Chapter 5
You frown unconsciously as you want to handle a pair of wooden chopsticks, the Chinese food you brought was well received by Wade, and Logan didn't complain at any point about today's dinner choice, you can't believe that your practice eating perfectly with chopsticks has gone down the drain because of your shyness in front of the shameless looks of your roommates. They don't even disguise it, even though they are silent as they hungrily munch on their Chinese food, as usual, Wade can't stay quiet for a minute without his mouth dropping something reckless "So? How much did the X-bored bother you?" Wade comments, munching his food with a fork.
You shake your head "I already told you it went well," You want to keep talking, but you take a few seconds looking for the best words to say that your team is still looking for the presence of the men sitting in front of you.
"But that wasn't enough for them, huh?" Logan asks you almost amused but his angry countenance betrays that he was not amused at the situation "They haven't distrusted me or this one?" he points to Wade and asks you stopping his meal to look at you without distraction.
You put your chopsticks aside giving up for the moment and trying to eat with them "Yes, Scott was the one who hesitated," you tell him clearly "And they were surprised at the audacity they had to accomplish," you inform them humorously recalling the perplexed faces of your mutant friends when they heard you say what these men you have did to save the universe, Wade snorts offended.
"Wow, looks like they can't believe I'm doing anything well this time," he chews his Chinese food with childish annoyance and you smile at his feigned annoyance.
"Sorry to be the one to tell you but some of them don't like you," you laugh "But they have decided to believe me, I can't lie to them," you shrug "It was good to see them, it's been a while since I had seen them," you comment with nostalgia, you loved those years where you grew up in the academy with the other mutants, but you won't regret having this life in your apartment.
"Did you tell him about Nova?" Logan asks again contrasting with Wade taking a more serious stance and you instantly shake your head, you thought long and hard about whether to tell the professor about her but decided against it at this point, you think Logan or Wade should talk about it with him, you didn't know her but the scarred man told you that she was the opposite of the professor, an unhinged woman with airs of grandeur and a creepy personality, so you kept your comments to yourself, although by the analyzing look of the professor he may have noticed that you were hiding something, but neither he nor you commented on the matter.
"Good," Logan comments relaxing and going back to eating his plate of food, your smile doesn't diminish even if you keep eating, you don't know what makes Logan and Wade's company so...so domestic, but you like it, they converse in their way, they make jokes that sometimes you don't understand, but you don't feel left out, they even seem to try to behave better when you're in front of them and you appreciate that.
Wade takes the opportunity to be clingy with you at dinner, he takes a piece of his food on his fork and directs it towards your mouth as if wanting to mimic a scene from a romantic movie he likes, you accept his food opening your mouth and receiving the piece with amusement, you barely notice Logan giving a very obvious grimace of displeasure and you cough a little after eating, Wade doesn't mind being cheesy with you but you somehow feel a little embarrassed that Logan is watching them because he doesn't seem so pleased at the displays of love and you can understand it.
But what surprised you was that after eating the piece Wade offered you Wade took another one to replicate the same with Logan, imitating a funny sound, Wade takes his fork towards Logan's mouth, however, as expected, Logan rejects his crude attempt to feed him, pulling his arm away to the other side, you couldn't help but laugh, Wade makes things that seem uncomfortable he makes them funny.
Dinner after that went by too fast, and in the blink of an eye the three of them were already cleaning the dishes, you told him that you were going to take care of it, that it was only a few plates and glasses but surprisingly they refused, Logan without a word of complaint started washing the dishes while Wade dried the clean dishes, you were a little puzzled and at the same time happy, since when Wade and Logan were getting along so well? You smile crossing your arms, of course, you can get used to seeing them doing something as mundane as washing the dishes, and without denying it they look so incredibly attractive without making much effort.
