Slow Dancing and Slow Mornings
Summary: Logan x Fe!Reader -> Logan and you have been kidnapped and you come to find out Logan has been in love with you for twelve years.
Disclaimer: Mentions of kidnapping, explosions, hints of torture, love confessions, Logan gives you a massage. Mostly fluff, little bit of angst, and slow dancing to familiar records. Not proof read.
“What?”
You turned in your chair to try and look at Logan, who wasn’t looking in your direction at all.
The prick stood opposite both of you and just smiled. “What? He didn’t tell you?”
“You…you love me?”
The prick nodded as he placed his hands behind his back. “Has done. For Twelve years.”
“Shut up.” Logan said to him.
“Logan?”
Finally, he looked at you. His expression was twisted with pain.
“You love me?”
Logan nodded. “Have done for twelve years. Thanks for noticing.”
There was no point trying to deny it now. He had loved you for twelve years, and now you were both about to die.
“What didn’t you tell me?”
Logan shrugged. “There was never a good time.”
“A good time?”
“Seems our courageous hero-”
Despite your hands being tied behind your back, you waved the yapper off. “Yeah, yeah. We’ll get back to you. “You never told me because there was never a good time?!”
Logan was a little shocked. “We’re five minutes from dying and you’re mad at me right now?”
“Yeah, sorta! You’ve been in love with me for twelve years and you never told me!”
“It’s not like we had years of spare-”
You shook your head. “Don’t bullshit me, Logan. You had plenty of time to tell me.”
You couldn’t help but laugh. “Hell, you had twelve damn years.”
Your captor sighed as he crossed his arms. “Perhaps you two can argue-”
“It’s not like I can do anything about it now!”
You looked at Logan, unsure of what to say. Fuck you? You could have done something twelve years ago? Hell, you could have done something last week? Go fuck yourself?
Logan watched as you decided what you were going to say to him. And then the cogs stopped turning in your head and your gaze focused on his soul for a moment, before it became lighter.
“Yeah there is.”
Logan was confused, but just as he was about to ask what, you continued.
“You can tell me if we survive this.”
“Sur-survive what?”
Then a loud crash came and everything turned white.
Slowly, you came to.
The blinding flash and loud crash had sent a shock wave throughout the entire room and somewhere in the rubble, you were lying down, your ears ringing and your head feeling heavier than ever.
You tried your best to make out what everything was. The stone bricks beside you, the dirt beneath your body, the rebar poles sticking out here and there in front of you.
Groaning, you stood before pressing a hand to your head. Bringing it back down, you found an imprint of blood in the centre of your palm.
In the distance, you could see Storm and the others making their way over to Logan. You could have run to him. You were about to.
Then the rubble moved.
Your kidnapper flew through the air and towards the woods.
So you followed.
Logan groaned as he got up, Storm’s hand on his back. Immediately, he started looking for you. And he found you. Flying towards the forest.
He called out your name but you were too far away to hear him.
“Logan-Logan, we’ll go. You need medical attention.” Jean told him. But he shrugged her off.
“I don’t need medical attention.”
With your head pounding, you landed in the general area you’d seen him land. It was a lot quieter now. The lights from the jet were barely visible through the thickness of the shade.
And just as you turned your back, you were sent flying to the ground.
“You still think you can beat me?!”
You groaned as you found the power to stand. “I’m still trying, aren’t I?”
“Just give up. You won’t be able to stop me.”
“Urgh!” You turned around on your heels and looked at him. “Can I at least stop you from talking?”
The prick just laughed. “Let's see if you can try and fight long enough to make this interesting.”
And you tried. You got a few of your own hits in, sending him flying through the branches and down ditches. But with your pounding head and the pain racking through your body with each hit you took, post being buried by rubble.
Once more, you were thrown against a tree and fell into the dirt beneath it. By the time you opened your eyes again, you were met with his figure walking towards you.
“It’s a pity really.” The pain you’d suffered from being tied in the chair a mere fifteen minutes ago twisted inside your body again, only getting stronger by the second. “You didn’t get to tell him you feel the same.”
You managed to catch your breath for a moment. “He knows…”
Your body was gasping for another breath, begging to push the pain away. “He knows.”
The man above you gave you a twisted smile before he twisted your inside a little more. “But he’ll never know how much, will he? How long you went, wishing he’d feel the same. Who knows, maybe I’ll do you a favour and tell him for you once I’m finished with you here.”
You let out a breathy laugh. “It’s okay.”
You watched as the man stood above you went from holding all the power, to holding nothing but confusion.
“I’ll tell him myself.”
