Scott was back in the big arm chair by the fireplace by the time Logan showed
up. It was just after dinner and Scott was attempting to grade essays from his
Shakespeare seminar, but kept getting distracted by the contents of the safe by
his desk. Warren’s words (“Go ahead, they’re yours”) and Jean’s (“He had plenty
of time. If he hadn’t wanted you to find them, he would have destroyed them”)
kept coming back to him. He really didn’t know what he was going to do. He
didn’t even know what he wanted to do. Had he spoken to them to get permission?
He wasn’t sure. He contemplated retiring to his bedroom so as not to have to
look at that picture any more.

The sound of the French doors sliding open made Scott look up from an essay on
conflict in Richard III that sounded suspiciously similar to one a student had
submitted last year. He was pleased to see Logan standing there, both for the
chance to avoid thinking about potential plagiarism for a little while and for
the possibility of discussing his indecision about his find with someone who
often knew what he wanted better than he himself did.

One look at Logan, though, made him realize it was not a good time to discuss
newly found belongings of Charles Xavier. Logan was a mess.
That in itself not an unusual circumstance. Mud on his boots and pant legs,
leaves and twigs in his hair, rips in his clothing – these were all pretty
common. But there was a kind of wild look in his eyes that Scott knew only came
with rage – incipient or recent. The claws on his left hand were extended.
“Blood will have blood,” Scott thought to himself, looking at the red stains on
Logan’s hand and clothes. He could see no visible wounds, but then there
wouldn’t be.

Logan stood just inside the French doors and they looked at each other silently
for a minute. “Whose is it?” Scott asked, finally.

“Whose is what?”

“The blood on your hand. Is it yours?”

Logan looked down at his hand, with an almost puzzled expression. He retracted
the claws and shook his head.

“Whose then?” Scott asked again.

Logan didn’t answer, didn’t move. He appeared to be considering something for a
moment. “Stand up,” he said, finally.

Wondering where this was going, Scott put his papers aside and stood up.

“Take off your clothes.”

“Okay.” Scott closed his eyes tight and pulled off his glasses, placing them on
the end table next to him. He pulled his shirt over his head and reached for the
glasses again.

“No, not yet.” Scott was surprised to hear Logan’s voice right in his ear, not
having heard him walk across the room. “Leave them off.” Logan pushed the
armchair away, and stood right behind Scott. Scott could feel Logan’s breath on
the back of his neck, his hand undoing Scott’s belt. “Take these off, too.”
Scott pulled his pants down. Logan pressed up against him, hand reaching around.
“Hard already,” he said. “Good. You been thinking about it?”

Scott shook his head. “It’s you telling me what to do. It does that to me.”

“Good,” Logan said again, as Scott kicked off his shoes and pulled the pants
off. His fully clothed body pressed hard against Scott’s naked one, Logan licked
him on the back of the neck, hands stroking chest and belly.

“Get down on your knees,” he said after a minute. “Lean over the table.”

Scott knelt, bending over the coffee table in front of him. “There’s lube in the
left drawer of the desk.” Scott waited, trembling a bit, perhaps from cold,
perhaps anticipation. He listened to Logan walking over to the desk, opening
drawers, walking back.

“Spread your legs a little.” Scott obeyed and Logan knelt between them. Without
warning, a hand slapped him on the ass, hard. Once, twice, three times. Then he
was gentle, caressing, spreading his cheeks, lubed fingers probing. The sting of
his flesh receded and was replaced by fingers filling him, stroking exquisitely
inside. Scott couldn’t help but move with them. He heard a sort of happy grunt
from Logan, and then the sound of a fly unzipping. “You ready?”

“Oh yes.”

And then Logan was in him, pushing in slowly until he was balls deep. Then
moving in and out, slow strokes matched by those of his hand round Scott’s cock.

“Faster.” Scott said it breathlessly, a feeling of urgency overtaking him.

Logan leaned down, clothed torso heavy upon Scott’s naked back. He spoke in
Scott’s ear, still moving slowly, almost lazily. “Not yet,” he said. “You’ll get
it fast. You’ll get it hard. I’ll give you what you need. Right now I’m taking
my time.” Long, hot breaths in Scott’s ear. “Slow yourself down, Scott. Relax
your whole body. You can take it like this. This is how we’re doing it. That’s
it. I love your tight hole. I’m gonna push into it nice and slow. So good being
inside. Riding you nice and slow. That’s right, you got it.”

Scott just let go, let himself be ridden, stroked, talked to. “Yeah,” he said.
“Okay. It’s good like this.”

“Just do what I tell you to. That’s right, move with me. You’re so good. You’re
my – . You’re mine, aren’t you?” Scott nodded. “Okay, we’re going a little
faster now. Move with me.” And Logan fucked him, pushing harder, a little
faster, rubbing with fingers and thumb, humming something tuneless all the
while.

Scott was breathing harder, aching with excitement. Logan pushed deep inside and
stopped moving, cock still, filling Scott up. Logan’s hand stroked faster,
tugging and squeezing until Scott came hard beneath him. Then Logan resumed
fucking him, lying full on his back, moving fast and hard this time. No talking
now, biting the back of Scott’s neck a bit, hands stretched way out, claws
extending as he came. He stayed inside him afterwards, their heavy breathing and
the snikt of Logan’s claws retracting the only sound in the big office.

After a minute, Logan got off of him, pressing Scott’s glasses into his hand.
They were back on in time to see Logan zipping his pants up, then lying down on
his back on the couch, broad smile as he looked up at the ceiling. “Fuck, that
was good. Thanks for the ride.”

