Logan's hackles rose for just a moment, but he held himself back and led Victor out of the workshop, the chrome door sliding closed behind them. "It'll keep your senses from driving you crazy, at least," he said, shoving his hands into his pockets. "Charles should teach you how to focus on them later.
"...I just don't want you tearing this campus up because you can't stand listening to hundreds of kids doing shit all at once."
Victor followed Jimmy down the hall. He glanced over at him. "Thanks," he snarled out. It was not often that he thanked anyone, much less his pathetic brother. He didn't understand why Jimmy didn't want to become like him. It was almost a personal insult to him.
"I can't even stand the sound of someone breathin' 30-feet away from me..."
"Then it's a good thing you can't hear any more, isn't it."
Logan's tone was flat, mildly unimpressed. In truth it was just difficult to think of how to go about spending time with someone who was just -- such a bad influence that Logan had to leave in the first place. He'd never hated Victor (didn't hate him even now), but he knew what the man was capable of. Knew, essentially, how his mind worked.
It made trying to be welcoming him a hundred times harder than it already was.
"Figure you can wait in Charles' study for him, yeah?" He slipped his hands into his pockets, going to the elevator. "I got classes to teach." Logan cocked his head to the side. "And frankly I don't want to babysit you, either."
Victor growled softly as Jimmy got snippy with him. But he behaved himself. He needed help taking out The Children. The X-Dorks were the only ones he could trust to help him. The enemy of my enemy is my friend and all that bullshit. He watched his brother walk away and he leaned against the wall.
"What if I don't wanna see him? What if I wanna see you?" he asked him, following him. "I talked to him already. Supposed to play nice with everyone. Or he won't help me."
but how good is good when it comes from victor creed :/
"What'd you expect from the X-Men?" Back in the main halls of the mansion, Logan didn't even bother glancing Victor's way. "Can't be that hard to behave, can it?"
Already he wanted to prod at him more -- get a little angrier, a little fussier, because of all the years they'd spent together and all the shit Victor put him through. But making Victor angry would equal a fight, and if Logan was going to fight him it should at least happen somewhere the kids weren't present.
Victor growled in anger but kept it at that. He was trying to behave himself. He didn't want to fuck this chance up. But then Jimmy asked what he wanted. He hesitated before looking away just in case Jimmy looked back at him. He didn't want him to see any semblance of sadness in his eyes.
"Last year when I attacked ya..." It hadn't even been his brother's birthday. "Graydon killed Birdy. He faked his death an' framed ya. If I would've known it wasn't you, I wouldn't have done it." It was the closest thing to an apology the other would get.
Whilst Victor's attempt at remorse came as a surprise, the brand of it was undeniably his brother. And in a way Logan felt... oddly happy about it, stopping in the middle of the hall. Fortunately there weren't very many students about to stare at him and wonder what was wrong; Logan was, after all, rarely the type to be rendered stupefied. And he finally turned back, facing Victor with a look of both disbelief and... well, a clear willingness to listen.
Asking something like 'you mean that?' would be like calling out Victor's apology. Logan was sure that couldn't be the right course of action, at least not while they were inside where things could get broken. So instead, he nodded his head, grunting out a: "Would rather have you take your anger out on me than anyone else, anyway."
Logan rubbed the side of his neck, but his heart quailed in his chest at this mildly human side -- something he rarely ever got to see, at least since the wars.
Victor saw the shock on Jimmy's face as he looked back. Amber met brown and he nodded. The acceptance of his apology was all he wanted. He had felt bad about it when he learned the truth. When he had thought it was Jimmy, he had felt so betrayed. He had thought Jimmy had killed Birdy. But he couldn't even bring himself to kill him. He stopped.
"Charles said if I play nice, he might be able to help me the way Birdy did," he said. He followed Jimmy then.
Logan didn't doubt Charles' prowess, not in the least. Charles had never failed him before, and he knew Charles wouldn't fail Victor, either.
At least, if that was the right way to go about it. Logan wasn't completely convinced this entire exercise -- with Victor behaving in the school, amongst all the children -- wasn't an attempt on Charles' end to get him to calm down without the use of telepathy. But then again, Logan wasn't the one who could read minds, here.
"Then I guess you really are serious about this, huh." He entered his classroom, still empty with the kids out on break. "About teaming up with us."
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thats why jimmys the good boy
"...I just don't want you tearing this campus up because you can't stand listening to hundreds of kids doing shit all at once."
Victor wants to maul Jimmy...in the fun way
"I can't even stand the sound of someone breathin' 30-feet away from me..."
👀👀👀 the worst images came to mind tbh
Logan's tone was flat, mildly unimpressed. In truth it was just difficult to think of how to go about spending time with someone who was just -- such a bad influence that Logan had to leave in the first place. He'd never hated Victor (didn't hate him even now), but he knew what the man was capable of. Knew, essentially, how his mind worked.
It made trying to be welcoming him a hundred times harder than it already was.
"Figure you can wait in Charles' study for him, yeah?" He slipped his hands into his pockets, going to the elevator. "I got classes to teach." Logan cocked his head to the side. "And frankly I don't want to babysit you, either."
He means it in a good way
"What if I don't wanna see him? What if I wanna see you?" he asked him, following him. "I talked to him already. Supposed to play nice with everyone. Or he won't help me."
but how good is good when it comes from victor creed :/
Already he wanted to prod at him more -- get a little angrier, a little fussier, because of all the years they'd spent together and all the shit Victor put him through. But making Victor angry would equal a fight, and if Logan was going to fight him it should at least happen somewhere the kids weren't present.
"What do you want from me, anyway?"
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"Last year when I attacked ya..." It hadn't even been his brother's birthday. "Graydon killed Birdy. He faked his death an' framed ya. If I would've known it wasn't you, I wouldn't have done it." It was the closest thing to an apology the other would get.
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Asking something like 'you mean that?' would be like calling out Victor's apology. Logan was sure that couldn't be the right course of action, at least not while they were inside where things could get broken. So instead, he nodded his head, grunting out a: "Would rather have you take your anger out on me than anyone else, anyway."
Logan rubbed the side of his neck, but his heart quailed in his chest at this mildly human side -- something he rarely ever got to see, at least since the wars.
"It's fine."
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"Charles said if I play nice, he might be able to help me the way Birdy did," he said. He followed Jimmy then.
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Logan didn't doubt Charles' prowess, not in the least. Charles had never failed him before, and he knew Charles wouldn't fail Victor, either.
At least, if that was the right way to go about it. Logan wasn't completely convinced this entire exercise -- with Victor behaving in the school, amongst all the children -- wasn't an attempt on Charles' end to get him to calm down without the use of telepathy. But then again, Logan wasn't the one who could read minds, here.
"Then I guess you really are serious about this, huh." He entered his classroom, still empty with the kids out on break. "About teaming up with us."