Published on 23rd of June 2006

I'm so sorry it took so long to do this chapter! The stupid thing wouldn't upload >.

Chapter 4 – Late Night Snack

Ororo and Logan returned to the office after making their decision. Ororo wavered a couple of minutes before opening the door. Hopefully they were making the right decision. Ororo opened the door and waiting for Logan to go through and then she followed.

"We would like you to stay the night."

"Are you sure?" Sarah asked.

"Positive, I will find you a room,"Storm said,"Now that I come to think of it there is one across from Warren."

Sarah looked up at Warren showing her pearly whites. He noticed her eyes were gleaming and he could feel himself blush. Sarah got up out of the comfy armchair and swung her bag over her shoulder. She tossed her rouge locks back and followed Storm out the door.

All the students were at the dinner hall having tea. Sarah could smell the food wafting in from the door. It made her stomach grumble. She hadn't had anything since breakfast.

As she walked a long the hall she studied the little details that made up the school. Apparently the founder, Xavier, and also the soul living inside her body was very wealthy. The school had been lavishly decked out with oak wood, red velvet furniture and the latest technology. The perfect school to work at,' Sarah thought to herself.

Storm stopped at one of the oak doors with a marble statue beside it. Sarah ran her hand along the statue, the cool marble making her hand tingle.

"Here's your room. If you need anything please feel free to talk to me. The children go to bed about 9 o'clock but the older ones stay up longer. You have a bathroom in your room. Good night," Storm politely said whilst quickly exiting.

Sarah flopped onto the bed staring up at the ceiling. How come her sister had never told her? Even though she had guessed her sister was a mutant, why did she have to keep it a secret? Did she think that they would banish her from their family? She had to take her mind of it and think about something else.

Warren. He didn't seem to be a mutant, to quiet and polite. He promised her that he would take her flying. Her stomach growled again. How about to McDonald's, she was starving!

She checked her watch it was only seven. Should she walk around the school and look for clues that her sister might have left her? What clues? She's dead!

Meanwhile, Warren paced up and down outside Sarah's door. Sweat dripped down from his forehead and his hands felt clammy. He had never been good around girls. He wiped the sweat of his forehead and sycked himself up. He jogged on the spot and placed his hand on the doorknob.

"Warren what are you doing," a familiar gruff voice said.

Warren turned around to see Logan grinning at him. Apparently he had caught on how he and Sarah had interacted in the office.

"I was just…going to ask her to go for a walk," Warren replied.

"Sarah?" Logan cheekily grinned, "You like her don't ya?"

Logan pulled out a cigar from his back pocket and searched his jacket pockets for a lighter. Finding the inanimate object he clicked the lighter, which ignited a flame and placed the end of the cigar waiting to see embers. He put the cigar in his mouth and exhaled. A thin puff of smoke floated towards Warren.

Warren waved the smoke from his face and sighed.

"Yes… I like her or I wouldn't be standing outside her door feeling like an idiot because of just been caught."

Wolverine laughed and patted the guy on the back. As he walked off down the hall he shouted good luck. Warren turned back to the door, preparing himself again. Just as he went to turn the doorknob the door swung open. Warren jumped back in surprise and lost his balance.

Sarah put out her hand to catch him but instead was levitating him in the air.

"What the?" Sarah exclaimed.

Warren stared down at Sarah, stunned by what was happening. He was floating three feet from the ground. Apparently when you are mutant gravidity doesn't exist.

"Could you please put me down now…"

"Oh yeah, sure! If I know how…"

Sarah lowered her arm and simultaneously Warren returned back to Earth. Feeling much at peace now that his feet were firmly planted on the ground, Warren looked up at Sarah.

"Sorry about that… I didn't even know I could do that!"

They both chuckled and then fell to silence. Warren ran his fingers through his golden locks.

"So what were you doing at my door anyway?" she asked cock-eyed.

"I was going to ask you if you wanted to go for a walk?"

"I would love to," Sarah smiled, "But I'm really hungry. Do you think I could have some dinner first?"

"Sure!" Warren beamed, "And then later we could go for a walk."

Closing the door behind them Warren and Sarah set off down the hall to the faculty lounge to have some dinner.

Sarah awoke in the middle of the night; she couldn't fall asleep because she was still hungry. Earlier on in the evening Warren and herself had gone to get some dinner but to their dismal nobody had stocked the fridge up. Everyone was to busying preparing the funerals and the only food that was there were a couple packets of corn chips and salsa. They had eaten it all whilst discussing what they had done before coming to Xavier's. They had then gone for a pleasant walk through the school grounds. The only interruption that they had was a group of students had called out from the window and wolf whistled.

Sarah sat up in her bed and checked her watch. It was 10 past 12 at night. Her stomach growled. She rubbed her eyes smudging the thick black mascara and she fumbled around for the bedside lamp's switch. A luminescent light filled the room and Sarah swung her legs to the side of the bed and let her feet search for the slippers. She was wearing a baggy t-shirt that she had borrowed off Warren and her tresses fell over her shoulders. She had to admit the red hair looked good on her.

She got out of the bed and made her way to the door trying to make as little noise as possible. The door swung open in front of her and gave her a shock, waiting to see the intruder step forth. But there was no one. The light bulb switched on in her head and she realized that her mind had opened it for her. Neat trick," she thought to herself.

Sarah crept down the hall trying to remember where the dinner hall was. Maybe there were some scraps.

