*~Trust~*
Disclaimer: I don't own X-Men, if I did; do you honestly think I would be writing fanfiction?
Authors Note: Uh…Oh yeah! This takes place after the last few episodes of season 2, and it is the beginning of season three. The reason I am skipping a head? Because we all know the X-Men will overcome. Hehe…Now...On with the Fic!
*~Trust*~
Rogue sighed heavily against the cool marble balcony, holding her head in her gloved hands as the cool spring breeze blew her red and white hair lightly in the wind. She then rolled her emerald eyes, showing the sky her purple eye shadow. They had made it out of that battle alive, even when all odds were against them. Them. The X-Men, the Brotherhood, mutants. Now the battle wasn't even that important anymore. It was the 'normal' Homo-sapiens they had to worry about.
Everyone knew they existed now. Now they will all be feared and outcasted by the 'normal' Homo-sapiens. How would the kids at school act towards them? And the Principle and teachers? Would they kick them out? Rogue had many questions she needed answers to, but she didn't dare go asking them. Everyone else was a nervous wreck, someone had to be the strong one; after all, Logan couldn't handle it alone.
A grin crossed Rogue's lips as she thought about it. 'Logan can't handle it alone, even if he does have Ororo Monroe,' thought Rogue as her grin turned on her and faded away. Even Logan had someone, even if they were in denial about it; they showed that they cared for each other. She didn't have anyone to care for, too risky getting close.
Rogue blushed a little, which could easily be told by the rest of her pale white skin. 'Gambit? Was that his code-name? Yeah it was,' thought Rogue as she recalled the card-throwing mutant. He had been so close to her, and she thought he was even gonna kiss her, rather than leave a card-exploding-bomb in her hands. Rogue then shook her head, "That's the enemy stupid! Don' go thinking that again!" Rogue cursed herself.
"Who's the enemy?" asked the young blonde boy as he approached Rogue from behind.
Rogue turned around, twirling on her black boots. She then came face to face with Evan Daniels, the spunky, black, skate boarding pro, spike throwing teenage boy. "How'd ya get in mah room!?" Rogue asked, sounding a little tempered.
Evan shrugged his shoulders and placed his elbows and arms on the balcony railing, leaning over to look at the view, "Chill girl, Kitty let me in. She thought you need someone to talk to, and I volunteered."
Rogue stood there, blank-faced for a minute, then joined Evan on the balcony, "Ah'm sorry, Ah'm just upset," said Rogue, her voice softening from its earlier tone.
"Yeah, the others are too. At least we got the mansion up though, I mean, this is the what; second, third time its gotten wreaked?"
Rogue nodded, "Yeah, it is. But Ah'm not really all that worried about where we live, but how the non-mutant kids at our school are gonna act towards us." Said Rogue, looking more depressed as she leaned on the marble of the balcony.
Evan side glanced at her, "Is that who you were calling the enemy?" Asked Evan in a depressing low voice as he looked below the balcony, onto the grass where the other X-Men members were; talking.
Rogue blinked a few times, and sat in the silence between Evan, her, and the wind. "No." she simply replied, as she closed her eyes and sighed silently to herself.
"Oh, then who is the enemy?" Evan responded quickly, wanting to continue the conversation.
"The enemy...The enemy is the Brotherhood. Ah have a feeling, they are not gonna make mutants situations any easier, they might make all mankind hate us," said Rogue with a not so convincing face, as if something else was troubling her.
Evan slid closer to her, and slowly, gently, placed his tanned, left arm around her covered shoulders, pulling her body closer to his frame, but not too close. "It'll be okay Rogue. It will all work out, you'll see. Everything will be fine."
Rogue, hesitatively placed her head on his shoulder, "Ah hope so."
*****
An annoying buzzing sound went off and rang through out the room, piercing Rogue's and Kitty's ears. Kitty then jumped of her bed and hit the switch on her black alarm clock that sat on her night stand. Rogue slowly moved and sat up. "Didn't Ah' tell ya not ta set that damn thing so loud!?" Rogue whispered across the room.
Kitty shrugged her shoulders, "Like, sorry. You don't like think it woke everyone else up, do you?" asked Kitty as she moved to her dresser, pulling out a dark purple tanktop and black tight pants.
