Generation Next (X-Men fanfic)

Twenty Five

Mellissa stepped into the room. "Logan where's A'Cadia?"

Logan twisted around on the couch to frown at her. "I don't know. I'm not her keeper."

"No, but you're her daddy and I can't find her! She's not anywhere in the building! She's gone! Why is everyone leaving me? First Ziva now A'Cadia! Craig might as well be gone! My life is over! Over I tell you!" She sank to the floor weeping as she pulled a can of whip cream out of a jacket pocket.

With a grumble, Logan rose from the couch. He never could watch an entire program in this house without interruption. Thank God for the advent of the DVR. He stepped over Mellissa and made a circuit around the school, searching for his daughter, ending at Storm's office.

"Storm, where in the hell is A'Cadia?"

She looked up at him. "I don't know. She's your child, I would think that means you should know where she is."

"She's eighteen, I'm not going to hover over her," he argued. Yet, he couldn't help but feel the panic rising. How could he not notice she was gone? What kind of a father was he?

"Hold on let me check something." She lifted the phone and dialed. "Stevie? Have you seen A'Cadia?"

She waited, nodding a couple of times and giving a couple of "uh-huhs" before she finally hung up and stared across the room at him.

"Well?" he asked her.

"According to the security footage Stevie has, she left the garage, at night, a week ago. She hasn't been back since. Her car is still missing from the garage."

"And the little booger didn't think to tell anyone about this?"

"He doesn't continually monitor the cameras. He checked the recorded footage when I asked him to."

"Why is the kid in charge of the security tapes?" he asked her with a frown.

"Don't ask questions which you really don't want the answers to, Logan."

He opened his mouth to ask her again and then shut it, he honestly didn't care why mini-booger had access to the security cameras. How in the hell was he going to find A'Cadia? Craig was out of commission. Skylar was little better, Angela would be no help, and Mellissa was just as useless. Releasing a groan, he went to Stevie's room and knocked on the door. The look on Stevie's face when he opened the door almost made him turn around and leave, the kid looked as if he'd been sitting around waiting for him to arrive.

"I thought you'd show up eventually. Come on in, Logan. I've got everything of A'Cadia from the day she left. You might not like this."

Several minutes later, he was scowling. Stevie was right, he didn't like it. "Are you certain it was Ziva on the phone?"

Stevie gave him a disgusted look. "Do I look like an amateur here? I yanked her phone records, dude."

Logan didn't want to know how Stevie had gotten A'Cadia's phone records so quickly. He decided there was probably a lot he really didn't want to know about Stevie. Booger Boy had skills and contacts he was better off not knowing about.

***

A'Cadia pushed up onto her elbows and glared across the room at Ziva. "We've been here a week already. What the hell does Lenny want us to do, rot in our room?"

"Hey, I've been here for two weeks, how do you think I feel? I don't know what he wants. However, I can guess that he's trying to stall us out as long as possible. I'm starting to get the feeling that he's never going to give me that antidote."

"He wants you on his side, Ziva. That was part of his whole plan. He wants your powers, so at some point, he's going to have to give you the antidote if he wants to use you."