Scott pulled the armchair back where it had been and sat down. He stretched a
bit, then rested his feet on the end table, reaching over to the couch to stroke
Logan’s hair briefly. “I needed that.”

“Makes a change from grading papers, eh?”

“Yeah.” He looked from the clothed man lying on the couch down to his own naked
body. “Maybe next time you’ll even take off your clothes. Or at least your
boots.”

Logan chuckled. “It was kind of hot like that.”

Scott nodded his agreement. “Are you going to tell me what’s going on now?” No
answer. “Come on. Whose blood is it, at least?”

“Your brother’s.”

“Is he alive?”

Logan laughed. “Yeah, he’ll be okay. What, you think I’d kill your brother and
then just come here and fuck you, without even telling you about it?”

“You might figure it’s your last opportunity.” Logan laughed again. “Near in
blood the nearer bloody,” he quoted. Then he asked again, “What happened?” Still
no answer. “Are you sure he’s okay?”

“He’ll be out of commission for a while. I fucked up his shoulder. He’ll heal.”

“Dammit Logan!”

Logan shrugged. “He pissed me off.”

“You know I’m short-staffed, with Jean hors de combat and Kitty back at college.
Could you manage to desist from maiming any X-Men for a while?”
“If they can manage to not piss me off.”

Scott shook his head. “Sometimes I wonder why I put up with you.”

“You put up with me because I’m the best fighter you’ve got.” He turned on his
side to face Scott. “I’ll pick up the slack until he’s back on active duty. You
know it.” Scott didn’t say anything. “And you put up with me because I give you
a good time. Nobody else can make you hard just by telling you what to do.
Nobody else can fuck you like I do. I do you like no one else can and you know
it. Worth putting up with some stuff.”

“All that and modest, too.”

“I know what I can do, know what I’m good at, what I do best. No point
pretending otherwise.” He stretched, his hand coming to rest on Scott’s knee.
Scott exhaled loudly, placing his hand over Logan’s.

“You know what I really need for the team?”

“Me cloned. But unfortunately, I’m one of a kind.”

Scott snorted. “I need a psionic. Between Charles and Jean, we could pretty much
always count on telepathic support on combat missions. I’m really feeling the
lack.”

“What about Billy Halverson? I keep telling you you should recruit him.”

“I don’t know.”

“I tell you, Cyclops. He’s got promise.”

“He’s got school, too. He’s doing really well at Columbia.”

“So what? He can go to college and be an X-Man, too. You run this school; most
of us teach. Even Worthington does something, right? I’m not sure what – counts
money all day or some shit. We’ve all got more than one job. Same with Billy. If
a mission comes up he can miss a class or two.”

“Yeah, I know. That’s not what I’m worried about. It’s the other stuff. We plan
our schedules here to include team business. Columbia doesn’t plan around the
X-Men. Billy would have to miss a lot of team meetings, trainings – they’d
conflict with classes.”

“So what? He’s living here. Plenty of time to train in between classes. He can
miss some meetings. And if he can’t make it to all the group trainings I’ll take
him on, give him some extra Danger Room practice.” Scott didn’t answer. “What –
you worried about me and him being alone? You and me weren’t even together,
Scott, when I picked him up that time.”

“I’m not worried about that. I just – well, his college education got derailed
twice. Once when his father died, the second time during the war. Now that he’s
back on track, I want him to finish.”

“He can finish college and be an X-Man, too.”

“I’ll think about it.”

The phone next to Scott rang, the pattern of the ringing signaling an intercom
call from elsewhere in the mansion. “Cyclops,” he said into the phone. And then,
“Yeah, I heard. Logan’s being a little more forthcoming. No, he won’t say what
happened, either, but he’s not pretending it’s an accident. He’ll be okay?” He
listened some more. “Yeah? So what is it?” Then a short laugh. “I guess it
fits.” He hung up the phone.

“Jeannie tell you he’ll heal?”

“Yes.”

“What I’d tell you. And I didn’t even go to med school.” He thought a minute.
“Not so far as I know, anyway.”

“She said it will be at least six weeks until he’s back on active duty, after
what you did to his tendons. She said to tell you to save your claws – and your
temper – for the bad guys. He’s claiming he fell on a rake, by the way.”

“Ha!”

“Oh and she also told me Alex has decided on a code name. Havok. With a k at the
end.”

“That’s not how you spell it?”

“Logan, can I ask you about something?”

“He pissed me off. I got nothing more to say. There *is* nothing more to say.”

“Not about Alex. Something else.”

“Go ahead.”

“I found something. Something that belonged to Charles.”

“Just now?”

“Yeah. Well, yesterday.”

“Where was it?”

“In a safe. I didn’t know it – they – were there. Didn’t know they existed.”

“What are they?”

“Journals. Diaries. From a long time ago. Five of them – one for each year,
starting in 1994.”

“When you first came here?”

Scott nodded. “I don’t know if he’d want me to read them or not. Jean and Warren
think he wanted me to, that he’d have destroyed them if not. But I don’t know.
He might have forgotten about them. He had so much he was trying to finish
before he died. Maybe he hadn’t looked at them in a long time. Maybe he didn’t
mean for me to find them. I wish I could *ask* him.”

“You’re asking the wrong question, Scott. He’s dead. It doesn’t matter what he
wants anymore. The real question isn’t one he can answer, it’s one you’ve got to
answer – do you want to know what’s in them?”


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