09 | POLICE STATIONS AND PICK UPS

             NAYARA WAS STUCK in the police station. She wouldn't have mind if it weren't for the fact that she was completely soaked and freezing. An officer was kind and gave her a blanket for the least. She remained quiet, watching how the blonde hero left an office and looked at her. She send him a quiet look asking him to not approach her not ask any other question, and he at least remained at a distance. 

Minutes past as she saw how the door was opened by a woman with red hair, followed by two men. She sighed, recognizing them. Betty Bordouz nodded to the girl before walking away. She relaxed when she saw James/Logan and Theodore walk to her. 

"I am here to pick you up, kid." Theodore told the girl. 

The teenager looked at him with a slight frown. "Where is Emma?" Nayara asked them. She looked at James  waiting for his response. 

The man looked over his shoulder and then back at the girl. "She is doing a international trip. She will be back soon. Theodore and me are here to pick you up. She got to the call...but she can't come right now." James said to her. Nayara nodded at him. 

"That is why we came. We didn't want you to wait up thousands of hours in the station. It's pouring outside." Theodore told her. 

"You got a call?" Nayara asked the man. 

Theodore nodded. "In case Emma didn't answer, I wrote down my number." Theodore said to her. He pointed at James. "I asked him to come in because I knew you wouldn't trust me enough to believe me." Theodore told her. 

Nayara nodded at him. "I trust him more." Nayara said pointing at the mutant that was standing in front of her.  "No offense. Thank you for coming." Nayara said. James contained the surprise, by looking around the police station. "I can go now?" Nayara asked them. 

"I will go and see. I will be back." Theodore told the girl before walking away. 

Nayara stared at the mutant, tilting her head to the side in thought. "You are taller that I thought." Nayara said to him, before pulling her blanket closer to her as she shivered. "I didn't asked for this you know. I was leaving 

"Stark Industries?" James asked her, crossing his arms over his chest. 

"I didn't asked for it. None of it, you know. A...A friend send the video to a contest without my knowledge and it just did. I was trying to walk away when a man tried to shoot another man next to me and another man took the hit." Nayara told James, looking at her. 

"Why are you telling me this?" James asked her. 

Nayara did not felt offended by the question like some people might have since she knew James a lot. He might have a hard exterior but he had a great heart. "When I go through stuff I tend to talk to people 

"Why do you trust me?" James asked. 

Nayara shrugged, smiling brightly at him. "Because despite what people may think, I know you have a giant heart inside of that unemotional exterior you put up. You got a huge heart, it just takes time to see it." Nayara said to him. 

James narrowed her eyes on her. "You don't know me." He told her. If only he knew, Nayara thought. "And whatever crap Frost said-" James started but was cut off by Nayara. 

"She didn't say anything. Nobody did." Nayara said to him, looking down at her wet trainers. 

"You are free to go." Theodore said, walking towards the two. James nodded before walking away. Theodore looked at the mutant and then back at the teen sitting in one of the chairs. "You okay? Did something happened?" He asked the girl. 

Nayara shook her head. "Nothing." Nayara told him. She stood up, putting down the blanket and folding it neatly into the

"Where is your jacket?" Theodore asked her. 

"I used to help the victim." She answered, turning to look at the man. "Is he okay?" Nayara asked. Theodore nodded at her. 

"They took him to the hospital." Theodore told her. "My wife just told me. He then handled her a big jacket. "She said you could use hers." Theodore told her. 

"I will ruin it." Nayara said. 

"She said it doesn't matter." Theodore told the girl, handling the jacket. She took it with ease. The man put his hands on his pockets, and nodded to the door. "Emma mentioned you liked coffee, I don't think it's a bad time for that." Theodore told her. 

Nayara looked at him and walked to the door. "It's fine. I have to get home. I have school tomorrow." Nayara told the man. After they left the station, she looked at Theodore. "She is in some X-Men business isn't she?" Nayara asked him. "How come Logan didn't go?" She quickly added. 