"Let us hope not." Rogue replied as she leisurely moved out of her bed.
Kitty turned to face her, "So then, we're like still sneaking out, right?"
Rogue sighed, "Unless that annoying alarm clock of yours woke up the Professor and he's reading our thoughts right now; yes." Rogue then moved over to her closet and pulled out a short black skirt, black tights to cover her legs, matching black gloves, and her new red shirt which was exactly like her teal one, only red. Risty Wilde had bought them for her on a mall trip, one of the few Rogue had. She had said: "She owed it to her," Rogue didn't know what she meant by that, but she took her offer anyway; not wanting to be rude. She had never worn it until now, and she was glad Risty was going to be there to see her where it, after all it was a gift from her. After dressing Rogue turned around, and at the same time, so did Kitty. "Ya ready?" Rogue asked as she started to place her boots on.
Kitty spun around once, "Well, how do I look?" she asked softly, not wanting to wake the others.
Rogue looked up from her boots as she finished putting them on and looked at Kitty, "Ya look like a true gothic gal," said Rogue standing up and heading towards the door.
Kitty smiled, her pink lipstick glimmering from the moonlight on her lips, "Like really? I do?"
Rogue turned and glanced at her again, "Well, except for that lipstick; yeah." Kitty held a smile and Rogue grasped the door knob. "Now are ya gonna phase us threw, or do we have ta go out the normal way and get caught?" asked Rogue sounding a bit annoyed.
Kitty laughed, "Oh right. Just chill girl," Kitty then said those last few words as she grabbed Rogue's arm and pulled her threw the floor. The motion was nearly sickening if you weren't used to it, but was the because of gravity and the center of your stomach. But Rogue was pretty much used to it by now.
As if an answer to her prayers, Kitty found the ground floor, and pulled their bodies out of the 3-D brick mansion, which should be steal, seeing how it keeps getting destroyed. Rogue sighed; she was beginning to see why Storm was scared of small spaces.
"Um, like okay." Kitty said softly, hinting she was puzzled.
Rogue almost groaned, "What now?" she asked, again sounding annoyed.
"Well, like, Kurt and Evan aren't out yet." Notified Kitty as she and Rogue scanned the property. In the blink of an eye, in the dark for shadowing night, a bamf noise was heard, and smoke clouded the vision of the girls. Rogue instinctively clutched her hands into fists and brought them to her face as Kitty fanned the smoke out of her eyes.
In another blink, two hands grabbed the girls and pulled them more into the smoke, and the bamf noise rang through their ears. Opening their eyes, they found themselves outside the mansions gate.
Kitty coughed, "Kurt can't you like, get an air freshener to put on your tail so that smoke doesn't smell!?" asked Kitty in between coughs.
Kurt glared and crossed his arms, "Vell excuse me Ketty! Zhat vas rude! I sust saved you from getting caught, and you insult me!?"
Kitty giggled, "Like calm down elf boy, we have a party to get to. Coming Rogue?" asked Kitty as she and Kurt started walking on the sidewalk.
Rogue fanned some smoke, "Comin" she replied as she began to walk forward out of the left over smoke. Slanting a little, she bumped into a male figure.
His arms encircled her back, pulling her closer. Her emerald eyes shut, and for a moment her mind was blank, and then, she got a mental picture of that card-throwing mutant.
"Gambit," she breathed softly in to the black muscle shirt.
"Whoa! You okay Rogue?" asked the young man, who she now determined was Evan, from his voice.
Rogue sighed, "Ah'm fine, sorry Ah bumped into ya Evan."
Evan stood up straight, letting the black muscle shirt tone and accent his muscles, "Hey it's alright. But who's Gambit?" Evan asked, a small hint of curiosity or was it jealousy in his voice?
Rogue started to walk on the side of him, behind Kitty and Kurt. "Huh?" she played stupid, and hoped Evan wouldn't notice she was acting.
"You said 'Gambit', who's that?" Evan asked again his frown visible.
