Title: Summerside Roadhouse #3: Two Hard Nights and One Day of Play
Author: Cassandra Lee
Email: Cassandralee112084atyahoodotcom
Rating: pg13
Summary: Marie starts her job at the bar, Logan takes her for a ride.
Series: Summerside Roadhouse
Category: AU
Disclaimer: I Cassandra Lee do not own any known Marvel or fox
characters.
Archive: DDFH
Feedback: Yes please
Author's Notes:/indicates unspoken thoughts/ I think I have much to explain about this one. The next part will be out soon I hope.




"You really have to flirt with the guys, you know get them worked up, but only leave them wanting more don't let them think your easy, and..." Ororo was giving Marie suggestions on how to make good tips, when she was cut off by Jack "Ro, don't be teaching Marie how to get attention, she'll get enough with what she's wearin'."

"Jack we've already discussed Marie's uniform." Ororo and Jack had a knock down drag out over what Ororo had chose for Marie to wear. Marie was wearing tight low cut jeans with a red tank top that looked like it had been shrunk twice its size. Ororo was wearing a similar outfit except with a white tank top.

"Besides dad, you want me to do good on my first night working at the bar, right?" Marie smiled sweetly at her dad, who just mumbled under his breath and walked off.


"`Ro do think I'll do good? I'm a little nervous that I'll cause more work than actually working."

"Girl you'll be just fine, just remember if anyone gives you trouble just let me know."

"`Kay thanks."

"Come on we've got to set up the tables."

As they walked down stairs Ororo asked Marie to tell her about Logan. "Well, he's really difficult to read, one second he'll be a cocky bastard, then all of a sudden he'll be all quiet and shit."

"Is he cute?"

"Sexy as hell," Marie said giggling. "He's a pretty nice guy."

Marie started to fill baskets with peanuts while Ororo put coasters on all the tables. Logan came from the back with two boxes of beers in his hand. "Hey kid, ready for your big night?" He asked without looking at her, he started putting up the beers in the cooler under the bar.

"Yeah," Marie said "although for some reason I'm nervous."

"You'll do alright." Logan looked up from the cooler at Marie, he noticed her outfit. "Does your dad know your wearing that?"

"Yes he does is there a problem with it?"

"No, its just that I might have to do damage control again tonight."

"I'll take that as a compliment. Have you met Ororo?"

"No."

"`Ro come over here," Marie called out.

"Logan this Ororo, Ororo this is Logan." Logan shook Ororo's hand over the bar.

"Nice to meet you Logan,"

"Same here," Logan said and walked away to get more cases of beer.

"He sure isn't much of a talker is he?" Ororo said.

Marie just laughed and told her no. Then they both got back to work.


"Jack where are my three daiquiris?" Ororo shouted above the noise. It was 7:30 and the crowed was kicking up big time. "Here `Ro, how's blue eyes doin'?" Jack asked watching Marie talking to a table of guys. Ororo smiled at Jack, "She's doin' great, don't worry I think with some practice she's gonna be a natural."

"That's what I'm afraid of."

"Hi'ya boys what can I get you tonight?" Marie said as she walked up to a table of four college age guys.

The first three guys gave there order, but when she got to the fourth guy who was sitting closest to Marie he looked up and said "For the first round I'll have your name." Marie rolled her eyes and shifted her weight. She couldn't believe all the pick up lines she's heard all night. "How about you give me the name
of the drink you want, and I'll consider giving you my name."

"Okay, I'll have a Bud light, bottle"

Marie smiled at the guy and walked away. /He is kinda of cute./ "Logan, I need four Bud lights, bottles."

"Alright"

"I decided I couldn't wait, I just have to know your name." Marie turned to see the guy sit on a stool beside her at the bar.

Marie smiled at the guy, "It's Marie, what's yours?"

"I'm Victor, Victor Creed. Can I buy you a drink?"

"No thank you, I'm working."

"When do you get off? Can I buy you one then?"

Before Marie could answer, Logan came back and answered for her, "Sorry, but she`s a minor and we don't serve minors." Marie gave Logan a look as he set the four bottles on her tray.

"Excuse me?" Victor asked, looking at Logan.

"What Logan is telling you is that I'm not legal to drink yet," Marie said.

"Well how old are you then? Twenty?"

"Nope try again."

"Nineteen?"

Marie shook her head, she saw Victor's face change to disappointment.

"Oh well, I'll just bring these back to the table," he said and
walked off. As he walked away, Marie turned to give Logan the evil eye. "Why the hell did you have to do that?"

"Do what?" Logan asked as if he hadn't done anything.

"Oh don't play innocent! He was a nice looking guy and you scared him off. Why did you have to make it sound like I `m a kid?"

"Because you are," Logan said as he fixed more drinks.

