Laura Kinney (xclone) wrote in mundus_district, @ 2009-09-21 15:50:00 |
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Current music: | "Us"--Regina Spektor |
Who: Laura and Logan
What: Laura's arrival/ Father meets daughter
When: evening
Where: Logan's home
Rting: PG
Status: Complete
Laura was tired of training. She had already been through enough sessions where she was told to try harder. She thought she was only to be thrown into isolation for a few days or so at a time because she wasn't up to their standards. Angry and frustrated she spent her time trying to use her claws to cut her way out of the cell that was supposed to be her room for the next week or so.
Ignoring the pain that was brought on with this she went into the main control room. Her intentions were to rewire the hard-drive, as her mother was trying to teach her for possible heists, when instead she came across the records. Curiosity got the better of her and she shifted through the new information. She was surprised to find a rather large file connecting her to some man named Logan.
Logan. Why was the name ringing home to her?
Shifting through more she found everything on the original experiments that were conducted on him. With wide eyes she read the information and finally realized what this might mean.
She was human.
Excitement mixed with fear and pain sped fast through her. She quickly transferred the files to a disc just before the sirens went off of the intruder. A small file caught her attention, it said For Laura she tried to open it and glance through enough to realize that it was a letter from Sarah. Laura quickly saved that file as well and shut down the computer. Since she was unsure of how to shut it down properly she simply allowed her two claws in her right hand shut it down for her by sliding the admentium straight through the main controls.
Laura stood and turned to find a handful of guards as well as Sarah staring at her in disapointment. Thinking fast Laura let out her claws and was going to attack when a sudden pain shot through her and she fell hard onto cold cement.
Confused she stood up and sniffed the air. Where was she? She had not yet pulled her claws back in. The sixteen year old stood barefoot in her old T-shirt and jeans trying to make sense of what just happened. She quickly pocked the disc and began running in a direction. Any just in case they came behind her to take her back. As she ran she began to smell herself rather strongly. It took her a moment to realize that it might be him.
Laura ran in the direction it was coming from and found the building she needed. She climbed to his window and jumped in. She landed with a slight thud on the floor. The claws in her feet were not out yet, but she let her hands stay just to be safe. She looked through the things on the table and around the floor trying to understand who this Logan was. If he really was her father, which she seriously was believing in more and more, she wanted to know who he was and why he let her go.
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Logan was out late again Not patrolling the city like he usually did but grabbing late night groceries. For some reason he felt strange a weird smell hit his nostrils almost as if someone put his sweat on them the scent was so strong. He open the screen door and then his main door. He walked in placing the bags on the kitchen counter and letting his jacket lay on a wooden chair. He had his usual button down shirt and his usual blue jeans and black boots.
He turned on the light in the kitchen…and he caught that smell again But something caught his eye. A window was open. He never left the windows open 3 sets of adamantium claws ripped through his knuckles as he began to scan the room. He began to fallow his own scent as he walked through the house. Until he saw the solute of someone in the shadows.
He crouched like an animal hunting its prey and with lighting quick reflexes he leapt and pounced on top of what looking like a young women she smelled like a female. Logan put his arm under her neck and raised one hand with his claws in the air. “Who the hell are you?!” He growled.
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Laura had not realized Logan was there. Their scents were so similar that it wasn’t until the double layer was right behind her did she realize that it meant he was there. She turned around just in time to let out a quiet gasp as he pounced on her. She tried to squirm her way out but nothing worked. He was stronger than her.
“I...my…” she quickly thought through the different ways she could tell him. However, all those years of isolation took away her social skills, leaving her with the mentality of a small child, causing her to say: “I’m your daughter!”
Blunt but to the point.
She let go of the arm around her neck and held up her hands with the two adamantium claws to show that they were alike. It was difficult for her to see him in the darkness but she did her best to make out his face. His dark hair and eyes were exactly the same as hers. They even had the same features. The only difference between them was that Laura was clearly a female.
Laura fought the urge to smile or laugh. This man had to be her father, she was sure of it. What other reason could possibly explain these similarities?
The sudden happiness was quickly washed away with her fear and frustration. Now that she could see he was obviously her father there was so many questions that demanded answers. Why did he give her up? Why did he let them treat her the way they did? Didn’t he like her when she was born? Didn’t he want to keep her and watch her grow?
“I want answers!” Laura suddenly exclaimed in the darkness, “After all these years and I never knew you existed! They kept me locked up in isolation, kept working on me until they were satisfied I could fight the way they wanted. I ran away from them to find you! Now that I found you I expect you explain some things to me!”
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Logan took a step back retracting his claws and flipping the light switch. He took a few steps back looking at her from up and down. “Daughter?” he whispered in his scruffy voice. He saw the two claws and he looked at her face, her eye. the similarities where eerie.
He had many women in his life time it wasn’t imposable in fact it was likely that it was the truth. “I…im sorry for tackling you like that I didn’t know.” He said with his hand behind his head in disbelief he turned around and gestured for her to fallow him into the kitchen. He looked in the fridge to get the young women something to drink. “You hungry kid?”