Rogue thought fast, "Ah didn' say 'Gambit', Ah said 'Damn it' cause Ah ran inta somebody," Rogue lied, avoiding Evan's eyes. They walked in silence the rest of the way. What could she have done? Told one of her teammates that she thought one of the new enemies, who tried to kill them, caught her eye? No, defiantly not; 'Friendships get ruined that way,' she bitterly thought as they reached the club. She was glad they reached the club when they did; Risty, she needed to talk to Risty. She had to spill to someone that she liked/fancied this guy no one else would approve of. In fact, Risty was the only one she could tell.
Walking past the guard of the club, who knew them by now, they opened the door and walked into the nearly pitch black club. Strobe-lights flickered around the dark club, bouncing off some people, and showing other peoples faces. Some other colored lights moved around the club, but only the teal, purple and red lights. Kitty shrieked, "Like Paul was right! They did change some of it since we had last been here!" She jumped up and grabbed the metal railing that guided every one to the stairs, which led to the main dance floor. Evan glanced at her, and then turned back to Rogue;
"Is it just me or is she a little too happy?" Evan asked laughing a little, glancing at Kitty again.
'Gawd, could he be any more obvious about liking her!?' Rogue thought as she just shrugged her shoulders at him, not really caring to answer his question. "Damn people," she mumbled, but stopped dead in her tracks as Kurt turned around and looked at her. 'Oh shit! Ah' forgot about his ears! He heard me!' she thought again as she gave him a questioning, innocent look. "What? Ya gotta problem blue boy?" Rogue shot back.
Kurt glanced at Kitty and Evan, getting a questioning look from them he sighed, "No." he replied as he turned around.
Rogue didn't say anything back; she respected Kurt more than any of the other students, she could relate to him, like no one else. Which was odd, but handy. She placed her hand on his shoulders and he turned around, "Ah'm sorry Ah gave ya a problem about it. But things are kinda, Ah don't know making me mad. Ah'm also sorry about your girlfriend; if she dumped ya cause of thad, ya disserve better." She gave him a very rare, but reassuring smile.
"Zhanks!" he responded, giving her the matching smile. Rogue was like an older sister, but not by much, about a year. But it was nice to know she would be there for him like he would be for her.
They then began to walk down the stairs; they're eyes capturing all the colors and people, well, the majority. Evan bravely and cautiously slid his arms around Rogue's shoulders, letting his hand hang of her shoulder. She looked up at him confused and he just smiled.
*~*~*~*
He glanced up from his glass and friends, moving his red and black eyes towards the stairs, where a face caught his attention. She had red hair and white strikes in the front; in fact, she was that very same X-men girl he stared at, and gave the card to. 'She made id?' he thought bitterly then saw her friends, 'And d'hey did too, amazing.' Magneto had made the Brotherhood and his new-misfits one large group; the Brotherhood. He didn't really mind, and it was easier getting out of the battle with that large of a team. The X-men and 'normal' people were the enemies, but, she was, he had to admit, eye worthy. At least to his eyes. And who was that blond punk with his arm around her? 'Her boyfriend, no doubt' he thought.
He hated to, but he tore his eyes away from her, he didn't need his new team members ragging on him.
Lance glanced at Gambit, who kept moving about, "Something bothering you man?" he asked teasingly.
Gambit looked up from his glass again, staring into the young brown haired guys eyes; he looked away, "No." he huskily replied.
The conversation striked Pietro's interest, "Aw look, is he blushing or is he just lying?" he asked annoying Gambit.
"Ah am nod'. Id's you imagine nations" Gambit lied, he turned to the stairs again, but this time, she and her friends weren't there. The others followed his eyes.
"Leave him alone, we should trust each other," Wanda defended him, as she sipped her alcoholic beverage from her stool next to Gambit.
Gambit spotted the girl and her friends making their way through the dance floor and his eyes lightened up some what, this didn't go unnoticed by the guys, just Wanda as she kept staring at him with her dark eyes.
"Nah, looks like Gambit found someone worthy of him," said Pyro as he took a sip of his flaming drink.
Wanda's eyes narrowed and her anger began to show as steam came out of her ears, "And how would you know?" she asked sullenly.
Pyro gulped the rest of his drink down and wiped his mouth with his arm, "Cause I have known Gambit for a while, and I know what he looks like when he sees something he likes."
"How does he look when he sees something he likes?" Todd asked, just coming around the corner of the bar.
Pyro turned red with anger, this happened being an impatient person who can't stand stupid people, "He looks exactly how he looks now!" Pyro hollered.