Theodore nodded to a car, which she was not expecting. She looked over her shoulder, seeing an old motorcycle leave as she got inside the vehicle. "She is. Logan I don't know why he stayed." Theodore told her. "Do you want to go to the school? Wouldn't you be safer there?I mean, you seem to know everything that has been happening with the X-Men." Theodore told her. 

Nayara remained quiet for a second, and shook her head. "I can't put them on the spotlight." Nayara said to him. 

"What do you mean?" Theodore asked her. 

"The man that was going get shot was Steve Rogers. I was talking to him when I saw....I saw somebody about to shoot him and I saved his life. He might have super strength, and other enhanced abilities but he is still human. That bullet would have killed him." Nayara explained to him, leaving out details about the HYDR agent. 

"You wanted to protect him." Theodore stated, starting the car. Nayara nodded at him. 

"And in the process somebody else got hurt." Nayara said to him. "If I go there there will be spotlight and people are going to ask, and that means they will discover they are mutants. Which is really really bad. There is already high tension about them. I saw a kid in my high school being dragged out, you know?" Nayara said to man. "I couldn't do a thing." Nayara mumbled. 

"But you did one today, and you are putting others before yourself. The bullet could have hit you." Theodore told her. I don't have that much to loose, Nayara thought. 

. . . 

The rest of the ride was quiet. Theodore remained the girl if she needed anything she could contact him or his wife. Nayara knew they were being very kind to her, and she was thankful about it. She really was, it was just that trust didn't come easy to her when it came to people who she didn't know. 

Her trust had been broken before many times. 

She stopped when she opened the door. She saw how the photo of Emma as a young girl had been slightly moved. She pulled out her phone, ready to call but stopped when she saw a shadow. 

She walked quietly outside the the door, taking a hold of a new jacket and her keys. She quietly cursed when the keys slip down her hands and hit the floor. She was ready to run when a voice caught her attention. 

"Don't run, Nayara." James said. The man had heard her arrive through his enhanced earring. 

Nayara sighed, entering again the apartment and closing the door behind her. She locked it, glaring at James Howlett who was coming out of the kitchen. "What are you doing here?" Nayara asked him. "How did you got in? You clearly didn't cut the door open, which means that you claimed up? You can climb up with your claws? That's new." Nayara said to him  

"No. Emma called the Professor, and he asked me to go and check on you. She knows you don't trust Bordouz." James told her. 

"I don't trust easily...that is just me. I don't to sound over dramatic, but I do." Nayara said to him. She set the jacket on the hanger next to the door. "I didn't meant to made you mad. It's just I...I tend to ramble and say things I don't mean to say. It's harder especially now than ever." Nayara told James. "Do you go by Logan or James?" Nayara asked him. The man glared at her, but she did not thought much of it. "I know you as Logan, that's why I didn't know how to address you. It is either that or Wolverine." Nayara added quietly. 

Nayara ignored him and walked up quickly to her bedroom, before returning with her backpack. She opened it and let out the comics to fall out of her backpack. In the process a volume of the X-Men hit the floor. She picked it up, and passed it to the mutant. 

James looked at her, who nodding at comics so he could take it. He took it out of her hands, seeing the cover of it. He was in his costume with some of the X-Men in the background. "I trust you thought. I know you are a good man. I'm not scare of you, you got a big heart. You might argue about it yourself, but that is a lie. You don't entirely show it, that is what people tend to forget about your kindness. You are very complex character you know." Nayara said to him. 

James narrowed his eyes at the girl, before looking down at the cover. He was confused. Where could this girl could have possibly gotten this.  "You are telling me you are not afraid of me because for you I'm a man who has a big heart, even though I don't entirely show it?" James asked her. The girl nodded at him. 

"That is why I trust you. I mean I grew up watching you. Sorry, that sounded very weird, I meant I grew up reading dose. I know you might be wondering where I got it, and how and even why do I have it. 

"How do you know I am questioning this?" James asked her, even though he was internally doing it. 

