Nobody ever saw her any more. She liked it that way. She liked being invisible because then they won't look at you in pity. After her break up with Bobby she only had one friend left and that was Jubilee. Sure the teachers talked to her but they had to be nice. Scott was especially nice to her but she just assumed he knew how she felt since he couldn't control his powers either. She actually helped out the teachers as much as possible. Scott was fun to be around when he wasn't being the X-men leader. Storm was also very nice and let her do whatever she pleased because she knew Rogue wouldn't do anything illegal. Jean was another story though. Jean was rude and barely acknowledged her. Scott constantly had to apologize for Jean's behavior but Rogue just put it off because she knew that Juan has changed a lot since she got here. Logan hasn't come back in a while so Rogue was kind of happy because he didn't see her so depressed. She was afraid that if he was around he would find out her secret. She was lucky that she had to wear gloves and long sleeves. She knows that it is a bad thing to cut herself but she wants to feel something. She was sitting in her bathroom now holding the blade to her wrist. She was already late for class so she might as well miss it all. She cut her wrist a little too deep this time. She tried to stop the blood that was coming out quickly. Finally she covered her wrist with a towel. She sat against the bathroom wall across from the counter. Hopefully Jubilee wouldn't come back for a couple of hours. She was shocked when there was a knock at her door.

"Hold on," she yelled. She pulled on a huge sweatshirt that she borrowed from Logan. Making sure that her arms and wrists were covered she opened the door.

"Scott? What are you doing here?"

"You weren't in class. I wanted to check up on you to see if you were okay."

"I'm fine just some lady problems. Cramps and all."

"OH."

"Yeah. Thanks for coming by though."

"Do you need anything? Food, medicine, anything?"

"No I'm okay."

"Okay. If you need anything just let me know, I'll be glad to help."

"I know thanks." She started to close the door but he stopped her.

"Oh, here is the class work and homework for today."

"I graduate in a couple of days. Couldn't you be lenient just for once?"

"No. Make sure to finish that before graduation. It will be your last grade of the year."

"Thanks." She finally got the door closed and sighed in relief.

Meanwhile after Scott left Rogue the Professor called the team for a meeting. Scott went straight to the Professor's office. He was the last to arrive.

"Okay Professor what's going on?"

"I don't usually interfere with students and their problems but in this case I think it's an emergency. I'm sure some of you have seen a change in Rogue the past couple of months."

"Yeah she has been more secluded but she did break up with Bobby and Logan left."

"I thought that was why to but it's so much more. She's cutting herself."

"What?" Half the group asked while the others were stunned into silence.

" I know it's hard to take. You all feel like my children and it broke my heart to hear about this. She is so sad. All she wants is some friends who aren't scared of her. What we need to do is confront her and then watch over her so she doesn't do it again. Today she actually almost cut to close."

"I just saw her. I knew she looked a little pale but she said it was women problems."

"Don't worry about the past now she fooled us all for a long time. Now we just have to confront and comfort."

"When did you want to talk to her," Storm asked.

"I think the sooner the better. We'll do it after supper tonight. Be prepared she will be hostile."

"We can handle her; the tough part would be to get her to admit she needs help."

" We have to be her friends though. She is important to all of us so we need to be as gentle as possible with her."

"Okay so tonight?" Scott said.

"Yes, Scott if you could get her here after supper, then we will go from there."

"Okay. I think we should all get to class and get through the rest of the day." Scott exited with Jean and Storm behind him. The Professor just thought about what they were going to say to Rogue.

Towards dinner time Rogue came out of her room so that no one suspected anything. She didn't eat a lot but she managed to eat a couple of bites. When she went to throw away her trash Scott came up to her.

"Rogue the Professor will like to talk to you in his office."

"Okay." She headed towards the office. She didn't notice that Scott was still following her until she made it into the Professor's office.

"You wanted to see me Professor?"

"Yes please sit down, Rogue. I have asked that the X-men to be here for this as well. I hope you don't mind?"

"Uhmm okay, sure, what's up?"

"Marie we know what you are doing to yourself."

"I don't understand what you mean?"

"We know you are cutting yourself."

"I am not. Why would you think that?"

"Because I saw your mind and all your secrets. What I also know that I have yet to tell everyone is that I know; that I have yet to tell everyone is that I know you are using drugs."

"What? No! Your wrong! You don't know anything about me." She got up and tried to make it out the door but Jean kept the door closed and Scott grabbed Rogue around the waist.

"Owww! Let me go! You can't hold me here!"

"Rogue we only want to help you, now calm down." Scott struggled with her squirming around and kicking. When he finally got her in a seat Jean had to concentrate on holding her down as she fought.

"Marie, please, we want to help you but we can't do that until you admit to yourself that you need and want help."

"I don't need help nor do I want your help. I can take care of myself."

Scott finally got angry and practically yelled at her. "You call this taking care of yourself. Driving yourself deeper into depression and slowly killing yourself with drugs. You don't handle drugs the same way humans do. You probably take big doses and one day you'll kill yourself. We love you too much to see you do that to yourself. We just want you to be part of our family."

Rogue was in tears as he talked. He looked around the room at all the people that seem to care about her. Storm was crying. Xavier had a sorrowful look on his face. Jean, who was slowly releasing her hold on Rogue, was even sad with one tear coming down her face.

"You guys don't understand what it's like not being able to control your powers."

"No, not all of us but we get the idea." Xavier said.

"I understand Rogue," Scott said. " I know how hard it is to know that at any moment you could kill someone unintentionally. I lived through it just like you are now. I wanted to do something but I realized that it would hurt my family. We love you, please let us help you."

"I don't know if I can stop."

"Yes you can as long as you try."

"I didn't mean to get anyone upset over this. I just wanted to feel something. Nobody wants to be near me because they are afraid of me. I just want to feel something other than loneliness. The cutting took care of not feeling anything and the drugs helped me get over the emotional loneliness."

"Marie, we are here for you. You could of come to any one of us if you needed to talk."

"I know I just thought you were being nice to me because you had to."

"Marie whenever you need to talk please come to us."

"Okay. I understand now that I really do have a family. That's all I ever wanted and it's been right here all along."

"Now, Marie you have to tell us where you hid the drugs and razors. To resist temptation you must first remove it from sight."

"There in my dresser." She looked down at her hands and cried some more.

"Alright Jean go get the stuff out of her room. Scott, Storm, take her to a secluded room near yours. I want you to keep a constant eye on her. Marie I know this will be hard but you need to be strong. We will make you as comfortable as possible but it will be very tough."

"I know. Can we just go I really want to get some sleep right now."

"Okay." Xavier nodded his head and the team went to do their jobs.

Jean went straight to Rogue's room and gathered up all the things she used to hurt herself. Scott and Storm led Rogue to an empty room that was right next to Scott's and Jean's. Storm let her borrow some night clothes. When Rogue finally slipped into bed Jean came back. Storm took first watch and Scott took the second watch. Jean was able to find out what drug she was doing. She found the needles that still had some substance left in it. Rogue had been injecting heroin. She was able to cover it up so well because it was normal for her to wear long sleeves or gloves. They would have to watch her carefully because going cold turkey off the drug is only way for her to learn.