You watch them in silence with affection, a warm feeling is generated when you see them interacting without tearing each other's throats, when you hear Wade laugh you realize that Logan has managed to settle in a good way to this universe, he has managed to find a place where he can relax without being that famous X-men that society needs, without being that Logan that your companions want to meet, because he is different from the one who used to be his variant, but that doesn't mean he is the worst, Wade notices that you watch them cleaning the dishes and with confidence he winks at you and goes back to his business, you, on the other hand, you smile at him, what a charming bastard.
"You know you can sleep in your room now, we were finally able to put a decent mattress for Logan in your ex-base of operations," you say to Wade with your eyes closed almost gawking at the caress he gives you on your scalp as if it were a subtle massage, he of course did not hesitate to throw himself on your bed at bedtime even though he has his room.
"What? You don't love me?" he says to you in a low voice, he sounds hurt but you don't let him get sad as you return the caresses with a soft kiss, he smiles at the small gesture, how would he have survived without these touches of yours? it's not enough with those tender kisses you give him as his body reacts very fast to the chaste kisses you give him, he almost begs you to touch him more intimately but you look tired and he above all things respects you and leaves you with the light touches.
"Of course I do silly, now it looks as if you will stay here, not that I'm complaining" you joke suggestively and he is a little surprised that you are a little cheeky, it's probably because sleep makes you say those things, but he likes it, but his attention returns to you when you let out a sigh, he asks you what's up in a low and curious voice "I was just thinking about today's meeting, it was necessary but still it felt very...." you remain silent not knowing what to say, you are almost lost in your thoughts, it's the first time you reflect deeply on your partners' relationship with Wade, some of them never approved of your friendly relationship with Wade, he was a murderer , rude, with little responsibility, but you always defended him and advocated for him in his worst moments.
He also seemed to notice how loyal you were to him because without hesitation he hugged you so tightly when he found out you stood up for him, even now that you have started a relationship with him you can tell he was thrilled when you did that, because few people have ever done that for him.
"Exciting?" he lets out a quip and you smile again shaking your head and turning your gaze to his face, this is the Wade you know, the one you love and desire since he knows how to let you worry about everything.
"I was going to say overwhelming, but I liked what you said better" It's still been hours since you came back from the meeting and had a placid dinner with the guys, but now when you are in an almost drowsy state you can't sleep thinking about everything that comes with bringing Logan into this universe, you've never met a different person from another universe before and Wade made it seem like it's nothing from another world, and made you quickly trust this Wolverine, but the words of a concerned Scott also made you think.
Wade looks at you fondly, if you defended them it was because you have a good feeling about this, even if your superpower was not to see the future, with Wade everything seems easier to carry. But of course, you are still waiting for answers to questions that may never be answered, you hesitate a bit at what you are going to question Wade about, but your curiosity guides you to do it "They asked about his past, they questioned me about what had happened in their universe, I didn't know how to answer them, do you know anything about his that, who he was before you found him?".
You seem to have caught Wade off guard with your question as he opens his mouth expressing an "Uhh..." and you understand the situation instantly, Wade doesn't want to tell you the truth and that's okay, as irresponsible as the scarred man appears, Wade takes few things seriously, and if he has a hard time telling you about Logan you don't force him, there's still time for Logan to open up to you.
"You don't know or you don't want to tell me?" you ask him quickly without anger.
"Wow, how pretty the moon is today" he comments sounding a little nervous, pointing to the moon and looking through one of the windows in your room, you don't look at the moon and instead look at him raising your eyebrow.
"You don't avoid the subject!" you smile giving him a gentle slap that doesn't even make him move at the little impact of force.
"That fork's hand hasn't told me either" he partially lies to you, but you don't know that and his words relax you a little, you guess Logan isn't ready to tell Wade either, yet.
"Wow...I thought he told you that with the mini adventure you two did" you opine looking closely at Wade, the two of you standing face to face "I'm glad you got another friend" you confess sincerely, you admire his extroversion to be able to chat with people without any shame, and that he teamed up with Logan was also a good thing for him, you can tell the two of them learned things when they lived with each other.
