"Logan welcome home."
"Thanks Chuck."
Logan had just parked his truck in the drive of the mansion, or rather school for the 'gifted' when the professor welcomed him back. He knew that he was expected, and more than likely was going to be greeted by a welcoming committee. He had only been gone from the school for a year, he stayed for a little over a week last summer to witness Kitty and Bobby's wedding, his presence there was of course requested by Marie. What the other's didn't know was that he came back to New York every other month or so, to visit his Marie. This time around he was looking into information that lead him to the other side of the country and he wasn't able to come back to the east coast for eight months. He always carried a cell phone though, since he would call and update Marie and the Professor on his location, and in Marie's case when he would be around to meet with her.
When Marie called him two days ago, he knew that something was wrong, he had been feeling it ever since he left for the west coast. It was something in her voice just over six months ago that put him on the edge and ready to hop on an airplane immediately and make sure she was alright with his own two eyes. This of course was impossible since he couldn't pass the security metal detectors. The feeling of something being wrong all started after that one mission she went on, though the Professor said it was just a pick-up, it changed Marie, and the Wolverine in Logan sense it right way.
The X-Men, including the newer members of Bobby, Marie, Jubilee and Piotr, where sent to an old warehouse. In the warehouse mutants where being deposited, children mostly that no one cared about or wanted around. There was no fighting, only the picking up of various children, the youngest being only four. Rogue was the one to find the youngest, and once she picked up the small girl, Rogue had a hard time letting her go. The child wouldn't let Rogue go either, causing a connection between the two that not even the Professor could figure out.
Marie took the girl down to the med lab to have Jean and Hank look over and make sure she was healthy. The girl did not have a name, so Marie asked her how she liked the name Ella. The small girl liked that name, and was called Ella that day on. Though Jean and Scott where not completely ok with the fact that Ella preferred staying with Rogue instead of staying in rooms with the other children, the Professor saw no problem with the situation. After all Rogue had learned how to control her mutation, and the two had formed such a connection that the Professor thought that allowing the two of them to be family would be a good thing. Ella called Rogue her mom and Rogue called Ella her daughter, life was good. Or so Logan was lead to believe.
Logan had been hearing this all from Marie, who would tell him everything about her life and being a mom. He was jealous that he was not with Marie during all this, but she never asked him to come home, and all she had to do was ask him, and he would have been there ASAP. So when the phone rang not even two days ago, he was surprised to here Marie ask him to come home as soon as he could. He was there in about 38 hours.
As he walked up the front steps the door was opened by Storm.
"Welcome home Logan. It's been a while." The storm goddess said with a small knowing smile on her face.
'Figured she would be the one to figure us out.' Logan thought to himself. "Yeah well I have had some good leads." Logan started looking around the impressive foray and immediately eyed the object of his affection. She looked pale and thin, almost too thin, but in his eyes she was still beautiful.
Marie stood on the landing of the stairs holding onto the railing with one arm and being supported by Scott on the other side. Scott had wanted her to take the elevator in a wheel chair, but she refused to greet Logan in as an invalid, it would have him worrying to soon. Scott then suggested that he at least carry her to the stairs, she agreed to this, but also asked the Professor to give her a good warning to when Logan would be there, so she could be ready to greet him standing on her own. When he looked up, she smiled just for him, and he smirked up at her. She knew that he was observing her, taking in how she looked and everything that had changed since the last time he saw her. Which was a lot with all the weight she lost over the last four months.
"Are you just going to stand there Sugar or are you going to come greet me?" Marie said with a smile on her face.
"The view is pretty good from down here darlin'." As he said this he dropped his bag and took the stairs two at a time to reach her. He took her arm from Scott and pulled her into a hug, that is when he realized how much weight she had lost. He thought that he could break her with his embrace. He also placed a small kiss on her forehead, though the whole school knew that the two were in a relationship, no one really knew what has happened or is happening between the two mysterious lovers.
"I missed you Logan," Marie whispered in his ear.
"I missed you too Marie," Logan responded even quitter in her ear.
Logan kept Marie in his arms, but looked over at the fearless leader of the X-men. "Scott." Logan said as a greeting.
"Logan."
"Thanks for looking after her." It was there typical greeting to the other. These last eight years after Liberty Island, six since Aliki lake, and five since Jean's returned, Scott and Logan came to an understanding, that they both had their responsibilities. And though Logan wasn't always ready for his, he was glad that Scott was willing to look after his Marie, while he dealt with his past and came to terms with her being in his life.
"I wouldn't thank me just yet." Scott said while running his hand through his hair, almost as if he was ashamed of something.
"What…"
"Logan, welcome back, you've been missed." Jean said from the top of the stairs. Scott turned and walked up to stand next to his wife.
"Is that so Red, but as the saying goes time and distance makes the heart grow founder?" Logan said while holding Marie closer to her side, letting everyone watching him know that, though it sound like he was flirting with the Red headed doctor, his heart belonged to the brown-hair, brown-eyed woman in his arms.
"But whose heart? is the question Logan." Jean said with a wink.
"That it is, that it is."
"Will you two quite it. Jean can you get Logan's bag, so I can show him to my room." Marie said rather quietly. She attempted to start walking back up the stairs but faultered, Logan caught her. He picked her up damsel in distress style, and carried up the stairs.
"So how is the happily married couple?" Logan asked Jean and Scott, not evening wondering about Marie's lack of strength. Or at least appearing not to care about having to carry her.
"It's a great life." Scott said with a smirk.
"And the little rodent?"
"If you are referring to our son, he is great, growing faster than you can say growth spurts."
"That's good, I hope he's causing tons of trouble, too." Logan was leading the way to Rogue's room. He was sniffing it out, knowing that Marie was exhausted for some reason, and was close to being asleep in his arms. Her head was laying on his heart, and she was being lulled to sleep by his heart beat and the vibration of his deep voice.
"Well being his godfather, I would hope you would teach him something." Jean said with a smirk.
"I only agreed to care for the little rodent, because I couldn't trust anyone being that close to Rogue."
"Sure you did. Aiden will be hanging on you before the day is over, so watch out he's been trying knock people over." Scott said with a wink.
They were at Marie's door, well he hoped it was her door, and since neither Scott nor Jean corrected him on his assumption he wasn't going to second guess his senses. He took the bag that was floating around them, and opened then door.
"I'm going to put Marie, to bed. We can all catch up later." Logan said with a dismissing stance.
"Of course, we will talk later." Jean said while pulling Scott away.
"You didn't have to be so rude." Marie said as their two friends walked away.
"I want some alone time with you darlin', and we obviously need to do some catching up between just the two of us."
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Author's Chapter Notes:
This is my first X-men Fic, but I have been reading them for a long time. It is a Wolverine/Rogue pairing, with Scott/Jean and Bobby/Kitty mentioned!