Nudity Optional
by Karen S.
Summary: Logan and Rogue meditate.
Disclaimer: Not mine, don't own them.
Feedback: If I ask politely, will you send some?
Author's Notes: Here goes: A big, big, big, big, huge thank you to Jenn for inviting me to play in the Love and Lust world. I've enjoyed the challenge. This isn't very long, just a scene really. It's placed somewhere between "Issues On Return" and "Anomalous Happenings" in Jenn's series "On Love and Lust at Mutant High". Again, I have to thank Jenn for the invitation.
~~~~~
He was waiting in the same place he always waited, exact center of the mat.
Geez, Rogue thought, did he mark that spot on the floor or something? Magneto woke up inside her mind.
She moved to Logan with her usual grace and waited, the Logan in her head checking the place for danger. A sneer twisted her lips, not of her own volition, and she placed a gloved hand on his shoulder where it was bare.
"Whoosh. You're dead, mein Herr." Magneto spoke with her mouth.
The sneer faded as Logan turned his head.
"Actually, you are."
Rogue looked down. His claws were out and at her belly, twisted up so that if they did pierce her, they'd hit her heart. "Crap."
"But we're going to do something different today." He retracted the claws.
She wondered why she hadn't heard them SNICKT out. Stupid! He'd been expecting her.
You won't get another chance.
Rogue shook her head and the rare brush of Magneto to the surface of her mind faded.
"Different like what?"
"Meditation, Marie." He led her into one of the small cubicles off the main gym, shutting the door behind them. The room was small compared to most rooms at the mansion, only ten foot by twelve foot, the floor completely covered by a mat. There was a bar on one wall and no windows.
Marie dropped her towel on the floor and shrugged. "So where are the smelly candles?"
"Smartass. You know those things bother me. I use unscented, but we'll try this without them today." Logan grasped the hem of his tank. "You mind?"
Mind? Marie glanced around the room again. She had no idea what he was talking about, so she shook her head. "No."
"Good."
Her eyes returned to him and her mouth fell open. His chest was wonderfully bare, all rippling muscle and gorgeous skin. "Uh...Logan?"
"You're gonna catch flies, Marie." There was a smile in his voice.
She couldn't seem to look up to his face to see if he was smiling
"Why...?" Gesturing to his pants, which joined his tank on the floor, she dragged her eyes away from his muscular body and focused them on the pile of his clothes.
"I said we're going to meditate."
"Got that part." Naked. He was standing naked in front of her, just as bare as the day he was born.
"I happen to meditate naked. It helps me to focus." He flipped the lock on the door.
"Oh." Her cheeks flushed a deep red and she bit her lip. Now that he mentioned it, she did remember something about that...."Do Ah have to...?"
"Nudity's optional. No one'll see us or disturb us in case you're worried." He sank to the mat. "Strip down or sit and let's get started."
She sat, assuming a cross-legged pose and closing her eyes at his direction. She promptly lost all concentration . What would happen if she did take off her clothes....
Rogue began to daydream.
In her daydream, she stood. Logan's eyes remained shut. Before she could lose her nerve, she wiggled out of her leotard, tights and thong and returned to her seat on the mat.
Logan opened an eye in question.
She shrugged, hair brushing her shoulders. "You said optional."
A smile tugged at the corners of his mouth. "So I did." He re-closed his eye. "Ready?"
"As much as I'll ever be."
They breathed deeply, eyes closed.
The room was quiet, peaceful, and she was sweating like a pig.
"Logan?"
"Hmm?"
"Ah think Ah'm stuck to the mat."
He sighed in an irritated manner. "Yeah, well, you'll get that. Rise above the physical discomfort and keep breathing. Clear your mind."
Yeah right, she thought. With you sitting there all naked and gorgeous? "If Ah move Ah'll lose all the skin off my butt." To keep from thinking about him being naked, she latched on to the physical discomfort.
"Then I'll touch you and it'll grow back. Concentrate. Clear your mind."
"Ah'm trying, but none of you guys'll move."
"Marie."
She smiled sweetly at him. "Maybe if you lit a candle it'd help me focus."
Logan sighed again. "Put your clothes back on."
"You said nudity optional and Ah chose that option and now you want me to put my clothes back on?"
"Yes."
"Most guys want to get them off me, sugar."
"I've had them off you and lived to tell the tale, so to speak. Session over. Get dressed and we'll try this again tomorrow."
....tomorrow....tomorrow....tomorrow....
Rogue opened her eyes and glanced at Logan beside her. Yeah, that's probably how it'd go. Who am I kidding? The only real reason I won't get naked is because I don't want to hurt him if he accidentally brushes against me. Come on here, it's not like he'd be overcome with lust looking at me; he's got that bitch Jean to look at and lust over. Everybody knows that.
"Still got ten minutes."
He was so relaxed it made her jealous
His head turned and then she was looking into his eyes. "Ah can't concentrate."
"You're not trying, Marie. Maybe if you stripped down it'd be easier."
"You said nudity is optional."
"And it is." Logan reached for his clothes and slipped them on. "Don't knock it, Marie, not until you try it."
"Ah won't." She didn't specify whether she wouldn't knock it or wouldn't try it and he didn't ask.
Of course he didn't ask.
He doesn't want me like that. Not me.
For a moment, it seemed like he was going to say something, but then he unlocked the door and opened it. "Wednesday."
"Yeah." She picked up her towel and glanced up at him. In his eyes she saw something she'd never seen there before, some flash of...something, but it was quickly gone and she turned, running from the room and across the gym.
THE END
