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bound to cross the line; logan ([info]sixreasons) wrote in [info]rooms,
@ 2014-12-17 22:02:00

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Entry tags:!marvel comics, *log, james howlett, steve rogers

quicklog: logan and steve
(after this)

[The few things that Logan thought he did well did not include comfort or support or anything involving other people that didn't involve pain. Basically. He was better than he used to be. When he first arrived in this Hotel world, after his first interaction with the X-Men, he was still a wounded animal. That feeling never left completely, but he had grown used to being a part of the fabric of a team after his years back in that world.

It was really weird to come back here and not have that team structure. To live at a mansion without X-Men. Without Jean or Scott or Ro. And now he was fucking things up with Rogue, so. Great. So while he might not know much of a thing about Steve, he knew a hell of a lot about feeling out of place. He was always winding up as a stranger in a strange land, either without his memory or the only one to remember what was going on.

He could at least get the guy a beer, and Logan did recognize him from that one time Logan had helped out the Avengers at the Osborn complex. The mutant was already at the bar, sipping his beer, until he noticed the good Captain America enter. Logan gave him a nod and a grunt to get his attention. Welcome.]


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Quicklog, Marvel: Logan & Steve R
[info]atrophy
2014-12-18 10:42 am UTC (link)
[The good Captain America was young. "Fresh out of the ice," the people tending to him in those first few days at S.H.I.E.L.D. had said. 26 years old, weeks out of a war, and here he was, now a full sixty-nine years in The Future, instead of sixty-seven, with the world spinning on and him coming in and out of time. Only this time, there hadn't been any ice. No excuse for why he should have skipped ahead again, except for this mysterious hotel he was told about, and he was pretty sure any and all hotels he'd ever stayed in had been razed long ago by some overeager renovator.

He couldn't get drunk, but some explanation, offered over a beer—he wasn't going to turn that down. The names on the pages of his journal were wholly new or familiar in turn, but none that he knew well, none that made his heart skip—Peggy, for instance. Bucky. But, even if he was "fresh out of the ice," he knew now not to expect them.

There was too much happening in his head and he still wasn't used to the speed of things. So, he'd walked. Cold tinged his cheeks with red, leather jacket brown over broad shoulders, and trousers and a button-up worn high and to the last button. He didn't know who he was looking for, but a nod came his way, sharp blue eyes caught quick, and he smiled, nothing easy, but warm.

Before sitting, he held his hand out to the man named Logan.] Steve Rogers, [he said by way of introduction. A shake, and he was seated.] The last beer I had came from an olive can. Any recommendations?

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Re: Quicklog, Marvel: Logan & Steve R
[info]sixreasons
2014-12-19 01:50 am UTC (link)
[Logan never had been able to get drunk, either, so drinking had never been about that. It was the comfort of the gesture, the attempt to lose himself in anonymity at a bar because he wanted to avoid everything else.

It was also, admittedly, something of an image thing.

But whereas Steve was supposed to have a perfect memory, Logan's was far from it. His own past was a haze in his mind from injuries and attempts to heal over his emotional and mental injuries. The reference to the style of beer cans in World War II only called forth the barest of flickers of thoughts. He shook the man's hand, a strong grip, and gave a grunt in return greeting.] At least they got the beer to the lines. [Spoken like a man who had been there. He knew he was, if not all the details of it. But war was hell, and even more hellish without beer.] This stout's on tap, pretty good. First one's on me. [How generous. Don't get used to it, Steve.]

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Re: Quicklog, Marvel: Logan & Steve R
[info]atrophy
2014-12-20 06:49 am UTC (link)
[Steve liked beer, from the tap. Canned beer—that he could do without. Dented, metallic, and dull on the tongue, carried across the ocean with men shipped out to die. No, he liked it cold, frothing, so a stout on tap? He would take that. His smile came warm and easy at the generosity of a fellow soldier.] Thanks.

[He knew men like this one—grunts, hard lines carved into skin, and hands rough on his, and there was comfort in that—shared experience. Something he thought he wouldn't have much of again. And Steve's shoulders softened in relief as he leaned into the bar. He asked the bartender for one of what Logan was having.] How long have you been here? [He asked just before his stout was placed in front of him, dark against class, with a white head thick.]—In this—place?

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Re: Quicklog, Marvel: Logan & Steve R
[info]sixreasons
2014-12-20 05:02 pm UTC (link)
[He gave a grunt in response to Steve's thanks, as well, just reinforcing that view of the type of soldier that Logan was. It wasn't a wrong perspective. He was an animal bred for war, not like the way Steve had been remade for war. Steve was made to be an image for the people, Captain America. Wolverine was meant to be the government's dirty little killing secret. But he'd come far enough away from that with the help of Xavier and the rest that he could be a little generous.