Gambit snapped out of it and turned towards them again, "D'he Gambit ain't interested in anyone here!" he defended himself.
"Yeah right, like we believe that," Pietro retaliated, crossing his arms as he leaned against the bar.
Gambit stood slowly, pulling out a red card with the king of spades on the other side, "Ya wanna go a round with d'he Gambit?"
Lance didn't pay much attention and kept looking in the crowd for whatever Gambit was looking at. Then, he spotted Kitty, with her Kurt and Evan with his arm around ROGUE!? He fell off his chair in shock.
The others then quickly looked at the fallen Lance that was now lying on the floor. "What the hell is your problem Alvers?"
"Kitty, Kurt, and Evan with his arm around Rogue are here!" he practically yelled.
"Point? I doubt they are gonna start something!" Said Wanda, rolling her eyes.
"Gambit was looking at them."
Wanda's eyes went darker if possible. "I noticed d'he girl witd' the red and white hair. I threw a card ad her the last time I saw her." Said Gambit, turning back and looking at the 'other' mutants. "She dating d'he blond boy?" he asked, his eyebrows rising as he continued to look at them.
"Why, you interested?" Todd asked, sticking his tone out and catching a fly.
"I'm sure he's not." Wanda interrupted Gambit from talking. "And if he does get close to her, I'm sure its part of a plan to destroy the X men, right?" she asked turning to Gambit.
Gambit looked down at her, she was hitting on him earlier, and now she was jealous? "Right. D'hats the plan; act like a friend first, d'hen destroy them later." Gambit didn't know what else to say.
Pietro clenched his chin, "That's a good plan." Gambit and Wanda nodded they're reply. "So, follow through with it. We'll take care of her friends! Come on!" said Pietro as he and the gang started to move towards Rogue and the rest of them.
'When dhat psycho say they'll take care of him, he doesn't mean what I think he means, does he?' Gambit asked himself watching his new team members move towards them, they were closer now.
'It's not your business Remy, just stick to d'here plan!' he told himself, watching and waiting to get Rogue alone.
Lance moved over to Kitty, "Kitty!" Kitty turned around at hearing her voice. "Hey! What are you doing here?" he asked, trying to make it seem like he just spotted her.
"Go away Lance, you lied to me! I don't wanna have anything to do with you!" Kitty shouted over the music, walking away from him and closer to Kurt.
Lance grew angry, he grasped her hand and pulled her closer, "Kitty! I had to! Do you think I liked it? If you do, you're wrong. I really like you Kitty, don't let my team ruin things for us." Lance pleaded his voice sounding as if he was gonna loose something.
Kitty phased her hand through his and pulled away, "Trust, is more important in a relationship than feelings. Whether it's a romance relationship, or a friendship relationship. You screwed up Lance, leave me alone!" Kitty then ran over to Kurt, who had begun to make his way to where Kitty had stood with Lance.
Kurt pulled her into a hug, "You alright Keety?" he asked softly.
She sobbed quietly, but his ears picked it up, "I wanted to trust him, I wanted to believe...Kurt, please...Lets go sit down?" She asked, letting her head fall against his chest.
"Sure," Kurt replied, moving her steadily against him towards the lounge.
*****
Rogue glanced at the scene, "Ah hope Kitty's alright."
Evan placed his arm around her again, "I'm sure she will be. Kurt's there, he'll protect her. I think the dude still likes her, no matter how much he denies it!" He laughed a little. "Come on, lets move away from them," said Evan nudging towards some of the members of the Brotherhood.
Rogue nodded, "Yeah," said Rogue as her and Evan began to move further onto the dance floor.
Wanda and Pietro nodded to each other, and then Gambit, who nodded back. Pietro then ran by, missing some people, over to Evan and Rogue.
"Hey Daniels, what ya doing with Roguey here?" asked Pietro in annoying voice.
"Buzz off Pietro! We didn't come here to bug you." Replied Evan, some of his spikes beginning to prickle out from his skin.
"That's why I'm buggin you," said Pietro as Wanda ran behind Rogue and bumped her into the crowd of dancers.
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Author: Okay, this was my first X-Men Evolution fic, so please be kind when reviewing. Thank you.
