Chapter Seven
After cleaning up the mess from Storms little rampage, I slowly made my way back to the media room to pick Tristan up and take him to bed. When I arrived however the scene before me wasn’t quite what I had been expecting. Kitty and Bobby and apparently fallen asleep on the couch, but it seemed that Logan had decided to join them for the movie and Tristan had fallen asleep on Logan’s chest while Logan sat there and just watched Tristan sleep, not paying any attention to the movie.
“Logan Ah think maybe it’s time to put him to bed,” I whispered softly to him as I went to reach for my son.
“Oh okay, I’ll carry him up if you don’t mind. I just don’t want to wake him up just yet,” he explained to me as he moved to stand up. I just nodded in return, in all actuality Tristan was growing up to be quite big and I don’t think I would be able to carry him up the stairs without waking him up.
The walk up to our room wasn’t too horrible. In fact in was rather nice having another parent around to help out with Tristan. Once Logan had Tristan lying in his little twin bed I took off his shoes and pulled the covers over his small body and tucked him in and gave him a kiss. In a sleepy state Tristan whispered, “I love you Mommy” and then snuggled in deep into his bed and fell fast asleep. I crept silently over to his closet and put his shoes in on the closet floor and guided Logan out of the room and shut his door quietly.
“So did you and Tristan have fun today?” I asked walking to my vanity to take my earrings out.
“Yea we did actually; you did a really good job Marie. He’s a great kid, gotta lot of potential.” He told me almost sadly.
“Thanks Logan, but Ah didn’t do too much. Actually he’s almost exactly like you even with my influences. So it wasn’t too hard. Give him extra meat at dinner only if he finishes his potatoes and peas first. He can’t go outside and play in the garden or climb the trees until he reads some. He even started growling at Jubilee last Christmas. Now that was a shocker to everyone. He’s your carbon-copy Logan. Everyone says so. So, likeAhI said, he’s not that hard to handle,” I finished taking off my jewelry and started taking my hair down so I could brush it out.
“He really does all that? Ummm… Marie would it be okay if you told me a little bit about, you know the stuff I missed?” He asked me with such innocents I couldn’t help but smile a little. I really was glade that he was taking an interest in Tristan.
“Well Ah really don’t have all of my photo albums with me. But Ah do keep all of the photo albums here that contain stuff that has happened here at the mansion.” Standing up from the vanity I made my way to my closet and pulled down a box from on the shelf in it. Placing the box on the bed I pulled out three photo albums. I motioned Logan to sit next to me on the bed so I could better show him and explain to him what was going on in the pictures.
“This one is of his birth and the ‘birthday’s’ that Jubilee and Kitty through for him every year. Because, they don’t get to see him on his birthdays.” I flipped through the pages and pointed to the picture of me giving birth to Tristan, I could feel the sadness rolling off of him as he looked at the picture. Scott was holding my hand and smiling and I was screaming and pushing. You could even make out Hank’s blue head at the bottom of the picture.
The next picture was of me holding Tristan for the first time and finding out he was immune to my skin. I was crying happy tears as he slept in my arms. There were some that were just a bunch of pictures of Tristan during his first couple of days on Earth. Next we came to his birthday parties; one was a cowboy themed and Scott was the cowboy and Bobby and St. John were Indians, another was super hero’s and everyone dressed up like their favorite super hero except for Scott and Bobby who dressed up in their x-men uniforms. That was my favorite one. On his third unofficial birthday it was magic and we had everyone going around and using their powers as shows. Then on his fourth we had a beach party which was really fun because we actually brought in really sand from the beach and put it all around the pool.
“Okay this next one is of Tristan’s holidays; such as Christmas and Easter.” Flipping through this one I showed him some of the really neat stuff he got for Christmas and how the beast dressed up as Santa for Tristan’s benefit. I got a chuckle from Logan when I showed him Beast in the Santa suite.
“Okay now for this last one, it’s just a bunch of random pictures taken during the summer and when ever we come to visit here. Like Kitty and Bobby’s wedding, the introduction of the new x-men, graduation’s and stuff like that.” There was so many in this album and so many memories that I had forgotten. It took another hour for Logan and I to finish this album however by the end we were both laughing at the funny stories that had followed them.
“Thanks Marie.”
“For what Logan?” I asked him with a smile still on my face from laughing at pictures.
“For letting me back in, if only a little. I know what I did to you was hard and very selfish of me, but I’m glade that you’re at least allowing me to be with my son.” It was pure honesty on his part and it saddened me to know that he really did want to be apart of all this, Tristan and I that is. I felt regret pass through me at that moment. For the first time I actually regretted all of my decisions of keeping Logan away from Tristan. But that soon passed as I remembered his betrayal.
“Logan you could have been with Tristan all along, all you had to do was be there. Ah just don’t think either of us personally was ready to see each other again. Ah don’t think Ah could have handled it if you did show up.” I sighed and moved to put the albums up.
“Your right, neither of us was quite ready yet. But I think we are ready now or at least starting to get ready again,” It was almost a plea coming from him.
“Getting there is more like it Logan. You’ve missed so much. Tristan will be five this year and starting kindergarten. If any thing this is going to be harder on him than anything. He just too young to fully understand the situation at hand, he thinks you’re just another one of the students with a bigger title attached to your name. It will take along time for him to fully understand who you are in his life. But if you keep up hanging around with him maybe one day you will be the one he calls daddy. But until then you’re just going to have to take it slow.” I pushed the folded the box up and placed it back on top of the closet were it had been originally and then turned back to Logan who was looking at the floor, his hands folded in his lap. It reminded me of me when I was younger except the places where switched.
“I’ll do whatever it takes. I promise Marie I will be a good father, I will.” It was almost as if he was making the promise to the world and not just me and him self. It was like a testament to who ever could hear him and I smiled at that.
“You know what Logan, you probably will, in time that is,” with that he stood up and we said our goodnights and he left my room. I sighed to myself and finished getting ready for bed. This was going to be a long summer.
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Author's Chapter Notes:
Just a filler chapter. Nothing really important. Logan just gets to see what's been going on in his son's life for the last five years.