As Logan kept running, he was shouting out your name, Storm hot on his tail calling out his. But just as he caught your scent, your colour of power exploded and spread through the whole of the forest. It was strong enough to knock both himself and Storm back.
And as he stabled Storm, he looked in what he guessed was your direction.
“Logan, no-”
“Y/N!”
Logan kept running, his breath sharp against his lungs. You had to be okay. You had to be fighting back. You had to have won.
But as he reached the centre point, he looked around. The smell of dirt and imminent rain clouds messed with his senses as he constantly whipped around in a circle. And then he saw it on the ground.
The necklace you always wore. A locket lay open on the floor, face down. You never let him know what was on the inside.
Picking it up, he brushed the dirt from it and found what was inside.
A picture of everyone lay on one side.
And a picture of him on the other.
He remembered that picture. He remembered you and him being told to stand together in front of the record player stand. At the time, you’d both shared the same neighbour and attended the same dinner party. And after a few glasses of alcohol and some good food, you’d all been dancing to a couple records.
He didn’t even know you’d owned a copy of that photo.
Folding the small picture back, he replaced the photo and snapped it shut.
“I can’t find her.”
Storm’s expression saddened as she slowly approached him. “She’s gone, Logan.”
He looked around again.
“Logan. She’s gone.”
Only when he turned back to face Storm did he feel the tears on his cheek. But he couldn’t face her. His eyes kept looking for you. “She’s-”
Logan’s voice broke with pain. “She’s not.”
Storm placed a gentle hand on his arm. “Logan, she’s gone. You and I both felt it-”
Storm watched as Logan’s head snapped in the opposite direction.
“Logan, she’s gone.”
Then he pulled himself from her and started walking away.
“Logan, where are you going?”
“I heard something.”
And he did hear something.
A few moments later, Storm watched from behind Logan as you climbed up a ditch.
Your face, hair and clothes were stained with blood, ash, dirt and moss. Grasping onto a nearby tree, you took in heavy breaths until you finally looked up.
“Medic!” Storm shouted.
Logan took off running towards you.
“Logan,” you breathed.
“What the hell were you thinking?”
You pushed off from the tree and hobbled towards him. “Just shut up and hug me.”
A few more strides and Logan had you wrapped up in his arms, tightly. All he could do was breath you in, feeling your skin bruise under his fingertips as he clutched onto you like a lifeline.
“You’re okay? Are you okay?” Pulling back from you, but keeping your body flushed against his as best as he could, Logan looked you over.
You had a cut on your head and other small scratches. He couldn’t check your body over due to your clothes, but he did try and feel for any more wet patches of blood.
Then you chuckled.
“What?”
“Isn’t there something you need to tell me, Soldier?”
Logan’s gaze ran over your face for a second too long as his brain fought against itself, trying to convince him you were okay, real and most importantly, alive.
Then he remembered.
“I love you,” he breathed. “I have loved you for twelve years. I love you.”
Taking his face in your hands, you looked him over as you smiled. “I love you, too.��
It took Logan a minute before he finally gathered the courage to kiss you. He didn’t want to hurt you. His kiss peppered away across your cheek, down your neck and onto your shoulder as his arms wrapped around you more, holding you in a hug close to him.
A medic was closing in and Logan turned around, you still in his arms. “Come on, we need to get you checked. What happened to-”
“He’s taken care of.”
You looked at Storm. “At the bottom of the ditch. I don’t think he’s gonna remember what happened for a while.”
Storm and Cyclops headed off in that direction whilst your own hands brought Logan’s attention back to you.
“Stay with me?”
“I’m never leaving you again.”
Then he kissed you.
“Come on.”
Two days later, you were fully showered and practically boiled clean of any evidence from what had happened when you had been kidnapped. Your clothes now consisted of long pyjama bottoms, an old t-shirt and a hoodie that you had stolen from Logan’s closet.
The amount of energy your, quite literally, explosive fight had taken from you had been a lot. And it was clear the next couple of weeks would be filled with a lot of sleep and a lot of rest.
Whenever you woke up, it was ninety percent guaranteed Logan would be asleep beside you. And when he wasn’t and you went in search of him, you found him in the kitchen, cooking.
“Here, eat.”
He’d place a bowl or plate of whatever he had made in front of you at the counter before sitting beside you, pulling your chair until it was practically between his legs as he sat turned to you.
A week later, you had woken up snuggling into the crook of Logan’s neck and you stayed there for a while. Until you remembered you needed to shower.
“Do you think you can stand for that long?”
“Probably.”
Logan kissed the top of your cheekbone as he lay beside you. “I’ll draw you a bath.”
