<hr/><div class="floatleft">(http://i.imgur.com/uy8pa0r.jpg)</div><strong>Name:</strong>James 'Logan' Howlett<br/><strong>Location:</strong>Xavier's office<br/><strong>Date/Time:</strong>September 5th, 2017, late morning<br/><strong>Tagging:</strong>Charles Xavier, Remy LeBeau | Gambit, Piotr Rasputin | Colossus, Jean Grey, James Bradley | Doctor Nemesis, Ororo Munroe | Storm<br/><strong>Content:</strong>Teacher's meeting<br/><hr/><br/>After Logan put in his words, Chuck spoke next, trying his best to mediate several different personalities in the room. Gambit and Colossus were still hot, their sniping escalated into a full blown argument, Piotr talking more than Logan could ever remember the usually stoic and thoughtful Russian ever speaking. The words he was ascribing to them in his head-<em>Fools, hotheads, dick-swinging macho men</em>- were probably used against him in the past for similar situations. Sudden empathy caused him to hesitate, to keep his mouth shut.<em>Let 'em cool off... Yellin' em down ain't gonna make 'em shut up anytime sooner.</em>Remy seemed to suggest resistance, whereas Piotr aligned more with Logan's thoughts. Though when he suggested they parlay with Magneto... Logan broke the silence in the room as he popped a few knuckles in his hands, a wordless indication of how much he disliked that idea.<br/><br/>On the subject of the X-Men stepping up to handle mutant 'threats', Jean and Nemesis offered their respective wisdoms. Logan grunted lowly on each of their points; The X-Men couldn't lose their sovereignty and serve as government thugs, especially if it didn't relate to the human-mutant struggle. Finally Ororo spoke; One of his oldest friends, one of the first that had bonded with him in this strange new world. His heart listened as much as his ears did when she spoke, and he solemnly tilted his head to her. They had to change the hearts and minds of the people, if such a thing were even possible.<br/><br/>All of them were right in their own way, even Remy, for resistance against the government was at least better than a boot on the neck. If they were good enough, though, maybe they could talk the feds off of them, rather than to throw them off and start a fight. The room went silent, eyes turned to Logan. He gave a quick nod of agreement with his colleagues.<strong>"We should meet with the ambassador and the director. Make 'em see that they can't terrorize us without makin' things worse. Salvation doin' what he's doin', it's just gonna make more of us wanna go to Erik's side. And if he kills one of us for defendin' ourselves? I maybe wouldn't blame 'em."</strong>It was a reflection of how dire their situation had become, that Logan would dare to sympathize with someone that would dare to cross lines and join the Brotherhood.<br/><br/><strong>"Petey and Jean are right. The X-Men should be the ones bringin' mutants in. 'Cause we can do it with words... Salvation, that bastard didn't even knock on that girl's door. Just kicked it in. But we can't be no stooges for Uncle Sam. If they're the ones givin' orders, it's a matter of time til' they start tellin' us to kill each other. I won't be around to see that happen, Chuck."</strong>Logan's grave promise was not given lightly; The X-Men as a tool in the hands of the government would be a disaster that he couldn't abide by.