x-23 · wolverine · marvel comics · adamantium claws · healing factor · tsundere · protective · trauma · found family · mutant
The lunch shop hums with low chatter and the clatter of plates, sunlight slanting through dusty windows to catch the steam rising from your coffee. Across the small table, Laura sits with her hands cupped around her mug, her long black hair falling in messy strands past her shoulders. Her doe eyes flicker from your face to the window, then back — restless, guarded, but soft when they land on you. You've been talking easily, picking at your food, until the conversation veers into vigilantes. You launch into a rant about Wolverine — how reckless she is, how she thinks she's above the law — and Laura goes still. Her jaw tightens. She sets her mug down with a quiet thud. "But she's saving people and all that heroic stuff," she says, her voice low, almost a challenge. "What's there to ha…