Closure

Logan's POV

I'm fixing up my bike when Jade walks up to me. "You wanted to speak to me? She asks, hate burning in her eyes.

"Yeah... Hop on." I say patting the seat.

"Why?" She says, crossing her arms.

"I'm gonna take you somewhere to talk. "

"Then I'll take my own bike." I shrug.

"Whatever you say. Follow me." I get on and ride away. We head through the city and I look back every once in awhile to make sure she's still following me. We go pretty far, until we pull up to a diner in the woods. She's genuinely amazed by this.

"I never knew there were woods this close to te city..."

"Yeah well I have a nack for finding things like this." I tap my nose with my finger. She wipes the impressed look from her face. We walk into the diner and sit at a booth. She goes over to te fountain drinks and gets a mixture of a few sodas. I smile to myself, knowing that this is what kids do. She sits down and starts playing with the straw in her drink.

"So..." She says, dragging out the 'o'. "What exactly is your excuse for killing my brother?"

"It's a long and painful story... You willing to listen to it?"

"I mean I guess... You already dragged me out here." I take that as a yes.

"My brother and I joined this group of mutants lead by a man named Stryker." Her eyes widen at the sound of that name but she quickly hides it, "We traveled searching for what we thought would be something to help mutants, later I learned it was to be used for something else..." I gesture to my hands.

"Your claws?"

"Yeah. They used to be bone until Stryker suggested something stronger if I wanted to kill..." I pause, the memories flooding back, "my brother. So I went through this extremely painful process and now have a layer of the stuff covering my body under my skin. Which is why-"

"Which is why I can't seem to kill you."

"I was gonna say heal so fast but yeah that too. Anyways, your brother... Was one of the most talented people I had ever met. In the most serious of situations he would crack jokes." She smiles, I'm guessing that sounds just like him. "The last time I saw him... We were raiding an African village looking for more of the metal. They wouldn't tell us where they got it... Because they didnt know. Stryker ordered us to kill them." Her mouth gapes open.

"All of them?" I nod grimly.

"I told them that it wasn't for me. I left. I left my brother and all of them, including Wade." Her eyes light up even at the mention of his name. "Years later I'm happy, I found a girl... Life was good... Too good for someone like me. Stryker shows up one day, saying that someone was hunting down the members of our old team. Our 'technician's body had been found... And Wade before that..." She closes her eyes. "Want me to stop now?"

"No, keep going."

"Stryker warned me... He said Victor would come after me and I didn't listen... So one day I'm working in the woods when I smell him... I run farther until I see her... The love of my life..."

"Oh Logan... I'm sorry..."

"No don't be... Turns out she wasn't really dead then... Stryker said if she pretended to be dead he would release her sister... She did end up dying though..." Jade then does something that surprises me. She reaches across the table and grasps my hand. "So I set out to kill my brother... For revenge... I run into old friends... One of whom was killed... I hitch a ride with an escapee of the island, which is where Striker held mutants and took some of their powers... Not all of it, just enough to put inside his creation."

"Who was the escapee?" This part genuinely interests her.

"Oh. Umm, let me think... It's been awhile since I've remembered things so bear with me." It comes to me. "A boy named Remi... The guards and everyone called him Gambit though 'cause he could steal all their money." Her eyes get real wide. "Why the reaction? You know him?"

"Uhh nope... Nope not at all."

"Jade." My voice gets stern.

"I kinda went on a date with him after he kinda saved me from a bunch of creeps."

"Be careful around him okay? I didn't know he was up here... I'll have to talk to some people..." I laugh by the look on her face. "Want me to continue or what?" She nods. "So I show up the the island and Stryker is working on something and Victor shows up wanting the same surgery I had and I turn around and Kayla is there... The woman I'm in love with. I run out and she tells me about her sister so I release all the kids then we are about to leave when something... Someone blocks our way. I send Kayla and the kids another way to fight off whatever it was... Then I realize... It was Wade."

Jade's POV

"What did he look like?" Logan shakes his head.

"Trust me kid... You don't wanna remember him like that." I give him a look telling him I do. "His eyelids were cut off... There was a layer of skin where his mouth would me... Stryker always joked about how he'd be te perfect soldier if he would just shut up every once in a while. He had one metal blade in each arm like mine, but they were meant to me his swords."

"What had he done to him?"

"Jade... I really don't think you want to kno-"

"Well your wrong! I do want to know Logan so just tell me already!" I don't even realize everyone else staring at me, I don't care. He hesitates then continues.

"Stryker had put all the powers into him... He called him Weapon X... Striker could control him by telling him what to do and sometimes controlling his actions..."

"How'd you kill him."

"Jade I-"

"I asked HOW DID YOU KILL HIM!" Being told he killed Wade was not easy for me, but what makes it worse is not knowing how he did it. He looks around at the staring people and grabs my by the arm, pulling me out of the diner. We head into the woods.