Wade snorts at the word friend, he wouldn't know whether to label Logan a friend, he used to hate him, or rather envied him the aspects that Wade could never have like the gallantry and respect of the X-men, then mocked him after his death, but now? at first he was just looking for a Logan to restore his world, basically selfish intentions, not considering that the one Logan he got caught outweighed his expectations little by little, and he can't deny when he fell for Logan's unconscious charm, he wouldn't deny that he got pretty excited when the two of them fought in that Honda, he hadn't had such a close and interesting fight in years.
"He's not my friend" Now the one acting proud is Wade, on the other hand, you let out a yawn not believing it at all, but you're too tired to refute it.
"Oh, really? I don't know, I thought they got along well", you mumble to him already almost falling asleep completely.
"Yeah well, you thought wrong," he whispers to you and you slowly nod your head, you feel his hands caressing your back under your shirt and instead of taking it as something lustful it only causes you more comfort and therefore more drowsiness.
"Maybe I did" is the last thing you say to him before he fell into a heavy sleep, finally rested after the busy day.
Wade doesn't have a problem lying to other people, it's a flaw of his that he doesn't think will disappear from one day to the next, but deep in his mutated heart he doesn't like lying to you, you don't deserve it, but this time he decided to pretend ignorance, he doesn't like the idea of telling you that he knows only a small fraction of Logan's history and that fraction is the part where you were a variant in Wolverine's life.
He notices that you fell asleep and says goodnight kissing you on your forehead, after a few minutes of trying to make sure you are completely asleep and safe, he slowly gets out of bed, this is an opportunity to go out at night like Deadpool and he doesn't plan to waste it. He leaves your bedroom trying to be stealthy, he almost reaches his room, but the sound of the TV makes him turn his head towards the living room, morbidly he goes to see who is in the room or if you have left the TV on, unsurprisingly he finds again a melancholic Logan drinking again a beer, this time without cigarettes in his mouth.
Wade opens his mouth to tell him something jokingly but Logan is the one who speaks first "She liked that same Chinese food.." he comments in a low voice, not looking at Wade and focusing on the movie they spent that hour. He doesn't know why on earth he's saying this to Wade, but he thinks the alcohol helped somewhat, or even the beautiful moment the three of them spent at a dinner that for others may be something everyday and mundane but for Logan it made him teleport back to those memories that are becoming fuzzy in his mind, those moments where he wasn't the worst Wolverine, where he hadn't completely sunk.
In this world you also had a little difficulty in eating with chopsticks, he remembers it, you made the same sounds when you tasted the delicious food, and he is even too moved that you keep the same mugs as when you were with him, in his life.
"So she had a good taste like my Peanut," Wade replies sitting down next to him in the same position he was in before you arrived, Logan smiles ever so slightly because he is right.
"Yeah, and she made me use chopsticks," he mumbles deep in thought, Wade pays close attention to him, as if that information is worth millions.
"Sounds like my girl," Wade opines and Logan's smile fades back to the present.
"She's not your girl," Logan comments angrily and Wade lets out a laugh at the sudden change in mood.
"in your world maybe not but in this one, yes, and believe me she forced me to use chopsticks too but gave up when I put them in my nose once," Wade comments anecdotally.
"How ridiculous," Logan laughs at Wade's expense as usual "Seriously what did she see in you?" he yells out the question he had so long held in his head, as much as he has watched the two of you interact lovingly he still can't believe it, foolishly be due to a state of denial for all the years you weren't by her side.
Wade smiles taking the question without taking offense, sometimes he too is surprised that you fell in love with him, even when the two of you were just friends "I make her laugh" he replies matter-of-factly.