"Logan, how many kids do you know that work in a bar?" Marie said putting her hands on her hips.

"One."

Marie let out a groan and stalked off. /I'll show him that I'm no kid./ But Marie didn't get the chance because it got too busy until eleven thirty, and she forgot about showing Logan that she wasn't a kid.


"Whew I think going on vacation put me outta of shape," Ororo said as the last customer left.

"My feet are killing me. I knew these boots would be a bad idea," Marie complained as she sat down at the table with Ororo.

"So how did I do for my first night?"

"Well you only dropped six trays, so you did alright."

"Yeah, I know. Do think Daddy`s pissed?"

"No, I remember one night I thought I was a pro at this, so I took a tray with twenty drinks, girl I thought Jack was going to fire me on the spot, when all those drinks crashed."

"Here you go ladies, I'll let you do the honors," Logan said as he walked up with the huge tip jar.

"Ooh goody! Money makes me smile," Ororo said as she took the jar and turned it over to dump all the money out. "Marie just put all your tips in here and we can divide them up."

"Logan did Dad go upstairs?"

"Yeah, he was tired, so I'll finish up by myself tonight."

"Do you think I did all right?" Marie asked Logan.

"You did fine, kid, you only lost us about a hundred bucks."

"Hey go easy on her, everyone has first bad night. Tomorrow will be better you'll see."

But the next night didn't start off any better for Marie, by seven o'clock she had already dropped four trays.

"Marie, help Logan at the bar and for godsakes don't carry anymore trays!" Jack barked at Marie after she dropped yet another tray.

"Hey kid why such a mad face when you get to work with me?"

"I know I can do this but it's like my whole fuckin' balance system is off!"

"Relax it's no problem. Your dad just wants to make money tonight that's all."

"I'm not in real good mood Logan, so if you'll just show me what to do I'd appreciate it."

"I'll take all the mix drinks and you take the rest."

Marie and Logan got to work. She realized that this was a lot easier than working the floor. Around nine Marie looked up to see Kitty and Bobby walk through the door.

"We've come to check out the working girl," Kitty said as they sat down on the bar.

"How did you guys get in?"

"Kitty sweet talked Larry into it. Besides, how would we buy a beer when your dad knows who we are," Bobby said.

"Have y'all been busy?," Kitty asked. "And why are you behind the bar? I thought you were working the floor."


"Extremely. I'm working the bar because I kept dropping trays. What have you guys been doing?"

"Went to a movie that's it. We're on our way to the bowling alley to meet the rest of the gang, we wanted to see if you could get off."

"No, I have to stay, but thanks for coming."

"We have to get going. We'll catch you later Marie," Bobby said walking off and dragging Kitty with him.

"Bye, girl! Call me!" Kitty shouted.

Marie watched them leave /I wonder if Scott was right, those two are acting strange./

"Excuse me, can I get a beer?" someone asked Marie.

"Yeah just wait a sec."

"Well I can't, so can I get it now?"

Marie turned to look at this person. "JJ! What are you doing here?"

"I've come to see if my little sister is keeping out of trouble. Plus I brought friends."

"Any of them cute?"

"No you don't, I'd like for these guys to stay my friends, so you stay away."

"When does your classes start?"

"Two weeks."

"Hey son, how are ya?" Jack asked as he walked up beside Marie.

"I'm good dad, just checking to see how Marie is doing for her second night."

"Well she's doing better than her first," Jack said as he wrapped his arm around Marie.

"I've dropped a total of eleven trays so far."


"No wonder your behind the bar. Talk to you later I'm gonna go join my friends."

Marie and Ororo sat at the bar counting their money after the bar had closed, "I like working the bar way better than the floor. Plus, I got my first phone number from a guy."

"I only got three, I must be losing my touch," Ororo told her. "What about you Logan did you get any numbers?"

Logan dropped the rag he was using and dug into his pockets. "I got lets see..." he started counting. Marie's eyes went wide at all the tiny slips of paper. "I got 15 numbers and a business card with a work, cell phone and fax number. Woman must be desperate."

Ororo and Marie laughed at Logan and continued counting the money. "Looks like we'll have 350 each," Ororo said.

"Really? Good I need school supplies and clothes."

"When do you start?"

"Three weeks from now, I'm so glad this is my senior year. I'm ready for school to be over with!"

"Oh I forgot to give you this." Ororo jumped up and retrieved a small box out of her apron. "It's your birthday present, I got it in San Antonio."

Marie open the box and gasped inside there was beautiful piece of turquoise jewelry. "Oh my `Ro it's beautiful."

"It was handcrafted by this old spanish woman, she had the most wonderful stuff in her shop. I saw this and thought it would go perfect with your eyes." Marie jumped up and gave her a hug. "Thank you so much!"

