked around, growling at the fact that he couldn't simply rip her panties off from beneath her skirt and have his way with her right then and there. He quickly picked her up and threw her over his shoulder before stalking out of the kitchen like a caveman who'd just clubbed his first wife.
He dared anyone to try to stop them. He had gone for so long without sex, he was a mine field of sexual aggression. When he got to his room, he tossed Marie onto the bed, but she quickly got on her knees and crawled over to him, grabbing his flannel shirt and ripping it open.
Buttons flew everywhere, ricocheting off of random objects as she yanked his shirt off of his shoulders. Logan pulled his tank top off over his head as she was busy with his belt and pants.
When his pants were finally open, she leaned forward and licked up his stomach between his delicious pecs. She grinned before jumping into his arms and wrapping her legs around his waist. Logan began kissing her again as they stumbled around the room, looking for an appropriate surface to do the deed because, obviously, the bed wouldn't do for the wildness they had planned.
When they fell against the door, he reached under her skirt and ripped her panties clean off of her body, making her giggle against his lips as they continued kissing hungrily.
They crashed against the desk, spilling its contents to the floor as he pushed forward and entered her in one rough thrust. She arched her back and tightened her hold on him as he began wildly thrusting forward, driving her back against the wall the desk was pushed up against.
Marie cried out in sheer pleasure as the desk he was fucking her on repeatedly slammed against the wall. He picked her up again and attempted to carry her to the bed, but the fact that his jeans were still pooled around his ankles caused him to trip and fall backwards, taking her with him.
They shared a brief laugh before she started rolling her hips onto him, riding him with everything she had in her. He gripped her hips roughly, causing a biting mix of pain and pleasure to shoot through her body.
Logan ripped open her shirt and popped a claw to cut open her bra, which immediately freed her pillowy breasts from their restraints.
He sat up and gripped her body to his as she began bucking hard against him, signaling her close orgasm.
Logan rolled them over and began thrusting into her as he hooked his arm beneath her knee, opening her legs wider to give him deeper access.
Marie arched her back and whispered breathlessly, "I'm cumming...I'm cumming! Oh god!"
Logan roared and threw his head back as he spilled himself inside of her.
As their tense bodies slowly relaxed, he collapsed on top of her and laughed softly. Marie ran her hands through his hair and kissed the top of his head, "Damn...I missed this."
He nodded and panted, "Yea...me too, kid."
After laying on the ground to a few moments, Logan sat up and took a look around the room as he leaned against the footboard of the bed, "Whoa...we made a mess of the place. Looks like I'm gonna have to pull out the spackle", he said, motioning toward the fresh dents behind the desk.
As Marie sat up, Logan brushed her disheveled hair from her eyes. She smiled, "Leave it...it's just gonna be one mark of many...it'll help tell the story of us."
He looked into her eyes, "I don't wanna lose you again."
"You won't."
He laid a lingering kiss on her lips, "I wanna be sure of that. Marry me..."
She smiled and favored him with another gentle kiss, "Yeah..."
Logan and Marie had a long engagement, thanks to Dr. Guthrie's urging. He eventually moved into Marie's room on the top level and immediately went to work putting up an extra wall in their room to separate Taylor's room from their own.
They still fought every now and then, but it was never anything that couldn't be handled.
Over time, marks began to appear in their new room. Unlike the dents, claw marks and holes left in their previous residence, the new marks were happy ones.
By the door, there were notches that marked Taylor's growth.
Behind the headboard, there was a permanent dent that subtly showed the virility of Logan and Marie's sex life.
It was easy to see that a family lived here...a happy one.
THE END!
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