Logan rolls his eyes, the worst thing is that the man next to him is right again, he knows firsthand that you care less about his looks in favor of personality, he remembers the times you had been asked in the past in his world what you liked most about Logan, he would expect you to comment on the obvious that it would be his looks or his wild side due to his mutation, but you just looked at him with pure unadulterated sincerity, and you answered them all that it was his attitude, his character, and even his temperament, things that are not based on just common appearance, you were saying it from the heart, with no malice in your words, you knew him intimately and that scared him, and now, all Logan can do is take a bitter swig of his liquor and know that in this world what makes you smile every day are Wade's bad jokes.
"Besides, haven't you seen me in my suit? I look incredibly sexy in it" Wade speaks again and Logan holds back the urge to growl at him, what a fucking pervert.
Logan is silent trying to focus on the movie, wanting to forget that he is here being practically an intruder in your life, that your version can no longer be in his arms since he failed you. He managed to disappoint you a long time ago and seeing you joyful brings him immeasurable comfort, even if it's not by his side, you still bring him that joy he hasn't felt in a long time.
"You're an asshole" Logan insults him with no real resentment, but it's easy for him to insult Wade, to blame him for him getting to have you every night.
"But at least I have her, I'm her asshole."
Logan turns to look at him, again emphasizing that you are barely an acquaintance to him. Before he could return his response with a rude and unwelcome comment the scarred man speaks to him first.
"Well, what do you say we go out and beat the shit out of the first fool that comes along?" Wade offers him a way out of the brooding circle he'd grown accustomed to over the years. Logan wanted to deny it, tell him to fuck off and that's it, not to bother him anymore, But, beating the crap out of him doesn't sound bad, even to vent these desires he knows he won't be fulfilling for a long time.
"I need alcohol," Logan tells him and Wade is already leaving for his suit and katanas, on the other hand, Logan lets out a tired sigh getting up from the couch, he just hopes you don't get mad at him for encouraging Wade's crazy antics.
Wade knows a lot of bars that could take Logan in a heartbeat, bars where there are criminals by the dozen and he and Logan could kick ass with no problem, But he decided to go to the one he frequents recently, the one he goes to with Peter on Friday nights when he was still working that boring job selling cars and when he wore a toupee.
Some recognized him with his suit on but that didn't matter to Wade, on the contrary, it was a way to show off and that he was back from retirement, wearing the suit again was like a kind of rebirth for him, he broke a cycle where he was kept as a civilian being kept by his roommate now his fantastic girlfriend, that part of being a kept man he liked, but not the one of being a failed civilian who tried to be an X-men and an Avenger and couldn't handle either.
The worst Logan considered by TVA walked by his side silently, allowing him to be by his side although, to others, Logan seems to follow Deadpool as if they had no idea where he was. But much like Wade, Logan also didn't care about the interested looks the others in the bar gave him, he's not interested in one-night stands, and he's not up for that anymore.
Least of all when there is a version of you existing here, sleeping peacefully in his apartment tangled in soft sheets and unaware of where he and Wade are, he'd rather you stay away from these places.
He knows perfectly well that his alcoholic habits increased when the catastrophe happened in his world, and above all he did not stop drinking, and that is why you were not there to stop him, nor to accompany him in having a few drinks, irremediably the alcohol reminded him of you in some way, when he passed out from so much alcohol in his body the last thing he remembered was your face and the first thing he said when he woke up with a hangover was your name on his lips.
"Wow, cirrhosis is strong, isn't that water, you know?" Wade jokingly tells him sitting down next to him at the bar, with a silent but reckless look from Logan the bar instantly vacated leaving it available only to him and Wade, though Deadpool also conveys that unpredictable craziness he manages to have.
Logan ignores him drinking straight from the bottle he ordered almost like muscle memory, Wade is reminded of the first time they met, only Logan seemed more of a good one "Now, not that I'm a therapist but emotional problems should be talked out, don't you think?" Wade again wants to probe Logan in the most subtle way possible, before he was the depressed one he gave good advice interspersed with jokes and foul language.
"Now what do you want?" Logan asks him sullenly wiping off the excess alcohol with his hand without manners.
