As soon as the plane was in the air, Logan called Jean over to where Heidi was laying on one of the benches. Her face was bruised and her left eye was swollen almost shut, something he hadn’t known until he saw her when he laid her on the bench. Pillowing her head was his leather jacket, and while Jean did a brief examination he watched.

      “Try to rest,” he heard Jean tell Heidi, and watched as the girl he had just saved shut her eyes. When Jean turned around he asked, “She’s going to be alright?”

      As Jean looked at Logan she suddenly realized that even though they had only met Heidi a day ago, he seemed to really care about her. “She needs rest, but yes I think she will recover. I need to go up front, look after her.” Jean smiled as he sat down on the end of the bench looking over the woman who had likely saved all of their lives.

      When they arrived at the Mansion, Logan carried Heidi upstairs to the room she had used the other evening. He laid her down in the bed, which woke her and when she saw him she turned away. 

      “Leave,” she said not wanting him to see her this way. She heard his footsteps as he left the room and shut her eyes. She was angry, tired and confused. Heidi felt responsible for Jarrod’s death just as she had with her parents. She had dreamed about the Train derailment several times, but had not been able to realize what it meant until it was too late. She hadn’t dreamt about Jarrod, but she knew that talking to him had caused his death and she wasn’t sure how to deal with that. She opened her eyes when she heard the door opened and turned around ready to tell Logan to get out but found instead Jean and the Professor coming toward her bed. 

      “I wanted to thank you myself for keeping all of us safe,” he said.

      “I didn’t want him to hurt the children,” she replied and also thought about Logan then banished him from her thoughts. She had a life in the real world, and wasn’t going to stay here and hide.

      The professor smiled at her. “Get some sleep,” he said.

      When he left Jean walked over to the bed with a glass of water and handed that to her as well as some aspirin. 

      Heidi did as Jean told her and when she rested her head back against the pillow she shut her eyes, not wanting anyone else to thank her for saving the world.

      In his room, Logan was sitting on his bed thinking about this evening more specifically the woman two rooms down from his. He had no memory past fifteen years ago, but in that time he had been all over Canada. He had been in a few relationships, but nothing that ever lasted because he was always on the go. He still though about Jean, and even though she made her choice Scott, Logan couldn’t help but look at her every time she walked into the room. He remembered their kiss as they were waiting for the plane to be repaired. Now there was Heidi, and Logan wasn’t sure what he thought about her. She was beautiful there was no doubt in his mind about that, but she also had a stubborn streak, and he grinned because it reminded him of his own stubborn streak. He finally went to sleep, hoping that by morning she would feel like seeing him. 

      The next morning arrived and as Logan was finishing getting dressed Rogue called out to him. He opened the door and she told him that Heidi was ready to go back to her apartment against Jean and the Professor’s advise. “Damn stubborn woman,” he grumbled as he walked downstairs, finding Heidi in Charles’s office.

      Even though she still felt like she had been run over by a train, Heidi was determined to go back to the city. She knew that Anna would be worried about her, and her life was there. When she told that to Jean and the Professor they both disagreed with her decision and now she was in the Professor’s office trying to convince them why she had to go back.

      “My best friend will want to know that I’m alright. I appreciate what you did for me but I have a home and a Life to go back to,” she said.

      “Some life, you go back and that nice man in the fenced in fortress finds you again, then what?” Logan asked standing against the door frame with his arms folded across his chest. All of them looked his way, but he didn’t care and his eyes were locked on Heidi.

      “I know that I have to look out for myself,” she said feeling her temper raise a notch. Logan looked at her as though she wasn’t all there and Heidi folded her arms. “So I just stay here,” as she said that she waved her left arm from the left to the right, “Stay here and forgot that I have a job to go to, a friend who will be worried sick about me, well it isn’t going to happen, if I have too I will walk.” Tired of trying to convince them that she couldn’t stay Heidi walked out of the room past Logan and headed for the front door. As she reached for the handle his hand wrapped around hers and he spun her around. 

      “Look, I’d be the first one to take you back there if I thought you knew what you were walking into, but you don’t. Until we take care of Max you stay here,” Logan said. The look in her eyes let him know he had truly pissed her off, but he didn’t care.

      “So are you going to take me upstairs and tie me to my bed or do I get to have some space?” she said seething with anger. When he let her go Heidi turned around and ran up the stairs. When she got back to her room she slammed the door and began to pace, as angry as she was with Logan, she knew he was right. Going back to the city was not something she could do at this point.