He asked her He then picked up his head picking up on her frustration. “I didn’t know kid, believe me if I had a daughter I woulda gone no where” he spoke to her walking close to her
He put a hand on her shoulder feeling such remorse. Who woulda hid this from him? why? “Whats yer name? I cant be calling my kid...kid all the time”. He asked smiling at her.
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Laura stood up and retracted her claws. She attempted to make her worn clothes somewhat presentable. It wasn’t like she had any time to figure out what to wear before meeting her father. She had never known what it was like to have one. The fact that he was now walking away and asking if she wanted any food made it even more surreal.
She nodded in affirmation to his question in regards to fod and sat down on one of the chairs against the small table. “I’m Laura Kinney.” She said, “I don’t mind if you call me kid…I think…what do fathers usually call their daughters?”
The fact that she took the last name of woman she believed to be her mother so easily surprised her a little. However she chose to ignore it rather than dwell on the memory of the woman. She felt she should be feeling a little sad that the woman was so far away from her now, but since all Sarah ever did was press the training further into her she chose to cling onto the hope of her new father instead. Although there was still that letter she had yet to read saved quietly on the disc in her jean pocket.
“So…you do want me?” she asked a little hesitantly. He said he wouldn’t have gone anywhere if he knew she was alive. Could that mean she was taken away and sent for training to become a weapon without him realizing it? What sort of person would steal a child like that from their father?
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Logan took out some left over pizza and put it on the table. He gave half a smirk. “It aint much but you can have as much as you want…Laura.” He spoke her name and it was strange to him that he was standing in his home talking to his daughter. He put half the pie in the oven and began to cook it.when she asked about keeping her he gave a raised eyebrow and he grabed her by the arms holding her almost looking her dead in her eyes.
“Darling that aint a question now that I have you and that you’re here I aint going to let ya go not without a fight.” he spoke to her with great seriousness in his voice. “Now come on I think I got a room for ya, You can stay with me.” He began to walk to another room that was totally empty No cloths in the closet and just a made bed with 2 pillows. “it aint much but I can fix it up for ya.” He then almost sprinting into his room which was the room directly adjacent to hers and took some cloths.
“Here ya go kid we can go early tomorrow and ill buy ya some cloths.” He said handing her some jeans and a shirt and old sneakers that her had that didn’t fit him anymore but hoped they’d fit her. He was actually finding himself happy. Knowing that he had his own daughter his own flesh and blood.
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Laura smiled at the food and her stomach began to make loud noises in response to the smell. In all of the excitement she had forgotten how hungry she was. It had been a few days now that she was in isolation and given very little to eat, the hunger was finally catching up to her.
She stood and walked over to the microwave. Laura had never seen one of these before. Her food was always given to her by a man with white gloves, on a tray, in her room. Seeing the object turn the food in a circle made her curious. Not to mention the fact that she had never had a pizza before.
“What is this…” she asked in wonderment before she could stop herself. The second the words left her lips she suddenly became worried if Logan wouldn’t like a daughter that wasn’t aware of things as simples as this.
Laura was surprised by Logan’s answer to her questions. She had hoped he say something remotely close to a “yes I’d like to keep you” but this was beyond expectation. A wide smile formed on her face and she threw her arms around him to give him a hug. She knew what that was thanks to Sarah’s attempt at the kind gesture. Although she had only been given one before Sarah was taken away by guards it was still something Laura felt impulse to give Logan at the moment.
She didn’t want to let go but did reluctantly to follow him into the next room that was empty. It was not what she was expecting either. The room looked so welcoming Laura couldn’t help herself but jump onto the bed. She looked around and immediately began thinking of how she would decorate it. Blue? No maybe red…? She thought as Logan went for some old clothes.
Laura accepted the clothes with another smile and turned her back on him to change out of her own. Her clothes were not only too big on her but also worn out and frayed from all of her years wearing them. Her father’s were still too big for her but they were better than what she had.
When she finished changing she came out of the room and back to the kitchen. Since she didn’t know that ‘thank you’ was the proper thing to say in a situation like this she just turned to show him that they fit. The wide smile on her face never faltering.
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Logan smiled when she came out in the cloths he got for her, it felt awkward when she hugged him but it also felt right like she was supposed to her hugging him was a good thing. Inside he was excited to find out that he had a daughter. “Its an oven darling, you use it to warm up yer food sometimes.” he said with a smile It then occurred to him she had admantium in her bones. She could not be no younger than 16! “Hey kid the metal in your bones. Howed you getem?” he asked her wondering if she went through the same painful procedure as he had to endure.
Laura watched the…oven…as it heated the food. She leaned her forehead against the door for a moment as she tried to figure out just how to explain what happened to her.
