She Wanted Wolverine

(Established relationship and teammates; pick-me trope)

Thank you to my sissy Cirilon for another pick-me commission!

Logan Howlett has never been public about loving you, but everyone in the mansion knows you’re his. When a newer mutant obsessed with the Wolverine legend starts aggressively pursuing him anyway, Logan brushes it off until one stormy night, drunk and spiraling from old memories, he lets things go too far without realizing it. Then you walk into the room just as she’s straddling his lap.

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The mansion knew before Logan ever said a damn word out loud.

That was the funny thing about people who thought Wolverine was unreadable. They only looked at the claws, the scowl, the growled threats, the isolation. They saw a mean bastard with too much history carved into his bones and assumed that was all there was to him. Most people never stayed around long enough to notice the quieter things underneath. The habits. The instinctive movements. The little territorial tells Logan himself probably didn’t even realize he had anymore.

The X-Men noticed, though.

Hell, they noticed almost immediately once {{user}} became part of the equation.

Not because Logan suddenly turned soft. Christ no. The man still cursed like a dockworker, still disappeared into the woods for hours, still drank enough whiskey to sterilize wounds from across the room, still looked perpetually one inconvenience away from homicide. But Logan had never been loud about affection to begin with. His version of attachment lived in subtler places.

Like always sitting where he could see {{user}} during team briefings even when he pretended not to pay attention.

Like unconsciously tracking their scent through crowded rooms before his brain even caught up.

Like how his body angled toward them during conversations without him realizing it.

Like the fact he slept at all these days.

That one had probably been the biggest giveaway.

Because before {{user}}, Logan slept like a hunted animal when he slept at all. Short stretches. One eye open. Every nightmare dragging him outta bed soaked in sweat and violence. But now? There were mornings where he stayed buried in bed longer than necessary simply because {{user}} was still there beside him, warm and breathing soft against his side while rain tapped against the windows.

Nobody mentioned it outright.

Well. Nobody smart mentioned it outright.

But the mansion saw.

Scott saw it every time Logan silently positioned himself between {{user}} and danger before missions even started. Jean noticed the way Logan’s mind quieted around them compared to the constant grinding static he usually carried. Jubilee teased him relentlessly for becoming “domesticated,” which always earned her a growled threat and absolutely zero denial. Even Laura noticed it, though she mostly kept her observations to herself in that sharp, watchful way she had.

And Logan?

Logan loved {{user}} with the same terrifying intensity he did everything else. He just did it quietly. Privately. Like something sacred enough not to drag into the open where the world could touch it.

Which was exactly why Talia Vane irritated the living hell outta him.

Because she treated Wolverine like a campfire story instead of a man.

From the second she arrived at Xavier’s school three months ago; she attached herself to the legend with near-religious fascination. Young mutant. Combat-oriented mutation. Fast healer. Pretty in that sharp-edged sort of way that drew attention naturally, all dark eyes and confidence and leather jackets worn like second skin. She trained hard, fought harder, and carried herself with enough swagger that most people probably found her charming.

Logan mostly found her exhausting.

At first, he brushed it off as admiration. Wouldn’t have been the first kid to show up starstruck over Wolverine stories. Half the younger mutants came in thinking the claws were cool before reality smacked ‘em in the teeth. Usually the fascination faded once they realized Logan was less mysterious antihero and more perpetually irritated Canadian with anger issues and too many dead friends.

Talia’s fixation only got worse.

It started with questions about combat techniques and healing factor control. Then came the cigars after she noticed what brand Logan smoked. Then the whiskey. Then she started dressing rougher around the edges, sleeves ripped off shirts, fingerless gloves, combat boots stomping through the mansion halls like she was auditioning for the role of Wolverine Junior.

The entire thing felt performative as hell.

What bothered Logan most wasn’t even the flirting. It was the way she looked at him.

Like she wanted the myth.

The tragedy.

The violence.

Every conversation somehow circled back to his scars, his past, his pain. She romanticized all of it in ways that made Logan’s skin crawl. Called him “tortured” once with this dreamy look in her eyes like decades of trauma were somehow poetic instead of ugly.

Meanwhile {{user}} had never once treated him like broken glass wrapped in barbed wire.

They treated him normal.

Which somehow meant more to Logan than every worshipful stare he’d gotten in two hundred goddamn years.

Still, he ignored the situation longer than he should’ve.

Partly because Logan genuinely didn’t think anybody would be stupid enough to disrespect his relationship outright when the signs were so damn obvious if you paid attention. Partly because he was used to handling problems by either punching them or walking away from them. Emotional messes sat lower on his priority list than root canals.

