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Chapter 3 - Charles Xavier

"He's having a bad day." Caliban said.

"They are  all bad days." Logan replied.

-He needed the pills six hours ago. This amount of pills isn't enough,  you know. Won't see us through the week.

-I'm working on it.

- Your turn. Give the pills and the serum. I had a rough night.

- Poor you.

Logan went searching for a needle to inject  the serum.

-In other news, he told me last night he's communicating with someone. Logan are you even listening?

-He's not talking to anybody.

- Don't be so sure. He's got all these details, I thought that the old water tank was supposed to act as a barrier. It's got them cracks in it.

- Just please stop!

- The needle is in the bottom, left.

Logan continued to walk toward the outside, while Caliban kept talking to him.

-You are not listening Logan. He's been asking questions again about why we're here. I think he's trying to read my mind.

- That's what  these pills for.

Logan opened the door and Caliban protected himself from burning from the sunlight. Logan opened the old water tank where he kept Charles Xavier in it.

"Eating his curds and whey." Charles said."Then came a big spider which sat down beside her. And frightened Miss Muffet…"

He stopped talking as he saw Logan in tank.

-Friends I have good news for you today! It's not about what you do, it's not about your deeds,you can't live up to God's rules. He knows that you can't. It's okay, we're imperfect.

Logan prepared to give Charles the serum, but the disease that Charles is suffering from made him lost his mind.

-Make way sir. I said make way!

Logan tried to inject  the medicine but Xavier turned the wheelchair and got away from Logan.

-The new Quesalupa from Taco Bell! Get with chicken! Get with steak! And with the cheese baked right in the shell it's the next big thing! Go now while supplies last.

Logan stopped Charles and prepared him to take the serum.

-Who are you?

-You know who I am Charles.

- You're the man who puts me to sleep

- We both could use some sleep.

"No!" Charles said while he was preventing Logan from giving him the medicine. But suddenly, Charles had a seizure. Caliban wasn't able to breathe, Logan hardly did. He struggled while trying to give Charles the serum. But after the pain he went through because of the seizure, he injected the serum in the chest of Charles.

" What happened?" Charles said. " How long I have been in here?"

Logan carried Charles to his bed and gave him two pills.

" What are these?" Charles said.

-You remember what they are. Shots mellow the seizures, pills keep them from happening. How about you blow on them to make them safe?

-Fu*k off Logan.

- So you remember who I am now?

- I always know who you are, it's just sometimes I don't recognize you.

- Take the pills.

- I took them. You leave me alone with that fu*king albino, he doesn't listen to me. I know a damn speciation when I see one.

- A what?

- Speciation. New mutant, a young one. There are forces trying to kill them.

- Forces?

- They want help.

- Forces, forces. It's too bad you're not in that business anymore.

- They don't want me, they want you. Oh,yes,that's how fu*king stupid they are. They are waiting for you at the Statue of Liberty.

- The Statue of Liberty was a long time ago Charles, a long time. There are no new mutants. Understand? Hasn't been a new one born in twenty five years, not anywhere. You always  thought we were part of God's plan. But maybe… maybe we were God's mistake.

- What a disappointment you are. When I found you Logan, you were pursuing a career as a cage fighter. A warm capper to a life as an assassin, hooked on barbiturates. You were an animal, but we took you in, in that lovely mansion. I gave you a family.

- And they are gone now.

"Logan?" Charles said." What did you do, what did you do? Answer me Howlett! Why are we here? No one should live like this, drugged in a fu*king tank!"

Logan opened the tank's door and said:" Its for your own good."

-No  it's not, You're waiting for me to die!

Wolverine returned inside and put the Charles' garbage away.

"What was that Logan?" Caliban said." You knew what happened?"

-Just another seizure, his brain is becoming dangerous day after day. Alzheimer's disease in the brain of the most powerful brain in the world.

-What about you?

- I'm getting worse. This year could be the last year of my life. I'm about two hundred years old now, I've seen many wars, they are nothing like Xavier's seizures.

- Your healing powers became weak because of his seizures.

- Yes, some more seizures and we are all dead. Me, you, and Charles. I'm going to sleep, wake me if he did anything stupid.

Logan was sure he can't sleep, alcoholic, several fights, and Xavier's attacks. He could die at any time. But he had no idea what Alkali prepared for him.