"I didn't want to kill you, Laura. I was pretty sure you'd be able to heal, and Logan would never have let me do anything permanent..." He frowned. "I value your life just as much as theirs, you're just so much stronger than the rest of us."

He wanted to just hang around her, to absorb that stone demeanor, to somehow have the same mastery of his powers that she did just be being in her presence.

"I just did what I thought you would do."