Wonderful, she was sneaking around a school for mutants to find some scraps, whoever thought she would end up like this.

She saw a thin layer of light from under one of the doors; someone was still up at this hour of night. She slowly sneaked past but was caught. The door swung open and the light shone into Sarah's eyes, reflecting a shadow behind her.

"Sarah?" Logan grunted "What are you doing up?"

The light made her head throb and the light quickly went out.

"Sorry about that, the lights were giving me a headache," Sarah said.

Wolverine stepped forward, the dog tags swinging around his neck.

"You could of just asked. This is the second time today we'll have to turn the electricity back on because of you."

They now looked at each other, both a little surprised by what each other were wearing. Logan was wearing a white tank top and black boxers and Sarah was standing there with a white top and black short shorts.

His muscles rippled through his top and his biceps were revealed. Sarah tried pulling down the shirt to cover more of her body up but she realized that it wouldn't help. He eyed her up and down; memories of Jean came flooding back. The only difference about her was that she was younger.

"You still haven't answered my question, what are you doing up?"

"I was looking for some food…"

"What, you like one of those rodents that get into the trash during the night?"

"No," she glared "It's just I didn't have much to eat for dinner."

"Mr. Worthington didn't satisfy you?" he chuckled to himself.

"Do you know where this any food or not?"

He gazed into her green eyes and replied

"Yes, follow me."

He turned down the hall and disappeared around the corner. It was still warm even thought it was midnight. Sarah followed him down a number of passageways and then came to an elevator.

He pressed a chrome button and the doors immediately open. He stretched out his hand in a gallantry fashion.

"Beauty before beast."

She moved inside the plush white elevator and waited for him to come inside and push the button. He pressed one marked with an X and then typed in a code.

The elevator descended beneath the ground and it suddenly got cooler. Sarah now wished she were wearing something a little bit warmer. The elevator stopped smoothly and the doors opened wide to reveal a futuristic hallway.

Logan stepped out and turned to the left. Sarah followed him eyeing her surroundings. What was this place, a secret hideout? Her mind was boggled with questions. Logan stopped in front of a huge round door with an X on it. He pressed a highlighted blue button and the door swung open.

He turned around and waited for her to come in. She walked into the cozy room and the door shut behind her.

"Welcome to the X Men lounge room, where drinking and smoking are allowed. I asked Xavier last year to put this in for me and the other teachers so we could actually have a normal life drinking beer and not looking after rascals."

Wolverine strode over to the fridge and got out a beer. He offered her one and she accepted. He told her to scrimmage through the cupboards to find food. She found a plate of leftover lasagna and she warmed it up in the microwave. As she waited for the bell to go off, she sat on a stool at the counter.

"You don't look like a teacher, either that or you teach gym," Sarah said.

Logan laughed and took a swig of his beer and then placed it on the bench.

"Actually I haven't been assigned a job yet. I don't know what I would teach. I've helped out with Storm a couple of times teaching the kids some self defense but that's only coz their goin' to join the X Men."

"The X Men? What's that?"

"I'm one of them. We are a group of mutants stuck in the middle of the Brotherhood and normal humans."

"Was my sister one of them?"

"Yes she was. So was Scott and Xavier, but he sort of ran things. But your sister joined the Brotherhood before she died…"

"The Brotherhood?"

The bell went off and Sarah got up to retrieve her steaming food. The smell made her nose tingle with delight and she placed the plate on the table.

"The Brotherhood is the mutants who want to kill all the humans because they think mutants are the new humans and are better."

For the first time Wolverine sounded matter-o-factly. Sarah nodded whilst chewing on a piece of lasagna.

"So what brought you here?" Wolverine inquired.

Sarah swallowed the piece of lasagna and wiped her mouth.

"Well I was coming back home for Autumn break and all the police were at my parents house. They told me there had been a mutant attack and they were trying to get leads for the Brotherhood. I didn't know who the Brotherhood were at the time and I asked where my parents were. The police said they didn't know so they were assumed missing or dead. I knew they were dead because I found mum's necklace and dad's watch in their bedroom. I went through a period of grieving and decided to hold a funeral. Even though I hadn't spoken to my sister since my 18th birthday, that is when she gave me the Alfa Romeo Convertible; I knew she had to help me with funeral. The only place I knew her to be was here. And when I arrive you guys tell me she is dead…"

Silence filled the room and Sarah took another bite of lasagna.

"I'm so sorry for your loss. It must have been difficult. I know it was difficult for us…"

She nodded and continued to eat. Wolverine took another sip; an ugly thought filled his mind. Jean must have killed her parents…

"You and my sister were close."

"How do you know?"

"I have all her memories, remember? I know she loved you as well. When I was walking down the hall a certain memory of when you two were in the medical labs was shown to me."

Logan spat beer everywhere and began to choke. He started breathing properly again and wiped his mouth.

"Don't worry, I won't tell anybody," she said whilst winking at him.

Sarah finished the plate of lasagna and checked her watch.

"It's 1:30 in the morning! I better get back to bed. Have a good sleep Logan."

She went around the bench and softly kissed him on the cheek. She whispered in his ear,

"My sister wanted you to have that."

He watched her slink out the room and down the hall. He rubbed his eyes and decided to call it a night as well. Logan quickly ran after her and stopped the elevator doors from closing. She smiled up at him and they both enjoyed the silence whilst returning back to their rooms.