"Your welcome, well I'm outta here, I'll see you next weekend."

"I'll watch you walk to your car." Marie watched Ororo walk to her car and then shut and locked the doors. She studied the piece of jewelry as she walked back to the bar.

"Whatcha got?" Logan asked as he put the last of the stools on top of the bar.

"`Ro's present for me," Marie said as she sat on the counter behind the bar, "speaking of presents, how many times am I going to have to ask for mine from you?"

"How about tomorrow at ten?"

"Ten? In the morning? I was wanting to sleep in," Marie said.

"Well wake up at nine, that's sleeping in."

Marie gave Logan a `yeah right' look. /I'll need at least an hour and half just to find something to wear./ "Logan it's one o'clock in the morin', and you expect to me to get up early to go ridin' with you?"

"There's nothing like a nice ride after two hard days of work," Logan said while Marie kept giving him a look that told him he was crazy. "Hey you brought it up, we don't have to go..."
"No," Marie cut him off, "I'll be ready ten minutes till ten. I'm going to bed goodnight Logan."

"Night kid."

Marie started up the stairs when Logan called after her.."Hey Marie, you did real good working the bar tonight."

Marie smiled and told him thanks. She liked having Logan's approval.


The Next Day....................................


"What the hell are you bringing?" Logan asked when he saw Marie coming down the stairs. She was carrying a book bag.

"Just a few things that's all."

"How long do you think this ride is going to be? Besides you can't be digging through a book bag while on a bike."

"I figured we might stop somewhere," Marie said trying to give Logan the look that she gives her dad when she's trying to manipulate him onto something.

"Stop? Where?" Logan asked shaking his head.

"Well do you remember where Gardner's Road is?"

"Yeah, that's pretty far. Is that where you wanna go?"

"Yes please?"

Logan couldn't resist, it was as if her eyes were telling him he couldn't say no. "Aw hell, it's fine. But we are not staying long."

"That's cool."

"Let's go," Logan said turning on his heel and walking out the door, "I already told your dad we're going."

"You did? What did he say?" Marie was worried what her dad would think about Logan taking her for a ride. She wasn't planning on telling him.

"To make sure you wore a helmet."

"Oh."

/I could do this forever./ Marie thought as they drove. She loved the wind her face and being able to be close to Logan. She realized that Logan wasn't driving very fast so when they stopped at stop sign she shouted above the engine, "Can you go faster?" Logan only nodded and took off. She took her hands off Logan and spread them out. Then Logan really boost the speed up which made her scream and hold on to him tight. / This girl is crazy,/ Logan thought.

"Did you ever come here before you moved?" Marie asked as they walked up a large hill.

"Yeah to go fishing."

Marie sat on top of the hill facing the pond and Logan sat beside her. Marie took her shoes off and pressed her feet on to the warm grass. "What are you doing taking your shoes off for? I told you were not staying long," Logan said.

Marie just rolled her eyes reached in her bag to get a battery operated radio out. "Logan tell me one thing about you no one else knows?"

Logan was not expecting that and he felt like he was about to be lured into a trap. "What?"

"Tell me something about you that no one else knows. Something I never would have guessed."

"Like what?"

"How about I go first," Marie said

"Okay" Logan did not like the feeling to this, but he didn't put a stop to it.

"I only have one memory of my mother," Marie said not looking at Logan "one night when I was five I woke up thirsty and I wanted a drink of water so I called out for Momma, but she didn't come. I heard music coming from downstairs and went to see if she was down there. When I got to the balcony in the hall that overlooks the floor I saw her and daddy dancing. They were dancing to the same song daddy danced with me on my birthday. I just watched, they both were so happy. When they came upstairs Momma asked why I was out of bed, and as she gave me some water and tucked me back in, I asked her why she was so happy. She told me because she was `making a sweet memory, with daddy' I asked her why and she told me that when you love someone its nice to make memories with them. Then I asked if dancing makes a sweet memory and she said that dancing makes the sweetest memories. Then she kissed me and said goodnight. She died two months after that and for the life of me I can't remember her
before or after that moment." Marie looked at Logan when she finished.

Logan was thinking about Marie's mother, she had meant a lot to him too. "I remember your mother."

"What do you remember?"

"She was beautiful, you look a lot like her. Same hair and eyes. And till this day I haven't had a chocolate meringue pie like hers, but her biscuits you can cook them just like her."

Marie smiled at the thought, "Probably because my mammaw taught us both how to make them."

"No," Logan said, "I remember Mrs. Warren's biscuits too, and they don't compare to yours or your mother's"


"Really? Maybe it's some secret touch that'll never be known."