And he did.
And the minute you stepped into it, you relaxed against the hot water. Between your fingertips, you let your power flow around your fingers. But you jumped when you felt a familiar presence sit behind you, placing his hands on your shoulders.
“You need to save your energy.”
“All I’ve done for a week is sleep, Logan.”
“You nearly levelled a forest. It’s going to take a while.”
With his thumbs firm against your shoulders, Logan slowly massaged the tension away. A small moan left your lips as you moved your neck, giving him more access to your muscles.
Logan chuckled. “Like that?”
“Love it.”
Logan smiled as he leaned down and kissed the top of your shoulder and behind your ear before continuing to massage away the ache.
Finally finishing in the tub, Logan held up a towel and tried his best to look away as you stood up and wrapped yourself in it.
“You okay?”
“Yep,” Logan strained. “Just…concentrating.”
You laughed a little and blushed. “Thank you for running me a bath.”
Logan looked at you and smiled before you pulled him in and kissed him. “But next time, feel free to join me in it.”
With another quick kiss, you smirked as you walked away leaving Logan both a little in shock and a little embarrassed. He might have loved you for twelve years but sometimes he had to remind himself that you loved him back and you both now had the freedom to…do…that.
A few hours later, after having dinner together, Logan went in search of you. You weren’t in his room, the library, outside or even the living area.
But as he walked back past his room, he heard a familiar sound.
Floating out from your room were the faint sounds of a record playing on the record player. Carefully pushing the door open wider, Logan smiled when he saw you. Fast asleep, curled up on your side, the record had lulled you to sleep.
With a soft smile, Logan closed the door and reached to turn the volume down a little before approaching you.
You felt your bed dip for a minute, but you had already recognised his footsteps and scent from the hallway. And you felt yourself smile and reach out for him. He chuckled.
“I thought you were asleep.”
“I was,” you curled into his arms as he lay down with you. “But then I remembered my human heater.”
“Oh, is that my new name?”
“Yep,” you replied, already hearing the smile in his voice and in his heart.
“At least I come in useful for something.”
You smiled. “I can think of a couple other things, too.”
Logan smiled and pulled you up to him a little more. “I’m sure you can.”
Not long after that, you fell asleep.
And when you woke up, your back was flushed against Logan’s chest, your legs tangled in his and his arms wrapped safely around you. It was still dark outside, but there was a little winter sun peaking out, way beyond the trees.
“Where are you going?” Logan’s tired voice asked you as you sat up, his hand by your waist.
Looking back at his bed head and tired eyes, you smiled. Reaching over to your desk drawer, you pulled out your film camera and snapped a picture. Logan groaned, putting his head between your pillows as you chuckled and stood up, placing your camera on the desk once more.
As you stood and rounded the bed towards the record player by your door, Logan reached over and picked up your camera taking a couple of candid shots of his own, of you, as you looked for a new record and placed it on.
“What?” Logan asked with a tired smirk as he lowered the camera.
You smiled tiredly. “Dance with me.”
Logan smiled and gave a fake groan as he pushed himself up from his back and onto his feet, leaving the camera beside your bed.
Walking to you, Logan pulled you to him, wrapping one hand around the back of his neck whilst his hand folded around your other and, holding you by your waist, he leaned into you. Swaying with each other, you let the sounds of the record float over you, giving you both a sense of deja vu.
Twelve years ago you’d made friends with each other and danced at a small dinner party to the very same song. Then you’d been dragged into taking a photo together to have a memory made in time. A few hours later, you had asked for a copy of the photograph of you and Logan.
You hadn’t really known why. You’d only known Logan a couple of weeks. But something told you, you needed a copy of that photograph. And around two years later, you realised why as you folded it in half and placed it inside your locket.
One Logan had fixed for you one Christmas when the clasp had broken.
And, when you had wandered into Logan’s room, in search of his hoodie, you had found a small tin box. A tin box you had opened to find it containing a couple of different sentimental things, including a couple of different photos from over the years.
But one you knew instantly.
Because it was the same one you carried with you every single day.
Looking up at Logan, you found him already looking at you and your heart soared.
“I love you.”
“I love you, too.”
Leaning down, Logan pressed a kiss to your lips as his fingertips pressed into your skin through your t-shirt and hoodie. And as he lifted you a little, and spun around, you let out a small giggle.
“Ready for breakfast?”
You smiled and nodded. “Soon. I just want to stay like this for a while.”
Logan smiled and kissed you once more, continuing to dance with you in your room barefoot, letting the sun peek out from beyond the trees before you both finally made your way downstairs for the day.
“Okay.”
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