"I told you! Curiosity is killing me!" Wade tries to drink from his glass through the mask and fails in the process but disguises it by directing the white pupils of his mask towards Logan, he isn't lying, he wants to know what made the famous Wolverine turn into... Well, this version of an old alcoholic with anger issues. But seeing Logan remain silent as he drinks from the bottle makes him get a little desperate, he only has little snippets of the story that Logan blurted out as an oversight and the most he got to learn was from the words he spoke to Nova when they put that helmet on him, Nova had seen that terrible past that Logan refuses to tell.
"Why don't you shut up for a moment?".
"Shut me up," Wade says half-jokingly and half-truthfully.
Logan doesn't give him the pleasure of answering him, but clenches his fist almost as a warning directed at the man dressed in red Spandex, he clenches his fists but nothing comes out of them, Wade raises his eyes laughing.
An unknown man sits next to Wade at the bar, he noticed him but ignored him in favor of continuing to tease Logan, coming up with other words to provoke him, but the man's raspy voice distracts Wade's attention within seconds, the drunk man shouted gibberish towards the bartender, who happens to be Wade's friend "Hey asshole where's my drink?!" the nameless stranger shouts irritatingly at the bartender, Wade turns to see him keeping silent, it's not the first time to meet ungrateful drunks but he had returned as Deadpool and is less impatient than usual "What are you looking at me, freak?" the drunk man asks sullenly almost spitting at Wade, his breath reeks of cigarettes mixed with alcohol and is not at all attractive as Logan can become when he smells like that in Wade's opinion of course.
"Oh, nothing," Wade manages to comment thinking about whether he should use one of his newly acquired golden pistols or one of his multiple knives, the bartender caters to the drunk giving him what he wants, but Wade doesn't forget the provocations.
Logan drinks in silence ignoring the stranger's presence in favor of enjoying his drink, too is used to grumpy customers and finds it hard to admit that he became one of them in his worst moments, he wasn't going to stop just because someone made a stupid comment to Wade, he can handle himself.
But what made him raise his eyebrow was hearing the jerk curse under his breath "damn mutants, all the same freaks".
From just hearing the insults, Logan takes a big gulp of his drink, grimacing in displeasure at having to witness someone with no manners, maybe in the past he would have let it go when he was alone, wrapped up in his guilt and just ducked his head without responding, because deep down he felt he deserved whatever insult they gave him, you weren't there to see him or defend him so what did it matter?
But his claws had already been activated, and he was no longer in his world to let himself be trampled, Wade gave him a look and he knew what it implied, things were going to get violent, at that Logan smiled accepting the challenge.
You walk with a yawn stretching your arms heading to the kitchen to prepare some breakfast, drowsiness is not escaping your body, but still, you are not worried about the lack of Wade in your bed, he can't stay still. But you wonder where Mary is since she is the one who greets you in the halls with her cuteness, waiting to be pampered and for you to hold her in your arms.
As you walk you make an imaginary list of things to do for today, buy supplies, clean out the fridge, and buy some furniture for Logan, you are so distracted in your head that it takes you a few seconds to grasp the situation in front of your nose.
Sleep was completely taken away from you as you watched the grotesque scene in the room.
The room became a mess, with broken glass all over the floor, the TV completely broken with a hole in the middle, god, it's like a whirlwind had passed through here, even the decorations on the wall had fallen.
What on earth had happened?
You would have been petrified if you didn't know what kind of men Wade and Logan are, you almost let out a laugh if it wasn't your living room that is in disarray, you take a few small steps trying not to step on the pieces of glass with your slippers, although you are not worried about getting hurt, what you focus on is Logan who is lying on the floor, where the glass coffee table is supposed to be, you approach him to see if he was okay but when you see him the longest you realize he is asleep.
Then you look at Wade who is also asleep wearing his suit on the couch, cute Mary is curled up in Wade's stomach completely comfortable, despite the broken glass and chaos you can't help but smile, how is it possible for Wade to look so sexy and adorable at the same time?