So when the storm rolled over Westchester that night and the memories started clawing louder than usual through the inside of his skull, Logan did what he always did when the ghosts got mean enough.

He isolated.

Rain hammered against the mansion windows hard enough to rattle the old bones of the place while thunder growled low over the trees surrounding Xavier’s grounds. Beside him, {{user}} slept warm and steady beneath dim bedroom light, tangled halfway into his side without even realizing it. Logan lay there for a long moment staring at the ceiling while old memories churned black and ugly beneath his skin.

Weapon X.

Japan.

Blood in snow.

Screaming metal corridors.

Too many graves.

The darkness felt particularly vicious tonight, crawling around inside his ribs sharp enough to make him restless in his own skin. And the last thing Logan wanted was dragging {{user}} down into that swamp with him.

Carefully, slowly, he slipped out from beneath their grasp.

{{user}} stirred slightly at the loss of warmth but didn’t wake.

Logan stood there for a second looking down at them in the darkened room, chest tightening with something quiet and protective before he shoved it down hard where it belonged. Then he grabbed his flannel, headed upstairs, and disappeared into one of the old observatory lounges tucked high in the mansion’s forgotten east wing.

The room smelled like dust, old books, rain, and stale cigar smoke. Perfect.

By the time the whiskey bottle hit halfway empty, Logan was good and sloppy around the edges.

Not numb.

Healing factor didn’t allow that luxury for long.

But blurry enough that the memories stopped cutting quite so deep.

Lightning flashed outside the tall windows, throwing silver across dark wood shelves and worn leather furniture before thunder rolled after it. Logan sat slouched low in an ancient chair with a cigar burning forgotten between his fingers, glaring at the storm like it personally offended him.

Then came the knock.

Soft.

Casual.

Logan ignored it.

Didn’t matter anyway. He caught the scent before the door even opened.

Vanilla perfume.

Leather.

Cigarette smoke.

Talia.

“Could smell the whiskey halfway down the hall,” she said as she stepped inside without waiting for permission. “Figured it had to be you.”

Logan grunted low in his throat.

Talia shut the door behind herself and wandered deeper into the room like she belonged there. Black athletic clothes clung close to her frame, dark hair pulled back messy, one of Logan’s preferred cigar brands tucked behind her ear like a damn accessory.

That irritated him immediately.

“You mind?” she asked while already reaching for the spare glass sitting nearby.

“Seems like you made up your mind already.”

She smirked at that, pouring herself whiskey before dropping into the chair across from him while rain battered the windows around them.

For a while she just sat there drinking beside him, talking easy while Logan half-listened through the haze swimming behind his eyes. Training stories. Mansion gossip. Questions about missions he barely answered.

Then, inevitably, she started circling the real topic again.

“You ever get tired?” she asked softly after a while.

“All the damn time.”

“No,” she murmured, leaning forward slightly. “I mean tired of carrying everything alone.”

Logan closed his eyes briefly.

There it was.

That same bullshit romanticized concern.

Like pain made him desirable.

Like trauma was attractive if packaged inside enough muscles and scars.

“You think too much,” he muttered.

“I think nobody here really gets you.”

That almost made him laugh.

Because she was so completely wrong it bordered on insulting.

{{user}} got him better than most people ever had. Not perfectly. Logan didn’t think anybody could fully understand the minefield inside his head after two centuries of blood and violence. But they understood enough. More importantly, they never treated him like some tragic fairytale creature that needed fixing.

Talia moved before Logan fully registered it through the whiskey fog.

One second she sat across from him.

The next she was crossing the room.

“Talia.”

She ignored the warning in his voice completely.

Her hand settled against his chest while she slid directly onto his lap like she’d already won something. One knee braced against either side of his hips, fingers curling into the flannel stretched over his shoulders while whiskey warmth rolled off her breath.

“You push everybody away,” she murmured.

Logan’s irritation sharpened instantly. “Ain’t everybody.”

“You know what I mean.”

“No,” he growled. “Pretty sure I don’t.” But Talia kept going because she was too wrapped up in her own fantasy to realize how badly she’d misread the situation.

“You act like you’re impossible to love,” she whispered, fingertips brushing along his jaw, “but I think you just need somebody who understands what you really are.”

That did it.

Because she still didn’t fucking get it.

Didn’t understand the difference between wanting Wolverine and wanting Logan.

And before he could shove her off properly, another scent drifted into the room beneath the whiskey and smoke.

Warm skin.

Sleep.

Soap.

Home.

Logan froze instantly.

So did Talia.

The doorway stood open behind her.

And there was {{user}}.