C17 : Meeting the Wolverine Part 3.

Nick opened his mouth to say something but was stopped when a double barreled shot gun was pointed at the back of Logan's head.

"What the hell are you doing here? And why the hell are you both covered in blood?" A old man asked them from the other end of the shot gun.

Logan was distracted when he was concentrating on sewing up Nick's wounds and so he didn't smell or sense the old man come into the house and put a gun to his head but even though the old man was able to get behind him Logan wasn't worried, he was now able to take an RPG to the face and walk away from it a minute later.

But with Nick right next to him if the man did shoot it would not only destroy the flesh on the back of his head but it would also hit Nick so Logan acted quickly and released his claw's and span around and swiped right through the gun barrel before the old man could even react.

"What the-!" The old man screamed when he finally caught up with reality and realised what was happening, Logan stood back up straight after his large swing and retracted his claw's, he brought back one of his hands with a tightly clenched fist ready to deliver a powerful punch to the old man's aged face, his other hand was grabbing ahold of the old man's collar, lifting him off the ground.

"You bast*rd! You would have hit the kid if you shooted!" Logan was just about to punch the old man when the kitchen door opened and an old woman ran in screaming.

"Please stop! Let him go!" She screamed as she held onto the old man from his front, trying to protect him from Logan.

Seeing this old woman's dramatic display of self sacrifice, Logan became anger, it was like she was making him out to be the bad guy, but he was also awoken from his hate for the old man, even though he had a gun to his head moments before that only happened because he had broken it to their home.

So Logan loosened his hold on the old man and let him back down to the ground where the woman then dragged him as far away from Logan and Nick as she could, which wasn't far with her weak arms.

The old man gasped for air for a couple seconds before he talked, his wife was next to him crying on his arm, "Hah, what are you doing in my house?" The old man asked with a shake in his voice.

Logan was still a little anger at being treated like the villain and so he didn't answer and just looked at them with spite, that's when a weak but clear voice came from behind Logan, "Grandpa, sit down, have a glass of water or something, yeah, how about we all have some water to calm us all down." Nick said as he looked towards the old couple.

The old couple had surprised looks on their faces when they heard Nick, the old man knew that there was two people in his house but he couldn't see fully because Logan blocked his view when he entered the house and so he didn't realize that the other person was actually a blue, four armed child with a long versatile tail.

The old woman strayed outside like her husband told her too and she only came in when she heard his shout, so she too didn't know that there was a child in the house, she wouldn't have let her husband take his gun with him if she did.

"How does that sound? Hmm?" Nick asked again, looking at both the old couple and his Grandfather.

Logan thought for a second before he walked over to the sink and took four glass cups off the shelf to the side of the sink, he then filled them up with water and moved them two the table, pushing one of them towards Nick once he sat down.

Whilst Logan was drinking his glass of water Nick was talking to the old couple who were still in a daze, "Come on take a seat and we can talk." Nick said before he turned himself back towards the table and then he picked up his glass with both of his top hands.

The old couple didn't do anything but sit on the floor and stare in amazement at Nick, the old man was the first to wake up from his daze, he stood up slowly from the floor and helped his wife up after that, he then walked over to the table, his wife holding onto his arm for support as he walked over.

The old man came to the closest chair and stared at Logan and then Nick for a couple seconds before he sat down, his wife stayed standing behind him, her hands resting on his shoulder, as if to support him.

"First of all I would like to apologize for intruding in your home, and I'm sure my Grandpa is sorry for scaring you." Nick said to the old couple who were to his left, and then looking to his right where Logan was.

Logan heard what he said and gave a snort and looked away, uninterested, as an answer.

Nick chuckled to himself a little when he saw Logan acting a little shy, but turned back to the old man after that.

"Alright... Now will you tell me why your in my house and why you are both covered in blood?" The old man asked regaining some confidence because of Nick's polite attitude towards him.

"Do you know who I am first of all? It doesn't matter if you don't but it will speed up some of the explaining." Nick asked as he fiddled with the empty glass cup in his hands.

The old man made a confused face and was about to ask something when the woman behind him spoke up, "Your Nick Stark, aren't you?" The old woman asked as she leaned forward, towards Nick.

"That's right, I am, I'm surprised someone your age knows about me." Nick said back.

"Haha, I'm not that old yet, I still remember the news playing videos of you with your Mother for weeks after the press release. What are you doing here?" She asked with a curious look.

"Well it's like this... " Nick then when on to explain the events of the last couple weeks, the training, Stryker, the sadistic blonde, and the escape with his Grandfather.

By the end of his explanation the old woman was gently hugging Nick in her lap, careful not to put pressure on his back. The old man had a serious look on his face that showed that he was in deep thought about what Nick had just told them.

Logan was still quiet, but his look was even more complex, it was hard to know what he was thinking without being a mind reader.

"Again we're sorry that we broke into your home, but we needed somewhere to rest." Nick said to the old man from the old woman's lap.

"Don't worry kid, I understand, well what are you two going to do now?" The old man asked Nick and Logan, who was now looking back over at the couple and Nick.

