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Author's Note: After watching Wolverine I HAD to come up with a way to merge it into the X-Men movies while still allowing for Romy-ness that isn't jailbait (since Gambit is at least 21 in Wolverine which takes place 15 years before the X-Men movies). This is my attempt.
Oh, spoiler warning for Wolverine… but it wouldn't be if you went to see it, which you should. Do it now…well after reading this. Hehe.
Prologue
"Do you know her?"
Wolverine looked at the woman, dead, with a smell that he knew that he knew, but couldn't for the life of him remember, "No."
"Come on, we have to get out of here," The strange young man called looking around at the ruined island as the sound of sirens got steadily nearer.
"You go, I have to find my own way."
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Wolverine sat up with a sigh. It was the same dream. Being on an island, with no memory of getting there, a dead woman and a strange man telling him they were friends, telling him his name—Logan. He had always dreamt of getting his claws, of the pain and the hatred born in those moments. Now, knowing more, knowing that Stryker had been the cause, and after losing Xavier, his only link to discovering his memories again gone, and Jean, the woman he loved dead at his hands… his dreams had shifted. He was dreaming of a new scene and a new pain. He just didn't know what it was. But he had a feeling that this man, this friend, may hold the answer. He just had to find him.
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"You running again?" A voice called early the next morning as Logan headed to the door.
He grinned, hitching his bag higher on his shoulder. Rogue: he should have known. "You're up early."
She hugged her sweater tighter around herself as she stepped off the stair's landing, moving towards him, "Bobby and me fought again."
He nodded, "Marie…" he had watched her since she took the cure. She had never been happy before it, but she seemed miserable after it. He was worried about her. He knew that she was strong, he also knew that she had seemed to have forgotten just how strong she really was. He wondered then, looking at her shrink away from his gaze, if she ever really knew.
She smiled at him sadly, "It's okay Logan. Ah made my choice, Ah'll live with it. So, where are you goin'?"
He looked away from her, "I have something to take care of."
She nodded, "You have a past to find. It ain't goin'a be the same with ya gone. We've gotten used to you sticking around for once."
"I'll miss you too kid," he told her taking off his dog tags and placing them in her grip once more, knowing that right then, she needed something to hold onto more than ever before, "I'll be back for these."
Marie watched him going, knowing, deep down that by the next time she would see him, things wouldn't be the same. Around the X-Men, things never were for very long.
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Hopefully this will take off very soon. Hehehe.