It's Just That Way
I enjoyed writing this story. It was fun to do and there's not too much to put past this point so that's why I'm ending it.
And just so you know, I thought this would be funny to write it this way.
It had been months…maybe five. He didn't quite to listen to all the others about the date and god knew he forgot whenever she told him. He stood in the yard, looking down at the graves they had created, two of which were just monuments. His eyes spent time on all of them, lingering on Xavier's more then the others. He couldn't stay out too much longer. He was expected inside soon. With a somewhat satisfied sigh, Logan walked back into the school. The students greeted him tentively, his nerves had been slightly on end lately. He stood in the elevator, going down. When the doors slid open he walked out in the silver hallway and towards the room that he was needed in.
"Gosh, could you have taken any longer?" Rogue asked, meeting him outside. "Ororo says that the whole thing is gonna fall if they had to wait more."
"I was paying respects, lay off." Logan said. Rogue crossed her arms, burn marks were evident on her bare hands and Logan was pretty sure the young woman in front of him probably could feel her fingertips anymore. It seemed to be worth it though as Rogue smiled up at him.
"Well go on then." She said, nodding at the door as it slid open.
"Finally!" Ororo said, standing on the other side. Logan shrugged and followed her into the room.
Yep, definitely had been five months. Ororo's hair had grown longer, almost back to the length it was at when he first met her. It looked good.
"So how's everything?" Logan asked, stuffing his hands in his pockets.
"Apart from the near disaster we've been trying avoid…it seems to be good." Ororo said. She put a hand on her stomach. "Kinda making me sick though, you know?"
"Yeah." Logan said.
"But it all seems to be working fairly well." Ororo said. Logan nodded. It all had been working really well. Once they found out the problem, Hank set about quickly to fix it and his remedy seemed to be working, although it was a pain filled day every month to keep it working.
"So it's…" Logan said.
"Doing fine." Ororo said. "You can go in there you know." She nodded through the closed door to the left of them. "It's not like she'll bite your head off. Although she may yell as to why you're late but you'll heal from anything she throws at you."
"Gee, thanks." Logan said. Ororo smiled. Logan sighed and walked over to the door, which opened in front of him. He walked into the room and instantly ducked as something breakable flew past his head and shattered as it hit the now closed door behind him.
"About time!" The female in the room said. "I knew I should have gotten the trees to…"
"What have I told you?" Hank said, trying to calm the young woman.
"That using my powers will get Logan to get his ass down here quicker." Was the reply.
"Well…yes…but it will also result in…" Hank said. The girl sighed as he looked at her expectantly.
"Possibly harming it, yeah, I know." She said.
"Don't want that now." Logan said, crossing the room. "I'm not that late." He brushed her dark hair from the girl's face, his thumb running over the only scar still present there. It was light, not really noticeable from a certain distance. It ran from her forehead, across her eyebrow, over her eyelid and stopped at her cheek.
"Being 'not that late' would have required you to show up ten minutes ago." She said, slapping Logan's hand away from her face.
"Kinda hard to say but I think I liked you better when you were quiet." Logan said, smirking as she glared at him. She yelped and jumped as Hank stabbed her with yet another needle. She looked at Logan. "Don't give me that look. You were the one that was all for this procedure."
"Yeah but it makes me feel all…lab rat-ish." She said.
"Hey, you wanna keep your body from turning around and killing baby, you gotta go through it Grace." Logan said. She stuck her tongue out at him as she crossed her arms somewhat protectively over her rounded stomach. "Still got…at least four more of these days to go."
"You are so not making me feel better." Grace said. Logan just grinned at her.
"Ok…we got one more needle now to go through." Hank said. "And then there's just the ultrasound to make sure everything's alright and you'll be good to go."
"Guess I am pretty late." Logan said. He had completely missed three of the five needles that Grace had to endure. So much for keeping the promise of being with her through all of it. He did intend to keep the promise of being with her in a few months though.
"Tell me again why I agreed." Grace said.
"Because…Audrey…" Logan said, quietly. Only he and Rouge knew that was actually her name. Rogue didn't even use it but Logan did on the occasion, just to annoy her. "We figured out that it would be more painful for you to endure your body and powers turning against baby and trying to kill it."
"Right." Grace said, slowly. "Now I remember…ah!" She glared at Hank as he withdrew the last needle from her. She looked at Logan. "I so blame you for all of this. You and your…idea to celebrate the discovery that I was going to live."
"Uh…who was the one that started it?" Logan asked.
"That may be but you were the one who wasn't content with stopping." Grace said.
"Well…you were the one that told me to keep going." Logan said.
"Yeah well…you were the one that…that…didn't have a condom." Grace said.
"You were the one that, and I quote, needed me right then and there." Logan said. Grace's eyes narrowed dangerously. Logan actually felt a bit afraid of her and stepped back away from her. Hank had his back to them. He had heard this argument so many times already that he could actually mouth along with the two, exactly what they were saying when they were saying it. He did it all with a smile on his face. As he turned back around, Logan was shaking his hand to get the fire off it. He finally managed it and the burn slowly healed.
"Grace." Hank said.
"What? He should know better by now." Grace said. She wiggled uncomfortably all through the ultrasound and then pulled her shirt back on finally and left the med lab with Logan. Ororo and Rogue were gone by then. "So…all is good in happy baby land inside me now." She looked down at her stomach, running a hand over it.
"Uh huh." Logan said.
"You aren't sounding enthusiastic about it today." Grace said.
"Today's just a tiring day considering this is the fifth time you burned the flesh off my hand today." Logan said. Grace just shrugged. "You know you shouldn't be doing that."
"Ok you honestly can't believe that I'll willingly stop using my mutation." Grace said. Logan shook his head. "Exactly. Everything's fine and I'm only going through the normally pregnancy crap now. No more completely terrible pains that make me want to freeze myself completely so I don't have to feel it."
Logan still remembered the day he had woken to Grace curled up in extreme pain. It was three months ago and he could have sworn that he had accidentally stabbed her for the way she had been acting. It was a painful sight, seeing her in that much pain. Then to find out she was pregnant was a completely different shock. To find out that, because of her powers clashing with the possible powers of the baby, her body was turning against the fetus and had tried to kill it.
He was whacked upside the head, bringing him back to the present and the girl standing next to him, her hand unfreezing
"You didn't have to do that." Logan said.
"I yelled at you." Grace said. "You didn't answer…so I did have to."
"You just did it to bug me." Logan said. Grace didn't answer. "Yeah, that's what you did…Audrey."
"Ok that's twice now!" Grace said. "In one day!"
"What?" Logan asked, innocently.
"Calling me…you-know-what." Grace said.
"Oh you mean Audrey?" Logan asked.
"You're on mighty thin ice." Grace said, pushing open the door to his room which was now hers as well.
"Why?" Logan asked, deciding to really bug her now.
"You know why." Grace said, glaring at him. Logan positioned himself between her and the bed, his back to the bed, knowing exactly how this was going to turn out.
"I don't know. Why don't you tell me, Aud…" Logan said.
"Don't you dare!" Grace interrupted. Logan didn't continue. "Good now then…"
"Audrey." Logan said.
"That's it." Grace said, forcing Logan back onto the bed with a strong wind. She climbed over on top of him before she finally understood what he was doing. Since it had been just a bit too easy to knock him over. "Oh you sneaky little bugger!"
"That I am." Logan said, smiling. "Now that we're in a familiar position, I suggest we take advantage of our alone time." Grace smirked before she used another wind to close the door.
The End
I had fun writing this whole story and this chapter. I know I made Logan pretty out of character here but it was funny to write it like this.