Matty Ballard (halosandthorns) wrote in the_next_step, @ 2009-04-16 00:50:00 |
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Entry tags: | logan/wolverine, matty ballard/thorn |
Cabin in the Ozark Mountains, Night; Attn: Logan
Damn, but Matty was happy to have the quiet and the solitude of the mountains. She loved her family, but with as many cousins as she had now, family gatherings were nothing short of chaos. Her aunts and uncles had all eyed her and Logan, scrutinizing every little interaction between the two. Her family knew she was a mutant, and were accepting of her in varying degrees. She could act like any normal, average person around them, and they could forget that she was anything but baseline.
But Logan? Logan had thrown most of them for a loop, with wild hair and dark features. Matty was only thankful they had managed to hold their tongues, and not say anything. Well, everyone except for her Aunt Susie, who insisted it was high time that Matty find a good man and settle down and have children.
Yeah, Matty was thankful for the solitude. As of that moment, she watched Logan as he played handyman around the cabin, replacing boards in the walls, fixing the ceiling. Hell, he'd even fixed the wiring, even though they didn't need electricity. She figured it was probably his way of paying her parents back for letting them stay here. And for not asking awkward questions neither he nor Matty would be able to answer.
She didn't know what they were. Lovers, maybe. He had marked her as his, in a way she would never be able to explain to someone who wasn't like them. She chewed on a strip of jerky as her eyes followed him. Had she marked him, too? she wondered. Was he hers, just as much as she was his?