Disclaimer: I don't own X-Men, if I did; do you honestly think I would be writing fanfiction?
Authors Note: Uh…Oh yeah! This takes place after the last few episodes of season 2, and it is the beginning of season three. The reason I am skipping a head? Because we all know the X-Men will overcome. Hehe…Now...On with the Fic!
*~Trust*~
Rogue sighed heavily against the cool marble balcony, holding her head in her gloved hands as the cool spring breeze blew her red and white hair lightly in the wind. She then rolled her emerald eyes, showing the sky her purple eye shadow. They had made it out of that battle alive, even when all odds were against them. Them. The X-Men, the Brotherhood, mutants. Now the battle wasn't even that important anymore. It was the 'normal' Homo-sapiens they had to worry about.
Everyone knew they existed now. Now they will all be feared and outcasted by the 'normal' Homo-sapiens. How would the kids at school act towards them? And the Principle and teachers? Would they kick them out? Rogue had many questions she needed answers to, but she didn't dare go asking them. Everyone else was a nervous wreck, someone had to be the strong one; after all, Logan couldn't handle it alone.
A grin crossed Rogue's lips as she thought about it. 'Logan can't handle it alone, even if he does have Ororo Monroe,' thought Rogue as her grin turned on her and faded away. Even Logan had someone, even if they were in denial about it; they showed that they cared for each other. She didn't have anyone to care for, too risky getting close.
Rogue blushed a little, which could easily be told by the rest of her pale white skin. 'Gambit? Was that his code-name? Yeah it was,' thought Rogue as she recalled the card-throwing mutant. He had been so close to her, and she thought he was even gonna kiss her, rather than leave a card-exploding-bomb in her hands. Rogue then shook her head, "That's the enemy stupid! Don' go thinking that again!" Rogue cursed herself.
"Who's the enemy?" asked the young blonde boy as he approached Rogue from behind.
Rogue turned around, twirling on her black boots. She then came face to face with Evan Daniels, the spunky, black, skate boarding pro, spike throwing teenage boy. "How'd ya get in mah room!?" Rogue asked, sounding a little tempered.
Evan shrugged his shoulders and placed his elbows and arms on the balcony railing, leaning over to look at the view, "Chill girl, Kitty let me in. She thought you need someone to talk to, and I volunteered."
Rogue stood there, blank-faced for a minute, then joined Evan on the balcony, "Ah'm sorry, Ah'm just upset," said Rogue, her voice softening from its earlier tone.
"Yeah, the others are too. At least we got the mansion up though, I mean, this is the what; second, third time its gotten wreaked?"
Rogue nodded, "Yeah, it is. But Ah'm not really all that worried about where we live, but how the non-mutant kids at our school are gonna act towards us." Said Rogue, looking more depressed as she leaned on the marble of the balcony.
Evan side glanced at her, "Is that who you were calling the enemy?" Asked Evan in a depressing low voice as he looked below the balcony, onto the grass where the other X-Men members were; talking.
Rogue blinked a few times, and sat in the silence between Evan, her, and the wind. "No." she simply replied, as she closed her eyes and sighed silently to herself.
"Oh, then who is the enemy?" Evan responded quickly, wanting to continue the conversation.
"The enemy...The enemy is the Brotherhood. Ah have a feeling, they are not gonna make mutants situations any easier, they might make all mankind hate us," said Rogue with a not so convincing face, as if something else was troubling her.
Evan slid closer to her, and slowly, gently, placed his tanned, left arm around her covered shoulders, pulling her body closer to his frame, but not too close. "It'll be okay Rogue. It will all work out, you'll see. Everything will be fine."
Rogue, hesitatively placed her head on his shoulder, "Ah hope so."
*****
An annoying buzzing sound went off and rang through out the room, piercing Rogue's and Kitty's ears. Kitty then jumped of her bed and hit the switch on her black alarm clock that sat on her night stand. Rogue slowly moved and sat up. "Didn't Ah' tell ya not ta set that damn thing so loud!?" Rogue whispered across the room.
Kitty shrugged her shoulders, "Like, sorry. You don't like think it woke everyone else up, do you?" asked Kitty as she moved to her dresser, pulling out a dark purple tanktop and black tight pants.