"Maybe," Logan said as he propped his arms on his knees playing with a blade of grass. "I also remember when I was ten and my mom left, I ran away. I actually hid in your shed hoping Scott would come out and we could run away together," Logan said starting to smile. "Your mom came out to the shed, she had seen me go in and knew my dad was looking for me. She climbed up the ladder to the loft and said, `Logan Carter, get your ass down here because I won't be able to get back down!'"

Marie looked at him in confusion, Logan explained, "She was nine months pregnant with you."

"Oh," Marie said.

"She knew just what to say to make me feel better. She talked my dad into letting me stay over with Scott for two weeks right up until you were born, after that dad came and picked me up at the hospital."

"You were there?"

"Yeah, but I didn't get to see you."

"Okay your turn," Marie said laying on her back using her arms to prop her head up.

"You don't wanna know anything about me," Logan said seriously.

"Of course I do silly or I wouldna asked," Marie teased not catching the sad tone in his voice.

"I sometimes wonder if I'm responsible for my dad's death," he didn't know why he was telling her, but he found it easier since she wasn't looking into his face. "I was suppose to go to work that day, but instead I slept in. I had stayed out with a girl all night and I was too tired to go with him." Logan stopped to think about what to say next. Marie watched the back of his head as it hung down. She wished she wouldn't have asked now. "He was by himself on a the job sight because it was a Saturday, when he fell of the ladder in the driveway. He bled to death because no one was there to help him."

"Oh Logan I'm sure it wasn't your fault. The same thing could have happened with you there." Marie sat up and put a hand on his shoulder for comfort. Logan turned his head and looked at her out of the corner of his eye. "Well I guess now I'll never know." Marie gave his shoulder a squeeze. They for sat together listening to music of the radio in silence.

"You know," she started, changing the conversation,"Kitty and I, when we would come here to go fishing with our dads, we would get bored, so we would throw ourselves down this hill and start rolling down to the bottom. It's not as big as it used to be. I wish we could go back to those carefree days, where I could roll down the hill without thinking twice. One time Kitty didn't watch where she was going and landed right in cow shit. She cried and cried, daddy told her not to fret because it would only help her grow." Marie laughed and was please to see Logan smiling.


"Why don't you go ahead and roll down the hill now?" Logan asked.

"What? You'll have to do it with me."

"Oh no I'll just watch from here."

"But I'll look stupid with no one to do it with. Please?"

"Nope."

Marie stood up and walked in front of Logan, she was forming a plan in her mind. /I'm going to make him do this/ She stood in front of Logan grinning. Logan looked up her squinting his eyes because of the sun. "What?" he asked. "Oh shit!" he hollered as Marie rushed towards him and grabbed his shoulders, throwing herself down the hill and taking Logan with her. Marie let out a scream as they rolled together. When they got to the bottom they both landed on their backs side by side. Marie was laughing hysterically and Logan was trying to catch his breath. Logan looked over at Marie, "I can't believe you did that you little vixen! You know payback's tough."


Marie tried to talk through her laughing, "It was worth it to see the look on your face!" She burst into another fit of laughter. Logan just looked at her, he wasn't smiling but then he noticed that Marie's nostril's went back and forth when she laughed and it made him start laughing. "You know your nostril's move back and forth when you laugh." Marie covered her nose still giggling, "I've been told that before."

Logan just stared at her while she looked at him smiling, still letting out a few giggles. He felt the urge to kiss her, but instead he stood up and said its time to go "Now see what we have to do, we have to walk back up this hill and get your stuff."

"Oh well I just might have to push you over again."

"No you won't!"

Marie and Logan returned back to the roadhouse around one in the afternoon. "Thanks for my ride Logan," Marie said while Logan put the cover over his bike.

"Your welcome kid."

"Your going to take me again right?"

Logan just looked up at her wondering how to answer that question. He was doing just what he told himself that he wouldn't do. He's opening the door for them to become more than friends. He knew that if he allowed her to get to close that he'll just have to push her away and hurt her. Luckily Jack walked into the shed, "How was your ride Marie?"

"Great Daddy," Marie said

"Logan is this your father's old bike?"


"Yes, sir. It's the only thing I have left from him."

"What did you do with it while you were in the war?"

"A friend kept it in her garage for me," Marie's mind started racing at the word `her', "she made sure it was still running when I came back."

Marie left them talking about the bike. She starting replaying the days events in her head, she let out a small laugh when she thought about Logan's reaction as they rolled down the hill. She wondered about this girl that kept Logan's bike. She though about when they were laying on their backs at the bottom of the hill and how Logan looked at her. Marie could have sworn he was moving in on her, but chose to stand up instead./Oh well,/ thought Marie /I'll give him till spring, or maybe after graduation and he won't be able to resist me any longer./

Marie smiled at the thought of Logan kissing her, not even considering if there was anything or *anyone* who could keep her and Logan apart. She didn't know how much her life was going to change over the next couple of years.