He ran through the forest. For the first time in a long time he felt free. The Wolverine was finally home.
"Logan" someone called distantly.
He stopped running.
"Logan" the voice grew louder.
Logan looked around.
"Logan, wake up!" she wispered in his ear.
He woke up in a daze.
"Are you ok?" she asked in a whisper the nobody else would hear.
"Fantastic!" he said smiling. A real smile, not a smirk.
"Your really smiling." Rogue said in amazement.
"Yeah I don't know why but I actually feel peacful right now." Logan told her.
"You better get some sleep." she said quietly, she quickly kissed him and left the room.
Logan still felt dazed. He'd had the same dream for three nights now, but he still didn't understand what they meant. That place seemed familiar but he couldn't remember it.
Logan couldn't sleep anymore so he went downstairs to get a beer. He opened the fridge and grabbed a bottle. Another bottle fell.
"Shit!" Logan said. As he went to catch it, the bottle flew accross the room. He looked up to see Jean catch the bottle.
"Couldn't sleep either, huh?" Logan asks.
Jean opens the bottle and takes a swig.
"Hard to sleep when your roommate snores, and someone keeps sending strange vibes through the air." Jean said sarcastically.
"You saw it then?" Logan asked sheepishly.
"Yeah," she admitted,"You seemed really happy."
Logan drinks hi beer in two shots.
"I wish I knew what it meant." he said quietly.
Jean was intrigued. She set the beer on the tabletop. Logan looked at her and raised an eyebrow.
"Maybe I can help." she said lightly.
"I don't think that's a good idea!" Logan said quickly.
Jean cupped his face with her hand and kissed him. Logan drifted to sleep and dropped his empty bottle. It broke as it hit the floor. The dreams started immediately and Jean sorted through them. She broke the connection when she sensed Scott in the room.
Logan fell to the floor. Jean opened her eyes and looked at Scott. She started to cry.
"Scott, I..." she started, Scott turns and walks out the door. Rogue appears in the doorway.
"I heard glass breaking and..." she saw Logan unconcious on the floor,"What happened?"
Jean just sobbed and ran out of the room. Rogue carefully pulled Logan to his feet and dragged him to his room.
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He smelled her before he opened his eyes. She smelled like apples and cinnamon. Logan could hear her breathing deeply and knew that she was asleep. He sat up in the bed.
Rogue was sitting in the little armchair by the window.
Logan smiled to himself. She looked so peaceful. He didn't want to wake her, so he watched her as she slept. Then his mind wandered to other things.
"Two words Logan, Jail and Bait!" he said to himself.
Rogue shivered in her sleep and Logan grabbed a blanket and put it around her.
"Thanks!" she said in her sleep.
He gently stroked her cheek. She shifted sligthly and opened her heys. Logan looked down at her and smiled.
"Mornin' Kid!" Logan said quietly.
"You ok?" Rogue asked solemly.
"Yeah, I'm alright. Why?" Logan said.
"I went downstairs last night after I heard glass breaking and found you unconcious on the floor behind Jean." Rogue told him in an almost silent whisper.
"Damn, why'd she kiss me? I told her it was a bad idea!" Logan said. He punched the wall next to the headboard and scared the kids in the next room.
"Logan what happened between you and Jean? She ran out of the room crying last night." she asked.
"Nothing that I know of except that she decided to kiss me and I was asleep after that." Logan addmitted.
Rogue looked heartbroken. Logan went over to calm her down.
"Shhh.. It's alright kid. There's nothing going on between me and Jean. You don't need to worry about that kid, I'm yours." he stroked her cheek.
Rogue looked up and stared into Logans eyes. His bright, soft silver-blue eyes met her big brown eyes and Rogue knew it was true. Anyway she'd never known Logan to lie.
"Thanks Logan!" she said as she pressed her face to his chest,"We better go see if Jean's alright."
"Yeah." Logan agreed.

Even with Logan's keen senses it took them an hour before they found Jean. She was down by the lake using her telepethy to skip rocks. Jean looked up as they approached.
"Are you mad at me?" Jean asked Logan.
"No, I just want to know what happened after I got knocked out." He told her.
"Scott left." she said quietly.
"I'm gonna kick that pricks ass when he comes back here!" Rogue threatened.
"Since when do you hate the asshole?" Logan asked. Jean punched him in the side for calling Scott an asshole.