And Steve had reached out to him before for help, so even if this Steve didn't remember it, that mattered to Logan.]

How long? [He took a moment to think back, years ago, to when he had been first taken here.] I was here about two months before going back home for...years. [That was disorienting.] But then I got sent back here, and only a week had passed. That was a few weeks ago. [So he hadn't actually been in this world physically long at all.] It's a fucking bad acid trip. [Grumbled.] But at least I remembered bein' here before. [Unlike Steve.]

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Re: Quicklog, Marvel: Logan & Steve R
[info]atrophy
2014-12-23 07:53 am UTC (link)
[Steve swilled the stout once, eyes on it when Logan spoke next to him, gruff. He didn't know what a bad acid trip was, but he could guess. A fissure of concern appeared between blond brows, his face all youth, no hard corners even after years of war, long lashes blinked together at that murmured 'at least.'

His own memories were hazy, as lightless as the beer in his glass, and it was a foreign thing—his mind was supposed to act as a camera, photographic, eidetic and perfect, so the aimless mass, the stirrings of familiarity were entirely disconcerting. He knew names and he didn't. He had limited expectations, but they were still expectations and they threw him off.

Steve frowned hard, once, before he took a long drink of the stout. It was sweet and dark on his tongue. He wiped at the foam on his upper lip with a sleeve and finally looked back to Logan.] Years, huh? [He laughed, small, unhappy.] Is it like that for everyone?

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Re: Quicklog, Marvel: Logan & Steve R
[info]sixreasons
2014-12-23 11:36 pm UTC (link)
[Fuzzy memories were terrible, haunting things. They were signs in your peripheral vision, distracting you from what was right in front. Logan cursed his powers for a lot of things, and that haze was one of them. He didn't know exactly how Steve felt, not knowing what it would be like to have perfect memory, but Logan was sympathetic underneath his grunts.]

Like what? Being pulled from there to here and back without a clue? Wouldn't be surprised from what some people have written. [That really didn't make him feel better about it.

His next question was blunt, like a band-aid off a wound.] You know you've been here before, right?

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Re: Quicklog, Marvel: Logan & Steve R
[info]atrophy
2014-12-24 07:35 am UTC (link)
[It didn't make Steve feel better about it either. He'd had a hard enough time being torn from 1945—from what he thought was his death—to 2012, but at least he'd thought it to be unique to him, a tragedy no one else would have to go through. Maybe that was egotistical, but it was true. And he'd hoped, as much as he yearned for people who'd been through similar, someone who would understand—this wasn't what he'd wanted. He'd hoped it was just him, because it was one of the loneliest things you could imagine.

But to find that everyone seemed to be puppets, strings pulled by—not Fate—but some other force, more malicious, well, yeah, no, that made him feel worse actually.

The man's fingers twitched against the frosted glass of his stout, but Logan's question distracted him from noticing. He frowned again. He had no problems with bluntness.] I... Yes? [It was a question, because he didn't know. He did. But he didn't. He didn't remember it, but it felt familiar, like memories of early, early childhood.]

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Re: Quicklog, Marvel: Logan & Steve R
[info]sixreasons
2014-12-24 08:12 pm UTC (link)
[Logan had fought in a lot of wars over the years, but the only one that had really mattered, the only one that made him care, was the fight for the mutants at Xavier's. He wanted them to be free, not turned into a weapon like he had been. This hotel wasn't turning them into weapons--yet, as far as he could tell--but it was taking away freedom, and that mattered.

Unfortunately, he didn't know what to stab to make it better.

Logan took a deep drink.] Yeah. I didn't know you too well, but a lot of people are going to be looking at you funny. You meant something to them. [Sorry, Steve. His sympathy was meant down there somewhere.]

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Re: Quicklog, Marvel: Logan & Steve R
[info]atrophy
2014-12-28 07:01 am UTC (link)
[Steve blinked hard at his beer.] Yeah. [He didn't know what else to say to something like that. Guilt settled over him in a fog. It wasn't his fault, but he'd displaced someone who meant something to people, and he had to sit and watch them all grapple with the loss of it. It wasn't something he stomached well. He didn't mind bluntness, but he hadn't wanted to look that closely at the consequences of his appearance. He didn't want to be here, they didn't want him here. It was a bad situation all around.

He took a long, quiet drink.]

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