"I'm strong enough now that I should be able to teleport home, I just want to see my mum again at this point." Nick said as he looked down at the table, his eyes getting slightly wet.

The old woman holding Nick hugged him a little tighter, but still kept his injuries in mind, when she heard Nick and felt Nick tremble when he talked about his mother.

"Kid, hurry up and go home, you don't have to wait around for me, once I take care of Stryker I'll come and see you." Logan said to Nick as he stood up from the table, Logan then walked over to where Nick was and picked him up from the old woman's arm's.

"Huh?" Nick exclaimed surprised as Logan pulled Nick into a hug, Nick was stunned by the sudden hug and so he didn't hug Logan back just yet.

When Nick finally did realise what Logan was doing he used all his arms to hug Logan back just as hard as Logan was him, probably even more so, Nick's tail had even started wagging and that only happens when he was extremely happy and he had no control over it.

Seeing this scene the old woman couldn't help but react, "Arr, isn't that just the cutest, right dear?" She said looking to her husband.

The old man just nodded his head to his wife and he looked like he was in deep thought, while Nick and Logan were finishing their hug and starting their goodbyes the old man spoke up before they could.

"Wait Logan, before you go let me give you some real clothes, you can't go around in some bloody, dead man's clothes, you'll give someone a heart attack." The old man said as he walked out of the kitchen and he came back a couple minutes later with a pile of clothes in his right hand and a leather jacket in his left, the same one from the movie.

"Here, put these on, they were my son's, they should fit you." The old man told Logan as he passed over the clothes.

"Thank you." Logan said as he accepted the clothes from the old man.

Logan then went into another room to get changed, while he was doing this Nick asked the old couple something, "So what are you going to do now? Once we have both left?" Nick was asking because he knew that they died in the movie by Zero, the old couple was nice to him even though they had broken into their home and so he didn't want any bad to happen to them.

"Oh, we will go stay with my brother an his family for a bit, just until this Stryker has passed through, I don't want my wife to get caught up in the cross fire after all." The old man explained as he looked at Nick then his wife.

Nick released a breath and said in his mind, 'I'm glad, they won't die this time.', it was then that Logan came out of the other room, already changed, wearing the new clothes and the leather jacket.

"Alright kid, time to say goodbye, oh and say hi to your mother for me." Logan said before he hugged Nick again and as he was just about to leave through the kitchen door he came flying back, he landed on the kitchen floor, flat on his back.

He had a crumpled and fragmented bullet in the middle of his forehead, you could see Logan's eyes look up to his forehead, he used one of his hands to pick out the bullet, once he took it out you could see his bone, silver like his claw's.

Once the bullet was taken out, his skin rapidly heal back together, leaving a little blood on his forehead as a reminder of his wound.

As Logan sprang into action, releasing his claw's and leaping from the house through the open door, Nick also reacted quickly, realising that it was Zero, he used one of his hands to grab ahold of the old woman next to him and his tail to hold onto the old man's ankle.

As soon as Nick was sure that he had both the old man and woman he teleported them faraway from the farm house and the and soon to be battlefield.

This seemed to have taken awhile but it actually only took Nick the time it took Logan to get up from the ground and to the kitchen door.

...

Nick, the old man and old woman were now deep in the woods around two miles away from the farm house, looking back at the direction the farm house was in Nick saw a chopper fireing down at something, most likely Logan on the motorcycle, since the chopper seemed to be following something.

Nick turned back around to the old couple who both had sick looks and pale faces, "You two alright? You should be fine in a little bit, it's just a bit of teleportation sickness." Nick explained to the couple.

A little while later the old man was the first to recover, "Haah, was that Stryker? Will Logan be alright?" The old man questioned Nick.

"Yeah, probably Agent Zero if the head shot is any sign and Logan will be fine, he has dealt with worse." Nick explained, "Come on I'll teleport you to the edge of town and you can take it from there." Before the old couple could ask anything Nick once again teleported them away as explosions were going off in the distance.

...

"And so I dropped them off at the edge of town like I said and while the old man was helping his wife walk I teleported back here, where Mum found me unconscious, I had overworked myself and I was in a coma for about a week. Once I woke up I told my mum and uncle about what happened but by the time uncle sent people to check the farm house and hidden base everything had been cleaned up, probably by Stryker so that no one catches on to what he's doing to mutants." Nick finished explaining to May and Peter who were visible very shaken up by what Nick had told them, May seem to have found herself a permanent place next to Nick, hugging one of his arms too her chest.

Peter looked like he was thinking deeply about certain things, when he looked up from his feet and at Nick his eyes and face became serious, a determined look gleaming off his eyes.

Nick got curious and took a peep at his thoughts, 'I can't be weak anymore, getting pushed around and not being able to protect the ones I care about isn't an option anymore.' Peter thought to himself as he looked at Nick and May.

Hearing Peter's thoughts Nick was sure that telling Peter about what happen to him was a turning point for him, just like Peter it was a big turning point in his life, Nick felt that he could now trust people a little more even if those people are just those close to him it felt like a big step for Nick.