"I know because I know you very well." Nayara said, looking at the man. "There are beers at the second shelf of the fridge. You wouldn't need Bobby to freeze them for you." Nayara told the man, laughing slightly as she remembered that certain moment in the film. "I came to the Professor because I knew that he was the only one who could help me. I am about to tell you this because I know you. I trust you." Nayara said. 

James looked down at the book, opening the cover to see the images of him and his team mates within black frames. "What you got in your hand is a comic book, and you and most of the x-men are on it. Where I come from, you all don't exist, neither you nor the Avenger. Nothing in this universe exists in my world, well except the cities...let's just say the characters." Nayara said, deep in thought. "There have been movies about you, and the X-Men, Avengers...any superhero you could think of in this universe or world. It's all fantasy in my world. I didn't know where I was at first when Betty Bordouz found me. I didn't know why I was suddenly in the middle of the woods or why my the nurses where talking about calling the Sentinel Services. I thought it was some sick prank. Then...I went to Manhattan to see if I could get more help, you know? What do I find? Spiderman about to jump off a building." Nayara said, standing up from her seat. 

She walked up to the kitchen while she continue her stories. "What do I do? Oh, well I just tell him that I am calling the cops. He jumps and I had a mini heart attack. Then I see him swing through buildings, and land next to me." Nayara said loudly, hoping the mutant on the other room could hear her. She opened a beer, before walking back and handling it to James. "In the films and comics you tend to drink beer. I think it's your favorite drink so here. I just opened it." Nayara said to him. 

James took it, putting the comic aside. "I asked him if it was some type of promotion for a new Spiderman film, turns out not to be when I 

"How much do you know?

"A lot, but not everything. I mean, I know more about the X-Men and the villains because I watched a lot of series, films and read various comics and done some part time extra research because it hard to read the entire history of you guys. It will take ages." Nayara explained to him, collecting the comics except the X-Men that James was reading and put it on her backpack. "Avengers, somewhat, but more about personal characters." Nayara added. 

"Like who?" He asked her. 

"You don't know? Aren't you an Avenger? You should be one around this time. I am basing my assumptions on the age of a friend." Nayara told him. James looked at her. "And the fact that you are called James and not Logan." Nayara added. "I know about Kitty, Emma, Summer and sadly Jean Grey. I know you are in love with her, but honestly you and Ororo are cute together. I didn't saw you dating, but I saw some comic issues that you were dating. Jean is just annoying." Nayara told him.  

The man remained quiet. Nayara sighed, walking to the balcony watching the skyscrapers of Manhattan.  "I don't know how I ended up here...but I am here, and I knew where I had to go for help. I have no family here nor nobody to go too, thats why I went to the school. I knew you guys could help me. Especially the Professor. I trust you more than the Avengers." Nayara said, holding her two hands together. "I trusted you guys the most. I am thankful for the help that Emma did. I am sorry about running away its just I didn't know who Theodore was at all. He never appeared on the comics." Nayara said to him. 

"That's why you don't trust him." James said, standing up from his seat. 

"HYDRA were the ones who attacked me." Nayara said to him. The man froze. "I knew it was HYDRA, and that's why I said no to Theodore for dropping me off with you guys. I didn't want to put a spotlight on you." Nayara added. "They were about to kill Steve Rogers and I pushed him away, hurting somebody else...I feel about it you know." Nayara said to James. 

"Then go and get your stuff." James told her. Nayara tilted her head, confused at him.  "You can't stay here while they go, and Emma will prefer 

"You sure? I don't want to endanger the rest." Nayara said to him. The man nodded at her. It amazed him how she was able to put everyone before her. "You sure about it? I mean, you all have students life and the posibility to carry on with the future. I don't have anything left. My family is in a different world." Nayara confessed to James. 

James passed her the graphic novel. Nayara took it quietly. "You die, you might to get a chance to get back to your family." James told Nayara. "And trust me, this isn't the weirdest thing I have seen." James told her. 

"Have you fought Brood yet?" Nayara asked him. "Because in the comics he looks disgusting, and I would freak out if I ever saw him." Nayara said. 

"Go and get ready, kid." James told her. 

Nayara nodded at him before going away to get change and pack up. 

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