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Not Mine Alone	By : Karen Category: X-Men: (All Movies) > Het - Male/Female > Logan/Marie Views: 8060 -:- Recommendations : 0 -:- Currently Reading : 0
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Chapter four: Confrontation and Contemplation
Marie jerked away as if she'd just received a massive electric shock. Her eyes had grown wide and her mouth had fallen open, a look of complete shock and horror was mapped across her face. She backed away from Logan until she reached the point where the bed met the wall.

"Why, Marie, why?" Logan asked with a noticeable catch in his throat.

Trying hard to regain her composure and remaining at a safe distance at the other end of the bed, she quietly replied, "It just happened, Logan. There's no real reason why. We were training together. We got too close. It's nothing more complicated than that."

"What about Jean? Scott would never cheat on wit without a valid reason."

"It wasn't about anything earth-shattering that happened between them. I told you, it just happened. I'm sorry, if that's not good enough for you. If you're looking for some justification, it's simply not there."

"Are you in love with him?" Logan didn't really want to know the answer to that one.

"No. I'm not," Marie stated simply.

{Oh, thank God.}

"Marie, I can give you a hundred reasons why you shouldn't be involved with Scott and not one good reason why you should."

"I know that, Logan. I'm not stupid. I wasn't looking for a future with him. I had no intentions of replacing Jean."

"Why, Scott, though? There are plenty of guys around here that have shown an interest in you. Guys that don't already have girlfriends." {That's right, stupid, just give her a list to choose from why don't you. I should pound myself for being such a moron.}

"Scott was the first person to touch me in that way after I learned to control my mutation."

"So it could've been anyone? You weren't being picky?" {That came out wrong.}

"It's not like the moment I learned control I was on the prowl - looking to get laid by the first guy that crossed my path. It wasn't anything quite that crude, Logan," she bit out.

{Ok, knew I was gonna get toasted for that - so now, fix it.}

"I'm sorry. I didn't mean to suggest that's what you did. That's not what I mean

"Well, that's how it came across, Logan, and quite frankly, I resent that immensely. Give me a little more credit than that."

{This ain't going well. She's pissed at me, but a least she's not in love with Scooter. That part's definitely good.}

"Anyway," Marie continued, "Today I told him it was over, that I can't do this anymore."

"You, did? Really?" A smipreapread across Logan's face that he couldn't suppress.

"Glad that news is making your day."

"I'm just glad that you've come to your senses before any real damage was done."

"Is that all? Is that the only reason?" She was fishing.

"Of course, I just don't wanna see anyone get hurt. Do you need another reason?"

{Play it cool. Play it cool.}

Marie tried to hide her disappointment and quietly said, "No, I guess not."

"I promise not to say anything to anyone, so both your reputations are safe."

"How mighty generous of you. I'll be sure to have Scott thank you, too."

Marie stood up swiftly, stormed into the bathroom and slammed the door shut.

This was not going in the direction Logan had hoped. He sat on the bed just staring at the closed door.

{Now, what?}

Sitting down on the wide ledge of the oval tub, Marie was having her own internal conversation. She'd told Logan that she had informed Scott it was over - what she had carefully omitted was Scott's plea not to end it. How had it come to this? How the hell had she gottenselfself into this mess? It was Logan she wanted, always had been him, not Scott. Her fears of being humiliated if Logan had rejected her caused her not to risk laying bare her soul. Their friendship would be flushed if she'd made an error in judgment so instead she chose the safe road - the road that ultimately led to nowhere.

So now she found herself in Scott's arms - wonderful arms that they were, the problem was, the arms she really wanted to be enveloped in were attached to Logan's body. It was Logan's hard-muscled chest she wanted to be lovingly exploring and it was his hands she wanted gently caressing her body in return. It was Logan she wanted to be writhing beneath, not Scott. She'd been using Scott as a substitute for Logan and that hadn't been fair to Scott. Now Scott held the prize of her virginity, not Logan. Why hadn't she waited just a little longer? True, most girls her age were several years past being pure and innocent, but her skin had always been the deciding factor in that decision. She'd waited longer than so many of her friends, so what difference would a little more time have made? She had surrendered at the first opportunity that presented itself. So where had that gotten her? Instead of having a relationship that she could celebrate openly, here she was hiding and sneaking around. It wasn't what she'd hoped for or wanted. She wanted a boyfriend, not a secret lover.

The affair with Scott had taken them both by surprise. She hadn't lied to Logan when she told him it hadn't been planned. It hadn't been a calculated seduction on either of their agendas. It had just happened, evolved really. The training sessions had given them the opportunity to get closer emotionally - their time spent together confiding in each other - his fears that Jean would never set a date, her crush on Logan that she felt was more than that and Scott trying to convince her otherwise. Marie knew that Scott hadn't tried to dissuade her from pursuing a relationship with Logan because he wanted her for himself. His reasons were never that shallow. He genuinely cared about her and was trying to protect her from what he thought was inevitably getting hurt. Logan's apparent callous attitude towards women driving home his point. The man made one-night stands a sporting event. Scott had made a lame joke about hanging a numbering system by the side of Logan's bed.

Scott and Marie had enjoyed a close almost sibling-like relationship before, but with the training, it became more intense without them even realizing where it was heading. The playful jabbing, the pseudo-wrestling, the friendly tickling, the touch on the arm or the cheek that lingered a little too long. The touch that turned into a caress that became so much more than it should have. Desires that should've been repressed but weren't. Marie remembered the thrill of being touched for the first time, as a woman should be and throwing caution and rational thinking out the window. That first time had been completely unplanned, but there had been no rational excuse for the times that followed. It may have started innocently, but the continuation was anything but. Scott and Jean may not have been married yet, but they were engaged, they were committed and that should have been reason enough.

Marie made a decision about her future. She swung open the bathroom door, stepped back into the bedroom and slammed straight into Logan.
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