At least, they had not burned the place, so there was no need for you to take out your fire extinguisher, first try to wake up Logan because you do not want to remove Mary from her place, who seems very comfortable, you bend down to the floor to call the man still lying "Logan, Logan," you call him twice calmly, you take his shoulder to shake him gently, but there is no response, without thinking you slap him "Logan!" you yell at him intending to wake him up, he opens his eyes in surprise and as a defense mechanism, he triggers his claws in a few seconds.
You make an astonished gasp as you nimbly pull away from him so the claws don't hurt you "Hey, it's okay! You're here, take it easy" is the first thing that occurs to you to say to him, Logan himself looks confused as to where he is, until he turns his gaze towards you, immediately noticing that his claws are out and tucks them back in somewhat embarrassed that you're looking at him like that.
"Are you okay?" you ask the question as an autopilot, it's what you ask civilians when they find themselves in dangerous situations, and also of your fellow mutants, you realize too late that the question is somewhat redundant, of course, he's fine, he's a very capable mutant himself.
But instead of looking at you with annoyance or displeasure, Logan slowly nods his head, realizing where he is and in what situation you found him, he grunts in annoyance as he tries to get up, you help him sit up by taking his arm and remove the crystals on his back with a shake "something happened? someone ambushed them?" you can't help but worry "and why didn't they wake me up?".
Logan lets out a slight smile that makes you hesitate a little, stopping your concern "It was just a little argument" he comments in good humor and you let out a sigh as you smell his breath completely contaminated by alcohol.
"Yeah well, that little argument ruined my whole living room, thank you very much" you comment grumpily, it's not the first time Wade has generated a mess but never to this degree.
"Look, I'll help you clean up," she says and you're surprised again, she's sure this Logan is too nice to have barely known you in less than a week, not that you'd say the Logan of this universe was a jerk, but he was more reserved, and this Logan is more chaotic maybe Wade's craziness is rubbing off on him too.
But this Logan...you stare at him, his face fatigued by a growing hangover doesn't make him remove that soft smile that infects you and also makes you smile, but noticing that it causes you to smile you frown he must not know he got away with it, he casually says your name "it's everything is fine, okay?".
"And I imagine that Wade collaborated in this," you tell him again seeing some remains of glass on his back and you don't hesitate to remove it again.
You turn to see Wade still asleep, you stand up to go to him and gently grab Mary who wakes up opening her eyes, you give her a couple of caresses on her head and then hand her to Logan who is still sitting on the floor watching you.
You slap Wade's face, only then does he wake up from his dreams when he refuses to wake up in a good way "Good morning, sleepyhead!" You tell him loudly, he wakes up instantly sitting up and leaving his lying position, he seems to realize where he was in a few seconds, instead of apologizing or being embarrassed for what he had probably done he removes his mask to reveal his face.
"Good morning, peanut!" he smiles at you with a happy smile, if it wasn't the fact that you love him very much you would slap him again for foolishness.
"Can you tell what happened here? It looks like a tornado went through here" You ignore his good morning in favor of some explanations, sometimes you have to play bad cop (be strict with Wade) so he would have to behave in a better way.
"Oh, our daughter got very unruly tonight and I didn't know how to control her!" Wade makes up a barely believable excuse and you give him a skeptical look, then turn your eyes to Mary who sits on the edge of the couch just existing.
" Wade ," you name him trying to sound intimidating but you're sure that probably exists him instead of causing him some fright "Are you framing our little dog?".
You hear Logan's moans as he struggles to stand up, without hesitation you are already by his side helping him up trying to hold him by the waist and putting his arm on your shoulders, he doesn't refuse your touch you even think he lets you touch him and you can feel his body heat just by putting your hands on his body, and boy, is he heavy.
Wade rolls his eyes at how the room looked, he doesn't even remember exactly what happened but Logan and he had a wild night.