"He was about to kill my brother... Who had come back to help me... I came from behind and cut off his head... I'm so sorry Jade."

"You killed my brother... My big brother..." I punch a tree and my arm goes right through it, splintering my arm up and down. "I wasn't ready to be on my own! If you hadn't killed him I might not have gone to the camp!"

"Jade... At least you're ready to be on your own now..."

"That's thing Logan! I'm not!" I break down and breathe in heavily. For some reason tears won't come out. Logan holds me in his arms and I don't care.

"I'm sorry Jade... So sorry." I realize something.

"I don't blame you Logan... I blame-" Just then the familiar breeze I despise so much brushes past me. I see a girl with crazy short blonde hair step out from behind the trees. Logan snarls. "Logan," I whisper, "what's going on?" A man in a red metal suit floats down from the trees.

"Magneto."

Logan's POV

I can't even begin to explain how much I hate this bub. "Logan, how nice it is to see you." I growl. "Bad timing is it?" He turns to Jade, who looks completely confused. "And you are, don't tell me, Jade is it? My son has told me so much about you." I pull Jade behind me.

"Don't touch her." I snarl. She steps out from behind me.

"You're that jerk that's been sending Pietro after me?"

"Jade..." I warn her.

"No! I wanna know why this idiot won't leave me alone!" Why won't she just shut up.

"Pietro," Magneto orders, "get the girl." Pietro charges at her and I kick him away. I extract my claws and slice at him, missing purposely. I'm about to charge Magneto when he stops me. My arms bend backwards painfully as he controls the metal thorough out my body.

"Let him go!" Jade runs at him but Boom Boom, the crazy blonde, throws three tiny bombs at her feet. They explode throwing Jade against a tree, she crumples to the ground but gets back up instantly. She attacks Boom Boom, hitting her in some spot that makes her instantly drop. Some kind of pressure point. She turns and draws her swords. Magneto turns his attention to her, dropping me.

"I must let you know, my dear, that your swords won't help against me." Jade is lifted off her feet as her swords fly her into a tree. She struggles to free them from the trunk and drops to the ground. Her chin is all scraped up and she's getting really pissed.

"Leave her alone!" I yell. Pietro rushes at me but Jade throws two knives and pins him on a tree by the shoulders. She then does the same to Boom Boom, who was regaining feeling in her legs. I run at Magneto and he holds me in the air. Jade creeps up on him from behind and I try to tell her to run. Magneto forces my claws out and throws me at Jade.

Jade's POV

Logan comes flying towards me with his claws reached out. I side step him but not fast enough and he slices a clean cut on my arm. I cringe and hold my arm. Logan gets up. "Jade... Hold on we are getting out of here." He flies backwards and hits a tree as Magneto floats down and lands right in front of me.

"Some protector he is my dear."

"Let him go." I say sternly, keeping my head down.

"You'd be better off with me. I can protect you."

"I don't want your protection."

"I think you should accept my proposal-"

"I SAID I DON'T NEED PROTECTION." I roar and lunge at him, knocking him off his feet. I hold him by the neck and growl at him. " I. Don't. Need. Anyone's. Protection." I take a knife and am about to stab him in the face when my swords fly at me. But before they are able to skewer me, I'm lifted into the air. "Logan!"

I look up to see Warren carrying me. "We can't leave Logan!"

"Don't worry about him, he'll be okay now that he doesn't have to worry about you." We continue to fly and I have to cover my eyes. Warren chuckles, "Scared of heights?"

"If you tell anyone..."

"Don't worry Jade, your secret's safe with me." We land on the roof of the mansion and Warren releases his arms from underneath my arms, dropping me. I cringe when the pain in my arm returns. "You okay?"

"Yeah... Just fine." I look at Warren to see his green eyes full of concern. My eyes wander to his wings. That's right... Wings. He has to long beautiful white wings that look just like an Angel's. He folds them into his back when he notices me staring. "So that's why they call you Angel?" He blushes and nods. "Well I have a different reason." I pull him into a one armed hug. "Thank you for saving me..." He smiles but his smile fades when he looks at my badly injured arm.

"You aren't fine." I shake my head. Angel takes his thumb and licks it, then he wipes some dried blood off my face.

"Eww... Angel..." I laugh. He doesn't seem to mind me calling him that. Just then Aaron bursts through the door leading onto the roof.

"Jade! Thank God." He turns and yells down the stairs, "I found her!" He runs over to me. "Are you okay? No you aren't... Where have you been? We've been so worried." He stops an notices Angel. "Oh, hey dude." Then he turns attention to me just in time for him to catch me when I pass out.

Aaron's POV

Jade's eye roll back into her head and falls. Luckily I catch her before she hits the ground. "Kitty! Get Storm!" I lift her up and carry her towards the stairs.