"Don't call him that!" Jean said.
"With everything that man does to you someone should call him an asshole!" Rogue said,"And that person should be you!"
"No matter what he does I'll never call him that!" Jean said.
"That's why I'd never leave! I just went for a walk and stayed downstairs." Scott said coming down the path.
Rogue punched him in the side.
"I deserved that." he said simply.
"You deserve alot more than that, but it's not our job to make sure you get it." Logan said.
Logan takes Rogue by the shoulder and starts to walk past Scott. He stops long enough to threaten Scott.
"You hurt her again and you'll have to deal with me!" Logan warned.
"Ok." Scott said with a smile.
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Logan and Rogue are back in his room talking about random things.
"What's your favorite song?" Rogue asked.
Logan wasn't paying attention. He was daydreaming about a place that seemed fairly familiar.
"Logan?" Rogue said looking worried.
"Huh, what'd you say kid?" Logan asked.
"Were you daydreamin' again?" she asked quietly.
"Yeah, sorry kid!" he addmitted.
"What is it you dream about all the time?" she asked tentively.
"A place that I knew about long ago I guess." Logan told her.
"Logan." someone called his name.
"Ok, what was that?" Rogue asked.
Logan shrugged.
"Logan." it called again.
"Who's there?" he asked the voice with a growl.
"Now is that any way to treat a friend?" a woman asked as she appeared out of thin air.
"Who are you?" Logan asked.
"You really don't remember a thing, do you dear prince?" she said.
"Logan a prince... you can't be serious!" Rogue said.
"Lady you don't know me that well do you?" Logan said laughing.
"I know you better than you know yourself apparently!" the lady said.
"Whatever!" Rogue said,"Only one person knows Logan better than himself and that's me!"
"We'll see." the woman said.
As she turned and started to walk away Logan's room dissolved into a forest.
"This is the forest from my dreams." Logan realized.
"Yes it is, and you are Logan Laweson." she said,"and my name is Katina."

Katina drifts between the trees ahead of them.
"Who is she, Logan?" Rogue asked staying a couple of steps behind him.
"I feel like I've met her before but I don't know who the hell she is!" Logan says angrily.
Katina stopped briefly ahead of them and started looking around. Logan sniffed and began to growl.
"What's wrong, Sugah?" Rogue asked.
"Somethin' don't smell right!" Logan said.
"We must go!" Katina said quietly.
"Ok, where?" Rogue asked.
"You two go, I'll catch up after I deal with this!" Logan commanded.
"I cannot leave without you." Katina said simply,"So I will stay and fight."
"Fine by me!" Rogue said,"'Sides do you really think I was goin' to leave you behind?"
"No," Logan answered with a laugh,"Just thought I'd be Mr. Macho."
Rogue punched him in the side for that.
"Excuse me but I beleive we have company." Katina told them.
Logan realized that she was right. This was the first time he hadn't sensed something before it happened besides smelling something strange.
A group of men in black circled around them.
"You ready darlin'?" Logan asked Rogue.
"You know it!" Rogue said enthusiasticly.
Rogue dropped into a fighting stance. Logan looked at her out of the corner of his eye. She is wearing really tight jeans that show off her ass. He can't help but chuckle to himself. Suddenly he gets punched in the face.
"Big mistake, Bub!" He says angrily. He skewers the guy with his claws. Rogue laughs behind him.
"Come on Logan is he the only one you've hit so far?" she asks teasing him.
"Shut up Sweety or I'll skewer you too!" Logan retorts.
"Can we stay focused sir?" Katina asks.
"Sorry!" Rogue and Logan say together.
"Double Team?" Rogue asks him.
"Hell yeah!" Logan says.
Logan grabs Rogues right arm with his left and pulls her toward him. She steps and kicks past his head.
"Nice shot!" Logan comments.
"Thanks Sugah!" Rogue says laughing.
Logan side kicks one of the men in the side. The man screams in pain. Katina nods her approval at their teamwork. All of the men were down now and Rogue turned to look at Logan. She was surprised to see that his shirt was cut into tiny strips over his chest.
Her breathing got deeper and fast.
"What?" Logan asked.
"Ya shirt Sugah." she said pointing at his chest.
Logan grabs at the strips and pulls them off. Rogue turns away so she doesn't start breathing heavy again.
'What's the matter with her' Logan thinks to himself.