"Let us hope not." Rogue replied as she leisurely moved out of her bed.
Kitty turned to face her, "So then, we're like still sneaking out, right?"
Rogue sighed, "Unless that annoying alarm clock of yours woke up the Professor and he's reading our thoughts right now; yes." Rogue then moved over to her closet and pulled out a short black skirt, black tights to cover her legs, matching black gloves, and her new red shirt which was exactly like her teal one, only red. Risty Wilde had bought them for her on a mall trip, one of the few Rogue had. She had said: "She owed it to her," Rogue didn't know what she meant by that, but she took her offer anyway; not wanting to be rude. She had never worn it until now, and she was glad Risty was going to be there to see her where it, after all it was a gift from her. After dressing Rogue turned around, and at the same time, so did Kitty. "Ya ready?" Rogue asked as she started to place her boots on.
Kitty spun around once, "Well, how do I look?" she asked softly, not wanting to wake the others.
Rogue looked up from her boots as she finished putting them on and looked at Kitty, "Ya look like a true gothic gal," said Rogue standing up and heading towards the door.
Kitty smiled, her pink lipstick glimmering from the moonlight on her lips, "Like really? I do?"
Rogue turned and glanced at her again, "Well, except for that lipstick; yeah." Kitty held a smile and Rogue grasped the door knob. "Now are ya gonna phase us threw, or do we have ta go out the normal way and get caught?" asked Rogue sounding a bit annoyed.
Kitty laughed, "Oh right. Just chill girl," Kitty then said those last few words as she grabbed Rogue's arm and pulled her threw the floor. The motion was nearly sickening if you weren't used to it, but was the because of gravity and the center of your stomach. But Rogue was pretty much used to it by now.
As if an answer to her prayers, Kitty found the ground floor, and pulled their bodies out of the 3-D brick mansion, which should be steal, seeing how it keeps getting destroyed. Rogue sighed; she was beginning to see why Storm was scared of small spaces.
"Um, like okay." Kitty said softly, hinting she was puzzled.
Rogue almost groaned, "What now?" she asked, again sounding annoyed.
"Well, like, Kurt and Evan aren't out yet." Notified Kitty as she and Rogue scanned the property. In the blink of an eye, in the dark for shadowing night, a bamf noise was heard, and smoke clouded the vision of the girls. Rogue instinctively clutched her hands into fists and brought them to her face as Kitty fanned the smoke out of her eyes.
In another blink, two hands grabbed the girls and pulled them more into the smoke, and the bamf noise rang through their ears. Opening their eyes, they found themselves outside the mansions gate.
Kitty coughed, "Kurt can't you like, get an air freshener to put on your tail so that smoke doesn't smell!?" asked Kitty in between coughs.
Kurt glared and crossed his arms, "Vell excuse me Ketty! Zhat vas rude! I sust saved you from getting caught, and you insult me!?"
Kitty giggled, "Like calm down elf boy, we have a party to get to. Coming Rogue?" asked Kitty as she and Kurt started walking on the sidewalk.
Rogue fanned some smoke, "Comin" she replied as she began to walk forward out of the left over smoke. Slanting a little, she bumped into a male figure.
His arms encircled her back, pulling her closer. Her emerald eyes shut, and for a moment her mind was blank, and then, she got a mental picture of that card-throwing mutant.
"Gambit," she breathed softly in to the black muscle shirt.
"Whoa! You okay Rogue?" asked the young man, who she now determined was Evan, from his voice.
Rogue sighed, "Ah'm fine, sorry Ah bumped into ya Evan."
Evan stood up straight, letting the black muscle shirt tone and accent his muscles, "Hey it's alright. But who's Gambit?" Evan asked, a small hint of curiosity or was it jealousy in his voice?
Rogue started to walk on the side of him, behind Kitty and Kurt. "Huh?" she played stupid, and hoped Evan wouldn't notice she was acting.
"You said 'Gambit', who's that?" Evan asked again his frown visible.