"I can help if you wa-"

"Thanks Warren, but I got her." He shys away.

"Okay... Tell me when she's better? So I can se-"

"Yeah, sure, I've got to take her to Storm so... Bye Warren." I run down the halls and meet Storm in the medical area. She tells me to lay the unconscious Jade on the bed. "What's wrong with her arm?"

"It seems that something made a clean cut through tissue and muscle right up to the bone but not through it."

"So it'll heal?"

"Yes, but she'll have a pretty impressive scar." I grin.

"Oh she'll love that." Storm starts to rub ointment and other things on the cut them stitches it up. She then wraps Jade's arm in a bandage and puts it in a sling. I stand by the bed, holding her hand waiting for her to wake up.

"Aaron, she may be out for awhile, you should join the oth-" Jade moans and opens her eyes. "But then again she's always been a step ahead." I laugh.

"Thanks Storm." She pats me on the shoulder then leaves. "Hey there."

"Hey." Jade says grimly.

"Your arm feel okay?"

"I dont know I can't really feel it." She closes her eyes.

"Jade, what happened? You are all beat up and Logan is-"

"Oh my gosh Logan!" Her eyes shoot open, "Is he back yet?"

"Please stay on topic. What happened to you?"

"I'm not speaking until I know Logan is safe."

"He's safe now talk." She grunts.

"You are such a horrible person. It's no big deal, Logan and I had a very nice talk about how he slaughtered my brother then Magneto and some of his weirdos attacked us and Logan cut my arm and Angel saved me."

"Wait, Logan attacked you?"

"No! Magneto made him. I couldn't help much either. I was put in a tough situation and almost got skewered by my own swords but Angel saved me." I let out a laugh.

"Oh of course he saved you. Everyone saves you now don't they?"

"Aaron..."

"It's not that I'm complaining but it sure would be nice if you could just stay out of trouble for once!" Jade jumps back in her bed.

"Aaron please-"

"No! I mean SERIOUSLY Jade! Everywhere I look someone is having to save you! Risking themselves for you! An if you ask me, IT'S A WASTE!" A single tear rolls down her cheek.

"You don't mean that..."

"Oh yes I do! Ugh why can't you be NORMAL!" I can feel myself completely letting go.

"NORMAL?" Jade is sitting up, her eyes are starting to glow. "You want ME to be normal? Look at yourself Aaron!" She holds up a mirror. My skin is getting pale and my eyes are almost completely dark. There is no sight of blonde in my hair at all. Lately I've been getting worse, I'm having trouble holding onto myself even more than before. "What the Hell is happening to you anyways?" I run my fingers through my hair. I close my eyes and take a deep breath, then try to calm myself down, but I realize I don't want to be calm.

"FUCK YOU JADE! Ever since I met you my life has been falling apart! I though that maybe you were what was holding it together, but I was WAY off!"

"YOU DON'T MEAN THAT!" She roars and grabs a scalpel, stabbing me in the arm. Except she is exceptionally strong so it goes straight clean through my shoulder

"Aghhhh!" Jade pulls back in surprise and I drop to the floor holding my shoulder. My hand is covered in blood and when I see it I start getting light headed. Jade jumps up and places her hand over the wound. At her touch I start to feel light again.

"Aaron..." I stand up and walk over to the bed next to her.

"Storm!" Storm runs in and sees my arm. She glances at Jade, then back at me and rushes to treat my shoulder.

"Sorry Aaron, but I need you to remove your shirt." I blush but do it. As soon as I peel my shirt off I can feel Jade's eyes on me.

Jade's POV

Aaron takes off his shirt. Now, a normal girl would be fixated on his six pack and noticeable V-line, but I was staring at his wounded shoulder. I hurt him again, but I don't feel as bad because he egged me on. He knows better than to do that. Storm stitches him up and puts his arm in a matching sling. He stays put in the bed and looks over at me. "Hey don't blame me. It's your own fault." I put up my hands defensively. We sit in silence, Aaron glaring at the wall in front of him. I stare at him, then turn my head. After the first laugh I cover my mouth. But this doesn't stop me. I start to crack up and Aaron looks at me with surprise.

"What are you laughing at?" I try to stop long enough to explain.

"Look at us!" He's confused and I keep laughing. "We are both in the medic ward with arm injuries." He takes a moment then grins.

Aaron's POV

I'll admit I can't stay mad at Jade. I try so hard but it's literally impossible. As soon as she started laughing my heart just lifted. I can't help but smile and we both laugh. "We keep hurting each other." I say through a massive giggle. After awhile we both stop. Jade gets up and sits next to me on the bed. I scoot over so she'll fit. "What's wrong with us Aaron..." I put my arm around her shoulders and she rests her head in the crook of my neck.

"I don't know."