::X-Men:: In The Claws Of An Angel ::Wolverine::

Chapter Ten.

AN:: toritee0749 here!! chapter 10, finally! a fitting number for me to start out by saying:

Thank you sooo much, everyone, for the reads, votes, comments & support on this story, and also my two others as well. All of your feedback is part of what gives me inspiration to keep updating!

So here's chapter 10, after that awful cliffhanger in chapter 9. I know, I'm sorry, I'm an evil writer >:}D

That's an evil smiley with a mustache, btw.

HERE WE GO!

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*Ana....*

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*Ana....*

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*Ana....*

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*Wake up...*

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My eyelids felt heavy and struggled to flutter open, as if they'd been glued shut.

*Ana... Wake up...*

Someone was talking to me.

"Mmm..." I heard myself groan, all of  my limbs feeling as if they weighed a thousand pounds. Still, my eyes didn't open. "Logan...?"

Wait, no... that wasn't Logan... But the voice sounded so familier and strange... Even in a whisper, this voice was clearer than the loud sound of rushing water that surrounded me.

*Ana...*

My eyes suddenly snapped open, but quickly slammed shut again, unable to deal with the stress of blinking. I had to rely on my other senses, for the time being.

Sounds of water rushing around me... Shallow water beneath my fingertips as I tried to wiggle them... And that voice...

It was the voice that had spoken to me when I'd first met Logan, the one that he said he had heard, too... The one that brought him to me.

I'd forgotten all about it... And now it was back.

Suddenly, all my senses came rushing back to me all at once. I was soaking wet, shivering from the cool, damp air around me, and the chilly puddle I was laying in.

As I kept wiggling my fingers, I could make out the texture of sandy mud that cushioned my body. My muscles ached, my head was pounding and I could taste blood in my mouth.

I gingerly grazed my tounge along my bottom lip, flinching when it brushed against a tender spot that burned and tasted like iron... It was definately busted. What the hell had happened to me...?

Finally, I was able to force my eyes open. At first everything was dark and blurry, but after a few blinks I managed to clear it up. I still felt pretty disoriented, but the source of the loud rushing sound roaring from all around me, the giant waterfall, jogged my memory.

The massive stream of water cascaded through an opening in the earth about twenty feet above me, as if it were falling from the sky. It plunged into a dark pool below, and my body was pushed off to the side, resting in the most shallow part of it.

I could feel the cool mist spraying from the edge of the free falling water, sprinkling my already damp skin and sending racks of shivers through my ribcage.