Rogue thought fast, "Ah didn' say 'Gambit', Ah said 'Damn it' cause Ah ran inta somebody," Rogue lied, avoiding Evan's eyes. They walked in silence the rest of the way. What could she have done? Told one of her teammates that she thought one of the new enemies, who tried to kill them, caught her eye? No, defiantly not; 'Friendships get ruined that way,' she bitterly thought as they reached the club. She was glad they reached the club when they did; Risty, she needed to talk to Risty. She had to spill to someone that she liked/fancied this guy no one else would approve of. In fact, Risty was the only one she could tell.
Walking past the guard of the club, who knew them by now, they opened the door and walked into the nearly pitch black club. Strobe-lights flickered around the dark club, bouncing off some people, and showing other peoples faces. Some other colored lights moved around the club, but only the teal, purple and red lights. Kitty shrieked, "Like Paul was right! They did change some of it since we had last been here!" She jumped up and grabbed the metal railing that guided every one to the stairs, which led to the main dance floor. Evan glanced at her, and then turned back to Rogue;
"Is it just me or is she a little too happy?" Evan asked laughing a little, glancing at Kitty again.
'Gawd, could he be any more obvious about liking her!?' Rogue thought as she just shrugged her shoulders at him, not really caring to answer his question. "Damn people," she mumbled, but stopped dead in her tracks as Kurt turned around and looked at her. 'Oh shit! Ah' forgot about his ears! He heard me!' she thought again as she gave him a questioning, innocent look. "What? Ya gotta problem blue boy?" Rogue shot back.
Kurt glanced at Kitty and Evan, getting a questioning look from them he sighed, "No." he replied as he turned around.
Rogue didn't say anything back; she respected Kurt more than any of the other students, she could relate to him, like no one else. Which was odd, but handy. She placed her hand on his shoulders and he turned around, "Ah'm sorry Ah gave ya a problem about it. But things are kinda, Ah don't know making me mad. Ah'm also sorry about your girlfriend; if she dumped ya cause of thad, ya disserve better." She gave him a very rare, but reassuring smile.
"Zhanks!" he responded, giving her the matching smile. Rogue was like an older sister, but not by much, about a year. But it was nice to know she would be there for him like he would be for her.
They then began to walk down the stairs; they're eyes capturing all the colors and people, well, the majority. Evan bravely and cautiously slid his arms around Rogue's shoulders, letting his hand hang of her shoulder. She looked up at him confused and he just smiled.
*~*~*~*
He glanced up from his glass and friends, moving his red and black eyes towards the stairs, where a face caught his attention. She had red hair and white strikes in the front; in fact, she was that very same X-men girl he stared at, and gave the card to. 'She made id?' he thought bitterly then saw her friends, 'And d'hey did too, amazing.' Magneto had made the Brotherhood and his new-misfits one large group; the Brotherhood. He didn't really mind, and it was easier getting out of the battle with that large of a team. The X-men and 'normal' people were the enemies, but, she was, he had to admit, eye worthy. At least to his eyes. And who was that blond punk with his arm around her? 'Her boyfriend, no doubt' he thought.
He hated to, but he tore his eyes away from her, he didn't need his new team members ragging on him.
Lance glanced at Gambit, who kept moving about, "Something bothering you man?" he asked teasingly.
Gambit looked up from his glass again, staring into the young brown haired guys eyes; he looked away, "No." he huskily replied.
The conversation striked Pietro's interest, "Aw look, is he blushing or is he just lying?" he asked annoying Gambit.
"Ah am nod'. Id's you imagine nations" Gambit lied, he turned to the stairs again, but this time, she and her friends weren't there. The others followed his eyes.
"Leave him alone, we should trust each other," Wanda defended him, as she sipped her alcoholic beverage from her stool next to Gambit.
Gambit spotted the girl and her friends making their way through the dance floor and his eyes lightened up some what, this didn't go unnoticed by the guys, just Wanda as she kept staring at him with her dark eyes.
"Nah, looks like Gambit found someone worthy of him," said Pyro as he took a sip of his flaming drink.
Wanda's eyes narrowed and her anger began to show as steam came out of her ears, "And how would you know?" she asked sullenly.
Pyro gulped the rest of his drink down and wiped his mouth with his arm, "Cause I have known Gambit for a while, and I know what he looks like when he sees something he likes."
"How does he look when he sees something he likes?" Todd asked, just coming around the corner of the bar.
Pyro turned red with anger, this happened being an impatient person who can't stand stupid people, "He looks exactly how he looks now!" Pyro hollered.