      “So now what?” she asked as she sat down running her left hand through her hair as she tried to think. She was dismayed when she started to think about Logan and began to pace again, when she realized exactly what she could do. Leaving her room she walked back downstairs and knocked on the professor’s door. When he told her to go in, Heidi did and found he was teaching a group of Students. “I’m sorry I didn’t mean to interrupt, do you have a computer?” she asked.

      “Kitty take Heidi to the Library and who her where to get started,” Charles said. A young girl with long hair stood up from a seat just to the right of Professor Xavier and when she walked past her, Heidi began to follow, noticing that she was limping. 

      “Did you hurt yourself?” Heidi asked, not liking the silence. 

Kitty turned around. “I got mugged, well almost, but when I was running away I fell and twisted my ankle,” she admitted as she started to walk next to Heidi, noticing her face.

      “The man who is making the Sentinels must be pretty mean,” she said as they entered a large study. There were two computers, and Kitty led her to the one closest to the windows. “It’s hooked up to high-speed, so you just have to click there,” she said. “If you don’t need anything more, I need to get back to class.

      Heidi thanked her and once Kitty was gone, she started to go into her work data base then stopped. If Max was paranoid, and Heidi knew that he was, he could easily have tapped her computer. She didn’t want him to know anything else about this place so she got onto a search Engine and called up an account she had there. She typed a brief message to Anna telling her she was all right and that she would try to call tonight. Once she finished writing the letter, she logged off of the computer and as she stood up she notice other students. A group of girls were sitting at a table not to far from where she was, and one girl she recognized as Rogue.

      Rogue saw Heidi approaching and when she arrived at the table she introduced her to Jubilee, and Siren. They all talked for a while then the girls got up to go to class. Rogue smiled as they started to walk out the door and turned around. “Heidi why don’t you come with us, we have class with Logan,” Rogue said.

      Heidi had been ready to turn them down but when she heard that last part she was intrigued. As they walked toward the Elevator, Rogue told her that Logan taught self defense. “We have our gifts, but when we are in public we can’t use them, well not until we have cause too,” she explained. As they entered the danger room, Heidi found herself surrounded by both boys and girls. Logan wasn’t there yet so she seated herself in the back, wanting to surprise him. 

      A few minutes later when he arrived, he was wearing jeans and a t-shirt. He was well build as she had imagined he would be, and Heidi felt her heart beat a little faster. He was still teaching the students how to get away from an assailant but was planning, in a few weeks to start teaching them Karate.

      “Are you ready to work?” he asked his students as he cracked his neck. “Who is going to be my first volunteer for today?” He looked around the room and his gaze fell upon Heidi. For a moment he didn’t say anything then nodded his head and when she arrived in front of him he asked her if she had ever been in a class such as this. 

      “No, but I need to learn.” 

      “You will. Who wants to tell Heidi what she should do when she is walking around outside in a busy city?” Logan asked his students. Jake was the first one to raise his hand and Logan pointed at him. He told her she should always pay attention to what was going on around her, because someone could be watching her. The students answered Logan’s questions, and without warning Heidi found herself pinned in Logan’s grasp. He held her tight, and she found it hard to move. Heidi struggled in his arms, and when that didn’t work she lifted her foot and drove the back of her heal into his shin. When she felt his grip loosen she managed to get one arm free and drove her arm back planting her fist in his face right at the bridge of his nose. He tried to grab a hold of her again but she dodged away from him and when she turned around she kneed him in the groin, not feeling one bit of remorse. Logan shut his eyes taking in several deep breaths before he spoke. “Congratulations Heidi, you have passed the first part of my course.” 

      Heidi felt a certain amount of pride in what she had accomplished and sat in on the rest of Logan’s class. When it ended the rest of the students left, leaving her alone with this man. “I guess I should thank you for getting me out of there last night and making me realize that I need to stay here until we can take care of Max,” she said.

      “You helped protect my family,” he said as he sat down in a chair. She sat down next to him and for a few minutes neither one of them said much of anything. “Is it possible for me to go my apartment and get a few things I would like to have for my stay here?” When she asked that Logan looked at her and nodded his head saying, “We will need to wait until tonight and then I will take you back there.” He started to say more when some of the older students like Colossus and Remy arrived for training. Heidi left then, ready to go upstairs and have a rest before lunch.