"So my friend I see you have returned from your journey, did you find what you were looking for?" Ororo asked as she sat down next to Logan on a bench in the school's garden.
"I can't say that I did 'Ro, "after a pause he continued deciding to change the subject," I hear there have been plenty of changes since I was gone, mind telling me them?"
Ororo shifted into a more comfortable position, noticing Logan's quick change in subject but respecting his privacy she let it go and began, "Well, Scott and Jean were married, I think about a month after you left, Rogue and Bobbie have been dating for three months now, there have been other changes but I don't think you would be interested in hearing them."
Logan chuckled, "You're right I wouldn't. So One-Eye finally got Jean to marry him huh?"
Ororo simply nodded, "How does that make you feel?"
"That's my 'Ro, always worried about somebody else. To answer your question though, it doesn't hurt that much, maybe because I've been gone for six months, I'm happy for her and Cyke,"at Ororo's questioning gaze, "really, I am, I'm too messed up to be with Jeanie, she deserves better."
Ororo looked at him thoughtfully, not wanting to even begin to analyze why him saying "my 'Ro" effected her so much. She had truly missed Logan while he was gone. Perhaps because he was a presence that always drew others to him whether he meant to or not. He was so mysterious and tortured, even now he had a haunted expression in his beautiful eyes, she couldn't help but to want to help him.
Logan noticed how Ororo looked at him. Part of him hated to be around her and another thrived on it, both for the same reason. Around her none of his shields or defenses seemed to work, she knew him better then anyone did, including himself. He was happy that she was the first X-Man he talked to now that he had returned. What he told her was true, he hadn't found any answers concerning his past in Canada, but he had discovered something else. He could easily fall in love with Ororo Munroe.
It was expected to miss Marie, she was such a sweet little girl and had easily gotten under his skin. But he hadn't expected to miss Ororo. He missed having her to talk to, her beautiful hair and skin. She looked like a Goddess, and her white hair which on most people would look weird and out of place, for her seemed to be natural as if it was any other color she wouldn't look right.
She always put others before herself and probably had one of the biggest hearts of anyone he had ever known, but there was so much about the beauty that was unknown to him.
He silently wondered what he would have to do to be honored with the insight into the real woman.
He saw her shiver in the cold winter evening and placed his coat on her shoulders receiving a nod and to his immense pleasure a blush.
/Oh, great there I go blushing like a teenage girl, next thing she would know she would be giggling./
She felt naked under his curious gaze, he looked at her as if she was a puzzle that he desperately wanted to put together. She was used to being the one observing not being observed and as unsettling as it was if it meant she could be this close to Logan she wanted more.
"So 'Ro where were you going when you came out and caught me trying to sneak into the school?" He questioned and was that a giggle he had heard?
/That wasn't just a giggle! Damn and he heard it of course, damn super natural hearing!/
"I was going ice-skating, want to go with?"
Now it was his turn to look uncomfortable. Not wanting to admit that he had no idea how to ice skate he tried to come up with some other excuse.
"No, I think I'm gonna go unpack, thanks anyway."
Not wanting Logan to leave she stood up and grabbed his hand, "Nonsense you can pack later,"
she demanded and before he could refuse a strong wind picked the two figures up and deposited them in front of an ice skating rink.When he saw the closed sign he almost did a cartwheel in relief, "Oh look it's closed,too bad."
Inside she smiled at his discomfort, outside she pulled a key out of herpocket.
"I'm friends with the owner, she lets me skate here whenever I want."
//Shit! Ok think Logan, you can get out of this before you make a complete ass out of yourself.// But it was too late because she already had the door opened and was dragging him through it. She spoke ending his inner musings,
"What size shoe do you wear?"
"11, but 'Ro really, I just got back and," he stopped as it reached his jumbled brain that not only was he now floating but Ororo was kneeling before him. Using all of his inner strength to keep a certain part of his anatomy down, he was powerless to stop her from putting the borrowed skates on his feet.
//Maybe I can do this, it can't be that hard.//
He watched Ororo as she glided effortlessly over the ice, he was once again memorized by her beauty and grace as she turned and did those fancy jumps through the air. Placing one, only slightly shaking skate on the ice, he used the wall for support and brought his other foot to meet the first. Pushing off the wall he quickly learned it wasn't as easy as it looked. He seemed to fly over the ice, that was before he tried to actually skate, and fell unmaningly on his bum. It took everything in her not to laugh at Logan's predicament, he just looked so cute, and was that a blush rising on his cheeks?
She skated over to him and offered him a hand up.
"Hold onto me," she quickly regretted her words, bringing Logan here, and her birth, as her body began to react to Logan's closeness. The warmth his body threw off in waves and the heat of his arms where they were wrapped around her waist. She just knew that Logan was going to hear her poundingheart and pull away but to her surprise he instead held her tighter against him.
/Now how do you skate again? Oh right!/
After a couple of minutes of instruction Logan began to get the hang of skating, and to both of their regret, was able to skate on his own. With a glance at her watch Ororo was stunned to see 2:03 glowing up at her from her watch.
"Logan it's getting late, we should really be heading back to the school."
Going back over to the desk they took off their skates and put them in their respectful boxes. Walking outside side by side Logan stopped her before she could use her powers to fly them once more to the school.
"Mind if we walk?"
"Not at all." They walked in comfortable silence back to the school, neither wanting to shatter the serene silence enshrouding them in its warmth.
They came upon the school much too quickly for the both of them. "Well," they both spoke at once followed by a tense silence. "Can I walk you to your room?" Logan asked. Not wanting to let this evening end although he knew it would have to. Also not wanting to part from him Ororo was quick to agree.
They reached her room.
Her room had always been her sanctuary, the place where she felt the safest and most at ease but now all she could do was glare at the door that would soon close behind her and separate her from Logan. Logan for his part was floundering trying to come up with some way, anyway, to be able to be close to her again.
"So have you seen any good movies lately?" That sounded lame to his own ears but hopefully it would allow him to get his foot in the door so to speak. Ororo took her time to think. The question itself sounded odd to her ears but if this was his way of somehow arranging them to get together again then she was all for it.
"No."
"Well I was planning to see that new movie, Men of Honor, would you like going with me, say tomorrow?"
/A date! A date, he couldn't possibly mean a date, could he?/
The offer was too good to pass up.
"I would love to." Logan momentarily let his happiness and relief be seen before catching himself, "Great!" He tried to calm himself. "So tomorrow, 7 o'clock?"
They became entranced by the other's eyes, "Sounds wonderful."
Logan bent over and placed a kiss upon her hand before retiring to his own room. She opened her door and on auto-pilot made it to the bed where she collapsed, she hadn't felt this good in a long time.
Logan made it to his own room and carelessly tossed his bag into a corner of the room. Collapsing onto the bed he clasped his hands beneath his head and basked in his happiness.
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