Chapter 3
Unfortunately Logans mutation didn't keep him from getting cold so when the sun set and the low temperature started to crawl up his back he knew that he had to come back inside. But what was he supposed to do? Go find Scott and ask him what was all this about? Ask him what, why he isn't with jean? Why he acted so weird towards Logan?
Logan stood there looking over the gardens, wondering what the hell jean meant by saying that Scott found himself someone better, and why was it any of his concern for a while longer but despite being Canadian he wasn't fond of the cold weather so with a groan he pushed himself away from the barrier and made his way back to the mansion, coming in thru the back door and grabbing a beer from the fridge (0% cause it was a school full of underage kids) and in the lack of a better space made his way to the room he woke up in.
When he finally found the proper door he knew that someone was inside, he could smell them but he didn't know who was it. Everyone smelled different here, which made him feel overstimulated and even more confused about this new world. Logan closed his fist, ready to attack in case it wasn't someone friendly. With the hand wrapped around the bottle he managed to open the door and took a deep breath before looking inside.
It was Scott who was sitting on the bed. As the door opened his head snapped upwards only to see Logan.
"It's you." He just said. He was wearing sweats, t-shirt, and his glasses, opposed to the usual visor, like he was getting ready to sleep.
"In the flesh" Logan closed the door behind him and leaned his back against it.
"Why are you in my room?" He assumed that the room was his even though he couldn't be fully sure of that.
"Jean told me you..." Scott paused and looked over at the nightstand "...talked" he finished the sentence.
"We did." Logan once again replied dryly and sipped his beer.
Scott picked up the same frame Logan noticed after he woke up in this room. The one with the photo of the team. Logan could see his slightly shaking hands and the worry on his face.
"She told me I had to talk to you Scott" he made couple steps towards the bed. "What was I supposed to talk about with you" he asked, still wanting to know the hell this entire thing is about, why Scott acted so weird towards him.
"Us." Scott handed Logan the frame.
"Us how?" Logan was still oblivious to what Scott was trying to tell him.
"God, Logan" he lowered his head and shook it slightly. "What you know is rivalry between us... but I guess whatever you did in the past changed more than just stop a war-' Scotts words got stuck in his throat and Logan could see he struggled with what he had to say next.
Scott breathed in again. "You said what you had to say quick, I should take an example. " he tried.
"On this photo-" he motioned at the frame in Logans hand and looked up at him as Logan sipped his beer "You kissed me a week before it was taken Logan"
He stopped all his movements and just stared at Scott, the bottle that was just in his hand now shattered on the floor. The glass shards were everywhere and and the sticky liquid started to seep into the baseboards.
"It was taken... three years ago Logan" Scott said and Logan stayed silent, still unmoving.
"Logan?" Scott stood up and took the photo from Logans hand. The glass breaking under his shoes. Another few moments of silence passed.
"Are you messing with me?" Wolverine just asked, finally speaking up.
"You are aren't you" he closed his fists but didn't retract his claws. He kept them at his sides and just took a step closer to Scott, causing more shards to crack.
"Logan, let's just talk-" Scott tried to convince Logan, and pushed himself up on his arms.
"Like I want to talk with you!" Logan was getting more and more heated up.
"I am not messing with you Logan!" Scott yelled out, his voice no longer soft. His frustration and anger were obvious. But he was desperate too, desperate to explain everything.
Scott stood up and now it was him who held the other man by the front of his jacket, yelling.
"You will fucking talk to me because if I'm loosing you I need you to know what we had, I need you to know it was never a lie!" His grasp on Logan's jacket was desperate, like it was his final lifeline.
"Please just sit down" he put his hand down on the space next to him. "If you dont wanna talk, just listen. Please." He looked up at Wolverine "hear me out and you can leave, me, this room, this mansion, the x-men, you'll be free..." He paused, bringing his hands back to his lap. "Do that one last thing for me Logan"
"You're using the fact I don't remember anything" he growled and took another step, forcing Scott to slightly move backwards. Logan grabbed the front of Scotts shirt, and hissed out. "You're never gonna fucking trick me Slim" he let go of him and pushed him making Scott fall down onto the bed "you can try to fondle my brain but I know I would never date someone like you."
He exclaimed and turned on his heel. Leaving the room in a hurry he had no idea where he would head. Firstly, he made his way to the kitchen and found alcoholic beers all the way behind the cereal. That's definitely a start.
When he slipped his hand into the pocket of his jacket he felt something flat and metal, he pulled it out. His dog tags. The ones he got from Stryker after the whole Weapon X mess. Looks like some things don't change.
He closed his fist on the dog tags, the sides of the metal digging into his palm. He knew he couldn't leave it like this, as much as he wanted to, he couldn't.
"Talk" he just said after once again entering the room. Scott immediately looked upwards at him, he obviously did not expect not Logan to be back, so soon sat least.
He noticed that Scott already cleaned up the glass off of the floor and wiped away the beer.
Logan walked up to the bed, and sat on the edge of it, still keeping his distance from Scott. "You said it was taken three years ago" he motioned at the framed photo.
"Yeah" Scotts gaze returned to the frame on the nightstand.
"It was before our first vacation in Genosha after Eric became the leader" Scott just said.
"Wait" Logan just shook his head "Erik? Genosha? Vacation?" He just asked with a chuckle, now fully convinced that Scott was making fun of him.
"Yeah" Scott just chuckled "After the whole phoenix mess the professor left for couple of years and when he came back he and Erik were best friends once again" he sat in a more comfortable position, facing Logan better. "And three years ago Erik was asked to become the leader genosha, since than he invites us multiple times a year to visit" he had a smile on his face.
"Wait-'' Logan still tried to understand all that Scott was talking about "You're saying that Magneto has his own country and the x-men take... vacations?"
To that Scott just nodded "next visit is planned for next week, if you want- there's a saved spot for you."
Wolverine was about to ask more questions about Genosha when he realized that there was a specific reason as to why he was in this room, talking to Scott Summers.