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A New Life
Posted:
11.25.2005
Author: Batman_Wolverine
Rating: PG15
Summary: ‘Maybe its time to stop running’
(Ultimate X-Men #60 – Shock and Awe (2 of 2))
(Ultimateverse)
Disclaimer: Don't own any
of the x-men character in any of the different
Marvel universes (Cartoon, Comic or Movie). All
owned and copy righted by Marvel Comics.
Author’s Note: Set in Ultimateverse. As of #64, the
Ororo-Logan relationship hasn’t been explored….as
much as we wanted it to be. This oneshot is kind of
a missing scene, just after #60 ends.
Please remember to review….it encourages me to write
more.
Spoilers: Ultimate X-Men #51, #52, #59, #60
Preface: Where the story in
the comic ends is that both Logan and Ororo have
returned to the X-Mansion after a particularly
troublesome run in with Yuriko ‘Deathstrike’ Oyama.
(No ‘Lady’ prefix here) Logan seems to be ready to
take off in his search for his elusive wife and
maybe even kids…who may or may not still be alive or
even waiting for him.
At least from the comic panels it seems that he is
not too confident that he will find anything….it
mostly seems that its the principle of the thing.
And even though he has been avoiding and sometimes
even rebuffing Ororo’s romantic hints and advances,
he seems to like her too.
We pick up from the last few lines and take it from
there.
“You’re leaving Again?” The pink clad Ororo cried
out in a mixture of exasperation and fear. They had
just got back to the mansion and she had thought
that he would have finally given up on his wandering
and decided to stay here….with her.
“I don’t know how many of those people are still
alive out there…” Logan tried to explain the
situation to her. “…and I can’t risk bringing any
more to your doorstep.”
“Weapon X was coming after me, you self centered
jerk! And id you hadn’t been there to help me, I’d
been dead.” Ororo exclaimed not knowing Wolverine
was the target all along. The only reason Cornelius
told Deathstrike that it was Ororo, was to get her
to agree to under the process that changed into a
cyborg. Even Logan didn’t know about this.
Leaning towards the sideways sitting Logan, she
continued in a softer tone. “I need you here….we all
do.”
“I…I can’t,” Logan hung his head in near defeat. He
knew didn’t want to face her for what he was about
to say. “I’ve still got a wife out there, and….”
“No. You don’t,” the silver haired beauty stopped
him, her eyes pleading for him to stay. “Whoever you
used to be might have someone somewhere, but that
you is gone.”
At the silence that ansnwered her, she urged on.
“You and me, we’re both too obsessed with our pasts.
I’ve been running away from mine, and you’ve been
running back to yours. Maybe it’s time to stop
running. Today isn’t so bad Logan….” She lifted a
hand to cup his stubbled jaw and turn him to face
her.
“…and tomorrow can only get better.”
----
“Ororo,” Logan growled in an effort to stop her.
“Ssssh,” the sultry African silenced him as her lips
captured his, her tongue instantly finding its way
through the open orifice, licking at his lips, teeth
and finally his tongue to savor the residual taste
of the roast beef sandwich that he had had sometime
ago. That and the slightly bitter and tangy taste of
the Canadian beer he seemed to favor…even over
water.
“’Ro…we shouldn’t,” Logan growled even as his own
hand, moving on its own volition lifted up to her
short silky hair covered head and pulled her to
deepen the kiss.
“Yes, no,” Ororo didn’t know how to respond verbally
and allowed her body to do the talking for her. So
far, it had worked out quite well.
Somewhere in the depths of her mind, she was
recalling hers and Logan’s first kiss on top of a
building while they were out looking for Rogue and
Gambit. Just like this time, she had made the first
move then…and even though Logan had rebuffed her by
saying that he had boxers older than her, she was
able to detect a connection between the two of them.
It was that connection that had her leave the x-men
and follow in his wake, finally reaching him in a
no-name bar and grill somewhere in the middle of
nowhere in Alberta, Canada.
“Ororo, Stop!” Logan broke away from her. “We can’t
do this.”
“Why?” Ororo frowned and yanked at his leather
jacket. “Because I am too young, too
inexperienced…..not your type. Maybe if I had fair
skin, red hair and….”
“This isn’t about Jean,” Logan snapped at her. He
was true about that much. Even though it was the
flame haired Marvel Girl nee Phoenix, who had caused
his heart to thump for the first time as a man,
whatever they might have had was long over and gone.
“This is about us. I can’t…..”
“Logan, I had asked you then and I ask you now,”
Ororo repeated her words from that night. “Tell me
you haven’t been feeling what I have. Tell me its
all in my mind and that you don’t feel that way
about me.”
----
The silence was answer enough for her, yet she
needed a verbal confirmation. “Tell me Logan.”
“I-I can’t,” was all Wolverine could say, his entire
body slumping as the fight went out of him.
“Logan, I told you, both of us have a chance for a
new start here,” a slender hand rested on his
calloused one. “I am ready to take a chance and try
it. I want to leave the past where it belongs, in
the past and make a new life for myself….and I want
you to make one too…with me, both of us together.”
“’Ro,” Logan’s eyes were looking for any hesitant on
part of the Nubian beauty, anything that would give
him an out that he so didn’t want….and he didn’t get
any. All he got was firm resolution…that and a world
of love…for him. He just needed to extend his hand,
grasp it and it would be his.
Stomping out any remaining protests….he did just
that, he pulled her to him…into his lap and
proceeded to kiss the breath out of her.
----
They made love late into the night and early into
the next morning. Their loud grunts, moans, cries
and roars and the tropical storm lashing against the
mansion, informed everyone about their choice.
The Wolverine was staying with his Storm.
FIN
Note: Just something I
thought off to get my first actual Ultimateverse fic./ficlet
out there. It all came together over the last few
issues and especially the upcoming #67’s mock-up.
Decided to keep the <i>'sex'</i> level to within
PG15 rating.
Pics: Ultimate X-Men #51, #60
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