"Go on, I'll be alright!" Logan insisted, but I knew better. I knew what the Phoenix was capable of when it took control of Jean. Logan had no idea.

But I can't deny him a last request. This was the woman he loved, rampaging and destroying everything in her path, just for being there. I mean, what kinda man wouldn't insist on spending his last moments with the woman he loved alone?

I almost choked, the tears came on so fast, but I denied them the right to fall down my cheeks by blinking madly. "Fine, you take care of her!" I call back, hating the way my voice trembled.

We might be teammates, and he might not see me like I see him, but I'd seen enough of Logan's past to fall head over heels for him. His snappy, kick-ass attitude; his always-the-hero way of stopping the bad guys before the rest of us can even get to his side; the scent of cheap cigars that seemed to cling to him every moment of every day.

And now, he was about to leave my side and probably never return, all for the sake of a woman that had been married to another man while she was still in love with Logan. It infuriated me, the way they flirted when it was so clear that she never would've fully reciprocated his feelings anyway; like she was having a great big game where she could toy with the affections of both Logan and Scott while never really loving either of them.

I'd been the one to save Logan and Rogue that fateful day all those months ago….. well, me and Cyclops, but that didn't matter. What did matter was that if Logan left now, I might be the only grown-up X-Man left; the rest of them were teenagers, for Christ's sake!

The denial that bubbled up to my lips almost made it out, but I bit the words back before they could escape. "Good luck!" I call to him, but something obviously showed in my voice, because he looked at me with slight concern.

"You alright?" he asks, running out and hiding beside me behind one of the last bits of cover left in the area as the Phoenix toyed with the matter around her.

"I'm fine; just go!" I yell at him, shoving him slightly to make him get a move on, but he didn't budge. "I'll get the kids, just go stop her!" I snap, authority filling my voice as it usually did in a crisis like this.

But Logan still didn't move. "Logan, she's going to destroy this whole city if we don't-!" But I didn't finish. He just reached out, grabbed me around the waist, and pulled me into the best kiss I've ever had in my life.

I gape at him slightly before timidly returning it. My mind was going blank; was this really happening?

But before I could really saver the moment he broke the lip-lock, staring me straight in the eye. "I'll be right back; promise," he whispers in my ear before leaping over the cover we were behind.

My mind was still processing what had just happened, but I got up and ran after where the kids had disappeared to earlier never the less. 'He won't die…. he'll come back to me….. he promised.'

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A/N: I can honestly say I immensely enjoyed working on this story; I am an LoganXOroro fan all the way, and I just remembered I hadn't done a story of them yet. I was thinking of making this another Dark Muse story and I'd kill off Logan in the end-because I'm a bitch like that- but I decided a lighter story would be better.

Hope you like, if you don't then what the hell? I don't care; I enjoyed writing this and that's all that matters to me!
-Wind