“They call me X-23…” she started slowly not wanting to look at her father, “For the first seven years I was a subject to radiation poisoning to activate my genetic mutation…when they felt I was ready they extracted the claws in my hands and feet…coated them with admantium then reattached them…” Laura winced at the memories of her childhood. She was not given any anesthetic for the process. “I just escaped a few hours ago from the facility…I was scheduled to have the rest of my skeleton fused with admantium in a couple of days.” Laura finally looked up into her father’s face, “I don’t think they’re going to be too happy when their favorite weapon is gone. Not to mention the fact that I ran away with this before destroying their main computers.” She offered a faint smile as she pulled out the disc in her pocket that contained the files on Weapon X, X-23, and the letter from Sarah to Laura.
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Logan put his hands on his head in shock; they didn’t lace her entire Skelton but only her claws. He took out the pizza and a can of soda and placed it in front of her. “Well, They aint going to find ya ill make sure o that.” He said pulling out a beer from the bag he bought from the groceries. When she pulled out the disc Logan took it he didn’t know what to do with it. He took the disc and put it a small envelope and put it in a drawer. “Listen kid you and I escape from the same group of people. we found each other…well yer found me and it’s a fresh start no more labs no more poking or proden its just you and me from now on. We can look at this when we are ready”
He said closing the drawer and walking over to her and sat with her on the table. It was a family dinner. The first he actually had. For a moment he was the happiest he had ever been right now where we he was he was happy. “Be up bright and early ill call the job tomorrow and tell them im taking the day off.” He told her with half a smirk while taking a bite.
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Laura was hungry and looked at the food with excitement. She picked up her first piece and bit into it slowly. Normal food tasted so good she couldn’t resist to eat it fast and reach for another one.
She watched Logan put the disc away in a drawer. Laura didn’t mention the letter on it. Perhaps she could wait to see it…or perhaps she’ll take it when he’s not looking. She smiled at his comment. No more labs? No more training? She liked the sound of that. Laura nodded and probably would have said thank you if she knew that was what she should have said in response. Instead she stood up again to give him another hug quickly before running back to the delicious food.
Laura made a face, “Where do you work?” she asked as she tried to run a hand through her long matted, tangled hair. The morning wasn’t coming fast enough. Real clothes? For her? Not the usual white lab dresses or the torn clothes she wore in isolation. Perhaps she could find some shoes? Nah…she thought. Laura always seemed to destroy those when she used the claws in her feet.
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Logan Chuckled when she gave him a hug and he hugged her back, and poured her some cold water in a clean cup. “I work at the lumber mill in town, I’m a lumber jack” He said with a smirk eh took a long drink from the beer bottle. “So what we going to do bout yer schooling kid?” He asked concerned about her and probably putting her into a school where she can interact with other kids her age. He wondered if he should call the professor and maybe get some “special” suits Like he has.
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Laura nodded not wanting to seem like she didn't know anything but if she were to be completely honest she didn't know what that was. Instead she just smiled in response. At the mention of school Laura made a face. "What am I supposed to do?" she asked not wanting to get into it too much. The only thing Laura wanted to do was be normal. The words that were coming out of Logan's mouth at the moment was worrying her. Was this "school" another institution that was going to test her? "I'm not sure I like that...can't I just spend time with you? I can help around...the mill..." was that the word he used?
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Logan took a sip of beer and shook his head."Well school is a place where ya learn stuff ya know about history,math and stuff i mean you wont be with little kids or noting yer what 16? so yea you'll got o high school or somthing" he said thinking of waht should a dad do now? He was going to get her food and clths but waht about school. "I mean you wont be going to school saterday or sundayso those days you'll spend with me and then there are the time your home after school youll be here." He then began to think back.Weapon X must have kept her in such seclusion. "Have you ever been outside the facility kid?" he hasked her leaning in closer to her.
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Laura was still a bit wary about this thing called school but if Logan was ok with it then it was finewith her. She shrugged her shoulders unsure as to her age, "I don't know...how can you tell how old you are?" she asked. She was indeed sixteen but she did not know this herself. Birthdays was not something you give to a person you want to be a weapon.
She smiled at the idea of spending her nights and weekends with him. Hopefully now she would have the time to understand who she was, where she came from and why she was taken away from him. She was determined to get the answers to the burning questions that eat away at her. Laura awkwardly looked away from him and shook her head. She hadn't been away from the facility. This was the first time she had seen the sky let alone another building. It was all so different from the single white rooms she was forced to stay in.
Laura yawned a bit and her eyes began to stare at Logan in a weak way. The travel and excitement had been rough on her but she didn't want any of it to go away. "How did you escape?" she asked him.
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Logan saw the weakness in her eyes poor thing was tired. He began to growl at what they probably did to his daughter and if filled him with rage. He got up and picked her gently. “Come on kid Well talk about everything tomorrow when we go taking ya shopping for some cloths and some stuff for ya room.” He was going to lead her to her room feeling horrible that it was in such bad shape. “Goodnight kid” he said to her as led her to her room and he moved in to his.
He slept with the knowledge of his daughter safe and in his home.It was surreal that he even had a daughter.He slept with a small smirk on his face.