Healing

Trivial Pursuit is a general knowledge game were you are asked questions on different topics, and said topic is decided by what colour square you land on. The game I mentioned here is a lot of fun. You get asked a question based on the colour the twister spinner thing lands on, and if you get it right you get to stay still, if you get it wrong you have to move your hand or foot as you normally would in twister. I love that game.


Chapter 13

Logan was awake. He wasn't too thrilled about this. It had been a long day, and he'd gone to bed expecting to sleep as soon as he lay down. 3 hours later, he'd decided that the ceiling wasn't interesting enough to be stared at any longer and got up. He hadn't tossed and turned like he used to on restless nights because Scott liked to sleep next to him.

Therefore, he was now up and wandering the West Dorms. There used to be just 3 kids who didn't sleep. They had gained another 2 in the past few months. There were still just 4 who didn't need as much sleep as most of the other kids. All 9 were up and in the main recreation room. He stood leaning against the door frame and watched them playing a strange mixture of trivial pursuit and twister. It was good to see they were playing with the 2 new kids. He knew that kids sometimes had problems with making friends when they started at a different time to all the others. But they looked happy enough; 4 kids on the mat and 5 around the edges, cheering their team mates on (With one kid asking the questions and working the spinner)

One kid slipped, bringing the other 3 on the twister mat down with him. It quickly became a large pile of laughing children as the others got pulled in. Logan chuckled softly, it looked fun. He couldn't deny it. It was nice to see kid's relaxing and having fun.

The tension from Stryker's attack on the school was gone and the kid's were far more confident. He had a large number in his survival lessons, and more had joined his self defence classes. Scott was still busy with his maths and martial arts, but he was discussing with Wheels and Logan splitting his classes up, so he had a bit more spare time and Logan got a few more kids in his self defence classes. He didn't object though. He would have a while ago, but Scott wasn't drowning in grief anymore, and he could cope better with some spare time.

'Ro and Kurt had returned yesterday evening. Scott had been pleased. A few kids still kept up with morning prayers, whether it was for faith, for the routine or because they worried about Kurt being away Logan didn't know, and he didn't ask. But Scott always went and sat with Kurt after his morning jog. (Something he'd tried and failed to get Logan to join him in)

"They are nice to watch, no?"

"Shouldn't you be in bed?"

"I could ask you the same thing..."

Logan smirked. 'Speak of the devil and he shall appear' rang through his mind. Not that there was anything evil about his friend, unless you counted the reminiscing about being in the circus. That had a tendency to be fairly annoying.

"Not tired."

"Hmm..." they stood together and watched the kid's start their twister/ trivial game again.

Logan found it was relaxing to stand in the presence of the mutant. He was no longer as shy as he had been when they'd first got him. He had no issues about how he looked anymore. Kurt was now a confident teacher of religion and German, much appreciated by students and staff alike. Well, when he wasn't rambling on about crap he was anyway.

"Hey, bub. I'll see you later. Gonna try get some sleep."

Kurt nodded, and smiled without taking his eyes off the kids. He laughed softly as one young man jumped from the sidelines onto the back of his friend on the mat. Logan smirked, before turning away.

Once in his room, he stripped back down to his boxers and slipped under the blankets. Scott turned over, mumbled something and buried his face into Logan's side.

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"Hey Pup. How you doing?"

"Victor. I'm fine thank you."

"Hahaha, no need to sound so tense. How's Jimmy? And that school?"

"Same answer. Why are you ringing?"

"So pleasant. Anyway, thought you'd want to know. Magneto is headed for San Francisco. I didn't catch what he is after; I think it's his shape shifter though."

"Thanks. You know when he's off there?"

"Nah, 'fraid not. Put Jimmy on. I know he's there. Can hear him growling."

Scott was talking on his phone to Victor, Logan's brother. It'd been a good 2 weeks since they'd last received an update from him. Logan listened to both ends of the conversation, his hearing allowing him to catch what the both men were saying.

He grabbed the offered phone and held it to his ear, watching Scott frown unhappily as he did so.

"Yeah?"

"Jimmy, how you doing?"

"Great."

"Haha, just as talkative as your Pup."

"Hmm."

"Got very far with your memories?"

"I remember wars. Different wars. I can distinguish between them now as well. Don't remember too much in between either."

"It'll come. Hm? Oh... Jean's coming back over. I'll have to go. She's been dead good recently. Decidedly less than a total bitch."

"Really..."

"Yeah. She's not her proper self often enough. She's taught me loads when she is though. True teacher." The man laughed, and Logan grinned. Jean had liked explaining things to people. "Not so fond of her 'Phoenix' version. Who the Hell calls them self phoenix? She's a total nutter, well... not totally. She has her moments of reason." Logan heard him scoff lightly, "She's still dead possessive of your Pup too. But, I'm beginning to think she's just lonely. Ah, shit. I'll ring you later."

"Bye." He hung up and handed the phone back to Scott.

"What did he say?"

"Nothing interesting."

Scott was dialling a number on his phone already.

"Professor Xavier please. It's Cyclops."

They were out at a zoo with a number of students. Logan was still pretty tired, having not got as much sleep as he'd wanted. He was enjoying the sun though. He and Scott were sat on a bench near the entrance. They'd be here till lunch time, then 'Ro and Helen (The English Literature teacher) would be sat here. It was a check point, the kid's had to come at set times and prove they were answering the questionnaire. Scott and Logan would get a chance to wander around in about 2 and a half hours.

He read through the questionnaire as Scott spoke to Wheels. It was quite easy, all the information was on various boards throughout the zoo, but it was more a day for fun than work. They were going to be in the same place tomorrow, but with a different bunch of students. They had decided it wasn't a great idea to take a large number of excitable students out. Easier to handle in small batches, regardless of their mutant status.

He thought back to their last mission together. They had just gone for 'observations' with Sam and Jenny, a lovely old couple who had been very accommodating. A phone call to the professor had resulted in them going to the see a man who's codename was 'The Wizard' Fairly crazy, but incredibly understanding. He'd been told to keep Scott alive. Then a little later had turned his back and lost him. He'd also gotten to listen to the kid's sob story. An orphan who'd been attacked, come into his powers, freaked out and ran away. Sadly, not as rare a story in this school as one would want.

Still, they were definitely closer now. Scott slept nearly every night in Logan's room, and he wasn't disturbed by many nightmares. Logan wasn't either, though the ones he did have did not result in his claws. He didn't know what to make of it.

It was the end of May, and the sun was hot. Nights were short, and Logan was beginning to think that Scott got up with the sun. Sadly, the heat of the day didn't bother to fuck off at night, and they tended to sleep without any blankets. Maybe that was why the kid got up so early. He shifted in the bench. It was very uncomfortable, and he had a feeling that he would be aching later on if it wasn't for his wonderful mutation. Scott was sat on the floor, his back straight. Must be trying to avoid back ache, but he'd been pacing earlier on. The stillness was an improvement. He had hung up now, and was sat amongst the various possessions of the different students.

"Hey, Slim?"

"Yeah?"

"What do you think's gonna happen?"

"... I dunno... I think the professor will try finding out as much as he can, but eventually, we'll have to go to San Francisco and see what's happening for ourselves. The professor doesn't really trust Magneto. I think he's trying to find Mystique. She's been by his side for ages, and John is still a child, so not much of a replacement."

Logan grunted quietly in response, before leaning back with his eyes shut and enjoying the heat on his face.