Gambit snapped out of it and turned towards them again, "D'he Gambit ain't interested in anyone here!" he defended himself.
"Yeah right, like we believe that," Pietro retaliated, crossing his arms as he leaned against the bar.
Gambit stood slowly, pulling out a red card with the king of spades on the other side, "Ya wanna go a round with d'he Gambit?"
Lance didn't pay much attention and kept looking in the crowd for whatever Gambit was looking at. Then, he spotted Kitty, with her Kurt and Evan with his arm around ROGUE!? He fell off his chair in shock.
The others then quickly looked at the fallen Lance that was now lying on the floor. "What the hell is your problem Alvers?"
"Kitty, Kurt, and Evan with his arm around Rogue are here!" he practically yelled.
"Point? I doubt they are gonna start something!" Said Wanda, rolling her eyes.
"Gambit was looking at them."
Wanda's eyes went darker if possible. "I noticed d'he girl witd' the red and white hair. I threw a card ad her the last time I saw her." Said Gambit, turning back and looking at the 'other' mutants. "She dating d'he blond boy?" he asked, his eyebrows rising as he continued to look at them.
"Why, you interested?" Todd asked, sticking his tone out and catching a fly.
"I'm sure he's not." Wanda interrupted Gambit from talking. "And if he does get close to her, I'm sure its part of a plan to destroy the X men, right?" she asked turning to Gambit.
Gambit looked down at her, she was hitting on him earlier, and now she was jealous? "Right. D'hats the plan; act like a friend first, d'hen destroy them later." Gambit didn't know what else to say.
Pietro clenched his chin, "That's a good plan." Gambit and Wanda nodded they're reply. "So, follow through with it. We'll take care of her friends! Come on!" said Pietro as he and the gang started to move towards Rogue and the rest of them.
'When dhat psycho say they'll take care of him, he doesn't mean what I think he means, does he?' Gambit asked himself watching his new team members move towards them, they were closer now.
'It's not your business Remy, just stick to d'here plan!' he told himself, watching and waiting to get Rogue alone.
Lance moved over to Kitty, "Kitty!" Kitty turned around at hearing her voice. "Hey! What are you doing here?" he asked, trying to make it seem like he just spotted her.
"Go away Lance, you lied to me! I don't wanna have anything to do with you!" Kitty shouted over the music, walking away from him and closer to Kurt.
Lance grew angry, he grasped her hand and pulled her closer, "Kitty! I had to! Do you think I liked it? If you do, you're wrong. I really like you Kitty, don't let my team ruin things for us." Lance pleaded his voice sounding as if he was gonna loose something.
Kitty phased her hand through his and pulled away, "Trust, is more important in a relationship than feelings. Whether it's a romance relationship, or a friendship relationship. You screwed up Lance, leave me alone!" Kitty then ran over to Kurt, who had begun to make his way to where Kitty had stood with Lance.
Kurt pulled her into a hug, "You alright Keety?" he asked softly.
She sobbed quietly, but his ears picked it up, "I wanted to trust him, I wanted to believe...Kurt, please...Lets go sit down?" She asked, letting her head fall against his chest.
"Sure," Kurt replied, moving her steadily against him towards the lounge.
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Rogue glanced at the scene, "Ah hope Kitty's alright."
Evan placed his arm around her again, "I'm sure she will be. Kurt's there, he'll protect her. I think the dude still likes her, no matter how much he denies it!" He laughed a little. "Come on, lets move away from them," said Evan nudging towards some of the members of the Brotherhood.
Rogue nodded, "Yeah," said Rogue as her and Evan began to move further onto the dance floor.
Wanda and Pietro nodded to each other, and then Gambit, who nodded back. Pietro then ran by, missing some people, over to Evan and Rogue.
"Hey Daniels, what ya doing with Roguey here?" asked Pietro in annoying voice.
"Buzz off Pietro! We didn't come here to bug you." Replied Evan, some of his spikes beginning to prickle out from his skin.
"That's why I'm buggin you," said Pietro as Wanda ran behind Rogue and bumped her into the crowd of dancers.
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Author: Okay, this was my first X-Men Evolution fic, so please be kind when reviewing. Thank you.